Easter eggs in the series: curious discoveries and intricate puzzles

For the success of the modern series is not enough to have a entangled plot and the star cast of actors. Important private audience participation, for which the show's writers come up with a variety of games and puzzles, called easter eggs. They do not interfere with viewing and exist independently of the subject, but at the same time make the fans look forward to the new series for clues or new brainteasers.

Ways to interest the public in many ways depend on the tone of the series and the genre. Sometimes the authors resort to lay the easter eggs, when the show has already appeared fans base. In other shows clear hints originally laid. They help to create the desired atmosphere or in a disguised form to talk about an important plot twist.

Easter eggs for the most attentive

The simplest Easter eggs are placed in the frame just in order to be found. For example, in one of the most popular animated series "Adventure Time" in every episode there is a tiny snail that friendly waving audience. The task of the beholder - to find it during the series.

There are many such examples. IN British black comedy "Inside the ninth issue," the scene - it's always a room or a house at number 9. Also, in each series, there is one immutable object - silver figurine hare. For the "Seer" also come up with something similar and no less meaningless: in each episode the authors hid pineapple.

In the TV series "Fringe," the viewer is constantly afraid of a mysterious observer lurking somewhere in the background. A little later, this character began to use the services of other projects and television network Fox. An observer could see everything from pop music shows to sports broadcasts.

About regularly killed and revived in the next series of Kenny "South Park" everyone knows who is even slightly familiar with the animated series. A little less known Ol 'Fred of "Sponge Bob," one exclaimed, "My foot!" This phrase is often heard in the first two seasons, and then disappeared, but then returned to the great delight of fans.

Continuing the theme of cartoons, it is worth mentioning "The Simpsons." In some episodes of the show show excerpts from the next blockbuster about McBain. They look like a parody of a typical Hollywood blockbuster, but when you combine all the clips in the order of the output series, received a short and logical story.

Easter eggs for the most curious

Anagrams in the series "Better Call Saul" and "Breaking Bad"

Often using hidden messages to help authors understand the subtext of the situation or hint of what they will tell next. For example, in the second season of "Better Call Saul" the first letters of the names of the episodes were anagram FRINGSBACK ( «Fring Returns"). But the creators of the series rejoiced in vain, that we could carefully hide a hint of the appearance of Gus Fring. Vince Gilligan was going to reveal the secret of the summer, but the inquisitive spectators got to the core task as early as April.

The drama about Walter Wight also meets mystery with series titles. If you select the titles of the first and fourth episodes of the second season, we can guess about the crash of an airplane over Albuquerque.

But even without anagrams references to the TV series "Breaking Bad" abound. This is the very name of "Better Call Saul", which was written on the advertising signs at the office Sola in the second season of "Breaking Bad" and familiar locations, and things like license plate numbers preserved. Also series brings together a number of secondary characters.

Nibbler and ubiquitous language alien in "Futurama"

In the first episode of "Futurama" in the scene accidentally hitting Frye in the cryo-chamber for a moment there is the shadow of Nibbler. Spun a story about time travel and numerous adjustments of the past, which Nibbler sent in the year 2000, was told only in the fifth season.

It is worth to mention the quaint language inscriptions which can be seen in many urban posters. It's not just a bunch of random characters, but two cipher. The first replaces the English letters on the respective symbols. The second is much more difficult, but it was cracked thanks to the perseverance and determination of fans.

Countdown in the sitcom "How I Met Your Mother"

Usually tips regarding future plot turns are given in advance, but in the episode "Bad news," the sixth season of the comedy "How I Met Your Mother" comes the countdown. It begins with the number 50 on the cover of brochures, moving to 49 in the next stage, and then to 48 on the bottle label and so on. The last number 001 hidden in the room taxi. This is followed Expired plate ( "Timeout"). Immediately thereafter, Marshall learns of his father's death.

Easter eggs for fans of classics

Some series use the easter eggs to create a certain mood and surroundings. Usually this is a reference to the famous movie that inspired authors, or hidden items from previous seasons.

A kaleidoscope of scenes from science fiction in the 1980s, "Very strange deeds"

Hit "Very strange things'Cause nostalgic memories for fans of the cult science fiction of the 1980s. The series copying shots, shooting angles and content of many of the scenes of such films as "Alien," "Alien," "A Nightmare on Elm Street" and many others.

Initially, the authors show, Daffer brothers, planned to shoot a television version of the film "It" by Stephen King's novel, but in the end came up with their own history. We can not say that the brothers took advantage of others' ideas: references to film classics are not striking and organically fit into the plot.

Allusions to the films the Coen brothers and the last season in "Fargo"

The author of the series "Fargo" Noah Hawley never hid his love for films Coen brothers. Therefore, in all three seasons, you can easily find and not very obvious reference to their works.

First striking a proprietary manner of filming vehicles, the camera accompanies the machine from afar heroes. Many shots and scenes is entirely borrowed from the Coen brothers. For example, in the third season while traveling Gloria in Los Angeles can see several scenes of "Barton Fink", above all - to call the administrator desktop bell.

Maurice comical journey to the case, when he tries to throw a cigarette out the car window, but it gets his trousers and provokes an accident, like a similar incident with the dude from "Big Lebowski. " From the same scene taken with a fantastic bowling club and philosophizing at the bar a stranger.

The motives of the second season of UFO indirectly refer to the film "The Man Who Was not There" and the scene in the forest and home Gerhardt - to the "crossroads of Miller." Intersections are found even in small things, like the names of the minor characters. Some characters have been moved to "Fargo" under other names, but they can not be confused with anyone else. Remember instantly bubbling veteran Carl Weathers, which has revived one of the best friends Dude - Walter Sobchak.

But Noah Hawley is not limited to references only to Cohen in the second and third of the season enough hint of the previous episodes. For example, fish in the motivational poster in the basement Lester appeared in the second season in a bathroom Peggy Blomquist. And on the question of the damaged car body this same character claimed that a deer was hit as Lorne Malvo in the first season.

In the third season, one of the stumbling blocks to become the brand depicted on her Sisyphus, which is so much talked a year earlier. From the second season of UFO video captured on the TV screen, Ennis, as well as comedic dialogue heard in a motel room where we left off and Nikki Ray.

Noah Hawley himself said in an interview that did not try to turn the "Fargo" to a set of puzzles, where viewers pause and stare each frame in the image in search of the next discovery. But fans who once had a hidden Easter eggs, can not be stopped.

Easter eggs for hackers and detectives

Objectives for hackers "Mr. Robot"

In the last couple of years, the interaction with the audience series went well beyond the screen. A dialogue with the spectator flows on the Internet, where producing television networks create thematic sites that complement the artistic history. One of these series was "Mr. Robot"Which tells about hackers and computer security.

It became the central site Who is Mr. Robot, Copying the Linux-server console, and now more like a graphical operating environment with an open terminal. Ironically, on this site anonymous fans hackers have found at least two vulnerabilities that had hastily closed.

In the future, the emphasis on this site has been moved to other addresses that appear in the series. Basically it is a fictional Resources Corporation E Corp, Various thematic promostranitsy, Links to pictures with slogans and manifestos or protected pages, which you need to choose a login and password.

Online immersion in the series "World of the Wild West"

For "Mr. Robot" was followed by the series "Silicon Valley", launched a website "piebald Piper"And venture capital firm Bream-Hall, but beyond that it is not yet gone. But another project HBO «The world of the Wild West," use the Internet more actively.

Their main site Discover Westworld full of hidden tricks. Click and hold the mouse button on a round white logo in the center, or simply hold down Shift: you will see one of them at once. In addition, you can talk in a text chat with the robot named Aeden and try to decipher his cryptic answers.

After wandering around the site, you can stumble upon the rules of visiting the park, try to reserve a spot on the nearest date or take a personality test. typing VIOLENTDELIGHTS Access to the line, you'll be taken to a secret site of Delos is, which contains a number of system messages and pieces of internal communications staff. If you really try, and there you can find a real treasure: immediately after the end of the first season at the site was found a short video, hinting that Elsie's probably still alive.

Breakneck quest for fans of "Archer"

But the coolest online adventures come up with the creators of the animated series "Archer." In one of the episodes of the sixth season of one Reddit user noticed the hexadecimal code, which hides an abbreviated reference to the video. A little later, other spectators guessed open an audio track in the audio editor and got a new abbreviated address. Clicking on it on the bulletin site, they saw another encrypted message. After a few more steps fans were mad scientist Online Krieger.

The site is updated as the release of a series of new clues to the very end of the season attracts the attention of the fans, which in the course of Quest had to solve a crossword puzzle, a million times click on the "final" button and solve dozens of puzzles to eventually get funny prize.

Surprisingly, it was waiting for a new, even more ambitious game in the seventh season of spectators. As a prize, the creators gave fans a file with a model for the pirate of 3D-printers.

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