Actually, every Pixar movie has references to other Pixar stuff:
Toy Story: The books in Andy’s room include “Red’s Dream,” “Luxo Jr.,” and “Tin Toy,” the titles of early Pixar shorts. Also, the rubber ball and desk lamp are from “Luxo Jr.”
A Bug’s Life: Woody shows up with a clapper during the credits’ outtakes. And the Pizza Planet truck is parked next to the trailer home where the bugs’ city is located at.
Toy Story 2: Heinrich the caterpillar is walking along the branch that Buzz karate-chops away (right before the street-crossing scene).
Monsters, Inc.: Along with Jesse and Nemo, Randall gets exiled to the same trailer home from A Bug’s Life, complete with “Pizza Planet” truck.
Finding Nemo: The boy in the dentist’s office is reading a Mr. Incredible comic book (a reference to the new movie coming in November), and the office has a Buzz Lightyear action figure on the floor. Mike from Monsters Inc. swims by in the credits. And two of the vehicles on the road outside the dentist’s office are the Pizza Planet truck (again!) and an unnamed car from Cars (the next Pixar movie after The Incredibles).
Actually, there’s also a non-Pixar in-joke in Monsters Inc. – near the end of the movie, one of the signs in the scare floor reads “Think Funny,” and the back of the magazine Mike and Celia reads is for a computer with the slogan “Scare Different.” Both are references to Apple Computer, who shares the same CEO as Pixar.
There are a couple of James Bond literary-movie crossover in-jokes. In the Fleming novel On Her Majesty’s Secret Service Bond notes that actress Ursula Andress was skiing at Piz Gloria, and that she has an impressive suntan. As Fleming was writing, Andress had just finished shooting the film Dr. No, the film of the Eon James Bond movies.
In one of the John Gardner Bond Books, published in the late 1980s, Bond sees an in-flight version of the film The Untouchables, and Bond notes that it starred a Scottish actor that he liked very much.
In Rosemary’s Baby, when Rosemary meets Terry Gionoffino in the basement, she says “I thought you were Victoria Vetri.” Actually, Terry is played by actree Angela Dorian, who posed for Playboy using the name Victoria Vetri.
In one episode of Farscape Aeryn Sun (Claudia Black) asks John Crichton (Ben Browder) if he can see anything, to which he replies “It’s dark. Pitch black.” Claudia Black had just finished filming the movie Pitch Black.
In the pilot for Andromeda a character, after seeing Dylan Hunt (Kevin Sorbo) for the first time, described him as being “huge, like a Greek god!”. Kevin Sorbo of course had previously played Hercules.
In the first episode of Stargate: SG-1 Samantha Carter talks about how they had to “MacGyver together” something to let them control the Stargate, prompting an odd look from O’Neil (Richard Dean Anderson who, of course, played MacGyver).
Finally, in an episode of The Avengers, Steed comments that he has received a postcard from Cathy Gale (his former partner, played by Honor Blackman). He flips it over and wonders out loud what she is doing in Fort Knox. This was just after Honor Blackman had played “Pussy Galore” in Goldfinger.
Probably related, in an episode of The New Avengers Steed and Gambit solve a problem by relasing a large number of cats into a room. Steed looks in and says “Pussy…” to which Gambit adds “Galore”.
George Lazenby had a tough act to follow when he took over from Sean Connery for his only outing as James Bond in the underappreciated On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. During one scene, when things didn’t quite go his way, Lazenby as Bond commented, “This never happened to the other fellow.”
Oh, you weren’t kidding?! It’s during the scene of Paris “practicing” his archery. He’s all steely-eyed with his bow and then, whhit!: the camera follows the arrow into the dummy, moving exactly as it did when he’s first shooting down orcs in the Mines of Moria seqence. When I saw Troy, the whole theatre busted up laughing at that part.
Come to think of it, there’s a good inside joke in Lord of the Rings: the Fellowship of the Ring. In Rivendel, Boromir picks up one of the shards of Narsil, cuts himself on it, and remarks, “Still Sharp.”
Sean Bean, the actor who played Boromir, also starred in a long-running miniseries on the BBC, following the adventures of a solider by the name of Richard Sharpe. They all had his name in the title, too: Sharpe’s Rifles, Sharpe’s Eagle, Sharpe’s Gold, etc.
I wonder if there’s any LotR references in Hidalgo. Actually, seeing as it’s a horse movie - maybe there should be a Shadowfax or Bill the pony reference.
The Governator did that in the generally panned Last Action Hero, his character saw a “real world” poster of himself out of character and it even had a scene with Maria Shriver.
Last Action Hero was full of references and in-jokes, because that’s what the whole film was intended as. When Schwarzenegger’s movie character come-to-life character is in the film world with the kid, they go to the LAPD (where almost every movie cop ever is referenced, and Sharon Stone is outside waiting for a cab wearing “that” dress from Basic Instinct) - just as the T-1000 comes walking out. Schwarzenegger and the T-1000 stare at each other for a moment, then walk on.
There’s also a great bit where he gets shot in the arm, and doesn’t understand why he’s completely incapacitated - as soon as he makes it back into the movie world, however, it’s “just a scratch”.
LAst night at Spidey 2 when Harry looks at Peter and says “You killed my father”, I leaned over to my companion and whispered “Prepare to die!” We both cracked up.
I think it’d be great to some day see a movie, any movie, starring John Malcovich in which he acts radically out of character during one scene, only to end with him jerking spasmodically for a moment. Then someone can turn to him and asks if he’s all right.
He replies: “I’m Okay now, I just haven’t felt myself (checks watch) for the past fifteen minutes!”
Chevy Chase missed a great opportunity for an in-joke at the begining of Vegas Vacation.
When he’s looking thru a photo album of his two kids and saying how they’re growing up so fast he barely knows them, the photo album should have had pictures of all six of the different actors who had previously played them (Vegas was the fourth Vacation film and the son & daughter were never played by the same actor twice!)
He could have looked up at his ‘current’ kids with that classic confused Chevy Chase look!
They do that joke in that movie. They’re all sitting around the table and he says they should all take the vacation together because he hardly recognizes them anymore, and then looks back and forth between them with greater-than-average confusion.
