Why would you want to stop it? If you stop it you don't get the cool prizes at the end.

Cool Prizes?

Setting off the trap releases a shower of loot. It's worth a few reloads to get it triggered correctly.

As far as references the first thing that comes to mind is the small car from the movie Brazil. The three wheeled one that looks like it could only fit infants. they're all over the roads. Now that I think about it the similarities with the book The Road and Fallout are numerous.

Dunwich Building, missed it on my first play through.

I liked the story in here more than any of the side quests.

It's in the south west corner of the map.

The Roach King

The garden gnome chess game in one of the satellite towers was a nice find.

Also, the fallen satellite dish which was used as a home or storage..pretty cool place!

off the top of my mind

the teddy bear and gnome playing strip poker
the 2 teddies tied ot the train tracks
lag-bolt nad the allnighter nightwear
the dino in PL
the "crap metal" in robco
the toilet gnomes in Cryslus
the SM prisoner held hostage by ghouls a bit north of Grayditch
Gallo
Mole rat Wonder meat

One of my favourites is that Teddy Bear trapped inside a Super Mutant shopping cart cage. As soon as you grab it you end up with a Behemoth barreling down on you.

I laughed at the Gnome Bowling Alley in Adams Air base in BS. It's easy to miss.

... and there's a wonderful Letter to the Editor on a terminal in Hubris Comics, as well as a State-of-the-art game.

all I'll say is.. search the extreame NE corner of the CW map.

yeah, the Roach King is cool (and completely random!)

Also, make sure you do some swimming in the river off Project Purity. Good stuff in boats and boxes under the water.