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* Near the end of ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'', while the enchanted furniture are fighting off the villagers, a music box can be seen among said furniture. That music box was originally going to be Belle's sidekick.

* Near the very beginning of ''[[The Rescuers (Disney film)|The Rescuers]]'', [[Big Bad|Madame Medusa]] can actually be seen driving a large red sports car to New York City Airport, not unlike the one driven by [[101 Dalmatians|Cruella DeVil.]] Originally, the villain of ''The Rescuers'' was actually indeed going to be Cruella DeVil! And that car not only looks like Cruella's, but as a matter of fact, that car ''is'' Cruella's.

* At one point in ''[[Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs]]''' development, Flint was trying to get into the Science League, headed by Vance LaFleur. You can still see a poster for the League in his room and lab.

* One of the drawings during the end credits of ''[[Tangled]]'' shows Rapunzel and Flynn consulting a fortune-telling monkey, in reference to a deleted scene in which Rapunzel and Flynn escape some guards with the help of a gypsy and her pet monkey.

** The same joke bled in to an episode of ''[[Mad About You]]'', where someone asks [[Actor Allusion|Paul Reiser's]] character if he had ever seen the movie "Illegal Alien".

* In the film adaptation of ''[[The Flintstones]]'', Fred is accidentally referred to as Mr. Flagstone. The original name for the show was The Flagstones.

** Possibly related: the "Jefferies tubes" that Star Trek characters crawl around in to whenever they need to get into the real guts of their ships may be a nod to his last name and role in ship design for the series.

* The ''[[Indiana Jones]]'' films have famously gone through a lot of work before getting to what we saw in theatres. For example, an early version of ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade|The Last Crusade]]'' was set predominantly in a haunted castle, which is reference with Brunwald castle (in which Henry Jones Sr is held captive) and an early title for ''[[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull]]'' was ''Indiana Jones and the Saucermen from Mars'' - Indy dismisses the crystal skulls as belonging to "Saucermen from Mars" when he is interrogated by Irina in the tent.

** In the new series, the season 4 premier "Partners in Crime" featured a character named Penny Carter. Penny Carter was the name of the original companion for Season 4. However, Catherine Tate, who had previously appeared as Donna Noble in "The Runaway Bride," had such a great time, she asked if she could come back. So, Penny was written out and Donna was written in.

* Some of the ideas from the original pilot for ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' that were scrapped made it into the show. The most notable example is the character Ted Sprague, who was based off of an Islamic terrorist featured in the original pilot.

* The ship wrecks featured in the [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|TNG]] episodes "Best of Both Worlds" and "Unification" [http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/articles/wolf359.htm have been well documented by fans]. It turns out that some of them are actually study models for the ''Excelsior'' from [[Star Trek III: The Search For Spock|Star Trek III]].

* A [[Star Trek: The Animated Series|TAS]] episode features Robert April, the first captain of the ''Enterprise''. The name was indeed one of the options [[Gene Roddenberry]] considered for the TOS captain, before he settled for Pike (and eventually Kirk). Canonically, he was the captain of the Enterprise before Pike and he is represented in the Star Trek Encyclopedia with an image of Roddenberry himself wearing a uniform.

* Coach from ''[[Left 4 Dead]]'' wants armor. This was a reference to Coach's early designs that had him wear football gear as makeshift armor.

** Hilariously, some mods can dress up Coach in said armor.

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** ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' has the [http://www.wowwiki.com/Nova_Shrine Nova Shrine]: A memorial to the [[Development Hell|not-yet-officially-canceled]] Starcraft: Ghost spinoff game.

* In the beta version of ''[[Quake (series)|Quake]]'', shooting a particular object in [[Hub Level]] opened the path to an [[Easter Egg]] ({{spoiler|[[Commander Keen|the DopeFish]]}}) located in the same level selection room. In the released version, the easter egg was moved to an actual level, and shooting the object in the start level displays an optional hint about its location.

* ''[[Ghostbusters the Video Game|Ghostbusters: The Video Game]]'' mentions that one of the names for Slimer is "Onionhead" in his Tobin's Spirit Guide entry, and he's actually referred to by this name once in dialogue. This was his production name, and it had been dropped from [[Canon]] media until now, because it was tied to a similarly dropped character trait of his smelling terrible—it was found to be too hard to convey in film.

* In ''[[Borderlands]]'', the concept art for main characters [http://i705.photobucket.com/albums/ww54/anticiti/REAVERDRZEDCOMMANDERSTEELE.jpg Roland, Mordecai, and Lilith] make their way into the game as [http://i705.photobucket.com/albums/ww54/anticiti/Dr_zed.png Dr. Zed,] [http://i705.photobucket.com/albums/ww54/anticiti/800px-Reaver.jpg Reaver,] and [http://i705.photobucket.com/albums/ww54/anticiti/550px-Commandant_Steele.png Commandant Steele,] respectively.

* In ''[[Half-Life]] 2'', you can see a rather [http://images4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090108210248/half-life/en/images/b/bb/Cremator_head_jar_BME.jpg strange object in a jar] at Black Mesa East, which Eli states that they "still don't know what it does". It's actually the head of a [http://half-life.wikia.com/wiki/Cremator Cremator], a janitor-like enemy that was cut.

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