{"slug":"turning-red","type":"movie","title":"Turning Red","year":2022,"releaseDate":"2022-03-11","franchise":"pixar","genres":["Animation","Family","Comedy","Fantasy"],"creators":["Domee Shi"],"url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/turning-red","hook":"The Luxo ball is floating in Tyler's pool, A113 is on the chalk machine at the SkyDome, and Daisy Mart is a real Toronto convenience store chain.","intro":"*Turning Red* hides two things at once, and only one of them is a Pixar joke. The studio signatures are all present and unusually well placed — the **Luxo ball** bobbing in Tyler's swimming pool, **A113** stencilled on the chalk machine Mei's father uses to mark out a circle at the SkyDome, the **Pizza Planet truck** parked on the street as a giant red panda thunders past it on the way to a boy band concert.\n\nThe other layer is **Toronto in 2002**, rendered with a precision that has very little to do with easter eggs and everything to do with the fact that **Domee Shi** grew up there. The stadium is called the **SkyDome**, not the Rogers Centre, with its period logo, because in 2002 that was its name. **Daisy Mart**, where Devon works, is a genuine Canadian convenience-store chain rather than an invented one — Shi has said she loves that the film gave it a shout-out. A **blue jay** perches in front of the wrecked dome after the concert. The establishing shots correspond to real intersections.\n\nAnd tucked into the background is Shi's own filmography: a **Bao** restaurant sign, complete with the dumpling sitting inside the O, from the short that made her the first woman to direct a Pixar film of any length. Below: the studio jokes, the city, and the man in the basement after the credits.","identifiers":{"tmdbId":508947,"tmdbUrl":"https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/508947","imdbId":"tt8097030","imdbUrl":"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8097030/"},"counts":{"eggs":9,"confirmed":8,"community":1,"theory":0,"sources":10},"postCredits":{"status":"yes","verdict":"Yes — Turning Red has 1 post-credit scene.","scenes":1,"description":"Yes. Once the credits finish, Mei's father Jin is in the basement listening to her 4*Town CDs and thoroughly enjoying them, while Ming calls for him from upstairs. It is a character payoff rather than a plot tease.","detail":"**Yes, Turning Red has a post-credits scene**, and it is the best kind — a joke that only works because the whole film built it.\n\nAfter the credits, we find **Jin**, Mei's father, alone in the **basement**. He has one of Mei's **4\\*Town** CDs on, he is listening to it properly, and he is enjoying it. Upstairs, **Ming** is calling for him. He does not answer.\n\nEverything about the film runs through that shot. *Turning Red* is a story about a household where wanting things is dangerous — where Mei hides her drawings, her music, her friends and eventually an entire second body from a mother whose approval is conditional on there being nothing to disapprove of. Jin spends the film as the calm one, the parent who does not push, the person who tells Mei that the panda is a part of her she gets to decide what to do with. The post-credits scene reveals that he has been running the same concealment strategy she has, on the same subject, in the same house, for however long.\n\nIt also lands the film's most generous idea: the secret is not shameful, it is just private. He is not hiding a vice. He is hiding the fact that he likes a boy band, because in that kitchen, liking things out loud has a cost.\n\nThere is nothing else after it — no sequel setup, no additional characters, and no bloopers. Just a man in a basement, having a nice time. Stay for it.","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/turning-red/post-credits"},"eggs":[{"id":"a113-twice-chalk-machine-and-tickets","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/turning-red#egg-a113-twice-chalk-machine-and-tickets","title":"A113 appears twice — on a chalk machine and on the concert tickets","description":"Pixar's CalArts signature is planted in two very different registers. The first is on the **chalk machine** Mei's father uses to draw a large circle at the SkyDome — a line-marking cart, stencilled like real groundskeeping equipment. The second is in the **credits**, printed on a pair of **4\\*Town concert tickets**. Putting one instance in the film's most mundane prop and the other on the object the entire plot has been chasing is a nice bit of range for a joke that is normally just a number on a wall.","scene":"The chalk machine at the SkyDome; and the 4*Town tickets shown during the credits","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","reference"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"D23 — Every A-MEI-zing Easter Egg in Pixar's Turning Red","url":"https://d23.com/every-a-mei-zing-easter-egg-in-pixars-turning-red/"},{"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":"pizza-planet-three-ways","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/turning-red#egg-pizza-planet-three-ways","title":"Pizza Planet is here three times — a truck, a stack of boxes and a stadium ad","description":"Rather than the usual single vehicle cameo, *Turning Red* builds Pizza Planet into the world as a functioning business. The **truck** is parked on the street as Panda Mei charges through Toronto towards the concert; **Pizza Planet boxes** are scattered around Tyler's house during his birthday party; and there is a **Pizza Planet advertisement** inside the SkyDome itself. The gag graduates from an object to a brand with a delivery fleet, a customer base and stadium sponsorship.","scene":"Parked on the street during Mei's run; boxes at Tyler's party; an ad inside the SkyDome","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","callback"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"D23 — Every A-MEI-zing Easter Egg in Pixar's Turning Red","url":"https://d23.com/every-a-mei-zing-easter-egg-in-pixars-turning-red/"},{"label":"Variety — 'Turning Red' Easter Eggs: All the Hidden References in Pixar's Latest","url":"https://variety.com/2022/film/news/turning-red-hidden-easter-eggs-pixar-1235202573/"}],"motifs":["pizza-planet-truck","product-of-the-fictional-universe"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"luxo-ball-in-tylers-pool","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/turning-red#egg-luxo-ball-in-tylers-pool","title":"The Luxo ball is floating in Tyler's swimming pool","description":"During Tyler's birthday party — the sequence where Mei's panda form becomes a paid attraction — the yellow ball with the blue stripe and red star from *Luxo Jr.* (1986) is drifting in the **swimming pool**. It is one of the more elegant placements in the run: a pool party is exactly where an inflatable ball belongs, so the studio's most-planted object sits in plain sight without needing an excuse.","scene":"Tyler's birthday party — floating in the pool","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["callback","visual"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"D23 — Every A-MEI-zing Easter Egg in Pixar's Turning Red","url":"https://d23.com/every-a-mei-zing-easter-egg-in-pixars-turning-red/"},{"label":"LaughingPlace — The Easter Eggs of Pixar's 'Turning Red'","url":"https://www.laughingplace.com/w/articles/2022/03/13/turning-red-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":["luxo-ball"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"bao-restaurant-sign","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/turning-red#egg-bao-restaurant-sign","title":"There is a Bao restaurant, with the dumpling still inside the O","description":"In the background of Toronto sits a sign for a **Bao** restaurant, using the logo from *Bao* — the 2018 short about a woman whose dumpling comes to life, which won Domee Shi an Academy Award and made her the first woman to direct a Pixar film. The logo keeps its distinguishing feature: the **dumpling nestled inside the O**. A director hiding her own previous film in her first feature is not unusual; doing it as a plausible neighbourhood restaurant in the city she grew up in is a better version of the trick.","scene":"Background signage in Toronto","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","meta"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"D23 — Every A-MEI-zing Easter Egg in Pixar's Turning Red","url":"https://d23.com/every-a-mei-zing-easter-egg-in-pixars-turning-red/"},{"label":"Variety — 'Turning Red' Easter Eggs: All the Hidden References in Pixar's Latest","url":"https://variety.com/2022/film/news/turning-red-hidden-easter-eggs-pixar-1235202573/"}],"motifs":["crew-tribute"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"it-is-the-skydome-not-the-rogers-centre","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/turning-red#egg-it-is-the-skydome-not-the-rogers-centre","title":"The stadium is called the SkyDome, with its 2002 logo, because that was its name","description":"The venue for the 4\\*Town concert is Toronto's real stadium, and the film insists on calling it the **SkyDome** and using the **original logo** rather than the Rogers Centre branding it carries today. The name changed in 2005; *Turning Red* is set in **May 2002**. It is a period-accuracy choice most audiences will never register, and it is the clearest signal that the film's Toronto is researched memory rather than generic city.","scene":"The 4*Town concert venue — exterior signage and establishing shots","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","trivia"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Complex — All the Toronto References We Could Spot in Pixar's 'Turning Red'","url":"https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/rick-mele/all-the-toronto-references-we-could-spot-in-pixars-turning-red"},{"label":"Wikipedia — Turning Red","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Red"}],"motifs":["anachronism-easter-egg"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"daisy-mart-is-a-real-chain","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/turning-red#egg-daisy-mart-is-a-real-chain","title":"Daisy Mart is a real Canadian convenience store, not an invented one","description":"The shop where Devon works — the site of Mei's most excruciating scene, when Ming arrives waving her daughter's drawings — is **Daisy Mart**, an actual convenience-store chain with locations across Canada. **Domee Shi** has said in promotional material that she loves that the film gives it a shout-out. Using a real neighbourhood chain rather than a legally-safe invention is the sort of choice that only comes from someone who actually shopped there.","scene":"The convenience store where Devon works","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","trivia"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Complex — All the Toronto References We Could Spot in Pixar's 'Turning Red'","url":"https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/rick-mele/all-the-toronto-references-we-could-spot-in-pixars-turning-red"},{"label":"blogTO — People are loving all of the Toronto easter eggs hidden in Turning Red","url":"https://www.blogto.com/film/2022/03/toronto-turning-red-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"a-blue-jay-lands-on-the-wrecked-dome","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/turning-red#egg-a-blue-jay-lands-on-the-wrecked-dome","title":"A blue jay perches in front of the damaged SkyDome","description":"In the shot of the partially destroyed stadium after the concert, a **blue jay** sits in frame in front of the dome. It is a nod to the **Toronto Blue Jays**, whose home ground the SkyDome is — a one-bird joke aimed squarely at anyone who has ever been to a game there, dropped into a shot whose actual job is showing the audience how much damage two giant red pandas did.","scene":"The exterior shot of the damaged SkyDome after the concert","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","reference"],"difficulty":5,"difficultyName":"White Whale","verification":"community","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"Complex — All the Toronto References We Could Spot in Pixar's 'Turning Red'","url":"https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/rick-mele/all-the-toronto-references-we-could-spot-in-pixars-turning-red"},{"label":"Flixist — Turning Red: Easter Eggs You May Have Missed","url":"https://www.flixist.com/turning-red-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"jin-is-secretly-a-4town-fan","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/turning-red#egg-jin-is-secretly-a-4town-fan","title":"Mei's father is a 4*Town fan and has been hiding it","description":"The film's final joke is about the parent who spends the whole story being the quiet one. After the credits, **Jin** is in the basement, listening to Mei's **4\\*Town** CDs and enjoying himself thoroughly, while Ming calls for him from upstairs. In a film entirely about a household where enthusiasm has to be concealed from your mother, the reveal that the reasonable, patient father has his own secret closes the circle without a word of dialogue about it.","scene":"After the credits — the basement","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["callback","meta"],"difficulty":1,"difficultyName":"Plain Sight","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"MediaStinger — Turning Red (2022) after the credits","url":"https://mediastinger.com/turning-red-2022-after-the-credits/"},{"label":"Just Jared — Is There a 'Turning Red' End Credits Scene?","url":"https://www.justjared.com/2022/03/11/is-there-a-turning-red-end-credits-scene/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"the-film-is-domee-shis-own-toronto","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/turning-red#egg-the-film-is-domee-shis-own-toronto","title":"The whole city is the director's childhood, reconstructed","description":"The density of accurate Toronto detail — the SkyDome's period name, Daisy Mart, streetcars, the specific intersections used for establishing shots — comes from the fact that **Domee Shi** was born in China, moved to Canada at two, and grew up in Toronto in a Chinese-Canadian household in exactly the era the film depicts. She went through Sheridan College's animation programme into a Pixar internship, and directed *Bao* before becoming the studio's first solo female feature director here. The easter eggs and the autobiography are the same material.","scene":"Throughout — the film's entire depiction of 2002 Toronto","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["trivia","meta"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia — Turning Red","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turning_Red"},{"label":"Complex — All the Toronto References We Could Spot in Pixar's 'Turning Red'","url":"https://www.complex.com/pop-culture/a/rick-mele/all-the-toronto-references-we-could-spot-in-pixars-turning-red"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null}],"faq":[{"question":"How many easter eggs are in Turning Red?","answer":"We have catalogued 9 documented easter eggs and hidden details in Turning Red, including A113 on the SkyDome chalk machine and on the 4*Town tickets in the credits, three separate Pizza Planet appearances, the Luxo ball in Tyler's pool, a Bao restaurant sign referencing Domee Shi's Oscar-winning short, and a run of period-accurate Toronto details."},{"question":"Where is A113 in Turning Red?","answer":"Twice. It is stencilled on the chalk machine Mei's father uses to mark out a circle at the SkyDome, and it appears again in the credits on a pair of 4*Town concert tickets. The number is the CalArts character animation classroom Pixar hides in nearly every film."},{"question":"Does Turning Red have a post-credits scene?","answer":"Yes. After the credits, Mei's father Jin is discovered in the basement listening to her 4*Town CDs and enjoying them, while Ming calls for him upstairs. It is a character payoff — the quiet parent turns out to have been hiding his own harmless enthusiasm — rather than a sequel tease."},{"question":"Is Daisy Mart a real store?","answer":"Yes. Daisy Mart, the convenience store where Devon works, is a genuine Canadian chain with locations across the country rather than an invention. Director Domee Shi has said she loves that the film gives it a shout-out."},{"question":"Why is the stadium called the SkyDome in Turning Red?","answer":"Because the film is set in May 2002, and Toronto's stadium was named the SkyDome until 2005, when it became the Rogers Centre. The film uses the original name and the period logo — one of many details drawn from director Domee Shi's own Toronto childhood."}],"publishedAt":"2026-08-19","updatedAt":"2026-08-19","source":{"name":"The Things You Missed","page":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/movies/turning-red","api":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/api/titles/turning-red","methodology":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/about"}}