Find Easter Eggs From Your Favorite Show on the TVDetails Subreddit
Some TV shows have too many jokes to be caught in a single viewing: Arrested Development , Rock 30 , Bojack Horseman , The Simpsons , Community . Some use omens and themed clues: Lost , Breaking Bad , The 100 . And some just have interesting mistakes or little choice in clothing and costumes. You can find them all on r / TVDetails , a subreddit dedicated to little TV show moments that viewers might have missed. Here are some of our favorites.
This Parks & Rec joke is actually hidden from most viewers: Council villain Jamm claims to love Chinese culture. But the sign on his wall, according to the editor of JurassicWorldWarZ, actually speaks “North Korea” in Japanese .
In danger! As redditor amethodicalmadness shares, there is a small light bulb at the bottom of each podium to remind Alex Trebek which participant was the last to answer correctly, so that he can choose the next question to be solved. (In this clip , after chatting with the members, Trebek checks the lights to see “who’s in charge.”)
As for Chernobyl , nuclear energy official Valery Legasov peeks out the door as he enters the interview room. Redditor Goalie02 explains, “A common KGB trick was for an armed executioner to wait outside the door and shoot when the victim enters.”
In ” It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia,” as Reddit editor Bakedputts pointed out, the gang shared an Indiana Jones suit. “Charlie got the jacket, Mack got the hat, and Frank got the whip.”
And “Breaking Bad” does some reverse omens: today Hector Salamanca is in a wheelchair. In a flashback, as the captdoppler notes, young Hector Salamanca sits in this stylized wooden chair :
Some more great details:
- Futurama calls back an old man awaiting a birth certificate.
- The King of the Hill is a very accurate portrayal of the Cadillac of the 70s .
- SpongeBob SquarePants changed Mr. Krabs’s date of birth to keep him the same age forever.
- In Game of Thrones, Daenerys earns a new scythe for every military victory.
- There are no words on the stop signs in The Handmaid’s Tale .
- Bob’s Burgers describes exactly how to fill a pepper shaker .
- At The Office , when Michael Scott asks everyone to bring a ski mask, Kevin takes him seriously .
- Many shows make the series finale a mirror image of the premiere. On Frasier, this includes casting and putting on the couch .
- Did you know that the cups and props boxes in TV shows are always empty, so the actors’ movements end up distracting from falsification? Not with Michael Richards carrying the air conditioner on Seinfeld . (The actors are talking about this in the behind-the-scenes video .)
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