40 Super-Sneaky Jokes, Details and References in Your Favorite Media

We just can’t believe movies and shows would deceive us like this!
40 Super-Sneaky Jokes, Details and References in Your Favorite Media

We’ve given you movies and TV shows hours of our lives, and this is how you repay us? By making us believe that we were getting all the information the first time around?

Imagine our surprise when a friend informed us that the mirror room scene in John Wick: Chapter 2 was actually an homage to the Bruce Lee movie Enter the Dragon. The movie didn’t think that this was something we’d want to know at first glance?

Maybe we just have to bone up on our knowledge of ‘70s kung-fu flicks, or maybe they can just be nice and make things easier for us!

Cobra Kai

The Kamen Estates Wines in Cobra Kai season 4 is kind of an homage. KAMEN Silver kicks a bottle from Kamen Estates in his cellar at the end of the season's first episode - and that's a real vineyard, that happens to be owned by The Karate Kid screenwriter Robert Mark Kamen. CRACKED.COM

Westworld

Westworld featured an homage to the creators of another HBO show. In the third season, we get to see the repair shop for a new park - and it includes the head of Drogon, from Game of Thrones, being worked on by GoT creators Dan Weiss and David Benioff. CRACKED.COM

Loki

The Ren Faire in Oshkosh, WI in Loki S1E2 wasn't chosen at random. 54 DRAGONFLY OSHKOSH, WISCONSIN Oshkosh is the birthplace of Mark Gruenwald, a Marvel Comics writer who spent decades at the company and kept a close eye on comics continuity. CRACKED.COM

Green Lantern

Ryan Reynolds' Green Lantern movie had an homage to the original creator. NOTIC - - - - - SAME ACA WAL THE - - ... NEW - - PREMIUM John Broome came up with Green Lantern - so they named the bar in the movie Broome's Bar. CRACKED.COM

No Way Home

Spider-Man: No Way Home has an homage to Spider-Man's co-creator. Artist Steve Ditko co-created both Spider Man and Doctor Strange, plus all the villains in the movie - and, when Peter and MJ are chilling on the roof of the school, a graffiti behind them says DITKO. CRACKED.COM

Clone Wars

They basically stuck a fictional version of George Lucas in The Clone Wars. The character in question was Baron Papanoida-who was played by Lucas himself in Revenge of the Sith in a cameo, but got a much bigger role in The Clone Wars. CRACKED.COM

Joker

Joker has kind of an obscure homage to Batman co-creator Bob Kane. REPARTMENT - MAUN SHOW MORCIA prom - - - SAKUAN The social worker we meet at the start of the movie is called Debra Kane-clearly, that name wasn't chosen by accident. CRACKED.COM

Ant-Man

Ant-Man kind of paid tribute to legendary Marvel artist Jack Kirby. KTrbb When Ant-Man is shrunk down to tiny size, he gets sucked into a vacuum with Kirby branding (and also featuring an Omega symbol - Kirby's creation Darkseid is a character that often uses the Omega symbol).COM

Star Trek: Voyager

Gene Roddenberry's name appears on Star Trek: Voyager. U.S.S. VOYAGER NCC-WWW INTERPED CLASS STARS LAWINCHED STARDATE EARTH STATION MACINELY SEE SECTOR- UNITED FEDERATION DI PLANETS - - - - - - - and - - - - - - - Aloe - - - Nove - - NOT - Seoul Now - - - - n Button Thank Bists - - - Res Resources W Korea Store - - - Wedden The Be Business - Por - Seoul - CITIES - - Summer - I - كة Les - / Eiger The John for - Ausmies for NOSE - -

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse pays homage to Steve Ditko. There's a contact on Miles' phone that's labeled S. Ditko, which is pretty clearly an homage to the Spider-Man co-creator. CRACKED.COM

Eyes Wide Shut (Again)

Eyes Wide Shut The password sums up the movie (via Beethoven). The password for the party, Fidelio, is the title of Ludwig van Beethoven's only opera - like the movie, a story about marital faithfulness involving disguises and deception. CRACKED.COM

The Shining (Again)

NO CRACKED.COM The Shining G MET LUM SW - - - Public vlde MET CAL UMB ENTO There - are no Native NOT FOA Americans, but they're LA ACHE present all through the movie. Not only is the Overlook built on an Indian burial ground, it's also decorated with Native American motifs. Notice also the baking powder cans in the pantry scenes.

Lolita

Lolita Lolita inherits its Easter eggs from the novel. Vladimir Nabokov makes heavy use of wordplay, and some it to the movie. The character Vivian Darkbloom, for example, is an anagram for his own name. CRACKED.COM

A Clockwork Orange

CRACKED.COM A Clockwork Orange The movie makes a pun on a previous Kubrick film. Exp Serum DESTRUCT AVTO No 114 Alex is given an experimental medicine called Serum 114-which sounds just like CRM-114, a device relevant to the plot of Doctor Strangelove.

Eyes Wide Shut

Eyes Wide Shut Bill Harford is named after Harrison Ford. Kubrick told co-writer Frederic Raphael that he didn't want the main character to be Jewish like in the original novella, but a Harrison Fordish goy - who ended up being called Harford. CRACKED.COM

The Shining

CRACKED.COM The Shining Jack's tie foreshadows his end. If you pay attention, you'll notice that the green tie Jack Torrance wears when we first meet him kinda looks like a hedge maze up close.

John Wick

The mirror room scene in John Wick: Chapter 2 was an homage to the 1973 Bruce Lee flick Enter the Dragon. CRACKED.COM

The Suicide Squad

The SUICIDE SQUAD: KILL THe JUSTICE LeAGue trailer features a comic book CRACKED.COM origins homage. A shot with the characters in their prison clothes show their inmate numbers, and the numbers are references to the comic book issues in which they all first appeared, respectively. For instance, Deadshot's number is 59-06-50, referring to his debut in Batman #59 in June 1950. Harley's inmate number isn't shown because she first appeared in Batman: The Animated Series and not a comic book.

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Super Mario

A new Mario Easter egg in a Sega game has been found. CRACKED.COM It took 26 years for a player to spot Mario sitting in one of the files of the game Astal released in 1995.

Source: SVG

Knives Out

EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES Joseph Gordon-Levitt's cameo Director Rian Johnson and Gordon-Levitt almost always work together, so Johnson snuck him in as the narrator of a true-crime story in Marta's apartment. Knives Out CRACKED.COM

Source: EW

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

In Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Johnny Depp plays Raoul DuKE, aka Hunter S. Thompson, and during a flashback scene at a Jefferson Airplane show, he

Zootopia

In Zootopia, Kristen Bell voices Priscilla, the female sloth at the DMV The crew Wanted her for the role once they saw the viral Ellen clip about her

Hot Fuzz

Cate Blanchett plays Simon Pegg's ex-girlfriend in Hot Fuzz. She appears in one scene, wearing goggles and a surgical mask. Edgar Wright thought it wo

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