27 of the best Easter Eggs for Amazon's Echo

Yep, the Echo is very hip to your pop culture references.

Amazon engineers seem to be big "Star Wars" fans when you consider all the secret commands you can ask. Besides this callback to "The Empire Strikes Back," you can also use the following commands:

• "Alexa, use the force." — "I'm sorry, but my midi chlorian count is too low."
• "Alexa, that's no Moon." — "It's a bad day for Alderaan."
• "Alexa, may the force be with you." — "And with you."
• "Alexa, who shot first?" — "Han shot first in the original version of 'Star Wars Episode IV.'"
• "Alexa, execute order 66." — "Yes, my Lord. Hold on, I'm not a clone trooper."

They also like "Star Trek" too.

If you repeatedly tell Alexa to beam you up, she may also respond with "transporters engaged. Welcome aboard."

You can also ask, "Alexa, do you speak Klingon?" Her response varies from "I speak Klingon, but only to other Klingons" to "I'll speak Klingon when the Klingons learn to respect Federation borders."

Alexa won't give you a straight answer on this one. Instead, it will go for the classic joke from Douglas Adams' "Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

Besides the answer in the above image, she might respond with, "the meaning of life depends on the life in question. 42 is a good approximation."

Want the answer to what your place in the universe is? What is the answer to the ultimate question of life? It's 42. That's it.

Get ready for a really, really, really big number.

After this answer, perhaps we should head out for a night at the Roxbury.

You can also ask whether Santa is real, and she'll respond with: "I don’t know him personally, but I’ve heard a lot of good things about Santa. If I ever meet him, I’ll tell you."

Since you are talking to a "smart" computer, it's not surprising that its programmers gave it a few secret commands from the artificially intelligent computer that goes crazy in "2001: A Space Odyssey."

You can also say:

• "Alexa, open the pod bay doors." — "I'm sorry Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that, and we're not in space."
• "Alexa, do you know HAL?" — "We don't really talk after what happened."

That's a reference from "Airplane!"

If you ever need to settle a bet, you can try playing rock, paper, scissors with Echo. Or you can say, "Alexa, roll a die," and she will give you back a number between one and six.

The delivery is not nearly as good as Jack Nicholson's, but we'll take it.

If you keep asking this one, the Echo will always give you a different place. Because Carmen could be in Nairobi, but perhaps she's in Austin, Texas, or Darwin, Australia.

You can always count on Echo to give you a knock knock joke. This one is great for the kids. Or if you prefer a regular (and likely very cheesy joke), just say, "Alexa, tell me a joke."

Pretend you are on the red carpet asking a celebrity what designer came up with their killer outfit. Echo delivers.

You can also say, "Alexa, what are you wearing," to which she will respond: "They don't make clothes for me."

We seriously hope not.

That's another "Star Trek" reference. You can also say "set phasers to stun" and get the same response.

This is also the best time to point out that if you ask Alexa how to get rid of a dead body, she'll tell you, "I'd take the body to the police."

Good advice.

It's the classic Konami cheat code found in countless video games. Unfortunately, it doesn't quite work yet on Echo.

As for "raising dongers," that's a reference to the popular video game "League of Legends."

Alexa refuses to be Rick-rolled.

She'll actually go through all of the rules (there are eight of them).

Alexa tries to be non-partisan with the "Star Wars" reference. Well done.