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14 Pop Culture Facts To Up Your Game, Like, Immediately

Give us a Ratcatcher movie already.

14 Pop Culture Facts To Up Your Game, Like, Immediately

November 07, 2021

You think you know pop culture? Do you watch all the streaming shows and binge through them every weekend to keep up with all the buzz on social media? Do you go to conventions to show off your knowledge to other nerds and fans of all stars and stripes? Do you go to nerd bar trivia and dominate so hard that you have collected $575 in free drink tickets over the last few months? Well, do you?

No. You have stuff to do. You have to study for an upcoming exam. You have to get that account ready for the presentation on Monday. You have effin' kids to raise. You barely have time to enjoy this stuff much less dissect it all. That's where we come in.

We can get you all caught up on all the juicy facts and Easter eggs all the kids are talking about regarding the latest movies and shows on TV. All you have to do is scroll down and read. You're welcome.

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The Easter egg Jason Momoa snuck into Dune for his son. For his climactic fight in the movie, Momoa included moves from the native Filipino martial art, Kali. He specifically chose these moves because his kid practices Kali, too, and said it was his way of signalling to his son. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Joker There's a nod to Ratcatcher in the movie. A news broadcast talks of the city of Gotham now being infested with Super Rats, and later a giant rat is seen scurrying past Arthur's feet. It's a set up and most definitely a shout out to the other Batman villain who considers himself a victim of Gotham, out for revenge. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The (inevitable) Toy Story Easter eggs in the LIGHTYEAR trailer From the Luxo lamp to the Property of Star Command reference, what did we really expect? Not Zurg bots, but here we are. CRACKED.COM — Source

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SCOT SCOTT SCOTT LAND ANDON HUNGRY HIO NIGHTS PEO You SCOTT, NDON In season 3, the library is filled with books written by Scott Landon, a fictional character in Stephen King's Lisey's Story. CRACKED.COM — Source

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feacemaker, I have kstn the The details in since Peacemaker's cell in The Suicide SQUAD PEACE that's almost MAKE There impossible to see. James Gunn shared photos on Twitter of the art department's contribution to Peacemaker's cell: Hand-written letters and drawings from fans of the anti-hero. There's even an erotic letter from one fan called Lilliana the Peacelover. CRACKED.COM — Source

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The BOOK OF BOBA FeTT trailer. There's a spider-like B'omarr Monk that was first seen in Jabba's palace in Return of the Jedi. CRACKED.COM — Source

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HERE COMES OUT! THE BIGGEST LOOK BOND OF ALL! Quentin Tarantino and Jordan Peele convinced/ Edgar CONNERY wright to keep SEAN a specific detail In BERBALL' LAST NIGHT in SOHO. The marquee with Sean Connery as James Bond in Thunderball was initially changed to The Fantastic Voyage, but for one, the timeline didn't work, and when Tarantino and Peele saw the trailer that still had the Connery poster in it, they told Wright how much they loved it, and he changed it back in the movie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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Slender Man is hiding in PHASMOPHOBIA The game updated with a new map right before Halloween, with the tall creep spawning in different locations on the campsite map. CRACKED.COM — Source

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ReADY OR NOT The writers have a cameo in the crossbow instruction video. CRACKED.COM — Source

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145 HAND WARE Sale 8-NAILS oven LYYE SALE SOUL There's a shout out to Nine Inch Nails in the store window. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross were two of the composers for the movie. CRACKED.COM — Source

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All the inspiration behind Free GUY CAMES: Anno, Fortnite- the design of the world Grand Theft Auto- violence/ texture Minecraft, Shadow of the Colossus- lonely quality Red Dead Redemption-6 -self-dictated moral codes MOVIES Blade Runner, Brazil, The Truman Show, Back to the Future CRACKED.COM — Source

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DOCTOR SLeep Abra's toys in her room spell out Hat, indicating the coming of her foe. CRACKED.COM — Source

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CHUCKY In the third episode of the new TV series, Chucky tells his new kid Caroline that he just wants to watch the news. It's a callback to the original Child's Play movie where he tells the babysitter that he wants to watch the nine o'clock news. CRACKED.COM — Source

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ARMY OF Thieves has a Dawn of the Dead Easter egg. 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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