Turning Red/Easter Eggs

The following page is a complete list on Easter Eggs spotted within Pixar's Turning Red. References can sometimes relate to the outside movie world if their hinted to be in the film.

## Inside-World references

### Toy Story

* The Pizza Planet Truck is one of Pixar's most popular easter eggs debuted in the studio's first feature, *Toy Story*. When Panda Mei charges through the streets of Toronto on her way to the 4\*TOWN concert, she speeds past the parked Pizza Planet Truck.
	+ There are also other distinctive easter eggs including numerous Pizza Planet boxes scattered around Tyler's House during history birthday part and an ad for Pizza Planet athe Sky Dome stadium where the 4\*TOWN concert takes place.
* The number of the Lee Family home is 234, a likely reference to Andy's sexond House as revealed in Toy Story 3.

### Luca

* Turning Red tips it's hat to *Luca*, another coming of-the-age Pixar Story. When Mei is fantasising about Devon she draws him as a merman in her notebook, a reference to the dual human and sea monster nature of character like Luca and Alberto. Mei also has vision of Devon as a fish during her nightmare when she first transforms into a red panda.
* In Luca, the Turning Red Easter Egg was craftily hidden in Gulia's room via the record titled "4 Star Villaggi". The Italian word "villagi" means villages similar to the word "town", making the vinyl record a reference to Turning Red's boy band, 4\*TOWN.

### Coco

* Throughout the scenes of Carter Murphy-Mayhew, his shirt reads 'Escápula' which is a deep-cut reference to Coco and the heavy-metal band of the same name who performed in the Land of the Dead's Battle of Bands. The band's drum inscription is Escápula (which means Shoulder Blade) making it the perfect name for dead, bony musicians.
* In another scene where Panda Mei unintentionally scares a couple, there are some Mexican papel picado decorations hanging by a house rooftop like the ones in *Coco*.

### Bao

* Prior to directing Turning Red, Domee Shi was best known for her first short film Bao, about a Chinese mother living in Toronto and a dumpling that comes to life. There is a sign for a restaurant called Bao on the streets of Toronto and a decoration on the wall of Mei's home spotted during Shi's Oscar Wiining Short which is the same as the one in Bao.
* Another on-going reference of Bao is given in the post of the Turning Red Instagram account and indirectly confirms the short film to be a likely reference of the recurring onions inside Turning Red.

### Luxo, Jr.

* The Luxo Ball from Pixar's shirt film, Luxo, Jr., also makes it's appearance in Turning Red during Tyler's birthday party. The iconic ball is seen floating in his swimming pool. The famous desk lamp from the same short is featured in her room, which is observed through her mirror.

### A113 reference

* Another recurring Pixar Easter Egg, A113 appears on screen for just a split second during the stadium scene. When Jin Lee uses a chalk machine to draw a circle around his wife's enormous panda form, the machine's inscription describe itself as the "PROFESSIONAL MODEL A113" and there is another A113 written on the 4\*TOWN tickets in the credits.

### Lightyear

* Every Pixar movie includes an Easter Egg to the next movie on the studio's schedule, and next up is *Lightyear* (Buzz's origin story). In Turning Red, Miriam is an avid skater with her own skateboard which contains a sticker of Sox, Buzz's robotic cat in Lightyear. Followed by this scene is Mei's large case which contains a sticker for the Lightyear logo.

### Mulan

* When Ming makes Mei a bowl of porridge with eggs and a smiley face, it's a little tribute to the happy porridge Mushu makes for Mulan in the Disney animated movie. And actor James Hong who plays Mr. Gao in this movie was also the voice of Chi Fu in Disney's much-loved 90s film.

### Purl

* An Easter Egg to to the short film Purl is put in Mei's bedroom via the little pink ball of yarn with eyes hanging just above her desk. Similar to Turning Red, the theme of Purl is about learning to accept who you really are rather than what others want you to be.

### Burrow

* The rabbit sticker on Mei's notebook is the bunny from Burrow, the Pixar short about a young rabbit who wants to dig the perfect burrow but ends up embarrassed as she keeps digging into her neighbours' homes.

### Up

* Tropical Bird Kevin from *Up* makes an appearance as a skeleton in an empty school classroom buried in the background.

### Finding Nemo

* Followed by Luca, there's another fishy Pixar Easter Egg via the Finding Nemo sticker on a stall in the school's bathroom.

## Outside-Pixar references

* When Priya is first seen in the movie, she is reading a romantic fantasy novel called "Nightfall: The Final Chapter". The book's cover, complete with a vampire, seems like a homage to "the twilight saga". Director Shi also says Priya and her deadpan goth-like manner represents how she and her friends were into "vampire, punk rock and emo" around the end of middle school.

* Shi infused the film with details from anime so whenever a character gets especially excited, there eyes become super dilated with sparkles and stars, a very popular effect in Anime.

## Real-life references

* Another detail in the scene where Mei scares off a couple is how she raises her paws in the air while standing up, similar to how real-life red pandas will rise up on their back legs when there scared in order to look bigger.

## References

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