Things you may have missed (Easter Eggs and References)

### Science and History

* Yvonne sometimes brags that she makes a mean Beef Stroganoff. During friendship events, she will also offer some stew to the player. This is a nod to the obituary of the real Yvonne Brill in the NY Times, which started by talking about her cooking, her husband and kids, before mentionning her remarkable work in aeronautics.
* The robot dog that is unlocked with the "Deep Learning" skill is named "Keras K9". Keras is an open source Python library for Deep Learning, that can be used for computer vision among other things. The look of the robot is clearly inspired by Boston Dynamics.
* The "Rasduino Pie" device is an obvious reference to Arduino and Raspberry Pi.
* The quest asking to bring 20 eggs to Jonas Salk is a reference to the massive amount of eggs used to produce vaccines.
* The antivirus dialog with Anne Droyd is a nod to the antivax movement.
* In Grace Hopper's house, there is a pirate flag and a clock that turns backwards, just like in her office in real life. There are also multiple references to her philosophy of "It's easier to ask forgiveness than permission" and "If it's not bolted down, bring it home!" in quests and friendship events.
* When the player first interacts with Grace, she seems interrupted while saying "DATA DIVISION". It suggests that she was thinking of a program in COBOL, a programming language she helped create.
* During a friendship event where he gives money to the player, Jonas says "Here! Just don't waste it on mink coats and Cadillacs!". The real Jonas Salk was said to have little interest in money, putting it "in the category of mink coats and Cadillacs", in other words, unnecessary things.
* The 34 museum artifacts are a collection of science trivia.
* The University building and it's fountain is inspired from the Gembloux Agro-Bio-Tech university in Belgium, where Ben, the developer, briefly studied agronomy.

### Video games and media

* A question that randomly appears in the agriculture fair's quiz minigame is the meaning of "Orangutan". One of the suggested answers is "Concerned Ape", the well known creator of Stardew Valley.
* On the second day, a cutscene with Alexa tells that she plays "Spyrim" (Skyrim). A dialog choice lets the player answer with a reference to the "arrow in the knee" meme.
* In the summer drone race, some color variations of the map represent sigils from The Witcher. Some others are magical glyphs from the 1980's game Dungeon Master, spelling the words "Zo Kath Ra" that are used at the very end of the game.
* There are many references in the hacking minigame (itself being a mix of Wordle and the Fallout hacking minigame). You may notice references to Kali Linux, the 1994 game System Shock, the 1983 "Wargames" movie, the hunter2 IRC password meme, the blue MS-DOS editor, hex editors in general, and the easy to remember 0xBADCAFE hexadecimal address
* When bringing artifacts to the museum, the dialog analyses the inventory content to make comments on some items. For example, if there is cheese, Carl will ask if there are old socks in there. This is a nod to Cespenar's dialog in Baldur's Gate II.
* The bacon item's description just state "Mmm... bacon", a reference to Homer Simpson.
* The church logo and dialog with Anne Droyd reference the "Invisible Pink Unicorn", a parody religion that appeared on usenet group alt.atheism in the 1990s. (Another parody deity, the Flying Spaghetti Monster, is referenced as a museum artifact.)
* Depending on dialog choices in the first meeting with Anne Droyd, she will introduce herself as a real human and refer to the player as if they are a robot pretending to be human. This is a nod to the r/totallynotrobots forum on Reddit.
* Melon Husk sometimes presents himself as "a self-certified armchair rocket scientist with a theoretical degree in physics". The last part is a reference to Fallout New Vegas.
* Anne Droyd sometimes says "Some people choose to see the ugliness in this world. The disarray. I choose to see the parody." (WestWorld), "How can you challenge a perfect, immortal, machine?" (System Shock), "Have you tried turning it off and on again ?" (IT Crowd). Anne Droyd also mentions that she met an Eliza who talked a lot. It's the name of the first chatbot created in the 1960s.
* Telkes sometimes says "If you say "Solar Power" three times in front of a mirror ... the sun core will enter in nuclear fusion and continue to provide free energy just like every other day", a reference to Candyman.
* Jonas says "Excuse me, I came here to make Science progress and chew bubblegum, and I'm all out of bubblegum.", a reference to "They Live" (1988) and Duke Nukem 3D.
* During the Agriculture Fair, Melon Husk stays near the animal pen and says "See that, it's actually made of chicken. You kill it, free chicken!", a reference to British sketch comedy television show the Mitchell and Webb Situation.
* The achievement for unlocking the Agriculture Fair is named "Harvest Moo", a reference to Harvest Moon. There is also a reference to kid's cartoon "Bob the builder" and the movie "Top Gun".

### Running gags

* Telkes sometimes mentions that bringing Anne Droyd to swim in the sea was a bad idea, hinting that they short-circuited. Anne will tell a completely different version, as from their perspective it was just a dream but they woke up finding fishes. The scene is actually pictured in the spring drone race, but will pass very fast unless you slow down when you arrive at the beach part.