What are your best easter eggs?

[Areala-chan]

I was hoping it was -- I don't think I could work him into a story, but it would fun to see it.

Sounds like we need a new category for the site.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Let's just say it isn't the 6-foot, 3.5-inch tall invisible rabbit.

Well, Boo.

 

[RetroFan]

In my story 'Bigfoot in the Bennington Triangle' cousins Betsy and Glen (the narrator) attend a chaotic music festival in Vermont in the early 1970s, where Betsy is abducted by a group of Bigfoot.

Glen sees the abduction and follows the bigfoot deep into the forest and to some long-abandoned forestry cottages, where the bigfoot have chained up his cousin to the post where they use her as a slave.

Staying out of sight, Glen notes the difficulty of rescuing her given the size and strength of the bigfoot, not to mention their enormous teeth, plus there are about 20 of the enormous and ferocious apes in the group. He also notes that the bigfoot have been stealing items from houses in local towns, one of which is a garden statue of the Statue of Liberty,

Finally a narrow opportunity to free Betsy arises - only for Glen to be thwarted when two more bigfoot appear from the vegetation. Glen is so frustrated and angry that he throws himself onto the ground on all fours before the Statue of Liberty, cursing the apes and slamming his fist repeatedly into the ground.

Nobody however picked up on the parody of this scene with one in a famous movie from the late 1960s with Charlton Heston in the lead role...

 

[MrPixel]

I just wrote an Easter egg into a story that references another of my serial stories. I suspect only a handful of followers will get it.

 

[old_prof]

I mentioned this one in the comment thread, but I had two kinds of references to other stories of mine, MMC writes for literotica as a hobby and FMC complains about an issue in one of "his" stories, actually one of mine. Not mentioning the story. I have two different things come up that reference details in yet another story. I re-used the same divorce lawyer for three different divorces across two stories now, which became the primary bridge.

I was so happy that one of my commenters noticed and liked both.

Same story has multiple easter eggs just for my SO to notice while beta reading; real events from our lives. I have done that in several stories. I actually got a complaint about one (non-sexual) detail being unrealistic, when it happened almost exactly as described to my SO. Truth vs fiction and all that.

 

[RetroFan]

Humphrey Grim from my story 'Grumpy Humphrey's Easy Wife' and set in 1960 is the uncle of Henry Grim from my 1989-set story 'Tonya Tiffany & the Twins', although its not so much an Easter Egg as Henry in the later story reflects on attending Humphrey's funeral earlier that year, tying the two stories together.

Both uncle and nephew however don't seem to have much luck in life. Humphrey Grim is married to a much younger wife named Lorraine, and she is a cold-hearted, mean-spirited floosy who has affairs with men all over town, while at his work as a high school teacher his unruly students cause him no end of troubles. Henry's first wife Wendy left him for a much younger man from Hawaii they met while vacationing there, and leaving Henry to raise their unintelligent slacker twin sons Cam and Chris. Henry does re-marry a much younger woman named Tonya who has a daughter Tiffany the same age as his sons, but Tonya is a bimbo and air-head Tiffany even less intelligent than her mother. Among many other things Tiffany believes that dinosaurs were still alive in the early 20th century, and only became extinct some time during the 1920s.

 

[Writer61]

Sounds like we need a new category for the site.

Fauna-cation?

 

[RetroFan]

In my story 'Cindy's Close Encounter' which is set in 1959 Cindy and her friends pay a flying visit to New York City at the end, where Cindy notes seeing the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building and Singer Tower.

Singer Tower was an attractive skyscraper on the NYC skyline for some decades having been constructed in the early 1900s, but was closed and demolished some time during the early 1970s. Fans of architecture and those interested in New York history have lamented its removal for many years since then.

Including this once famous but now lost landmark was a small Easter Egg that helps set the story in the past.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

In some of my stories I add lines from country songs.

In my very first story here, I have a character describe another as "six foot four, and full of muscles."

I just wrote an Easter egg into a story that references another of my serial stories. I suspect only a handful of followers will get it.

My character Maria (of Coffee With Blushes and Maria in the Tack Shop) cameos in both Pranked and Pranked: Barbie. She isn't named. Rose (sees her in the first) doesn't know her, and Barbie (second) has met her, but is very distracted and focused on someone else. She's just someone who's seen in both stories. The second appearance is actually plot relevant in a later story (not yet written, but plotted).

In Both Sides Now, the protagonist's ex is named Carissa. When I discovery-wrote her sister into existence, I named her Grace. Of course*, Carissa is Greek for grace.



*There is no reason at all that you should be expected to know that. I don't think anyone noticed, but it amused me.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

Afterthought: in "Both Sides Now" Andrea does the I Dream of Genie bow-and-blink thing when she grants someone's wish.

 

[redgarters]

I don't really know why I started it, but there are Disney references in like half my stories. Sometimes obvious, sometimes not, like where the FMC says she's "late for a very important date".

It's mostly just me having fun writing, but sometimes readers pick up on them and that's delightful.

 

[BeechLeaf]

One of mine contains at least 58 Easter eggs, depending on what you're counting. In my private notes, eight of them are listed under 'gratuitous references', which means the rest are there for a purpose. More than half of them are there to be found, the rest I expect never will be, but they're signatures.

 

[Stanfield2025]

I've made a few references to The Wire in my story,

 

[anthrodisiac]

Almost every single character name has some double meaning behind it, besides just the person's name. I love finding aptonyms, especially obtuse ones that literally no one will get if I didn't point them out.

Moko - bratty chonky cumslut tiger salamander; derived from Mokosh, a Slavic goddess of water, fertility, and earth.
Iraci - ND tamanda; Tupi for "honey lips" befitting a sticky-tongued anteater
Abeni - zebra; roughly "Girl we prayed for," felt appropriate for a guy going out to an anthro bar for the first time, trying to find some way of spicing up his life, to have his "prayer" answered
Vimmorelle - bassist gecko; chill, but groovy and lively, lit. "vim" and then just fancified it with -morelle.
Pairika - fictional succubus in a movie depicted in a story, that story taking place in a world where demons were considered mindless tools. I yanked it from Avestan texts; pairika started out as evil female demons and seductresses, but over time started to be considered almost angelic, mirroring the movie's human sorcerer realizing that she's more than just a sex tool/toy, she's a beautiful being in her own right. The movie was widely panned by people considering it laughable that demons had any agency, but it's the foxxubus FMC's favorite movie, because it depicted a human finally realizing that creatures like her were sentient and had agency, and that's all she ever wanted.

The amount of time I spent on that last one is embarassingly long. We're talking over two hours hours to come up with the name of not a character in the story, but of a character in a movie in the story. The human was Leander, a man fighting against the currents of oppressive society as he fought to have Pairika's personhood recognized.

"Don't you write porn?"

...yep.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

Robins lay their own 'easter eggs'.

Anybody ever name a character Robin?

 

[nice90sguy]

I used the phrase "damp panties" in one story, which is not something I would normally do, because I knew that the (now gone) user @damppanties would eventually read it.

 

[TheExperimentalist]

I think many of us include 'easter eggs' - in jokes and hidden references - in our stories. But, what are your best? The ones that you are most proud of?

Two of mine are references to former British prime ministers, neither of which is complimentary. Can you spot them?

What are yours?

In Pushing Past the Pleasure Point, I include the line:

"ANTIQUING!" I cried, using the safe word we had previously established, a reference to an episode of a certain animated comedy series we had both enjoyed in our youth.

To this point, no one has left a comment letting me know they got the reference.

Hint 1: The show is about space.

Hint 2: The show takes place in the future.

Hint 3: The show has the word "future" in its name.

Hint 4: The show is Futurama.

Answer: There's an episode of Futurama in which, among other convoluted nonsense of the sort the show thrived upon, Bender has a bomb installed into his body, which will explode upon him saying his favorite word, "ass". At the end of the episode, the bomb can't be removed, but they manage to reprogram its trigger word to the one Bender was LEAST likely to ever say, which is, of course, "antiquing".

The implication in the story, if one gets the reference, is intended to be that they watched that episode together and jokingly suggested that it would be good as a safe word, never really expecting to ever use it. Then, once they got into light S&M stuff, they adopted it seriously. I have an entire cute series of scenes in my head about how all that played out, which I never wrote into the story because it would have derailed from the main plot. Perhaps if I ever write a sequel (prequel?) about their first forays into kink, I'll end up writing those scenes more directly, but until then, it's just a cute little easter egg and author headcanon.

 

[MK_Whimsy]

Along the "cultural references" line of this thread, the following sentence from Scale Servicing referring to the reptilian aliens in it might fit the bill:

"There was a time when these creatures only existed in the delirious fantasies of conspiracy theorists and breathless pronouncements of tabloid headlines, not to mention speculative fiction."

 

[Djmac1031]

interesting; thought I'd replied to this before but perhaps it was just a similar thread. But anyway...

While writing The Devil And Angel Em , I created a female demon character named Cozbi.

As she developed i kinda thought it would be fun to make her a female version of Randall Flagg, a demonic character in several Stephen King books, most notably The Stand.

And so in one scene I described her in an outfit very similar to the one Flagg wore in the book; denim jacket, jeans, dusty cowboy boots etc.

I also gave her the human alias Randi Fannin, which was a play on one of Flagg's aliases, Richard Fannin.

Plus Randi= randy = horny. Get it?

A few readers here and there picked up on it, which was cool.

 

[SmilingLez]

My Soylent Green nod in The Lucky Plate Club. I wrote this free verse for the 2025 Dark Fairy Tale challenge but unfortunately, people are still squeamish (aka low ratings) when it comes to cannibalism for survival. YMMV

 

[EmilyMiller]

What are your best easter eggs?​

If I tried to answer this, I’d probably get to novella length before I was done. But I wrote a WIWAW about some of the names of my FMCs.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I have a direct reference to Person of Interest, using Harold from the show as a psychologist's patient, interacting with the main character of the story in the waiting room before their separate therapy sessions. A few have caught it, but not many, judging by the comments.

 

[TheWritingGroup]

There's a backburnered story of mine in which a character is on a train and has a conversation with Sam Clemens. She's a fan, but has no idea what Mark Twain looks like and doesn't realize. I'm thinking she might seduce him. (I'm only 20% or so through the first draft.)

 

[TheExperimentalist]

I have a direct reference to Person of Interest, using Harold from the show as a psychologist's patient, interacting with the main character of the story in the waiting room before their separate therapy sessions. A few have caught it, but not many, judging by the comments.

Is this about the time Root was first revealed by way of faking her identity as a therapist or the time that scam artist was pretending to be a hypnotherapist so he could steal a super rare baseball? (Man, now that I think of it, that show seems rife with opportunities for 'explain it but badly'.)

 

[MillieDynamite]

No, it was a general reference using a few lines suggested by the show.

"What's your problem?" my MC asked.

"I'm being pursued by a Senent AI trying to kill me to prevent me from assisting my own Senent AI from killing it. The doctor thinks I'm crazy, but I assure you I'm not. It's my Machine against their Machine."

"Yeah, sure, hey, nice meeting you, Harold. Good luck with that."

Is this about the time Root was first revealed by way of faking her identity as a therapist or the time that scam artist was pretending to be a hypnotherapist so he could steal a super rare baseball? (Man, now that I think of it, that show seems rife with opportunities for 'explain it but badly'.)