References to other films

Casting Foghorn Leghorn as the corporation's blowhard chief executive is funny on sight. It gets funnier once you know where the rooster came from: his voice and his entire manner…

The background does the rest of the work. Mabel's phone carries a Wilderness Explorers sticker from Up and a Pizza Planet alien sticker from Toy Story. The blanket on the baby…

Clearly labelled speculation, and nothing official supports it. Paul Ben-Victor is credited in a recurring role as Antaan, a character described as devoted to exposing the truth…

Michael performed Billie Jean thousands of times after Motown 25, and the routine got tighter every year — the version most people carry in their heads is the buffed HIStory-tour…

During the street sequence that ends with Bryan looking up at the hospital, there is an awning on a shopfront behind him reading "Leon S. Kennedy Guns and Ammo." Leon is the…

This is the entry the site's own sourcing rules force us to leave unresolved, and it is worth reading as a warning about the rest of the internet's lists. Under the opening…

The star charts are a thank-you note. The planet Holzherr takes its name from Brittany Holzherr, the DC Comics editor who shepherded Supergirl: Woman of Tomorrow. The planet…

Asked what he was actually copying, Parsons names almost no horror. Mr. Robot is the big one — he has said he watched it end to end eight or nine times and calls it his single…

Sigourney Weaver's Colonel Ward tracks rogue Imperials with a sabacc deck printed with 76 wanted warlords — Commander Coin turns up as the Ace of Staves. Sabacc is the card game…

In the same scanning sequence that exposes the Luxo ball underwear, the Universal User Manual displays alien characters that resolve into ANDY — the name written on the boot of…

The background is stacked. Toy Story 4 contributes a blue casserole dish and a lemon from the antique shop (56:17) plus a toy rocket from Ducky and Bunny's game in Elio's room…

Gareth Edwards planted a prop so obscure he had to reveal it himself: an exact replica of the foot pedal Quint (Robert Shaw) braces against while reeling in the shark in Jaws sits…

Coogler revealed on the Get Rec'd podcast that Remmick's design and menace were directly inspired by Death — the whistling, red-eyed Wolf from Puss in Boots: The Last Wish. The…

Warner Bros. buried real lore inside the official soundtrack: on Spotify, tapping the "Sinners Movie" artist profile and its Preacher Boy wood-carving image opens a carousel of…

Before release, the studio's viral marketing hub — an in-universe local paper covering the Maybrook disappearances — buried a story headlined 'Underground Prison Discovered in…

Inside the Wizard's chamber, a display of mechanical heads catalogs the faces the 'great and powerful Oz' has worn — and WhatsOnStage spotted that one of them is Frank Morgan, the…

Eagle-eyed viewers have spotted the profile of Margaret Hamilton — 1939's Wicked Witch of the West — formed by cloud banks in multiple shots, alongside the profile of Clara…

Captain America's motorcycle plate reads AVN-A10 — shorthand for Avengers Annual #10 (1981), the issue that introduced Rogue. He turns up at a military base in "Bright Eyes"…

In Season 2, a conversation between Garp and Roger references God Valley — the site of a legendary battle between the Marines, the Rocks Pirates, and Roger some 38 years before…

Zoro's first on-screen fight is against a Baroque Works agent called Mr. 7 — a character who has never appeared in the anime. His design was only ever a sketch Oda drew in an SBS…

A newspaper glimpsed in Kaya's mansion reports the death of an actress named Victoria Cindry. In the manga she's resurrected as a zombie during the Thriller Bark arc — many…

Inside the abandoned supermarket that Ellie sweeps during patrol, an Employee of the Month board names a white dog as July's winner — earning a quick smirk from Ellie. The board…

In the underground hideout in Kansas City, a child's crayon drawing on the wall shows two men labeled "Danny, Ish. Our protectors." — an exact copy of a collectible from the…

In the back room of Luthen's gallery, StarWars.com confirms artifacts pulled straight from other Lucasfilm productions: the glowing Sankara Stones from Indiana Jones and the…

The naval chess match between Corlys Velaryon and the Triarchy admiral Sharako Lohar around the Battle of the Gullet was staged as a duel of commanders' minds — and per…

Around the 57:39 mark, while 22 is walking Joe's body through New York and Joe is stuck inside a therapy cat, the pair pass a travel agency. The poster in the window reads Visit…

When the Boys dig through Russian footage of the experiments performed on Soldier Boy, a scientist notes a procedure 'dated January 24.' That's Dean Winchester's canonical…

"Hammerbarn" — the show's beloved Bunnings pastiche — hides a genuinely obscure one: character names from Nintendo's Fire Emblem strategy series appear on background products in…

During a fast shot of Miguel running through the Land of the Dead in his skeleton makeup, a canvas in the background carries two blue silhouettes standing side by side — the Grady…

Miguel and Héctor sprint past a poster for The Incredibles on their way to the Land of the Dead talent competition. Pixar's cross-film advertising usually happens in bedrooms and…

Tucked into the background of the Land of the Dead is an axe that Lee Unkrich has confirmed was modelled on the one Jack Torrance swings in The Shining — and beside it sits a red…

Inside the derelict house at 29 Neibolt Street, an old beer bottle carries the label "Bob Gray." In King's novel, IT's cover identity is "Robert 'Bob' Gray, also known as…