Easter Eggs

Dip your remote into these fresh-from-the-oven Easter Eggs. From the main menu, go to Bonus Features and select Recommendations. In this section are theatrical trailers for The Blues Brothers, Animal House and American Graffiti. You'll find another tasty egg when you play the commercial for American Pie's soundtrack; the music video "You Wanted More" (by Tonic) follows the ad.

There's a stir of showbiz fawning in this disc's Easter Egg. From the main menu, go to Cast and Crew and select Kevin Bacon. Highlight "Working with Kevin Bacon" to play clips of actress Kathryn Erbe and director David Koepp praising the man at the center of the "six degrees" phenomenon. Follow the same procedure on Koepp's talent-file page to see clips of Bacon, Erbe and co-star Illeana Douglas.

Fans of composer Jerry Goldsmith will be glad they found this disc's Easter Egg. From the main menu, go to the Languages submenu and wait for the animated screen to finish: You'll hear Goldsmith's thunderous soundtrack in its entirety. Theatrical trailers for Gods and Monsters and Darkman II are hidden, respectively, in Brendan Fraser's and Arnold Vosloo's talent files in the Cast and Filmmakers submenu under Special Features.

This disc's Easter Egg boasts director Kevin Smith's trademark sense of humor. On the main menu, there's a Color Bars option that takes you to the test patterns used for television calibration. The bars feature an introduction by Smith, Ben Affleck, Scott Mosier and Jason Mewes, who tries to moon the camera! After the introduction ends and the color bars return, you can hear the group continue to joke.

Here's a fun Easter Egg for music lovers. Using the remote control, select the alternative audio track to hear Charles Aznavour's version of the song "She" over the film's opening titles, rather than the newly recorded Elvis Costello version that appears on Notting Hill's original soundtrack. This only works using the remote; if you select alternative audio via the main menu, you can't access the Easter Egg.

It's time for Easter Egg hunters to get a life, according to the Mallrats DVD. Go to the Special Features menu and select Deleted Scenes; press the right arrow key to highlight the robot's eyes. If you hit Enter, director Kevin Smith will admonish you to stop looking for Easter Eggs on DVDs and go do something!

Chris Tucker might ask of this hard-to-find Easter Egg, "Which one of you hid me?" If your DVD player lets you manually access titles, use your remote to navigate to Title 4, Chapter 3. There you'll find "Evil Luke Lee," a hilarious short film that director Brett Ratner made in his youth.

Car nuts will want to crack open these Easter Eggs! From the main menu, press the up-arrow key to highlight the "Mad Max" logo at the top of the screen. Press "Enter" to access a section about the futuristic cars in the movie. Looking for more? While going through the cars, highlight the yellow interceptor and then press the left-arrow key. The headlights of the car will light up. Press "Enter" to read a blurb on the Goose's motorcycle.

Select Omega 13 from the main menu before watching Galaxy Quest, and you'll receive a message that says the movie's ending can't be given away. If you select Omega 13 after watching the movie, well, that would be giving things away. The disc packs loads of hidden cast and crew interview clips: On each biography page, select the filmstrip visible at the top of the screen to play the clip.

Baseball fanatics will want to step up to the "On the Mound" trivia game. Correctly answer 10 or more of the 12 questions and you've hit a grand slam, entitling you to view a hidden, black-and-white short called "Slide, Babe, Slide" starring the Bronx bomber. If you need help with the quiz, here are the correct answers: 1. c; 2. b; 3. c; 4. a; 5. b; 6. a; 7. c; 8. c; 9. b; 10. c; 11. a; 12. a.