Captain Marvel: 20 Easter Eggs And References Explained
6. The Happy Days Lunchbox
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In the final confrontation between Captain Marvel and Starforce, Danvers et al. board Lawson's cloaked vessel and retrieve the Tesseract. They hide it by putting it in a Happy Days lunchbox bearing the likeness of the Fonz, played by Henry Winkler, only for Goose to absorb the cube and for Carol to use the box as a distraction.
As far as connections to the nineties go, Happy Days doesn't have many. It entered syndication in the late eighties, but other than that, Fonzie's presence in Captain Marvel is an odd (if not welcome) one.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
