The Naruto Reference You Never Noticed In Ben 10

After their RV breaks down, Ben, his cousin Gwen (Meagan Smith), and their grandfather Max (Paul Eiding) stumble across what at first seems to be an abandoned holiday theme park. They quickly find, however, that its Christmas-themed Holiday Village is inhabited by elf-like people and reindeer. It's all fun and games at first, but town mayor Mr. Jingles (Richard Doyle) has other plans: turn Max into a veritable Santa Claus, and keep Ben and Gwen as elves. Indeed, just as an elf named Elsgood (Kim Mai Guest/Dee Bradley Baker) warns a skeptical Ben and Gwen of this, their bodies begin to shift, becoming increasingly elfin. Luckily, Elsgood knows just how to foil Mr. Jingles' schemes and revert things to normal.

After saving the day and breaking the Christmas curse, they find a much older Elsgood exploring Holiday Village with grandchildren of his own. Those grandchildren look almost exactly like Konohamaru (Ikue Ōtani/Colleen O'Shaughnessey), Moegi (Noriko Shitaya/Wendee Lee), and Udon (Tomo Shigematsu/Kate Higgins), members of Team Ebisu (originally called Konohamaru Army Corps) from Naruto. The color schemes are a bit different and the one who resembles Moegi is gender-swapped, but it's an unmistakable reference. As if the hair styles, headbands, and open-toed shoes weren't a dead giveaway, the Konohamaru-esque kid's even wearing a shirt printed with a design quite similar to that of Konohagakure, the Hidden Leaf Village that Team Ebisu hails from.

It makes you wonder what other little references the creators of Ben 10 managed to slip in. Let the search begin!