30 Easter eggs you may have missed in 'A Series of Unfortunate Events'

"'V.F.D.' stands for 'Volunteer Fire Department.' It's a secret organization that puts out fires, literal and metaphorical, throughout the world that the Baudelaire parents, and many other characters in the show, were a part of.

The organization also has standardized secret codes used throughout the series, many of which are also referred to with V.F.D.-initialed phrases, like "Valley of Four Drafts" and "Veiled Facial Disguises."

Lemony Snicket references the V.F.D. early in the premiere when the Baudelaire orphans learn of the fire that destroyed their home and killed their parents.

"All that my associates and I have been able to learn is that neither the official fire department, nor the Volunteer Fire Department, arrived in time to stop the blaze," Snicket said.

You can read more about the V.F.D. here.

We first see them arguing over whether something is a "crow" or a "raven." "The Raven" is Poe's most famous poem, and crows become an important bird in "The Vile Village," one of the later books in the series.

On the left side, there are signs for "Quagmire," "Snicket," Julienne," and "Remora." The Quagmire and Snicket families were both members of the V.F.D. Geraldine Julienne is a reporter for The Daily Punctilio, who often gets details about the Baudelaires' plight wrong in her reports. Mr. Remora was a teacher at Prufrock Preparatory School in "The Austere Academy."

On the right side, there's "Spats." Carmelita Spats is a student at Prufrock whose parents may have been members of V.F.D.

The Cathedral of the Alleged Virgin, though, is just mentioned in passing in "The Hostile Hospital."

There's also the name "Lesko," a reference to the minor character Mr. Lesko in "The Vile Village."

When she's telling the Baudelaires about her library, Justice Strauss tells them "There are sections on everything from Italian cuisine to the world's most threatening fungus."

It grows only in enclosed spaces but, if exposed, can kill a person within an hour. Later in the series, Count Olaf uses it as a biological weapon to threaten people.

The Sugar Bowl, or the Vessel For Disaccharides, is a MacGuffin device sought by members of V.F.D. It doesn't have a clear purpose, but it seems to have held different things at different times in V.F.D.'s history. At the time of the series, it apparently contained something really powerful or dangerous.

Later in the series, the Baudelaires get caught up in the chase after it, even though they don't know why it's important.

"I told you never to say that word," Olaf responds.

The name is an anagram for "Count Olaf."

The phrasing recalls one of Handler's books, "When Did You See Her Last?"

He also wrote it under the pen name of Lemony Snicket. It's the first in a set of four books in a series called "All the Wrong Questions," about Snicket as a teenager learning about V.F.D. The phrase "the wrong question" crops up a few times throughout the season.

The Baudelaires don't know it yet, but "The world is quiet here" is the V.F.D. motto. It's emblazoned on the doorposts of some of their headquarters.

Lousy Lane is the site of an orchard "which once produced apples so sour, one only had to look at them to feel ill," Snicket says. "And it encircles a horseradish factory, so the entire area smells bitter and strong."

Horseradish is the cure to Medusoid Mycelium, the deadly fungus that comes up later in the series. In "The End," the final book in "A Series of Unfortunate Events," there's an apple tree that's crossbred with horseradish — likely just like the ones on Lousy Lane — that fend off the effects of the fungus.

As one Reddit user noted, it's the Self-Sustaining Hot Air Mobile-Home, a vehicle that kind of looks like a bunch of interconnected hot air balloons. It appears in "The Vile Village," the seventh book in the series.

Sonnenfeld was also originally signed on to direct the 2004 movie adaptation of the series.

The name of the movie theater, "Murnau Cinema," is a reference to the German film director F.W. Murnau, who made black-and-white films like the one the Baudelaires watch.

It's a word which means "a movie theater with an admission fee of one nickel." "Nickelodeon" is also the name of the production company that produced the 2004 film "A Series of Unfortunate Events," starring Jim Carrey, and which adapted only the first three books in the series. To the frustration of many fans of the series — and to Sonnenfeld, who couldn't direct the movie — Nickelodeon never adapted any of the other books.

It's a weapon that comes up a few times in the series. Esmé Squalor, Count Olaf's girlfriend, introduces it in "The Vile Village," and the Baudelaires get ahold of it in "The Penultimate Peril."

It's Daniel Handler, the author of "A Series of Unfortunate Events" and screenwriter of the adaptation.

Wasabi, like horseradish, is a cure for Medusoid Mycelium.

When Violet looks up the history of the mill to see what their parents were doing there years earlier, we catch a glimpse of a few other pages. It looks like the prop team repurposed text from articles in "The Daily Punctilio," the newspaper in the series' universe.

This might not be so much an Easter egg as an incidentally revealing decision by the show's producers. The Daily Punctilio's irresponsible, misleading, and cheerful reporting enables society to allow the Baudelaires to suffer. Here, already, are some telltale errors. Count Olaf is mistakenly referred to as "Count Omar," and the reporter is smitten with Olaf's ego.

Some of the other text also seems to be from Uncle Monty's journal, and from the original books themselves.

Chapter titles include "Driftwood ways and means," "Do you see what I saw?," "Stumped," "A rooted history," and "Branching out."

He's a production designer for the television show.

"Beatrice" is a name that pops up over and over again throughout the series. It's the name of the Baudelaire orphans' mother, as well as a former love interest for Snicket and Count Olaf.

In the Daily Punctilio story, "Veronica" is quoted as calling Beatrice her mother, an early hit about the reveal to come in a later season. The Punctilio often gets the Baudelaires' names wrong, so we can safely assume it's Violet being quoted here.

The television screen across from him then shows Jacqueline playing the violin.

It's a reference to Nero, the Roman emperor who, based on a false legend, played the fiddle while Rome burned around him.

In the book, he plays the violin daily and incompetently. We get a glimpse of him at the end of the last episode in the season.

It's probably Esmé Squalor, who we formally meet in "The Ersatz Elevator," the sixth novel in the series. She's obsessed with high fashion, and later takes in the Baudelaire orphans because orphans are "in."

"My dearest darling," it reads on the top. "These two hundred pages will explain why I cannot marry you."

The pages seem to be a letter from Beatrice to Snicket, rejecting him after he proposed before the events of the series. We'll hopefully learn more about her in the next season.