Considering that the randomizer is made by a community of people, it wouldn't be surprising to see a few Easter eggs, disregarding all the player sprites.
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Randomizer in General
- Some of the Telepathy Tiles contain useless advice, including quotes from other games, most commonly Zelda 1. Others contain pop culture references, such as from Arrested Development ("There's always money in the banana stand") and Blind Melon's "No Rain".
- Retro mode features callbacks to Zelda 1 like the rupee Bow, "take-any" caves, global key counter, and requiring Link to buy Arrows before he can use them.
- Ganon has been known to quote "In the Flesh?" by Pink Floyd, Kefka's final monologue from Final Fantasy VI, and the parody version of the Luke, I Am Your Father speech from Spaceballs, among other things.
- In Inverted Mode, the Light World counterpart to the Turtle Rock entrance is surrounded by pegs in the shape of a Metroid.
- The credits will replace whatever it can with references, from time to time. For instance, "The Return of the King" when the King comes back is replaced with "The Two Towers" or "Venus, Queen of Fairies" with "Venus, I'm Your Fire". The lumberjacks are similarly sometimes referred to as "Woodfellas".
- In vanilla A Link to the Past, if you have the Hammer as your inventory item and use it on the dwarves' smithing area, they will berate you and demand you put the Hammer away. In the randomizer, however, their dialogue has been changed to "DERN'T TERK ERR JERBS!"
- One of the Triforce messages after beating the game states that, for the player's reward, they get "to drink from the fire hose!"
Christmas 2017
- The Light World BGM was the iconic theme from A Charlie Brown Christmas.
- Kakariko Village used "Jingle Bells" while the Ganon theme was "We Wish You a Merry Christmas", with Ganon dressed up as Santa.
Easter 2018
- This mode contains "take-any" caves à la Zelda I, only this time with two eggs inside. You can only take one, though.
Halloween 2018
- The theme for Light World, Dark World, and Kakariko Village was "This is Halloween".
- Many NPCs are dressed up like familiar Zelda mooks. The Ropas seen in Eastern Palace were replaced with Pac-Man ghosts. The Pokeys were, well, Pokeys.
Christmas 2018
- Frosty the Snowman appeared in the Lost Woods as an NPC.
- Zelda and the maiden seen in the intro were reindeer. The new objective was to collect 8 reindeer to open Ganon's Tower.
Halloween 2019
- Wart appeared as the replacement boss for Ganon, along with his classic boss music. Link even finished him off with vegetables.
- Some NPCs were changed to reflect the Halloween style. The Pokeys were edited to look like Shy Guys from Mario, and the Crows / Dactos were replaced with the dreaded Phantos from Mario 2.
- Willy Wonka and the Oompa Loompas made an appearance inside a new building in Kakariko Village. Some of their songs even made it in, along with the golden ticket (within the item pool).
