Inside No. 9: did you spot this hidden detail in every episode?

This article comes from Den of Geek UK.

Inside No. 9 episodes always merit watching twice, whether simply for the joy of the show’s surprising, original storytelling or to re-evaluate what you’ve seen in the light of a clever final twist.

If you’re on your second, third or fourth re-watch of Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith’s brilliant anthology, here’s a new game to accompany you: spot the silver hare.

“It’s a nice little game we play,” Steve Pemberton told Den of Geek at the Inside No. 9 series three launch. “Because each episode is so wildly different there was nothing really linking them other than the fact they were all inside a Number Nine, I just thought it would be nice to have an object that you could hide and just have there on every set.”

Said object was this small statue of a hare, seen here on the mantelpiece of the flat in series one’s Tom & Gerri

“It’s just fun, there’s no real thing behind it,” continued Pemberton, who selected the statuette from a cardboard box of a dozen possible objects because it could feasibly pop up anywhere.

Well, almost anywhere. “Sometimes when it couldn’t be there, like in a karaoke booth [for forthcoming series three episode Empty Orchestra] you wouldn’t have that, so someone has to pull out a photograph of themselves and you see it behind them.”

There you have it.

To get you started, here’s the hare in the background of two further extraordinary series one episodes, A Quiet Night In and The Harrowing:

Spotting it in the rest of series one and two, and in the five new episodes starting on BBC Two on Tuesday the 21^st of February at 9pm, is over to you.