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1. The reflection of The Daily Rip's logo in Don't Look Up reads "lib" because the show is left-leaning.
2. Bruno's "mice TV" in Encanto is recreating the 1990 World Cup match between Colombia and Germany.
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3. Lin-Manuel Miranda's elementary school music teacher, who inspired his love of musical theater, makes an appearance in Tick, Tick...Boom!
4. Eddie's "Mumford Phys. Ed. Dept." shirt in Venom: Let There Be Carnage is a tribute to Beverly Hills Cop.
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5. Norman Osborn's expressions go through the five stages of grief (denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance) after Oscorp's board asks him to resign in Spider-Man.
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6. In Last Night in SoHo, the identical coatroom attendants on either side of the mirror are actually twin actors James and Oliver Phelps, not CGI.
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7. Peter Parker's Spider-Man in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse uses a backslash instead of a forward slash in a URL in his Christmas album because he (like Miles) is from an alternate universe to ours.
8. As the empty books begin to fill with text in Pleasantville, the first two books to fill are Huckleberry Finn and Catcher in the Rye, both of which are frequently banned or challenged.
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9. In Rosemary's Baby, the baby is born in June 1966, aka 6/66.
10. In Coco, Miguel names the street dog he befriends Dante after the horse in one of Ernesto de la Cruz's movies.
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11. The owl figurine behind Edward in the Biology class in Twilight makes it look like he has the wings of an angel.
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12. Roger's photo of him and Jessica in Who Framed Roger Rabbit has caricatures of people who worked on the movie in the background.
13. Detective Kimball in American Psycho reflects light into Bateman's eye using a CD case, but Bateman doesn't flinch like a normal person might.
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14. Red's cell number is 237 in The Shawshank Redemption, which is also the hotel room number in the movie The Shining, both of which are movies based on Stephen King novels.
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15. In Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, one of Jack's many belts is Anamaria's belt from Curse of the Black Pearl.
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16. Marriage Story's mediation scenes take place in the actual law offices of Laura Wasser, a family law attorney who represented actors Laura Dern and Scarlett Johansson, as well as director Noah Baumbach during their divorces.
17. Lisa Kudrow wears the same jacket in Romy and Michele's High School Reunion__ that her Friends_ co-star Courteney Cox wore in Scream._
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18. In Sherlock Gnomes, the moving company is named Sherrinford, which was almost Sherlock Holmes's name.
19. The Grandmaster's "I pardon you" gesture in Thor: Ragnarok is a reference to Schindler's List.
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20. Mayor Ebert and his assistant Gene in Godzilla are based on critics Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel, who had given director Roland Emmerich bad reviews in the past. Ebert responded, "They let us off lightly; I fully expected to be squished like a bug by Godzilla."
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