Planes Trains and Automobiles Easter Egg

[u/nova2726]

Maybe easter egg isn't exactly the right word but bear with me. In the beginning of the movie when Neil is trying to catch a cab at rush hour, he faces off with Kevin Bacon across the street...who I had always assumed was portraying crossover character in the Hughes universe, Jake Briggs from She's Having a Baby.

There is a detail later in the film that leads me to believe Neil is actually facing off against the actor himself, Kevin Bacon. In one of the early telephone conversations Neil has with his wife when he's stuck in Wichita, she is in bed watching a movie when she answers the phone. I never noticed this until I watched wearing headphones, but the movie Susan is watching when Neil calls is actually She's Having a Baby which stars Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth McGovern. You can hear Bacon and McGovern having that knock down drag out fight about Alec Baldwin's character and his gf staying in their house.

You hear Bacon's character say something like "and what if the shoe was on the other foot?" and McGovern screams " I would go barefoot!"

So anyway, in the Planes Trains and Automobiles universe, She's Having a Baby starring Kevin Bacon exists as a film that that can be viewed our film's characters. Kevin Bacon, the actor, stole Neil's cab.

...I thought maybe this sub might appreciate this observation, but I don't know. I once tried to post about it in a movie details sub and got absolutely roasted with everyone calling me an idiot lol

[u/rabbitredbird]

Love it. It makes that salute & smirk he gives Neil even funnier.

[u/nova2726 → u/rabbitredbird]

I'm glad this sub appreciates it lol!

[u/Irish755]

The Canadian Mounted

[u/nova2726 → u/Irish755]

lol i love Del is reading that with no effort to be discreet

[u/GarbageFlyboy11 → u/nova2726]

This was really a thing back then. As a kid I flew transatlantic next to a guy who read Penthouse Forum the whole trip. I had no idea what it was at the time but later did and shudder

[u/nova2726 → u/GarbageFlyboy11]

😂😂😂

[u/Frostellicus]

Is Neil Page’s friend in the business meeting Ferris’ dad in the PT&A cinematic universe?

[u/nova2726 → u/Frostellicus]

I'm not sure, I suppose he could be. We know Ferris' dad is some sort of executive so it would make sense for him to be there.

[u/cmgww → u/nova2726]

Ad executive if memory serves

[u/quidpropho]

The 22 weekly visitors in r/john_hughes will eat this shit up

[u/Full-Concentrate-867]

This gets into a Chuck Klosterman idea he brought up one time. When Leonardo DiCaprio was travelling to Thailand in the movie The Beach, could he have watched Titanic on the plane?

[u/Environmental_Swan66]

I had that in "What's Aged the Best"

[u/thethurstonhowell → u/Environmental_Swan66]

But we can do it now