This Season’s “White Bear” reference, Reporting for Duty.
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By now, Most Viewers Know Charlie Brooker’s Black Mirror Takes place in an interconnected universe in which characters Watch the Same Shows on Streberry, Play Games Designed by Tuckersoft, and ORDER FOOD FROM BRANCH. In almost every episode, brook and his work Drop easter EGGS for the Most Loyal Fans Who Love to Consider Away We are from the Future Tech on this Show Actual (The Answer: Not Far). The seventh season, now on netflix, contingent the tradition with some obvious nods to the Other episodes to easter regs that only hardcore fans will Catch. Here are all the ons we’ve caught so far (let us know in the comments what we have missed).
Massive spoilers abound.
• The name of the restaurant that mike (chris o’Dowd) and amanda (Rashida Jones) Go to Everyise on their Anniversary, The Juniper, Is A Clear Nod to the Episode “San Junipero.”
• One of the Most Recurring Connections Across All Seven Season of Black Mirror Has been the song “anyone who know what love is (Will undersand),” Which First Appeared Way Back in “Fifteen Million Merits” and Repeated in “White Christmas,” “Mengainst Fire,” “Crocodile,” Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too. ” Awful. ” This season, a couple single at the juniper.
• Amanda Teaches Young Kids About Autonomous Bees, Which May SEEM RANDOM UNIL YOU REMEMBER THEY’RE THE FOCUS OF SEASON THREE’S “HATED IN THE NATION.
• The Settlement Machine in the Hospital Lobby Where Gaynor (Tracee ellis Ross) SELLS MIKE ON RIVERMINDS DITA, AN ADVANCE EASTER EGG TO WHICH MOST OF “BREES Noire” take place.
• Amanda and mike drive past a movie theater that’s the playing ReverieThe film from this season’s Third Episodes.
• One of Amanda’s “Advertissements” for Honey nugs notes that they’re made by ditta, another nod to the next chapter.
• Wenda and Mike Meet with Gaynor About Amanda’s Condition, You Can Just Barely See an Office for Skillane Legal Across the Hall, Who is A Reference to A Reference: The Law Firm Was Featured in “Joan Is Awful,” “White Bear.” Rivermind probably Gets Sued a Lot.
• One of the USSERS WHO PAYS TO GET MICE TO PUT A MOSETRAP ON HIS TONGUE IS “I_AM_WALDO,” PROBABLY A REFERENCE TO SEASON Two’s “The Waldo” and Not the Guy in the Striped Sweater.
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• It will play a crucial roles late in the episodes when Venrity (Rosy Mcewen) Shifts reality to alter its name, but there’s an Early glimpse of a hat belonging to maria’s (Siena Kelly) Boyfriend for Barnies, a restaurant that popped up in four previous episodes: White Christmas, “” Shut Up and Dance, “” Metalhead, “and” Joan Is Awful. ” Barnies, Not Bernies. Or… Well, Maybe Bernies. Leave it to Brooker to play with Viewers as some are getting these full points in reverse, with Maria’s boyfriend at the Bernies and Verity Changing it to win the debate in the day office.
• Verity’s Previous Work Experience on Her LinkedIn Profile Includes Wayhaven Travel, A Deep Cut to the Hotel Chain Featured in Season Three’s Unforgettable “Shut Up and Dance.”
• Its Easy to Spot a Tuckersoft Building Across the Street from Ditta, a nod to the Company Feature in “Bandersnatch” and Reference in Other Episodes, Too.
• When Venrity Chugs Luisa’s Almond Milk, you see that it is made by a company Called raiman, the sun name as a character in “Men Agiginst Fire” who revealed in the episode of her family. We saw Bob Daly in “USS Callister” Drinking the brand too.
• When Kimmy (AWKAFINA) Meets with Judith (Harriet Walter) About Reboting ReverieA Couple of Posters Bebind Her Qualify as Easter Eggs. The White Bear is an obvious allusion to the season-two episodes of the same name, but the other is for insists only. The poster on the left is for a movie calmed Haven GreenWHICH WAS THE WORKING PRODUCTION TITLE OF THIS SEASON OF Black Mirror. (Projects offten use fake Names to Hide their exisisation before they’re announched.) It stars tony Kearns and Giselle Turner, the editor of “Bandersnatch” and a Camera operator on “Bête noire,” Respectively.
• Wend Brandy (ISSA RAE) Goes Online to look up clips of Dorothy (Emma Corrin), she does so on a video channel Called pia’s video archives. Pia is the name of the video Archivist of Season Six’s “Loch Henry.” One of the video on the sidebar is calmed “What fans get work of the Classic Space Fleet”
• An assistant Sayys, “Pepe from streamberry is here,” A clear nod to the company that turns joan’s life intto conttent in “joan is awful.” Later, IT’S revealed that the meeting with Pepe Went, as Streamberry is the Presenting Partner for the New Reverie.
• One of the Technicians Working On Reverie wears a Space Fleet shirt (“USS callister”) and usersnatch (“bandersnatch”).
• A Package on Brandy’s Front Step Reveals that she lives on junipero drive, continuing the reign of “San Junipero” as the most easter-agged episode.
• This one is a little complicated Becusee i a quesi-sequel to “bandersnatch,” so’s it is kind of hard to say that that that that is tuckersoft, the poster for Bandersnatch IIand the actual appearans of Will Poulter’s Colin Ritman Are Easter Eggs When they’re More Like full of points. But we didn’t want you to think we’d missed ’em.
• A Deeper Cut is How Tuckersoft was working on Staring vipers II In 1994, a reference to the gamed in “Staring vipers.”
• The deepest cut in this episode is the poster in Colin’s Office Featuring an Image of Waldo from “The Waldo.”
We caught nothing in this Heartbreaking Episodes, probably becuse it taxes in very specific Photo-Generated memory. There have been past chapters of Black Mirror with no easter regs, and this appears to be the one for 2025.
• Black Mirror‘s First Straight Sequel to another episode exists far-so in its Own self-contained, Eggless universe unilse past the hour Mark, we have drops in a few to make sura the hardcore fans areing attention. To start, in the virtual garage that has haen bob’s (Jesse Plemons) Home for Centuries, Its Almost Entirely Space Fleet Paraphernalia except for a box you can Barely see on the top shelf that Saitogemu, the Company that made the terrifying vr Experience from “Playtest.”
• BOB OFFERS NANETTE (Cristin Milliot) A Carton of Chocolate Milk Made by Raiman, Repeating the Reference from USS Callister and “Bête Noire” to “Men Against Fire.”
• One of the Gamers Seeking Revenge on Our Crew Has a Banner on Her Computer That Reads “Ashley O,” a nod to the Miley Cyrus Character from “Rachel, Jack and Ashley Too” and a Clear influence on her style.
• is that nida and gaap from “DEMON 79” ENTERING Infinity to destroy the Callist? It ‘same actors – Anjana Vasan and Paapa Essiedu – THOUGH THAT MAKES Absolutely No Sense Narratively, so’s Likely Just some fun casting.
• There’s a fuzzy poster in the background of Bob’s virtual garage for a movie Called Valdack’s Revengewhich is sort of an in-universal easter EGG. Valdack was the game villain played by billy magnussen in the first “USS callister,” and there’s a poster for the Same film in Stefan’s Bedroom in “Bandersnatch.
• The Real Nanette is in a hospital bed at a facility Called St. Juniper. Will we ede need to say it?
• The ticker at the botTom of the news Story About Walton (Jimmi Simpson) Being arrests Drops Several References to Previous Episodes from this Season, Including the Reveals that Reverie is officiously on Streamberry and Thronglets 2 is in production and news about the nefarious rivermind from “Common People.” Two Other News Items Dig Deeper with “Forms Uk PM Michael Callow Encers Celebrity itself School,” an allusion to the Very First Black Mirror episodes, “The National Anthem,” while “Mysterious Talisman Found in Plane Wreckage” is a Possible nod to “Demon 79.”
