30 Jokes, Cameos and Callbacks Cleverly Disguised As Background Clutter

How do these creators expect us to catch all their fun little nuggets? Don’t they know how hard it is to pay attention to two things at once? We not only have to listen for pertinent information on the resistance radio station in Handmaid’s Tale, but you’re telling us that it was actually voiced by Oprah Winfrey? 

That’s a lot for our little brains to handle. Thankfully some bigger brains found these for us.

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There's a Doctor Strange Easter egg in Spider-Man 2. 233 Bleeker Street (212) 366-1182 The pizza shop Peter works for is in Bleeker Street, and the address of Doctor Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum is 177A Bleecker Street. CRACKED.COM

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Sonic the Hedgehog has a shout-out to Apocalypse Now. It's when Dr. Robotnik uses a piece of metal to shave his head -- that's a nod to Colonel Kurtz. CRACKED.COM

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Mugatu in Zoolander is named after a Star Trek monster. خمصة Star Trek's Mugato is a giant ape-like monster that showed up in the original series. CRACKED.COM

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Bumblebee has a shout-out to John Carpenter. DRAGON OF THE BLACK DRAGON OF THE TOOL BLACK POOL CANTONESE CANTONESE CUISINE CUISINE They snuck the facade of Wang Chi's eatery in Big Trouble in Little China, into the background of the town in Bumblebee. CRACKED.COM

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Boogie Nights has a nod to Raging Bull. The last scene, when Dirk Diggler talks to himself in the mirror, is an homage to the last scene of Raging Bull - where pretty much the same thing happens. CRACKED.COM

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DEADPOOL 2 joked about Wolverine's death in LOGAN. Wolverine's send-off in Logan is accompanied by a piece of music - the same music that plays when Deadpool takes a bullet to save the future from Russell. CRACKED.COM

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DOCTOR SLEEP Director Mike Flanagan paid homage to Stephen King's other big film adaptation, The Green Mile, by modeling the long corridors in the hospice to the death-row section. CRACKED.COM

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Easter Eggs Tropic Thunder I don't drop character till I done a DVD commentary. Не doesn't. CRACKED.COM

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Easter Eggs Evil Dead Sam Raimi puts his Oldsmobile in every film he makes. Spider-Man CRACKED.COM

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Easter Eggs Batman Begins Bruce Wayne calls his party guests two- faced friends - and ends up having a literal two-faced friend in the sequel. CRACKED.COM

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Silicon Valley trolled its own hardcore fans. 01100110 01101001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01100001 00100000 01101000 01101111 01100010 01100010 01111001 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110010 00100000 01100111 01101111 01100100 00100111 10100110 TOCCOTTO 00000100 01100110 01101001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01 00001 00100000 01100118 00000100 TODIIIIO 01000110 01000110 IIIIOIIO 01101111 01110010 00100000 01 11100100 00100110 11110110 IIIO a 11001110 00000100 11001110 10100118 Herette 100 01110110 тевтетте 01100118 00 0010 00000 01100001 00100000 BOOTOITE IIIIOITO 110 01111001 00100000 01100110 01101111 01110010 00100000 111 01101111 01100100 00100111 01110011 00100000 01110011 10100110 HOTEL 100 In the fifth season's trailer, Gavin Belson speaks in front of a screen

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Gravity Falls' Latin gibberish contains scathing pop culture criticism. The fake Latin incantation Dipper uses to enter Stan's mind includes the phrase Inceptus Nolanus overratus, or, Nolan's Inception is overrated. CRACKED.COM

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CRACKED.COM The background graffiti in Homeland's fifth season is a metaphorical middle finger. #بلاك #blacklivesmatter = Homeland is racist = الوطن عنصرى A group of Arab street artists hired to decorate a refugee camp set with Arabic graffiti used the gig as an opportunity to make a point about their own and others' unhappiness with the show. They graffitied nothing but accusations against Homeland. The biggest joke is that nobody checked what their graffiti said before shooting.

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Apparently, Godzilla ravaged the world of Jurassic Park. In The Lost World: Jurassic Park, there's a shot of terrified Japanese businessmen running from the rampaging T-Rex, shouting in Japanese, We left Tokyo to get away from this! CRACKED.COM

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2014's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles brings the comic's creators into the Turtles universe. FASTMAN & LARL BY The Art of Ninjutsu handbook that Splinter finds and that enables him to become the turtles' martial arts trainer is written by Eastman & Laird, creators of TMNT. So, appropriately, Eastman & Laird made the Ninja Turtles in-universe, too. CRACKED.COM

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Zootopia continues a joke started by Frozen. In Frozen, Alan Tudyk voiced bad guy the Duke of Weselton (who demanded people stop calling him the Duke of Weasel Town). In Zootopia, Tudyk is again a bad guy, called Duke Weaselton. CRACKED.COM

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Adult Jokes in Children's Entertainment Batman Roxy Rocket This Batman villain is just wild. A bombshell that rides around on a rocket, basically getting her rock(et)s off the entire episode. CRACKED.COM

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2016's The Jungle Book took something from Saturday Night Live into the jungle. While Louie (played by Christopher Walken) sleeps, Mowgli goes through his things and finds a cowbell, which wakes him up. The whole thing is a nod to Walken's More cowbell SNL skit. CRACKED.COM

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STARGÅTE SG.1 Lt. Colonel Samantha Carter: The Stargate program just doesn't get the support it used to from the people in charge. Jacek: Why not? Eureka was the show slated to replace Dr. Bill Lee: Eureka! Stargate SG-1 in SyFy's lineup. CRACKED.COM

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30 Jokes, Cameos and Callbacks Cleverly Disguised As Background Clutter

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Visual effects guy Rick Baker cameos as an alien (that he designed) in Men in Black 3. For the '60s scenes, he made aliens just like they were in pop-culture at the time -- with exposed brains .. and even cameo'd as one. CRACKED.COM

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30 Jokes, Cameos and Callbacks Cleverly Disguised As Background Clutter

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SHERLOCK'S PARENTS WERE PLAYED BY BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH'S ACTUAL PARENTS. Established UK actors Timothy Carlton and Wanda Ventham appeared on Sherlock as Mr. and Mrs. Holmes. Unfortunately, in real life, Mark Gatiss is not part of the family. CRACKED.COM

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Oprah Winfrey was actually in The Handmaid's Tale (as a voice cameo). She's the (uncredited) voice speaking on the resistance radio station Radio Free America that June tunes into. CRACKED.COM

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In Prometheus, Guy Pearce showed up under heavy old-guy makeup. The only reason they cast Pearce and put him under makeup was so they could film a dream sequence with Pearce's character when he was younger ... but it got scrapped early on. CRACKED.COM

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IN 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY, FLOYD HAS A VIDEO CALL WITH HIS DAUGHTER SQUIRT. That young girl is Vivian Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick's daughter, whom he regularly involved in his projects. CRACKED.COM

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In the 1993 comedy Freaked, Keanu Reeves plays, uh, Ortiz the Dog Boy. The movie was directed by Alex Winter, AKA Bill in Bill And Ted's Excellent Adventure. Keanu was uncredited, but the movie was greenlit because Winter said Keanu would be in it t---the studio thought it'd be like Bill and Ted (it wasn't). CRACKED.COM

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Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy played one of the dancers in Temple of Doom. She was one of the movie's producers, and not yet Lucasfilm president -- and she was also a dancer in the Anything Goes! opening sequence. CRACKED.COM

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In Captain America: The First Avenger, Chris Evans' body double plays a bartender. Leander Deeny, behind the bar, was Evans' body double for the pre-serum scenes (VFX supervisor Edson Williams called him the unsung hero). CRACKED.COM

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HOT FUZZ Cate Blanchett CRACKED.COM Edgar Wright thought it would be funny to get an Oscar winner in there but not see her face. And it was!

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