Did You See That? Movie Easter Eggs (Some Better Than The Actual Movie)

06/27/2012 10:00 am by

Who doesn’t love a good Easter Egg — hidden messages, in-jokes, or features in movies? Nobody doesn’t, that’s who. Did you know about these? Let us know in the comments about any others worth looking for, because what better reason to watch movies than to go back to all your friends and be that know-it-all who picked up on all the little details they didn’t?

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Frank Abagnale, Jr. is famous for being an impostor, assuming one false identity after another for his own (usually financial) gain. It wasn’t too much of a stretch for him, then, to portray a French police officer in the movie inspired by his life, starring Leonardo DiCaprio.

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  • April Lollar

    Since I am a Star Wars nerd, I keep up with these types of things – In Raiders of the Lost Ark the ID number on Jock Lindsey’s plane was OB-CPO a reference to Star Wars characters Obi-Wan Kenobi and C-3PO. In The Temple of Doom the nightclub where Indiana Jones gets poisoned is called Club Obi-Wan in honor of Star Wars character Obi-Wan Kenobi. Source: http://www.destinationhollywood.com/movies/indianajones/feature_starwars.shtml

    • MDub2000

      Yes, I stumbled across those two, too!

  • http://twitter.com/thegrumbles the grumbles

    Here’s where I admit that I really, really love these easter egg type things. We did a crazy year-long movie challenge and one way to spice up old crap you aren’t looking forward to watching is checking the IMDB page for goofs and trivia. Voila!

    • MDub2000

      Right? Totally makes me want to go back and re-watch some movies that were utter crap just to pick up on the hidden references I only heard about after the fact, but then I remember that those movies were utter crap.

  • Shellbelle486

    Isn’t there something in Wizard of Oz? At one point there in the words and supposedly you can see someone who has hung himself in the background? I don’t think I’m making this up. I know we spent a few hours looking for it one night when I was in high school, although, I don’t remember if we found it….

    • MDub2000

      Yes! I remember that and I did the same thing. The hanging body turned out to be a crane, I think… one of the animals from the set. Not that I remember a crane anywhere in the movie, so you know it was definitely a corpse.

      • Shellbelle486

        It’s really the only explanation.

  • Earl_the_Butcher

    H.I.’s paycheck in Raising Arizona is issued by Hudsucker Industries, an obvious foreshadow to the Cohen Bros. future film, the Hudsucker Proxy.

    • MDub2000

      Oooh, and it involves Nicolas Cage to boot? Winner.

  • Earl_the_Butcher

    Also, I believe it’s Robert Zemeckis’ kid that first refuses Forest a seat on the bus, and that Tom Hanks’ daughter is on the bus as well. Anybody ever heard that?

  • NinaN2

    So I am the only naive person who did not notice or know about the penis in the Little Mermaid castle???

    • MDub2000

      I think you may be! Congratulations!

  • http://twitter.com/momofnandn Dawn Feakes-Lange

    Wait, Mr. Incredible was the DENTIST??? How did I not see that? Well played, Pixar. Well played indeed.

  • SuzyQuzey

    Wow, I knew of NONE of these except The Little Mermaid’s penis. That death’s head moth thing in fantastic!

  • http://lauriemrauch.com/ Laurie M. Rauch

    I could have sworn I read somewhere that the boy ghost in Three Men and a Baby is actually a cardboard cutout of Ted Danson someone snuck into the frame.

    And I don’t think I’ve ever seen this mentioned but some friends and I noticed this in university when we were doing a Star Wars trilogy marathon (long before there was a JarJar Binks or any such nonsense). In I think Star Wars, one of the Storm Troopers smacks his head on a door that didn’t open all the way in time and he kind of falls over…

    (And I’d heard of the Little Mermaid extra effect, but I was never able to find it… so thank you for finally pointing out where it is. :D )

  • Laurinda P

    I knew about the Little Mermaid, & I read the message in The Fight Club the first time I watched it!

  • DianaCLT

    Do all of the John Hughes’ movie license plates qualify? SHAB in She’s Having a Baby, EMC2 in Breakfast Club, 4FBDO in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, etc.