Summary
TheFalloutTV show brought out the big guns when it came to laying out Easter eggs and connections to the games. The attention to detail in the weapons, sets, locations, video game items, brands, collectibles, and storylines inspired by the games is just jaw-dropping. It’sall you could ask for as a fanand more!
You’d be amazed as to how many references and hidden details eight episodes can cram in, and some you might not have even known were a part of the Fallout video games. Whether it’s Nuka-Cola, music taken straight out of the game soundtracks, or direct callbacks to the games, Prime Video’s show has too many clever ones in store.
12Stimpaks, Bottle Caps, Nuka-Cola, Sugar Bombs Cereal, Cram, Abraxo, Grognak, And Atomic Command
All these items listed are really the quintessential criteria for Easter eggs the show should’ve hit, and it truly delivers in all respects. Stimpaks make an early appearance after the Vault 33 wedding ceremony turns deadly, and characters need some health-boosting, the syringes looking exactly as they would in-game.
Bottle caps are the game’s traditional currency and are highlighted many times in the show. There are signs of costs in bottle caps, Maximus is deficient in bottle caps to get help with some repairs, and The Ghoul makes it rain bottle caps during a gunfight in Filly after helping himself to some tomatoes. Classic brands like the cleaning product Abraxoand drinks like Nuka-Cola and Sunset Sarsaparillaalso show up.
11Automated Turret, Assaultron, And Many Other Weapons From The Games
The design of the weapons in the Fallout TV series also stays faithful to the video games. In Episode Two, you get to see an Automated Turret in action as it shoots Enclave scientist Siggi Wilzig and his dog as they’re trying to make it out of the facility. This same scientist would later be handing Lucy a Ripper vibroblade to carry out some nasty business.
The Power Armor worn by Knights of the Brotherhood of Steel remains the same down to the detail of the fusion core powering it and the yellow suit UI you would get in the game. The dart gun, 10mm pistol, laser pistol (as seen with Lee Moldaver), laser rifle, Colt 6520, plasma rifle, assault rifle, harpoon gun, and Junk Jet are all accounted for. Episode Two also teases an out-of-commission Assaultron robot buried in the sand.
10Vault-Tec Bobbleheads And Lunchbox Collectibles
Collectibles from Fallout games,particularly the Vault-Tec bobbleheads, are everywhere. You get one immediately in the first episode in the quarters of Vault 33’s Overseer and the rest show up in various spots throughout the episodes. A Vault-Tec lunchbox can be seen in one of the rooms as well.
In Filly, Lucy meets a store owner character named Ma June, who Lucy points out sells Vault-Tec property, a model of Pip-Boy is even on display in her shop’s window. On one of the tables inside the store is an open lunchbox container, which undoubtedly serves as a reference to the lunchbox collectible from the games.
9Iguana On A Stick, Snake Oil Salesman, And A Robobrain
Some more Fallout quirks appear in the show that weren’t enough to capture in just two entries. In Filly, you have a vendor selling a variety of meats to customers passing by and Lucy is offered an iguana on a stick by him. This is, of course, a common food item found in the games.
Also, in Filly, you have a snake oil salesman offering serums guaranteed to do a lot of improbable things, like growing back limbs, and this could be a nod to Fallout 3’s snake oil salesman Ghoul counterpart, one named Griffon, who peddles the miraculous Aqua Pura. A Robobrain even appears in one of the main Vaults in the show, albeit slightly different in design from the games and hilariously referred to as ‘Brain-on-a-Roomba.’
8Fallout 2’s Married Reputation And Fallout Shelter’s Baby Making
The first thing we see when we’re with the dwellers of Vault 33 at the beginning of Episode One is a marriage ceremony taking part. You learn that Vault 32 and 33 are interconnected and frequently trade and marry their people in exchange. The Overseer’s daughter, Lucy MacLean, is the bride-to-be, while her friend Stephanie is already married and pregnant by Bert from Vault 32.
Marriage and vault procreation are themes explored in Fallout 2 and especially the mobile game Fallout Shelter. Although you shouldn’t expecta grand video game weddingin the Fallout games, ‘Married’ is one of the systems in Fallout 2 that allows you to wed one of two NPCs.Part of the management mechanics in Fallout Shelter entails populating your vaultby pairing mates, ensuring a pregnancy, and then keeping the family unit content.
7Dogmeat - Fallout 4’s Dog Companion
One of the best aspects of the show that creators could’ve taken from the games other than the sets, creatures, familiar lore, and wasteland enemies is the most excellent doggo companion called Dogmeat. Dogmeat debuted in Fallout 4 as the Sole Survivor’s optional friend, even being the main focus of the reveal trailer and showing up again in Fallout Shelter, MTG, and as a miniature in Fallout: Wasteland Warfare.
In the show, the German Shepherd was born in the Enclave as CX404 to be part of an experiment conducted by scientist Siggi Wilzig until the duo narrowly escapes. This doggy then goes through several owners and is eventually given the Fallout 4 nickname Dogmeat by The Ghoul.
6Familiar Songs And Locations From The Games, The Inspiration For The Game, And Galaxy News And Radiation King
What will pop out instantly at you in the Fallout show are the song choices and how they’re used. A good chunk of the songs come from the games, despite Westworld composer Ramin Djawadi re-teaming with Nolan and Joy for the score. The opening track ‘Orange Colored Sky’ by Nat King Cole was used for New Vegas, Fallout 4, and Fallout 76. Fallout 4’s main theme is heard as Lucy discovers the New California Republic flag in Vault 4, later followed by Fallout 3’s song ‘I’m Tickled Pink.’
On top of music from the video game soundtracks, you may spotcommon locations in the gameslike the Super Duper Mart where Lucy has an encounter with Ghouls and an evil Mr. Handy, or the Red Rocket gas station in Episode Seven. There’s even a tie-in to the 1975 movie A Boy and His Dog, which seemingly inspired Fallout. A movie poster of one of the projects Walton Goggins' Cooper Howard had starred in was called ‘A Man and His Dog.’
A core aspect of Prime Video’s Fallout adaptation is telling a story centered around family, with main character Lucy MacLean’s journey into the wasteland shaped by the search for her father. Hank MacLean was kidnapped by a group of Raiders led by Lee Moldaver, and the protagonist’s father, along with the mystery surrounding Lucy’s mother, plays a significant role.
This is very reminiscent of the main narrative setup in Fallout 3, where the Vault Dweller of that game is also raised by a single father,voiced by none other than Hollywood icon Liam Neeson, and goes in search of him in the wasteland. Furthermore, the access code Lucy’s father punches in at a point in the finale reads ‘101097,’ which is precisely the date the very first Fallout RPG was released – Jul 13, 2025.
4The Water Chip Callback To The First Fallout Game
The release date won’t be the only nod you see regarding the original 1997 Fallout game. There’s one that comes even earlier in Episode Four when a Governing Council meeting is interrupted by a Vault 33 member who announces that the Vault’s water chip is destroyed and that there will be only enough supply of water for two months.
If you’ve played the first Fallout, you might recall that its story kicks off with the player required to venture off into the wasteland and find a new water chip to replace the broken one in Vault 13. As both the show and the game handle it, the water chip proves not to be as vital to the survival story as you might first consider.
3Matt Berry-Voiced Mr. Handy And Codsworth Easter Egg
Probablyone of the best and most original robots ever in a video gameis the Mr. Handy unit from Fallout, so it was inevitable that one would make it into the show. It’s a new antagonistic one named Snip-Snip, who specializes in organ harvesting and limb reattachment and is voiced by Matt Berry, the actor for Laszlo in FX’s What We Do in the Shadows.
In Episode Six, you find out that Matt Berry was actually a human called Sebastian Leslie before the war, a fellow actor and a friend in Hollywood to Cooper Howard. One of Sebastian’s acting roles was a butler character named Bartholomew Codsworth, and the reason Snip-Snip has his voice is because he sold it to be used in the programming of Mr. Handy robots. It’s both a very cool Easter egg and a jab at the issue of ‘owning’ your voice with the modern advancement in AI.
Codsworth is a Mr. Handy robot companion in Fallout 4, voiced by Stephen Russell.
