Wicked Movie Easter Eggs | The Scarecrow, the Tinman, and More!

[@jujubee2141]

Thank you Samantha for doing this video. I love stuff like this!

[@priscilalangbehn]

Loved it! Thank you ❤

[@laskmj24]

Another Easter egg I noticed was in the song Popular. Glinda hands Elphaba a pair of red shoes and clicks them three times in tempo with the song. (Reference to the ruby slippers from the 1939 movie.)

[@sammysamslife]

@@laskmj24 Omg I completely forgot to mention that! That was great!

[@LucTeasdale]

also in the beginning when the monkeys fly away and they go over the rainbow with the Unlimited music

[@RenaJalon]

another easter egg (i'm pretty sure) moment is in the beginning of the movie is during elpheba's birth there were the diamond heels by the table, and later her father gives them to nessa rose when she goes to shiz and that foreshadows when nessa uses the ruby shoes to walk and later gets crushed by dorothy's house

[@sammysamslife]

Omg I didn’t notice that! Thank you for pointing that out!

[@sammysamslife]

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[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

@@sammysamslife Another one: The same font used for the "Wicked part 1" title card is the same font "The Wizard of OZ" (1939 MGM film) uses for its title card. Also, the first 7 bars of the "Unlimited" melody throughout the film is just the same bars used for the intro of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" slightly tweaked. The song is also referenced in "The Wizard & I" when Elphie runs through a wheat field (similar to those IN Kansas [as a native, I ought to know]), there's a rainbow above her and she accidentally disturbs a flock of bluebirds, echoing the line "If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why, can't I?" (Of course, in Elphie's case, this translates to: "When people see me, they will scream. For half of OZ's favorite team. The Wizard & I!") Of course, there's the torch-passing (not literally, given the past history the performers of The Wicked Witch of the West have had regarding fire & pyrotechnics [i.e. Margaret Hamilton receiving 2nd & 3rd degree burns during a 2nd take of her Munchkinland exit from the behind-the-scenes of the 1939 MGM film, as well as her stand-in Betty Danko getting a severe gash in her leg when the absestos-laden pipe underneath her broomstick for the skywriting scene exploded underneath her]) cameos of Idina Menzel (complete with her own iconic war cry riff) & Kristin Chenoweth (who does G[a]linda's broken wand comedic bit) as the Wise Ones / Adepts (as they're called in the _Wicked_ book), along with Winnie Holzman (the writer of the musical's screenplay) as an OZian exclaiming that The Wizard could read the Grimmorie (even though he's actually just saying the name of his Nebraska home town of "Omaha" very slowly to make it appear as if he could read the book when he clearly could not) & composer Stephen Schwartz (as the guard telling the two witches, "The Wizard will see you now!"). The Wizard's model "OZ of Tomorrow", beyond it being the origin story for the Yellow Brick Road's colorization & The Wizard knocking over a falling house prop (an obvious foreshadowing of Nessarose's death via Dorothy's falling farmhouse landing on her via the cyclone created by Madame Morrible after jealously petty Glinda suggests that the best way to lure fugitive Elphie out of hiding is to go after her sister), is also a double nod to both Walt Disney's original concept for E.P.C.O.T (Experimental Prototype Community Of Tomorrow) and L. Frank Baum's own little slice of heaven on Earth, which he appropriately termed OZcot.

[@SilasInWonderland]

Here's one I caught--When Miss Coddle meets Elphaba for the first time, she says something like "not an issue, just a slight... Gulch." I think that has to have been on purpose, considering the Kansas counterpart of Elphaba is Almira Gulch in the Wizard of Oz.

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

Also, I betcha that Miss Coddle's first name is Molly as a reference to the term "mollycoddle", since that is literally what she was doing to Nessarose.

[@jujubee2141]

Missed the “Gulch” comment. I gotta see the movie again and pay closer attention.

[@jujubee2141]

Wasn’t Boq’s last name Woodman or Woodsman? In the WOO book The TinMan is called The Tin Woodman. So…

[@TherealRNOwwfpooh]

Yes. But this is exclusive to the film adaptation of _Wicked_ since not even the musical mentioned Boq's last name even if the musical is directly responsible for fusing Boq the Munchkin & the OG Tin Woodsman (Nick Chopper) together into one character (they remain separated even in Gregory Mcguire's _Wicked: The Life & Times of The Wicked Witch of the West_ novel that was written in 1995, around the time of the 1939 MGM film's 50th anniversary), just as the literary Good Witch of the North (she initially went unnamed, but was later given the name of Tattypoo Locasta) & Glinda the Good Witch of the South were merged together by the 1939 MGM film & _Wicked_ to be Glinda the Good Witch of the North & per her younger years in the _Wicked_ saga, Galinda Upland of the Upper Uplands, essentially changing her home county from southern Quadling -- since red is the signature color of those from the southernmost part of OZ, with Glinda ruling over them, which explains her strawberry blondish red hair & pink dress in both the W. W. Denslow illustrations & Billie Burke's 1939 MGM film depiction of her, even if most adaptations to follow have made her blond instead to better play upon her "dumb blond" archetype personality -- to northern Gilkin, meanwhile eastern Munchkinland's signature color is blue & although one would forgive you for thinking the western Winkie's signature color is green due to Margaret Hamiton's memorable portrayal of The Wicked Witch of the West & the Winkie guards from the 1939 MGM film also sharing the same green skin as their melted oppressor, in L. Frank Baum's book, the signature color of the Winkies (known as the Vinkus region of the Arjikie tribe whose crown prince is Fiyero in _Wicked_ since Gregory Mcguire recontextualized the word Winkie as a term of enslavement concocted by biased OZian media outlets to further disparage, discredit, and defame Elphie) is actually yellow, which may suggest that they were the ones to pave the golden road of yellow brick that connects all four counties of OZ together & links each of them to OZ's capital hub, the not-really Emerald City, which only looks green in the first OZ book because anyone who visits is duly required to wear green-tinted spectacles so everything looks completely green, yet in later OZ books, the city actually embraces its emerald namesake & becomes genuinely green, as ordered by the decree of the royal heiress Princess OZma who reclaims her family's throne after her rescue from Mombi in "The Marvelous Land of OZ".

[@wjpbmore]

I read an article where the author claims to have seen a trap door in the opening sequence of the film. I didn’t see it but I wasn’t looking for it. Anyone else notice it to verify that story?

[@eamonclark4952]

The professor who replaces Dr Dillamond is named Nikdik after General Lord Nikdik from L. Frank Baums books who was played by Jonathan Winters in the Shirley Temple version of The Land Of Oz book

[@sammysamslife]

@@eamonclark4952 Wow! That’s so cool!

[@wjpbmore]

Great catch! But technically it is Lord General Nikidik, from Shirley Temple’s Storybook, who is based on a combination of the mad scientist Dr Nikidik and General Jinjur from LFB’s “The Marvelous Land of Oz.”

[@wcm469]

Another Easter egg is when elfaba and fiero release the lion she tells him “get stuffed”.