Today, we look at the first three season five Only Murders in the Building opening title Easter Eggs.
In Pop Culture Easter Eggs, I share with you pop culture “easter eggs.” An easter egg is a joke/visual gag/homage/in-joke that is hidden in works that you are meant to find (just like an easter egg). They range from the not-so-obscure to the really obscure. So come check ’em all out and enjoy!
The excellent Hulu TV series, Only Murders in the Building, created by Steve Martin and John Hoffman and starring Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez, has a brilliant opening title sequence produced by Elastic, the same design firm that produced the iconic Game of Thrones opening credits (among many other credit sequences and other awesome design stuff).
The credits also include Easter Eggs hinting as to the plot of the episode in question. I previously listed all of Season 1’s easter eggs in a post here, all of Season 2’s easter eggs in a post here, all of Season 3’s easter eggs in a post here, and all of Season 4’s easter eggs in a post here. Season 5 launched on Tuesday with three episodes, so I’ll share the easter eggs each week (and I guess I’ll do a wrap-up post at the end of the season), beginning with the first three Easter Eggs from this week!
Obviously, SPOILERS AHEAD!
NAIL IN THE COFFIN
The first Easter Egg of Season 5 is Mable having a Stanley cup in her apartment window. She later uses the cup to hold the severed finger in the episode…
AFTER YOU
In the second episode, the main Easter Egg in this Lester-centric flashback episode is a silhouette of Lester overlooking “his” building from the Arcadia’s roof…
But there’s also a BONUS Easter Egg. Each episode has Howard walking a pet, but here, he’s pushing his mother in her wheelchair, as the episode takes place when she was still alive…
RIGOR
Finally, the third episode’s Easter Egg is seeing someone shade in the moon, referencing the classic technique of shading in the page below a missing page of a notebook (or, in this case, a ledger) to read what was on the torn out page.
I’ll be back next week with Episode 4’s Easter Egg!
In the meantime, If you have suggestions for a future Pop Culture Easter Eggs, feel free to drop me a line at brian@poprefs.com!
