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Easter Eggs You Missed In Despicable Me 3

By Isabella Wilson

Despicable Me 3's target demographic wasn't even alive in the '80s, but some of their parents were—and that segment of the audience should experience a series of nostalgic flashbacks to the decade thanks to the movie's villain, Balthazar Bratt, a child star on a sci-fi/action TV series during the '80s before puberty hit and destroyed his screen career. Through Balthazar, we're shown to so many relics of the era, it's hard to keep track.

For starters, he literally calls his squad of killer robot dolls the Bratt Pack—an obvious reference to the real-life group of young '80s Hollywood stars referred to as the Brat Pack. Plus, his show looks an awful lot like some hybrid of the movie WarGames and the small screen series Small Wonder

Then there are his many fashion, music, and dance homages to Michael Jackson (including doing the moonwalk and using "Bad" as pump music), his spandex workout to Olivia Newton John's "Physical," his reference to the pre-VCR device Betamax, an old neon MTV sign in his bedroom, a handheld version of the Simon game on his floor...and, of course, his obsession with blowing giant gum bubbles from pink blocks that look an awful lot like Bubble Yum.