{"slug":"wednesday","type":"series","title":"Wednesday","year":2022,"releaseDate":null,"franchise":null,"genres":["Comedy","Fantasy","Mystery"],"creators":["Alfred Gough","Miles Millar"],"url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/wednesday","hook":"A Poe riddle that spells out 'snap twice,' Tim Burton deep cuts hiding on café weathervanes, and a showrunner working airport security — Nevermore rewards frame-pausers.","intro":"Somewhere on Nevermore's grounds stands a bronze Edgar Allan Poe holding a book whose riddle spells out **snap twice** — and with two finger snaps, Netflix's *Wednesday* turns the most famous earworm gimmick in sitcom history into a literal key. That's the show's easter-egg philosophy in miniature: showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, with Tim Burton directing half of season 1, don't just wink at eight decades of Addams Family lore, they weld it into the plot.\n\nThe references run in distinct layers. There's Charles Addams' original *New Yorker* cartoons, which shaped Jericho's storefronts and Wednesday's season 2 attic bedroom. There's the 1964 sitcom (Ophelia Hall, the snap, Morticia's cottage props). There's the Barry Sonnenfeld films — Christina Ricci cast as the show's secret villain, apple-and-crossbow callbacks. And then two adopted godfathers: Poe, whose stories name every canoe in the Poe Cup, and Burton himself, whose filmography hides on the Weathervane café's weathervanes and in a row of costumed taxidermy mice.\n\nUnusually for a streaming megahit, much of this is on the record: Netflix's own *Tudum* publishes official egg guides for both seasons, Jenna Ortega has itemized every influence behind her viral dance, and the creators keep confirming details in interviews — right down to Gough casting himself as a TSA agent. Below, 20 eggs from both seasons, ordered roughly by when you'll meet them.","identifiers":{"tmdbId":119051,"tmdbUrl":"https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/119051","imdbId":"tt13443470","imdbUrl":"https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13443470/"},"counts":{"eggs":20,"confirmed":11,"community":8,"theory":1,"sources":23},"postCredits":{"status":"no","verdict":"No — Wednesday has no post-credit scene.","scenes":0,"description":"Wednesday doesn't do credit stingers. Season 1's cliffhangers — the stalker texts on Wednesday's new phone and Tyler mid-Hyde-transformation in the prison transport — all play before the credits roll, and the season 2 finale likewise ends clean. You can safely stop when the credits start on any episode.","detail":null,"url":null},"eggs":[{"id":"pugsley-apple-crossbow-callback","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/wednesday#egg-pugsley-apple-crossbow-callback","title":"An apple for Pugsley, thirty years later","description":"Wednesday finds Pugsley stuffed in a locker with an apple wedged in his mouth — a staging that echoes the William Tell crossbow gag from 1991's *The Addams Family*. In that film, Wednesday takes aim at an apple balanced on her brother; here the sight triggers her first act of vengeance. The series later completes the callback on Nevermore's archery range, where Wednesday casually skewers an airborne apple with an arrow — the same party trick Christina Ricci's Wednesday pulled off three decades earlier.","scene":"The Nancy Reagan High School lockers in the cold open; the payoff comes later at Nevermore's archery range","timestamp":null,"episode":"S1E1","types":["callback","visual"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Collider — Wednesday: Every Easter Egg You Missed","url":"https://collider.com/wednesday-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"Looper — Small Details You Missed In Wednesday","url":"https://www.looper.com/1107366/small-details-you-missed-in-wednesday/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"millar-gough-office-window","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/wednesday#egg-millar-gough-office-window","title":"The showrunners' names on Dr. Kinbott's building","description":"The window of Dr. Kinbott's office building reads 'Millar & Gough' — the surnames of the show's co-creators. Miles Millar and Alfred Gough, the duo previously behind *Smallville*, signed the set in plain view, and Wednesday walks past it on the way to her court-ordered therapy sessions in Jericho. It's a classic crew in-joke hiding in set dressing, and it sails past on first watch because your eyes are on Wednesday marching through the door.","scene":"Exterior of Dr. Kinbott's office building in Jericho — check the gold lettering on the window","timestamp":null,"episode":"S1E1","types":["meta","visual"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Collider — Wednesday: Every Easter Egg You Missed","url":"https://collider.com/wednesday-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"Looper — Small Details You Missed In Wednesday","url":"https://www.looper.com/1107366/small-details-you-missed-in-wednesday/"}],"motifs":["blink-and-miss-signage","crew-tribute"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"weathervane-cafe-burton-vanes","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/wednesday#egg-weathervane-cafe-burton-vanes","title":"A Tim Burton retrospective on the café wall","description":"The Weathervane café isn't just named for its decor — the vanes mounted on the back wall are a miniature Tim Burton film festival. Netflix's official Tudum egg guide confirms the imagery pulls from *Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street*, *Batman Returns*, *Cabin Boy* and *James and the Giant Peach*, while outlets like ScreenRant have also clocked Willy Wonka's top hat, Edward Scissorhands-style scissors and a headless horseman straight out of *Sleepy Hollow*. Burton directed four episodes of season 1, and the set dressers quietly turned his back catalog into background iron.","scene":"The back wall of the Weathervane café in Jericho, behind the counter where Tyler works","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","reference"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Netflix Tudum — The Kookiest Easter Eggs in Wednesday","url":"https://www.netflix.com/tudum/videos/the-kookiest-easter-eggs-in-wednesday"},{"label":"ScreenRant — Every Tim Burton Movie Easter Egg & Reference In Wednesday","url":"https://screenrant.com/wednesday-tim-burton-movie-easter-eggs-references/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"ophelia-hall-aunt-ophelia","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/wednesday#egg-ophelia-hall-aunt-ophelia","title":"Ophelia Hall honors Morticia's unhinged sister","description":"Wednesday and Enid's dorm, Ophelia Hall, is named for Aunt Ophelia — Morticia's sister in the 1964 *Addams Family* sitcom. Netflix's Tudum guide confirms the nod; Carolyn Jones played Ophelia in a dual role alongside Morticia. The name double-dips: Nevermore's four houses all take their names from Shakespeare characters, so Ophelia also tips to *Hamlet*'s doomed heroine, while Pugsley and Eugene's house, Caliban Hall, comes from *The Tempest* and the remaining houses honor Thisbe and Puck from *A Midsummer Night's Dream*.","scene":"Wednesday's dorm assignment on arrival at Nevermore; house names recur throughout both seasons","timestamp":null,"episode":"S1E1","types":["reference","trivia"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Netflix Tudum — Wednesday Season 2 Addams Family References and Easter Eggs","url":"https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/wednesday-nevermore-easter-eggs"},{"label":"Collider — All 10 Wednesday Season 2 Easter Eggs You (Probably) Missed","url":"https://collider.com/wednesday-season-2-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"poe-cup-canoe-names","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/wednesday#egg-poe-cup-canoe-names","title":"Every Poe Cup canoe is a Poe story","description":"Every canoe in Nevermore's Poe Cup carries the title of an Edgar Allan Poe work. Pause on the race and you'll spot *The Black Cat*, *The Gold Bug*, *The Pit and the Pendulum* and *The Cask of Amontillado*. It's one strand of a Poe web that runs through the whole show: the school's name comes from 'The Raven,' the dance is the Rave'N, and Wednesday quotes 'The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether' when she advises believing 'nothing you hear and half of what you see.'","scene":"The Poe Cup race on the lake — read the team banners and canoe hulls","timestamp":null,"episode":"S1E2","types":["reference","visual"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — All 8 Wednesday Season 1 References To Edgar Allan Poe","url":"https://screenrant.com/wednesday-season-1-edgar-allan-poe-references/"},{"label":"CBR — Every Reference To Edgar Allan Poe In Netflix's Wednesday","url":"https://www.cbr.com/netflix-wednesday-every-edgar-allan-poe-reference/"}],"motifs":["blink-and-miss-signage"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"snap-twice-theme-song-door","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/wednesday#egg-snap-twice-theme-song-door","title":"The riddle that weaponizes the theme song's double snap","description":"A riddle inscribed on Nevermore's Edgar Allan Poe statue spells out **snap twice**, and two rhythmic finger snaps swing the statue open. Wednesday solves it to find the Nightshades' den — the first letters of the answers give the phrase. It's the show handing an in-universe job to the most famous double snap in TV history, from Vic Mizzy's 1964 *Addams Family* theme. Co-creator Miles Millar put the intent on record: 'It's finding ways to include the iconic elements of The Addams Family but finding new ways to do it.' Christina Ricci — the 1990s Wednesday — even gets to perform the snap on screen herself.","scene":"The Edgar Allan Poe statue — solve the riddle in the book, then snap twice","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["callback","music"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"CBR — Wednesday Gives the Iconic Double-Snap an In-Story Purpose","url":"https://www.cbr.com/wednesday-addams-family-theme-double-snap-purpose-netflix/"},{"label":"Newsweek — All the Addams Family Easter Eggs in Wednesday","url":"https://www.newsweek.com/addams-family-easter-eggs-wednesday-netflix-1761402"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"pilgrim-world-addams-family-values","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/wednesday#egg-pilgrim-world-addams-family-values","title":"Pilgrim World replays the Camp Chippewa Thanksgiving","description":"Jericho's pilgrim-worship theme park puts Wednesday back in a bonnet and buckle, recreating her Camp Chippewa Thanksgiving pageant look from *Addams Family Values* (1993). Both stories weaponize Wednesday against sanitized colonial mythology, and her withering commentary on Jericho's founding myth plays like a spiritual sequel to Christina Ricci's famous pageant-burning speech in the 1993 film. Collider also ties a season 1 Girl Scout jab back to the films' lemonade-stand scene.","scene":"Wednesday's community-service shift at the Pilgrim World theme park","timestamp":null,"episode":"S1E3","types":["reference","callback"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Collider — Wednesday: Every Easter Egg You Missed","url":"https://collider.com/wednesday-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"uriahs-heap-burton-mice","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/wednesday#egg-uriahs-heap-burton-mice","title":"Taxidermy mice in tiny Tim Burton cosplay","description":"The taxidermy shop Uriah's Heap hides a row of stuffed mice costumed as characters from Tim Burton's movies. Netflix's Tudum guide confirms the dress-up: one rodent wears Beetlejuice's black-and-white pinstripe suit and wild wig, another the red ringmaster getup of Danny DeVito's Max Medici from Burton's *Dumbo* — plus, as Tudum notes, a rodent version of Freddy Krueger sneaks in. ScreenRant adds the grim punchline: the stuffed roadkill dioramas turn out to be the handiwork of Wednesday's own therapist, Dr. Kinbott.","scene":"Shelves inside Uriah's Heap taxidermy shop in Jericho — and again in Dr. Kinbott's closet","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","reference"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Netflix Tudum — The Kookiest Easter Eggs in Wednesday","url":"https://www.netflix.com/tudum/videos/the-kookiest-easter-eggs-in-wednesday"},{"label":"ScreenRant — Every Tim Burton Movie Easter Egg & Reference In Wednesday","url":"https://screenrant.com/wednesday-tim-burton-movie-easter-eggs-references/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"goo-goo-muck-dance-influences","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/wednesday#egg-goo-goo-muck-dance-influences","title":"The viral dance is a homage supercut — per Ortega herself","description":"Jenna Ortega choreographed the Rave'N dance herself, and has itemised every influence behind it on the record. The routine, set to The Cramps' 'Goo Goo Muck,' is the show's most-memed minute. Ortega told Variety and NME she pulled from Lisa Loring — the original 1960s Wednesday, whose living-room dance with Lurch gets directly quoted — plus Siouxsie Sioux's 'Happy House' video, Bob Fosse's 'Rich Man's Frug,' Lene Lovich, Denis Lavant, and archival footage of goths dancing in 1980s clubs. ScreenRant's move-by-move breakdown maps which gestures trace to which source.","scene":"The Rave'N dance floor — Wednesday's solo routine in the black Alaïa dress","timestamp":null,"episode":"S1E4","types":["reference","music","trivia"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Variety — Jenna Ortega Reveals 'Wednesday' Dance Inspiration","url":"https://variety.com/2022/artisans/news/jenna-ortega-wednesday-dance-sequence-1235443093/"},{"label":"Louder — Ortega credits Siouxsie Sioux, 80s goths and more","url":"https://www.loudersound.com/news/wednesday-actress-jenna-ortega-credits-siouxsie-sioux-80s-goths-and-more-as-influences-on-her-dance-moves-in-that-scene-everyones-talking-about"},{"label":"ScreenRant — Full Breakdown Of Jenna Ortega's Dance In Wednesday","url":"https://screenrant.com/wednesday-jenna-ortega-dance-inspiration-moves-explained/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"carrie-red-paint-prom","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/wednesday#egg-carrie-red-paint-prom","title":"A Carrie prom, minus the pig's blood","description":"Red paint drenching the Rave'N dance floor is a deliberate echo of the pig's-blood prom in Brian De Palma's *Carrie* (1976). The dance's white-winter theme exists so it can be ruined, and the sprinklers erupt mid-song. The show hangs a lantern on its own homage — Wednesday, dripping red, deadpans that the saboteurs 'couldn't even spring for real pig's blood.' It's the rare egg the script grades for you.","scene":"The climax of the Rave'N dance, when the sprinkler system triggers","timestamp":null,"episode":"S1E4","types":["reference"],"difficulty":1,"difficultyName":"Plain Sight","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Looper — Small Details You Missed In Wednesday","url":"https://www.looper.com/1107366/small-details-you-missed-in-wednesday/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"cousin-itt-portrait","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/wednesday#egg-cousin-itt-portrait","title":"Cousin Itt hangs in the Nightshade library","description":"A gilt-framed portrait of **Cousin Itt** hangs in the stairwell down to the Nightshade Society's library. Netflix's Tudum egg guide confirms the figure made entirely of floor-length hair is Itt, spotted as Wednesday descends. In show lore he's an Addams ancestor tied to the society's early days (Looper notes the character, 'Ignatius Itt,' is dated 1825–1850), making Itt the one classic family member who haunts season 1 only in oil paint.","scene":"The stairwell wall as Wednesday descends into the Nightshade Society's hidden library","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","callback"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Netflix Tudum — The Kookiest Easter Eggs in Wednesday","url":"https://www.netflix.com/tudum/videos/the-kookiest-easter-eggs-in-wednesday"},{"label":"Collider — Wednesday: Every Easter Egg You Missed","url":"https://collider.com/wednesday-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"beetlejuice-popcorn-bags","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/wednesday#egg-beetlejuice-popcorn-bags","title":"Beetlejuice-striped popcorn at movie night","description":"The popcorn bags at Wednesday and Tyler's crypt movie night are cut from the same black-and-white pinstripe as Beetlejuice's suit. They eat from them while Tyler screens *Legally Blonde* inside Crackstone's crypt. It's one of several nods to Burton's 1988 ghost comedy scattered through season 1 — ScreenRant and CinemaBlend also point to the shrunken head in Principal Weems' office, a match for the shriveled-headed ghost in Beetlejuice's waiting room.","scene":"The makeshift movie night inside Crackstone's crypt — look at the popcorn bags","timestamp":null,"episode":"S1E7","types":["visual","reference"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — Every Tim Burton Movie Easter Egg & Reference In Wednesday","url":"https://screenrant.com/wednesday-tim-burton-movie-easter-eggs-references/"},{"label":"CinemaBlend — Netflix's Wednesday Has A Memorable Beetlejuice Reference","url":"https://www.cinemablend.com/streaming-news/netflixs-wednesday-has-a-memorable-beetlejuice-reference-and-other-easter-eggs"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"christina-ricci-thornhill","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/wednesday#egg-christina-ricci-thornhill","title":"The old Wednesday is the new Wednesday's villain","description":"Casting Christina Ricci — the definitive 1990s Wednesday Addams — as chirpy botany teacher Marilyn Thornhill is the show's longest con. The one adult at Nevermore who wears normie pastels and hands out warm smiles is unmasked in the finale as Laurel Gates, the season's murderous mastermind, meaning the original screen Wednesday secretly despises outcasts and it takes the new Wednesday to stop her. Fans also note the first name 'Marilyn' may wink at Marilyn Munster, the token normal member of TV's *other* macabre 1964 family.","scene":"Thornhill appears throughout season 1; the reveal lands in the finale, Chapter VIII","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["cameo","meta"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"Nerdist — Christina Ricci's Character in the Wednesday Series, Explained","url":"https://nerdist.com/article/christina-ricci-character-in-wednesday-tv-show-netflix-explained-mrs-thornhill-laurel-gates-story-villain/"},{"label":"ScreenRant — The Internet Just Realized Wednesday's Ms. Thornhill Also Played Wednesday Addams","url":"https://screenrant.com/wednesday-addams-show-thornhill-christina-ricci-internet-reaction/"}],"motifs":["cameo-of-original-actor"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"alfred-gough-tsa-cameo","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/wednesday#egg-alfred-gough-tsa-cameo","title":"The co-creator is working airport security","description":"Co-creator Alfred Gough plays the TSA officer in the season 2 cold open's airport sequence. He calls for a bag check while Wednesday stalks the serial killer Chet LaTroy through the terminal. Netflix's Tudum breakdown of the premiere's first six minutes flags the cameo, and ScreenRant notes it's the kind of blink-and-miss appearance '99% of viewers' would never clock — you'd need to know what a TV showrunner looks like.","scene":"The airport security checkpoint in the season 2 cold open","timestamp":null,"episode":"S2E1","types":["cameo","meta"],"difficulty":5,"difficultyName":"White Whale","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Netflix Tudum — Every Easter Egg Hidden in the First 6 Minutes of Wednesday Season 2","url":"https://www.netflix.com/tudum/videos/wednesday-season-2-cold-open-easter-eggs"},{"label":"ScreenRant — Every Addams Family Easter Egg & Reference In Wednesday","url":"https://screenrant.com/wednesday-netflix-addams-family-easter-eggs-references/"}],"motifs":["director-cameo"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"chet-latroy-victim-dolls","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/wednesday#egg-chet-latroy-victim-dolls","title":"The killer's dolls wear the victims' clothes — and hair","description":"The handmade dolls filling Chet LaTroy's lair are dressed identically to his murder victims — and contain the victims' real hair. They line the shelves in the season 2 cold open. Per Collider's breakdown of the premiere, each doll matches one of the victims Wednesday profiles in her school presentation. It's a grisly prop-department flex that connects the opening's two scenes: the case Wednesday lectures about is literally sitting on the killer's shelves.","scene":"Chet LaTroy's doll-filled lair in the cold open — compare the dolls to the victim photos in Wednesday's presentation","timestamp":null,"episode":"S2E1","types":["visual","foreshadowing"],"difficulty":3,"difficultyName":"Freeze Frame","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Collider — All 10 Wednesday Season 2 Easter Eggs You (Probably) Missed","url":"https://collider.com/wednesday-season-2-easter-eggs/"},{"label":"Netflix Tudum — Every Easter Egg Hidden in the First 6 Minutes of Wednesday Season 2","url":"https://www.netflix.com/tudum/videos/wednesday-season-2-cold-open-easter-eggs"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"morticia-cottage-sitcom-props","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/wednesday#egg-morticia-cottage-sitcom-props","title":"Morticia redecorates with the 1964 sitcom's furniture","description":"Morticia's redecoration of the season 2 cottage recreates props from the 1964 sitcom's living room. Netflix's Tudum guide confirms the towering stuffed bear, the iron maiden, the fanback chair and the taxidermied tortoise are all reproductions from the old show. Upstairs, Wednesday's attic bedroom is drawn from Charles Addams' original *New Yorker* cartoons, and production designer Mark Scruton has said the cottage was even initially painted pink in homage to the old sets.","scene":"Interior of the Addams family cottage near Nevermore, throughout season 2","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["visual","callback"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Netflix Tudum — Wednesday Season 2 Addams Family References and Easter Eggs","url":"https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/wednesday-nevermore-easter-eggs"},{"label":"Immersive Media — Production Designer Mark Scruton On Returning To Nevermore","url":"https://immersivemedia.substack.com/p/production-designer-mark-scruton"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"christopher-lloyd-professor-orloff","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/wednesday#egg-christopher-lloyd-professor-orloff","title":"Uncle Fester 1.0 returns as a head in a jar","description":"Christopher Lloyd, Uncle Fester in the 1991 and 1993 films, returns in season 2 as Professor Orloff — kept going as little more than a head in a jar. Orloff is Nevermore's longest-serving teacher, and the role reunites Lloyd with the universe three decades on. Creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar explained to Parade how the cameo came together, making it a deliberate bridge between the Sonnenfeld films and the Netflix era, right alongside Fred Armisen's current Fester.","scene":"Professor Orloff's appearances at Nevermore across season 2","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["cameo","meta"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Parade — 'Wednesday' Creators Reveal How That Christopher Lloyd Cameo Came to Be","url":"https://parade.com/tv/wednesday-creators-alfred-gough-miles-millar-christopher-lloyd-cameo"},{"label":"ScreenRant — Every Addams Family Easter Egg & Reference In Wednesday","url":"https://screenrant.com/wednesday-netflix-addams-family-easter-eggs-references/"}],"motifs":["cameo-of-original-actor"],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"season-2-classic-horror-homages","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/wednesday#egg-season-2-classic-horror-homages","title":"Season 2's classic-horror syllabus","description":"Season 2 broadens the reference pool from Burton to the whole horror canon. Collider's egg roundup catalogs scenes staged after *Frankenstein* (Slurp's resurrection), *Night of the Living Dead*, *Psycho*, [The Shining](/movies/the-shining), *The Birds* and *One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest*, alongside Burton self-references to *Frankenweenie* and *The Nightmare Before Christmas*. The Poe thread thickens too: Slurp's thumping heartbeat nods to 'The Tell-Tale Heart,' and Jericho even gains a café called the Tell-Tale to match.","scene":"Spread across season 2 — Slurp's resurrection, the Willow Hill facility, and Jericho's new café","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference"],"difficulty":2,"difficultyName":"Second Watch","verification":"community","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"Collider — All 10 Wednesday Season 2 Easter Eggs You (Probably) Missed","url":"https://collider.com/wednesday-season-2-easter-eggs/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":"the-shining","referencesWork":null},{"id":"lady-gaga-rotwood-dead-dance","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/wednesday#egg-lady-gaga-rotwood-dead-dance","title":"Lady Gaga's ghost teacher comes with an original song","description":"Lady Gaga appears in season 2 as Rosaline Rotwood, a legendary long-dead Nevermore teacher Wednesday summons at her gravesite. The scene, in the season's sixth chapter, triggers the Wednesday/Enid body swap and lands after a year of casting rumours. The deeper egg is musical: Gaga wrote an original song for the show, 'The Dead Dance,' which scores Enid and Agnes' gala dance routine, and Tim Burton directed its music video. The creators walked Deadline through how the two-scene cameo was built around Gaga's three-day shoot in Ireland.","scene":"Rosaline Rotwood's grave and the chamber beyond it; 'The Dead Dance' plays at the gala","timestamp":null,"episode":"S2E6","types":["cameo","music"],"difficulty":1,"difficultyName":"Plain Sight","verification":"confirmed","spoiler":true,"sources":[{"label":"Deadline — Lady Gaga's 'Wednesday' Character Explained By Creators","url":"https://deadline.com/feature/lady-gaga-wednesday-character-explained-1236482596/"},{"label":"TVLine — Wednesday Finally Meets Lady Gaga In Season 2 Part 2","url":"https://www.tvline.com/recaps/wednesday-lady-gaga-character-explained-season-2-episode-6-1235501754/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null},{"id":"mr-tudor-pole-punk-nod","url":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/wednesday#egg-mr-tudor-pole-punk-nod","title":"Is Nevermore's unseen math teacher a punk rocker?","description":"File under plausible deep cut: twice in season 2, characters mention a never-seen Nevermore math teacher named Mr. Tudor-Pole. ScreenRant argues the unusual double-barreled surname points to Edward Tudor-Pole — frontman of punk band Tenpole Tudor, *Crystal Maze* presenter and lifelong theatrical odd-man-out, exactly the flavor of British outcast this show celebrates. Nobody on the production has confirmed the connection, so it stays a theory — but the name is too specific to feel accidental.","scene":"Dialogue mentions across season 2 — the teacher never appears on screen","timestamp":null,"episode":null,"types":["reference","trivia"],"difficulty":4,"difficultyName":"Deep Cut","verification":"theory","spoiler":false,"sources":[{"label":"ScreenRant — This Wednesday Season 2 Reference Was So Obscure, 99% Of Viewers Won't Get It","url":"https://screenrant.com/wednesday-season-2-tudor-pole-reference/"}],"motifs":[],"referencesSlug":null,"referencesWork":null}],"faq":[{"question":"How many easter eggs are in Wednesday?","answer":"We track 20 significant easter eggs across Wednesday's first two seasons, 11 of them officially confirmed by Netflix's Tudum guides, the creators, or the cast. The densest clusters are Addams Family callbacks (the snap-twice riddle, Ophelia Hall, Christina Ricci's casting), Edgar Allan Poe nods baked into Nevermore itself, and Tim Burton references hidden in set dressing — from the Weathervane café's vanes to Uriah's Heap's costumed taxidermy mice."},{"question":"What does the double snap in Wednesday mean?","answer":"It's Vic Mizzy's 1964 Addams Family theme given an in-story job. A riddle inscribed on Nevermore's Edgar Allan Poe statue spells out 'snap twice,' and two rhythmic finger snaps open the secret passage to the Nightshades' library. Co-creator Miles Millar said the team wanted to include the franchise's iconic elements 'in new ways' — and both Jenna Ortega and Christina Ricci, the 1990s Wednesday, perform the snap on screen."},{"question":"Is Christina Ricci in Wednesday, and who does she play?","answer":"Yes. Ricci, who played Wednesday Addams in the 1991 and 1993 films, appears throughout season 1 as Marilyn Thornhill, Nevermore's only 'normie' teacher. The casting is a deliberate passing-of-the-torch easter egg with a dark punchline: the finale unmasks Thornhill as Laurel Gates, the season's true villain — meaning the original screen Wednesday is the new Wednesday's nemesis. Ricci returns in season 2."},{"question":"Who choreographed Wednesday's dance scene?","answer":"Jenna Ortega choreographed the viral Rave'N dance herself, set to The Cramps' 1981 song 'Goo Goo Muck.' She told Variety and NME that her moves drew on Lisa Loring's Wednesday dance from the 1960s TV series, Siouxsie Sioux's 'Happy House' video, Bob Fosse's 'Rich Man's Frug,' Lene Lovich, Denis Lavant, and archival footage of goths dancing in 1980s clubs — making the scene a stacked homage reel."},{"question":"Does Wednesday have a post-credit scene?","answer":"No. No episode of Wednesday hides footage after the credits, including the season 1 and season 2 finales. The show's cliffhangers — Wednesday's stalker photos and Tyler's mid-transport Hyde transformation in season 1 — play inside the episodes themselves, before the credits roll. Once the credits start on any chapter, there's nothing left to wait for."},{"question":"What Tim Burton references are hidden in Wednesday?","answer":"Burton directed four episodes of season 1, and his back catalogue is welded into the set dressing. The weathervanes on the Weathervane café's back wall pull from Sweeney Todd, Batman Returns, Cabin Boy and James and the Giant Peach, with Willy Wonka's top hat, Edward Scissorhands-style scissors and a Sleepy Hollow headless horseman among them. The taxidermy shop Uriah's Heap stocks stuffed mice dressed as Beetlejuice and as Danny DeVito's ringmaster from Dumbo. Wednesday and Tyler eat popcorn from Beetlejuice-striped bags, a shrunken head sits in Principal Weems' office, and season 2 adds nods to Frankenweenie and The Nightmare Before Christmas."},{"question":"What Edgar Allan Poe references are in Wednesday?","answer":"Poe is the show's second patron saint after Charles Addams. The school itself is Nevermore, from 'The Raven,' and its dance is the Rave'N. Every canoe in the Poe Cup carries the title of a Poe work — The Black Cat, The Gold Bug, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Cask of Amontillado. The riddle in the campus Poe statue's book spells out 'snap twice,' opening the Nightshades' den. Wednesday quotes 'The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether.' And season 2 adds a thumping heartbeat for Slurp plus a Jericho café called the Tell-Tale."},{"question":"Is Lady Gaga in Wednesday season 2?","answer":"Yes, in the sixth chapter. She plays Rosaline Rotwood, a legendary long-dead Nevermore teacher whom Wednesday summons at her gravesite — a scene that triggers the Wednesday/Enid body swap. Gaga also wrote an original song for the show, 'The Dead Dance,' which scores Enid and Agnes' gala routine and got a music video directed by Tim Burton. The creators told Deadline the two-scene cameo was built around a three-day shoot in Ireland."}],"publishedAt":"2026-07-08","updatedAt":"2026-08-12","source":{"name":"The Things You Missed","page":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/series/wednesday","api":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/api/titles/wednesday","methodology":"https://thethingsyoumissed.com/about"}}