The Red Dwarf episode “Backwards” was set in an Earth where time ran in reverse: all action was backwards, and speech was played in reverse.
When you played the episode’s sound in reverse (i.e., the way it was originally recorded), one of the lines was “You are a stupidly square-headed bald git, aren’t you eh?.. I’m addressing the one prat in the entire country who’s actually bothered to get hold of this recording, turn it around and actually work out the rubbish that I’m saying. What a poor sad life he’s got!”
The old Doom II had the head of its creator (at least I think that’s who it was) on a stick inside the final monster. There was also what I think was unintentional. For the guided missiles, if you were in a large room, and juked just right, and then stood still, the missile would fly an elliptical orbit around you.
I’ve never thought of inside jokes in movies or TV shows as Easter eggs, but in the Archer episode where he’s captured by pirates, there’s a picture on the wall of maritime flags spelling out, “Katie sucks”. I looked it up and “Katie” was apparently an illustrator who worked on a few episodes. However, I’m not sure if they were goofing on her, actually angry, or just stating a fact.
Also on Community, there’s a sequence where Abed gets involved with a pregnant woman, fighting with her boyfriend/husband, helping her give birth, etc, done completely as background. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrVcTXXGLho
In Wreck it Ralph when they are moving between worlds I noticed the graffiti “Aerith Lives.” It was so quick that I didn’t notice the “All your base are belong to us” graffiti on the other side until I looked it up afterwards.
Even better, Abed actually introduced that couple to each other in the background of the prom episode in Season one.
Also on Community, in the far background of an episode you can see a woman emerge from a doorway wiping her mouth and a minute later a guy comes out zipping his pants.
Weren’t there some GLADOS lines in the voice actress’ similar performance as the computer voice in Pacific Rim? (I hadn’t played through the games until long after I saw the movie.)
The movie Hot Fuzz is filled with them. Watch the DVD with the commentary track on to get them.
One of my favorites. At the station the desk officer is supposed to be twins. (one a slob and one more tidy) When Angel walks in they are reading books because work at this station is so boring. They are reading different books but, by the same author but one is under a pen name.
Many of the older townies are veterans of Hammer Horror films and there are references to their films and specific scenes from those films.
That scene is referenced when Shirley is having her baby in the classroom and Abed starts telling everyone what to do and they ask him why he knows so much and he says something like, “Oh, I’ve delivered a baby before. In the back of a van.” and everyone looks at him weird for a second then they just completely accept it as true and go on with what they are doing.
I didn’t watch Community when it originally aired, except the last season, but I watched it in re-runs and I saw the Shirley episode first and then the one where he delivered the baby in the background and laughed when it hit me that was what Abed was talking about in the Shirleys baby episode.
The deepest one might be the scene where Buster gets his hook stuck in the dashboard of the stair car because he’s dancing like a robot to Mr. Roboto, a reference to a Volkswagen commercial the same actor appeared in.
Breaking Bad and those episode titles: “Seven Thirty-Seven”, “Down”, “Over” and “ABQ” are the titles of four episodes in season two. When the teasers are viewed in order, it depicts a black and white short film called 737 Down Over ABQ that acts as a flash forward to events taking place immediately following the season finale.
People miss that joke all the time. In fact, it seems nearly every time it’s brought up here, someone asks for an explanation.
Either way, it’s not an Easter Egg, it’s just a joke.
It seems to be a “joke” that I would get on every level, but it utterly mystifies me. Yes, yes, I know the explanation. Why it’s considered so obvious, I don’t get. It’s another esoteric passing in-joke in basic yellow, and I’m glad all the Simpsons devotees get it, but that doesn’t mean the rest of us are stupid.
I absolutely hated that whole misdirecting sub-plot. It wasn’t clever, it didn’t advance the storyline, it didn’t “build” anywhere… it was just flat out f*cking with the audience’s head, to no particular end except that they could. It’s the kind of weak filler a show uses in season nine, when they’ve run out of good ideas and have to hold audience during sweeps week. As the second season anchor… bleah.
Easily the most dismissable part of an otherwise excellent series.
Same here. Seen that episode multiple times, and I was a religious Simpsons watcher, and that joke completely flew over my head (and the head of others I was watching it with) until I read it either here or somewhere else on the 'net. (Or perhaps after seeing Chuck & Buck, where there is the line “Chuck & Buck, suck and fuck.”)
