A113
Easter egg used in media
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A113 and its variants are an inside joke and Easter egg in media developed by alumni of California Institute of the Arts, referring to the classroom used by graphic design and character animation students.[1]
History
Students who have used the classroom include John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Chris Sanders, Tim Burton, Michael Peraza and Brad Bird. It has appeared in several Disney films and almost every Pixar movie.[2]
Brad Bird first used it for a license plate number in the "Family Dog" episode of Amazing Stories: "I put it into every single one of my films, including my Simpsons episodes—it's sort of my version of caricaturist Al Hirschfeld's 'Nina'."[3] It also appears in South Park, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Family Guy, American Dad!, Doctor Who and the SPA Studios animated film Klaus (2019).[4] The first movie Bird used it in was The Brave Little Toaster (1987), in which he worked on as an animator.[2] It can be seen as The Master's apartment address when Toaster and his friends knock on the door. It also appears in Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol on an agent's poison ring and in the script when Ethan Hunt requests evac at rendezvous point Alpha 113.
Brad Bird's film Tomorrowland (2015) was produced by A113 Productions.
Other appearance examples
In The Truman Show, when the cameras on Truman's set are shown, one is labeled "A113".
In the American Dad! episode "Roger's Baby", a television-studio production van may be seen pursuing two characters while featuring a license plate labeled "A113".
In WALL-E, it is the code name of a directive that prevents autopilots of generational star-liners from returning to Earth with its passengers.
In The Wild Robot, Roz's processor is the Alpha-113.
In the video game Fallout 4, on the Brotherhood of Steel's Gladius Personal Terminal in Cambridge Police Station, in Paladin Danse's Personal Logs Entry 072287–5, it is noted that a casualty was sustained at "grid reference A113".
In the 2011 film "Rise of the Planet of the Apes", the identitying code of the infectious virus is ALZ-113.
In the Doctor Who episode "Flatline", a train may be seen bearing "A113" as its train reporting number.
In the series finale of the PBS cartoon Arthur episode "All Grown Up", Arthur and the gang enter room A113 in the library's basement and discover a game that predicts their futures.
See also
- List of Pixar film references
- List of filmmaker's signatures
- 42 – The Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything, first used by Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, often used as an in-joke.
- 47 (number)#In popular culture
- Goroawase, a common Japanese language stylistic recourse in which numerical codes representing words are created with syllables that can be used to pronounce each numeral
