17 details you probably missed in 'Everything Everywhere All at Once'

The movie's opening scene shows Evelyn (Michelle Yeoh), Joy (Stephanie Hsu), and Waymond (Ke Huy Quan) singing karaoke together.

Evelyn covers Joy's mouth during part of the song, and Hsu seems to have confirmed why in a 2022 Vulture interview.

Hsu told Vulture that the opening song was Aqua's "Barbie Girl," which was featured in a deleted version of the scene that showed the family actually singing together.

The line "undress me everywhere" seems to be the intended lyric that Evelyn is preventing her daughter from singing.

Dog Mom (Jenny Slate) first appears in the film as a customer at the laundromat with ticket 042. That number is an important part of sci-fi franchise "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

In the Douglas Adams book of the same name, a supercomputer says 42 is the answer to "the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything."

Its inclusion early on in this film may signify to viewers familiar with the sci-fi genre that the story here will be far more expansive than early scenes in the laundromat indicate.

On their way to the IRS, the Wang family passes a sign twirler holding a sign for pizza.

Evelyn is later shown doing the same job in another reality.

When Alpha Waymond first speaks to Evelyn, he asks her to hold up an umbrella to block the security cameras.

The umbrella's doughnut pattern could be an intentional choice to symbolize Waymond's more hopeful, colorful way of looking at the world in comparison to Jobu Tupaki's everything bagel.

The first Deirdre (Jamie Lee Curtis), who is working at the IRS office, has several pictures of cats on her desk.

Deirdre's fondness for cat pictures apparently exists throughout multiple universes, as the version of her with hot-dog fingers has several framed cat photos hung up around the apartment she shares with Evelyn.

Joy has a tattoo of a pig on her left arm and Jobu Tupaki has a pig on a leash with her when she arrives at the IRS office.

Waymond also has a pig charm on his fanny pack, which may be a nod to his daughter's love of them.

Even before the audience (or Evelyn) is made aware that they are multiple realities, the subtitles give it away.

Deirdre and Waymond have separate subtitle descriptions identifying them as "Bagel Deirdre" and "Alpha Waymond" to differentiate them from the Deirdre and Waymond from Evelyn's tax-day universe.

Viewers who already know about Jobu Tupaki's everything-bagel speech about how nothing matters may catch references to the object before its name is ever said aloud.

When Alpha Wamond and his team drive in the laundromat van, they pass a person with a "Hail Bagel" sign. When Deirdre is writing on a receipt, she draws a large circle that is later stapled to her forehead as the bagel sign.

In the most direct reference, Alpha Waymond also gives Evelyn a bagel to eat while they're in the IRS office.

When Alpha Waymond explains the noticeable differences in the universe, he says, "Your clothes never wear as well the next day, and your hair never falls in quite the same way."

The lines are lyrics from "Absolutely (Story of a Girl)" by Nine Days.

The 2000 song is on the movie's soundtrack and is used in the movie three different times, like in the background of the scene where Waymond and Evelyn are discussing divorce.

Evelyn sees the reality in which she's a movie star that includes a flurry of moments from that life.

Yeoh's actual red carpet appearances are used in the montage, including footage of her at the premiere of "Crazy Rich Asians" in 2018.

When the credits begin for the movie-in-the-movie premiering in Famous Evelyn's universe, the screen says "written and directed by Daniels" in reference to the actual Daniels who worked on this film.

"Everything Everywhere All at Once" was written and directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert.

While talking about how everything is a random arrangement of molecules, Jobu Tupaki holds an object that she transforms into dozens of different items.

The object's forms include a shovel, broom, animal skeleton, flag, bird, trident, and knife.

One of the final items she is seen holding seems to be an Oscar award, which the film may soon win — it's received 11 Oscar nominations so far.

The film's writers and directors confirmed in a conversation with IndieWire that this movie took plenty of inspiration from "The Matrix."

The way verse-jumping functions in this movie as a way for characters to learn new skills is comparable to the way characters in "The Matrix" can use the simulation to do the same.

Waymond offers Evelyn the choice to go left or right after leaving the elevator which echoes the option Morpheus offers Neo of choosing between the red and blue pill to learn the truth about their reality.

Evelyn's ability to dodge bullets in the final fight scene also resembles the scene where Neo does it in "The Matrix."

Jobu Tupaki hands Evelyn a book while explaining her plan to go into the bagel.

It's titled after the film and has a drawing of Jobu Tupaki balancing on the bagel on the cover.

The art style and lettering resemble the Dr. Seuss book "Oh, the Places You'll Go!"— a thematically fitting book that shows the reader going on a journey and learning a positive outlook on life.

In the scene showing Evelyn across different universes, her identities flash by so quickly that it's virtually impossible to decipher each universe without slowing the clip down to a frame-by-frame rate.

Evelyn is shown as a cat, scuba diver, monster, monk, nun, animated version of herself, New York City resident, tree, and an Instagram post.

One moment even shows her as an urn, which may have been in reference to all the timelines Evelyn is currently dead in.

Deirdre has a brace on her left wrist in Evelyn's tax-day reality.

But in the hot-dog-finger universe, where people use their feet more than their hands, Deirdre's brace is instead on her left ankle.

Kwan appears in the film as the robber who tries to steal Famous Evelyn's purse and he returns at the end of the movie as one of the people being sucked into the bagel.

Scheinert is in the BDSM office-closet scene and he plays multiple apes in the hot-dog-finger evolution scene.