I Genuinely Can't Watch This Week's "The Last Of Us" Episode The Same Way After Noticing These Easter Eggs And Details

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Pedro Pascal and Bella Ramsey perfectly recreated the beloved abstraction country from "The Last of Us" video game.

1. First, the opening flashback with a young Joel and his dada is caller for the TV amusement and doesn't beryllium successful The Last of Us Part II. Tony Dalton, who stars arsenic Joel's dad, is acceptable to person a relation successful Naughty Dog's upcoming crippled Intergalactic: The Heretic Prophet, which besides stars Tati Gabrielle, who plays Nora.

A young Joel listening to his dada speech to him successful the kitchen

2. When Joel's dada puts his manus connected Joel's shoulder, you tin spot he's wearing the ticker that Joel has worn since the opening of the bid and successful the games.

A close-up of a greenish ticker arsenic Joel's dada puts a manus connected Joel's shoulder

3. Since this occurrence is centered connected flashbacks with Joel (Pedro Pascal) and Ellie (Bella Ramsey), Joel was re-added to the extremity of the opening credits erstwhile a silhouette of him and Ellie grows retired of the cordyceps. Joel's silhouette was antecedently removed from the credits after Episode 2.

A gangly and shorter sihouette lasting amongs fungi

4. The moth connected the cervix of Ellie's guitar that Joel builds for her matches the 1 that is besides connected her guitar successful the game. It's shown successful the opening country of The Last of Us Part II.

Close-ups of a cervix of a guitar with a moth carved into it

5. After intentionally burning her arm, Ellie tells Joel that she conscionable wanted to beryllium capable to deterioration abbreviated sleeves again, which is the aforesaid happening Ellie tells Dina successful Episode 4.

Ellie telling Joel she conscionable wanted to beryllium capable to deterioration abbreviated sleeves again vs. her telling Dina the aforesaid thing

6. In Ellie's room, you tin spot she has a cassette portion for A-ha's album, Hunting High and Low, which is wherever "Take connected Me" is from, which, of course, she sang to Dina successful Episode 4 successful the euphony shop.

Close-up of a A-ha cassette portion vs. Ellie playing the guitar for Dina

7. Joel sings "Future Days" by Pearl Jam to Ellie aft gifting her the guitar, which is the opus Ellie began to sing wrong the theatre in Episode 5. It's an important opus from The Last of Us Part II game, wherever Joel besides sings it.

Close-up of Joel's look singing "If I ever were to suffer you" successful the amusement vs. game

8. Ellie trying to conjecture what Joel's astir to amusement her is thing straight from the game. In the game, Ellie besides guesses if it's a convertible, a dinosaur, and more. She besides thinks it's "a lotta kittens" alternatively of "litter."

Ellie and Joel walking done the woods, and Ellie asking if it's a convertible successful the amusement vs. game

9. Joel showing Ellie the Tyrannosaurus rex statue extracurricular the depository is besides straight from The Last of Us Part II.

Ellie looking up astatine a dinosaur statue successful the amusement vs. game

10. Also, Ellie climbing up connected the caput of the dinosaur is thing players tin bash successful the game.

Ellie lasting connected the caput of a t-rex and shouting, "I'm connected a motherfucking dinosaur" successful the amusement vs. game

11. The layout of the abstraction depository besides matches astir precisely what is shown successful the game, close down to "A locomotion done the stars" being painted connected the wall, and the helmets and abstraction suits being around, with Ellie taking a helmet.

Ellie and Joel looking astatine a exemplary of the planets successful the amusement vs. game

12. Everything that happens successful the abstraction capsule — Joel giving Ellie the signaling and Ellie imagining being successful abstraction — is simply a shot-for-shot and line-for-line recreation of the country from the game. The signaling is from the Apollo 11 launch, which was the archetypal ngo to onshore humans connected the satellite successful 1969.

Joel telling Ellie to adjacent her eyes arsenic she envisions abstraction successful the amusement vs. game

13. Also, Ellie's emotion of abstraction successful some the games and the amusement comes from Ashley Johnson's emotion of abstraction and astronauts. Creator Neil Druckmann revealed, "And Ashley loves space, and astronauts, and knows everything astir it. And I'm like, 'I privation to marque Ellie adjacent much similar Ashley.'" Ashley did the question seizure and dependable for Ellie successful The Last of Us, The Last of Us: Left Behind, and The Last of Us: Part II.

Joel handing Ellie a cassette portion successful the amusement vs. game

14. At the diner, Gail is speechmaking Earth Abides by George R. Stewart. The publication is from 1949 and tells the communicative of the autumn of civilization from a deadly disease, which is akin to what happens successful the TLOU universe. The main quality successful the publication is besides named Ish, who is simply a quality that is mentioned successful The Last of Us successful notes that are recovered successful the archetypal game.

A close-up of Gail speechmaking a publication that says, "Earth Abides" connected the cover

15. Before dying, Eugene tells Joel that helium needs to spot her look earlier helium dies. In Episode 2, Ellie's look is the past happening Joel sees earlier dying.

Eugene telling Joel helium conscionable wants to spot Gail's look connected past clip vs. Ellie asking Joel to get up earlier helium dies.

16. Joel besides tells Eugene that if you emotion someone, you'll ever spot their face. In Season 1, aft arriving successful Jackson and having a panic attack, Joel swears helium sees Sarah successful the crowd.

Joel saying if you emotion idiosyncratic you tin spot their look everyplace vs. Joel reasoning helium sees the backmost of Sarah's head

17. Of course, Joel and Ellie dragging Eugene's assemblage backmost to Jackson mirrors erstwhile Jesse (Young Mazino), Dina (Isabella Merced), and Ellie dragged Joel backmost to Jackson pursuing his death.

Joel looking backmost astatine Eugene's assemblage wrapped successful a cloth vs. Jesse, Dina, and Ellie dragging Joel's assemblage done the snow, wrapped the aforesaid way

18. Since Joel went connected patrol with Dina earlier helium died — successful the game, Joel and Tommy (Gabriel Luna) are connected patrol unneurotic erstwhile they find Abby — the past words that Tommy spoke to Joel were astatine the dance.

Tommy and Joel telling each other, "See ya adjacent year"

19. The structure country betwixt Joel and Ellie is astir a shot-for-shot and line-for-line recreation of the aforesaid country successful The Last of Us Part II, close down to Joel drinking retired of his owl mug. However, successful the show, the scenes travel overmuch earlier. In the game, it's the second-to-last country successful the full game.

Ellie lasting connected the structure with Joel and telling him she would similar to effort successful the amusement vs. game

20. Joel telling Ellie helium loves her is thing caller to the TV show. While it's evidently understood that Joel loves Ellie, helium ne'er utters the nonstop operation to her successful the game.

Ellie calling Joel selfish and him responding with, "Because I emotion you"

21. And finally, Joel telling Ellie that if she ever has children someday, she'll recognize what helium did to support her besides puts a full caller meaning connected Ellie's "I'm gonna beryllium a dad" enactment successful Episode 4.

Joel telling Ellie helium hopes she does amended than him if she becomes a genitor vs. Ellie touching Dina's tummy aft uncovering retired she's pregnant

Alright, that's each for now. Come backmost again adjacent week for adjacent much details from the adjacent episode.

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