6. John Landis Will See You Next Wednesday (If You Ask For Babs)
John Landis was a defining director of the eighties, happily churning out exciting genre films and comedies, but has since fallen out of fame, with 2010s Burke & Hare, his first film in twelve years, marking a significant career low. It's all a bit spiritual, but maybe the film failed because it was lacking the presence of one of the directors most well known easter eggs. Coming from a throwaway line in 2001: A Space Odyssey, the phrase 'see you next Wednesday' was turned into an in-world movie glimpsed on a billboard for Landis breakthrough project, An American Werewolf In London, and continued as an in-joke throughout his career. Quite why that one line had such an effect on him is something hotly for debate. The See You Next Wednesday joke is something fairly well known, but along with it come some even more involved recurrences. At the end of his Universal produced movies an advert for the studios theme park plays, enigmatically telling the audience to ask for Babs. Who is Babs you ask? A character in National Lampoons Animal House who eventually becomes a tour guide at Universal Studos, its a loving nod from Landis to the film that first made his name.