What is the radio station gag in Prime's Fallout series? Fans of the Bethesda game have noticed a rare easter egg going on in the background music. Here's what the radio freedom station gag means.
CONTENT SPOILERS: This article contains spoilers for Prime Video's Fallout series, so proceed with caution.
Fallout's Radio Freedom Station Gag Easter Egg Explained
The Fallout series is filled with one too many easter eggs from the original games, but one rare thing fans spotted was the 'Radio Freedom' station, in reference to Fallout 4.
As one fan pointed out on Reddit, "The joke involves Fred Armisen and that old-timey fiddle radio station" which is supposed to bring fans to realize that it's about the 19th-century fiddle music from Fallout 4.
Apparently, the Fallout series was poking fun at fans who play their game without voluntarily listening to the background music. That is unless the players intentionally visit the place playing the sound.
Another fan added, "The people in this show who have to hear it hate [the music] so much they tried to kill the guy broadcasting it so he's got to guard his shack with traps."
Did you catch that easter egg yourself? Well, as it turns out, this is just one of the many gags Fallout inserted in the series as a callback to the canon franchise.
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How the Fallout Series Found Its Humor
If you find yourself scratching your head thinking if a particular scene or joke was intentional to Fallout, showrunner Graham Wagner recently confirmed that though the show is not 'comedy-forward', the series is still filled with slapstick elements to play around with.
"I think the conceit of the show is fundamentally humorous, which is what happens when you outsource the survival of the human race to a private corporation," Wagner explained.
The showrunner added that they wanted to "service those darkly committed premises with pretty much a straight face as often as we could."
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