These days, you’d be a fool to leave a movie theatre as soon as the credits started to
roll, because you’re more than likely to end up missing out on something important
or fun if you do.
The days when credits were nothing more than a list of the names of the people involved
in the making a movie are long gone.
Now, audiences are treated to mid-credits scenes and post-credits scenes, as well as
interesting messages and funny jokes that are hidden within the credits themselves.
Of course, the key word there is “hidden”.
Often, it’s hard to spot these fun inclusions with the naked eye – the mass of text included
in any given movie’s credits can make it almost impossible to see them – but they’re
definitely there and we’re going to show you a selection of the funniest.
Here are 10 hilarious jokes hidden in the credits of popular movies (in chronological
order).
Frozen In Disney’s insanely popular 2013 animated
movie Frozen, Kristoff – an iceman and one of the movie’s main characters – unashamedly
claims that all men pick their nose and eat the contents, grossing Anna out in the process.
Rather hilariously, Disney opted to avoid any booger-related lawsuits by placing the
following message in the movie’s credits: "The views and opinions expressed by Kristoff
in the film that all men eat their own boogers are solely his own and do not necessarily
reflect the views and opinions of The Walt Disney Company or the filmmakers."
Carry On Abroad The Carry On movies are some of the most iconic
in British comedy history.
Focusing on the very British comic tradition of the music hall and indecent seaside postcards,
they tickled audiences over the course of no less than five decades.
1972’s Carry On Abroad – a movie about vacationing in the sunny Mediterranean - is
proof that jokes have actually been appearing in movie credits for a very long time, as
the movie’s “Technical Director” is listed as being “Sun Tan Lo Tion”.
Airplane II: The Sequel The Airplane movies are some of the funniest
spoof movies ever produced and the people behind them ensured that the laughs continued
after the credits started to roll.
1982’s Airplane II: The Sequel poked fun at the job titles of some of the people who
worked on the movie in a very humorous way.
Every movie has a “Best Boy”, but Airplane II listed the movie’s “Worst Boy” as
being “Adolf Hitler”.
And the job title of “Gaffer” was followed by the question “What’s a Gaffer??”
which, come to think of it, is actually a genuinely intriguing question!
RoboCop Although it did include a lot of satirical
material, 1987’s RoboCop could hardly be described as a comedy.
However, there was certainly a funny little inclusion within the movie’s credits.
In place of the usual piracy warning, there was a terrifying but undoubtedly very humorous
threat to any people who might be considering unlawfully copying, selling or showing the
movie.
The warning made reference to the robotic creations in the movie itself and read “This
motion picture is protected under the laws of the United States and other countries and
its unauthorized duplication, distribution or exhibition may result in civil liability
and criminal prosecution by enforcement droids.”
Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult Like the aforementioned Airplane movies before
them, the Naked Gun series of movies are some of the greatest spoof comedies ever produced.
All of the Naked Gun offerings provided laughs in the credits, but none more so than 1994’s
Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult.
There’s no way we could cover them all, but some examples included a message telling
the owner of a Honda Accord to report to the parking lot because they’d left their lights
on, a list of people who were cut from the movie in spite of the fact that it wasn’t
their fault, and a very demanding message telling the audience “DON’T LEAVE YET!”
Pulp Fiction Quentin Tarantino’s 1994 cult classic Pulp
Fiction follows the exploits of a plethora of Los Angeles mobsters and criminals, and
includes a memorable scene in which Tim Roth’s Ringo holds up a restaurant with a gun.
In the scene, Ringo asks the restaurant’s coffee shop manager – played by Robert Ruth
– if he’s going to be a hero.
Ruth’s character tries to respond by saying “I am not a hero.
I’m just a coffee shop manager”, but is cut off before he gets the word “manager”
out and ends up saying “I am not a hero.
I’m just a coffee shop”.
As a result, he is hilariously listed in the credits with the character name “Coffee
Shop”.
Mallrats Mallrats is another cult movie, from 1995
and directed by Kevin Smith, which follows two best friends as they seek refuge in a
local mall after their girlfriends dump them.
Smith likes to mention his parents in the credits of the movies he directs and Mallrats
provides the best and funniest example of him doing that.
In the credits, he simply thanks his Mom and Dad “for having sex all those years ago.”
It’s simple, straight to the point and pretty damn funny.
Mr. Popper’s Penguins 2011’s Mr. Poppper’s Penguins sees Thomas
Popper – played by Jim Carrey – inheriting a group of penguins from his father.
Although some of the penguin scenes used seamless CGI, there were also some real trained penguins
used in the movie.
As a result, a message was included in the credits to clarify that none of them came
to any harm in the movie – but it also included a humorous add-on about Carrey.
Specifically, the message said that “No penguins were harmed in the making of this
film.
Jim Carrey, on the other hand, was bitten mercilessly.
But he had it coming.”
Guardians of the Galaxy 2104’s Guardians of the Galaxy is a superhero
movie that brings together a group of space misfits in the Marvel Cinematic Universe;
The outlaw Star-Lord, the assassin Gamora, the vengeful Drax, and the endearing and unlikely
pairing of the talking raccoon known as Rocket and the tree-like humanoid Groot.
Rocket and Groot were, of course, created using CGI, but Marvel Studios still opted
to include a humorous message in the credits that stated "No raccoons or tree creatures
were harmed during the making of this film."
Deadpool Although these particular jokes in 2016’s
Deadpool movie credits can hardly be described as “hidden”, audience members still had
to be paying attention in order to see them.
Occurring at the start of the movie, rather than at the end like the other entries in
this list, Deadpool’s opening credits didn’t list any of the names of the people who worked
on the movie, but simply listed a load of stereotypes instead – these credits are
basically a roasting of every Hollywood film studio in existence.
For example, the producers are listed as “asshats”, the director is named as “an overpaid tool”
and the writers are labelled “the real heroes here”.
Brilliant.
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