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Bonus Pod - Easter Egg Extravaganza (Patreon)

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2025-04-21 22:05:49
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2026-06
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It's a new kind of E3 on this week's Bonus Pod! Host Haley MacLean is joined by Jacob Geller to talk about their favorite hidden secrets from throughout gaming history, all while nailing down the five categories of video game easter egg:

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Tom Brien

There are tonnes of good Valve easter eggs, but I loved reading into Portal 2 when it came out! In a long, long forum thread, people are listing easter eggs for Portal 2: this is a reference to that, hidden jokes, etc, and one of them is that an environment panel labels part of the lab as "Tartaros". This is a kind of ancient Greek hell, and it's under the lab, so good reference. Then people found that broken turrets would say a bunch of funny, random things, and one of them was reciting an ancient Greek myth about Prometheus bringing fire to man. There are so many secrets in the game that this is a relatively less funny one, so moving on... Then somebody points out that Glados is being pecked by birds down in the basement, which was the punishment of Prometheus. So a couple users start piling on this and saying that Chell is Pandora, and Wheatley is Epimetheus, and the portal gun is the ancient fire, and these posts are jammed between people unpacking Half-Life and Black Mesa clues, which is getting a lot more energy. The Greek myth stuff is starting to feel like too much of a distraction and the community are arguing that this is not intentional. It seems really irrelevant to piecing together Aperture Science and Black Mesa, and a bit cliche, and we're all ready to class it as a funny coincidence and move on. Then somebody spots a tiny orange toga guy hiding in the dark background of a painting of Cave Johnson. What is this secret guy doing here? The toga guy is from an 1884 painting named An Audience In Athens, and the guy is Aeschylus, the author who wrote Prometheus Bound in about 450BC. Standing next to Cave Johnson, winking at the audience like "Hello art history nerds! Did ya get it??" Then the thread exploded with people finding a dozen more strings tying the story of Portal 2 to Prometheus Bound. It was really fun to see the goofball, irrelevant stretch turn out to be a very intentional kind of sub-plot running through the game.

Townshend

Am I crazy, or is Haley pronouncing referential refe-ranch-al?

Vilis

My aunt got me a candy called "Sour Carrots" for Easter. They were not sour, but they were surprisingly good gummies and a very fun color and shape, backing up the notion that Easter Candy is low-key impressive.

Vilis

Firewalk with Me is NOT a fun movie at all 😆 Also it kinda spoils the show, but mostly is just kind of incomprehensible why you're watching it without having seen the show.

Noah

To me an Easter Egg needs to reveal the hand of the developer in some way. They intentionally break immersion.