So to give you an example, I was chilling with Winnie the Pooh the other day (I have a three-year-old; what else am I gonna watch?), and one scene was inside Piglet’s house. I noticed in the background, Piglet had a bunch of family portraits (of other pigs). Among them, there was a picture of a string of sausage links and another one of a ham. :eek:
Any other examples of background items in a movie or TV show that aren’t part of the narrative and aren’t referred to by any of the characters, but were obviously intentionally put there to be interesting, amusing, or (in the case of some of Piglet’s relatives) disturbing?
“Gone With The Wind”–Rhett Butler mentions his ward in New Orleans, and later Belle Watling mentions her son in New Orleans.
Connect the dots, people.
Nickelodeon’s Rocket Power, as awful as it was, had many amusing background animation gags in each episode. I recall a blinking wall-mounted fish, a UFO abducting a whale, etc…
In the “Mooseberry Bush” story of Rocky & Bullwinkle, one of the backgrounds is a bookcase featuring titles such as “Sex on Planet X”. Pretty racey for 1959, eh?
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The Incredibles has so many things hidden in the background…that I’m too lazy to list them all.