Crazy Nate: Hey gents and gentlets, let’s take a quick race around the track of Cars
from Pixar!
This movie is full of new and old Easter eggs.
Mack: Hey Lightning, you ready?
Crazy Nate: One of the first Easter eggs that most people notice is on the race car, the
tires say Lightyear.
Now, some people may think it’s a shout out to the Goodyear tire company, and others
think it’s a play on Buzz Lightyear.
But if you look really closely at the tire, you will see it says Sector 4 Gamma Quadrant.
Not convinced because some of the words are out of view?
Well here is another shot where they let us see the entire phrase.
So clearly these Tires are defenders of the galaxy.
Buzz Lightyear: Actually I'm stationed up in the gamma Quadrant of sector 4.
Crazy Nate: They did however put in a Easter egg for Goodyear Tire.
If you’ve ever been to any big sporting event in person or on TV, then you will recognize
Goodyear the blimp floating above the stadium.
When Lightning McQueen's two biggest fans flash their headlights at him, that is a little
adult humor.
See how McQueen reacts when he sees them.
If you don’t get what's being implied here, come back to this video in a few years.
When we look at the sea of campers in the middle of the race track you will see a custom
paint job of the back of this RV of the Jackalope from Pixar's short, Boundin’.
And we can see that Bing Bongs wagon made it from Inside Out in both of the races.
Also you might not know this about Cars, but The Directors John Lasseter and Joe Ranft
took some of the crew and actually went on a journey of Route 66 before making the film
to find accurate inspiration.
Sally: The Mother Road!
Crazy Nate: This was an Easter egg to the book Route 66: The Mother Road.
The author of that book was Pixar's tour guide on their research trip.
Michael Wallis: It's not the destination, it's the journey.
Crazy Nate: Also just like Toy Story, John Lasseter makes such good movies because he
makes movies that relate to him personally, and they always have a meaning.
Darrell Waltrip is the voice of this Broadcaster, and in real life he is one of the best motorsports
broadcasters of all time.
Darrell Waltrip: When the car's came off turn 4, and they're coming down to take the green,
I said boogidy boogidy boogidy, let's go racing boys.
Boogidy boogidy boys, let's go racing.
Crazy Nate: And these two guys are Tom and Ray, otherwise known as Click and Clack from
a real life car show...
Tom: Don't drive like my brother.
Ray: And don't drive like my brother!
Crazy Nate: ...and you guessed it, that's an Easter egg to their show.
I’m sure you recognize Dinoco as the gas station from Toy Story.
Dinoco is everywhere in the movie.
One of the cars has a slogan on it’s bumper, “Leak less” and you can only see this
part only if you are a fast reader or you pressed pause.
This is Adult Drip Pans for old cars.
Did you miss the joke?
Basically if cars were people this would be an advertisement for adult diapers.
Speaking of bumpers...
Tad: I know what that is, he said it was called... a... a butt!
Crazy Nate: That butt is a shout out to the butt in Toy Story 2.
Ramone: Driving Von Dutch style.
purple car: Honey, look Von Dutch.
Green Van: OK, NO!
Crazy Nate: The Number on Chick Hicks car is 86, and we all know by now, I hope… that
1986 is when Pixar was born.
And Steve Jobs basically gave birth to Pixar.
Steve was also part of the executive team for Cars.
Here is a not so hidden Easter egg to Steve with his Apple empires logo.
And naturally the cars number is 84.
Because Apples first computer went up for sale in 1984.
Now let’s point out some of the other Car numbers.
Number 8 is the number and voice of Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Mario Andretti: Hey Marco, it's a beautiful day for a race isn't it?
Marco: Absolutely Mr. Andretti.
Crazy Nate: The number 11 car is Mario Andretti.
The Number 43 car is Richard Petty, and his car is really blue in real life.
Chick Hicks: I am not coming in behind you again old man.
Radio Announcer: We got a crash out on the home stretch.
A car upside down.
A blue car, it is Richard Petty.
Richard Petty: What are you doing kid?
Lightning McQueen: I think the king should finish his last race.
Crazy Nate: Luigi is a BIG Ferrari fan, so it makes sense that his license plate is 44.5
- 10.8.
That’s the GPS location to the Ferrari manufacturing plant.
Sarge’s license plate is 41WW2.
Why?
Because he went into service to World War 2 in 1941.
Fillmore: There's a lot of love out there you know man.
Crazy Nate: Fillmore’s plate 51237, is a bunch of random numbers right?
Nope, its a Easter egg for George Carlin, which is the voice of Fillmore, and his birthday
is on May, 12th, 1937.
And Sally's plate is 301PCE, but, but…
I’m not exactly sure what that one's referencing to, unless it’s part of another phone number?
does anyone know what it’s referring to?
If so let me know.
And of course Lightning McQueen..
And of course Lightning McQueen's number, 95 is a shout out to Toy Story, since Toy
Story’s release date was November 22nd 1995.
Also, even McQueen's name is a Easter egg to Glenn McQueen.
He worked with John Lasseter on several movies, including Toy Story, a bugs life, and monsters
inc. and unfortunately he passed away in 2002.
So the Pixar team named the star of cars after Glenn McQueen.
Speaking of numbers, a Pixar movie without A113 isn’t exactly a Pixar movie.
When Lightning McQueen is trying to outrun the train Pixar makes A113 a little easier
to find.
If you’re a Easter egg noob.
Basically A113 is a class room from Cal Arts, a famous art school that most all the great
artist and animators went to.
They Had A113 on the nose of the train that Lightning McQueen came inches from hitting.
They left it visible so long, that most people will notice this easter egg without even having
to press pause.
Mater: Just watch this right here lover boy.
Crazy Nate: Also They hid A113 in Maters license plate.
Now this one was not as easy to notice, being how hyper Mater always is, and being caked
in rust.
Maybe Lightning McQueen can get him a free bottle of Rust-eze now that they are friends
and all.
Lightning McQueen: Wow!
Look at that shine!
Crazy Nate: Unless of course Rust-eze is just snake oil.
It does have fine print that it takes 36 weeks to see results.
Mater: My name's Mater.
Crazy Nate: Speaking of Mater, did you know, Mater is based off a real person?
Mater: Tomater without the toe.
I said you know, Mater.
Yeah like Tamater, but without the Ta.
Crazy Nate: When they went on their little road trip they met a man named Mater.
So do you know where he gets his name from?
Mater: If I wasn't eating a tomato, I was throwing them at the hogs.
Just terrorizing everything I could.
Crazy Nate: Also the voice for Mater is Larry the Cable Guy, and one of his catch phrases
got put in the movie.
Larry The Cable Guy: Awe, come on, that's funny.
I don’t care who you are right there.
Mater: Haha, I don't care who you are, that's funny right there.
Crazy Nate: Also, the Pixar ball is in there, not nearly as easy to spot as the Pizza Planet
Truck, but it is in there and it's lit up.
When they finally plug in all the neon signs for the town, look at Sarges sign.
It’s a neon version of the Pixar ball.
Now this Easter egg, just like Inside Out, when they were on the open road to California,
if you look closely you can see AND hear that they put the birds on the wire as an Easter
egg to Pixar's short "For The Birds".
At the truck stop, we also see on the side of the trucks, there are several Easter eggs.
TS, is for Toy Story, I inc, the i is the Incredibles Logo, and inc, is for monsters
inc.
Then FN is For Finding Nemo, but if you notice…
It is late, and Mack is driving into the sunset, and we learned from my Toy Story video that
the sun sets in the west.
Sally: Figure that all out on your own did you?
Crazy Nate: Ok, watch this!
EVERY SINGLE label on the EAST side of the trucks was an Easter egg to a movie that was
ALREADY made before they made Cars.
But There isn’t a reference to Bugs Life.
And also, why in the world did they go through all the extra effort to make only one truck
have letters on the WEST side of the trucks.
and it reads OMB.
What if they were saying that they put old movies on one side of the trucks, and movies
they haven’t made YET on the other side of the trucks.
And what if OMB stood for One More Bug.
You know, Like Bugs Life 2.
Perhaps this was an Easter egg to a future movie of Bugs Life.
What do you think of that?
When Lightning McQueen gets a make over from radiator springs, one thing I don’t understand,
is he got new tires, and a new paint job for his big race.
Lightning McQueen: What do you think?
Crazy Nate: But, when he was in the big race, no custom paint job, no white wall tires.
What happened to his make over?
But lets go back and look at those white wall tires.
They are the same set of tires that Carl and Ellie from Up had.
And if you remember, they had a tire blow out, so maybe, that’s a cheap brand of tires,
and that's WHY McQueen went back to the Toy Story tires.
And even Sally, the die hard town supporter doesn’t wear white wall tires.
So what’s the deal with the white walls?
Are they not that good?
Never mind, Lightyear tires get flats too.
But even the radio announcer mentions the makeover he just got.
*****:Lightning McQueen, missing all week and then he turns up in the middle of nowhere
in a little town called Radiator Springs.
Wearing white wall tires of all things.
Crazy Nate: This one looks like it’s just a mistake in editing, and not an Easter egg.
After the race back at Radiator Springs, once again he has the old paint job back but not
the white wall tires.
Speaking of the last race.
Pixar once again likes to show us where they live.
The car in the Rust-eze commercial is sporting a custom license plate with the abbreviated
version of Emeryville, which is where Pixar's located.
And just for those with doubt, the final race is held in Emeryville, is that a big enough
hint?
And when the jets fly over the city you can even see the real life Pixar studios in animated
view.
Inside the stadium they also have, sitting right next to the Elvis RV our favorite delivery
truck.
The Pizza Planet Truck.
Just outside the stadium there is a taxi called Verns.
There actually is a Verns taxi service in the area of Emeryville, but I’m not sure
what the connection is between them and Pixar.
This guys name is Peter Bilt, not Mack.
Peterbilt: Mac, I ain't no mac, I'm a Peterbilt for dang sakes.
Crazy Nate: But the truck is actually made by a Truck company in real life called Peterbilt.
Also Mack is a reference to a real trucking company called MACK.
Boundin’ was a Pixar short that you probably saw.
Basically it’s about a sheep that is full of happiness, then looses all of what it thinks
is the source of it’s happiness, then it learns that it can be happy regardless of
what's happening around it.
We already saw the Jackalope in the RV mosh pit, but did you notice that Stanley the dead
car is also the car from Boundin’.
But here is where it gets weird.
Stanley was driven by a human…
So how does he fit with The whole Pixar Theory?
Since we are talking about Stanley, the founder of Radiator Springs seems like a perfect time
to look at the town a little more closely.
At flows gas station we see a shout out to bugs life in car form.
The cars are little bugs flying towards the light.
Fly: No Harry!
No don't look at the light.
Harry: I can't help it, it's so beautiful.
WAHHooo!
Crazy Nate: Also I find it a little bit funny, the sign that’s advertising a one day sale
is clearly up year round.
And if you look right under the sign you will see an old Dinoco logo before it used Arlo
as the mascot.
Flow’s gas station is a shout out to Flo from Finding Nemo.
Fillmore: I'm telling you man, every third blink is slower.
Crazy Nate: The yellow light actually does not blink slower the third time.
So maybe the hippie needs to lay off the organic fuels.
Sarge: The 60's weren't good to you were they?
Crazy Nate: Also That barbed wire that Lightning McQueen gets tangled up in while running from
Sheriff is an Easter egg.
Remember the creators went on a Route 66 road trip before making the movie to find inspiration.
On that trip they visited a place called The Devils Rope Museum.
Which is basically a museum dedicated to barbed wire, and it’s history!
Which makes sense.
If the devil used rope, that would be the kind of rope it used.
I was also wondering this, if the freeway bypassed the town, and they never get traffic,
then how in the world did the road get so beat up in the first place before McQueen
messed it up even more…
Oh wait, now I know how it got messed up.
At the courthouse slash town hall slash fire building, you can see a thermometer in the
window design.
That’s a reference to radiators, because they are a part in the engine that helps control
the engines TEMPERATURE.
Also, behind the thermometer you can see the Death Star from star wars!… and in the other
windows you can see pokeballs!
Radiator springs mountain has letters on it showing it’s their mountain, like most places
do.
Also, their mountain resembles a older Air intake which is part of the engine, just like
you see on Mater, this piece.
Ornament Valley is just East of Radiator Springs.
But why is it called Ornament Valley you ask?
You know what Ornaments are for Christmas trees.
Well cars basically have what’s called a hood ornament.
And in the oldie days hood ornaments were often the flashiest part of the car.
Today only a few companies still have baler hood ornaments, and some of the cars like
Rolls Royce, if you try to steal that baler ornament it disappears into the car.
So if you look at Ornament Valley, you will see the rocks resemble cars from the oldies,
with HOOD ORNAMENTS.
Also, the Wheel Well Motel is inside a mountain that is shaped like a car.
This sign is an Easter egg.
Again referring to that road trip, one of the places they visited was called Jack Rabbit
Trading Post, and they have the very same sign.
The traffic cone hotel is also a Easter egg to a real place the creators stopped at on
their road trip called The Tee Pee Curios.
Lightning McQueen: Yeah, the cozy cone.
Crazy Nate: Also Sally has a cactus in her lobby that's in the shape of a car.
On the other side of their town is Cadillac Ranch, which of course is referencing to a
tourist stop that the team stopped off at in real life.
So basically it’s a place where some crazy artist shoved 10 Cadillac's in the ground,
and people come from all over the world to get their picture taken with it.
and if you look closely at the mountains you can see rock formations in the shapes of those
cars.
Obviously the movie had to use rock formations instead of actual cars.
Because in cars, cars are like humans, so if they used cars, it would be like humans
having a bunch of human legs sticking out of the ground.
Knick Knack is one of Pixar's short films, and they laid some eggs for it throughout
the movie.
In the trailer mosh pit you can see the swimming pool, flamingos, and palm trees from knick
knack.
And back at Lizzie’s store we can see the snowman with the jackhammer.
He was the one that was stuck in the snow globe.
Looks like he finally escaped once again just to find himself in a new snow globe.
At the end of the movie they play several movies in car form, in the drive in theater.
Toy Story.
Woody: You are a toy car!
Crazy Nate: Monsters Inc.
Mike: Stuck out in this waste land, and without chains!
Crazy Nate: and Bugs Life.
Flick: Circus cars?!
How can you be circus cars?
Abominable Snow Plow: Welcome to the Himalayas. Snow cone?
Mack: Oh, that abominable snow plow is quiet the comic thespian.
Crazy Nate: John Ranft was the co director for Cars, and did several voices for Pixar
in the past, which they point out at the end of the movie.
Unfortunately he died in a car accident.
He helped with many of your favorite films like monsters inc.
The emperors new groove, Bugs Life, Oliver & company, Lion King, Aladdin, and many many
more.
He was a greatly talented Artist , and will be greatly missed by Pixar, Disney, and all
of his fans like you and me.
The best part I like about Pixar films though, is that they all have a life lesson hidden
in the story.
With Cars, we learn that we often think about being first, or getting to the finish line
as fast as possible.
Hurry, hurry, hurry!
But sometimes we need to stop, and take the time to enjoy the journey along the way.
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And, I will let you in on a little bit of a secret.
When I make videos about Easter eggs and all, I hide my own Easter eggs in there.
Sometimes people find them.
But a lot of times no one ever notices they’re there.
Can you find the Easter eggs I put in this video or any of these other videos?
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