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Easter egg: The word Thirteen appears very briefly (a couple of seconds at most) as the main menu loads but is not clickable. However a video of the "Zen Chicken" can be accessed by disassembling the DVD to your PC. You can then save the video as a separate file.

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Easter egg: On the second page of Special Features, with the cursor next to "Q&A With Hubble", press the left button. The word "WOOF." will appear at the far left of the screen and you will hear a dog bark. Press enter to see a short feature on the dog Liam Aiken received on the last day of shooting.

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Easter egg: This Easter Egg is on the third page on the Extras DVD (the last page). Just click on the lion's head, and the Easter Egg comes up. This Easter Egg is about K.C. Hodenfield (he's the First Assistant Director and also co-producer).

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Easter egg: If you go to special features and go to the bottom row of choices, press left and the flower pot will highlight. This will show the origins of the "thong" scene.

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Easter egg: Blue Underground version ->"MAIN MENU" ->"Extras", press right arrow, sheriff star is highlighted, press select,-> an interview with LUCIO FULCI plays.

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Easter egg: If you look under Special Features, use the arrow keys to highlight "On Set Peeks", then use the left arrow key to light up a Red symbol. If you click on it, another menu called Haunts will appear with 2 more features - one shows a long version of the home movies shown in the film. The other is a scare reel that shows all the scary parts of the movie condensed to about 2 minutes.

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Easter egg: Go to the Bonus Features menu and scroll down to DVD-ROM. If you click LEFT, a football icon should be highlighted. Press ENTER to view a special thanks featurette from director Peter Berg.

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Easter egg: On the Basic Instinct Deluxe Edition DVD, go to the main menu and click on Special Features. At the Special Features menu, scroll down and then to the right to highlight the icepick. Clicking on it gives you Sharon Stone's screen tests of 3 scenes in the movie.

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Easter egg: From the Special Features menu, highlight the word FEATURES and then press LEFT. One of the markers in the picture to the left will turn blue. Press ENTER to see video of an avalanche that occurred during filming.

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Easter egg: On the Bonus Features DVD, disc 2, in "Under the Movie" there are two Easter eggs. One is located on the bottom left hand side, click on the small curly square of decoration that illuminates - the Phantom sings a solo "Learn to be Lonely." The second is above this one (top left) which consists of Emmy Rossums' screen test. (Region 2 DVD)

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Easter egg: On the Collector's Edition Series DVD, go to the Bonus Material menu. Click on the More button, then scroll down to highlight the brown box and press Enter. M. Night Shyamalan will show you a clip of another horror movie he made.

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Easter egg: Warning: very intricate. These steps will play the most erotic scenes from Showgirls back-to-back and looped 5 times. 1) From the Chapter Selections menu, go to Chapters 9-12, highlight but don't press enter. Activate small hidden button in the upper left corner of the screen by entering "17" on your remote ONCE. 2) Go to chapters 21-24 (highlight w/o enter) and enter "17" on your remote ONCE. 3) (optional to add extra scene) Go to chapters 33-36 (highlight w/o enter) and enter "17" on your remote ONCE. 4) From the chapters 33-36 menu, play the ending credits. 5) Hit the forward skip button to end the movie. 6) You will see the MGM logo animation display, followed by the Showgirls Copyright screen. On THIS screen enter "2" on your remote control. If you did this correctly, the video should begin playing.

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Easter egg: On the Unrated Bonus Features version, if you go to Sneak Peeks on the main menu and push the down arrow key, a red ring will appear on the bottom of the A in Adventureland. Hit the enter key and you will win a prize.

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Easter egg: On the main menu, highlight "play" and hit left once to view some pictures of Dale Massie's family.

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Easter egg: In the Special Edition DVD (with the white slipcover), in the Imaging Station, if you go to the top of the stack of the videotapes and hit the right arrow button, the TV screen changes to say, "They mostly come at night. Mostly." Hit "enter" to see a trailer for "Aliens," a movie James Cameron directed.

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Easter egg: Insert the disk, then when on the main menu, go to "Language select." When on this page, you'll see a picture of Hal and Mauricio. Go up, then hit left, and you'll see a little blue arrow. Hit enter to see a short clip of how the special effects technicians made Maurico's tail work.

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Easter egg: On the main page of the DVD, hit up when you're on play, and you will highlight the large fingerprint and unlock a short feature of clips from the movie.

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Easter egg: There are 3 Easter Eggs on this DVD. 1 - go to Special Features, highlight Scene 44, then click the Right arrow key where a blood splat will appear. When you click on it, a short, funny interview with Ed Harris will play where he tells of all the groups that will enjoy watching this film. 2 - go to Special Features, click on Acts of Violence, then highlight Act 1 - Random. Then click the right arrow key where a birthday candle will appear. If you click on it, a short video will play where the cast wishes Viggo Mortensen a Happy Birthday. 3 - go to Special Features, click on Acts of Violence, then highlight Act 1 - Random. Then click the left arrow key where a fish will be highlighted. If you click on it, a short video will play of Viggo Mortensen joking around with a plastic fish (related to an inside joke on the set called Fish Friday).

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Easter egg: In the Bonus Features Menu, at the bottom of the piece of cardboard that is the menu list, place your mouse just below Audio Commentary and a menu item entitled "One More?" will appear, if you click on it, it will show another outtakes reel.

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