{"slug":"soul","type":"movie","title":"Soul","year":2020,"releaseDate":"2020-12-25","franchise":"pixar","genres":["Animation","Family","Comedy","Drama","Fantasy"],"creators":["Pete Docter","Kemp Powers"],"url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/soul","hook":"The Hall of Everything is Pixar's own archive on a shelf — the Pizza Planet truck, the Axiom, the Spirit of Adventure — and a travel poster is selling flights to Portorosso.","intro":"There is one shot in *Soul* that does more easter-egg work than most entire Pixar films. When 22 takes Joe into the **Hall of Everything**, the set is dressed from the studio's own digital archive, and the result is a single frame containing the **Pizza Planet truck**, **Willy's Butte** from *Cars*, the **Axiom** from *WALL·E*, the ferris wheel from *Toy Story 4*, an Aztec structure from *Coco*, and the **Spirit of Adventure** — Charles Muntz's airship from *Up*. A room built to contain every possible human interest, furnished with everything Pixar has ever built.\n\n**A113** is in the same sequence, on a street sign: a row of blank posts with characters on only one of them. And the **Luxo ball** appears in 22's quarters just before the Hall, stripped of its blue stripe, because objects in the Great Before are rendered in a simplified palette — the studio's most-planted prop, camouflaged by the film's own art direction.\n\nThe next-film tease is unusually specific. At around **57:39**, while 22 walks Joe's body down a New York street, they pass a travel agency window advertising *Visit Portorosso* and *Fly Luca Airlines* — a full six months before *Luca*. And the last thing in the film is Terry, breaking the fourth wall to tell you the movie is over and you should go home.","identifiers":{"tmdbId":508442,"tmdbUrl":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/508442","imdbId":"tt2948372","imdbUrl":"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2948372/"},"counts":{"eggs":9,"confirmed":8,"community":1,"theory":0,"sources":8},"postCredits":{"status":"yes","verdict":"Yes — Soul has 1 post-credit scene.","scenes":1,"description":"Yes. After the credits, Terry — the soul accountant — appears and breaks the fourth wall to tell the audience the film is over and they should go home. It is a joke, not a story scene, and it echoes Ferris Bueller doing the same thing in 1986.","detail":"**Yes, Soul has a post-credits scene**, and it is roughly five seconds long.\n\nOnce the credits have finished, **Terry** — the abstract, permanently aggrieved accountant responsible for making sure the count of souls balances — appears on screen, addresses the camera directly and tells you the movie is over and you should go home. That is the entire scene. There is no story content, no sequel setup and no additional information about Joe or 22.\n\nIt works because of who is delivering it. Terry spends the film obsessing over one thing: that something is where it should not be, and the numbers do not add up until it is dealt with. The film ends and you are still sitting there. From Terry's point of view you are an unresolved discrepancy, and getting rid of you is simply the job.\n\nThe gag has a clear ancestor. *Ferris Bueller's Day Off* (1986) famously ends with Ferris emerging after the credits to tell the audience that the film is over and to go home, and Terry's line is doing the same fourth-wall work. Pixar had never closed a film this way before.\n\nThe credits themselves are also worth a look: they run over a stylised sequence rather than a plain roll, and the soundtrack keeps Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross's Great Before score and Jon Batiste's jazz cues going. But the stinger is a punchline, not a plot point — stay if you want the last laugh, leave if you do not.","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/soul/post-credits"},"eggs":[{"id":"hall-of-everything-is-the-pixar-archive","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/soul#egg-hall-of-everything-is-the-pixar-archive","title":"The Hall of Everything is dressed with props from six other Pixar films","description":"The single densest cross-reference shot in Pixar's catalogue. The **Hall of Everything** — the room where souls sample every possible human enthusiasm — is furnished out of the studio's own digital asset library, and one shot contains the **Pizza Planet truck**, **Willy's Butte** from *Cars*, the **Axiom** from *WALL·E*, the ferris wheel from *Toy Story 4*, an Aztec building from *Coco* and the **Spirit of Adventure**, the airship from *Up*. The conceit justifies itself: a hall containing everything ought to contain everything the studio has ever made.","scene":"The Hall of Everything, as 22 shows Joe around","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","visual"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Pixar Post — Easter Eggs in Pixar's 'Soul': A113, Pizza Planet Truck, Pixar Ball & Luca","url":"https://pixarpost.com/2020/10/pixar-luca-easter-egg-in-soul.html"},{"label":"LaughingPlace — A List of Easter Eggs Found in Pixar's 'Soul'","url":"https://www.laughingplace.com/w/articles/2020/12/26/pixar-soul-easter-egg-pizza-planet-a113-ball/"}],"motifs":["pizza-planet-truck"],"referencesSlug":"up","referencesWork":null},{"id":"a113-on-a-blank-street-sign","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/soul#egg-a113-on-a-blank-street-sign","title":"A113 is the only text on an otherwise blank street sign","description":"In the Hall of Everything, towards the right of frame, stands a signpost whose blades are almost all **blank** — except one, which carries **A113**. The staging is the joke: in a room representing the entirety of human possibility, the only thing anybody has bothered to name is a classroom at CalArts. It is Pixar's signature placed with a straight face inside a set about infinite choice.","scene":"The Hall of Everything — signpost towards the right of the screen","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","reference"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Pixar Post — Easter Eggs in Pixar's 'Soul'","url":"https://pixarpost.com/2020/10/pixar-luca-easter-egg-in-soul.html"},{"label":"CalArts — Vulture Video Tackles the Meaning of 'A113'","url":"https://blog.calarts.edu/2016/05/24/vulture-video-tackles-the-meaning-of-a113/"}],"motifs":["a113","recurring-hidden-signature"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"luxo-ball-with-its-colour-removed","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/soul#egg-luxo-ball-with-its-colour-removed","title":"The Luxo ball is in 22's home — with the blue stripe missing","description":"The Pixar ball appears inside **22's quarters**, just before she takes Joe through to the Hall of Everything, and it gets a lot of screen time. It is easy to miss anyway, because the Great Before renders everything in a **simplified palette** and the ball has lost its blue stripe — leaving the yellow and the red star. The studio's most-planted object, camouflaged not by being small or distant but by being repainted to obey the film's own art direction.","scene":"22's home in the Great Before, before the Hall of Everything","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["callback","visual"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Pixar Post — Easter Eggs in Pixar's 'Soul'","url":"https://pixarpost.com/2020/10/pixar-luca-easter-egg-in-soul.html"},{"label":"LaughingPlace — A List of Easter Eggs Found in Pixar's 'Soul'","url":"https://www.laughingplace.com/w/articles/2020/12/26/pixar-soul-easter-egg-pizza-planet-a113-ball/"}],"motifs":["luxo-ball"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"visit-portorosso-travel-poster","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/soul#egg-visit-portorosso-travel-poster","title":"A travel agency is advertising flights to Portorosso, six months before Luca","description":"Around the **57:39** mark, while 22 is walking Joe's body through New York and Joe is stuck inside a therapy cat, the pair pass a **travel agency**. The poster in the window reads **Visit Portorosso** and invites you to **Fly Luca Airlines** — naming both the town and the title character of *Luca*, which would not arrive until June 2021. Pixar's next-film teases are usually a toy or a silhouette; this one is a fully rendered advertisement with the film's brand on it.","scene":"A New York street, roughly 57:39 in — the travel agency window","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","foreshadowing"],"difficulty":5,"difficultyName":"White Whale","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Pixar Post — Easter Eggs in Pixar's 'Soul': A113, Pizza Planet Truck, Pixar Ball & Luca","url":"https://pixarpost.com/2020/10/pixar-luca-easter-egg-in-soul.html"},{"label":"WDW News Today — Every Easter Egg Hidden in Disney and Pixar's 'Soul'","url":"https://wdwnt.com/2020/12/list-of-easter-eggs-in-disney-and-pixars-soul/"}],"motifs":["sequel-tease","blink-and-miss-signage"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"22s-former-mentors-are-historical-figures","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/soul#egg-22s-former-mentors-are-historical-figures","title":"22 has already defeated Marie Antoinette, Copernicus and Saint-Exupéry","description":"22's central joke is that she has been in the Great Before longer than anyone and has broken every mentor assigned to her — and the film names them. Her previous mentors include **Marie Antoinette** and **Antoine de Saint-Exupéry**, the author of *The Little Prince*, among a run of historical figures who all failed to find her spark. It reframes 22 from a stubborn beginner into something closer to an undefeated champion, and it is delivered as a throwaway list.","scene":"The Great Before — 22's introduction and her exchanges with the Jerrys","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","trivia"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia — Soul (2020 film)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_(2020_film)"},{"label":"LaughingPlace — A List of Easter Eggs Found in Pixar's 'Soul'","url":"https://www.laughingplace.com/w/articles/2020/12/26/pixar-soul-easter-egg-pizza-planet-a113-ball/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"joes-hands-are-jon-batistes","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/soul#egg-joes-hands-are-jon-batistes","title":"Joe's piano playing is animated from Jon Batiste's actual sessions","description":"Joe Gardner's performances are not invented hand positions. The animators worked from footage of **Jon Batiste** playing the film's jazz cues, matching finger placement to the real notes, so the keyboard work is musically honest rather than approximated. Pixar also brought in **Herbie Hancock**, **Terri Lyne Carrington**, **Quincy Jones**, **Questlove** and educator **Johnnetta Cole** as consultants — the deepest outside advisory bench the studio has assembled for a single film.","scene":"Every piano performance, especially the Half Note club sequences","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["music","trivia"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia — Soul (2020 film)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_(2020_film)"},{"label":"Pixar Post — Easter Eggs in Pixar's 'Soul'","url":"https://pixarpost.com/2020/10/pixar-luca-easter-egg-in-soul.html"}],"motifs":["crew-tribute"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"every-counsellor-is-called-jerry","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/soul#egg-every-counsellor-is-called-jerry","title":"Every counsellor is named Jerry — and the one who isn't is the problem","description":"All the soul counsellors in the Great Before share a single name: **Jerry**. The film treats this as unremarkable, which is what makes it funny — abstract line-drawing entities administering the pre-birth of every human being, and none of them saw a reason to differentiate. The exception is **Terry**, the accountant who counts souls, and the film's entire second-act threat comes from the one bureaucrat who insisted on having a distinct identity.","scene":"The Great Before, throughout — the counsellors and Terry","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["meta","trivia"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia — Soul (2020 film)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_(2020_film)"},{"label":"Disney Wiki — Terry","url":"https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Terry"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"terry-tells-you-to-go-home","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/soul#egg-terry-tells-you-to-go-home","title":"Terry breaks the fourth wall after the credits to throw you out","description":"The final image of the film is **Terry** turning to camera and saying, in effect, *\"Hey, movie's over. Go home.\"* It is a fourth-wall break in the tradition of Ferris Bueller appearing after the credits of *Ferris Bueller's Day Off* to tell the audience to leave, and it is perfectly in character — Terry's whole function is to make sure the count comes out right, and you are the last thing still sitting where it shouldn't be.","scene":"After the credits have finished","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["meta","reference"],"difficulty":1,"difficultyName":"Plain Sight","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"MediaStinger — Soul (2020) extra scene after the credits","url":"https://mediastinger.com/soul-2020-after-the-credits/"},{"label":"Post Credits Scene Wiki — Soul (2020)","url":"https://post-credits-scene.fandom.com/wiki/Soul_(2020)"}],"motifs":["fourth-wall-break"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"the-therapy-cat-was-a-late-idea","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/soul#egg-the-therapy-cat-was-a-late-idea","title":"Putting Joe inside a cat was a story-department suggestion that reshaped the film","description":"The single decision the whole middle act rests on — Joe's soul landing in **Mr. Mittens**, the therapy cat, while 22 occupies his body — came from writer **Mike Jones** rather than the original conception. Docter and Powers took it because it let Joe watch his own life from outside it, which is the mechanism the entire film needs: a man who cannot value his existence, forced to observe it being enjoyed by someone who has never had one.","scene":"Not on screen — the story decision behind the body swap","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["trivia"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia — Soul (2020 film)","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_(2020_film)"},{"label":"Pixar Post — Easter Eggs in Pixar's 'Soul'","url":"https://pixarpost.com/2020/10/pixar-luca-easter-egg-in-soul.html"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null}],"faq":[{"question":"How many easter eggs are in Soul?","answer":"We have catalogued 9 documented easter eggs and hidden details in Soul, including the Hall of Everything dressed with props from six other Pixar films, A113 on an otherwise blank street sign, the Luxo ball repainted to fit the Great Before's palette, the Visit Portorosso poster teasing Luca, and Terry's fourth-wall break after the credits."},{"question":"Where is A113 in Soul?","answer":"On a signpost in the Hall of Everything, towards the right of frame. Almost every blade on the post is blank, and only one carries text: A113, the CalArts character animation classroom Pixar hides in nearly every feature."},{"question":"What is the Luca easter egg in Soul?","answer":"At roughly 57:39, while 22 walks Joe's body through New York, they pass a travel agency whose window poster reads 'Visit Portorosso' and advertises 'Fly Luca Airlines'. Portorosso is the town in Luca and Luca is its title character — the tease ran roughly six months ahead of that film's June 2021 release."},{"question":"Which Pixar films appear in the Hall of Everything?","answer":"At least six. In one shot you can find the Pizza Planet truck from Toy Story, Willy's Butte from Cars, the Axiom from WALL·E, the ferris wheel from Toy Story 4, an Aztec building from Coco, and the Spirit of Adventure airship from Up. The set was dressed straight from Pixar's digital asset archive."},{"question":"Does Soul have a scene after the credits?","answer":"Yes. Terry, the soul accountant, appears once the credits finish and tells the audience the movie is over and to go home. It is a fourth-wall joke in the tradition of Ferris Bueller's Day Off rather than a story scene or a sequel tease."}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-19","updatedAt":"2026-08-19","source":{"name":"The Things You Missed","page":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/soul","api":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/api/titles/soul","methodology":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/about"}}