Top 10 Things Only Adults Notice in Encanto 

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A little adult detail I noticed was that Pepa sings "It was my wedding day" and Felix echos "It was our wedding day." I do this all the time and my husband always reminds me that it was his day, too. Oops!

You mentioned 2 of Hercules' labors from Greek mythology, but everyone seems to miss a third reference. Luisa is asked to reroute the river right before the guy says that the donkeys got out again. The First Labour of Hercules was to clean the Agean Stables, which were said to house so many horses that it was filthy again before anyone could finish cleaning it. Hercules solved this problem by rerouting a river to wash out the stable.

When I first watched this a month ago, I felt connected to Luisa, where she feels like an outcast/ not like other women, because of her strength. I'm not tall (I'm 5ft) or jacked (but I do love working out and biking). All my life, I was a tomboy, and would sometimes feel self conscious that I didn't look like "other girls." But I know now that how somebody else perceives isn't the most important, but how you value and care for yourself is what matters most. Oh! And Stephanie Beatiz's singing voice is breathtaking and makes me melt and makes me want to watch Brooklyn 99 just for her. My second favorite character(s) from the movie are Bruno's rats. They are just too darn stinkin cute!!!!!!!!!

I noticed that when bruno was displaying his rats to maribel with the cards, the telenovela card was extra funny since the rat in the female head jumped out and another rat took its place 🤣. This was perfect since telenovelas are so dramatic with cheating partners and getn new ones lol.

The donkeys always get me. They're adorable and so chill and I love their expressions. Lusia just picks them up and throws them around and they're fine with it. Like it's been happening for years. No doubt Lusia has been carrying donkeys around since she was five and received her gift. At the end of surface pressure they even line themselves up on a board so she can throw them up in the air and catch them all at once. At first it's cute and funny. Likely the donkeys are used to being beasts of burden themselves and enjoy someone else carrying them around for awhile. But then you realize that the town sees Lusia as their beast of burden and it gets sad. She's 19 and got her gift at 5. That's 14 years that she's had to do this job and no one has bothered to train the donkeys, train a herding dog, or fix the damn fence. They just figure Lusia will do it. It's sad. I have to pay more attention the next time I watch the movie but I can't recall anyone saying please or thank you to her. I mean I get how rerouting the river can be useful, but she moved that church like what 10ft? Why was that even necessary?

I am a tween and I cried during Encanto because Mirabel can’t fit in and always fake smiles. This made me burst into tears. Probably because I have depression and no one knew for years because of how good I am at hiding my emotions.

In my own personal opinion, when Mirabel was saying “I will move the mountains” and all that stuff that her family can do with their gifts, I think she was saying that if she was to receive a gift herself she would put it to use to make it as important and helping as everyone else’s

Love this movie, and Luisa, but when I was a kid I had Uran, Astroboy’s sister, who had impressive strength. She wasn’t as responsible as Luisa but she was a life goal for me.

I got a bit of a smile when Mirabel's dad, upon finding the broken prediction, tells Mirabel, "No one has to know." I think this was a deliberate homage to the song "Nobody Needs To Know" from The Last Five Years (which Lin-Manuel Miranda also quoted in the song "Say No To This" in Hamilton).

I knew I heard him say "Miércoles" 😂😂 that was really great! But yeah, in general is a joke that all the spanish speakers use/understand.

What I appreciated about Luisa is that she was a strong woman who was still allowed to be FEMININE! Femininity tends to be shown as a sign of weakness; I know because I wear dresses almost all the time and yet people are surprised when they see me lift anything remotely heavy. Luisa was muscular, yes, but also had a woman's shape, wore a dress and a ribbon in her hair & cared about her appearance. (Side note: I had trouble noticing ANYTHING in the introduction song; it went so fast I couldn't focus on anything. It was one of the many things that disappointed me about the movie.)

The details in Disney movies are absolutely amazing. I'm very proud to recognise almost all of the Only-Adult-Notice-Things. Mostly because I'm only 16 years old. The two I didn't knew were: The Football match (cause I was born in 2006, which is long after the match) and the Wednesday / We don't talk about that moment (cause I never learnt Spanish in school: I live in the Netherlands).

Luisa isn’t just relatable to older siblings and feminists. She loves her family and tries to do everything she can to help her family and keep them safe but things keep piling on and piling on and piling on and she, being a human being, starts to get overwhelmed but doesn’t want anyone to know she’s getting overwhelmed because she feels like that would be letting her family down which leaves her with this unbearable “pressure” lying just “under the surface” and that strikes a chord with a whole lot of people. She may be one of the most relatable characters Disney has ever created!

Luisa shows stress by eye twisty and hyperventilating.

Wait! I’m sorry but Mirabel isn’t in denial, he gift is breaking down barriers. Abuela’s gift is creating barriers - the Encanto, the casita, the rooms each person gets. Mirabel literally breaks all of those barriers and it isn’t until the end when she adds her door knob that casita comes back to life, because she made the house one for EVERYONE. Her feeling like less than in the beginning is because she was told she had no gift and the familial pressure from abuela. She’s not in denial, if anything she is the only reason the gift will keep going.

Bruno looks so much like Hector from Coco. And is also black sheep of the family.

The kids asking Mirabel about the family kind of look like the triplets when they were that age.

bruno's soap opera show.

I especially noticed Luisa's female empowerment-like power.

i caught the doctor who reference though

when the sing we dont talk about bruno in one of the parts bruno is snooping in the back

I am not sure about other parts but I wonder if Bruno held is breath because he was directly behind Deloras' room

9:20 are we going to forget that cerberus is greek and the colosseum is roman.

Luisa and Surface Pressure broke me. “I’m pretty sure I’m worthless if I can’t be of service” was definitely painful to hear.

Can we just take a second to appreciate Felix defending Pepa against Abuela when Pepa says she's doing her best!?!? Felix is just husband goals 😍

When Delores says Mariano wants five babies, we see Isabella's first panic imperfection. A perfect row of red flowers bloom across her head with one out of place white one which Abuela plucks and tosses without comment. Indicating how she micromanages everyone.

I don't know if this counts as a detail only for adults but I think coffee kid is a genius nod to the fact that kids in colombia are sometimes drinking coffee(as colombia is one of the world's biggest exporteurs) where it would be weird for a kid to drink coffee anywhere else 😂

The Miércoles joke isn’t limited to Colombia. It’s used as a PG curse word in a lot of Spanish speaking countries

Due to myself being an adult who loves Disney, I noticed that during Bruno’s rat telenovela slide, when the girl rat runs away, another one pops up in the it’s place, because it’s a telenovela.

I love how camilo, despite being the naughty one in the family, truly wants to help others.

I definitely felt bad for Pepa on having to control her emotions, but it being a vicious cycle of constantly worrying about it and that worrying making things worse.😥 Also, I love that the movie showed characters that are complex and more than just one trait/characteristic.😊(One of the reasons I felt bad for Luisa too since she only thought of herself as strong because that’s all that people needed of her 😞).

Tiny detail: when Mirabel talks with casita about what's going on with the miracle and the scene takes a place where Dolores (or actually disguisted Camilo) is taking some food on the plate you may notice angry Pepa with rainy cloud above her head taking a sip of a coffee which improves her mood and makes the cloud dissapear

The Miercoles joke is not limited to Colombia. My wife, who is Honduran, loved the joke as well. Edited - I misspelled it earlier. That’s what I get for being in a rush. No disrespect intended to a proud country.

ALSO, Luisa is strong and still embrace her feminine side! It's really awesome how she doesnt fall into the stereotype of the "masculine" muscular girl, she loves colors, she has great dance moves, she even rides a donkecorn! I love her so much.

For number ten ,Isabella also can be driven by her emotions she just wasn’t allowed to show it. As we see when she does get emotional it produces a cactus. Not saying you are wrong at all just wanted to include it

I like how everyones gifts are kind of their curse. Like, Isabelle’s gift forced her to act perfect in ways she didn’t want too. Luisa’s gift forced her to essentially carry everything for everyone. Bruno’s gift forced him to tell people things they don’t like. Dolores hears everything but can’t keep a secret. And Pepa is forced to control her emotions constantly, something she’s not good at. Smart writing with that

I love Felix backing Pepa up with the "I'm doing my best!"/"Yes!" exchange at 1:27. I hadn't noticed it before watching this video and it's very cute. :)

Cool little detail someone pointed out is that when Camilo is comforting his mother he shape-shifts into some of the adults of the family when he's struck by lightning. First Felix then Abuela and then Augustin. That's cause he's doing something adults usually do. Taking care of the family members.

I was so confused about the Miercoles part. I even said "why did he just say Wednesday?" To my husband 🤣 that's so cool.

Also it's important to say that Bruno's "knock knock knock on wood" is a Latin American way to cast away bad luck, when someone tells us something bad could happen our answer is saying "toco madera" (aka knock on wood) while touching something made of wood so that's another cool detail as well (I'm from Mexico but it is known to be done in manh countries)

As an oldest child myself, I could really relate to the pressure that Luisa puts herself under to always be strong, and of service to the people around her. "Surface Pressure" made me cry the first time it.

Wednesday isn't the only one like that. In the scene when Mirabel is mad she has to hug Isabella bruno cuts her off when she is about to curse. She was complaining about her and says "she's the one with roses coming out of her..." and he yells "Mirabel"

Actually, I think I noticed the greek nod when someone asked Luisa to reroute a river. It was one of the ways Heracles finished one of his 12 labors.

7:57 - I remember laughing out loud at this moment in theaters.... then promptly feeling self-conscious that no one else did.

A addition to Mirabel not being old enough to drink, at the engagement dinner the younger members of the family have non alcoholic drinks instead of wine (Pepa also has a non alcoholic drink).

An adult joke I noticed is that in Columbian culture, when someone says it looks like rain to someone on their wedding day, that means you think their going to get divorced. Bruno meant it as a joke, but that's why Peppa got so upset. Another detail I noticed, this one about Camillo, is he genuinely is a nice person, but he doesn't do many things by himself, except for when his parents are around. Like, he only really does work when asked, and then only as someone else, because he's been taught the only thing about himself that is useful is his gift, meaning he's not useful, the people he shapeshifts into are the useful ones. Like, even on their family tree you can only see his head, because he's swishing his yellow cape thing.

Something I noticed was during "The Family Madrigal" When Mirabel sang about each member of the family, their picture on the mural got brighter.

The two characters that made me go "I feel seen" were Luisa and Bruno. Luisa because I'm the eldest sibling out of five and always felt I had more responsibilities and had to carry more than my other siblings, especially when I was younger. Bruno because his superstitious routines remind me of my OCD.

I laughed at Miércoles. I didn't know it was a Colombian reference but I knew what it meant and it's definitely not a swear word.

“The magic is strong- and so are the drinks!” Was literally my favorite adult joke- or any joke- in the entire movie. The first time I watched it, during that scene I turned to my friend who was sitting next to me and yelled “ABUELA just suggested MIRABEL was DRUNK!! Did you hear that?! Is she saying MIRABEL was drinking?! How old is Mirabel?! What age do they start drinking alcohol at in Colombia?!” I’ve always found alcohol jokes funny for some reason but THIS was hilarious.

When Delores says he wants 5 babies, Isabella has a bunch of flowers pop up on her head, 1 is white which Abuela plucks immediately as it would be a grey hair or imperfection on the "perfect" girl

For me and my family (we're all Colombian) the "war" is actually The Violence, it was a period of a kind of civil was with political undertones during the 50s. People would flee their homes because of the Party they supported. My mom even said "Los chulavilas" (a common name for Blue Party members, conservadores) when the men in horses appeared. It is closer to us than the 1000 days war, but I guess both make sesse.

I always love how The Disney Team travels across the world to study the culture of their stories.

As a Whovian, I caught the Doctor Who reference, I laughed out loud. I also caught the mythology references and I can relate to Pepa's anxiety.

I sent the video of “Surface Pressure” to my 15-years-older sister. Between taking care of our elderly mother, her husband and her daughter I saw so much of her in Luisa.

As an adult, I was quite pleased with myself for catching a LOT of the Encanto details mentioned here. But not all of them. I caught Peppa's quirks right away. She openly displayed quite a few characteristics of people with chronic anxiety. She strokes her hair over and over. She repeats a mantra ("clear skies, clear skies") whenever she starts stressing out. She gets angry if you bring attention to the manifestation. I know people with severe anxiety disorders and I recognized this right away the first time I saw the movie. But I didn't get it all. For example, when Augustin said "Miércoles." When I heard that I immediately looked it up, so I knew he said Wednesday, but I sure didn't know why. Now I know, thanks to MsMojo (Thanks!), why he said that. It's like when the French say "sacré blu!," which literally translates to "holy blue," which doesn't make any sense. But at one time (and I'm not going to look it up for this comment) one of the French Kings made taking the lord's name in vain a capital offense. So it became illegal to say "sacré dieu," which means "holy god" like you might say in the heat of the moment when you smash your thumb with a hammer or stub your toe. People caught sating it would claim that they were NOT swearing using the name of god but the name of the king's dog, Blue, instead.

One joke I truly loved is this: at the table in the yard, Camilo starts to tease his cousin by transforming into Mariano... Then Isabella slaps him with a face full of flowers and gives him the "talk to the hand" gesture 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 an awesome joke for a woman that was a teenager in the 90's

i laughed hard at miercoles lol. its a thing in all spanish speaking countries. its like saying “oh shoot!”

One thing I noticed that most children would not is the change in Augustin's outward affect after Mirabel's hand is cured by his wife. When Mirabel leaves after their talk, he feels he did a good job and his daughter will be fine now. Then he glances at his wife and sees she is concerned and so his outward affect changes to concern for his daughter.

Camilo rocking the baby was sweet, but I could tell that this must be that mom's second or third child - even as exhausted as I was after my daughter was born (my only kid thus far), I hated myself for not being able to hold her more. I figure the mother here knows that it's better to be safe and rested, even if it means she has to have someone help her play a trick.

I feel like Mirabel got PTSD from her gift ceremony.

one moment I love is during Isabela's part in "We Don't Talk about Bruno" as she's coming down from the vine swing everyones doing this hand gesture towards her and right at "someday be mine" Mirabel can be seen hands crossed with the most hilarious face! she is so irked and over Isabela being this "princess" lol I love seeing it every time!

We need an Encanto 2, period.

Agustin’s miercoles made me burst when I first watched the movie 🤣🤣🤣

I think people who speak Spanish; no only Colombian, know exactly what Miércoles means. It’s a very common word to say instead of the other one 💩

dude the smile that came on my face when agustin said "miercoles" was so wide i was like "FINALLY! MY CULTURE IS REPRESENTED!"

My favourite adult joke has to be the incest one in Bruno's telenovela with the aunt and her nephew

During the scene where Delores reveals the upcoming proposal and Isabella sprouts flowers in her hair, Abuela pucks out the only "imperfect" flower reflecting her ideals of perfection. But, this flower also happens to be white; so you could read it as Abuela expecting her grand-daughters to have children, and Isabella especially.

Thank you for explaining the “Wednesday” scene. I did not understand why that word was chosen in the context of the scene.

Oh, and by the way, we don't talk about Bruno.

Waiting on a miracle really got to me. I’m autistic and my little brother has accomplished so much including most things I’ve dreamed of so it really felt relatable.

Can we talk about the kid in the starting song always carrying a cup of coffee. I am Honduran and I absolutely loved it, because in all families and neighborhoods there is always that one child who loves coffee at anytime or place.

I knew all along that Pepa was similar to Elsa.☺️

I think the Miercoles joke was aimed at all Hispanics 😂🤣

One detail I noticed is that Pepa's hair is all frazzled due to her stroking it during her 'stress episodes' and also because the weather affects her hair.

I was wondering if anyone picked up on the fact Abuela kept hitting the alcohol. It took the third time seeing it to realize she had a thing for wine. There was one other thing that me and a few others thought with Pepa too. The triplets are 50. Antonio is 5, so it made me wonder if he was an oops baby at first since Pepa would've been 45, the cusp of soon to hit menopause. Yet someone said to me that what if she was made to have Antonio by Abuela considering Mirabel's gift ceremony went horribly wrong and she didn't want her eldest to have another child in case the next one wouldn't have a gift but had Pepa have another to keep it going on.

It's not really an adult thing. But I can't get over the fact that Antonio is basically Ezran, from Dragon Prince, on steroids.

It's not just children who may not pick up a lot of the things in this video but we adults may not know everything about Columbian culture either or certain languages it's not just all on the children. Lol

I hate how adults are putting an age on understanding certain things. I understood everything but the "Wednesday" part and that's because I don't speak Spanish. A lot of these things I understand and almost everyone I know understood most of these things too. I also hate how people say you can only relate to surface pressure if you're an older sister. It really depends on the responsibilities you have because although I'm one of the oldest, my older sister is irresponsible in some ways. Also, what does titanic and greek mythology have to do with adults? Most of the things that were mentioned have nothing to do with adults. I do not mean to sound rude but these are the only things I hear and I'm tired of the age stereotype.

Not just in Colombia, in many parts of LatAm, like Mexico (where I'm from) the word is used as a stand-in for sh!t

@8:01 the first time I heard that was in the Latin Spanish dub for Madagascar when in the original version Marty said "sugar honey iced tea."

Thank you for confirming for me that the Titanic bit was not just a callout to the movie...I assumed it wasn't, and was just trying to figure out how long after the sinking Encanto was actually set.

Thank you for all the information on Colombia! I was adopted from there as a baby and haven’t been back to visit. It’s fun learning about the culture.

Surface Pressure is so relatable as the oldest sister in my family

As a Filipino I still Understanded That Miércoles means wednesday And we pronounce It as Miyerkules

I think Miercoles is a substitute for M*erda in every Spanish speaking country, not only Colombia. May I suggest you guys include Camilo's hand shake when seeing Antonio's room? Moving your open hand, up and down, hopefully letting it click basically means "wow". I would say "UUUUY" or "uyuyui" while doing it.

For me, I was amazed that Luisa was gifted with strong powers. And I am 11. Also Camilo is so sweet. He’d be the best brother. I was happy to see Titanic in it, and it said Madrigal on the side which shows how Luisa is made to I guess help and break obstacles in the family.

I noticed Miercoles and thought it was a bit random, now I understand! Like we might say “sugar” in English 😂 also noticed and thought it was a bit strange Abuela implying that Mirabel, aged 15, was drunk at a community event!

It seems to me that they're living in a time loop, they're stuck, nobody comes into the town because nobody knows where they are and no one leaves. The fact that they look like they did (fashionwise) 50 years ago, It makes me think of the movie "The Village"

Yeah, Miercoles is used in many Latino countries. I'm Puerto Rican and it was used in my house ALL the time with the addition to MANY more like HP; Bronca (repeat it many times in a row and if you speak Spanish you'll get it), no chaves mas, que J, etc... I was dying laughing when it was said and astounded that Disney allowed it!!! Also I started drinking coffee (with A LOT of warm milk) when I was 7 religiously at 2:00pm!

So when the kid says about the room: "it's bigger on the inside ", I thought of the Tardis in Dr. Who.

I officially consider myself an adult now. I thought the Wednesday part was funny, I’m Latina so I got I right away and it made me laugh so much because it reminded of when I was a kid

peppa is just belle (BEAUTY AND THE BEAST) after doinG DR U G Z

One thing I noticed is that when the Casita comes down at the very end of Surface Pressure (not when it lands on her, but when she catches it), the house, mountains, and sun have a very "It's A Small World" look to it

It's Heracles in Greek mythology

Them: Obviously we don't expect kids to get these Greek mythology references Me a 12 year old die hard fan of Percy Jackson that is legitimately obsessed and spends her time re-reading the books, the new series all of the spin offs and literally only borrows books on greek mythology from my school library: 😶

*Ahem* -- my parents gave me my first book of Greek & Roman Myths and Legends when I was 9. A relative who taught a combined first/second grade was teaching the kids Greek, Roman, and Norse legends.

My cousin and I have a theory that the scene of the telenovla and when Bruno explains it that we think its a reference to Game of Thrones.

I love Encanto so much its so good