Every WWE Firefly Funhouse Match Easter Eggs And Breakdown

Every WWE Firefly Funhouse Match Easter Eggs And Breakdown

Written by: Luke Owen

The Firefly Funhouse match from WrestleMania 36 is now behind us, and to directly quote one of the greatest promos this business has ever seen, Titus O’Neill, “I don’t know what I just saw”. Well, perhaps we know a bit more than Titus. Obligatory joke that he once kissed his son on the lips, but let’s also not shame Titus for loving his son.

Every family has different ways of showing how much they love each other, just take a look at the front page of Pornhub, but the point I’m trying to make is that there were a lot of references and Easter Eggs in the Firefly Funhouse match.

And just like the classic Edgar Wright comedy Hot Fuzz – which I believe is the best movie from the Cornetto Trilogy – Bray Wyatt vs. John Cena from WrestleMania 36 gets better and better each time you watch it because you spot new things, and see other things in a new light, or just pick up on a subtle nuance that previously escaped your tiny brain because you were too busy being like Titus O’Neill and saying you don’t know what you just saw.

These are all the Easter Eggs, references, and breakdowns from the WrestleMania 36 Firefly Funhouse.


Cena’s Connection to Vince McMahon

The match, if you want to call it that, opened with John Cena doing his usual entrance, including welcoming us to WrestleMania – only to be intercut with Vince McMahon doing the same introduction from WrestleMania 1. This is important because the running theme throughout the Firefly Funhouse Match was John Cena’s connection to Vince McMahon, and this edit compares Cena to McMahon’s other greatest creation, WrestleMania. And, in essence, Hulkamania which will also be a key part of this match.


Wyatt’s Old Standee

We then cut to Bray Wyatt on the original Firefly Funhouse set that we got back in the early days of the gimmick. Since The Fiend made his full in-ring debut at SummerSlam and Bray started doing weekly promos for feuds, the Firefly Funhouse set was replaced with a blue background with a picture of Jerry Lawler. But WrestleMania 36 has taken us right back to where it all started; the 1950s kid TV show set, complete with the remains of the Bray Wyatt standee that was cut up by a chainsaw in an early edition of Firefly Funhouse.


Gods, Angels, Monsters, and Demons

Bray Wyatt tells us that the Firefly Funhouse is a place outside of our realm of existence where Gods, Angels, Monsters and Demons are neighbours. Now I might be reaching here, but I do think this is important so keep that in the back of your mind. Also, is it just me or is that demon face look a bit like Kane’s mask? Not sure what that could mean other than the fact that Kane is on the Firefly Funhouse wall, so it could just be a coincidence.

One interesting note, however, is that this demon has the same horns as the Vince McMahon puppet. That one might not be a coincidence. The door also reads Abandon All Hope, Ye Who Exit Here, a play on “abandon all hope ye who enter here” from Dante’s Divine Comedy, which was the inscription at the entrance to Hell. And John Cena is about to enter his own personal hell and take on his most dangerous challenger yet, himself.


Cena’s Beginnings

Cena is first greeted in the Funhouse itself by the Vince McMahon puppet, who tells Cena that he needs to step up with Ruthless Aggression or he’ll be fired. This is partly a true story. Cena was brought up from WWE’s old developmental system, OVW, to be a new star, but failed in his early days to the point that WWE were going to let him go just a few months after his debut because he didn’t get over. It was only because Stephanie McMahon heard him do some freestyle raps on a tour bus that she suggested he make that his gimmick, which saved his WWE career.

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