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27 TV and Movie Easter Eggs They Hid Pretty Good, But We Rooted ’Em Out for Ya

They can hide, but they can’t run!

27 TV and Movie Easter Eggs They Hid Pretty Good, But We Rooted ’Em Out for Ya

May 16, 2025

Growing up, our moms didn’t take it easy on us on Easter morning, so we’ve been honing our skills for quite some time.

If your moms hid eggs with kid gloves on, don’t you worry. We had some younger siblings who needed our help back then, too. Yep, you guys really lucked out with some highly trained and highly generous egg hunters today.

Just follow along, little ones…

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The Expanse

easter eggstra meanings and references THE EXPANSE The Shining The iconic carpet makes a cameo during the first episode of season five. CRACKED.COM

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The Dark Tower

Easter Eggs in stephen King Movies The Dark Tower You can see the overlook Hotel. After an earthquake, we see a vacation photo of the Overlook in the office of Jake's therapist. CRACKED.COM

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My Little Pony

Rick and Morty Easter Eggs MLPGrannies Gone wild Rick and Morty crossed over to My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic. MLP fans were treated to two ponies that distinctly have Rick and Morty's hair and color scheme waiting in line for a roller coaster. CRACKED.COM

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Spider-Man

The SPIDER-MAN: NO WAY HOME toy 77.534 The black-and-gold suit sports the number 77-543 all over. It's a reference to 1999's Amazing Spider-Man #534 which showed the aftermath of Peter Parker revealing his secret identity to the world. CRACKED.COM

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Suspiria

suspiria Tilda Swinton had a hidden cameo as an old man in the movie. She denied it the whole time. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Raiders for the Lost Ark

Easter Eggs of Oscar-winning movies 1982 Art Direction Film Editing Sound Sound Effects Editing Visual Effects Raiders of the Lost Ark The movie features a cameo by С-ЗРО and R2D2 on the walls of the room the Ark of the Covenant was kept in. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ready Player One

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Arrested Development

Easter Eggs Arrested Development According to many background hints, it turns out Tobias is a light-skinned black man, making his middle name Onyango and dashiki wearing make a touch more sense. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Ted Lasso

THE SHE'S ALL THAT RESTAURANT IN TED LASSO. In the sentimental season 2 episode 5 called Rainbow there are quite a few references to famous rom-com movies. The scene with Ted and Roy in the kebab shop resembles the falafel restaurant in She's All That. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Totoro

Pixar Easter Eggs - - - - - NOT - Toy Story 3 Totoro The critter from Hayao Miyazaki's 1988 My Neighbor Totoro is all over the movie, including the last scene. CRACKED.COM — Source: Pixar Wiki

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Werewolves Within

Easter eggs in video game movies werewolves within There's an Easter egg in the lobby of the hotel, but director Josh Ruben won't say what it is. CRACKED.COM — Source: Vanity Fair

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Army of Thieves

ARMY OF THIEVES has a Dawn of the Dead Easter egg. K In Army of Thieves, Dieter is approached by a zombie girl in a hallway. The scene resembles the one where the couple's young daughter attacks them in Snyder's Dawn of the Dead. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Halo Infinite

THE SESAME STREET EASTER EGG IN HALO INFINITE CRACKED.COM nen OKCAR'S HOUSE The urban-themed map has an alleyway featuring two dumpsters with one tagged as Oscar's House. It's the only trash can with that tag, and it of course refers to Oscar the Grouch. — GameSpot

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Halloween Kills

Bob Odenkirk's cameo in Halloween Kills 111 BREAKING NEWS COMMUNITY IN SHOCK OVER MULTIPLE MURDERS ACES 12 EVENING NEWS - CRACKED.COM His high school photo was used to represent Bob who got killed in the first movie. The director didn't have the rights to use an image of the original actor, John Michael Graham, so they had to find someone who resembled the actor, and Odenkirk's mug was it. — Collider

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Atari

ADVENTURE The first Easter egg was created by a disgruntled + Atari employee. ADVENTURE معر VIDEO COMPUTER SYSTEM GAME PROGRAM 3 GAMES VIDEO THREE SKOD LEVELS ONE PLAYER SALE created Warren Robinett, the programmer on Adventure, knew he wouldn't get credit for his work. So he created a secret room with his name written on the floor. By the time it was discovered, the games had hit the shelves. Atari decided to tell people it was a hidden feature, and coined the term Easter egg. CRACKED.COM — 21 Games We Grew Up On (With Weird Backstories)

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Deliverance

Deliverance DELIVERANCE A NOVEL BY JAMES DICKEY CRACKED.COM Director John Boorman asked James Dickey to play the sheriff -- and then get the hell out of there. Dickey hanging around set was making the actors uncomfortable. — 17 Author Cameos In Movie Adaptations You Might Have Missed

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Us

Us There is an easter egg of Easter in the film. Peele has said that Us is an Easter horror movie. The animals in my stories represent this battle between science and religion for me.... One of the motifs of this movie is the rabbits. They symbolize a lot of different things. The main connection to me was Easter. This story is a dark Easter of sorts. Red is the messiah who's rising from the hole that she was left for dead. CRACKED.COM — Source: 14 Easter Eggs And Hidden Meanings In Jordan Peele’s ‘Us’

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Schitt’s Creek

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES & HIDDEN MEANINGS CRACKED.COM SCHITT'S CREEK The last scene. Emily Hampshire, who plays Stevie, said that the final scene is an Easter egg, in that it really was the last scene all of them shot together, making those goodbyes very real. — Source: 16 Easter Eggs And Hidden Meanings In 'Schitt's Creek'

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Ant-Man

EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES ANT-MAN THE MILGROM HOTEL The Milgrom HOTEL 420 The fictional hotel Where Scott stays after getting out of prison in Ant-Man is a nod to Marvel artist and writer AI Milgrom. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Baby Driver

EASTER EGGSTRA REFERENCES & HIDDEN MEANINGS BABY DRIVER WALTER HILL HAS A CAMEO Wright revealed that the director of The Driver and the man responsible for reviving the Western genre is the voice of the man translating for Baby's foster dad at the end of the movie. CRACKED.COM — IMDb interview with Edgar Wright

7

Parasite

EASTER EGGSTRA Parasite The artwork in the living room of the Parks home has a significant meaning. Named 'Maya,' the piece has a rocky texture, and it represents what happens when you throw a rock into a quiet pond and watch the waves get bigger. — Screen Daily, Architectural Digest

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WandaVision

WANDAVISION EASTER EGGS SENOR SCRATCHY IS A NOD TO AGATHA'S SON FROM THE COMICS. In the comics, Agatha Harkness has a son named Nicholas Scratch. Mr. Scratch is also a common pseudonym for the Devil. The show's director even revealed that the rabbit tumed into a demon in a — YouTube & FANDOM

5

Get Out

Get Out The white Porsche stalking Andre in the opening scene is a reference to three films. Peele says it's a nod to Jaws, Christine, and Duel. — Film School Rejects

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Us

Us There are three Corey Feldman references in the film. There's a tape of The Goonies in the opening scene, a reference to The Lost Boys in the boardwalk scene, and the Thriller t-shirt. — Uproxx

3

The Mandalorian

Bryce Dallas Howard paid homage to her dad in The Mandalorian by including a sequence mirroring Apollo 13. In Chapter 11: The Heiress from season two, — Nerdist

2

The Last Jedi

Slowen Lo, the Last Jedi alien who reports Rose and Finn, is voiced by Joseph Gordon-Levitt. The character is the same species as The Force Awakens' E

1

Amazon Warriors

If you look closely you will see some of the Amazonians in Wonder Woman sporting half-metal breastplates, The detail is nod to the a mythology that cl

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