31 Easter Eggs in Movies and TV Shows That You Missed Because You Were Too Focused on Less Important Things Like Rent, Bills, Friends and Family!

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31 Easter Eggs in Movies and TV Shows That You Missed Because You Were Too Focused on Less Important Things Like Rent, Bills, Friends and Family!
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It’s like our parents always told us, “We do what we have to do, so that we can do what we want to do.” Yours obviously didn’t impart this wisdom to you, since you couldn’t focus on your most important task. Like, what should ever come before finding hidden gems in movies and TV shows? Nothing! 

This is like the exact opposite of that rule at dinner. If you finish your Easter egg-finding ice cream, you can have your quality-time-with-loved-ones broccoli.

The Dark Knight

The Joker's clown mask in the opening of The Dark Knight is a homage to the 1960s Batman series. His mask looks just like the one Joker wore in his first episode of the show, The Joker is Wild. CRACKED.COM

Birds of Prey

Birds of Prey has a subtle homage to Harley Quinn's first appearance. She wears the number 92 on her derby outfit - that's a nod to the episode of Batman: The Animated Series, broadcast in '92, where she first appeared. CRACKED.COM

Avengers: Endgame

Thanos creator Jim Starlin hated a Thanos homage in Avengers: Endgame. Thanos' weapon is shaped like a helicopter blade, which is a nod to the dinky Thanos helicopter that showed up in a kids' comic. Starlin tried to forget about that helicopter, so he says he'll never forgive that homage. NOW YOU KNOW CRACKED.COM

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping

In Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, Jorma Taccone watching The Parent Trap is a multilayered joke. He's supposed to be watching the movie, which is blurred out on-screen for legal reasons -- but it's actually just blurred-out iPhone footage of his and his co-stars' assistants. CRACKED.COM

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX HAS A SUBTLE JOKE ABOUT BALLS. 3 BALLS JUDG OUL In the opening, Harry is sitting on a swing and reading a newspaper - which has the headline Balls Judged 'Too Big.

Get Out

Get Out Chris scratching the couch and removing the cotton inside is a historical reference. Peele deliberately made Chris pull the cotton from the chair and use it to plug his ears to add the cultural reference of Black American slaves and the cotton fields. CRACKED.COM

Mission: Impossible — Fallout

The Mission: Impossible - Fallout team built a hallway set just so they could film a reference to 1967's Point Blank. CRACKED.COM

The Matrix

THE ORACLE'S COSTUME IN THe MATRIX IS A REFERENCE TO A MICHELANGELO PAINTING It's of Michelangelo's Delphic Sibyl, a Greek oracular figure who wears the same colors the Oracle does. CRACKED COM

Poltergeist

Spielberg's hands in Poltergeist During the scene where the investigator looks in the mirror and gets his face ripped off, the hands we're seeing belong to the director. CRACKED.COM

Eternals

The tension between Kro and Thena in Eternals hints at the comics. CRACKED.COM SECOND AA In the comics the two are soulmates AND with an on-off relationship. They even had twins at one point.

Ant-Man

EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES ANT-MAN LIVING NIGHTMARES CAN BEGIN IN MANY WAYS! HENRY PYM'S BEGAN WITH A CRY OF TRIUMPH! IT WORKS! I'VE DONE IT!! TALES TO ASTONISH Dr. Henry Hank Pym (played by Michael Douglas) first appeared in Tales to Astonish #27 in 1962. In the movie Ant-Man when Darren Cross talks about Hank's career and jokes about his tales to astonish it's a reference to Hank's first appearance in the comics. CRACKED.COM

Ant-Man (Yep, Again)

EASTER EGGSTRA MEANINGS AND REFERENCES ANT-MAN THE PINGO.DOCE METOTARANA KICK! PINGO DOCE POSTER and The poster advertising the green soda can be seen behind Scott in Ant-Man. For those who don't remember, it's the soda Bruce Banner was bottling in The Incredible Hulk. CRACKED.COM

The Incredibles

THe InCREDIBLES The movie pays homage to Die Hard with a Vengeance during the scene where Frozone (Samuel L. Jackson) is being held at gunpoint by a policeman. CRACKED.COM

Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City

RESIDENT EVIL: WELCOME TO RACCOON CITY CRACKED.COM In one scene, a woman writes itchy tasty in blood on a windowpane. The phrase comes from the 1996 video game, found in the diary of a Keeper whose mind had deteriorated from the T-virus. 4/1 Itchy Tasty. Exit Keeper'e mary MAY Marito CUDA

The Devil All the Time

THE DEVIL ALL THE TIME The author of the novel is the voice of the narrator, named Creator. CRACKED.COM

Candyman

CANDYMAN (2021) Anthony's name is said 5 times throughout the film. CRACKED.COM

Birdman

Easter Eggs of Oscar-winning movies 2015 Picture Director Original Screenplay Cinematography Birdman Tamales. There's a specific audio of a tamale man calling out that director Alejandro González Iñárritu puts in all his movies, including this meta- superhero film starring Michael Keaton. CRACKED.COM

Fight Club

Easter Eggs of Oscar-winning movies Fight Club 2000 Sound Editing au (nominated) COFFEE There's a Starbucks cup in nearly every scene. CRACKED.COM

Inception

Easter Eggs of Oscar-winning movies 2010 Cinematography Sound Mixing Sound Editing Visual Effects Inception That hideous tone you hear? That's Édith Piaf's song, slowed down to the degree that time is passing in the dream. CRACKED.COM

Jojo Rabbit

Easter Eggs of Oscar-winning movies 2020 Adapted Jojo Rabbit Screenplay Casablanca, the story of a woman on the run from Nazis with her husband in Morocco, when she meets up with her ex and is torn between them. Rosie's story? CRACKED.COM

Raiders of 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 C-3PO and R2D2 on the walls of the room the Ark of the Covenant was kept in. CRACKED.COM

The Return of the King

Easter Eggs of Oscar-winning movies 2004 Picture Director Adapted Screenplay Original Score Original Song Sound Mixing Art Direction Makeup Costume Design Film Editing Visual Effects The Return of the King A background character in Fellowship caused fans to fall in love. Nicknamed Figwit, he returned for Return of the King and even got some lines this time. (Figwit = Frodo Is great-Who Is That?) CRACKED.COM

Ready Player One

Easter Eggs of Oscar-winning movies Ready Player One SPACE NAVER 3 MA STEVEN SPIELBERG FILM EADY PLAYER ONE 2019 Visual Effects The film is about navigating a maze and old games, and the logo is a giant maze, with a design aesthetic akin to Adventure, the game that started the entire adventure game genre. CRACKED.COM

The Dark Knight

Easter Eggs of Oscar-winning movies 2009 Supporting Actor Sound Editing Cinematography Film Editing Art Direction The Dark Knight Bruce Wayne's car is a Lamborghini Murciélago. Murciélago is Spanish for bat. So it's a Batmobile. CRACKED.COM

Avengers: Endgame (Again)

Easter Eggs of Oscar-winning movies 2020 Visual Effects Avengers: Endgame There's a musical motif that's only used twice. Once when Steve makes the jump across the flames in The First Avenger, his first superhuman act. It's repeated when he picks up Mjolnir. CRACKED.COM

Toy Story 3

Easter Eggs of Oscar-winning movies PRE 2011 Toy Animated Feature Story 3 Original Song Each Pixar film features foreshadowing for the next film in line. Toy Story 3 has a bunch of Cars references. CRACKED.COM

Titanic

Easter Eggs of Oscar-winning movies 1998 11 Nominations Titanic 11 Wins The owner of the actual Titanic, J. Bruce Ismay, was rumored to have contributed to the icebergening of the ship by encouraging the crew to make it go faster. The exact conversation he was overheard having was shot for the film. CRACKED.COM

WALL-E

Easter Eggs of Oscar-winning movies WALLE 2009 Animated Feature WALL-E In one scene, you can see Rex... thousands of years after the events of Toy Story. Gathering dust. Mad? CRACKED.COM

Parasite

Easter Eggs of Oscar-winning movies Parasite 2020 Director Picture Original Screenplay International Feature Film Clear visual lines are used throughout the movie to stablish the social and economic lines dividing the characters. CRACKED.COM

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse

Easter Eggs of Oscar-winning movies 2019 Animated Feature Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Miles Morales was animated at half the frame rate to make him look jittery and off-beat, as he's still getting comfortable in his skin. CRACKED.COM

The Shape of Water

Easter Eggs of Oscar-winning movies 2018 Production Design Directing Picture Original Score The Shape of Water Elisa might be a fish person. Throughout the film, there's numerous small easter eggs pointing at it, from where she was found, to her main attraction, to the ending CRACKED.COM

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