30 Jokes, Cameos and Callbacks Cleverly Disguised As Background Clutter

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30 Jokes, Cameos and Callbacks Cleverly Disguised As Background Clutter

How do these creators expect us to catch all their fun little nuggets? Don’t they know how hard it is to pay attention to two things at once? We not only have to listen for pertinent information on the resistance radio station in Handmaid’s Tale, but you’re telling us that it was actually voiced by Oprah Winfrey? 

That’s a lot for our little brains to handle. Thankfully some bigger brains found these for us.

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DOCTOR SLEEP Director Mike Flanagan paid homage to Stephen King's other big film adaptation, The Green Mile, by modeling the long corridors in the hospice to the death-row section. CRACKED.COM

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CRACKED.COM The background graffiti in Homeland's fifth season is a metaphorical middle finger. #بلاك #blacklivesmatter = Homeland is racist = الوطن عنصرى A group of Arab street artists hired to decorate a refugee camp set with Arabic graffiti used the gig as an opportunity to make a point about their own and others' unhappiness with the show. They graffitied nothing but accusations against Homeland. The biggest joke is that nobody checked what their graffiti said before shooting.

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Zootopia continues a joke started by Frozen. In Frozen, Alan Tudyk voiced bad guy the Duke of Weselton (who demanded people stop calling him the Duke of Weasel Town). In Zootopia, Tudyk is again a bad guy, called Duke Weaselton. CRACKED.COM

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STARGÅTE SG.1 Lt. Colonel Samantha Carter: The Stargate program just doesn't get the support it used to from the people in charge. Jacek: Why not? Eureka was the show slated to replace Dr. Bill Lee: Eureka! Stargate SG-1 in SyFy's lineup. CRACKED.COM

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30 Jokes, Cameos and Callbacks Cleverly Disguised As Background Clutter

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In Prometheus, Guy Pearce showed up under heavy old-guy makeup. The only reason they cast Pearce and put him under makeup was so they could film a dream sequence with Pearce's character when he was younger ... but it got scrapped early on. CRACKED.COM

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Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy played one of the dancers in Temple of Doom. She was one of the movie's producers, and not yet Lucasfilm president -- and she was also a dancer in the Anything Goes! opening sequence. CRACKED.COM

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