The Fallout Show’s ‘A Man And His Dog’ Easter Egg Explained

For the most part, fans of the Fallout franchise games have been surprised to see how faithful the recently released Fallout Show is to the post-nuclear RPGs that came before it. Not only does the new show adapt its source material with a surprisingly detailed level of accuracy, but it also leaves its own mark on the Fallout franchise’s canon lore for fans to experience.

From subtle details and throwback references to other cleverly hidden secrets, the Fallout show is packed with easter eggs that fans have slowly been discovering in the short time since the release of the series. One such easter egg is a clever reference to the film that inspired the entire Fallout franchise, A Boy And His Dog.

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The Fallout Show is Packed with Easter Eggs

There are seemingly dozens of Easter eggs hidden in the new Fallout show in nearly any given scene. Even though references to the source material hardly qualify as Easter eggs, there’s such a wide variety of thoughtful homages to every game in the Fallout franchise within the Fallout show that one could argue that these otherwise easily missable and insignificant details are indeed Easter eggs.

Overall, there are so many secrets in the Fallout show’s first season that even franchise veterans are likely to miss several of them upon their first viewing of the show. Among the different Easter eggs in the Fallout show are recurring references to the film A Boy And His Dog.

The Movie that Inspired the Fallout Franchise

A Boy And His Dog was originally a novella that was later adapted into a movie, depicting a boy, Vic, and his telepathic dog, Blood, surviving the American wasteland in a post-nuclear apocalypse. This movie would ultimately go on to be a big inspiration for plenty of stories set in post-apocalyptic worlds, especially the Fallout franchise. Not only was this movie an inspiration for the original Fallout games developed by Interplay, but it continues to be referenced throughout the modern Fallout games developed by Bethesda, as well as the new Fallout show.

A Boy And His Dog References in the Fallout Show

Multiple scenes directly reference A Boy And His Dog throughout the first season of the Fallout show. The most explicit of these references can be found at six minutes and thirty seconds into Episode Six: The Trap. In this pre-war flashback scene showing the Fallout show’s main character the Ghoul when he was still an actor, a poster can be seen in his house advertising the fictional film ‘A Man And His Dog’ starring himself and his family dog, Roosevelt, as the titular roles.

Outside of this, the Ghoul referring to his newfound dog companion as ‘Dogmeat’ on various occasions is also a reference to the film. This is a nickname that the main character sometimes uses to refer to his dog in A Boy And His Dog, which has become a tradition in the Fallout franchise for players to refer to their dog companions in the games using this nickname as well.

The Fallout show’s references to this film truly highlight how detailed and faithful this adaptation is to both the franchise’s source material and its roots. Fallout franchise fans who have already finished watching every episode of the show should consider checking out the film that inspired the Fallout franchise, which is also available on Amazon Prime Video, to witness one of the franchise’s inspirations firsthand.