You have already watched the first three episodes of season 4 of The Boys, released online on June 13, 2024 on Prime Video? So you must have hallucinated the famous sauna scene. You know, that WTF passage which sees actor Rob Benedict indulge in a funny homage to The Human Centipede.
Prime Video’s hidden joke in episode 2
A new sequence out of nowhere which adds to the crazy collection of the series, to which the Amazon platform wanted to react in an unexpected way. In a easter egg Well found, the streaming site has indeed paid tribute to the actor’s sacrifice through a very amusing comment.
Also, when you pause during the sauna scene, a small message appears on the screen, which reads: “Actor Rob Benedict asks us to remember that he studied Shakespeare at Northwestern Univeristy. We are not contractually bound to do so. This is just a friendly gesture on our part.“.
An original way of highlighting the self-deprecation of the Splinter interpreter in the face of such a moment in his career and reminding us that an actor can definitely be required to play everything.
For the record, Eric Kripke recently spoke about this scene. And the creator of The Boys assured him, Rob Benedict – his long-time friend, whom he had already met on supernaturalwas the first delighted to bring this idea to life.
“He can only blame himselfhe said. I told him, ‘Bro, this is exactly what this character is going to do. You’ll have to be ready for that. I don’t want you to be surprised’. And he was like, ‘Yeah, that sounds hilarious, I’m totally up for it.’“
