Community:Fallout: New Vegas Easter Eggs

Aliens
If the player has the Wild Wasteland perk, NCR Emergency Radio chatter includes the phrases "Game Over, Man, Game Over!" and "They're Coming out of walls, they're coming out of the Goddamn Walls!". The phrases are quotes from the film Aliens.

Anarchists Cookbook
The skill magazine, the Patriot's Cookbook is a reference to the Anarchist Cookbook, a controversial book containing instructions on building homemade explosives. The ingame picture of the Patriot's Cookbook shows a "Banned" sticker on the front cover.

Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
Mr. New Vegas will end a news segment by saying "You stay classy, New Vegas." In Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Ron Burgundy's signoff is "You stay classy, San Diego".

Better Off Ted
The Powder Ganger Philip Lem is a reference to Phil and Lem, two scientists from the American sitcom Better Off Ted.

The Bible
The quest Render Unto Caesar is a reference to a famous phrase from the Bible. “Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s” - Matthew 22:21

Blade Runner
That Gun is modeled on Deckard's gun from Blade Runner.

Brewdog
Inside Brewer's Beer Bootlegging there is a sign for "Strategic Nuclear Moose" which is a reference to the real-life "Tactical Nuclear Penguin" imperial stout produced by Brewdog, a Scottish craft brewery.

Cabazon Dinosaurs
Dinky the Dinosaur of Novac is a reference to Dinny the Dinosaur and Mr. Rex, the Cabazon Dinosaurs.

Doctor Who
An NCR Emergency Radio Broadcast references the Doctor, and the BBC, the network that Doctor Who is broadcast on.

In combat, the Securitrons may yell "EXTERMINATE", the signature line of the Daleks.

Dr. Strangelove

 * The achievement Love the Bomb is a reference to Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
 * The heavily trapped house in Nipton, it's just East, across the road from the general store with a sandbag wall protecting the door, with the note about "vital essence" and a grenade machine gun appears to be a reference to General Jack D. Ripper in "Dr. Strangelove".

Duck and Cover
The skill book Duck and Cover! is named after the practice taught to American school children to avoid harm if a nuclear war were to break out, namely to duck under a table or desk and cover their heads.

The Elder Scrolls
Metal power poles have a plate on them that reads TES-04. This is a reference to The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, another game produced by Bethesda Softworks.

Elvis Presley

 * G.I. Blues is the title of a film starring Elvis Presley.
 * The Freeside gang The Kings are rife with references to Elvis. The King's dialogue frequently uses song titles as turns of phrase. In addition, the quests Nothin' But a Hound Dog and Return to Sender are also the names of Elvis songs.

Euclid
Euclid's C-Finder is a reference to the Greek mathematician Euclid, regarded as the "father of geometry".

Howard Hughes
Mr. House is heavily based on famous recluse Howard Hughes. Many aspects of House's personality, lifestyle and backstory are modeled on Hughes: his reclusive nature, his weakness to bacteria, his fixation on Las Vegas, his insistence on working only through trusted lieutenants, his appearance, and his relationships with pre-war film stars. A portrait of House standing in front of Liberty Prime is based on an iconic photograph of Hughes standing in front of a Boeing Army Pursuit Plane in the 1940's.

Indiana Jones

 * The Wild Wasteland trait adds an encounter containing a refrigerator, which contains a fedora and skeleton. This is a reference to the scene in "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull" where Indiana Jones saves himself from an atom bomb in a fridge (this scene was infamous for its absurdity).
 * An email outbox on a computer terminal in the Sunset Sarsaparilla Headquarters includes a message addressed to "Marcus Brody, VP of Technology."

Kate Beaton
The unique Tesla cannon, Tesla-Beaton prototype, is named after Kate Beaton, a Canadian webcomic artist known, among other things, for several comic strips about Nikola Tesla.

Lassie
While with Rex the player can talk to him, and receive a map marker indicating the location of somebody (named Jimmy) who fell into a well.

Lost
A broadcast from the NCR Emergency Radio references the Numbers, 4, 8, 15, 16, 23, 42.

Mad Max
The achievements Blast Mastery and You Run Barter Town are both references to Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. Blast Mastery refers to the character of Masterblaster, and Bartertown was the location around which Beyond Thunderdome was set. The leather armor, reinforced also bears a strong resemblance to the armor worn by the main character.

Monty Python

 * At Cottonwood Cove, spray painted on one of the buildings is "ROMANES EUNT DOMUS", which is a reference to Monty Python's Life of Brian. This only appears with Wild Wasteland.
 * Inside one of the church basements at Camp Searchlight are three Holy Frag Grenades. These also only appear with Wild Wasteland.

Mister Las Vegas
Wayne Newton is known as Mister Las Vegas, he is also the voice of the radio personality Mister New Vegas.

Obsidian Entertainment
In the South Vegas Ruins, there is a small building called Zapp's Neon Signs. Inside, on a terminal at the bottom of the building, there is a neon sign order from Scott Everts.

PEPCON Explosion
The fake company REPCONN Aerospace is a reference to the PEPCON disaster, which happened 10 miles away from Las Vegas. Said explosion's detonation caused a 3.0 magnitude earthquake and shattered windows at nearby McCarran Airport and buffeted a landing 737. Also, the REPCONN Shakes implies a connection as during an earthquake, the ground shakes.

Period songs

 * The quest Aba Daba Honeymoon is named for a song by Debbie Reynolds.
 * The quest Ant Misbehavin' is named for the song Ain't Misbehavin' by Fats Waller.
 * The quest Anywhere I Wander is named for a song written by Frank Loesser and popularized by Danny Kaye.
 * The quest Back in Your Own Backyard is named for a song written by Billy Rose and Dave Dreyer, which was popularized by Al Jolson.
 * The quest Bitter Springs Infirmary Blues is named for the song St. James Infirmary Blues, popularized by Louis Armstrong.
 * The quest I Fought the Law is a reference to the song of the same name by Sonny Curtis.
 * The quest I Put a Spell on You is named for the song by Screamin Jay Hawkins.
 * The quests Ring-a-Ding-Ding, My Kind of Town and Come Fly With Me are titles of songs sung by Frank Sinatra.
 * Ain't That a Kick in the Head is the title of a song, popularly sung by Dean Martin.
 * Bye Bye Love is the title of a song by The Everly Brothers.
 * The perk and challenge Day Tripper is the title of a Beatles song.
 * The perk Mister Sandman is a reference to the song of the same name.
 * Mr. New Vegas's "new album", Nuclear Winter Wonderland, is a reference to the song Winter Wonderland.

The Princess Bride
With the Wild Wasteland trait, rodents of unusual size can be encountered in various places.

(Leon) The Professional
The perk, The Professional is a reference to the 1994 film of the same name, directed by Luc Besson. The correlating in-game picture features a stylized Vault Boy with a coat, stubble and round glasses similar to the main character of the film. The picture also features a potted plant that plays a significant role in the film.

Professional Wrestling
During the quest G.I. Blues when heading over to the Old Mormon Fort in Freeside, there are three men one tent named Roy, Wayne, and Farris. The three names put together are a reference to Roy Wayne Farris, a professional wrestler who wrestled for WWF and WCW during the 1980's and 1990's as "The Honky Tonk Man".

Return of the Living Dead
Red-haired, death-obsessed Trash, found in a nuclear testing facility, is a reference to the character Trash in the movie ''Return of the Living Dead."

Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The name of the challenge ...And Not a drop to Drink, is part of a line from Samuel Taylor Coleridges poem "Rime of the Ancient Mariner."

Sneakers
The two passwords for the Eastern and the Western reflector control terminals are text encoded in hex and can be found in the notes. The decoded Eastern password is Too many secrets and the Western decoded password is My voice is my password. - both are notable passphrases in the movie Sneakers.

Something Awful

 * The YCS/186 Gauss rifle is named for the "Your Console Sucks" forum that has the forum ID number 186.
 * The abbreviated console command for disabling Hardcore Mode is "Babby", a reference to a meme that originated on the Something Awful website. In addition, the word "Babby" is often used as a perjorative in various Something Awful subforums.
 * A Wild Wasteland encounter found near Goodsprings consists of a man in glasses named Johnny found dead at the edge of a cliff. Johnny is surrounded by various objects including five ace cards and four orange balls. This is a reference to Zybourne Clock, an infamously awful failed amateur game project that originated on Something Awful.

Star Trek

 * The perk Set Lasers for Fun is a reference to the phrase "Set phasers to stun" from Star Trek.
 * The damage challenge "Beam (Weapon) Me Up" is a reference to the phrase "Beam me up, Scotty". It comes from the oft-quoted, but never used in the show, order that Captain Kirk gives his chief engineer, Montgomery "Scotty" Scott, when he needs to be transported back to the Starship Enterprise.
 * After updating House's Securitrons to Mark II, they may say "Obedience Brings Victory". This was one of the main catch phrases used by the Jem'Hadar in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Star Wars

 * The Wild Wasteland trait adds an encounter in the town of Nipton. If you follow the road from city hall east, you will find a burning house with the skeletal remains of Owen and Beru, Luke Skywalker's uncle and aunt who were burned by stormtroopers in A New Hope.
 * The challenge "...And Know Disintegrations" is a play on Darth Vader's line in The Empire Strikes Back.
 * During the quest You'll Know It When It Happens, Ranger Grant asks you to report what has happened at the top of the guard post when you kill a Legion assassin, one of the dialog options when responding to him is to say "Everything's fine up here, thank you. How are you?." This is a reference to A New Hope, when Han Solo says the same thing while he and Luke Skywalker rescue Princess Leia from the Death Star.

The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
The Courier Who Broke the Bank is a reference to Joseph Jagger (1830 – 1892), a British engineer who was widely known as The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo.

This Man Is Your Friend
There are several posters of NCR Rangers in NCR camps with the caption 'This man is your FRIEND, He fights for FREEDOM'. These posters use the same style as a series of posters created in 1942 by the US Government depicting soldiers of allied nations.

Tootsie Roll Pops

 * The quest The Legend of the Star is a reference to a decades-old rumor regarding Tootsie Roll Pop wrappers that dates back to the 1930's. Some Tootsie Roll Pops come packaged in wrappers that depict a boy dressed like a "wild west Indian", shooting an arrow at a star. Ever since the wrappers were found rumors have circulated that there is some kind of secret prize attached to sending in wrappers. In the 1980's the Tootsie Roll company began replying to queries about the wrappers with a short story entitled "The Legend of the Indian Wrapper" that forms the basis for the story Festus tells the player upon the completion of The Legend of the Star.
 * The terminal entries found in Sunset Sarsaparilla Headquarters depict the Sunset Sarsaparilla company capitalizing on a similar rumor about star caps.

Valve Corporation
In the REPCONN Test Site, on a terminal you can find a entry from a man named Gordon who is disappointed because there was no cake at his retirement party. This references Half-Life's main protagonist, Gordon Freeman, and "The Cake is a lie" from Portal both of which were developed by Valve.

Up to Eleven
During the quest Ant Misbehavin', when asked by Loyal about what frequency a sonic emitter would need to have to kill mutated ants, with insufficient Science skill, the player can suggest to "turn it up to eleven". This is an idiom, coined in one scene from the movie "This is Spinal Tap", referring to the act of exploiting something to its utmost abilities. The idiom itself is a reference to the volume setting on a guitar amplifier, the maximum of which is usually 10, and by "turning it up to eleven", one goes beyond the maximum.

Vegas Vic
Victor's name as well as the image used for his face is based on Vegas Vic.

W.B.Yeats
Near the Nevada Highway Patrol Station there is a piece of graffiti which states "The centre cannot hold", a quote from the Irish poet WB Yeat's poem "The Second Coming."

The Wizard of Oz
In Boulder City when Victor meets up with the player. if the player responds with "I don't like being followed." Victor will say "Now-now, its not my fault that Dorothy and the Tin Man happened to be on the same yellow-striped road, is it?"

X-Men
Adamantium Skeleton is a reference to Wolverine. This perk was carried over from Fallout 3.