Hollywood’s pretty well-known for Easter eggs,. It’s something that’s put into a movie or a TV show that only a diehard fan will catch. Like these visits from the movie producer in a brief cameo. They did miss one though–Donald P. Bellisario shows up in the episode with Mariette Hartley. You can see him walking in the background in the hospital waiting area, near the end.
Some other examples I’ve run across:
- In Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea’s “Escape From Venice,” Admiral Nelson stays at the Hotel Dandelo. That’s the name of the cat from David Hedison’s film, The Fly.
- In Buck Rogers in the 25th Century, there’s a scene where Captain Christopher Pike gets paged. Pike was a nod to Star Trek.
They can take the form of pretty much anything, especially if you’re familiar with the genre or the actors. But books have them, too.
Clive Cussler did one in his later novels. Dirk and Al run into a crusty old character with the strange name of…Clive Cussler! I know a lot of people thought it was hokey and silly, but it’s really kind of a fun nod to the fans of the books.
In fact, there was another action-type novel series where the writers were clearly a fan of Cussler’s, so that crusty character showed up in their first couple of books (not the later ones…).
Have you spotted any in your favorite books?
(And yes, I’ve used some in mine. They really are a lot of fun.)
Linda Maye Adams 
In books you can find Tuckerizations or Tuckerisms, another name for them. I used David Summers, an actual astronomer, in Strike Three, my post-apocalyptic novel.
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I know them as inside jokes…but I’ve heard so many people refer to them as Easter eggs.
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