• During the fantastic “White Guy Chases Something” scene, if you look to the left, you can watch an AIDS patient being refused medical treatment!
  • At 1:03.21, Nancy Reagan blows Mr. T!
  • Beginning around twenty minutes in is a sequence in which the Iron Giant, furious over his impotence, beats his lover C3PO to death!
  • The Delorean our hero drives around in shakes when started, a sly nod to Michael J. Fox’s incipient Parkinson’s!
  • Did you see the Challenger explode!? Guess you’ll have to go see the film again!
  • Halfway through the spectacular “Bad Man Tells Everyone His Plans” scene, there are mentally ill Mogwai being tossed out on the street!
  • Pete Venkman, caught with an ounce of powdered cocaine, receives six months probation; Winston Zeddimore, nabbed with a gram of crack, gets beaten to death by the cops!
  • There are NO Soviet athletes in the movie, referencing the 1984 Olympic boycott!
  • Some profits from Ready Player One will be used to fund El Salvadorean death squads!
  • To the very left of the screen in the wild “Lotta CG Bullshit Going On At Once” sequence, you can see the British automobile industry die!