Easter Eggs You Missed In WandaVision

WandaVision is finally here, and it isn't like anything we've seen before in the MCU. Not only is Vision (Paul Bettany) back from the synthezoid grave he was sent to in 2018's Avengers: Infinity War, but he and Wanda Maximoff (Elizabeth Olsen) have inexplicably been transplanted into a world based on classic sitcoms, complete with laugh track. 

WandaVision sets itself apart from other Marvel TV shows and films in more than a few ways, and the show's Easter eggs are no exception. Live-action Marvel media is almost always generous with its sneaky little hints and allusions, but because of its unique nature, the Easter eggs for WandaVision are a little bit different. Not only do we get the usual treasure trove of references to the comics and Marvel movies, but we're also treated to Easter eggs from decades-old sitcoms. To find out what's hidden in this intriguing TV show, keep reading for Easter eggs you missed in WandaVision.

The style of the first episode of WandaVision is based on sitcoms of the '50s and early '60s, and the faux intro includes a funny Easter egg calling back to one of those classic programs – The Dick Van Dyke Show. The reference isn't so much about what happens, though, as much as it is about what doesn't happen. 

Fans of the The Dick Van Dyke Show will likely notice the similarity in theme music with WandaVision's. They'll also remember that The Dick Van Dyke Show intro often includes the titular star tripping over the ottoman in his living room and taking a tumble. In WandaVision's intro Vision almost finds himself making the same mistake as he's carrying Wanda into their living room. Unlike Van Dyke, however, Vision's powers allow him to phase right through the precariously placed furniture and deliver Wanda to the living room without injury.  

Throughout WandaVision's third episode, the expectant couple argues over whether their newborn son will be named Billy or Tommy. Thankfully, they don't have to choose, because Wanda gives birth to twin sons. This is no surprise to Marvel Comics fans. In the comics we eventually learn Wanda's "pregnancy" is not a natural one, but a product of her reality-warping powers.

There's a lot of twin imagery in the first two episodes of WandaVision, usually in the form of matching sets of jewelry, furniture, and other objects. And in some cases, the matching pair is missing. For example, when Agnes (Kathryn Hahn) introduces herself to Wanda, she notices Wanda doesn't wear a wedding ring — though Wanda takes care of this toward the end of the episode. There's also the two lobsters that Wanda accidentally sends flying out of her kitchen window that subsequently Vision can't find. There's the couple's twin beds and other twin sets of furniture, and even the matching pieces of toast in the Toast Mate 2000 commercial.

Ever since the first trailer for the WandaVision miniseries dropped, there's been speculation that it would involve Wanda Maximoff's twin sons Billy and Tommy from the comics, both of whom ultimately prove to be constructs of Wanda's power. It seems like a good bet all of this twin imagery is pointing to these as-yet absent sons. Wanda's abrupt pregnancy at the end of episode 2 seems to seal that particular deal.

The third episode is filled with even more twins and references to twins — a bunch of them just in the intro. For example, the new theme song includes the lyric "one plus one is more than two." There's the matching swings on the set Vision is building along with one two-seated swing. Also, before the end of the opening credits we see Vision walking down the street reading a book about pregnancy, which oddly has identical front and back covers. Later in the episode, just before Wanda's contractions cause their power to go out, we get a brief shot inside Phil and Dottie's home and there are a few twin references. Phil is reading a paper whose front page announces that two fire hydrants were added to Westview's Main Street, a nearby lamp displays twin cherubs, and Dottie asks if her new earrings — which we assume, like most earrings, would be identical — make her "look fat."

There are a lot of allusions to witches and witchcraft in WandaVision, which is fitting considering Wanda's alter ego is the Scarlet Witch. One such Easter egg that's kind of interesting is part of the format for the faux WandaVision program. 

At the end of both of the first two WandaVision episodes, the eponymous couple is framed in a hexagon as the end credits roll. In episode 3, we get them with the intro credits instead. That's not something commonly seen in sitcoms of any era. One explanation is that it's referencing Wanda's powers. While we've never heard them described this way in the MCU movies or TV shows, in the comics Wanda's ranged blasts are called Hex Bolts. Not to mention that besides the Scarlet Witch's own history, outside comics a "hex" often refers to a spell or curse cast by a witch.

In the fourth episode, "We Interrupt This Program," the hexes start appearing outside WandaVision's strange sitcom reality. The joint task force trying to figure out what's going on in Westview is equipped with multiple monitors displaying the energy field perimeter around the town, which is in a hexagonal shape. At least one of the investigators takes notice. Among the questions on Agent Woo's (Randall Park) whiteboard is "Why hexagonal shape?"

In fact, the hexagons spill out even further. When Director Hayward leads Monica Rambeau into his office at S.W.O.R.D. headquarters, the wall opposite his desk displays his various degrees and certifications, and they're arranged in a hexagonal shape.

As Wanda and Vision desperately try to prepare the dinner to impress Mr. and Mrs. Hart, things go from bad to worse. The Harts are made to wait so long that Mrs. Hart (Debra Jo Rupp) complains of wooziness and says her head is spinning. Her husband Arthur (Fred Melamed) complains to Vision, "Did you hear that? My wife's head is spinning. Generally speaking, I don't like her head to do that."

Considering all the other references to witchcraft and the occult, this could be an allusion to the 1973 classic The Exorcist, in which a pre-teen girl is possessed by a demon. One of the creepiest shots in the film — and unquestionably the most often lampooned moment in the movie — is when the demon's power makes the girl's head spin all the way around on her neck. Thankfully, Mrs. Hart never has to experience that literally during dinner.

When we first meet Phil Jones (David Lengel), it's when he's being fired from Computational Services, Inc. for not putting on an engaging enough dinner party for Mr. Hart and his wife. In episode 3, we learn Phil is Dottie's husband. Considering Phil's name and all the witchcraft imagery in WandaVision, this couple could be a lot more important than we realize.  

Phil Jones is a relatively minor character in the 1985-'86 miniseries Squadron Supreme, written by the late Mark Gruenwald. Often seen as a conceptual predecessor to more well-known game-changers like Watchmen and Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Squadron Supreme features a group of alternate reality Marvel heroes (based on DC's Justice League) deciding they're going to "fix" the world whether the world likes it or not. 

In Squadron Supreme, Phil's wife is the mystic superhero Arcanna, and her story has a very interesting parallel to Scarlet Witch's. In the comics, Wanda's sons are eventually revealed to be constructs of Wanda's power. Meanwhile in Squadron Supreme, Arcanna has a very real pregnancy but uses her powers to hide this from her teammates so they won't bench her. Considering there have already been some intriguing theories about Dottie's character pointing to Marvel mystics, it would be a surprise if this was a coincidence.

If you're familiar with the hit sitcom Bewitched – starring Elizabeth Montgomery as a witch who both uses her powers to solve her family's problems and struggles to keep her identity as a witch secret — it's impossible to not think of the show while watching WandaVision. It comes to mind early in the premiere episode, when Wanda is putting her dishes away with her telekinetic powers. But the similarities get kicked up a notch in the opening credits of episode 2, when instead of using The Dick Van Dyke Show for inspiration, WandaVision uses animation reminiscent of Bewitched's unique style.

It's a particularly fitting show to choose to pull from for episode 2 for a few reasons. One of the most obvious is the fact that both shows deal with witchcraft. Another is that just as episode 2 ends with the world of WandaVision changing from black and white to color, Bewitched began its life as a black and white show in 1964 and changed to color in 1966.

Early in episode 2 we get a bit of color mixed in with the black and white, and it's as striking as it is meaningful. 

After practicing the magic act with Vision, Wanda is straightening up the living room when she hears a whirring and a bang from outside. In the bushes of her front yard she finds a toy helicopter. Unlike everything else in this black and white world, the helicopter shows some color. It's red and gold, with some metallic silver mixed in. The number 57 is on its side, and the S.W.O.R.D. symbol is painted on the front. 

The S.W.O.R.D. symbol reemphasizes that we're finally going to learn about the MCU version of this organization, and the other Easter eggs seem to point directly to Vision. The number on the helicopter isn't randomly chosen. The first comic book appearance of the Vision comes in 1968's Avengers #57. And once again, just as the Toast Mate 2000 reminds us of Tony Stark, the helicopter is painted in Iron Man's classic colors. Judging by the sound it makes when it arrives, the helicopter's arrival is the result of an accidental crash, and most of the latter part of this episode involves Vision malfunctioning after swallowing a piece of chewing gum.

Like the premiere WandaVision episode, the second episode treats us to another faux advertisement. This time, instead of a toaster, we get a watch manufactured by a company called Strücker, and the commercial is chock full of Easter eggs.

First, there's the most obvious reference. Baron Von Strucker — whose short MCU life ends with Avengers: Age of Ultron — is in charge of the experiments which give Wanda and her late brother Pietro their powers. He's a part of Hydra, whose sinister logo is visible on the watch face. Aligned as they are, the watch hands can't help but bear a resemblance to Loki's scepter, from which Wanda and Pietro's powers spring.  

Then there's the time. The watch is showing the time of 2:42, and if you're looking for Easter eggs in Marvel media, pay attention to numbers. Consequentially, 1984's Avengers #242 is a pretty important one for the team — and for Vision and Scarlet Witch in particular. The pair are reunited when Vision's body finally is restored after injuries he'd suffered.

Early in episode 2, Wanda and Vision practice their magic act for the talent show in the living room, and later we get to see that act completely go off the rails when swallowing a piece of chewing gum messes with Vision's insides so much that he acts like a raving drunk. 

In both scenes we also see what Vision calls the Cabinet of Mysteries, equipped with a secret door to let its occupant seem to have disappeared. Adorning the cabinet is a picture of the Mind Stone stuck to Vision's head. 

It's not just an Easter egg, but a meaningful reference. After all, we still don't know how or why Vision isn't dead, or why the Mind Stone is with him. His Mind Stone was destroyed off-camera by Thanos, and the Stone from the past was presumably returned by Captain America. So both the Mind Stone and Vision are things that — like Wanda when she tries to use the Cabinet of Mysteries — were supposed to disappear, but didn't. At least not completely.

It's impossible to watch the third WandaVision episode without thinking about the late-'60s to mid-'70s cornball classic sitcom The Brady Bunch. The font used for "WandaVision" mirrors that of The Brady Bunch, and even borrows the multicolored "In Color" at the end of the credits. The similarities keep coming once the credits end, with the interior of Wanda and Vision's house mirroring the unforgettable '70s aesthetic of the real sitcom.

Of course, what's perhaps most conspicuous about the references is the glaringly obvious difference between the two shows. While the backstory of The Brady Bunch is all about a man and a woman — each with three of their own children — who marry to make a family big enough to break the bank at Christmas, WandaVision's main characters don't have children until the end of this episode, and it shouldn't even be physically possible for them to conceive. Not only is one half of their pair a synthezoid, he's also supposed to be dead. 

Vision's death in Avengers: Infinity War actually gives us another parallel to The Brady Bunch. In the beginning of the sitcom, Robert Reed's Mike Brady is a single parent because of the death of his wife. It's never mentioned exactly how she died, but to be fair we're guessing her death wasn't due to a purple-skinned alien warlord ripping a stone out of her forehead.

While working on her nursery, Wanda unintentionally makes the butterflies of the mobile above the crib turn into actual butterflies. This is a reference to a popular Marvel Comics miniseries and could even be the foreshadowing for a character who has yet to be revealed.

One of the comic book series fans have been comparing most to WandaVision is the 2005 miniseries House of M. In fact, Paul Bettany has said WandaVision was pitched to him specifically as a mash-up of the comic books The Vision and House of M. In the latter series, Wanda uses her reality warping powers to completely remake the world. With a few noteworthy exceptions here and there, most of the people in this new reality have no idea the world's been remade, but one of the exceptions is Layla Miller — who comes to be known as, you guessed it, Butterfly. Layla is a mutant before House of M, and somehow Wanda's reality-warping gives her the ability to "awaken" people into the knowledge that they're living in a world gone wrong.

Nor do we think this is last time Layla is referenced in episode 3. When they're talking about what to name who they assume will be their newborn son, Wanda jokes about hoping "it's a girl." Later, when Vision practices changing a diaper, he uses a girl doll with blond hair — just like Layla — in spite of the fact that he and Wanda seem to be sure their child will be a boy.

There's a lot of imagery in WandaVision's third episode that doesn't necessarily point to a specific comic book, movie or TV show, but ancient myths and universal symbols. 

Animal imagery is apparent as early as the opening credits. Vision is carrying a stuffed toy giraffe as he and Wanda leave Wentworth's with their new crib, and there are giraffe statuettes above their fireplace. With their long necks, giraffes often symbolize those whose head and hearts are far apart — which could easily describe Wanda, especially if the world of WandaVision is her creation. When she sees Wanda in her coat, Geraldine says it looks "foxy," and foxes are often seen as tricksters. A lion statue guards the entryway of their home, something that doesn't seem too relevant until Geraldine displeases Wanda toward the end of the episode. 

Once Wanda's water breaks, the water references are (pun absolutely intended) overflowing. Beside the obvious water sprinklers, there's Vision's mention of water births, the fish print on Geraldine's pants, the boss in Geraldine's story — Mr. Haddocks — is named after a fish, and her story about her boss includes mention of him doing a handstand near the office water cooler. There's the strange appearance of the stork, which is a water bird, and Wanda blames the stork's noises on her icemaker. Water is often associated with the chaos of creation, and in the comics Wanda's powers are often referred to as Chaos Magic.    

Episode 3's advertisement pulls from old commercials for Calgon, in which women would exclaim, "Calgon, take me away!" After uttering the magic phrase, they would be transported to a bathtub where they would be overcome with comfort. 

In this ad, a busy mother can't even eat her breakfast without her kids knocking her cereal away with a soccer ball. A dog reminiscent of Vision's pet Sparky from The Vision comic — minus the green fur — pees against the wall. When the narrator asks the mom "Do you need a break?" she responds, "You read my mind" which of course is something that Wanda can literally do. 

The woman in the commercial is transported to a bubble bath where a man in a Roman toga fans her like a slave. Among other things, the narrator says, "When you want to get away, but you don't want to go anywhere," which could be a description of what's happening to Wanda and Vision. He also speaks of a place where "your problems float away," just as Wanda makes things float away with her mind. The mom, likewise, blows bubbles off her hands as if she has similar powers. 

Finally the product is revealed: "Hydra Soak." The slogan is "Find the goddess within!" It's a clear reference to the powers Hydra gave Wanda, and the fact that those powers are clearly expanding. It's also intriguing that the product box reads "Made in USA," since that's not where Hydra was formed, nor is it where Wanda was when she was given her powers.

Considering all the hints that have been dropped in the previous three episodes, it's no surprise to learn in "We Interrupt This Program" that Monica Rambeau — in spite of the rude security guard who assumes otherwise — works for S.W.O.R.D. Her scenes with Director Hayward (Josh Stamberg) pretty strongly imply that she was the frontrunner for his job before the events of Infinity War, but Thanos' snap made that impossible. 

But while she may not have the top position, Monica isn't without rank in S.W.O.R.D. After Monica's security badge doesn't work at headquarters, Director Hayward shows up and introduces her to the security guard as "Captain Monica Rambeau." 

The rank isn't an accident. When she shows up in Marvel Comics, Monica is a different kind of captain. After obtaining the ability to transform into any form of energy, Monica becomes known as Captain Marvel, years before Carol Danvers takes up the title. She sets the name aside for the sake of Genis-Vell — son to Mar-Vell, the original Captain Marvel of Marvel Comics — and adopts a series of alternate names over the years that includes Photon, Pulsar, and Spectrum.

With "We Interrupt This Program," Randall Park's Agent James Woo officially becomes a recurring MCU character. We meet the FBI agent in 2019's Ant-Man and The Wasp when Woo is in charge of babysitting Scott Lang (Paul Rudd) while Lang's under house arrest for violating the Sokovia Accords in Captain America: Civil War. In WandaVision, he's the FBI agent waiting for Monica Rambeau to help him with his missing persons case, and their introduction to one another includes an Easter egg from his very first MCU scene.

We first see Woo as he's leading a team of agents searching Scott Lang's house. To demonstrate the lengths to which he's gone to entertain his daughter when he can't leave his property, Scott uses sleight of hand to make a playing card appear out of thin air. Later, Woo leans in closer to Scott and ominously whispers, "How'd you do it, Scott?" You get the feeling Woo is implying Scott has done something illegal, but it turns out he just wants to know how to do the card trick.

Well, whether he learned it from Scott or someone else, "We Interrupt This Program" reveals Woo has worked on his magic skills since Ant-Man and The Wasp. As he's approaching Monica for the first time, he uses the same trick to produce his business card.

The conclusion of "We Interrupt This Program" implies that Wanda is behind all the weirdness going on in WandaVision — at least, that's Monica's theory. When Wanda uses her powers to hurl Monica beyond the boundaries of Westview and she lands among the joint task force, Monica says, "It's Wanda. It's all Wanda." The episode ends with Wanda and Vision sitting down with their newborn twins to watch some TV as the Jimi Hendrix Experience's 1968 song "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" plays. 

The song is a perfect cap to "We Interrupt This Program" for a couple of reasons. While the word "Voodoo" can refer to any number of things, including around a half dozen different religions around the globe, in American pop culture it's often associated with witchcraft, making the song just one of a growing list of things referencing witchcraft in the series. 

More importantly, there are the opening lyrics. Hendrix sings "Well, I stand up next to a mountain / And I chop it down with the edge of my hand." Then, later in the verse, we hear "Well I pick up all pieces and make an island / Might even raise a little sand."

If Monica is right and Wanda is behind everything going on in Westview, then the imagery of someone chopping down mountains and using the debris to build an island is pretty fitting for the series.

"On a Very Special Episode..." has its share of '80s references. But they don't all stay in the '80s. 

When Agnes visits Wanda and Vision, she tells them she stopped by on her way to Jazzercise. Founded in the late '60s and still around today, Jazzercise hit its peak in the mid-'80s. We get another purely '80s reference toward the end of the episode. In the kitchen, Wanda tells Vision, "Well, life moves pretty fast out in the suburbs." It sounds a lot like Matthew Broderick's famous quote from 1986's Ferris Bueller's Day Off: "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." 

But some of these references don't really find homes in the '80s. Early in the episode, Agnes yells, "Fussy babies, meet Buns of Steel!" The Buns of Steel workout videos, while technically originating in the late '80s, didn't really become a craze until the early '90s. We get a similar moment when Norm (Asif Ali) references the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles by saying "Cowabunga, dude!" to Vision. While the Turtles could be seen in comics and cartoons in the '80s, it wouldn't be until the early '90s that they made the leap to feature films and true pop culture ubiquity.

These inconsistencies could be intentional. They could be a sign that, just as Vision is becoming more aware of Wanda's illusions, the integrity of her dream world is deteriorating.

In "On a Very Special Episode..." WandaVision's strange advertisers are back. This time, the ad is for Lagos, a paper towel brand. Showing Lagos wiping up an identical spill to what the "leading brand" is trying and failing to clean, the ad mirrors Bounty commercials of the '80s that touted their paper towels the "Quicker Picker Upper."

The name Lagos is a blatant reference to Captain America: Civil War. It's Wanda who unintentionally incites the film's conflict when she accidentally kills Wakandan volunteers in the Nigerian city of Lagos. Rather than calling Lagos a "Quicker Picker Upper," the ad ends with the slogan "Lagos — For when you make a mess you didn't mean to." Fittingly, the juice that the towels clean up resembles blood. 

One thing that's easy to miss about the ad is the reference to what's going on with Vision. Just before the end of the commercial, the husband knocks over a glass of beer. The wife hands him a few towels as the narrator says, "Husbands can use it too, you know." This reflects not only how Vision begins to assert himself, but how episode 5 shows he has a degree of control over the illusions. For example, he's able to temporarily free Norm from Wanda's telepathy. This may also be why Agnes is so flustered early in the episode when she isn't sure whether she's supposed to hold the babies — because she's getting conflicting signals from Vision and Wanda.

While episode 5 brings us tributes to the sitcom Family Ties of the '80s, WandaVision's sixth episode — "All-New Halloween Spooktacular!" — takes a leap over the '90s to deposit us in the early aughts. With its faux home video camera work and pop punk theme, the intro to episode 6 echoes the intro to the sitcom Malcolm in the Middle, which premiered in early 2000 and concluded in 2006. 

As usual, the intro song includes lyrics reflecting the bizarre events in Westview like "Don't try to fight the chaos" and, later, "What if it's all an illusion?" Ironically, considering Vision's growing distrust of Wanda and lyrics like "You're not the boss of me now, and you're not so big," it's tough to not think of the song that actually kicks off Malcolm in the Middle – They Might Be Giants' "Boss of Me." 

Like Malcolm often did with its title character, episode 6 begins with Billy (Julian Hillard) narrating, though his inner dialogue doesn't last past the first scene.

Episode 6 gives us some scenes between Pietro and Wanda after the bombshell cameo at the end of episode 5, and unsurprisingly there are a lot of obvious callbacks to 2015's Avengers: Age of Ultron. Sokovia is mentioned a few times, including Wanda saying her outfit is a "Sokovian fortune teller" and the quick flashback to the young Wanda and Pietro trick-or-treating in their homeland. Wanda mentions the orphanage they grew up in, and after she calls Pietro a bad influence, the brother fires back, "who beefed in your borscht?" — with borscht being from the same region of Europe where you would find Sokovia, were it real. Right after that exchange, the twins both ask each other about the disappearances of their accents — something Wanda slips back into briefly in the previous episode.

And of course there are the references to Pietro's death. Early in the episode, Tommy teases Billy, saying that his twin is afraid that Pietro's a vampire — a creature who, possibly like Pietro, is neither dead nor alive. At the Town Square Scare, Pietro tells his sister he remembers being "shot like a chump," and later she has a brief vision of him pale and riddled with bullet holes. 

One thing worth noting is that Pietro says he was "shot like a chump for no reason at all," when in fact in Age of Ultron he sacrifices himself in order to save Hawkeye and a Sokovian boy from Ultron.  

"All-New Halloween Spooktacular" finally gives us the appearances of Wanda and Vision in their old school Marvel comic book get-ups. Images of the pair in their half-baked costumes were some of the first photos released for the series. Billy appropriately thinks his mother is dressed as "Old Red Riding Hood" while Pietro compares Vision to a traffic light, a half-shucked corn cob, and a booger. 

What we didn't necessarily expect to see was a comic book accurate Quicksilver outfit, but we get one anyway. After Pietro suggests he join Wanda and the boys for Halloween, Wanda says he doesn't have a costume, prompting Pietro to use his super speed to put himself and Tommy in matching outfits reflecting what Quicksilver used to wear in Marvel's comics. The silver lightning bolt is straight from the funnybooks, as is the slicked-back, Wolverine-style hair. Why Marvel's artists apparently thought so many heroes and villains — the Daredevil bad guy the Owl seems to go to the same stylist — would choose hairstyles looking like they'd been standing in front of high-powered fans since the day they were born, we'll probably never know.

Some fans are understandably hopeful that Evan Peters' presence in WandaVision could be the beginning of the entrance of the X-Men into the MCU. While it's far too soon to say whether this is the case, episode 6 has a couple of X-Men references early in the story. 

As the couple argue about whether or not Vision will be trick-or-treating with Wanda and the boys, Pietro steps in to take the synthezoid's place. He says, "Don't sweat it, sis. I got the XY chromosome." No, being biologically male doesn't have anything to do with being a mutant or an X-Man, but for Pietro to mention his DNA and the letter X is a pretty obvious reference to the team Professor X built.

There's another X-Men reference that's just a little bit easier to miss a few moments earlier. When Vision is explaining that he's going to be patrolling for the local neighborhood watch, he tells Wanda the watch is "the only thing standing between the trees and the toilet paper." As he says "trees" and "toilet paper," he points in opposite directions and his forearms cross to form a big, yellow X.

The ad for "All-New Halloween Spooktacular" is perhaps the most bizarre faux commercial we've seen yet on WandaVision. It's the first that doesn't completely follow the logic of the commercials upon which it's based.

The ad uses stop-motion animation and shows us a boy stuck on an island in the middle of the ocean. A talking shark drops in with a surfboard, gives the boy a "Yo-Magic" yogurt snack, and leaves. The boy can't seem to open the container, and his teeth clatter as if he's freezing even though the sun seems to be baking him. Time speeds up and he keeps trying and failing to open the Yo-Magic snack. Eventually he withers away to a skeleton. The ad ends with a shot of the Yo-Magic packaging and the slogan "Yo-Magic! The snack for survivors!"

The ad seems to be a fusion of at least a couple of different brands of similar snacks from the '90s and early aughts. The packaging is reminiscent of Yoplait's Go-Gurt, while the ad itself pulls heavily from YoGo Yogurt which used stop-motion in its ads. As for magic being essential for survival? The message seems obvious.

WandaVision's seventh episode — "Breaking the Fourth Wall" — brings us to the late '00s/early 2010's in terms of sitcom references. The world of Westview leaves Malcolm in the Middle behind for something that feels a lot more like Modern Family, which premiered in 2009. Wanda, Vision, Agnes, and even Darcy participate in talking heads segments in which they speak directly to the audience, mirroring the mockumentary stylings of sitcoms like Modern Family, The Office, and Parks & Recreation. It makes sense, because, well, things are making a lot less sense in Westview. Wanda's illusions are losing their integrity, so it's fitting she'd be speaking directly with us. 

While the style used in episode 7 feels most like Modern Family, that isn't where the intro comes from. With its flashes of things you'd expect to find in a workplace like computer screens, calendars, and the I Love Wanda coffee mug — plus the derivative theme music — it feels a lot more like the intro to The Office. 

Speaking of office comedies — just before the theme starts, Wanda tries to laugh off the bizarre things happening in her home with "It's probably just a case of the Mondays," referencing the phrase the lead character of the 1999 comedy Office Space is ready to murder coworkers and restaurant servers over.

The subtle hints we've seen in previous episodes that the integrity of Wanda's make-believe world is collapsing with references and Easter eggs from wrong eras get a lot more overt in "Breaking the Fourth Wall." The first major example of this provokes Billy and Tommy to run upstairs to their mom in a panic. 

After Tommy tells Wanda their game "is freaking out," we get a quick flashback to see what they're talking about, in which the twins are playing a video game while using Wiimotes. They're confused as the Wiimotes transform into Nintendo GameCube controllers, then to Atari joysticks from the '80s, and finally the illusion makes any parents who hate video games happy by changing the joysticks to Uno cards.

Later we see Billy and Tommy playing a bit of tug of war with a Wiimote, so the cards presumably change back at some point, giving millions of gamers across in the audience a reason to sigh with relief.

As a result of Wanda's swiftly expanding hex radius at the end of episode 6, unlike most of the S.W.O.R.D. agents who are turned into clowns, Agent Monti (Alan Heckner) is changed into the circus strongman. Now, to be clear, it's unlikely that Monti has been made into any kind of superhero, but at the same time when we see a guy in a comic book TV show in a colorful, tight outfit with a big S on his belt, there's a good chance that means something. 

When you combine the S with the blue and yellow color scheme, there are a couple of different superheroes this could be referencing, and both of them are super strong. One possibility is Guido Carosella, a.k.a. the mutant hero Strong Guy. When he first joins the new version of X-Factor, Guido — like the rest of the team — wears a blue and yellow uniform. 

Another possibility, and a more fitting one, is the Sentry. Like Monti's getup, Sentry's original outfit is yellow and blue and it includes an S on the belt. Also, while he isn't introduced until 2000's The Sentry #1, it's revealed the hero's been around since the early days of Marvel but the entire world has forgotten about him, including the Sentry himself — just as Monti has forgotten who he is. 

In "We Interrupt This Program," we hear echoes from 2019's Captain Marvel as Monica is resurrected during the Blip. We hear those voices and more again in episode 7 as Monica forces her way through the hex barrier. And this time, it seems clear Monica is hearing them as well. 

 Mostly, we hear the young Monica talking with her late mother about helping Carol Danvers. We hear Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury tell her that she can only follow the adult heroes if she "can learn to glow" like her "Aunt Carol." And we know in the comics she does glow. We also hear different people like Dr. Harley and Jimmy Woo speaking of the death of Monica's mother. We once again hear Captain Marvel telling Monica that when "they were handing out kids," they gave her mother "the toughest one." It's these words that give Monica the strength to push the rest of the way through the barrier. 

Of course, there's also the title of the episode — "Breaking the Fourth Wall." Breaking a wall is exactly what Monica's doing, and while we can't say the walls are numbered, there are four alternate versions of Monica traveling with her through the wall before they merge with her.

Agnes is one of the characters fan theories have been swirling around before WandaVision even premiered. By the end of "Breaking the Fourth Wall," a lot of fans' suspicions seem to have been confirmed. Wanda's own suspicions are sparked when Agnes leads her into her home and Wanda notices the twins are nowhere to be seen. She then sees a large, loud insect on the window shade. She asks Agnes where the boys are, and Agnes answers that they're "probably just playing in the basement." Wanda goes down to the basement to look for them, and we get the episode's biggest reveal. 

This all unfolds like a tribute to The Silence of the Lambs. Toward the end of that film the hero, Clarice Starling, believes she's just doing a routine interview about the first victim of notorious serial killer Buffalo Bill. She's speaking to a man who now lives where the person she wants to interview used to live. She's already suspicious of his manner and some of the things she sees in his house. But when she notices a large exotic moth — something the killer leaves behind in his victims' throats — that seals the deal. She pulls her gun on him and he runs... where? To the basement, where they have their final showdown.

Just before Agatha reveals herself in the basement, Wanda notices what appears to be a very serious looking tome shimmering with crimson energy. 

We're not sure exactly what this is, though it could be the Darkhold. The Darkhold is probably the most infamous magic tome in the history of Marvel Comics, sought after by the likes of Doctor Strange and even the vampire king Count Dracula himself. The thing is, we've already seen the Darkhold in the MCU — in both Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Runaways — and it didn't look like this. But on the other hand, it isn't completely clear exactly what canonical weight a lot of the Marvel TV series have in the MCU.

Whatever it is, when we see Agatha use magic, it's accompanied by purple energy. The energy coming out of the book, on the other hand, is red like Wanda's. Also, the design on the book's cover features two sets of adjoined rings, kind of like... twins? And Wanda's boys are nowhere to be seen. Whatever the book is — whether it's the Darkhold or something else — it could be acting as the twins' prison.

Thanks to Agatha Harkness, Wanda experiences a vivid flashback of her childhood in episode 8, and for the first time, we see the incident that radicalized Wanda and Pietro and drove them toward joining HYDRA. In the middle of TV night, a missile ripped through their house, killing their parents. Pietro grabbed Wanda and pulled her under the bed, keeping her safe. But that's when another missile landed three feet in front of them ... but it didn't go off. 

The siblings stayed trapped under the bed for two days before they dared move. And as the duo noted in Avengers: Age of Ultron, there was one word painted on the side of the rocket: Stark. That spurred their hatred of Tony Stark and all that he stood for, pushing them into the arms of HYDRA as they volunteered for the experiments that would give them their powers. 

However, up until this episode, we'd only heard tell of this tragic event. But the scene in WandaVision goes into greater detail, including a reveal that the shell actually said "Stark Industries." More importantly, Agatha questions Wanda as to whether she ever wondered if it was a coincidence that the bomb didn't go off. From her perspective, it's obvious that Wanda was a "baby witch" who subconsciously used a probability-altering spell to prevent the explosive from going off. 

In "Previously On," after touching the Mind Stone, Wanda sits down to watch an episode of The Brady Bunch. In this particular installment, young Cindy Brady is having an argument with her brother, Bobby, about her beloved Kitty Karry-All doll. As it turns out, the doll that the Vision uses to practice diaper changes in episode 3 is an exact duplicate of Kitty Karry-All. Interestingly enough, that Brady Bunch episode was popular enough to lead to ancillary merchandise for the doll. Yes, you too could've owned Kitty Karry-All! 

As for the plot of that particular Brady Bunch episode, the doll goes missing, and Cindy blames Bobby. The young boy professes his innocence, and their argument spills over into the rest of the family before the real culprit — their dog — is revealed. That episode is a subtle reminder that things aren't always as they seem, and we can often overlook the real culprits and create undeserved blame if we're not careful. In other words, Wanda is being blamed for certain things that she hasn't done, and Agatha is gleefully stringing her along. Kitty Karry-All is also symbolic of how the twins who came along for Wanda and Vision aren't what they seem to be, either. 

In episode 8's post-credits scene, S.W.O.R.D. director Tyler Hayward reveals that his team has had a breakthrough. They've powered up the dead Vision's body using energy channeled from an object directly affected by Wanda's magic. As it turns out, all Hayward has wanted all along is a way to revive and control this sentient weapon. This revived Vision is a ghostly white, a direct reference to the period when the Vision was completely vivisected by shadowy forces and then put back together by Henry Pym during the late '80s. 

In the comics, the ghostly, barefoot Vision was drained of all emotions for years. Worse still, he'd taken control of all the world's computers thanks to his defective control crystal, giving him a megalomaniacal utopian scheme inspired by the Titanian artificial intelligence ISAAC. Fortunately, he abandoned his plot at the last minute, thanks to his friends. Vision then removed the crystal and was free from outside influences for the first time. But as a result, heavy questioning from the government led Wanda and Vision to resign from the Avengers and move to New Jersey. 

Rogue elements of the government weren't satisfied by this and, manipulated by Immortus, they tore him apart. This helped drive Wanda insane for the first time and made her a pawn of Immortus. However, the Vision rejoined the Avengers and slowly regained his emotions and memories as he used the brain patterns of a scientist named Alex Lipton, which eventually combined with the residual brain patterns of superhero Simon Williams. So, for diehard comic fans, seeing this spectral form of Vision in the MCU was quite the payoff for years of fandom. 

There were a lot of rumors out there indicating that Benedict Cumberbatch might make a cameo in the WandaVision finale as Doctor Strange. Well, the finale came and went without any sign from the resident of 177A Bleecker Street, but that doesn't mean he was forgotten entirely. 

As the battle between Wanda and Agatha moves to the Westview town center, Agatha confirms what many of us have suspected since the end of episode 7 — the tome she was keeping in her basement is the infamous Darkhold. Before revealing the book itself, Agatha tells Wanda there's "an entire chapter" dedicated to the Scarlet Witch in the Darkhold, "the book of the damned." Ignoring Wanda's protests, Agatha reads from the book, saying that the Scarlet Witch is "not born, she is forged. She has no coven, nor need for incantation." Perhaps the most impressive thing Agatha reads is that Wanda's power "exceeds that of the Sorcerer Supreme."

As we know, Doctor Strange is the Sorcerer Supreme, and he's not someone to be trifled with. The argument could be made that of all the heroes to go one-on-one with an Infinity Stone-powered Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War, none make as good a showing as Doctor Strange. Of course, Wanda gives as good as she gets when she shows up to settle her score with the big purple guy in Endgame, but still — saying Wanda is more powerful than Strange is significant.

We get to see Wanda in a comic book accurate get-up in "All-New Halloween Spooktacular!" but — just as is often the case in the MCU — that costume was intentionally made to look pretty goofy. Similarly, the costumes worn by Vision and the fake Pietro don't come off like what you'd expect to see the Avengers wearing while defending Earth. 

But while we get hints of it in the penultimate episode, we don't get to see Wanda in her new and improved comics-accurate outfit until the series finale, and it's worth the wait. We first see an energy outline of the headpiece forming while Wanda is in Agatha's nightmare vision. After Wanda places the runes of power along her Hex boundary — nullifying Agatha's powers — and she accepts who she is, we finally see her transformation begin. Once she reclaims her power from Agatha, she descends from the sky above Westview in an outfit that reflects her comic book attire — and doesn't look like it was thrown together at the last minute for a costume party.

By the end of WandaVision, we're still not completely clear on what Monica Rambeau's repeated exposure to Wanda's Hex has done to her. After she pierces the Hex boundary a second time in episode 7, it's clear that — physically speaking — she's more than she used to be. What isn't clear is what that means exactly. We see her eyes glow blue a number of times, and she recovers from an assault by Wanda quicker than you would expect. But in the series finale, we get a clue that her abilities could be close to those of her comic book counterpart. 

In the comics, Monica Rambeau has the ability to transform herself into any form of energy. Particularly back in the '80s when she first showed up, Rambeau would often appear covered in a golden hue as she transformed into light itself. Along with allowing her to travel impossibly fast, while she was in this form, solid objects would pass through her without harming her. 

We something not quite the same but similar in "The Series Finale." When Hayward tries to kill Billy and Tommy, Monica steps between the director and the boys, and her eyes glow gold. As the bullets reach her, they pass through her harmlessly. At the same time, the bullets are slowed down — and Monica's entire body takes on a semi-transparent golden appearance. 

So you thought that — like the Vision Wanda created in Westview — the end of the Hex would be the end of her sons Tommy and Billy? 

Well, apparently, not quite. 

If you stick around for not just the mid-credits scene but the post-credits scene as well, then you see Wanda in a cabin in some distant wilderness — looking kind of similar to Bruce Banner's hideout at the end of 2008's Incredible Hulk. Guarding the cabin is an illusion of a "normal" Wanda, while inside the building we see the Scarlet Witch's astral form accessing her powers and poring over the Darkhold, presumably to take Agatha's advice and learn more about who she is and what she's capable of. 

Just before the scene ends, we hear Billy and Tommy's voices calling out to Wanda for help. This is pretty significant because in the comics, while Wanda's twins are revealed to be constructs of her power, they are reincarnated in the forms of the boys who become the heroes Wiccan and Speed. While it's too soon to tell, it seems likely this could be exactly what leads Wanda to join forces with the Sorcerer Supreme in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.