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John Hughes Hid A Chevy Chase Easter Egg in ‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’

By the time he made Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, John Hughes was playing with house money. He already had a string of hit movie comedies under his belt, including Mr. Mom, National Lampoon’s Vacation and The Breakfast Club.  Even though he was only three years into his film career, Hughes had enough juice to pay homage to his own hits with hidden Easter eggs in Ferris Bueller. 

Hughes tipping his hat to Hughes came in the form of license plates. Many of the characters drove cars that gave subtle shout-outs to the comedies that came before.

Paramount Quietly Pulled Another Classic ‘South Park’ Episode From Certain Streaming Markets

South Park fans in Canada and Australia recently found that an important Butters episode had gone missing from Paramount+. Some Puerto Rican guy must have struck again.

As the end draws near on the contentious South Park streaming contract that split the franchise between two homes, Paramount+ and Max, the planned consolidation of the South Park catalog by Paramount Global is shaping up to be as controversial and complicated as the previous deal.

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