![]() "It's not slavish replication, it's using these ideas that are embedded in everybody's psyche one way or another to express this story idea," he says.Īt this point in the series, it's not clear what exactly is happening. Now, as Wanda is experiencing a surprise (and fast-moving pregnancy), we're up to the 1970s and The Brady Bunch.įor Worthington, the goal was not to precisely mimic the old sets, even though Wanda and Vision's kitchen in the opening episode looks almost exactly like Rob and Laura's in Dick Van Dyke. At the beginning of the half hour, Wanda and Vision are in twin beds like Lucy and Ricky Ricardo, but they move them together like the witch Samantha and her human husband Darrin. The second episode moves into the mid-to-late 1960s with Bewitched. The premiere, which starts off with Vision consciously not tripping over an ottoman, is primarily an ode to The Dick Van Dyke Show, though Worthington notes there are elements of The Donna Reed Show, Father Knows Best, and I Love Lucy in its design as well. So far, each installment has taken inspiration from a different era. And in no place is that more evident than in the ever-evolving set. For those of us who grew up on Nick Nite and TV Land, the joy of WandaVision is noticing where it nods to the TV of yore. (Before then, it was in the witch-themed film Bell, Book and Candle, adding another layer of magic to it.)įor as much as the first episodes of WandaVision have been a boon for content-deprived Marvel obsessives searching for clues that connect it to the overarching narrative, the show has also proven delightful as a classic sitcom pastiche. It was not a conscious "easter egg," Worthington explains, but it was "serendipity."Īnother happy coincidence? The Brady horse statue was from a studio prop house and had popped up before in Bewitched, another show from which WandaVision takes major cues. ![]() WandaVision's production designer Mark Worthington says he did not insist on having that horse there, but when his decorator found one that resembled the Bradys', it had to go in. The horse is also an homage to the Brady clan. ![]() For anyone with a passing knowledge of the history of sitcoms, this week's set very clearly takes its inspiration from the abode in The Brady Bunch, down to the iconic staircase Carol and Mike's kids would run down. A day that never existed, in a world that's not real.In the third episode of WandaVision, you might notice a familiar-looking horse statue in the latest version of the suburban home occupied by Wanda Maximoff, aka Scarlet Witch, and her android husband Vision. Because 1956 was a leap year, August 23 skipped from Tuesday the year before to Thursday do I think this means Episode 1 takes place in the year 1950? Nope - to me, it's far more interesting to think that this is Wednesday, August 23, 1956. (I'm being anal about this because The Dick Van Dyke Show, which is another huge reference point here, originally premiered in 1961.)Īnyway, I was looking up what specific year in the 1950s would August 23 have fallen on a Wednesday, and the answer is that it only happened once, in 1950. ![]() I'll leave you with a fun thing I discovered while doing my research: Creator Jac Schaeffer confirmed in a new featurette that the specific era in which Episode 1 is set is the 1950s. It's an episode where its simple surface layer hides a crap-ton of secrets, and all we know at this point is that we're hooked to learn what happens next. revealing that they're being watched by someone (or likely many someones, given the helicopters heard elsewhere). Wanda and Vision, cuddling on the couch together, decide to make "Yakety Yak" their official song, Wanda magicks up some wedding rings for them, and as Vision declares, "they lived happily ever after." As when the credits roll, though, the camera pulls back. Things snap back to "normal" at that point, and the Harts take their leave. ![]()
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