@sjm wrote:
The man who answered the door eating the carrot in “Dreamy” is a nod to Alice in Wonderland.
I figured he was Jack Sprat, judging by the fact he wasn’t eating fat but had a fat wife.
Speaking of vegetables in nursery rhymes, I figured that when Emma was telling Henry about his father and she said how he always used to ask for pumpkin pie, that was a shoutout to Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater. I don’t believe he actually WAS Peter, because I don’t believe Henry’s father is from FTL, but it seemed too specific of a detail to not be a shoutout to the nursery rhyme. Especially considering we know Emma’s been involved with a married man at some point and, well:
Peter, Peter pumpkin eater,
Had a wife but couldn’t keep her;
He put her in a pumpkin shell
And there he kept her very well.
Peter, Peter pumpkin eater,
Had another and didn’t love her;
Peter learned to read and spell,
And then he loved her very well.