10 Movies You Must Watch 1000 Times To Spot This

Roland Emmerich's absurd disaster flick The Day After Tomorrow is a quintessential "switch your brain off and enjoy the carnage" movie. Never is the audience invited to pay close attention to anything that's happening, so you really couldn't be blamed for missing this.

When all hell breaks loose in Los Angeles as a tornado tears through the city, we cut to a Fox News chopper covering the mayhem, and a female news anchor refers to the journalist aboard the chopper as "Bart."

As Bart witnesses the iconic Hollywood sign being wiped out by the tornado and describes the scene to the reporters back at the studio, he refers to the female anchor as "Lisa."

As in, The Simpsons' Bart and Lisa, get it? Given that The Day After Tomorrow was distributed by Fox, who were also behind The Simpsons, it's not just a cute throwaway gag but actually a sneaky sliver of cross-branding.

Granted, this is a pretty chaotic scene where you can't really be blamed for missing incidental dialogue, especially of two totally insignificant characters. Even so, this is about as subtle as Emmerich's movie ever gets.