There was a post recently on [insert name of geeky blog site I forget here] with one of those link-bait titles like, “The Best Joke in Back to the Future you Never Noticed!” I read it and was amused. Mainly because I did notice it. And the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I tend to pick up on those jokes in movies that most people don’t notice outright. The Back to the Future joke in question is the fact that the mall at the start of the movie is called Twin Pines. When Marty goes back in time to 1953, he crashes into one of two pine trees. At the end of the movie when he returns to the mall, it is called Lone Pine.

Another good example is Airplane. In a movie filled with jokes (just this morning I was thinking about the soldier who thought he was Ethel Merman who was played by Ethel Merman singing Everything’s Coming up Roses) my favorite joke of all is the fact that through the entire movie (a movie that takes place on a jet plane) the sound effect you hear constantly is that of propellers.

What are other good examples of this kind of thing? Drop me a line on [insert social media thing here].