List of Easter eggs in The Sims

An Easter egg is a message hidden in the object code of a program, movie, book, CD, DVD, or video game as a joke, intended to be found by persons disassembling or browsing the code.

There are many Easter eggs in The Sims and The Sims 2 games. Some of these are hidden in the actual game play and others are hidden in the code.

The Sims

 * Yeti: The Yeti from the Vacation expansion pack and the mascot of winter wonderland appears in the TV-cartoons and if Superstar is installed, a Betty Yeti film-poster is added to the game.
 * The Loch Ness Monster appears for a few seconds in the neighborhood screen in the water. The monster also appears in Downtown and Vacation Island.
 * If you have a Christmas tree, Fireplace, and a table with cookies in the same room late at night, Santa Claus will come, and leave your family a present.
 * There are some real people starring in The Sims, for example Drew Carey, Marilyn Monroe, Andy Warhol, Avril Lavigne and Christina Aguilera.
 * A highway was named after Gunther Goth; it is called the Gunther Goth Highway.

The Sims 2

 * Bella Goth: There are many references to this mysterious Sim in the game. Bella Goth appears on the milk cartons and newspapers in the game. In the texture files of the fireplace, there is a small hidden picture of Bella in the right hand corner. It is rumored that Bella is hidden in the hot air balloon neighborhood object/event neighborhood object in the game; others suppose this is the Blond Bombshell from the Sims Nightlife expansion pack. Bella appears in many of the decorative photographs of the game, one being a picture of herself named the 'Bella Squared.'She can be seen at community lots in Strangetown. If you have the Belladonna Cove expansion, the neighborhood has a statue of Bella holding a plumb bob.


 * Etymology: Several pre-made Sims in the game have names that allude to a meaning.


 * Freezer bunny: Almost as common as the Bella Goth Easter eggs is the freezer bunny, representing a pink bunny cartoon and first appearing on the back of a juice carton in the community lot freezers.


 * Olive Specter's ghosts: Some of Olive Specter's ghosts have very interesting names, among them 'Rigger Mortis' and 'Earl E. DeMise'.


 * Llamas: Llamas appear throughout both The Sims and The Sims 2 games. They are a very common Easter Egg through other Maxis games from Sim series. The theme appears as the mascot of the college in The Sim 2 University and various pictures. The pirate ship in Bon Voyage has a llama figure in it and Mr. Humble´s computer has a picture of a llama on it. Also, in the Sims, if you call to invite a person to your house who doesn't paritcularly want to accept said invatation, they will sometime say "I'm sorry. I can't; I have to feed my pet llama."


 * The flying pig: A neighborhood object/event released with Open for Business.


 * The spaceship: A neighborhood object/event released with Pets.


 * The spaceship's number plate: Says 'anm8er'. When an abduction occurs on the lot and the UFO comes to return the Sim, the numberplate can be seen.


 * The Spaceship's searchlight: This is believed to have come with the Pets expansion pack. When a crashed spaceship is placed in the neighborhood, a spaceship arrives with a searchlight to find the crashed ship.


 * Other: We have not been able to confirm whether or not this is an Easter egg, but there appears to be a house in the menu that if you select and put down somewhere in the neighborhood, there will be a basement with two coffins underwater. The closest one is found in Downtown. A large house towards the West has a basement. In it are two coffins, but they're not underwater (The House of fallen Trees).


 * The pig balloon usually seen in the neighborhood view can also be seen popped and lying on a tree when your Sim adds trees to a model train set from FreeTime.
 * Furthermore, if you use the boolprop testingcheatsenabled cheat, the Grim Reaper's bio says that his favorite band is Styx.

The Sims 3

 * The Tragic Clown first seen in The Sims is deceased and is buried in Sunset Valley Cemetery.
 * There is a book entiled "Where's Bella?"
 * There is a book entitled "Murder in Pleasantview."
 * There is a fish entitled "Tragic Clownfish",a pun on Tragic Clown.
 * There is a buyable painting of the social bunny from the Sims 2.
 * Vincent Skullfinder, from MySims, is buried in the graveyard.
 * There is a record with a "Bella Squared" painting as the cover.