In-jokes

1138 is the number equal to 1000 + 100 + 30 + 8. ...more on Wikipedia about "1138 (number)"

2GAT123 is a fictional license plate number that has appeared in a number of movies. It is used to prevent difficulties for a real person who might coincidentally have the same number as one appearing in a movie. For this same reason most fictional telephone numbers usually begin with a 555 exchange, of which a large portion of these numbers (0100-0199) are marked as "reserved for fictitious use". ...more on Wikipedia about "2GAT123"

37 is the natural number following 36 and preceding 38. ...more on Wikipedia about "37 (number)"

47 is the natural number following 46 and followed by 48. ...more on Wikipedia about "47 (number)"

In North America, telephone numbers with the prefix 555 are widely used for fictitious phone numbers in television shows, films and other types of fictional media. The prefix was originally reserved for directory assistance, and in many areas, any 555 number dialed will still connect callers with a directory assistance operator. ...more on Wikipedia about "555 telephone number"

(69105 (number)) The number 69,105 was used as an in-joke at American computer game manufacturer Infocom. It has occasionally cropped up in later computer games as a tribute to Infocom. ...more on Wikipedia about "69105 (number)"

A113 is an inside joke seen in animated films created by alumni of CalArts, referring to the classroom number used by animation students at the school. Brad Bird first used it for a license plate number in the Amazing Stories episode " Family Dog." It has since appeared in other Disney and Pixar movies. ...more on Wikipedia about "A113"

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Arthur was a running gag in-joke in MAD magazine; a potted plant approximately a yard (one meter) tall, with only two leaves, right at the tip, who showed up in various scenes. Arthur was reportedly inspired by an actual avocado plant in the MAD office; plants grown from avocado pits do have the property of growing in such a fashion until the top is pruned. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arthur (plant)"

The Axolotl (Ambystoma mexicanum) is an aquatic salamander native to Mexico. In the Spanish language it is called the ajolote. ...more on Wikipedia about "Axolotl"

Chuck the Plant is a mascot of sorts in several of LucasArts' games. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chuck the Plant"

Cowznofski is a running gag in-joke heavily used in the early years of MAD Magazine, usually as a character's last name, often with the first name "Melvin", occasionally "Lance" or "Irving". Its Eastern European feel was a perfect fit for the New York Jewish style of the magazine. It is also one of the units in the magazine's joke Potrzebie unit system. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cowznofski"

The Dopefish ("dope" meaning stupidity, not drugs) is a dimwitted fictional fish that is one of the enemy characters in the fourth Commander Keen video game, Secret of the Oracle, released in 1991. The character has since taken on a life of its own as a PC game industry in-joke, making hidden appearances in games from Apogee's 1994 Wacky Wheels down to titles as recent as the 2002 Hitman 2, and has started something of an Internet following. ...more on Wikipedia about "Dopefish"

The so-called Drake's Plate of Brass is a forgery that purports to be the brass plaque that Francis Drake posted upon landing in Northern California in 1579. The hoax was successful for forty years, despite early doubts. After the plate came to public attention in 1936, historians immediately raised questions regarding the plate’s wording, spelling, and manufacture. The hoax’s perpetrators even tried to tip off the plate’s finders as to its origins. But many presumed the plate to be real after an early metallurgical study concluded it was genuine. Then, in the late 1970s, scientists determined that the plate was a modern creation after it failed a battery of physical and chemical tests. Much of the mystery surrounding the plate continued until 2003, when historians finally advanced a theory about who created the plate and why, showing the plate to be a practical joke by local historians gone very awry. The plate was acquired by—and is still on display at—the Bancroft Library of the University of California, Berkeley. ...more on Wikipedia about "Drake's Plate of Brass"

A virtual Easter egg is a hidden message or feature in an object such as a movie, book, CD, DVD, or computer program. The term draws a parallel with the custom of the Easter egg hunt observed in many western nations. The term is believed to originate in the movie Return of the Living Dead, where a military officer uses it as a code word for lost U.S. government containers of zombies created by a chemical spill, or from The Rocky Horror Picture Show, in which actual Easter eggs are visible in certain shots (under Frank N. Furter's throne, for example). ...more on Wikipedia about "Easter egg (virtual)"

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Franz Bibfeldt is a famous, ficticious theologian and in-joke among American academic theologians. ...more on Wikipedia about "Franz Bibfeldt"

A gremlin is a mythological mischievous creature. Gremlins are depicted as mechanically oriented and extremely devious. The word "gremlin" could come from Old English grëmian, meaning, "to vex" or, "to anger", from grim, "severe" (further information about grim found in a dictionary containing the full etymology), and related to German grämen and Swedish gräma, "to grieve". Another explanation is the combination of Grimm's Fairy Tales and Fremlins - the only beer available to airmen at the time. ...more on Wikipedia about "Gremlin"

An in-joke or inside joke is a joke whose humour is clear only to those people who are in a group that has some prior knowledge (not known by the whole population) that makes the joke humorous. ...more on Wikipedia about "In-joke"

* The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones, Revenge of the Sith, A New Hope, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi ...more on Wikipedia about "List of films using the Wilhelm scream"

The magic smoke theory is a running in-joke originating among electrical engineers and technicians before more recently being adopted by computer programmers. ...more on Wikipedia about "Magic smoke"

There are a number of notable lines in the Star Wars series that have gained currency as catch phrases in the outside world, or are significant within the canon itself. ...more on Wikipedia about "Notable lines in the Star Wars series"

Oceanic Airlines is a fictional airline used on television and in movies, not to be confused with real airlines Trans Oceanic Airlines and Ocean Airlines. ...more on Wikipedia about "Oceanic Airlines"

Potrzebie is a seemingly nonsensical word (actually Polish), popularized by its use as a running gag in the early issues of Mad not long after the comic book began in 1952. The word is pronounced "po-TSCHEB-yeh" in Polish and is a declined form of the noun "potrzeba" (which means "need"), but in "English" it was purportedly pronounced "PAH-tur-zee-bee" or "POT-ra-zee-bee." Its Eastern European feel was a perfect fit for the New York Jewish style of the magazine. ...more on Wikipedia about "Potrzebie"

The quatloo is a fictional currency that featured in the Star Trek episode " The Gamesters of Triskelion". The currency was used by the disembodied Providers of Triskelion. Having grown bored with their supreme intelligence, "the Providers" were reduced to betting on the outcome of gladiatorial competition between their captives. Wagers were made in quatloos. ...more on Wikipedia about "Quatloo"

Scientist jokes, as opposed to other kinds of professional humor, are in-jokes, i.e., they tend to circulate within the scientific community itself, rather than be told by outsiders, and as scientists pride themselves on their mental abilities, scientist jokes tend to hinge around their capacity for abstract reasoning, not always to their own detriment. One reason for the relative scarcity of scientist jokes is that they are based on concepts not always familiar to the general public, as in the following: ...more on Wikipedia about "Scientist joke"

See You Next Wednesday is a fictional film that is the trademark of film director John Landis. He includes a reference to it in most, but not all of the movies he directs. Usually the reference is just a movie poster for the film in the background. See You Next Wednesday is never the same from film to film. ...more on Wikipedia about "See You Next Wednesday"

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