25 Awesome Easter Eggs Hidden in Popular TV Shows

In the pilot episode of the popular AMC series Breaking Bad, the main character, Walter White, rents an RV van and drives out to the desert to cook crystal meth. He strips down to his underwear and hangs his pants and shirt on the side view mirror.

On the DVD cover of Season 1, you see Walt with no pants on. You can also see the same pants as White chases a barrel of money down the desert.

There are a few easter eggs in The Walking Dead, which any fan will be glad to talk about. What you may or may not know is that there is a connection between The Walking Dead and Breaking Bad.

The Walking Dead is about a group of survivors during a zombie apocalypse. In the first episode, Rick Grimes wakes up from a long coma to discover that the world has gone to chaos and is being taken over by flesh-eating zombies. In that episode, he meets some people, one of whom is a racist former drug dealer named Merle.

Merle has a brother named Daryll, who ends up being a major character in the series. In the second episode, Daryl helps a character named T-Bone, who has gotten sick. When Daryl goes into Merle’s “medicine” bag, you can see blue crystals, which look a lot like “blue sky,” the drug that Walter White sold in Breaking Bad.

The show How I Met Your Mother is a love story told in reverse. In the first episode main character Ted is telling his children the story about how he met and fell in love with their mother. During the series, we are introduced to his friends, Barney and Robin, and one couple, Marshall and Lily.

Marshall is Ted’s best friend. In Season 6, Marshall’s father dies of a heart attack. He was 51 years old. During that particular episode, numbers start appearing all over. At the beginning of the episode, the number 50 appears in the doctor’s office. The number 40 was on Ted’s book called “New York’s 40 Greatest Landmarks.”

The numbers count down until we see the cab that Lily takes to see him that has the number 1 on it when she tells him the sad news. The cab says expired. All of this is referencing Marshall’s father’s death.

Mad Men was another popular AMC series about advertising executives in New York during the ’50s and ’60s. One of the ad men, Lane Pryce, hangs himself in his office. There are a few clues that let you know this is going to happen.

Pryce comments a few seasons earlier, “I felt like I went to my own funeral,” and the show’s main character “Don Draper” draws a noose on his note pad. All of this leads up to the tragic death.

Game of Thrones had some pretty loathsome characters. One of these was “Little Finger,” a double-crossing and conniving man. He also might have been psychic.

In one scene he mentions places people can die: “People die at their dinner table, they die in their bed, they die sitting over their chamber pots.” Joffrey died by poison at the table during his wedding. Shae, who was the lover of Tyrion Lannister, is killed in her bed. Tywin Lannister dies while going to the bathroom.

Heroes was a popular but sadly short-lived show about people with extraordinary powers. George Takei of Star Trek was on the series as the father of one of the characters. The license plate on his car was “NCC-1701,” which is the registry number of The Starship Enterprise on Star Trek.

Sylar, the villain in Heroes, is played by Zachary Quinto, who went on to play Spock in the 2009 remake of Star Trek.

The Simpsons parody many celebrities. You may have noticed a similarity between Arnold Schwarzenegger and “Rainier Wolfcastle.” Wolfcastle is a mega Hollywood star famous for “The McBain” action series.

The McBain movies appear throughout the show at various times. They are not full movies, however. They are clips. But, if you put them all together, they form a very short movie.

The series “Friends” ran from 1994 to 2004. Many times in the show the characters hung out at a fictional coffee shop called “Central Perk.”

They could always be seen sitting on the same couch every week. So, how were they always able to get that spot? There is a “reserved” sign on the table.

At the end of Season 4 of Buffy, Tara (who is a supporting character and witch) says, “Be back before dawn.”

It doesn’t seem like anything, but in season 5, Buffy suddenly has a younger sister named “Dawn.”

Actor Jeffrey Dean Morgan currently stars as anti-hero Negan on The Walking Dead. Supernatural fans know him as John Winchester, father to Sam and Dean.

In one episode of the show, Dean holds a bat wrapped in barbed wire saying, “Dad loved this thing.”  It’s the same bat that Negan uses to kill his enemies on The Walking Dead.

The “Who Shot Mr. Burns?” episodes were one of the most popular episodes of the series. The shooter ends up being baby Maggie Simpson.

Before she is revealed as the shooter, the creators of the show give us a hint that Maggie is the culprit. When Mr. Burns collapses on the sundial after being shot, his hands point to “W” for West and “S” for South. We see W upside down, therefore, making it look like an “M”

M. S. – Maggie Simpson.

The real-life partners of the stars of How I Met Your Mother appear on the show. Colbie Smulders’ husband, Taran Killam, plays a misogynist employee of Barney Stinson.

Lily’s husband, Alexis Denisof, plays a perverted news anchor; Davis Burtk, who is married to Neil Patrick Harris (Barney), plays Scooter, who is obsessed with Alyson Hannigan’s character, Lily. Yeah, lots of drama.

In the pilot episode of Parks and Recreation, Amy Poehler’s character chases a drunk guy off of a slide.

In the series finale, the same character asks for her help in replacing a park swing. The creators had the idea to show the same guy after getting his act together.

We previously mentioned that Merle of The Walking Dead was a drug dealer, and in his bag was the same drug that appears throughout Breaking Bad. Here is another link.

Daryl tells a story about Merle’s drug supplier who is described as a “janky little white guy” who says “I’m gonna kill you, bitch.” Jesse Pinkman, who is a drug dealer on Breaking Bad, fits this description, and he is constantly saying, “Yeah, bitch.”

Black Mirror is a Twighlight Zone-esque series on Netflix that revolves around some form of technology. In Season 4, actor Jesse Plemons plays a sadistic computer programmer who traps his co-workers in a virtual reality simulation based on Star Trek.

In one scene that takes place in the office where Plemon’s character works, actress Kirsten Dunst walks by. Dunst and Plemons are married in real life.

In Joey Tribiani’s apartment, there is a Magna Doodle on the wall. In each episode, a reference to the plot is drawn on it.

You may have to look closely to see it, but it’s there.

The political drama The West Wing did something similar, except it was C.J. Cregg’s fishbowl that revealed the plot for that week.

Cregg was The White House Press Secretary and she was portrayed by Allison Janey. The fish’s name is Gail.

The Simpsons creator Matt Groening’s signature appears constantly throughout the show.

Don’t believe us? Just look at Homer Simpson’s hair. On the side, it looks like an M, and his ear is a G.

Quantum Leap was a time-traveling series that ran in the ’90s. In every episode, Dr. Sam Beckett would “leap” into the body of somebody in the past and try to fix some travesty that happened.

On  “A Portrait for Troian,” Beckett assumes the identity of a therapist helping a woman who hears the voice of her dead husband. The therapist that Beckett leaps into is Donald P. Bellisario, the creator of Quantum Leap.

Black Mirror’s Season 4 finale takes place in a museum. In this museum are artifacts from crimes as well as stories of criminals. During the episode, the curator tells stories of these artifacts to a woman whose car has broken down outside.

Along with memorabilia in this particular episode, there is stuff from previous episodes that link everything together.

Better Call Saul is a prequel to Breaking Bad that focuses on Walter White’s shady lawyer, Saul Goodman. It’s basically all the events that happened before White became a big-time drug kingpin.

The show has many of the same characters from Breaking Bad, such as Gus Fring. The creators left a hint that he was coming because the first letter of each episode in season 2, spells out “Frings Back.” Many fans did catch it, though.

On the TV show Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D (based on a Marvel comic), there is a news broadcast. On the television, in small print, it reads “GANG WAR RAGES IN HELL’S KITCHEN. AUTHORITIES SEARCHING FOR SOLUTION.”

The Netflix Show Daredevil, also a Marvel comic, takes place in Hell’s Kitchen, where there is, of course, a violent gang war.

Bet you thought we’d forget Stranger Things. For those of you who may not know, Stranger Things is a Netflix sci-fi show that takes place in the ’80s.

Cultural references from that time period come up from time to time. For example, when the funny kid, Dustin, discovers hidden pudding, it’s similar to when Chunk found ice cream in The Goonies.

On the show Community, each character on the show said “Beetlejuice” once.

After one character says it the third time, Beetlejuice walks by the frame. In the movie Beetlejuice, his name has to be said three times before he can appear.

Fans of the show Futurama definitely remember the main character Frye falling backward in his chair into the cryo-tube, thus freezing him until he woke up in the very distant future.

It’s revealed in Season 5 that Frye was pushed in by Nibbler, a pet of Lila’s. If you go back and watch the first episode, you can see Nibbler’s shadow when Frye falls.