15 Hidden Details In Iconic Christmas Movies That You've Missed

The festive season is here and it’s the perfect time to revisit some classic holiday flicks. You might watch these films a thousand times before, but that doesn’t necessarily mean they’re boring. Aside from the nostalgia, there are many hidden details in iconic Christmas movies that not all of us know about. Unexpected cameos, clever in-jokes, subtle hints,... you name it.
So let’s turn this year’s movie marathon into an Easter eggs hunt. How many of these hidden details in iconic Christmas movies did you spot at the first viewing? How many did you entirely skip?

1. The Horton Statue In How the Grinch Stole Christmas

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If you pause and look closely at the Whoville clocktower in How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), you can spot a statue of Horton the Elephant of Horton Hears a Who!

2. The Joke In How the Grinch Stole Christmas

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Also in this movie, there was a joke about the wife having an affair during the scene where a couple received their baby.

3. The Pizzeria’s Name In Home Alone

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In the movie Home Alone (1990), the McAllisters order Pizza from a pizzeria called Little Neros Pizza. Nero is another Roman Emperor just like Caesar, so the name of the pizzeria in this movie is a play on “Little Caesars Pizza.”

4. The Fake Feet In Home Alone

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During a scene in this movie, you can spot the fake feet that Marv is wearing when you pause it at the right moment.

5. The Slot Machines In The Nightmare Before Christmas

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Looking closely at the slot machines in the movie The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), you can see that they’re literally “one-armed bandits.” Plus, the typical number 7 is replaced with the number 13.

6. The Vanishinpaysyclops In the Nightmare Before Christmas

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Also in this movie, during the “Making Christmas” number, the Cyclops disappears after a box enters the frame.

7. Martha May’s Jewels In The Grinch

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The jewels that Martha May Whovier is wearing in her hair are salvaged from the tree topper Young Grinch made for her.

8. Hermey’s Ears and Hair In Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

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The actual reason why Hermey never fits in is that he is a human, not an elf. His hair is different from other elves, and he has round ears instead of pointed ones.

9. The Hans Christian Anderson Easter Egg In Frozen 2

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This Easter egg is so quick that blinks and you will miss it. During Elsa’s trip through the past, she saw a scene where her mother asked what her father was reading. The king replied “Just some new Danish author” while he was holding a book with a silhouette of the Little Mermaid on its cover, implying Hans Christian Andersen.

10. The Drink In Santa Clause 3

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Instead of Red Bull, the characters in this movie drink Red Deer.

11. The Rudolph Statue In The Polar Express

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In The Polar Express, as the train begins to enter the North Pole, a memorial statue to Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is briefly seen out of the window.

12. The Flux Capacitor In The Polar Express

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The train has a flux capacitor in the Polar Express (2004), which looks a lot like the flux capacitor in one of the Back to the Future movies. Because both films were directed by Robert Zemeckis, there was a theory that the conductor from Polar Express was Marty McFly's son from 2015. Doc gave him his own time train for Christmas one year and he went back to the 1950s to live out stories of his father's own time-traveling adventures.

13. The Christmas Tree In The Polar Express

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In The Polar Express, the Christmas tree at the North Pole stands on a compass that points south in all directions.

14. The Sled In Klaus

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A113 is a reference to the California Institute of the Arts, where many animators attended college. The 2019 movie Klaus pays homage to this by featuring an A113 on the sled in the movie.

15. The Halfway Mark In Klaus

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The movie's halfway mark is the moment that the postman is halfway through his target. Pretty clever, huh?
Those are some hidden details in iconic Christmas movies that you probably never noticed before. Speaking about hidden Easter eggs, there are some very clever foreshadowing details hidden in movie costumes. Think you can spot them all?