Movies Comedy Movies ByJeremy Smith June 14, 2025 6:00 am EST Universal Easter eggs have become far too commonplace in movies nowadays. It's gotten to the point that they distract viewers from paying attention to the story unfolding on the screen, because to get sucked into the emotion of a movie might cause you to miss a glancing reference to an obscure Marvel character or a deep Mario Kart cut— which, upon spying it, will allow you to laugh many decibels too loud so as to alert every single person in the theater that you are the knowingest knower who ever did know.Before Easter eggs became a matter of competitive viewing, they were just innocuous bits of ephemera scattered in and around the frame that you might not notice until a subsequent viewing. Some directors invited their audiences to be on guard for obligatory bits (like Alfred Hitchcock and his cameos, the most inventive of which arrived in "Lifeboat"), but for the most part, they were wholly unexpected. And, oh yeah, we didn...
