Community:Fallout 2 Easter Eggs

Numerous easter eggs and references to various books, movies and other games are one of the staples of the Fallout series.

Fallout 2
See also Fallout 2 special encounters

Fallout 1
(beyond the issue of a related storyline, etc.) On level three of the Vault in Vault City, you come across a guy who doesn't get out much and has very poor people skills. He passes his time by singing to himself. What does he sing? Well, he sings the song "Maybe" by The Inkspots. Fallout players will recognize this as the song in the opening and ending credits of the original.

Dune
Mentats are used to raise Perception and Intellegece. In Frank Herbert's Dune, Mentats were concedered living computers that used Spice to enhance perceptive consciousness.

The Goonies
Reference to the movie "The Goonies" When you go down into the well in the center of town in Modoc, you'll see several bags of coins lying around. If you pick one up, then your character will say a line almost identical to the line spoken by "Mouth" (played by Corey Feldman) in The Goonies when he and his friends find themselves at the bottom of a wishing well.

Funny Farm
(It starred Chevy Chase) - In the town of Modoc when you go to Rose's Bed & Breakfast, you can enter into the Brahmin Fry Eating Contest. Right as you break the record, you learn the the Brahmin Fries are actually Brahmin testicles. In the movie "Funny Farm", Chevy Chase enters a Lamb Fry Eating Contest and his reaction (when he learns that they are sheep testicles) to it is identical to your character's in the game.

The Wizard of Oz
In the Northern California Republic, you'll come across a girl and her robot standing outside of a building. The girl's name is Dorothy, and her trusty robot who follows her everywhere is Toto.

In the Special encounter The Tin Man, the player encounters someone standing, rigid and unmoving, in power armor, saying repeatedly, "Oil can". When the player uses a nearby Oil Can on the figure's armor, the Tin Man walks away, after gifting the player with a Micro Fusion Cell.

Silence Of the Lambs
In Sierra Army Base, you can find the medical holodisc of Dr. H. Lector, who sends some liver, from a cadaver, and fava beans to some soldiers who played a joke on him by setting the Organ Extractor to extract only brains.

The Chosen One makes the "with some fava beans and a light chianti" reference when attempting to get Chip's spleen back from Dr Wong in Chinatown.

NIN: Head like a hole
Tanker vagrant: "In fact, I would rather die than give you control" The mild delivery of this line is a contrast to the real thing.

The Princess Bride
Trapper town is the home of way too many rats, and a man who will tell you of Rodents of Unusual Size, a reference to the beasties from the swamp in The Princess Bride, combined with a timely warning about Pig Rats and Mole rats below the town.

Magic the Gathering
In Gecko location, go to the bar and talk to the bartender, Wooz. He will try to get you to buy a card game called 'Tragic: The Garnering'. Known cards are Vox Muby, and Black Dahlia. Games take many hours. "I won! Fuck you! You are dumb. I have crushed you." - Wooz

They Live
When you go to Redding and talk the sheriff, somewhere along the line your character will say "I'm here to kick ass and chew bubblegum" - Duke's famous words also included the final phrase "..and I'm all out of gum".

Star Wars
In Klamath, if you ask Whiskey Bob about the Den, he says "You will not find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. Now where did I hear that?" Obi-Wan spoke the first sentence in Star Wars, describing the Mos Eisley spaceport.

In New Reno, the Golden Globe porn actress says "Aren't you a little short for a Stormtrooper?". This is Princess Leia's line from Star Wars - A New Hope.

Terminator
The computer intelligence that uploads itself into the Sierra Army Depot Brainbot is called Skynet. Skynet can join the player's party. The computer intelligence that became self aware and created a robotic revolution against humans in Terminator was identically named.

George Lucas and James Cameron
In Arroyo Lucas, by the giant sculpted stone head, trains the player in Unarmed skill if that skill is 55% or less. Also in Arroyo, at the top of the map, Cameron will train the player in both Unarmed and Melee weapons if the player has 6 or less Agility and has no combat skills tagged. Both Lucas and Cameron are famous as directors/producers of action-science fiction films, Lucas most famously, for Star Wars, and Cameron for Terminator, both of which are also referenced in Fallout 2.

Fallout Team
In Arroyo, the Chosen One's nephew standing by the well is named Feargus. As in Feargus Urquhart, founder of Black Isle, the developer of Fallout and Fallout 2. Another Feargus is the subordinate of President of NCR Tandi, whose report to the Raiders in Vault 15, when found by the Chosen One, exposes him as a traitor. Per Jorner: "Ever wondered why there is at least one Feargus or similarly named character in each of Fallout 2, Baldur's Gate, Baldur's Gate II, Planescape: Torment and Icewind Dale? It might have something to do with Black Isle director Feargus MacRae Urquhart; there are close to a dozen names in these games derived from his (including Cassidy's original name, which shows up if you sell him to Metzger). Names of other developers abound, but none of them sticks out as much. "Smitty" is another ubiquitous cognomen - there are four of those in the two Fallout games, and there might well have been a fifth..."The Nearly Ultimate Fallout 2 Guide by Per Jorner. Many tombstones, notably in Golgotha, mention names of people in the Fallout 2 team.

When you are in New Reno, watch the graffiti for names like T. Ray and other developer names. T-Ray is the head mechanic in the Chop Shop, see below. If you refrain from taking mortal revenge on him for stealing your car, he can improve its fuel consumption and carrying capacity.

Chrysler Automotive
Chrysalis Motors is the make of the drivable Car, and mentioned numerous times, notably in nearly a dozen overhead npc lines in the Chop Shop, where the Car ends up after it is stolen in New Reno.

KFC
Talk to the Dunton Brothers. Ask them about their jerky, and they will say: "It's made with eleven herbs and spices, and it's finger-lickin' good".

South Park
You can find boxes of Cheese Poofs at various points in the game.

Robert Service
(Poet) The two head miners, Dangerous Dan McGrew and Marge, from Lake LeBarge, from The Ballad of Dan McGrew, and the Ballad of Sam McGee. Both of them died very grisly deaths.

Dangerous Dan McGrew was later the chosen name of Red Dwarf's hologrammatic character when entering into a deadly 19th Century Western hologram simulation.

Robert Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land
Josh: "Why, I hear that tribals eat their damn dead." ... Chosen One: "How else would we Grok their essence?"

Short Circuit and 2001: A Space Odyssey
A robot in the canyon near Klamath says "number five is alive" while attacking. That was robot's "Number Five" favorite words. He also says "Dave, I wouldn't do that", and "I'm sorry Dave". That's what Hal says from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Wallstreet
(Movie) In Gecko, when you talk to the mutant outside the old (at least non functioning) reactor up North he starts saying the speech from the movie Wallstreet. "Greed, for lack of a better term, is good". Also, his name is Gordon, Gordon of Gecko. Michael Douglas' character in the movie was Gordon Gekko.

Punch-Out!!
(Nintendo game) - In the boxing place in New Reno, when your agent asks you what you want your nickname to be there was stuff like: Glass Joe, Bald Bull, etc.

As Good as it Gets
In Vault City, when you talk to the religious guy, you can end the conversation by saying "Go sell crazy somewhere else - we're all stocked up here." This is a Reference to Jack Nicholson's character in 'As Good as it Gets'.

The Good, The Bad & The Ugly
In the raiders cave there are three sets of dog tags that match the three main characters from the movie. Angel Eyes, Tuco and Blondie.

Acting on Boss Salvatore's orders to get money from Lloyd, if the player (unwisely) agrees to follow Lloyd's directions to the location of the loot in Golgotha, Lloyd directs the player to find a grave marked "Arch Stanton". There is no such grave. The exact name, its presence on a supposed grave marker, and the difficulty/impossibility of finding it, are all references to the site of the reputed buried treasure in TG,TB&TU.

Monty Python's Holy Grail
You can encounter the Bridge Keeper during your journeys. He'll ask you three questions, and if you survive, you get his Robes.

Another Special encounter Monty Python reference is King Arthur's knights, four 'knights' in regular power armor, who inquire as to the whereabouts of the Holy Grail.

A deleted Special encounter, which exists intact in the pre-patch files, although it is not accessible in a regular game, had these same King Arthur's knights fighting a Vorpal Rat with a Holy Hand Grenade. The Nearly Ultimate Fallout Guide by Per Jorner: Addenda

In Mom's kitchen she says she has rat-pie rat loaf rat... another Monty Python reference: "Can I have something without so much rat in it?" the skit is called "the church police".

In Living Color
In NCR the guy next to the car tent is a blues player. He says, "I wrote a song about, like to hear it, here it goes.".

Star Trek: The Next Generation - Borg
When you drop in on the Slags at the ghost farm, there is a veiled reference to the Borg when they ask, "...Are you resisting?" and one of your responses is "No, I know resistance is futile..."

Star Trek
The special encounter Crashed Shuttle. Dead crew members. Red shirts, naturally. A Hypo.

The special encounter Guardian Portal. The stone ring portal is a reference to the Star Trek episode "City on the Edge of Forever", and the only way out of the encounter is to create and fulfill a predestination paradox

Star Trek - The motion Picture
The leader of the Slags at the ghost farm is named 'Vegeir'. In Star Trek there is an alien intelligence that found an earth space explorer 'Voyager' that they referred to as V'ger (pronounced vegeir) because the letters 'oya' on it were covered over with dirt.

Mike Tyson
In the basement of Desperado in New Reno, there's a boxer who says his name is Mike and he likes ears.

Back to the Future
If you become a slaver sometimes the victims yell "run for it, Marty".

Final Fantasy VII
In combat, Cassidy will say, "I wish I had a limit break."

Wing Commander Prophecy
Random enemies will sometimes say: "You want a piece of me? YOU WANT A PIECE OF ME?!" It's one of Lt. Casey's taunts in the game. The phrase also comes from the movie "Army of Darkness" where the lead character, "Ash" says that (among other things) to various miscreants and ghouls.

Big Trouble in Little China
Sometimes while attacking, Sulik refers to his seven demon bag. This is a Reference to Egg Shen's bag of magic.

Pinky and the Brain
In Gecko there is a large intelligent Mole Rat called "The Brain". You can get to him through the man hole in the Junkyard.

Interstate 76
Skeeter, the guy in Gecko, Junkyard is the character from this game.

From Dusk Till Dawn
The man outside of the Cat's Paw in New Reno constantly shouts advertisements about the "booty" sold within the establishment in a manner identical to a similar character seen in the movie.

Red Dawn
If you have Cassidy in your team, sometimes he says this: "I wonder if Texas survived the war". Line from the Red Dawn movie.

Scarface
Some addicts in New Reno say "Say hello to my little friend", a quote from the movie.

Little Shop of Horrors
In Broken Hills, there's a talking Spore Plant Named Seymour. The talking plant in Little Shop of Horrors isn´t called Seymour but Audrey II, Seymour is the guy feeding Audrey II.

Bill Clinton
When you reach the Enclave Oil Rig, go to president's chambers. You'll find his secretary that speaks as Monica. About the dress and... well, you know what.

Come On Eileen by Dexy's Midnight Runners
In Broken Hill residential area, the human woman in the hotel(?) will say "Come on .. Aileen".

Playboy et al
Bringing 10 Cat's Paw magazines (Chosen One: "I only read them for the articles") to Miss Kitty in the um, Cat's Paw in New Reno and mentioning the sticky pages (Chosen One: "I don't know how that got like that"), gets the Chosen a reward.

Arroyo
Arroyo is the name of the town in Tennessee Williams post-apocalyptic one act "The Chalky White Substance".

Evil Dead 3: Army of Darkness
In Klamath, the robot that guards the crashed vertibird among other things, he says "Klaatu Verata Nictu", the phrase that Ash must read, from the Necronomicon. This is in turn also a homage to the robotic character in the classic science fiction movie. See "The Day the Earth Stood Still", below.

The Day The Earth Stood Still
The aforementioned phrase in Army of Darkness is itself a reference to the 1951 science fiction movie "The Day The Earth Stood Still" starring Michael Rennie, in which the phrase was originally, "Klaatu Barada Nicto". The 2008 remake will include, at the insistence of Keannu Reaves, who will play Klaatu, the same phrase as the black and white original film, although in an "inverted" context, which would be...Nicto Barada Klaatu?

Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy
You can come across the dead carcass of a sperm whale, and a broken houseplant - obvious references to hitchhikers guide to the Galaxy, where the ship's improbability drive turns 2 nuclear missiles into a sperm whale and a houseplant - and one chapter details the thoughts of the two entities, as they plummet towards their death.