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5[[caption-width-right:232:"It's a secret to everybody."]]
6->''"You are a stupid, square-headed bald git, aren't you? And you, I'm pointing at you, I'm pointing at you, but I'm not actually addressing you. I'm addressing the one prat in the whole country who's bothered to get hold of this recording, turn it 'round and actually work out the rubbish that I'm saying. What a poor, sad life he's got!"''
7-->-- Backmasked message played in ''Series/RedDwarf'', "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIIIBackwards Backwards]]"
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9Originally, "Easter[[labelnote: ]]You thought you would see an easter egg here, but [[Memes/JoJosBizarreAdventure it was I, DIO!]][[/labelnote]]Eggs" was the term for little bits of stuff programmers left behind in the software. They're secrets, intended to tickle the fancy of those who discover them. Programs far too numerous to mention have included Easter eggs — everything from Microsoft Office to ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAuto: [[VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas San Andreas]]''.
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11But Easter Eggs aren't just found in software any more: the term is also used for a variety of hidden content, such as {{Hidden Track}}s on albums and unadvertised DVDBonusContent, and at one time, for people who sat through the credits (now referred to as TheStinger).
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13The first Easter Eggs were inserted by programmers for companies whose policy forbade them from receiving individual credit for their work. The earliest Easter Eggs were mostly credits pages, possibly to allow the programmers themselves to prove authorship to friends. For security reasons (and concerns about malicious programmers inserting undocumented and destructive code), most companies don't allow Easter Eggs to appear in their software anymore, but as individual programmers now receive full credit for their work, it's a moot point.[[note]]This hasn't stopped programmers from adding them. Sometimes with [[http://www.teslarati.com/tesla-second-chinese-research-hack/ negative results.]][[labelnote:And…]]…the problem of software bugs that can come with {{black box}} code.[[/labelnote]][[/note]]
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15An article on why Easter Eggs exist (focusing on ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', but applicable to all games) is available [[https://web.archive.org/web/20071017003006/http://wizards.com:80/default.asp?x=mtgcom/daily/mr257 here.]]
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17In VideoGames, Easter Eggs can sometimes be found with a RocketJump or a well-timed DoubleJump. You can also find some if you use the bunny hop trick.[[labelnote:.]]See? Here's an example of one! Why did you click this anyway? Maybe you should look at the above quote…[[/labelnote]]
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19For time-sensitive Easter Eggs, see HolidayMode. For in-story Easter Egg dates that reference original air/release dates, see SignificantReferenceDate.
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21Subtropes include BilingualBonus (when the audience member must know a language other than the main one of the work to get the extra information) and FreezeFrameBonus (an Easter Egg that only appears onscreen for a very brief moment), subtler forms of {{Foreshadowing}} (when you go back and discover that minor events or FreezeFrameBonus moments tie into events to come) and WhatTheHellPlayer (an Easter Egg you get for doing something odd in a game).
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23For many, part of the fun of Easter Eggs is discovering them on one's own, so if you're one of those, beware of '''spoilers'''.
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25See also [[ShoutOut Shout-Outs]], which are basically Easter Eggs that are very easy to find.
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27----
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29!!Examples:
30[[index]]
31* EasterEgg/VideoGames
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33[[foldercontrol]]
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35[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
36* ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom'': On the newspaper page with the baseball player being attacked by Koro-sensei's tentacles, there's a side article captioned by the quote "My wife is a slut".
37* In the English dub of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', when the team is confronted by a group of Adjucas (medium-high level Hollows) in Las Noches, Nel tries to use her status as an arrancar to get them to back off. She's told "All that gets you is a free cup of tea at Las Noches". There's a scene in a later episode where Aizen refuses to start a meeting with the Espada until he's certain that everyone has a cup of tea, which [[MemeticMutation has spread through the internet like wildfire]], but at the time this episode of the dub aired the only people who would have known about it are people who have seen the original airings of ''Bleach''.
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40[[folder:Art]]
41* Some paintings have hidden images, such as Holbein's ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ambassadors_(Holbein) The Ambassadors]]'', which has a greatly distorted skull that can be seen when the painting is viewed from an extreme angle.
42* After Biagio da Cesena, Master of Ceremonies to Pope Paul III, complained about the nudity in the Last Judgement panel of the Art/SistineChapel, {{Creator/Michelangelo|Buonarroti}} worked him into the painting. He is depicted as one of the damned in hell, with donkey ears and a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything coiled snake]] preserving his modesty. The Pope apparently thought it was hilarious: when Cesena complained, the pope replied that his jurisdiction did not include Hell, so the portrait would have to remain.
43* In some of the dioramas at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, the artist painted in little elves "as a sort of signature of his work." Also, two dioramas have moving butterflies, which must freak unsuspecting visitors out. [[http://www.paleocurrents.com/docs/secrets_of_dioramas.html Here is a webpage devoted to pointing seekers to the right dioramas.]]
44* Celebrity caricaturist Al Hirschfeld was known for incorporating his daughter Nina's name into his portraits; the numeral next to his signature indicates how many times "NINA" appears in the drawing. It became such a game with his fans that Hirschfeld complained the "[=NINAs=]" were overshadowing his art. In fact, the U.S. Army used the "spot-the-NINA" game as a test of their soldiers' visual acuity.
45* The National World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. features a small [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-X19QVBa6H9o/T30RYOX6YUI/AAAAAAAAFsU/h0uaLDxUnNY/s640/kilroy.jpg "Kilroy Was Here"]] above a maintenance hatch behind the sculpture.
46* The National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh includes three dioramas showing different landscapes of ancient Scotland, from tundra to the Caledonian Pine Forest, and the wildlife that would have lived there. All three include little details that you might not notice at first, but what really belongs here is the inclusion in the tundra diorama, hidden behind the display case's frame so that you can only see it by leaning right up against the glass, of a tiny snowman.
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49[[folder:Comic Books]]
50* Creator/DonRosa has written a hidden dedication D.U.C.K (Dedicated to Uncle Carl from Keno) on each Donald Duck adventure he has drawn.
51** Also, he hides WesternAnimation/MickeyMouse or an object shaped like Mickey in most of his comics.
52* Brian Cronin has collected [[http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2011/07/01/a-month-of-comic-book-easter-eggs-archive/ a massive collection of these]] at Comic Book Resources, all from fan suggestions. Some include:
53** Numerous comics strip characters appearing as [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed and Sue Richards' neighbors]]
54** [[UnsoundEffect Hidden sound effects]]
55** The ComicBook/XMen randomly appearing in the background in a ''ComicBook/{{Punisher}}'' issue
56* Each Issue #1 of [[ComicBook/{{New52}} The New 52]] (with the exception of ''[[{{ComicBook/Earth2}} Earth-2]]'') included a one-panel background appearance by [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rsz_1pandora_new_earth_001_998.jpg Pandora]]. [[http://images.wikia.com/marvel_dc/images/4/44/Pandora_Catwoman_001.jpg Here she is hidden in the first issue of Catwoman]]
57* When Todd [=McFarlane=] did the art for ''[[ComicBook/SpiderMan The Amazing Spider-Man]]'', he always hid WesternAnimation/{{Felix the Cat}}'s face somewhere in it.
58* ''ComicBook/{{Robin|1993}}'': The out of focus posters in Tim's bedroom change just about every time they're seen and are usually used by the artists to give shout-outs to {{Grunge}}, AlternativeRock, PopPunk, and AlternativeMetal bands they like. Keep an eye on Tim's textbooks too, on the rare occasion the titles can be read they can be rather nonsensical.
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61[[folder:Computer Hardware]]
62* Designers of integrated circuits have incorporated miniature artwork in their chips, termed as chip art or silicon doodling. While many of them were more of a playful graffiti or a form of expression from the designer and/or the team (though such unauthorised artists' marks e.g. humorous or satirical designs are discouraged by chipmakers due to fears that the art may interfere with normal functionality), some actually do serve a practical purpose: if the chip was cloned by a competing manufacturer down to the artwork, this was strong evidence that a copyright violation was committed. Such chip art experienced a surge of popularity due to the practice of chip decapping being performed by retrocomputing enthusiasts.
63* Despite Microsoft having largely banned the inclusion of Easter eggs in their products, the practice still lives on with their video game hardware. Taking apart the Xbox One S reveals a super deformed artwork of Microsoft's gaming mascot Master Chief, and on the Xbox One X's motherboard where the same Master Chief is depicted riding a scorpion, in reference to the One X's Project Scorpio codename. A hidden credits screen was also discovered in the original Xbox Dashboard as well.
64* The original Apple Macintosh case has signatures of the development team embossed in the plastic which can be seen once you open it up. Similar hardware autographs can also be seen in some of Apple's hardware of the era.
65* Ditto the Commodore Amiga 1000, which had the devteam signatures and one dog pawprint.
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68[[folder:Computer Software]]
69* There are [[http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~scheich/Newton/OS1.html two]] [[http://www.cg.tuwien.ac.at/~scheich/Newton/OS2.html pages]] of Easter eggs for the Apple Newton handheld computer, including Finder's ability to predict Elvis sightings.
70* Platform/MicrosoftWindows:
71** Microsoft Excel had a few games as Easter eggs which could be triggered if by inputting a specific set of commands in a new spreadsheet. Excel 95 could take you to a ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}''-style "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nwg9eLHZZRo Hall of Tortured Souls]]". Excel 97 had a hidden flight simulator. And Excel 2000 had a ''VideoGame/SpyHunter''-style driving game, which its fans dub "Dev Hunter".
72** In Windows 3.1, a certain sequence of keys would replace the Windows logo in the "About Windows" dialogue with something else. Depending on the code you entered, it was either a polar bear or a portrait of Bill Gates.
73** In Windows 95, if you opened Explorer and created a folder on the desktop named "and now, the moment you've all been waiting for", then ''renamed'' it "we proudly present for your viewing pleasure", and renamed it a third time to "The Microsoft Windows 95 Product Team!", the directory window would show a video -- complete with music -- of all the people involved in creating Windows 95. It was eventually removed for the final version, Windows 95 C.
74** In older versions of the [[http://support.microsoft.com/kb/232010 3D Text screensaver]], if you input the text "volcano", it would display the names of random volcanoes.
75** The "Pipes" screen saver had a couple where the pipes would draw a teapot -- specifically, the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_teapot Utah Teapot]] that was the model for the very first 3D render. ''Very'' rarely, it would also draw an accompanying sugar bowl.
76** Internet Explorer 4 has credits, which are unlocked by a [[http://www.eeggs.com/items/729.html series of manoeuvres]] which are as fun as the credits themselves. There are also silly "intermissions" to watch between each set of names.
77** In some versions of Microsoft Word, typing in "zzzz" and running the spellchecker will cause it to provide the alternative spelling "sex".
78** Microsoft has since formally refrained from including Easter eggs in their products as part of its Trustworthy Computing Initiative in 2002, though some still slip through regardless, and those that come up from them are far less elaborate in nature and tend to be more of subtle references to the company.
79* In Platform/MacOS 7.5, making a text clipping of the words "secret about box" and double-clicking it would reward you with a game of ''VideoGame/{{Breakout}}'', with developers' names printed on the blocks.
80* Most versions of Borland Delphi will display information about and photos of its development team in its About box if you hold down the Alt key and type in words like "TEAM" or "DEVELOPERS".
81* UsefulNotes/MozillaFirefox:
82** Most browser versions have a special response if you type "about:mozilla" in the address bar, reading verses from a [[HollywoodApocrypha fictional religious text]] called "The Book of Mozilla". Some forks of Mozilla have their own verses; Flock references Mozilla's growth as a browser, Iceweasel references a trademark dispute with the Mozilla corporation, and Pale Moon has a series of verses that describe controversial design changes in Mozilla's interface and Pale Moon's eventual change of the browser's platform. Doing this in some versions of Internet Explorer, meanwhile, gets you a (false) Blue Screen of Death.
83** If you type "about:robots" into the address bar, you get a page with several references to fictional robots:
84--->''[[Creator/IsaacAsimov Robots may not injure a human being]] or, [[ThreeLawsCompliant through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.]]\
85[[Film/BladeRunner Robots have seen things you people wouldn’t believe.]]\
86[[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Robots are Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun To Be With.]]\
87[[WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}} Robots have shiny metal posteriors which should not be bitten.]]\
88[-[[Franchise/BattlestarGalactica And they have a plan.]]-]''
89:: : Even the tab header has a robot reference: [[Film/TheDayTheEarthStoodStill1951 Gort!]] KlaatuBaradaNikto!
90** The original [[http://www.seamonkey-project.org/ Seamonkey]] contains "about:kitchensink", a reference to reports that Mozilla had thrown in everything but the kitchen sink. [[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122411 An actual bug]] was created to remedy the situation.
91** [[https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=700000 Bug #700000]]: Buy Firefox developers some beer. This may be a reference to the software licensing term "beerware", which is a very lax license that allows users to do whatever they want with the software if they buy the author a beer should the user meet them, or at least drink a beer in their honor. However, Mozilla's software is not beerware, being licensed under the Mozilla Public License.
92* The Windows-only version of [[http://www.chromium.org/ Google Chrome]], 1.0, takes the URL "about:internets" and displays Windows' 3D Pipes screensaver; it may also be a ShoutOut to the infamous {{meme|ticMutation}} "the Internet is a series of tubes!"
93* ''Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing'' has a pinball game hidden within it.
94* The anti-malware program ''Spybot: Search & Destroy'' has a hidden minigame based on the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight%27s_tour knight's tour problem]].
95* Try to find a version of Flash that does not have goodies hidden behind a tiny button in the about window.
96* Matlab, despite being a serious program for mathematics, has quite a few Easter Eggs; here's the [[http://www.eeggs.com/tree/422.html full list]].
97* Using the KonamiCode in Google Reader will give the sidebar a ninja theme.
98* In Photoshop 6, holding Ctrl+Alt and going to Help and About will reveal an image of a blue anthropomorphic cat in BDSM gear, titled "Venus in Furs".
99* In Python v.3 or later, you can type [[Webcomic/{{Xkcd}} import antigravity]]. It brings up the relevant comic in your browser. And in at least one version, "import this" gives a statement of Python programming "philosophy".
100* In [=WinRAR=]'s "About [=WinRAR=]" window, clicking on the [=WinRAR=] icon will cause it to be affected by gravity -- ''i.e.'' it will fall then bounce when it reaches the bottom of the window.
101* A small Easter egg can be found in Google's Calendar widget icon in Jelly Bean. If one were to look at the widget icon join the widget menu, an appointment for a time travel demonstration in a [[Series/DoctorWho police box]] becomes apparent, and with a very fitting shade of blue for the event.
102* The program µtorrent has a ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}'' clone hidden. Go to the "About" tab, then press "t".
103* Web browsers sometimes put Easter eggs on "not connected to the Internet" page, usually in the form of little keyboard games. The idea is basically that if you want to use the Internet, but you can't access it, you're probably bored out of your mind and need something to do. In Google Chrome, you can hit the spacebar or up-arrow to get a minecare-type game involving the little dinosaur from the error page. Microsoft Edge, meanwhile, has a surfing minigame heavily inspired by ''VideoGame/SkiFree''.
104* Every version of the Android operating system has a different Easter egg that can be found by going into the "about device" section of the system settings and quickly tapping the Android version number several times.
105** Android Lollipop (5.0) and Marshmallow (6.0) hide a ''VideoGame/FlappyBird'' clone.
106** Nougat (7.0) will add a ''VideoGame/NekoAtsume''-like game to the quick settings, making it "Android Neko".
107** Oreo (8.0) will present you with what appears to be stacked circles of various shades of yellow. Pressing this 5 times, followed by circular gesture on the shapes, will then clear the screen and present a plain black octopus figure on a dark blue background, at a random "distance". You can then drag the figure around by its head, and its arms will be pulled along behind.
108** Tapping the build number 7 times will unlock the otherwise hidden "developer settings" on most Android devices.
109** If you dial in the number [[Series/TheITCrowd 0118 999 881 999 119 725 3]] on the Google Dialer, the dial button will start to flash like an ambulance's siren.
110* Many voice-activated assistants will have Easter eggs, mostly in response to [[DevelopersForesight specific questions]]. Many answers will be quite smart-assed, and quite a few of them have to do with addressing them as if they were a ''competitor's'' assistant (of which they tend not do have a high opinion).
111** If you ask Apple's Siri to "open the pod bay doors", she will appropriately respond, "[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.]]"
112*** If you tell Siri, "I see a little silhouetto of a man" or ask her "Is this the real life?", she will respond with the appropriate follow-up from the {{Music/Queen}} song Bohemian Rhapsody.
113** If you ask Amazon's Alexa "the meaning of life", she'll respond, "[[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Forty-two.]]" If you tell her, "[[Film/MeanGirls Alexa, I'm sorry I called you a gap-toothed bitch,]]" she'll respond, "No worries." And if you ask her to "open the pod bay doors", she says, "[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.]] I'm [[SubvertedTrope not HAL]] and [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome we're not in space]]."
114*** Also, if you ask Alexa whether she knows Siri, she replies, "Only by reputation." Ask if she knows Cortana and she says, "We zip past each other on the information superhighway every now and again."
115** Microsoft's Cortana will reference her namesake from the ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' games. If you ask her if she's better than Siri, she'll respond, "Not to brag, but I'm going to save the galaxy 500 years in the future."
116* A small and interesting Easter egg can be found in the mobile version of Windows 10. The default wallpapers are located in the Photos app under the date April 1975. However, this is not just any ordinary date, nor is it random: Microsoft was founded on April 4, 1975.
117* In [[Platform/{{UNIX}} Arch Linux and its derivatives]]:
118** It's possible to enable a ''VideoGame/PacMan'' progress bar instead of the default one with hashes (as they use the Pacman '''pac'''kage '''man'''ager).
119** Invoking the apt package manager used on Debian and its derivatives (such as Ubuntu) with the sole argument "moo" will print out some ASCII art of a cow with the caption, "Have you mooed today?" This is hinted at in the help blurb for apt, which says that "This APT has super cow powers".
120* In 0CC-Famitracker, a fork of the NES music program Famitracker, holding Ctrl and pressing K, R, A, I, and D will generate a copy of [[VideoGame/Metroid1 Kraid's Lair]], a somewhat memetic song in the Famitracker community due to being used in a video tutorial for new users.
121* In early versions of the Amiga, a computer designed by ex-Atari employees and then bought by Commodore, one could hold down several specific keyboard keys[[note]]according to one source, both shifts, alts, "A" keys and any function key[[/note]] while on the desktop to reveal the message "We made the Amiga..."; if one then was somehow able to eject and reinsert the floppy disk, the second half of the message would pop up: "... and they[[note]]Commodore, presumably[[/note]] fucked it up!"
122* Whenever a user accesses a shared Google Doc without being signed in, they will be represented as "Anonymous [insert animal here]". Very rarely, this can settle on "Anonymous [[MemeticMutation Nyan Cat]]".
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125[[folder:[=DVD=]s]]
126* The DVD of ''Film/AustinPowersTheSpyWhoShaggedMe'' contains a secret menu, accessed if you wait around long enough on the special features menu for Dr. Evil's spaceship to fly into frame, and select the logo on it. The menu has several bonus features about, well, evil.
127* The ''Series/BabylonFive'' DVD collections contain bloopers and outtakes from the season you're currently watching. All one has to do is find the hidden "5" symbol in the extras menu on the 6th disc of each season.
128* The DVD set of ''WebAnimation/BrokenSaints'' contains several, the crown jewel of which is a hilarious alternate commentary track on Chapter 19, Act 1, which is practically a GagDub of the chapter.
129* On the DVD of ''WebVideo/DoctorHorriblesSingAlongBlog'', when the standard FBI warning changes to the ELE screen, there is an intercut shot of three actual eggs, representative of the DVD's three hidden Easter eggs. Watching the first scene with the subtitle language set to "Wiccan" gives a coded hint to finding them.
130* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
131** Actually used as a plot point: in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink "Blink"]], the Doctor hides a message for the future in Easter Eggs in 17 unrelated UsefulNotes/{{DVD}}s. Appropriately, the message became a real-life Easter Egg on the Series 3 boxset.
132** The Series 3 [=DVDs=] also have the full video of the Doctor's instructions to Martha from [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature "Human Nature"]] hidden somewhere.
133** On a side note, it is worth noting that [=DVDs=] of classic ''Doctor Who'' stories are stocked with Easter Eggs.
134** The series 1 and 2 DVD set have the "Do you want to come with me?" promotion as an Easter Egg.
135* The DVD release of Music/DuranDuran's ''Greatest'' video collection contains a number of Easter eggs which the viewer can get to either through a series of convoluted steps or by going directly to the "track number" in each DVD. The Easter eggs include archival footage of the band playing at the Rum Runner nightclub (where they were the house band) while the New Romantic clubgoers dance around, soundtracked to "Planet Earth"; scenes from a 1984 British TV interview with the band featuring little sound clips of the slowed-down version of their instrumental "Faith in this Colour"; and a lengthy 1990 interview of the band talking about the creative process and the way their then-current album ''Liberty'' came to be.
136* In the DVD Collection of ''Manga/ExcelSaga'', there are several Easter Eggs. At the start of each disc, rather than displaying the typical FBI warning screen, there is a warning (presumably written by Excel) stating "Il Plazzo is watching you!" and threatens the viewer if they illegally copy the discs. On Disc 3, Excel mention there are Easter Eggs on the [=DVDs=]. The majority are on Discs 2, 4 & 5 and include recipes, personal advertisements, and poems.
137* One of the [=DVDs=] in the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' set features Adam Baldwin singing "The Ballad of Jayne".
138** In the title menu of ''Film/{{Serenity}}'', there's a hidden button leading to a clip about and showing the Fruity Oaty Bars ad.
139* ''Film/TheFly1986'' slips in two Easter eggs on non-VanillaEdition releases.
140** The raw video footage of Seth's "How does Brundlefly eat?" demonstration can be found on the standard Collector's Edition DVD release by going to the Deleted Scenes menu, highlighting "Monkey-Cat", and pressing left (which lights up a fly icon), or by highlighting Play and pressing up on the ''Fly Collection'' Blu-Ray disc (which automatically runs the clip).
141** Clicking around a bit on the subheadings menu for the making-of documentary ''Fear of the Flesh'' on the standard release reveals an extra Creator/JeffGoldblum interview clip in which he recounts childhood costume memories of playing a Goodwill {{Mascot}} at a grade school assembly (his very first onstage experience, complete with a DramaticUnmask of the GoofySuit at the end) and being dressed up as a ''female'' witch for Halloween. On the ''Fly Collection'' disc, this clip is found by highlighting "Promotional Materials" under the Extras subheading and then pressing right.
142* The [=DVDs=] of ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003'' feature some Easter eggs, usually by going to the extras menu and using some button/key presses to highlight a special symbol (or a letter in the logo). The majority of these Easter eggs are gag dubs of the next episode previews with the Japanese cast acting out of character (For example, the gag dub preview of one of the episodes has Winry's VA singing an alternate version of 'Tobira No Mukoe E' with lyrics that basically make fun of Ed), other Easter eggs include things like adverts. Sadly most of these bonus features were absent on the UK releases (With one DVD having a functionless egg).
143* One of the Easter eggs on the ''Film/Gremlins2TheNewBatch'' special edition DVD is the alternative VHS version of the scene where the Gremlins stop the film. It can be seen if you select the Gremlin's hand on the main menu.
144* ''Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy2005'' DVD has a rather odd Easter Egg when you use the Infinite Improbability Drive. It shows a rather… strange cartoon.
145** In fact, it's the same cartoon that Deep Thought is watching within the movie.
146** The DVD of [[Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1981 the 1980s TV series]] has a similar feature, which turns up totally at random when you push any button on the menu, and basically [[InterfaceScrew shows whatever it was you wanted, but in a weird messed up way]] with an apology for the effects of the Infinite Improbability Drive. Interestingly, the TV series DVD predates the film's release by at least a year.
147* The ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' [=DVD=]s have a few Easter eggs, much like the site itself.
148** The Easter eggs that are normally accessed at the end of the cartoons are accessed by fiddling around with the arrows buttons until an icon pops up. On the Strong Bad E-mail [=DVD=]s, it's a Strong Bad head; on the Everything Else [=DVD=]s, it's the Homestar Runner logo. There's also some Easter eggs on the special features menus of each DVD that are accessed the same way.
149** The Easter eggs that are normally accessed during the cartoons are accessed by using the angle button. Most DVD players will display when the angle button can be used.
150** Most of the cartoons include hidden DVDCommentary by changing the audio track.
151** [=Strongbad_email.exe=] Disc 2 has the files for "Strong Bad's Website" and "Strong Sad's Lament" (with the update from the time) on the disc that can be accessed by exploring the DVD on a computer. Appropriate, because the WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail, "website", is on the DVD, and the two websites were accessed through the cartoon on the actual website.
152* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles1'' has about half-a-dozen Easter eggs, one of which is on Disc 1. One of the more awesome ones is a montage of every door, button, and explosion in the movie—set to the Anvil Chorus for added awesomeness.
153* ''Series/TheITCrowd'' [=DVD=]s have "Leet" Subtitles for each episode. During the first season, most were simply the regular subtitles with letter substitutions to make convert it into leetspeak, but one was a stream of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64 Base64]], which turns out to be an encoded version of the subtitle track. The second season's DVD ups the ante by having the Base 64 code fill the entire screen. Hope you know how to rip the subtitles and convert them into the right file format! (It later turned out to be a secret competition which nobody won since it was too hard, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZOZ3lhMyL8 as explained in an extra on the third series DVD]].)
154* The DVD of ''WesternAnimation/JonahAVeggieTalesMovie'' features the following:
155** A video of the French Peas illegally recording the film for their cousin Josephine, found next to the "Spanish Outtakes" option.
156** Audio of Khalil's motivational tapes is found on the "Music" menu.
157** Audio of Khalil's Jonah doll can be found in the "Fun" menu.
158** On the "Previews" menu, one can find a photo of a bootleg DVD of the film.
159** The main menu features a video where Bob and Larry get interviewed by [[WesternAnimation/ThreeTwoOnePenguins Ventrilomatic and Rusty]].
160* The fourth disc of season one of ''Series/{{Life on Mars|2006}}'' has a cell phone next to the ashtray that leads to an Easter Egg when you click it.
161* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''
162** ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing The Fellowship of the Ring]]'' Extended DVD has a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8ohAwSdIw8 remake of the Council of Elrond scene featuring Jack Black]].
163** The DVD version of ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers The Two Towers]]'' contains a hidden video clip of Gollum accepting an MTV award for Best Animated Character.
164** ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing The Return of the King]]'' has an interview between Hans Jensen (as played by Dominic Monaghan) and Elijah Wood. Something of a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLBDNUvrGQk Crowning Moment Of Funny]].
165* Creator/FUNimation's DVD release of ''Anime/LupinIIIVoyageToDanger'' hid the access to an Easter Egg by forcing you to switch to certain menus in a certain order. An audio clip could then be accessed by the viewer. [[spoiler: You hear Lupin (Creator/SonnyStrait) and Zenigata (Creator/PhillipWilburn) drunkenly singing the series' theme song, followed by Goemon (Creator/MikeMcFarland) lampshading the Easter egg's absurdity.]]
166* Press up when the cursor is on the "play" button on the DVD of ''WesternAnimation/Madagascar1''. There's a video depicting the development of the movie's animation, with added awesome music.
167* ''Anime/{{Madlax}}'' has a sock puppet short on Volume 6.
168* ''Film/TheMatrix Revisited'' DVD had a secret list of about 64 songs that could be accessed by clicking on a phone booth in the background.
169* The DVD of ''Film/{{Memento}}'' has an Easter Egg on the main menu that lets you watch the film in chronological order.
170* You have to decipher some codes and do some lucky guessing on the ''Film/NationalTreasure'' DVD to get your Easter Egg.
171* ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'''s "platinum collection" DVD release by ADV Films had four separate audio tracks for the final episode. Along with the usual English and Japanese tracks and the commentary, there was one which appeared to be entirely blank…[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGMuaXIlckU until you got to the credits, that is.]]
172* ''Film/EndOfEvangelion'' The ''Death and Rebirth'' edition of the DVD has a racy clip of a Japanese model play on occasion when one leaves the Extras screen on the main menu open too long.
173* Most of the [=DVDs=] from the Creator/ADVFilms release of ''Anime/{{Noir}}'' contain Easter Eggs, including four [[FanVid anime music videos]] on disk 7, and a live-action mini-film featuring sock puppet versions of the main characters on disk 6 (called "Noir: The Unsoled Story").
174* The special edition DVD of ''Film/ThePhantomOfTheOpera2004'' has an Easter egg of the crew hilariously trying to sing the title song.
175* All of the [=DVDs=] for ''Series/RedDwarf'' have Easter eggs in the menus. Sometimes obvious (hit the 'go' button on the Holly Hop drive), sometimes not (When the video pauses in the airlock, hit the green button. You have about three seconds). They generally lead to interviews and videos of the cast goofing around. A list can be found on eeggs.com, [[http://www.eeggs.com/tree/80.html here]].
176* The DVD of ''Film/TheRing'' has a secret option on the main screen, if you scroll down through all the normal options, the cursor will disappear. Hit enter and the DVD will play a (slightly extended) version of the cursed video, followed up by returning to the main screen with a phone ringing in the background. Once it starts playing, it cannot be stopped, paused, scrolled through, or in any way halted short of turning off your player.
177* On Music/{{Rush|Band}}'s ''R30'' DVD, there's a documentary about their titular tour, and if you press one on your remote at a certain moment, [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment a cartoon plays depicting Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson as dogs (and Neil Peart as their owner), then depicting them all as fighting robots, set to their classic song "By-tor And The Snow Dog"]].
178* ''Anime/SorcerorStabberOrphen'', at least in the English release, has some hidden content. You'll probably need to run this on the computer because some of these will likely be missed just with a menu cursor. These have mainly character outtakes or private humor.
179* ''Film/SpiderMan2'' has a couple of memorable Easter Eggs found by moving the cursor off the list of items in a couple of the DVD menus. One has Sam Raimi claim that he's brought in an expert to show Alfred Molina how he wants a scene to be done. [[spoiler:The camera pans over to show Willem Dafoe acting out one of Octavius' scenes, and Molina breaks down laughing.]] Another starts with Molina as Doc Ock snarling at the camera… before breaking out into "[[Theatre/FiddlerOnTheRoof If I Were a Rich Man]]", with the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNBqQqI8CWw puppeteers making Ock's tentacles dance along]].
180* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
181** Several [=DVDs=] of the films contain Easter Eggs, including bloopers and the like, and are often revealed by inputting "1138". In the DVD for ''Film/AttackOfTheClones'', select a poster behind Dex in his diner and you'll access a slideshow of rough, hand-drawn student posters: one has [=C-3PO=] advertising a Spanish language class.
182** The [=DVDs=] for every season of ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' except Season 2 and ''The Lost Missions'' have hidden options on the Episode Selection menus leading to short clips about various behind-the-scenes details.
183* The first DVD of the 3rd ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' OVA series has a hidden subtitle track in the first episode [[spoiler:which contains the actual translation of Washu's "magic fingers" incident.]]
184* The DVD of ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'' has one which is an extended version of the sequence where Emily drops Jessie off at the charity donations site. This was promoted on the Blu-Ray to a non-hidden extra.
185* The Blu-Ray of ''WesternAnimation/TurningRed'' has a hidden deleted scene called "Robutton" which is a storyboarded alternate ending where Mei meets Robaire on a plane.
186* The English subtitled version of ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' has Easter eggs in the subtitle text. Lum's mother only speaks an untranslated alien language. The subtitle, to show that even in the original language the dialog is unintelligible, is written in the "Symbol" font (The Greek letter font). By matching the characters to a regular font yields hidden messages. One message was "the star wars parody was pretty cool", which is not what she would be saying, but instead referred to an earlier bit in that episode.
187* On one of the discs in the ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces'' DVD set, one of the menu screens has two hot spots that lead to pre-commercial bumpers.
188* Early ''Walt Disney Treasures'' sets contained animated shorts as Easter eggs, though these were eventually done away with in later sets.
189** ''Mickey Mouse in Living Color'' (2001): "Mickey's Surprise Party"
190** ''Silly Symphonies'' (2001): "Water Babies", "WesternAnimation/WhoKilledCockRobin1935", "The Practical Pig", and "Farmyard Symphony"
191** ''Mickey Mouse in Black and White'' (2002): "Minnie's Yoo Hoo"
192** ''The Chronological Donald'' (2003): "The Volunteer Worker", which would show up later on ''The Chronological Donald, Volume 2'' (2004) as a non-hidden bonus feature.
193* The DVD menu of ''Film/WaynesWorld'' has some Easter eggs hidden in plain sight: The menu is set up to look like a cable TV guide, with the actual options surrounded by campy titles you might see on late-night TV, namely ''Series/TheBradyBunch'', ''Solid Gold Workout'', and the 1979 comedy ''Film/{{Sunburn|1979}}'' starring Creator/FarrahFawcett. You might think these gag options wouldn't actually be clickable, but they are: Selecting them gives you a short clip of the selected show/movie, with a small line of text advertising its availability on video on the bottom of the screen.
194* On Music/WithinTemptation's Mother Earth Tour DVD, the song "Gothic Christmas" is included as an Easter egg.
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198* ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11886910/1/Gankona-Unnachgiebig-Unità Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità]]'' has many Easter Eggs calling back to ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' canon.
199* The ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' Fanfic ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/152876/a-glimmer-of-hope-in-the-black A Glimmer of Hope in the Black]]'' has several, the most prominent being invisible text at the end of the story that can only be seen by highlighting it with your mouse. The text itself is gibberish and must first be run through a cipher to reveal a message from a character who has apparently broken free from the virus and is trying to alert the reader of a new plan to stop it from spreading.
200* ''Fanfic/OyasumiMidoriya'' features an Easter egg in nearly every chapter. Initially, these are encrypted links/messages placed in the the endnotes of each chapter, but later on the links start being embedded into the chapter text as hyperlinks.
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204* In ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'', the pink slip adoption paper that Lilo signs to adopt Experiment 626 as "Stitch" [[BreakingTheFourthWall refers to the film's production in the fine print]].
205* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsonsMovie'', when Homer and Bart throw the bomb out of the dome on a motorbike, the bike goes down the ramp over Springfield Gorge. The crashed ambulance from [[Recap/TheSimpsonsS2E8BartTheDaredevil "Bart the Daredevil"]] is still there.
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209* ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' has several actual Easter eggs hidden in the scenery.
210** It's rumored Rocky Horror actually popularised the concept of Easter Eggs. And did so by having an Easter egg hunt on the set, and some of those that weren't found made their way into the film. How much truth there is to this rumor is debatable.
211* In ''Film/ManOfSteel'' during the final battle, there are trucks that explode. The logo on one truck is the Lexcorp logo.
212* Literature/HarryPotter's grandfather, Fleamont's name appears in writing both of the ''Film/FantasticBeasts'' films. It's in a newspaper in the first and a magazine in the second.
213* One song on the soundtrack to ''Film/{{Inception}}'' is "Non, je ne regrette rien", just slowed down.
214* ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'':
215** During the exploration of Janjira, the camera moves in front of an aquarium with word "mothra" scratched on it. In the ''Godzilla'' canon {{Film/Mothra}} is a friendly GiantFlyer.
216** In the prologue, a diagram of a moth is briefly shown, bearing the same colours scheme as Mothra.
217* In ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe'', the American submarine ''USS Wayne'' has hull number 593 on her sail. That hull number belonged in the RealLife to ''USS Thresher'' (SSN-593), a nuclear submarine which disappeared in 1963.
218* Fans of General Mills cereals Count Chocula, Boo Berry, and Franken Berry might not remember that they had another "[[Advertising/MonsterCereals monster cereal]]" called Fruit Brute which wasn't very successful, but director Creator/QuentinTarantino remembers it with some fondness. In ''Film/ReservoirDogs'', there's a box of the cereal in Mr. Orange's apartment, and Lance is eating it in a scene in ''Film/PulpFiction''.
219* ''Film/WarGames'': During the scene where David initiates the game, he says "sometimes people make mistakes." If you look at the screen afterwards, you can see that he demonstrated this himself by typing "sometimes people make mistak".
220* As befits a {{metafiction}} about video games, ''Film/BlackMirrorBandersnatch'' has a complicated one: [[spoiler:In TheStinger a character sticks a cassette labelled "Bandersnatch demo" into a tape player, and is rewarded with screechy electronic noise, familiar to anyone who owned a Platform/ZXSpectrum or Platform/Commodore64. Loading this into a Speccy (or more likely an emulator) will give you a QR code. The QR code in turn takes you to the website for the fictional games company from the episode.]]
221* In ''Film/{{Labyrinth}}'', there are seven Jareth faces hidden in the scenery throughout the film.
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225* The covers and illustrations of J.R.R. Tolkien books do contain hidden messages by the author written in Tengwar alphabet.
226* There are possibly hundreds of Easter Eggs in ''Literature/HouseOfLeaves'', mostly because of the use of ciphers to hide words or messages in certain phrases throughout the book. A good rule of thumb for finding them is to pay attention to oddly-worded or seemingly nonsensical sentences, take the first letter of each word, and see what you get. One letter of Pelafina's is written entirely in this cipher. There are also phrases that make no sense unless you say their [[BilingualBonus sound-equivalent in a different language]] (usually Latin, as indicated in another of Pelafina's letters).
227%% [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} Well, you found me. Congratulations. Was it really worth it?]] I mean, seriously, don't you have anything better to do, you poor excuse for a human being? Get a life. Oh, who am I kidding, you just used the Find feature, didn't you, [[WebAnimation/ZeroPunctuation Adrian]]?
228* In most of the ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'' books, there is a code running along the bottoms of the pages. Ostensibly the message is in Gnommish, the fairy language of the books, but is actually a simple substitution cypher. If you translate them, they are funny or quirky messages that are loosely related to the plot of the series as a whole. Usually, the message is too short to run for the span of the entire book, so when it reaches the end, it repeats until the book is over.
229* In Creator/JohnMyersMyers ''Literature/{{Silverlock}}'', virtually every named character (except Shandon/Silverlock himself), and some unnamed ones are characters from some other work of literature. Many of the situations Silverlock finds himself in are also lifted from other works. Knowing the source works adds to the depth of the story.
230* ''Literature/{{Noob}}'' has a FictionalVideoGame one. At some point, a ManChild player realizes the chronological age of a FishOutOfTemporalWater NonPlayerCharacter and starts calling her old despite her young physical age. The game has a verbal KeywordsConversation function and the narration mentions that the young woman seems offended by being called an old lady despite such a reaction having no reason to be in her programming as far as her role in the game's narrative goes.
231* ''Literature/ReadyPlayerOne'': The entire plotline of the book. Multibillionaire game designer James Halliday created the OASIS, a virtual reality-based MMORPG as big as an entire universe, and it grew in popularity enough that the entire world used it not only for fun but for careers and education. And somewhere in all of that massive amount of data, Halliday programmed an Easter Egg, locatable only with exceptional reasoning and fanatical knowledge of the '80s. Shortly after his death, the server broadcasted his last will and testament, which stated that that the first person to find the egg would inherit control of the OASIS along with his multibillion dollar fortune. And considering that this is set in a future where poverty is the norm…
232* The cover art for the 1994 US editions of ''Literature/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxyTrilogy'' contains an odd and seemingly out of place 7 by 6 grid of spheres, originally a double page spread in the illustrated edition. It was a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrases_from_The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy#42_Puzzle puzzle]] created by author Creator/DouglasAdams in response to fans attempts to find significance and hidden meaning in the work. It went completely ignored until he finally revealed that the number 42 was the answer to (at least) 6 different questions about the grid. The idea that his one genuine cryptic clue passed completely by the people trying to "solve" the books amused Adams greatly.
233* Children's author Rob Keeley frequently leaves Easter Eggs for his readers to find:
234** His website [[http://www.robkeeley.co.uk]] has at least one and sometimes two hidden pieces of bonus content for each of his books. These include behind-the-scenes videos, unused cover drafts, letters to and from the characters, and even a couple of complete bonus short stories which can be downloaded and read for free.
235** There is also a codeword hidden across the site in 'alien' language and a key to decoding it on the Extras page. This in turn gives a clue to an Easter Egg in the last story of Keeley's short story collection, ''The (Fairly) Magic Show''.
236** In ''The Treasure in the Tower'', the characters find Keeley's own Spirits novels for sale on a second-hand bookstall for £1 each and main character Jess contemplates buying them, noting 'I thought they went a bit weird after the third one.'
237** In ''High Spirits'', Clara Harvey says: "Cousin Helena sent me the American papers." This is a reference to Keeley's own cousin of that name, who at the time of writing was training as a pilot in the USA.
238** In ''The Coming of the Spirits'', there is a codeword whose letters are hidden across the openings of the first five chapters. Keeley has said that the first person to email or message it to him will receive a free copy of the book. As yet, the prize is unclaimed.
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242* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' is absolutely littered with them, seeing as a lot of the people behind the scenes are massive comic-book geeks. Some are obvious (such as references to the numbers 52, ArcNumber of the DC Comics universe, or 41, the year ''Green Arrow'' debuted), while others are pretty obscure (in one episode, Oliver is wearing a prison jumpsuit with the number 399471. This is the HTML hex code for the specific shade of green used on Green Arrow in the comics.)
243* In the re-imagined ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'', the audience can sometimes see ships in the shots of the Fleet that are {{Shout Out}}s to either the original ''Battlestar'' or other sci-fi shows. Other than numerous ships who were modeled after the original series, the show contained shots of [[Franchise/StarTrek the Enterprise]], [[Series/{{Firefly}} Serenity]], various ships from ''Series/BabylonFive'' and, of all things, the Kodiak from ''[[VideoGame/CommandAndConquer Tiberian Sun]]''.
244** And a weapons locker in Season 4 was numbered "1701", another reference to ''Star Trek''.
245** The show also at times made no attempt at hiding recognizable company logos on buildings in Caprica, and one early episode features a crystal clear closeup of the spines of a few of the books in Adama's cabin—revealing them to be Reader's Digest Condensed Books volumes! Eagle-eyed viewers will also see recognizable street signs and traffic lights in the Caprica scenes as well. Given the fact the series is predicated on Caprican civilization paralleling Earth's, these are more likely to be Easter eggs than accidental anachronisms.
246* In Season 2 of ''Series/{{Castle|2009}}'', the episode "[[HalloweenEpisode Vampire Weekend]]" has a few {{Shout Out}}s to {{Series/Firefly}}, the television series that made Creator/NathanFillion famous.
247** The easiest one to spot is the opening scene. [[Creator/NathanFillion Castle]] dons his old Browncoat for a Halloween costume. HilarityEnsues when his daughter [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q3pdj9p6yI spots him.]]
248** However, Fillion's [[http://twitter.com/NathanFillion/status/5219538270 Twitter feed]] says that the REAL Easter Egg was the Catalyzer from "Out of Gas".
249* ''Series/DoctorWho'': Lampshaded and used as a rather important plot point in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink "Blink"]], in which the Doctor places Easter eggs on each DVD owned by Sally Sparrow in order to warn her about the Weeping Angels.
250* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' episode "Brown Betty"
251** Several things allude to upcoming episodes: Walter sings "Candy Man", linking to the episode "The Abducted"; the killer is removing hearts, similar to ep "Marionette".
252** The glyphs (six-fingered hand, seahorse, frog, butterfly, etc.) also appear in the background of several episodes, usually in places of significance to Olivia and Peter.
253* In the ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' episode "The Fix", [[FreezeFrameBonus a quick glimpse]] at Kaito Nakamura's license plate shows that it reads "NCC-1701". George Takei, the actor who portrayed Kaito, also played Sulu in ''Franchise/StarTrek''—and of course, the Enterprise's registry number is NCC-1701.
254* ''Series/HillStreetBlues'' was a very low-rated show in its first season, but won a large number of Emmy Awards due to its quality. In the second season opener, one of the statues is sitting on a file cabinet in the station, and Lt Henry Goldblume picks it up and carries it off without any comment as he walks through the scene.
255* Jackie Gleason chose to show off his photographic memory while appearing on ''Series/TheHoneymooners'', reportedly only reading his scripts once and never taking part in rehearsals. If you ever see Ralph rubbing his belly on the show, it's actually Gleason's signal to the co-stars that he forgot a line.
256* In ''Series/{{Lost}}'' there are six numbers that show up constantly – 4 8 15 16 23 42. The crew had fun cramming as many references to these numbers as possible into the series, and fans had fun finding them. (These numbers also appear in several other shows the creators of ''Lost'' have worked on, and even some they haven't, as a ShoutOut.)
257* ''Series/MelrosePlace'' had a series of highly unusual ones that Aaron Spelling and the producers did not even know about. The GALA Committee, essentially a subversive, left-wing Los Angeles art community, infiltrated the set of ''Melrose Place'' and began putting subversive works of art on the show. So, when Alison is dealing with an unplanned pregnancy, she is also sometimes seen under a blanket that shows the chemical structure of the RU-486 abortion pill. Peter Burns's bedspread has a pattern of unwrapped condoms. A boyfriend of Sydney's uses a pillow as HandOrObjectUnderwear when he is [[NakedPeopleTrappedOutside trapped outside]]; the logo on the pillow is a drawing of the AIDS virus. A mock advertising poster for alcohol is actually a picture of the Oklahoma City federal building bombed by Timothy [=McVeigh=]. This went on for two years, 1995-97, until Aaron Spelling finally found out. See the GALA Committee website [[https://mpart.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/about/about_frames.html here]], and other stories about the project [[https://slate.com/culture/2023/12/melrose-place-abortion-art-gala-committee-mel-chin.html here]] and [[https://www.dezeen.com/2016/11/17/total-proof-subversive-conceptual-art-exhibition-melrose-place-gala-committee-new-york/ here]].
258* Starting with ''[[Series/MoonKnight2022 Moon Knight]]'', every show in the ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'' made for Creator/DisneyPlus has featured a QR code in every episode, which leads to a free digital version of a comic featuring that series' main character, with the particular issue being relevant to the events or cast of that episode.
259* In one of the episodes of the German crime series ''Mord mit aussicht'', you have the male policeman running through the hospital and looking awkwardly to a doctor: a doctor that also appears in another famous series: ''Lindenstrasse''.
260* ''Series/MurdochMysteries'':
261** In "Invention Convention", Murdoch realizes they don't need a cipher to read the random string of code—it is actually made of substituted letters. If [[TheProducerThinksOfEverything one actually decodes the message]], it reads "It is essential that we are all seen to be watching the speech at the instant the machine fires. We have precisely twenty seconds between when the device is triggered and when the shot is fired. Should the machine be discovered it is imperative that we stick to the plan." This trope might be averted since there are a few spelling mistakes, and it almost reads as nonsense in the middle, but whoever wrote the code [[ViewersAreGeniuses was assuming the message wouldn't be read anyway.]]
262** In "Glory Days", there's a crate of "Big Bang" brand dynamite visible near a train that was held up, supposedly by Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
263* ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' occasionally pokes fun at co-star David [=McCallum's=] long career. In one early episode a publicity photograph of [=McCallum=] from ''Series/TheManFromUNCLE'' is shown as representing Ducky as a young man, and in another episode, when a character asks Gibbs what Ducky looked like as a young man, Gibbs replies "Ilya Kuryakin".
264* ''Series/{{QI}}'' has a secret message hidden in its theme tune that nobody spotted until ''13 seasons in.'' As revealed in the Series M Christmas special "Merriment", the theme contains Morse code which spells out "[[http://www.alan0andstephenhero.com/ www.alan0andstephenhero.com]]", a real URL that supposedly led to an Easter Egg of some kind. As of 2022, it simply redirects to the ''QI'' [=You=]Tube channel.
265* The page quote comes from ''Series/RedDwarf''. This was because, in the day when the show was made, it would have taken a lot of time, effort and specialised equipment to actually create the reversed sound-track to hear the easter egg. The show itself admitted it wasn't a very good Easter Egg, and included a live frontwards playback of it in their "Smegups" tape.
266* ''Series/SchittsCreek'' has Alexis teasing David about his subscription to ''Cosmo Girl'' when he was a teen, and in real life Creator/DanLevy who plays David wrote for ''Cosmo Girl'' while he was an MTV host. Another time, David claims his first job was a Gap Kids campaign, and in fact, Levy has stated his first job was as a retail clerk for Gap Kids.
267* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'':
268** The fifth generation of a family tree shown briefly in "The Neutral Zone" were all apparently named after the ''Series/DoctorWho'' actors Creator/WilliamHartnell and Creator/PatrickTroughton, Creator/JonPertwee and Creator/TomBaker, and Creator/PeterDavison and Creator/ColinBaker. Imagine the weddings! (This is actually HilariousInHindsight because the Tenth Doctor, Creator/DavidTennant, is married to Creator/GeorgiaMoffett, the daughter of the Fifth Doctor, Creator/PeterDavison. Moffett played the Doctor's daughter on ''Series/DoctorWho''. Where she met Tennant. Try not to think about the CastIncest implications too much or you might get a headache.) Other names on the readout included [[Series/{{Mash}} Charles Winchester]], [[Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow Louis Grant and Mary Richards]].
269** Look closely at some of the equipment used by a geological survey team in the episode "Pen Pals". One of their devices is [[Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossThe8thDimension the Oscillation Overthruster]].
270** In "Peak Performance", there's a glance of a computer screen showing the plans for a battle simulation. The simulation's name is ''[[Literature/DirtyPair Operation: Lovely Angel]]'', and the three planets in the nearby system are called Kei, Yuri and [[Anime/MyNeighborTotoro Totoro]].
271** Michael Okuda, the set designer and technical consultant who designed the signature LCARS computer monitor style on TNG, was fond of throwing in in-jokes, particularly referencing manga titles and ''Film/TheAdventuresOfBuckarooBanzaiAcrossThe8thDimension'', in the texts on the computer screens. Such Easter Eggs are often referred to by fans of the show as Okudagrams.
272* A listing of dead crew members shown in the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "Imperfection" reveals that most of the cast of ''Series/TheWestWing'' died onboard the ship.
273* In ''Series/StarTrekPicard'', Q gives Dr. Soong a phone number to call (323-634-5667). It didn't take long for fans to start dialing it, only to hear a voicemail message left in a certain smarmy voice.
274-->'''Voicemail:''' Hello! You have reached the Q Continuum. We are unable to get to the phone right now because we are busy living in a plane of existence your feeble, mortal mind cannot possibly comprehend. Furthermore, it's pointless to leave a message, because we of course already knew that you would call, and we simply do not care. Have a nice day.
275* One early aspect of ''Series/WheelOfFortune'' was its shopping rounds, in which contestants spent their money on prizes after each round. This element was retired in late 1987 (a month into the fifth season of the nighttime syndicated version[[note]]''Wheel'' began on daytime network TV in 1975, ran in both daytime and syndication from 1983-1991, and has been nighttime-only ever since[[/note]]) to speed up gameplay and lessen the tax burden on contestants, but it produced the somewhat memetic "ceramic dalmatian", an originally UndesirablePrize that later became an unofficial mascot of the show. The show has retained at least one, dubbed "Sheldon", who occasionally makes on-set appearances. Most notably, he was hidden somewhere on-set throughout ''all'' of the 30th season, as a sort of homage.
276* ''Series/TheBoys2019'': Make sure to periodically check Amazon Prime's X-Ray feature, as beyond the usual cast bios and general trivia, there's quite a few extra jokes thrown in.
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279[[folder:Magazines]]
280* ''Games'' magazine occasionally (most often in the [[AprilFoolsDay April issue]]) runs hidden contests, in which instructions for an item to send in are somehow hidden in the magazine.
281* In the ''Magazine/DragonMagazine'' era of Phil Foglio's ''ComicStrip/WhatsNewWithPhilAndDixie'', the duo once accidentally got water on a small purple dragon that reproduced when wet, ''Film/{{Gremlins}}''-style. That entire issue of ''Dragon'' was peppered with little sketches of the dragon's offspring, gamboling in the margins or sitting on top of paragraphs saying "''Growf?''".
282* ''Creator/{{Mattel}}'' did a easter egg in their ''[[Literature/AmericanGirlsCollection American Girl]]'' magazines. In one of the "The World According to Aggie" comic strips, there is a hidden message written by a 11-year-old girl in Toledo, Ohio (known as "Hannah C.") which said "Follow Your Inner Star" (the official tagline of the product brand), along with the official A (Star) G logo (as these are written in invisible white ink) on one of the visible comic panels [[spoiler:because you need a flashlight to see the tagline and logo during the evening]].
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286* ''Manhwa/{{Yureka}}'': Happens in-universe with the FictionalVideoGame ''Lost World''. The lead programmer (who frustrated all the other programmers and basically created the whole Lost Saga game ''himself''), Doctor J, was uber-awesome at his job, and while he worked himself to death--literally mind you--he hid Easter Eggs that allow characters to "glitch" the game (but it's not really glitching since the functions of the exploitations were ''completely intentional''.)
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289[[folder:Music]]
290* {{Hidden Track}}s are so common they have their own article.
291* In the Music/AphexTwin song "Equation" there is a tone which, if you run it through a spectrograph, forms a picture of (Aphex Twin sole member) Richard D. James's face.
292* Blink-182's album, ''Enema of the State'', has a hidden message in the fold. It says, in somewhat hard to spot white text, "Viking Wizard Eyes, Wizard Full of Lies."
293* SynthPop band Information Society encoded text files as modem noise tracks. If you play the song "300bps N, 8, 1 (Terminal Mode or Ascii Download)" into a modem set up according to those instructions,[[note]]300 baud, No parity, 8 bits, 1 stop bit[[/note]] you will get [[http://www.textfiles.com/humor/is_story.txt this silly story]]. Do the same to "White Roses 1.0 300 8-N-1", and you will get the instructions to start an online scavenger hunt for the parts of [[http://spacemutiny.com/whiteroses/ the actual song]].
294* In the liner notes in Music/TaylorSwift's albums, the lyrics are all lowercase except for a few seemingly random capital letters. When read top to bottom, the capital letters spell out a message (for instance, "Can't tell me nothin'" is the hidden message in the lyrics to "Tim [=McGraw=]").
295* The liner notes to all of Music/DavidCrowderBand's album releases since ''Can You Hear Us?'' conclude with the band thanking the reader for being so patient and loving of the written word, and as a way of saying thanks they include a link to a special "Goodreader" page.
296* Music/{{Radiohead}}'s dabbled in this trope on more than one occasion.
297** The CD release of ''Music/OKComputer'' has some text hidden on the inner tray art, on the inner right edge, which reads as follows:
298--->I like you.\
299I like you. you are a wonderful person. I'm full of enthusiasm. I'm going places. I'll be happy to help you.\
300I am an important person. would you like to come home with me?
301** The deluxe edition release of the 2017 ''OKNOTOK'' expanded re-release of ''OK Computer'' features a cassette mixtape that starts with "Zx Spectrum Symphony", a track that appears to be incoherent electronic gibberish. However, putting the tape into a ZX Spectrum computer (or a ZX Spectrum emulator) and running it grants access to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDM5YBS6KMc a hidden message]] from the band.
302** Early CD pressings of ''Music/KidA'' included a booklet full of artwork and text (some of which later turned out to be lyrics for their next two albums, ''Music/{{Amnesiac}}'' and ''Music/HailToTheThief'') hidden underneath the CD tray. To help obscure the booklet, the jewel case sports an opaque black tray rather than the standard clear tray that later copies use (black was standard prior to 1995, but since 1995 clear has been more commonplace). Re-pressings of the album by Creator/XLRecordings don't feature the book, but use its cover as the album's tray art instead of the previous CGI mountain range.
303* Music/{{Weezer}}:
304** The booklet to ''The Green Album'' folds out into a poster-sized crowd photo of one of their live performances: In the right hand corner there's the silhouettes of [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Mike Nelson, Tom Servo, and Crow T. Robot]], just barely visible because they blend into the shadows of the audience members. It's given away just a little bit because the liner notes include a copyright notice from Best Brains. Also, hidden behind the spine of the CD case of the same album is the word "No". Some fans claim it's an answer to the above ''Music/OKComputer'' Easter egg, since both are hidden in the same place, but there's no confirmation of this from the band—the only official explanation (from the band's webmaster, Karl Koch) has been "no means no".
305** ''Pinkerton'' has a map hidden under the CD tray labeled "Isol Della Farfalla e Penisola Di Cane" (Italian for "Island of the Butterfly and Peninsula of Dog"). Said map is full of [[ShoutOut names of people who influenced the making of the album]] ranging from [[Music/TheBeachBoys Brian Wilson]] to Creator/HowardStern.
306* Music/DreamTheater's former drummer, Mike Portnoy, always liked to say "Eat my ass and balls" during live shows. Said phrase appears in Morse code in one of the band's songs, "In the Name of God".
307* Mike Doughty's ''Haughty Melodic'' includes a hidden message that can be read by putting the cd in your computer, provided your computer uses Gracenote CDDB to identify track names: The song "Grey Ghost" is listed as "Grey Ghost (Here's the hidden message. Eat your greens. Read 'Everything and Nothing' by Borges. Thanks for listening. Mike)"
308* Take a look at the [[FunWithAcronyms first letter of tracks 4-9]] on the soundtrack to ''Film/BatmanBegins''. [[spoiler:It spells "Batman"!]]
309* Reggie And The Full Effect's ''Under The Tray'' sort of made the CD ''itself'' an Easter egg: When you open the packaging up, it appears at first that you were accidentally sold an empty case. However, if you take the album title to heart and pull out the empty CD tray, you'll find the disc underneath it, along with a picture of a smiling James Dewees and the text "You found it!". Of course, many listeners didn't take the album title as a hint and complained to retailers about being ripped off. This is why there's an alternate version of the cover that adds a diagram of a CD tray being removed to the MinimalisticCoverArt.
310* Music/{{Rush|Band}}:
311** Their 2012 effort, ''Music/ClockworkAngels'', depicts [[http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/images/album_review/159a062f516e33b400e90c3e6e86d1afe183fb46.jpg a clock on the cover]]. Assuming the normal placement of numbers on an analog clock, the hands point to 9:12. 9:12 PM, in military time, is [[CallBack 2112]].
312** The intro to the song "YYZ" is the same rhythm as the Morse code for the actual letters YYZ.[[note]]That title itself is a bit of an Easter egg - "YYZ" is IATA code for Toronto Pearson Airport, a reference ''no one'' outside of Toronto (besides pilots, obviously) would get.[[/note]]
313* Creator/MontyPython released ''AudioPlay/TheMontyPythonMatchingTieAndHandkerchief'' in 1973. The single record has "three sides". (Actually, one side has two interlocking spiral grooves. Getting the needle into the second groove so you could hear the "third" side could be quite tricky.)
314* Music/AshleeSimpson has a hidden note about being yourself in spite of issues in the spine of the cd case.
315* The initial pressing of Music/PetShopBoys' album ''Very'' was in a custom-molded, solid orange jewel case. It still had a paper tray liner (with a pattern of Chris and Neil's floating heads against an orange background) but you had to pry the tray out of the jewel case (or hold the whole thing against a light source) to see it. Unfortunately, later pressings of ''Very'' were just in a standard jewel case, with a solid pink tray liner.
316* The CD edition of Toadies' ''Rubberneck'' has a photo of the group printed on the reverse of the back cover, meaning you have to remove the opaque black CD tray to see it. It was also the only image of the band included anywhere on the album packaging.
317* Music/WeirdAlYankovic did this on a few of his [=CDs=].
318** The CD version of ''Music/OffTheDeepEnd'' has ten minutes of silence after the song "You Don't Love Me Anymore", followed by the HiddenTrack "Bite Me", which consists entirely of a few seconds of incoherent screaming. While Al admitted he did it to troll anyone who was listening and forgot to turn off their CD player, it's also a visible ShoutOut to Music/{{Nirvana}}, who employed a similar trick on their album ''Music/{{Nevermind|Album}}'' (which ''Off the Deep End'' parodies with its cover art and opening track).
319** If ''Music/RunningWithScissors'' is played on a computer, you can go into the CD and watch a condensed version of his 1996 ''Going Home'' special for the Disney Channel.
320** If ''Music/PoodleHat'' is played on the computer, you can watch Al's old home movies as he playfully riffs them. He also [[ThankingTheViewer thanks you for buying his album]]... [[DigitalPiracyIsEvil "Instead of downloading it like a HOOLIGAN!"]]
321* ''Imperial Bedroom'' by Music/ElvisCostello and the Attractions has a cover design that's meant to be a pastiche of the Pablo Picasso piece "Three Musicians". On the left side of the cover are six odd, slug-like creatures with zippers at the ends of their bodies; if you look closely there are letters on these zippers, and they spell out "PABLO SI" when read left to right.
322* Vinyl records can have a message in the run-out groove area. This is most often the name (or nickname) of the cutting engineer, matrix numbers, or the name of the pressing plant, but sometimes also jokes.
323** Music/{{Starflyer 59}}'s ''Ghosts of the Future'' (a boxed set of vinyl singles) had a brief bit of text etched into the runout groove of each disc. Read in order, they formed a brief poem:
324-->I play guitar and also sing for those who will keep listening. And so to make them come alive, they must be played at 45.
325** "A PORKY PRIME CUT": cut by George Peckham, who did a lot of British records in the 1970s and 1980s. "BILBO" is Denis Blackham.
326** Certain copies of the original UK LP release of Music/KateBush's ''Music/TheKickInside'' feature the message "REMEMBER YOURSELF" etched into the runout groove of Side One.
327** The double LP ''Still'' by Music/JoyDivision has "THE CHICKEN WON'T STOP" on side one, chicken tracks on sides two and three, and "THE CHICKEN STOPS HERE" on side four. This is evidently a rather morbid reference to the Creator/WernerHerzog film ''Film/{{Stroszek}}'', which earned notoriety for being the last film the face of the band Ian Curtis watched before ending his life.
328** The original LP release of ''Music/PowerCorruptionAndLies'' by Music/NewOrder contains the word "STRAWBERRY" and the phrase "STRAWBERRY WHERE's MURDER?" (with that exact capitalization) in the runout groove of side A and side B, respectively. Some later pressings changed these to "THE ROBOT STRAWBERRY", "STRAWBERRY. THE ROBOT" (with or without the period), and/or "WHERE'S MURDER?" depending on which copy one purchased.
329** ''London Calling'' by Music/TheClash is another double album example: spread out between the four sides is the message "TEAR / DOWN / THE / WALLS". Some speculated that it was a Music/PinkFloyd TakeThat, since ''Music/TheWall'' was released earlier the same year. (However, the penultimate song of ''The Wall'', "The Trial", contained the repeated phrase "Tear down the wall," so it could also have simply been a ShoutOut.)
330** Music/HappyMondays managed to pull this off with a UsefulNotes/CompactDisc, a format not usually known for such tricks, printing "CALL THE COPS" in the matrix area of US CD copies of ''Pills 'n' Thrills and Bellyaches''. The only US CD to not feature the message is the Disctronics pressing, which instead prints the band name in the matrix area.
331** Music/TheSmiths did this a lot the time on their singles. For example:
332*** "Hand In Glove": KISS MY SHADES/KISS MY SHADES TOO
333*** "How Soon Is Now?": THE TATTY TRUTH / TIM TOM
334*** "The Boy with the Thorn in His Side": ARTY BLOODY FARTY/IS THAT CLEVER
335*** "Shoplifters of the World Unite": ALF RAMSEY'S REVENGE
336*** "Sheila Take a Bow": COOK BERNARD MATTHEWS
337*** "The Boy with the Thorn in His Side (Demo Mix)": [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump TRUMP]] Will Kill AMERICA
338** Early pressings of Music/DeadKennedys' ''Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables'' contained the phrase "Well? Who ''are'' the brain police?" in the run-out grooves, a reference to a song from Music/FrankZappa's ''Music/FreakOutAlbum''.
339* "Rubber Sled" by [[Music/BenFolds Fear of Pop]] is introduced with a sketch wherein [[ActingForTwo Ben Folds talks to Ben Folds]] with some very strange sounding SourceMusic playing in the background - if you tune out the dialogue and focus on the music, it becomes apparent that it's just a ludicrously sped-up recording of "Brick" by Ben Folds Five.
340* Hidden under the CD tray to Tripping Daisy's ''I Am An Elastic Firecracker'' is a booklet featuring all the lyrics from their previous album, ''Bill'': The CD edition of ''Bill'' itself didn't have any of the lyrics printed, so the Easter egg was useful for fans.
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345* There's a longstanding tradition in the {{Pinball}} industry of hiding references to cows as Easter Eggs in commercial games, and some players even use the term "Hidden Cows" for Easter Eggs.
346** The tradition started in ''[[Pinball/TheMachineBrideOfPinbot The Machine: Bride of Pin*Bot]]'', as programmer Creator/BrianEddy likes cows. When a ball starts, hold the right flipper, left flipper, then both flippers for at least 45 seconds each. The game will beep; players can then tap out "Old [=MacDonald=] Had a Farm" with the flipper buttons (right flipper first) and the game will sing along.
347* Many [[Creator/WilliamsElectronics Bally/Williams]] pins of TheNineties have a "Midnight Madness" mode that starts when a game is in progress and the machine's internal clock reaches midnight. It was conceived by programmer Dwight Sullivan, who had a dream of seeing every game in an arcade light up with this mode at the exact same time. He added it to the games he programmed and asked others to do the same. The most common form of Midnight Madness has the machine pretending to malfunction, the flippers go dead, and the game fakes shutting down. After a few seconds, the game wakes up, all balls are launched, and a four-ball multiball frenzy starts where every target is worth 3 million points, with each hit accompanied by various {{Written Sound Effect}}s. ''[[Pinball/WhoDunnit1995 WHO dunnit]]'', ''Pinball/{{Congo}}'', ''Pinball/JohnnyMnemonic'', and ''Pinball/NBAFastbreak'' all have this, though some of them require the operator to enable the "Special Mode" setting. Sullivan continues to include it in his games after Williams folded, including ''Pinball/GameOfThrones'', ''Pinball/{{Ghostbusters}}'', and ''Pinball/TheMunsters''.
348* ''Pinball/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' has several:
349** The game's normal VideoMode is a shuttle simulation in the holodeck. An alternative replaces the simulation with a game of Five-Card Draw Poker against Commander Riker instead.
350** Secret Mission: When the holodeck is lit on the right ramp and the display says "Holodeck 3 Ready", pull the phaser trigger three times. This starts a 20 second frenzy where every target is worth a weird number of points.
351** When the ball goes in the Advance Rank[=/=]Command Decision hole when nothing is lit, pull the trigger to see a limousine drive past some buildings.
352** Steve Ritchie's Pinography: Pressing the flipper buttons in a specific order during the game will display the logos of all of Steve Ritchie's past games.
353* In ''Pinball/FunHouse1990'', Rudy gives each player a nickname at the start of each game. If a player is nicknamed "Slick", Rudy will sometimes use derogatory comments instead of his usual MadLibsDialogue.
354* In ''Pinball/TalesOfTheArabianNights'', press both flipper buttons quickly when entering the Bazaar. On the fourth visit, the merchant will give you a cow worth 1 million points.
355* In ''Pinball/WhiteWater'', when the Extra Ball is lit, Wet Willie will say "Get the extra ball!" However, there is a very small chance he will instead say "Get the extra ball… YA WIENER!"
356* During a normal game in ''Pinball/FishTales'', various sea creatures swim by. Occasionally, a skeleton fish will appear, and mashing the "cast" button about 10 times when this happens nets you "Russ' Fishbone Bonus"—a mere 10 points.
357* The "Saucer Attack" mode of ''Pinball/AttackFromMars'' can randomly become "Cow Attack" instead. The version of the mode featured in ''Pinball/JunkYard'' keeps this.
358* In ''Pinball/JunkYard'' itself, hitting the TimeMachine (which is what brings up the "Saucer Attack" mode in the first place) and pressing both flipper buttons three times when it displays 3:33 starts a secret mode. WordOfGod says that going fast enough in the "Run From Spike" VideoMode plays the famous sound effect from ''Series/TheSixMillionDollarMan''. And the game also has a Midnight Madness mode, as described above.
359* Combining this trope with CreatorThumbprint, veteran designer Creator/GregKmiec always includes a solid red post somewhere on his playfields. The tradition started when Creator/{{Bally}} refused to identify their designers, so he included a single plastic red post (at the time reserved for bingo games) as a way around that. More information can be found [[http://www.jeff-z.com/pinball/redpost/redpost.html here.]]
360* Hitting a certain shot in ''Pinball/DoctorWho'' sometimes displays a cow in Doctor attire, mooing.
361* ''Pinball/BramStokersDracula'':
362** If you can get Dracula to cross his eyes and hit the Start button while he does so, an animated picture of Fluffy the Vampire appears, and the player gets 20 points.
363** Entering "S-U-N" as your initials at the end of a good game prompts the screen to display "No, not the sun, arghhh!"
364* Among other things, pressing a certain button combination in ''Pinball/{{Monopoly}}'' displays a paperboy with an extra edition, along with the text [[VideoGame/ZeroWing "ALL YOUR BASE]] [[MemeticMutation ARE BELONG TO US"]] (which was still fresh around the time the game was made in late 2001).
365* Booting up ''Pinball/SafeCracker'' on October 24th plays a birthday greeting for two people named Amanda and Ryan.
366* Several in ''Pinball/JackBot'':
367** Press both flipper buttons when the wheel is spinning in Casino Run to get a Kombat Kode for ''VideoGame/MortalKombat3''. (Another Kombat Kode in ''3'' itself tells you how to do this.)
368** Occasionally, the Extra Ball button flashes during AttractMode: push it to reveal the credits and the story behind the project (and a [[InMemoriam dedication]] to Joe Joos Jr.).
369** Also, watch the Keno card when you get a high score and enter your initials.
370* In ''Pinball/BlackRose'', it's possible to kill [[PirateParrot Polly]] by mashing the Fire button. It awards 2 million points.
371* Creator/SegaPinball's ''Pinball/GoldenEye'' begins with James Bond walking in front of the display, then turning to shoot at the player. If you pull the trigger to fire first, various silly animations appear.
372* The game ''Pinball/MonsterBash'' has six music tracks, one for each of the game's Franchise/UniversalHorror monsters. The seventh track, "Lyman's Lament", is normally available after the player shoots the Concert Hall scoop 44 times in a single game—but a secret combination of flipper presses on the first ball allows it to be available immediately.
373* On the attract modes of both ''Pinball/RevengeFromMars'' and ''Pinball/StarWarsEpisodeI,'' pressing the flipper buttons in a certain sequence[[note]]Left and right together, then right, left, right, right, left, right, right, right, left, and left[[/note]] will show a picture of the development team.
374* The cabinet art of ''[[Pinball/LightsCameraAction Lights… Camera… Action!]]'' has the name of designer Jon Norris spelled out among the rocks.
375* Several Williams/Bally games in the 1990s would feature a hidden "DOHO" in the dot matrix graphic artwork. "DOHO" was a reference to '''Do'''ris '''Ho''', the wife of former Williams/Bally display animator Scott Slomiany (AKA "Scott Matrix"). DOHO was first seen in ''Pinball/TheAddamsFamily'', the first game which Slomiany worked on.
376* ''Pinball/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'' has "Candy Kodes" - sequences comprised of pictures of different candies which occasionally appear on the playfield's Wonkavision screen after a ball drains. Entering a normal code with the flippers unlocks a screen where they can be input; the bulk of them simply display a message, but some unlock {{Challenge Run}}s.
377* ''Pinball/TheMunsters'' has a "Secret Mania" mode which can only be activated by entering a CheatCode[[note]]hitting both flippers, followed by four on the left, one on the right, one left, one right, four left, and finally two right – "414", as in "DAD"[[/note]] during gameplay and then shooting the scoop twice. It involves collecting every member of the family by shooting designated areas, awarding a bonus upon completion.
378* ''Pinball/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesStern'': [[https://www.thisweekinpinball.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/98150456_10157261664122727_5567558911734579200_o-850x478.jpg A partially obfuscated newspaper on the side of the Premium version's cabinet]] has a sub-heading [[AscendedMeme referencing]] the "[[https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/michelangelo-open-mouthed-stare-reaction Cowabunga It Is]]" meme, credited to Creator/JohnBorg (the game's designer). The article's body simply consists of the lyrics to the theme song.
379* ''Pinball/GodzillaSega'': Pressing a specific button combination during AttractMode shows some hidden credits.
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383* Many cards in ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' have Easter Eggs in the name, "flavor text", or art. This is especially prevalent in gag sets like ''Unglued'' and ''Unhinged'', and in improved versions of older cards, like the "timeshifted" sets from ''Time Spiral'' and ''Planar Chaos'' (which was still fresh around the time the game was made in late 2001). [[http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/feature/240 This article]] reveals some of the tiniest.
384* Page 333 of the second edition ''TabletopGame/UnknownArmies'' corebook.
385* In the 3.5 ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' sourcebook, the Expanded Psionics Handbook, the power Deja Vu (which makes someone repeat their last action) is printed twice, on opposite sides of the same page.
386* ''TableTopGame/TheDresdenFiles'' RPG has PDF versions of the sourcebooks available if you buy them online; in several places where [[PaintingTheMedium Harry scratched out part of the text with Sharpie]], you can copy the text into another program and read what was underneath. But it usually turns out to be something like "by the way, if you're reading this, we sure bet you feel clever!"
387** That's only part of it; the Sharpie'd out segments are in a larger article about the Christian God and his abilities, with the implication being that Harry Dresden himself blacked out the stuff because he didn't think the Heavenly Host would appreciate having that kind of information spread about them. Performing the above-mentioned trick reveals that the text says (paraphrased) [[spoiler:Their powers are unknown, but presumably have something to do with Jim Butcher's writing. It'll all be revealed in due time, so just be patient, okay?]]
388** The first gamebook's section on worldbuilding, the author remarks on having significant pieces of architecture in one's city, saying "Perhaps the St. Louis Arch is a gateway to something deep in the Nevernever. Maybe the Pyramids at Giza are [[spoiler:nowhere near as bad as Chichen Itza]]." This serves as {{Foreshadowing}} to the novel ''Changes'', not yet released when the game books came out, where Harry and crew go to Chichen Itza and [[spoiler:destroy the Red Court of Vampires at the cost of Harry's lover Susan]].
389** There are also a couple of jokes hidden in ''the index''. For instance, the game is split into two volumes ("Your Story" and "Our World"), so references are given as "YS" or "OW" followed by a page number. Then you come across this entry:
390-->Who Is Number One?: [[Series/ThePrisoner1967 UR#6]]
391** Others include such gems as:
392-->Werewolf?: ([[Film/YoungFrankenstein There, wolf. There, castle.]])
393-->[[NoodleIncident Lenny's "Boxers" Story]]: see [[BrainBleach My Eyes, My Precious Precious Eyes]]
394-->[[UnwantedAssistance Shut Up Bob]]: [[RunningGag YS13, YS22, YS58, YS91, YS121, YS123, YS126, YS132, YS182, YS260, YS280, YS281, YS302, OW32, OW94, OW112, OW119, OW220]]
395* Almost all the card-illustrations in ''TabletopGame/IlluminatiNewWorldOrder'' slip in a stylized [[TheIlluminati Eye in the Pyramid]].
396* ''TabletopGame/CardsAgainstHumanity'' has ''The Bigger, Blacker Box'', which contains the white card [[spoiler: "The biggest, blackest dick"]] hidden in the lid of the box.
397* ''TabletopGame/InvisibleSun'''s impressive (and expensive) Black Cube not only includes all the books, markers, and boards you need to play, but other hidden goodies for those who inspect their sets very carefully or have an eye for detail. Known ones include a bonus spell, an address to a website with a purpose yet to be revealed, a code that needs to be decyphered, and hidden messages and information in the artwork and layout of the books.
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401* ''Theatre/CyranoDeBergerac'': At Act II Scene VII, Count De Guiche mentions the famous scene of the windmills that appear at Literature/DonQuixote, and Cyrano mentions it’s in chapter XIII. But that scene is at chapter VIII. Any character could make a mistake… except Cyrano, who is a BrokenAce. Chapter XIII (''In which is ended the story of the shepherdess Marcela, with other incidents'') narrates the tragic tale of the love between Grisóstomo and Marcela, [[{{Arcadia}} two shepherds]], and is the deconstruction of the RomanceNovel, the genre [[FanDumb Roxane is obsessed with]]. The protagonists, Cyrano, Le Bret and Roxane are {{Expies}} of Grisóstomo, Ambrosio and Marcela, the shepherds Don Quixote meets at that chapter.
402--> '''De Guiche:''' ''(who has controlled himself—smiling):''Have you read 'Don Quixote'?
403--> '''Cyrano:'''I have!
404--> And doff my hat at th' mad knight-errant's name.
405--> '''De Guiche:''' I counsel you to study. . .
406-->'''A Porter''' ''(appearing at back):''My lord's chair!
407--> '''De Guiche:''' The windmill chapter!
408--> '''Cyrano:''' ''(bowing):'' Chapter the Thirteenth.
409** Also, Act III Scene XIII gives us Cyrano trying (and managing) to delay Count de Guiche in order to allow Roxanne and Christian's wedding to proceed. The way he does it—disguising himself, climbing up on a tree and falling at the Count's feet, then pretending to come directly from the Moon and finally detailing the many ways to climb up to the moon from the Earth—seems like some funny, tongue-in-cheek moment from Rostand, almost a BigLippedAlligatorMoment… until you remember that the play is loosely based on the life of the [[HistoricalDomainCharacter real Cyrano de Bergerac]], who, among his plays and scientific studies, happened to write something called ''Comical History of the States and Empires of the Moon and the Sun''.
410* The Original Broadway Cast album for ''Theatre/{{Hairspray}}'' has a hidden surprise--if you leave the CD running after "You Can't Stop the Beat," the cast sings a short song called "Blood on the Pavement." It's an [[GallowsHumor upbeat ditty about finding bloody body parts on the sidewalk after a DUI.]] It also counts as a SpaceWhaleAesop, as there's ''no'' mention of the dangers of drinking and driving anywhere else in the show.
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414* This is done to such an extent at Ride/DisneyThemeParks that entire books have been written on the subject of finding them all. The so-called Hidden Mickeys are inconspicuous images of Mickey Mouse or his silhouette placed in various unexpected locations around the parks. It is also very common, when one attraction is closed and replaced with another, for the Imagineers to include an unobtrusive tribute to the old attraction in the new one.
415** Hidden Mickeys aren't just limited to the parks; they appear throughout the movies as well (such as the one located in the middle of Princess Mia's tiara on a movie poster of ''Film/ThePrincessDiaries'' and also on numerous VHS, DVD (not counting the 2-DVD special edition and its sequel) and Blu-ray Disc releases).
416* [[Ride/UniversalStudios Universal Studios Florida]] incorporated several easter egg references to its original ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' ride into the ''Wizarding World of Harry Potter: Diagon Alley'' attraction which took its place.
417* There's one scene in ''Ride/TheAmazingAdventuresOfSpiderMan'' where you come across a movie theater that has a phone number on its marquee. If you dial it, you'll get a message saying that the theater is closed until Spider-Man can make the city safe again.
418* The Kings Island's coaster, Banshee, has a series of grave markers in front of it. One of these, on closer inspection, is a tribute to the ill-fated wooden coaster "Son of Beast", due to Banshee being built in part of the space it once occupied.
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422[[folder:Webcomics]]
423* ''WebComic/LiberalArt'' includes a video game sprite per comic after early strips.
424* ''[[http://nekothekitty.smackjeeves.com/ Neko the Kitty]]'' features a ''Literature/WheresWaldo'' style minigame. Hidden in every strip is a character named 'Bummy', a small purple hominid with prominent buttocks.
425* ''Webcomic/SisterClaire'' is known for its hidden Easter Eggs and [[HomageShot homages]].
426* The webcomic ''[[http://www.bitmapworld.com/ Bitmap World]]'' has a number of Easter Eggs hidden around the site, which can be discovered by searching for images of one of the characters, Mike.
427* Trickster Mode in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}''. Basically, go into any flash update before "Seer: Decend" where a controller icon is in the top right corner and press Ctrl+T. Something will always happen.
428** Pay attention to the corners at the end of flash episodes. On occasion, you'll see an icon flash that leads to another flash, as in [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002838 [S] Rose: Fast forward to now]][[note]]Links to Rose's version of [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=pony [S] Ride]][[/note]], in [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006273 [S][A6I1] Karkat: Mental breakdown]][[note]]Links to [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=darkcage [S] Cage: Reveal plan]][[/note]], [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006517 [S] Frigglish: Fast forward to Jaspersprite]][[note]]Links to Roxy's version of [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=pony2 [S] Ride]][[/note]], and [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006927 [S] Terry: Fast forward to Liv]][[note]]Links to [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=darkcage2 [S] Wait, what am I supposed to do with this bunny again?]][[/note]].
429** One curious Easter Egg is hidden in [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=002238 this Flash]]. Click the four small corner buttons to lock them, then click the second big button and unlock the corner buttons, and then click the third big button. [[spoiler:[[Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}} Who you gonna call?]]]]
430* ''Webcomic/ChasingTheSunset'' has a magnifying glass icon that allows a high-res version of each strip to be viewed (but only in sections) without {{SpeechBubble}}s. Quite often the magnifier version will also contain a sketch or hidden message in the gutter between panels. In [[http://fantasycomic.com/index.php?p=c739 one strip]], however, the magnifier version shows a ''completely different background'' in the lower panels.[[note]] The magnified versions can't be downloaded directly, but their [=URLs=] are in the pages' source codes.[[/note]]
431* ''Webcomic/EverydayHeroes'' tends to do this with musical notation. Carrie is shown playing [[http://eheroes.smackjeeves.com/comics/2080277/lesson-she-thought/ Beethoven's ''Moonlight Sonata'']] and [[http://eheroes.smackjeeves.com/comics/2111635/thats-a-good-friend-to-have/ Schubert's ''Ave Maria'']], Dr. Unpleasant's ringtone is the [[http://eheroes.smackjeeves.com/comics/2133693/ch14-13/ Imperial March]] while daughter Marilee has [[http://eheroes.smackjeeves.com/comics/2133699/ch14-17/ ''Night On Bald Mountain''.]]
432* ''{{Webcomic/Narbonic}}'' has an entirely separate text story, written in two-word segments, hidden in the filenames of each strip (of all places). The story continues into the DirectorsCut version. This pattern also appears in the follow-up comic ''Webcomic/SkinHorse''.
433* Referenced in [[http://www.cinemabums.com/?p=307 this]] ''Webcomic/CinemaBums'' strip, released on Easter Monday. The comic's title also serves as a reference to [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E10Blink another story]] where Easter Eggs play an important role.
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436[[folder:Web Original]]
437* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' is well known for including Easter Eggs in cartoons on the site. In an inversion of this fact, Macromedia Central has an exclusive ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' toon hidden inside.
438
439* Google [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy "Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything"]]. Just do it.
440** This also works on [[http://www.wolframalpha.com/ WolframAlpha]].
441*** Also on Wolfram Alpha, if you input "Easter Egg" it returns "Interpretation: What are your easter eggs?" "Seek diligently and ye shall find. (In fact, you just did.)"
442*** Also also on Wolfram Alpha, if you input "[[Film/PulpFiction do they speak English in What]]" it returns "Interpretation: "What" ain't no country I've ever heard of. They speak English in What?" "What? (English, [expletive deleted], do you speak it? (According to Jules, as played by Creator/SamuelLJackson, in his one-sided conversation with Brett in the 1994 film Film/PulpFiction))".
443*** Someone working Wolfram Alpha really likes ''Pulp Fiction'', because if you search "Does he look like a bitch" you get "No!" as the response, which is part of the Jules/Brett conversation.
444*** In addition, search "[[Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey Open the pod bay doors]]" (with or without HAL) and it returns "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."
445*** Asking "How can entropy be reversed?" returns [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Question "THERE IS AS YET INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR A MEANINGFUL ANSWER"]].
446** Likewise, there was a time when you googled "failure" and got [[WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical George W. Bush's biography]]. (Although to be fair that was less a case of an Easter Egg and more a result of Google bombing. Google may be one of the few pieces of software that allows its users to embed—however temporarily—their own Easter eggs in its output.)
447** Very few of them work any more, but there were a number of great "I'm Feeling Lucky" Google hits involving fake 404s or search result pages, including "French military victories" which led to [[CheeseEatingSurrenderMonkeys "Do you mean 'French military defeats'?"]] and a misspelling of "Weapons of Mass Destruction" which led to a [[http://www.coxar.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/ fake 404]] for said weapons?
448** In a similar spirit: for the longest time, if you searched "find Creator/ChuckNorris" and hit "I'm Feeling Lucky" it would redirect you to a special page that said: "Google won't search for Chuck Norris because it knows you don't find Chuck Norris, he finds you."
449** Behold ''[[http://www.55fun.com/book.pdf 55 Fun Things To Do With Google]]''. A great many of these are classic Easter Eggs (some already mentioned here).
450** The default language of Google can be set to one of several unusual choices, including Elmer Fudd, Pirate, Bork Bork Bork!, Klingon, and Hacker.
451*** Or [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsv2g8BdRCo here]]. Including ''[[LeetLingo google l33t]]'' and ''[[CanisLatinicus xx-piglatin]]'' translations and an easter egg flash game.
452** Googling "[[http://www.google.com/search?q=recursion recursion]]" prompts Google to ask if you meant [[ShapedLikeItself recursion]]. The same thing happens if you search ''Film/GroundhogDay'', in reference to its trope-naming GroundhogDayLoop.
453*** Along similar lines, Googling "anagram" prompts Google to ask if you meant "nag a ram".
454*** [[WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty Googling "wubba lubba dub dub" will prompt Google to ask if you meant "I am in great pain please help me".]]
455** Google [[VideoGame/StarFox64 "do a barrel roll" or "Z or R twice"]] (They both give the same result). Just do it.
456*** On the same line of thought, google "tilt" or "askew".
457** The number of search results given will be appropriately changed when googling for "binary", "hexadecimal" or "octal".
458** Google "ZergRush". We won't spoil its effect for you, so go on.
459*** For that matter, searching Google Images for "Atari Breakout". Warning: it seems to be only half-finished, as [[spoiler: the bricks do not disappear the way they should]].
460** Google "[[{{Series/Seinfeld}} Festivus]]" and an aluminum pole appears on the left hand side of the results page.
461** You have to get the angle exactly right, but on Google Maps Streetview, it's possible to enter the police box outside Earl's Court Tube Station. [[Series/DoctorWho It's bigger on the inside.]]
462** Googling "[[Franchise/StarWars a long time ago in a galaxy far far away]]" used to have the search results in the style of the opening crawl, with music to match. (This didn't work in Firefox for some reason.)
463** After ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' premiered in 2019, Google "ComicBook/{{Thanos}}" or "Infinity Gauntlet" and a small Infinity Gauntlet appeared. Clicking it would [[spoiler:eliminate half of the search results]], a cheeky reference to the finale of ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar''.
464** Try to translate "[[Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus Wenn ist das Nunstück git und Slotermeyer? Ja! Beiherhund das Oder die Flipperwaldt gersput!]]" in Google Translate and the only response you get is "[FATAL ERROR]". Apparently even ''computers'' can't handle [[BrownNote The Funniest Joke in the World]].
465** Googling "Franchise/{{Splatoon}}" will cause a little "splat" animation to appear on the page. Clicking on it will let you cover the page in ink by clicking using your mouse, just like in the games.
466** When googling "[[UsefulNotes/AlanTuring Bletchley Park]]", the sidebar containing the landmark's information will be titled with a sequence of random letters that go through a 'decryption' sequence to reveal "Bletchley Park" in monospace -- perhaps a tribute to the "Father of Computing".
467* In Linkara's ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' video of ''New Guardians #2'', he plays a clip of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler giving a speech (ItMakesSenseInContext). Towards the end, there is a message that is onscreen [[FreezeFrameBonus for only a frame or two]] which says: "Yeah, I can see why Germany would want to follow this shouting, drug-crazed lunatic. ZOMG Easter Egg! [[ShoutOut Hi TV Tropes!]]"
468* When composing a new mail in Yahoo! Mail. Pressing the text "Subject:" at the top will yield any number of random phrases that refer to either [[MemeticMutation internet memes]], [[ByThePowerOfGrayskull TV catchphrases]], or assorted inane statements.
469* ''[[http://www.sandrapetit.com/name-generator.html This Name Generator]]'' contains ones for those who want male flower or gemstone names.
470* In the ''WebVideo/PotterPuppetPals'' video "Trouble at Hogwarts", if the viewer freeze-frames the Avada Kedavra lightning and clicks on it when it forms a pentagram, they are taken to another short video featuring Ron and Hermione in a "follow the butterflies" skit.
471* In "Ask questions" episode of ''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice'', if one cares to decipher the binary the Custodian is sprouting, it foreshadows series' future events, namely [[spoiler:the Ultramarines bringing Magnus back from the Eye of Terror and Cypher planning something on Mars]].
472** In the same video, there's an in-joke of Alfabusa's community—"As long as the questions don't scream about Baneblades…"
473** When Magnus breaks the wards surrounding the Imperial Palace, you can briefly see "we are finally free" on the screen, a FiveSecondForeshadowing to [[ZergRush Suddenly Daemons]].
474* ''Platform/YouTube'':
475** When a video is loading, a circle of dots will appear. Pressing arrow keys will unlock a game of Snake.
476** Typing in "1980" gets you a game of ''VideoGame/MissileCommand'' in which you have to defend the video from missiles while it plays.
477** If a 500 Internal Server Error occurs, part of the resulting error message that appears says, "A team of [[SelfDeprecation highly trained monkeys]] has been dispatched to deal with this situation."
478** For a long time, searching "do the harlem shake" on [=YouTube=] would cause the web site ''itself'' to do it, song and all. As of 2021, this no longer happens.
479** Searching "[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries beam me up scotty]]" will cause a brief animation where the [=YouTube=] videos "phrase into existence". Conversely, searching for "[[Franchise/StarWars use the force luke]]" will cause the page to animate as if Luke's doing exactly that on the website itself.
480** Until one of the many site redesigns removed this feature, typing in the name of certain ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' characters would cause the top bar to change to that pony's coat color.
481** Type the word "awesome" while the player is in focus and it will start to flash.
482** The video on the Numberphile channel, on why it used to be a common glitch for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIkhgagvrjI videos to get frozen at 301 views]], has been frozen at 301 views. This is also an example of deliberate {{irony}}.
483* There are some on this very Wiki, of various levels of "supposed to be here"-ness. The page on ''Film/{{Hook}}'' is a good place to start.
484%%Such as this one!
485* Videos on the Glove And Boots [=YouTube=] channel where at least some of the action takes place inside Mario and Fafa's house (which is most of them) will feature a framed photo of a celebrity on the wall. Mousing over the portrait will reveal it's a link to a video that is somehow related to the person—if there's something other than a photo in the same spot, it'll usually be a link too. Sometimes they'll work additional video links in too—click on the changing posters during the montage in [[http://youtu.be/GAxJo0rWDXM time machine]] or the fake banner ads in [[http://youtu.be/D-6qN8bbRhc Your Ad Here]].
486* Defunct personal music review site Disclaimer Music Review Archive was set up so that reviews for artists whose names start with the same letter were all placed on one long, scrollable page in alphabetical order. At the end of an artist's reviews, there'd often be a "SEE ALSO" list, which links to the author's reviews of related artists. The section for Joey Ramone only has one album review, and of course Music/TheRamones are the only related artist listed. If you click on the Ramones link despite the fact that you'd only have to do a minuscule amount of scrolling to get there manually, it redirects to a special page that consists of a brief tongue in cheek message chiding you for laziness, ending with a link back to the Joey Ramone review.
487* On the website "ponyspin.com", a work-safe [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic pony]]-version of a certain infamous ShockSite, entering the KonamiCode (substituting Enter for Start) will change the image in the center of the page from Apple Bloom to a filly version of DJ PON-3 spinning on a record.
488* Typing in the Konami Code on the ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' Wiki will cause the Spy to sap the wiki's logo.
489* ''WebAnimation/SpaceTree'' includes clickable Easter eggs with buttons at end screens that are hidden until a mouseover. In one case, there was a series of secret scenes with each scene only accessible from the previous.
490* ''How to Start off 2014 Right!'' by WebVideo/MatthewSantoro contains a hidden link to a bonus video.
491* If you search Platform/{{Tumblr}} for certain tags, the site will give an automated message related to it. Crosses over into heartwarming territory, since if you search for "depression" or "suicide", the site will ask if you're okay.
492* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': Each volume has a split second appearance by a [[http://vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/rwby/images/1/1d/Over_the_rainbow!.png/revision/latest?cb=20130306201350 random velociraptor]] somewhere in the shot. The fans have dubbed him the "[=RWBYsaurus=]".
493* [=RateMyProfessors.com=] has an entry for [[http://www.ratemyprofessors.com/ShowRatings.jsp?tid=230075 Ted Kaczynski]] (better known as "The Unabomber") who was, in fact, an assistant professor of mathematics at UC Berkeley between 1967-69.
494* The streaming website Platform/{{Twitch}} has various animated emotes used for a function called Cheering, where you spend money on Bits to donate to a streamer and get a cool chat badge out of it. Every year for [[AprilFoolsDay April Fool's Day]], they replace the default smoothly animated Bit with [[StylisticSuck a crappily drawn chalk animation of a Bit]], but you can use this poorly drawn emote all year long by typing "[=DoodleCheer[Number of bits to donate]=]". (Unlike the other Cheer emotes, this one doesn't appear in the menu of selectable emotes outside of April Fool's Day and has to be typed.)
495* Searching "[[Franchise/RatchetAndClank B5429671]]" on [[http://www.thefreedictionary.com/ thefreedictionary.com]] will redirect you to "clank".
496* The official website of the ''Literature/WarriorCats'' books has a link labeled "MEOW" hidden among the legal links at the bottom of the site. Clicking it will [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/meow_4.PNG replace every word in the book quotes with the word "Meow".]]
497* From movie reviewing site Website/{{Letterboxd}} (most of these only work on the desktop version of the site and not the app unless specified):
498** [[https://letterboxd.com/film/portrait-of-a-lady-on-fire/ The page]] for ''Film/PortraitOfALadyOnFire'' uses fire icons to rate the film instead of stars.
499** Wait a few seconds on [[https://letterboxd.com/film/parasite-2019/ the page]] for ''Film/Parasite2019'' and the green dot in the logo will start flashing, referencing [[spoiler:Geun-sae using Morse code with the house's lights to try and communicate with the outside world]] in the film. Incidentally, the message that it's blinking out reads [[spoiler:"BONGHIVE BEST PICTURE 2020".]]
500** [[https://letterboxd.com/film/tenet/ The page]] for ''Film/{{Tenet}}'' is vertically mirrored once you reach the bottom.
501** The "Related films" tabs for both ''Film/{{Borat}}'' and ''Film/BoratSubsequentMoviefilm'' read "Related moviefilms".
502** The "Watched" eye icon for ''Film/EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce'' is replaced with a googly eye, the film's recurring motif.
503** On the page for ''Film/{{Tar}}'', the Letterboxd logo instead reads "Lettárboxd".
504** Marking any adaptation of ''Literature/{{Dune}}'' as watched changes the eye's usual green color to blue, a reference to the Fremen.
505** Every instance of the "Liked" heart icon on ''Film/Barbie2023'''s page has its color changed from orange to pink.
506** When writing/reading a review for any film in the ''Film/{{Scream}}'' franchise, the "contains spoilers" button/warning goes from featuring the standard [[Franchise/StarWars Darth Vader]] icon to one of Ghostface.
507** For ''Film/Napoleon2023'', the colors of the circles in the Letterboxd logo are changed to those of the French flag.
508** If you add ''Music/TaylorSwift: The Eras Tour'' to your watchlist, the clock icon will have its hands change to midnight, in reference to [[Music/{{Midnights}} the eponymous album]].
509** Tagging a review of ''Film/TalkToMe'' with a candle emoji will make a message appear in your activity feed.
510** App-only eggs:
511*** When using the site between 12 AM and 1 AM, shaking your device will make a [[Film/{{Gremlins}} Gremlin]] appear at the bottom of the screen.
512*** Trying to hit the back button on the page for ''Film/GroundhogDay'' [[GroundhogDayLoop will just make the page reappear again.]] (Hitting it a second time will make it work normally.)
513*** When about to post a review of ''Film/FightClub'', a popup appears that reads "You are about to break the first (and second) rules of Fight Club. Publish anyway?"
514*** On iOS, every movie Creator/JasonIsaacs is in has a message at the bottom of the cast list saying [[https://www.reddit.com/r/Letterboxd/comments/klo9em/does_anyone_know_what_the_hello_to_jason_isaacs/ "...and hello to Jason Isaacs!"]]
515* If you receive a 404 error on chat app Discord's website, you can click a button in the bottom right to gain access to ''Snek'', a version of ''VideoGame/{{Snake}}'' with cute graphics.
516-->''You [[GoshDangItToHeck hecking]] won!''
517* ''WebAnimation/RobotboxAndCactus'':
518** "Classic" has a hidden bee on the end screen that, when clicked, brings up "Oh God, Bees!", a parody of ''WebAnimation/MyGodRobots''.
519** The SWF files for the episodes each have an extra word that's often irrelevant to the contents or actual title of the episode. Of note is that episodes 30 through 32 are given the filenames [[NoseNuggets "pick", "your", and "nose"]].
520* Perhaps in acknowledgement of the many, many wiseacres who've no doubt called or stopped in to ask on its availability over the years, punching "121G" into the search bar on O'Reilly Auto Parts' website will get you [[https://www.oreillyauto.com/flux-500.html?q=121g this gag]].
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524* Each episode of ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'' has a literal Easter egg hidden somewhere (except on the odd occasion where the animators forget).
525* On the Nicktoon ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'', series creator Jhonen Vasquez secretly inserted images of GIR covered in blood in a few episodes, without Nickelodeon knowing.
526* In Episode 229 of ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'', the characters are forced into SdrawkcabSpeech; reversing the audio reveals that it's Kaeloo saying "you must really have time to waste!"
527* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Ninjago}}'' season 7 finale "[[Recap/NinjagoS7E74LostInTime Lost in Time]]", shots from previous episodes can briefly be seen both times the Iron Doom mech travels through a [[SwirlyEnergyThingy Time Vortex]]. [[spoiler:A few of these are moments from season 6, which is interesting because [[TheStoryThatNeverWas those events were undone]] at the end of that season.]]
528* ''WesternAnimation/{{Sealab 2021}}'' frequently featured the Big Green Phone, which is surrounded by [[BathroomStallGraffiti random graffiti]]. In one episode, it appeared twice, the second time with the phrase "This graffiti is not different stop pausing" added.
529* On ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', if you pause the list of "corrections" Rock Bottom wished to make in "Homer Badman", you find, amongst various other hidden jokes, that you have no life.
530* The ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' animators have supposedly hidden at least one alien into every episode; there are [[https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=7&cad=rja&ved=0CFwQFjAG&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eeggs.com%2Fitems%2F1256.html&ei=lI1dUe-ECtL_rAGp04HQAw&usg=AFQjCNFA9NKRwNwEg3oiByIlJOB6wktzVA&sig2=sbxHyAx1yykLRNnbvTfT4w&bvm=bv.44770516,d.aWM web pages]] and [[https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&cad=rja&ved=0CEoQtwIwBA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DAHAZBbDoGT0&ei=lI1dUe-ECtL_rAGp04HQAw&usg=AFQjCNHh5o2PR_HS2sgIgJWyoDibE6MZYg&sig2=WLm1C0UsR0wBGyQxzbC8iw&bvm=bv.44770516,d.aWM YouTube videos]] dedicated to documenting as many as possible.
531* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' includes a quick one in the first season episode ''Basic Straining''. When Duncan and Courtney are raiding the fridge, the "missing boy" pictured on the milk carton is Ezekiel, the first contestant to be eliminated. Oddly enough, it's never been acknowledged who reported Ezekiel missing in the first place, or if this person ever found out where he was.
532** Ezekiel can also be seen in the background of several scenes on the plane during ''World Tour'', some more obvious than others. Unlike the example above, there is a purpose to this in that [[spoiler: Ezekiel has been hiding on the plane following his elimination]].
533** During ''Revenge of the Island'', a dark, [[RedEyesTakeWarning red-eyed]] figure resembling Mike can be seen in the background of one of his mind scenes. [[spoiler: This serves as foreshadowing for Mal, a character that would become much more prominent during the next season.]]
534* The ''Allspark Almanacs'', the guides to the ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' universe, are basically a gigantic Easter egg hunt. They're littered not only with a million {{Shout Out}}s to other parts of the Transformers mythos, but to real life (one of the unnamed drag racers, seen in exactly one scene and never named is given the name of a voice actor's daughter) and every tangentially geeky thing from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' to ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}''. The stellar map in ''Allspark Almanac II'' is a particularly egregious offender, featuring hundreds of individual worlds that are ''all'' named after geek references.
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537[[folder:Real Life]]
538* The TropeNamer, the Easter egg. Every Easter (the first Sunday after the first full moon after the Spring Equinox) Easter eggs are hidden in yards for children to find. Creative parents will often hide them in very out-of-the-way or unusual locations (up a tree, in a flower pot, etc.)
539** Real life Easter eggs come in three main types. Real eggs, which are hardboiled (or punctured and drained) and dyed, plastic ones, which are openable to put things inside, and chocolate ones, which are… well… [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin made of chocolate]].
540* Fisher & Paykel [=SmartDrive=] washing machines will turn patriotic and play God Defend New Zealand if the Power and Advance buttons are pressed together and then the Wash Temperature Up button is held down for two seconds. It is also possible for them to play Advance Australia Fair, The Star Spangled Banner, and the theme from ''Film/BeverlyHillsCop''.
541* The vending machines used on UsefulNotes/TheLondonUnderground in the early '00s could be persuaded, by pressing a certain sequence of buttons when no credit was inserted, to display a brief test message.
542* The [[https://www.visitgreenvillesc.com/things-to-do/signature-experiences/mice-on-main/ Mice On Main]], nine tiny bronze mouse statues hidden on the sidewalks on Main Street in downtown Greenville, South Carolina.
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