Post by Mlle Antéchrist on May 30, 2011 8:05:15 GMT -5
Spotted this on Cracked. Some of the entries are pretty cool, especially the ones about Silence of the Lambs, Futurama, and Inception. Basically, it's about hidden images/sounds/in-jokes/etc. (aka "Easter Eggs") in various TV shows and movies. I already knew about the one in the Apocalypto preview, but most of the other ones were new to me.
www.cracked.com/article_19210_7-insane-easter-eggs-hidden-in-movies-tv-shows.html
Warning: List contains spoilers.
The Futurama one:
www.cracked.com/article_19210_7-insane-easter-eggs-hidden-in-movies-tv-shows.html
Warning: List contains spoilers.
The Futurama one:
There are actually two alien languages in the show: The first one is exactly like our alphabet only with different symbols, but the second one is a more complex code where the letters have numerical value and the "next letter is given by the summation of all previous letters plus the current letter."
If you're surprised that the writers of a comedy show would go through the effort of creating new language just to use it for some background jokes, that's not even the nerdiest/most pointless thing they've done. Futurama writers also invented a new math theorem.
In a recent episode, all the characters switch bodies using a body-switching machine, but then it turns out the machine can't switch the same two people more than once. In order to figure out a way to get all 10 or so characters back into their original bodies, one of the writers created a new math formula, and it actually works. They even showed the full formula in the episode, in case you don't believe them:
If you're surprised that the writers of a comedy show would go through the effort of creating new language just to use it for some background jokes, that's not even the nerdiest/most pointless thing they've done. Futurama writers also invented a new math theorem.
In a recent episode, all the characters switch bodies using a body-switching machine, but then it turns out the machine can't switch the same two people more than once. In order to figure out a way to get all 10 or so characters back into their original bodies, one of the writers created a new math formula, and it actually works. They even showed the full formula in the episode, in case you don't believe them:
