Finding Dory: 26 Easter Eggs & References You Must See
11. The Die Hard References
Not so long ago Mashable released a video suggesting that the Pixar movies all existed in the same universe as Die Hard. It might sound ludicrous, but it actually inspired Finding Dory's directors to add a couple of Die Hard references in there:
“There’s a lot of theories online that all of the universes are connected, so somebody made a spoof of how we put Die Hard in all of our movies, and it was very funny, we thought it was tongue in cheek. So we said, ‘Alright, let’s do it,’ so we made two Die Hard references in this movie.”
One of them comes when Dory and Hank are put in the Touching Pool by accident and one of the residents warns Dory of "hands!" She mishears and says she isn't looking for Hans.
The other, for now, remains a mystery.