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Ready to snap along with the spookiest details you overlooked? Join us as we spotlight the clever easter eggs, deep-cut references, and creepy callbacks lurking in Wednesday’s second season. Our picks include Ophelia’s flower crown, Shakespearean nods across Nevermore, Morticia’s pen name Barbara Jean Day, Weems’ spectral return, Rotwood cottage decor, the Addams family credo, Principal Dort’s Poe-inspired look, and Christopher Lloyd’s surprise role—plus more chilling clues!
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00:00What don't you see?
00:07Welcome to Ms. Mojo, and today we're looking at the Easter eggs, references and callbacks in Wednesday Season 2 Parts 1 and 2.
00:16Your father has no ink in them, that's the way I'd like to keep it.
00:19My lips are sealed for my own protection.
00:22Number 10. Kansas City Scalpers Victims and Dolls.
00:26When we catch up with Wednesday Addams in Season 2, she's tied up in a serial killer's creepy lair filled with eerie-looking dolls.
00:34He said nightmares don't come true.
00:42He's under the delusion that I'm his next victim.
00:48I'll let him cherish that notion while I explain my predicament.
00:51As her inner monologue explains what led her here, there are photos of the Kansas City Scalpers' victims.
00:57While we're not shown close-ups of each doll, we can still see that they bear a striking resemblance to his victims.
01:03And if they're all like the one Wednesday gifted Enid, then they all have real human hair.
01:09I mean, it is a little creepy, but the curls are super soft.
01:14However, Wednesday wasn't missing any hair, and he still made her a look-alike doll.
01:18That's how I remember all my special guests.
01:27Number 9. Christopher Lloyd as Professor Orloff.
01:31One of Season 2's new characters is, ironically, Nevermore Academy's longest-serving educator, Professor Orloff,
01:38who is actually a disembodied head preserved in a jar.
01:41The biology teacher might look and sound familiar, because he's none other than legendary actor Christopher Lloyd.
02:02He's known for many iconic roles, including Doc Brown in Back to the Future and Judge Doom from Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
02:10But Wednesday fans definitely know Lloyd as Uncle Fester in both 1991's The Addams Family and 1993's Addams Family Values.
02:18When he was asleep, I opened his skull and removed his brains.
02:23You did?
02:28A brother!
02:32Lloyd is always a joy to watch, but it's especially fun seeing him play a strict professor after portraying a character so unhinged as Fester.
02:40Let's get busy.
02:43Those are the Orbswolds stuff themselves, and I've got my eye on you too.
02:51Number 8. Wednesday's Attic Bedroom.
02:53Sort of straight out of the Chaz Adams cartoons, and it's very sparse and very minimal.
02:57It has like a chair and a desk.
02:59That's the essence of what we try to get to with the show.
03:01In Season 1 of Wednesday, we only saw quick glimpses of the Addams Family Mansion.
03:06The series mainly takes place at Nevermore Academy, showing how the titular teen navigates a school full of outcasts.
03:13Season 2 doesn't fully explore the mansion, but some early scenes and flashbacks are set in Wednesday's Attic Bedroom.
03:20I was hoping to spend more time with you this summer.
03:24I feel like I've barely seen you.
03:25Writers should always refill their creative cups before they begin again.
03:28So I indulged in my favorite passions, torment and humiliation.
03:31Production designer Mark Scruton took inspiration from Charles Adams' original comic in The New Yorker magazine.
03:38Right down to decor details like a painted octopus on the bed and a dinosaur mural.
03:43The sparse dwelling is a noticeable contrast to the half-colorful dorm she shares with Enid.
03:49Dividing our room equally.
03:53Looks like a rainbow vomited on your side.
03:56Silence would be appreciated.
03:58Number 7. Principal Dort's Edgar Allan Poe look.
04:01Hello fellow outcasts, and welcome back to Nevermore.
04:08I'm your principal, Barry Dort.
04:14And tonight we celebrate a new era.
04:17Season 1's finale saw Ms. Thornhill, aka Laurel Gates, kill Larissa Weems, leaving Nevermore without a principal.
04:24When school begins again, we're introduced to Principal Barry Dort, an enthusiastic outcast with pyro abilities and ulterior motives.
04:33I hate to speak ill of the dead, but in this case, Weems really fudged up.
04:37I don't like to speak ill of the dead either.
04:39It's much more fun to demonize the living.
04:41Upon first glance, Dort's quirky style doesn't particularly stand out among the other eccentrics.
04:46But when he's standing in his office, he points to a portrait of Nevermore alum Edgar Allan Poe.
04:52The late poet is someone he admires.
04:55So much so that Poe inspired his whole look, particularly his hairstyle and mustache.
05:00What a wonderful first day it's been, hasn't it?
05:02Oh, it's so nice to see this place brimming with outcast energy.
05:07Our most famous alumni would be proud.
05:10Number 6. The Addams Family Credo.
05:12In episode 1, we get to see the revival of an old Nevermore tradition, the Founder's Pyre Ceremony.
05:19Principal Dort uses the event to honor the students who helped defeat Joseph Crackstone,
05:23commemorating their bravery with a painting.
05:26I had this commission to commemorate how you and your rag-tag group of Nevermore buddies saved our school.
05:35By now, everyone should know Wednesday Addams isn't the type to enjoy the spotlight or deliver inspirational speeches.
05:50Still, Dort makes the mistake of having her come on stage and say a few words.
05:54Wednesday delivers a very on-brand diatribe, reciting her family's credo.
05:59Tonight?
05:59Yeah.
06:00Is our banquet of discontent, and we shall gladly feast on those who would subdue us.
06:12This is the first time we've heard it in the series, but many viewers might recognize the statement said by Morticia in 1991's The Addams Family.
06:20Like everything Addams-related, the credo is morbid, yet still encouraging.
06:24Sic gorgiamus allo subjectatus nook, we gladly feast on those who would subdue us.
06:33Not just pretty words.
06:36Number 5.
06:37Rotwood Cottage Decor
06:38When Gomez and Morticia drop off Wednesday in Pugsley at Nevermore, Principal Dort asks Morticia to head this year's gala fundraising committee.
06:46I realize I've ambushed you.
06:48No, I usually enjoy a good ambush.
06:50Especially when it involves daggers.
06:53Why don't you think about it overnight?
06:58This and I will discuss it on the ride home.
07:02Actually, I was hoping to keep you a little closer.
07:05He also offers them the Rotwood Cottage as a temporary residence on campus.
07:10Unfortunately, the last occupant, Marilyn Thornhill, aka Laurel Gates, was a big fan of pinks and florals.
07:17Who decorated this place?
07:20A homicidal maniac.
07:22No, he shouldn't cast aspersions, dear.
07:25Not all homicidal maniacs have such ghastly tastes.
07:28The interior design is reminiscent of the Addams Family set in the 1960s, which was actually pink, but aired on TV in black and white.
07:36Mark Scruton and his team filled the cottage with some classic Addams Family decor, including the stuffed bear, Iron Maiden, shrunken heads, and the iconic fan back chair.
07:47The various rose designs are a nod to Morticia's penchant for cutting them.
07:51With her macabre taste, she transforms the residence into a gothic delight.
07:55Where did you find those?
07:57From an expedition Gomez's Uncle Vasco led in the Peruvian rainforest.
08:02That's Uncle Vasco on the left.
08:05Nothing like family to make a house feel like a home.
08:10Number 4.
08:12Weems in the Afterlife
08:13This isn't hell.
08:16But I understand the confusion.
08:18After her untimely death in Season 1, fans hoped for but didn't expect to see the return of Larissa Weems.
08:25Then again, Wednesday is a show about the supernatural, so just about any character can re-emerge as a ghost.
08:32Weems appears to Wednesday as her new spirit guide, filling the position previously held by Goody Adams.
08:38There has to be another option.
08:40Your last spirit guide literally gave up her ghost to save you.
08:44Believe me, nobody was putting up their hand for this assignment.
08:47And yet here you are.
08:49The tantalizing prospect of tormenting you from beyond the grey was just too delicious to pass up.
08:54She makes a sly quip about this realm not being hell.
08:58A clever nod to Gwendolyn Christie's role as Lucifer Morningstar on Netflix's The Sandman.
09:03Wednesday isn't exactly thrilled to see her former principal,
09:06but we're sure excited for Christie's transition from dreams to Weems.
09:10The board will now look back upon the Weems era with fondness.
09:14Nevermore clearly needs a steady hand on the rudder.
09:17A leader of impeccable moral character.
09:20You covered up Rowan's murder and the existence of a Hyde.
09:24Mistakes were made, but that's all in the past.
09:28Number 3. Barbara Jean Day.
09:31How could my mother read this drivel?
09:37In episode 6, Wednesday, body swapped with Enid at the time,
09:42goes snooping in the Rotwood cottage and stumbles upon her mother's fantasy romance books.
09:47But Morticia isn't just an avid reader of spicy novels.
09:50She's an author, publishing under the pseudonym Barbara Jean Day.
09:54But I made the mistake of giving my mother one of my early efforts.
09:57The sound of her humiliating cackle still haunts me.
10:03So, after that I decided to keep my literary career a secret.
10:07It may seem like a random name with no significance,
10:10especially for those unfamiliar with the Addams Family creator Charles Addams.
10:14Barbara Jean Day was the cartoonist's first wife,
10:17rumored to be his inspiration for Morticia.
10:19However, Charles created the character in 1933,
10:23and didn't meet Barbara until 1942.
10:26Still, that's quite the deep cut.
10:28Perhaps one day you'll appreciate the intoxicating power of weaving mystery and passion.
10:35Number 2. Shakespeare References.
10:38Poe, Dante, Shelley, Dickens.
10:41Wednesday, you need to hurry!
10:43Wednesday is a series full of various literary references,
10:46many of which derive from the works of Nevermore alum Edgar Allan Poe,
10:51including the new Telltale Cafe food truck.
10:53But he's not the only legendary figure celebrated at the Academy.
10:57The doctor suggested I read to her.
10:59I chose Macbeth.
11:01Nothing like death, despair, and dismemberment to try and snap her out of her coma.
11:06Dish, come on.
11:08Denmark will still be rotten tomorrow.
11:12Wrong tragedy, my chérie.
11:14Last season, Wednesday was assigned to a dorm in Ophelia Hall,
11:18named after the character from William Shakespeare's Hamlet.
11:21Season 2 introduced the other three houses, or halls, at the school.
11:25Pugsley, Eugene, and Ajax reside in Caliban Hall, a character from The Tempest.
11:30The nice details of the fireplace.
11:32Being Caliban Hall, we couldn't really have somewhere without Caliban,
11:35so the sculpture represents Caliban in his cave,
11:38with a quote, be not afeard from The Tempest.
11:40The house sigils can be seen on students' clothing,
11:42like Thisby Hall on Bruno's jacket,
11:45and Puck Hall on Bianca's t-shirt,
11:47both from A Midsummer Night's Dream.
11:49Another new location is Iago Tower,
11:52referencing Shakespeare's Othello.
11:54How am I, then, a villain?
11:56Well, this advice is free, I give, and honest.
11:59Proble to thinking, and indeed,
12:01the course to win the moor again.
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12:19Number 1.
12:20Ophelia's Flower Crown
12:21Season 2 added quite a few new characters
12:24who are sure to become fan favorites,
12:27but no one is more mysterious than Ophelia Frump,
12:30Morticia's younger sister.
12:31You've never been very forthcoming about Aunt Ophelia.
12:42You remind me a lot of her.
12:45Especially as you've gotten older.
12:47When Ophelia's raven powers drove her to the point of madness,
12:51their mother, Hester, had her committed to Willow Hill.
12:54However, she allegedly escaped and has been missing ever since.
12:57Aunt Ophelia was in there?
12:59When?
13:01Years ago, but she'd already flown the coop by the time I got committed.
13:04The Season 2 finale revealed that Hester has her daughter locked in a cellar.
13:08She's only shown from the back in the dark room,
13:10but we can make out her long blonde hair and flower crown,
13:14just like other versions of the character.
13:15Although the actress is unknown,
13:18Ophelia will likely play a major role in Season 3.
13:21Maybe Catherine Zeta-Jones will play both sisters,
13:24like Morticia actress Carolyn Jones in the 1960s show.
13:27Oh dear, just as my career was blossoming,
13:31it's nipped in the butt.
13:32Not yet, Ophelia, dear.
13:34Did you catch any of these?
13:36Let us know in the comments below.
13:38I thought you'd love the literary reference.
13:40Nothing like a bad pun to throw dirt on the coffin of epic poetry.
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