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By Steven Zeitchik

With all due respect to the people who run sites like this, we’re not usually the type to get excited by the Easter egg — the inside joke or shout-out in a movie or a TV show.

They can be clever enough, we suppose — the movie marquee has the name of the director’s other movie! — and fun when used to impress easily impressed friends. But they also can feel a little navelgazing.

Still, we have to admit we got a laugh out of an upcoming episode of the guilty pleasure “Californication,” which buries a good movie nugget in one of the lines of womanzing main character Hank Moody.

In the episode, which is scheduled to air later this month, Duchovny’s character finds himself in some trouble of his own making, as he so often does (it involves his overactive libido, a Spanish maid, and her misogynistic boss — what else?). In a liverbal free association, Moody makes reference to Spanglish as a language and then adds, for no apparent reason, the non-sequitir “An underrated movie in my opinion.”

Which is just about perfect, since Duchovny’s wife Tea Leoni of course starred in the James L. Brooks comedy, a movie that wasn’t exactly embraced by critics and whom Duchovny is clearly getting in a little shot at.

As for whether this was actually in the script of the Tom Kapinos show or an ad-lib is hard to tell– Duchovny’s Moody is such a quip-ready wiseguy that sometimes every line seems ad-libbed — but points either way for the inside joke. And, needless to say, we’re now waiting for the Skinner reference.

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