WandaVision's eighth episode did a lot to explain the mystery at the heart of the MCU series -- namely, why did Wanda make herself the center of a strange, surreal sitcom? Let's dig even deeper into some of the easter eggs and references in Wanda's real-life TV Land.
In episode 8 of WandaVision, Wanda is made to see the night that her life was ripped apart in Sokovia. Moments before a fateful explosion, she and her family are watching her favorite episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show season 2's It May Look Like A Walnut. This is a classic episode of the series, as Rob Petrie watches a science fiction film about walnut-obsessed aliens infiltrating Earth. The next day, all of the events of the film seem to come true. First, his wife turns into a space invader, and then Rob himself begins to morph into an alien.
The episode was a parody of the sci-fi classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers, only with movie star Danny Thomas as the extraterrestrial ringleader. The Easter egg at play is that this Dick Van Dyke episode is really just a bad dream. Rob's wife hasn't been taken by the aliens. He's not missing his thumbs or lost his sense of humor. Similarly, Wanda takes all of the bad things that have ever happened to her and turns them into a bad dream. Date: 2021-03-02
