The following contains spoilers for Wednesday Season 1, Episode 2, "Woe Is The Loneliest Number," now streaming on Netflix.

One of the quieter running jokes in Netflix's new Wednesday series is the resemblance of the Nevermore boarding school to Hogwarts in the Harry Potter saga. A magic school where outsiders with special abilities can go has a familiar ring to it, and Wednesday takes the opportunity to quietly poke fun at the Potterverse when it can. The most overt example takes place in Season 1, Episode 2, "Woe Is the Loneliest Number" with "The Poe Cup" -- an annual canoe race between the school's four primary factions that openly riffs on the Triwizard Tournament in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Because it's Wednesday, there are no rules and "cheating" doesn't exist. Each team must row to a nearby island, claim a flag from the island's crypt, and row back. The first one to reach the finish line without sinking wins. The Edgar Allan Poe connection also means that all four of the competing canoes are named after famous stories written by the famous author. The names reflect a surprising amount about the teams piloting them, and those familiar with the stories can make ready inferences accordingly. Here's a quick breakdown of the four canoes, the Poe stories they adopted, and the things they reveal about their respective teams.

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"The Cask of Amontillado" is a Classic Tale of Revenge

Wednesday Cask of Amontillado

"The Cask of Amontillado" tells the story of an Italian nobleman, Montressor, who takes revenge on a rival named Fortunato for an unspecified grievance. He approaches the man during carnival season, while Fortunato is drunk and dressed as a jester. Claiming to have a cask of rare wine in his cellar, he lures Fortunato into a stone niche, chains him there, and bricks the niche up. The crime is perfect and Montressor is never caught. The canoe at Nevermore belongs to the school's gorgons, who imitate Fortunato by wearing jester's hats and clown make-up. The hats have a practical purpose in containing their snaky hair, and it's possible that they chose the name with that in mind.

"The Black Cat" is a Reflection of Its Captain

Wednesday The Black Cat

The school's werewolves pilot "The Black Cat," which is an apt representation of their captain, Enid Sinclair (Emma Myers). She's a late bloomer among lycanthropes, limited to sprouting claws on her hands for most of the season. She also convinces Wednesday Addams (Jenna Ortega) to join their team, and with a little help from Thing, they come up with a few tricks to stop their rivals in the Gold-Bug and claim the Poe Cup. Their canoe is named after one of Poe's most famous tale about an alcoholic narrator who murders his pet cat in a drunken rage. The arrival of a replacement cat creates a cascade of mental torment, causing him to murder his wife and wall her body up in the cellar. He inadvertently walls the cat up as well, and the animal's shrieks alert the police when they come to investigate.

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The Sirens Pilot "The Gold Bug" - an Adventure Story

Wednesday The Gold-Bug

The Sirens are the most powerful clique in school, and the Poe Cup has been theirs by default for some time. As waterborne creatures, they have all kinds of tricks they can play in a no-rules canoe race, and their leader Bianca intended to ride those abilities to glory once again. Their boat is "The Gold Bug," which is telling because it's the only one of the four referenced Poe stories not focused on murder or the macabre. The title creature is the key to a hidden treasure, which Captain Kidd buried on Sullivan's Island in South Carolina. Poe frames the story as a mystery. The Gold Bug is wrapped in a parchment, which contains a hidden code. The narrator's friend, named Legrand, uses it to pinpoint the location of the treasure. It's a fitting title for the Sirens' craft considering their win record. The titular bug must be placed in the eye socket of a hanging skull in the story, which the canoe reflects with a skull-like face on the prow.

The Vampires Use "The Pit and The Pendulum" for Their Boat

Wednesday The Pit and the Pendulum

"The Pit and the Pendulum" is arguably Poe's most ghoulish story, which makes sense since the canoe's crew appears to be vampires. The story's narrator is a prisoner of the Spanish Inquisition, condemned to death for unmentioned (and likely nonexistent) crimes. He's bound in a cell dominated by a seemingly bottomless pit in the center. A giant pendulum installed in the ceiling slowly swings lower and lower, threatening to kill him when it reaches him. He escapes his bonds by inducing the local rats to chew through them, but the walls become superheated and force him towards the pit. Just before he falls, he's rescued by the French Army, which has captured the city in the interim. The vampire crew wears hoods (presumably to avoid the sunlight) and masks over their eyes in emulation of the Inquisition.

The first season of Wednesday is currently streaming on Netflix.