Episode 1 - "Filmed Before a Live Studio Audience"

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SPOILER WARNING!!! Anything that will be discussed from this point forward will contain Easter eggs that exist in the Episode 1 (or prior) for WandaVision. While I have not seen any material beyond this chapter***, it could include details that result in accurate predictions for the rest of the series.

For comments, I ask that you make them purely about Episode 1 (or prior) of WandaVision. Comments about future episodes should be posted on each episode's chapter. This is to help people who haven't seen the most current episode we discuss at the time.

You have been warned! Let the hunt commence!


***Even though episode 1 and episode 2 were released the same day, I tried to keep them separate and only include things I noticed from this episode. I will include things from both in the next chapter. :)





Marvel title card and end of intro music: The title card has the appearance of being from mid-20th century and the end of the intro music changes ever so slightly to what a song would sound like through a tv from that time. This sets the stage for the episode to take place sometime during that time period.

Also, we see that the episode will be set in black & white, like shows from that time.

Added 1/23/21: the aspect ratio for this episode is that of an older tv show, not of a widescreen tv show.


Real estate sign: The sign shows a 732 area code, which is for central New Jersey in the USA. This town could be near Camp Lehigh in New Jersey (Camp Lehigh and the town it is in are fictional Marvel places, so hard to tell at this point). Interestingly though, the 732 area code wasn't created until 1997 and All-number calling (XXX-XXX-XXXX, where all X's represent numbers) wasn't phased in until at least the early to mid-1960s. A town in 1961 would have been part of the test phase for this phone number system.


First dialogue: Referring to the exchange below, unsure what the comment about Wanda means just yet (I bet we'll see in a future episode), because Wanda's follow up is a pretty wild reference to what happened in Infinity War. Clearly, we know Vision's head isn't indestructible, so we'll have to see what that's all about.

Vision: "My wife and her flying saucers."
Wanda: "My husband and his indestructible head."


Vision's newspaper: The front title reads "LITTLE BABY JUNE'S FIRST WORD TICKLES MOTHER..." (I couldn't identify the last word). Clearly, there aren't exciting things happening in this small town.

On the back at the top, the TV ad says "Every American Home can benefit from the newest, most modern Television." I wonder if this a funny reference to the show in general or the show within a show.

At the bottom, I cannot make out the writing, but it has a lobster, cake, and what might be a steak. This would come back later in the form of the dinner Agnes brings over for Wanda to prepare.


Calendar: The same tv that was in the ad on the back of the newspaper is in the picture on the calendar. The writing says: "All this little girl needs is a COLOR TELEVISION." Color TV wasn't popular or inexpensive until the mid-1960s. The repetition of the focus on television and noting of color tv are interesting.

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