12 Trivia Tidbits for Thursday, May 2, 2024

12 Trivia Tidbits for Thursday, May 2, 2024

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29 Secret Details About Beloved Movies and Shows

We love us a good Easter egg. It’s like being in on a good secret, like the Taco Bell chili cheese burrito. But you’re probably not as hard of a freak like us. You live to add value to your community and value relationships. When watching movies, you probably don’t pay too much attention to minor details like what shirt a character wears, but it turns out there could very well be a hidden Easter egg on that shirt. 

Luckily, we have no lives and have tracked down a big old pile of stuff that filmmakers included because they could indulge their clever-quotient. Here are 30 fascinating details hidden in famous movies and shows so you don’t have to burn your eyes out watching hours and hours of movies and TV just to unearth what is decidedly the brightest of gold…

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The mutant everyone missed in BLACK WIDOW Dutch actor and bodybuilder Olivier Richters briefly appeared during the prison break scene. The actor revealed on Instagram that he was playing Ursa Major, an X-Men mutant that appears in the MCU and can turn into a giant bear. GRACKED 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

Screen Rant

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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

Screen Rant

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Katie's pins in The Mitchells VS. the Machines The pin on her sweatshirt that The pin on her backpack says Hi there! reads Lawn Wranglers references the and is a reference to Wes bomb in Dr. Anderson's first film, of Strangelove. Bottle Rocket. CRACKED.COM

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JEEP Younger folks might not know that these cars come with hidden Easter eggs (mostly images of animals) that's been a tradition for one of its designers since the '90s. CRACKED.COM

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There's a creepy secret chamber inside Mt. Rushmore. Its sculptor, Gutzon Borglum, wanted Mt. Rushmore to have a Hall of Records, where historic American documents would be stored. When he died in 1941, it was unfinished. In 1998, the government put a sealed titanium vault with copies of important documents in there. So he kinda got his wish. CRACKED.COM

17 Unknown Secrets In Well-Known Landmarks

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S.Gray 1846 THE REAL ROCK IN RED DEAD REDEMPTION 2. Between the town of Valentine and Emerald Ranch there's a rock near the trail with characters like Frank Heck and Otis Miller's names on it. It's a reference to a very real location where settlers would carve their names into a rock. CRACKED.COM

Game Rant

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Good FOOD CRACKED.COM TICK TICK...BOOM! Watch out for an old yellow Greenwich Street sign in Andrew Garfield's character Jonathan Larson's apartment. It's the actual sign Larson and his friends stole one night.

Town & Country Magazine

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CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS COLD WAR There's an Easter egg on John McClane's MP5 SMG. There's text on there that reads, Now I have a machine gun, which is a reference to Die Hard's elevator scene. HAVE MACHINECUN CRACKED.COM

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THERE'S AN EASTER EGG HIDDEN IN THE WHEEL OF THE MARS PERSEVERANCE ROVER. It's a small illustration of two rover wheel tracks. The one is shaped like it was printed in the Martian sand and is a homage to technological achievement. The other is in the shape of DNA, as a reminder of our human origin. CRACKED.COM

NASA

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THE MITCHELLS VS. THE MACHINES Kao CAn! Katie's socks is a homage to that carpet in that Stanley Kubrick movie. CRACKED.COM

Vulture

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THe LAST JeDI HAS AN EASTER EGG OF AN OBSCURE TEXT-BASED '70S GAME Zork was a kind of Choose Your Own Adventure computer game that came out in 1977, and in 1986 the trilogy games were packaged and released along with a Zorkmid coin used in the game's fictional empire. Rian Johnson kept his coin and it makes an appearance when Benicio del Toro's DJ discovers a bunch of casino coins and chips. CRACKED.COM

The Wrap

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The tradition continues: FAR CRY 6 has an early alternative ending Easter egg You'll have to work a bit harder than before, and the ending involves a beach, pandemic lockdowns, and Gloria Estefan's Conga. CRACKED COM

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The meaning behind Cassie's outfits in PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN The costume designer explained that Cassie wore sweet and feminine clothes during the day because it made her seem happy and fine - all so she could avoid confrontation and people asking her what's wrong. It hid how broken she was. CRACKED.COM

PopSugar

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SAINT MAUO God only talks to the character Maud once...and it's the actress's voice doing the talking. CRACKED.COM

Mashable

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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

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SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING has a scene where Michael Keaton's Vulture flies in front of the moon, recreating a shot from Burton's Batman (1989) starring Keaton. CRACKED.COM

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Underground tunnels criss-cross Los Angeles. They connect downtown LA's government buildings, and they're used for moving files securely. But they've also had other uses. For example, in the '50s and '60s, criminals were moved from jail to court through them. In 1960, a billion dollars of tax money were moved through them. CRACKED.COM

17 Unknown Secrets In Well-Known Landmarks

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CASSIE'S HAIRSTYLE IN PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN WAS MODELED AFTER BRIDGET BARDOT. The stylist wanted to hide the character behind an armor of hair, and used the '60s French celebrity as reference. CRACKED.COM

Insider

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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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ETERNALS The MCU film has a 2001: A Space Odyssey Easter egg. When the Domo makes its appearance at the beginning of the movie, it's at such an angle that its nose resembles The Monolith in Kubrick S movie. CRACKED.COM

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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

Screen Rant

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GODZILLA VS. KONG In the 1962 King Kong vs. Godzilla, Kong shoves an entire tree down Godzilla's throat, much like he does with the axe in the 2021 movie. CRACKED.COM

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LOKI T282 STILL 35 MARVEL COMICS GROUP THOR THE HAS AN TEMPUS STEPPED THOUGH - HAVE - EASTER EGG BAT PEATH BUDLA THE GOD-FILLE LEVIN TO A THOR COMIC BOOK When Loki looks out the window at the TVA, there's a tower bearing the number Т-282. It's a reference to Thor #282 that features the first appearance of the Time Keepers. CRACKED COM

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A movie poster for 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea can be seen in the town shots. 20,000 LEAGUES LUCA UNDER THE SEA Relive Captain Nemo's adventures...journey through liquid space! fantasyLand GRACKED.COM

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Tarantino's t-shirt in PULP FICTION Before the director made it big, he was given his first big profile story by Orbit Magazine. To thank them, he wore an Orby - O shirt in the O : movie. D - CRACKED.COM

Ars Technica

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TEXAS T'TURNPIKEL IOS de lavida RESERVED Como U FOR YS TC CLERGY 49 DEATH- PROOF Kurt Russell's shirt from Big Trouble in Little China hangs on the bar wall. CRACKED.COM

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HERE COMES THE BIGGEST LOOK OUT! BOND OF ALL! Quentin Tarantino and Jordan Peele convinced Edgar in IAN SEAN CONNERY FLEMING'S Wright to keep a specific detail HUNDERBALL 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

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