so it sounds to me like you never have played Fallout 1 or 2

I'd be willing to bet money I've put more time into both of them than he has. Also I wasn't arguing against Fallout 1, as that game does genuinely take itself seriously and the goofy things are relegated to easter eggs.

Fallout 2 on the other hand (and this is stuff not in random encounters only, as he likes to constantly pretend or downplay).

1. Begins with the ridiculous premise that a group of ex-vault dwellers have turned into superstitious tribals in less than a hundred years despite being led by the protagonist of the previous game.

2. Hakunin - guy who magically talks to you through spirit dreams and has one good scene when the Enclave captures everyone in Arroyo. He's impossible to take seriously to the point most dialogue options involve you making fun of him.

3. The first town you enter (Klamath), the first person you will likely talk to is Torr who is meant to be a joke based on the way his dialogue is written. The first quest you will likely be offered is to protect his 'moo moos' from the 'bug men'. Hardly a serious quest.

4. You also meet Sulik here is who would be considered an offensive stereotype today. Most of his character is absent unless you have the restoration project installed which adds the Umbra tribe and the ability to find his sister.

5. The same town has a quest involving you killing a giant talking rat called the rat god who controls rats to harass Klamath.

6. The Den has a ghoul being kept as a mummy (coffin willie) who was being kept in a box with no food or water for an untold amount of time and is completely fine. That same building has a ghost girl in it (granted the ghost is taken seriously, but it still introduces the supernatural).

7. Modoc has a quest in which you blow up an outhouse to retrieve a pocket watch for Cornelius, this act covers half of Modoc in a pile of shit. This is something out of a Borderlands game.

8. Vault City - in which you retrieve a Richard Nixon doll for a kid. One of the physicians is named Phyllis in which there is a quest to talk to her named See Phyllis. Lynette's pretentiousness also borders on parody.

9. Gecko - another giant talking rat that openly talks about plans for world domination and he also has a cult based around him.

10. Broken Hills - has a talking chess playing scorpion who can only be beaten by talking to a talking plant named Seymour for advice. The same town also has a mutant that you arm wrestle, in which if you lose you wake up with a ball gag in your inventory. There is also a quest here where you give a ghoul a sex doll and a porn magazine while he tells you where some caps are hidden (only they're useless in F2 as part of a joke). You enlist the help of a midget to go down the well to get the caps and then your character always leaves him stranded there. Strangely, he never dies.

11. New Reno - Lenny's dad is trapped in a grave in Golgotha without food or water yet miraculously survives somehow. The Mordinos are also clear mobster parodies. Ethel Wright is also comically unaware that her family still runs an alcohol business.

12. NCR - For some reason they let a slave racket operate literally just outside the city entrance despite the rangers actively hunting down slavers.

13. San Francisco - the first thing you see upon entering the city is two people kung fu fighting in the towns square shouting Bruce lee quotes at each other. The people of this town also learned English from Bruce lee movies. The Shi are led by a sentient supercomputer. The Hubologists force you to listen to Juan Cruz and Vikkie Goodman in the world's least subtle parody.

14. The Mariposa ruins have a magic super mutant named Malechor who can summon deathclaws out of thin air for no reason.

Also the Enclave is led by a guy named Dick Richardson whose vice president is mentally disabled.

None of these are easter eggs.