15 Easter Eggs You Missed (If You're Monolingual)
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There are many reasons your life is better if you speak more than one language, but none better than understanding dumb jokes in movies and TV shows. Sharing culture and communicating with others unlike you? No. Understanding horrible jokes in Seinfeld is the supreme reason to become multilingual.
While most television shows are typically made for one language, requiring you to only understand English or French or German or have the ability to flip on subtitles, a lot of times the creators like to slip some jokes – or even complicated messages about boring things like plot or theme – in there using a different one. Show-offs. These little bons mots are a Gesamtkunstwerk of language that allows you to feel inteligente if you understand what’s happening. Sometimes they’re great, sometimes they’re stupid; either way you can laugh while your friends stare on cluelessly (or you can just read below and get a leg up on your bilingual friends).
Star Trek has a full reference to a panty-grabbing anime
![Easter Eggs for Polyglots star Trek: The Next Generation star Trek Into Anime. In one episode, Will Riker fights his estranged father in an arena full of Japanese characters that reference Urusei Yatsura. What's that? Oh, just an alien-tag anime featuring panty grabbing.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/7/6/833176.jpg)
Anchorman’s insulting restaurant
![Easter Eggs for Polyglots Anchorman we spit in your food. A Mexican restaurant is called Escupimos en su alimento, Spanish for We spit in your food. Classy, San Diego.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/7/1/833171.jpg)
Fa Ping, Mulan’s original codename, means Eye Candy
![Easter Eggs for Polyglots Mulan Eye Candy The fake name Mulan gives, Fa Ping, translates flower vase -a term roughly equivalent to eye candy, which is exactly what she's meant to be at the beginning.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/9/833169.jpg)
There’s a Jerry Maguire joke in Morse code
![Easter Eggs for Polyglots King Kong show me the monkey. The ship Carl Denham is traveling on receives a message ordering Denham's arrest - but what the Morse code beeps actually spell is, SHOW ME THE MONKEY.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/7/7/833177.jpg)
Game of Thrones’ Valyrian insults
![Easter Eggs for Polyglots Game of Thrones Your mother was a hamster! The Mereenese champion who challenges Daenerys and her army in Season 4 speaks Valyrian and not French, but his taunts come straight from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/7/4/833174.jpg)
Trevor Noah lied to the Oscars while translating a joke
![Easter Eggs for Polyglots 2019 Academy Awards White people don't know I'm lying. In ixiXhosa, Abelungu abazi ubu ndiyaxoka. Translated by Noah while presenting the award for Black Panther as, In times like these, we are stronger when we fight together than when we try to fight apart.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/7/8/833178.jpg)
Source: Business Insider South Africa
The Japanese "Indians" diss the movie
![Easter Eggs for Polyglots cannibal! The Musical This is a really stupid movie! The Indians are all Japanese, speaking Japanese. Various phrases they say: Nani itto n jaa, omee? (What the heck are you saying?) and Ike. Kono eiga ga suggoi baka na eiga da na! (Go. This is a really stupid movie!). CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/8/0/833180.jpg)
Sources: Cannibal! The Musical Sounds and Quotes, The New York Times
Many Adventure Time quotes are dirty jokes
![Easter Eggs for Polyglots Adventure Time DO you wanna try gettin' some, Finn? Lady Rainicorn keeps making saucy remarks in Korean. Other dirty jokes include, Come on, my darling. Wrap your legs around me, and, Jake and | merge our bodies into one all the time.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/7/3/833173.jpg)
Source: Adventure Time Wiki
Phineas and Ferb stay in a hotel named The Trash Can
![Easter Eggs for Polyglots Phineas and Ferb Trash can Hotel In the episode Summer Belongs to You! Phineas and Ferb stay at Hotel La Poubelle - French for trash can.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/7/9/833179.jpg)
Source: Phineas and Ferb Wiki
Lord Business' TAKOS plan involves an Octopus robot, the very thing "tako" means in Japanese
![Easter Eggs for Polyglots The Lego Movie octopus Tuesday! Lord Business' Taco Tuesday is about the octopus-like TAKOS machine - and as it turns out, tako is Japanese for octopus.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/7/0/833170.jpg)
Source: Wikipedia
Godzilla reference in The Lost World
![Easter Eggs for Polyglots The Lord World: Jurassic Park I left Japan to get away from this! The screams of a Japanese man running from the rampaging T-rex reference another city- destroying dinosaur, who is really big in Japan.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/8/833168.jpg)
Source: Warped Factor
Iron Man 2 villain warns that his robots will make fireworks (in Russian)
![Easter Eggs for Polyglots Iron Man 2 Fireworks Whiplash tells Hammer the drones he created can make salute. Salyut is Russian for fireworks - exactly what the drones end up becoming.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/7/833167.jpg)
Source: Wiktionary
Hellfire’s chanting lacks an admission of guilt
![Easter Eggs for Polyglots The Hunchback of Notre Dame It is my fault. As Frollo sings It's not my fault the chorus sings mea culpa, Latin for my most grievous fault. The entire chanting is from the Confiteor - a prayer of recognition of sin, and desperate forgiveness from it. CRACKED.COM](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/7/2/833172.jpg)
Source: fpx.de
Homeland was critiqued by Arab people hired to make it look more authentic
![Easter Eggs for Polyglots Homeland Homeland is watermelon. The show hired people who knew Arabic to decorate a set with graffiti. The artists decided to write what they really thought of Homeland, like, This show does not represent the views of the artists, or Homeland is watermelon (which in Arabic is meaner than in English).](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/7/5/833175.jpg)
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Hercules has a joke about being retired that only works in Greek
![Easter Eggs for Polyglots Hercules TWO words exactly. Two words, Phil replies as Hercules asks for his help. I am retired! In Greek, that is Είμαι συνταξιούχος Come on, count the words.](https://s3.crackedcdn.com/phpimages/imageset/1/6/6/833166.jpg)
Source: Google Translate