10 Insane Movie Moments You Won't Believe You Never Spotted

8. "F**k Disney" - Inspector Gadget

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Inspector Gadget, a family-friendly film produced by Disney, is probably the last place you'd ever expect to find anti-Disney rherotic.

Yet anyone who smashes the pause button during the movie's end-of-first-act montage of Inspector Gadget's (Matthew Broderick) heroic headlines will find just that.

When the newspaper headline "School Gets New Hall Monitor" appears on-screen, scan your eyes down the second column of copy and you can find a deviously coded message in the first letter of each line in the bottom two paragraphs.

The letters collectively spell out "F**k Disney," suggesting that someone who worked on the production - whether a prop master, effects artist, or editor - had a serious bone to pick with the Mouse House and decided to vent their rage by slyly immortalising it in a children's film.

Granted, you can't really be blamed for missing this one given that it's literally a hidden message, but in the era of crystal-clear digital freeze-frames, don't we all tirelessly scan through newspaper clippings fleetingly flashed up in movies? No? Just us then.

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