I Bet You Didn’t Catch These Hilarious Easter Eggs While Watching ‘Nobody Wants This’ Season 2

Nobody Wants This is one of the funnest shows streaming right now—it’ll make you laugh out loud and swoon all in one fell swoop, and who can be mad about that?

The show follows Noah (Adam Brody), who is nicknamed “Hot Rabbi” because… well, he’s a rabbi and he’s hot, and Joanne (Kristen Bell), a love and relationship podcaster. The two met and fell in love during season one, and season two is all about what it means to be in a longterm relationship with someone whose vision for the future doesn’t align with your own—and whether love is truly enough to survive it.

Brody and Bell aren’t new to playing love interests—they played exes in Some Girl(s) and had a love affair in House of Lies—but what makes this pairing extra fun is that both actors were on some of the most popular shows of the 2000s. Brody played the beloved Seth Cohen in The O.C., and Bell played the titular character in Veronica Mars—and because of their It Boy and It Girl statuses of the time, they’ve had just enough crossovers that Nobody Wants This decided to wink at some of their past projects.

But it’s more than that. Nobody Wants This has leaned into its meta nature, giving fans little Easter eggs throughout the show that’ll make you laugh in delight—that is, if you actually catch them.

Here are the ultra-meta Easter eggs you might have missed in Nobody Wants This season 2:

Adam Brody’s real-life wife Leighton Meester joins the cast—and Brody’s character Noah claims she isn’t his type

This is probably the most obvious Easter egg, since it’s been teased for quite a while now. Brody has been married to Leighton Meester (of Gossip Girl fame) since 2014, so seeing them on screen together was honestly a delight. The best part, though, was when Joanne notices Brody’s Noah taking pictures of Meester’s character Abby and mentions that Abby is actually quite pretty.

“She’s not my type,” Noah tells her, but the audience knows the truth—Leighton Meester is actually exactly Adam Brody’s type.

Another layer to mention is that the actor who plays Meester’s husband in Nobody Wants This, Joe Gillette, is actually dating Jackie Tohn (who plays Esther in the story) in real life—talk about complicated dynamics.

The added treat is that Leighton Meester and Kristen Bell actually worked together before, too—Bell voiced Gossip Girl on the show, while Meester played Blair Waldorf.

The more you know!

Lynn’s costume is a throwback to the actress’s role in Hocus Pocus

Noah invites Joanne’s family to Purim, which he affectionately refers to as “Jewish Halloween.” Joanne’s mom, Lynn, shows up in a rather dramatic Madonna outfit—but this costume wasn’t chosen at random.

The actress who plays Lynn, Stephanie Faracy, was also in Hocus Pocus, where she played Max and Dani’s mom. In the movie, she dressed in a very similar costume, which is what she was wearing when the witches put a spell over her, forcing her to dance the night away.

Esther references The Handmaid’s Tale to her husband Jonah—who is played by Timothy Simons, who had a role in the final season of the show.

This one is particularly funny if you manage to catch it. When Esther and Jonah discuss how Jonah’s mother wants them to have another baby, Esther says, “Is this The Handmaid’s Tale? I never saw past season one, but I don’t think it gets any better for the gals.”

Timothy Simons, who plays Jonah, also had a role in the final season of The Handmaid’s Tale—which means that Esther hadn’t watched far enough into the series to see a man who looks suspiciously like her husband.

Esther says Joanne should move to Orange County—sound familiar?

When Joanne has to start looking for a new apartment, Esther tells her that she should consider moving to Orange County, which Joanne immediately turns down, claiming she doesn’t like the beach. But do you know who loves the beach? Seth Cohen, Adam Brody’s character in The O.C.

It’s also similar to the reference in Gilmore Girls when Adam Brody left the show to star in The O.C.—the Gilmore Girls characters dismissed his absence by saying Dave “moved to California.”

Morgan and Dr. Andy have actually met before—in the Succession universe

If you’ve seen Succession, you probably recognized Dr. Andy immediately—the actor Arian Moayed plays Stewey in the show, who is about as slimy as Dr. Andy is in Nobody Wants This.

Justine Lupe, who plays Morgan, also had a role in Succession as Connor Roy’s Sugar Baby-turned-girlfriend-turned wife—and though she didn’t share many scenes together, it’s still a fun Easter egg for those of us who watch perhaps too much TV.