Chuck Bass Never Learned Who Gossip Girl Was
Even after starring in the finale where the mystery blogger's identity gets revealed, Ed Westwick has admitted he genuinely still isn't sure who Gossip Girl actually was.
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Mom's Cooking Has a Rat Problem
A character in the game simply named Mom offers you rat pie, rat loaf, and spaghetti with rat sauce, and you can ask if there's anything without so much rat in it. That's a direct lift from Monty Python's Dead Bishop sketch, where Michael Palin's character asks for strawberry tart without so much rat in it. The joke even gets a callback later when a sheriff mentions it being tattooed on the back of your neck.
A Heart Locked Away From Love
Within the story, Davy Jones wasn't always a monster. He was once a man who fell in love, and unable to bear the pain that came with it, he cut out his own beating heart and locked it inside the chest that gives the film its name.
Kraes of Immersang, Silvermoon's Self-Proclaimed Prince
Wander into Silvermoon City and you might bump into Kraes of Immersang, a troll NPC billed as a self-proclaimed prince. His flavour text piles on every over-the-top backstory cliché roleplay servers are famous for, right down to a throwaway line about fighting a personal war against a random player named Joshua Fuesting. It's Blizzard gently poking fun at its own community.
A $90 Million Bet That Paid Off
Made on a $90 million budget, the film wasn't a guaranteed hit going in, since it was the first fully animated Spider-Man movie and had to win over both newcomers and comic-book purists at the same time. It ended up grossing nearly $375 million worldwide and opened to $35.4 million domestically, which set a record for the biggest opening weekend ever for an animated film released in December.
Verbinski Wanted It Scary AND Funny
Gore Verbinski has said the reason he took the job was down to childhood memories of the Disneyland ride, which somehow managed to spook him and make him laugh at the same time. He deliberately chased that exact same tone for the movie, which is why you get walking skeletons in the same film as a permanently sloshed lead character.
Gordon's Eulogy Quotes Charles Dickens
Nolan leaned on A Tale of Two Cities while shaping the film, and it shows up directly on screen: Commissioner Gordon reads a line from the Dickens novel during his eulogy for Bruce Wayne, tying the whole trilogy's ending to a story about sacrifice and rebirth.
Old Faces Sneak Into Fionna And Cake
The Fionna and Cake episode "Cake the Cat" is stuffed with callbacks for longtime fans, including a cameo from Minerva, who first showed up during the original finale's closing montage, and a background appearance from the two-headed duck pulled straight from the original show's opening title sequence.
A Literal Easter Egg, Hidden Literally
Tucked behind a pile of garbage in the far corner of the New Reno gun shop's basement is an actual, literal Easter egg item. It's the kind of dry, self-aware joke the writers loved sneaking in, naming an item exactly what it is and hiding it where almost nobody looks.
The Joker's Notebook Had a Clockwork Orange Obsession
Ledger kept a small diary while getting into character, and one figure kept turning up throughout its pages: Alex DeLarge, Malcolm McDowell's character from A Clockwork Orange. He even practiced replicating McDowell's unnerving 'Kubrick stare' as part of building the Joker's presence.