Fringe Easter Eggs: Observer in "Subject 9"

The Observer can be spotted in the Fringe episode "Subject 9" standing on the shore of Reiden Lake, where Peter appears out of thin air, and into the water.

Fringe Easter Eggs: Observer in "Alone In The World"

The Observer can be spotted in the Fringe episode "Alone In The World" walking outside Walter's lab, which is located in a Harvard basement.

You can see a close-up of the Observer after the break.

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Fringe Easter Eggs: Observer in "One Night In October"

The Observer can be spotted in the Fringe episode "One Night In October" in the hallway of the hospital where the teacher John McClennan is taken after he was almost killed by his alternate serial-killer self.

You can also see him other places in the hospital:

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Observerational Ponderings - Questions! Questions That Need Answers!

A collection of food for thought questions for the upcoming season.

1) Why was Peter the only one affected by the creation of the Universe Bridge Room?

2) If the answer to question 1 is NOT because of some time/reality paradox then what was the cause of Peter’s removal from existence?

3) Could the Observer’s statement that Peter had served his purpose meant the Observers deem Peter no longer necessary and hence did not save him when Peter and Walter fell through the ice in Season 2's, 'Peter?'

4) Did Peter never exist? Or did he die as a boy in both universes?  Imagine the grief Walter would have been subject to if he had to watch Peter die not once, but twice!

5) Will Olivia be the ‘lever’ that joins the timeline of Season 4 with the one from the previous seasons?

6) How can Peter be brought back into existence without the ripple effects a la Season 3's, ‘The Firefly?’

7) Will Olivia and Peter re-do the brain wave synchronization experiment from Season 1’s, ‘The Dreamscape,’ and, ‘The Transformation,’ that will allow Olivia and Peter to share their memories?

8) Will question 7 be the way that Peter and Olivia discover they met before in, ‘Subject 13?’

9) Will Olivia experience the same memory flashes we saw when Peter went into the Machine in, ‘The Last Sam Weiss?’

10)  Will the Observers discover that Peter is still ‘important’ and must return him to existence because without him in Walter and Olivia’s lives they are no longer properly equipped emotionally to resolve the impending collapse of the two universes?

Are the Observers The Survivors of a Similar Bi-Universe Annihilation?

Finally,  the Observers:

1) What is the Observers’s ultimate goal?  

2) Do they come from a reality where their two universes have already destroyed each other?  

3) Are they studying ours in the hope of finding a way to go back and avert the destruction of their reality(ies)?

Fringe Easter Eggs: Observer in "The Last Sam Weiss"

The Observer can be spotted in the Fringe episode "The Last Sam Weiss" standing just down the street from Peter in NYC, right before he gets help to find the pawn shop.

You can see all of The Observer's other appearances here.

Fringe Easter Eggs: Observer in "6:02 AM EST"

The Observer can be spotted behind Olivia just after she gets the message on her pager about the Fringe event on Liberty Island.

You can see all of The Observer's other appearances here.

Fringe Easter Eggs: Observer in "Lysergic Acid Diethylamide"

The Observer can be spotted at the hospital just as Olivia is brought in for her tonic-clonic seizures.

You can see all of The Observer's other appearances here.

Fringe Merch: "'Who Observes the Observer?'" Shirt

T-Shirt-of-the-day site RiptApparel has a Fringe themed t-shirt today only, featuring the Observer and some other Fringe symbols (which spell FRINGE), and is supposed to be a nod to the Watchmen.

[source: Geeks Of Doom]

Fringe Easter Eggs: Observer in "Stowaway"

The Observer can be spotted standing across the street from where Jim and Dana Gray jump from the building and into a taxi..

You can see all of The Observer's other appearances here.

Fringe Easter Eggs: Observer in "Os"

The Observer can be spotted near the Massachusetts Metal Depository, observing the crime scene amongst the crowd. If you look closely, you can also see him walking up to the scene.

You can see all of The Observer's other appearances here.

Fringe Observers vs. The Adjustment Bureau

If you've seen the trailer for the new movie The Adjustment Bureau, you can't help but notice their striking resemblance to the Observers in Fringe.

As Wired Magazine points out:

Members of both groups wear hats and suits. Both carry briefcases or books. Both have existed for centuries on the periphery of human consciousness. Both take orders from unknown superiors and periodically create unintended consequences when they feel compelled to intervene in the lives of the subjects under their watch.

But unlike the spooky Fringe operatives, the Adjustment Bureau’s dispassionate caseworkers (played by John Slattery, Anthony Mackie and Terence Stamp) come across more like post office employees than celestial overseers.

“They set us on the course that we are supposed to be set onto so we will follow the grand scheme,” said director Nolfi in a statement about his PG-13 movie, which was inspired by sci-fi writer Dick’s 1954 short story “Adjustment Team.” “They might as well work in the IRS; they’re just doing their jobs.”

On the other hand, Fringe's Observers are not supposed to get involved at all, but as we have seen, that is not always the case.

There is one person in the movie you may recognize from Fringe, Michael Kelly who plays Matt Damon's assistant Charlie Traynor. He played "The Rogue" aka John Mosley in the Fringe episode "The Arrival".
(Thanks to Bluesboy for pointing this out!)

The Adjustment Bureau is inspired by the short story "Adjustment Team", written by Philip K. Dick, who also inspired other classic sci-fi movies such as Blade Runner, Minority Report, and Total Recall.

Fringe’s Observers are supposedly modeled on Marvel Comics’ Uatu the Watcher, a bald alien assigned to observe other species.

Fringe Easter Eggs: Observer in Subject 13

The Observer can be spotted walking in the Bishop Dynamics lobby, just as Walternate arrives.

You can see all of The Observer's other appearances here.

Fringe Easter Eggs: Observer in 6B

The Observer can be spotted at the very beginning of the episode, walking past to couple on the way to the party.

You can see all of The Observer's other appearances here.

Fringe Easter Eggs: Observer in Immortality

The Observer can be spotted in the zeppelin terminal, just before Frank shows up from North Texas.

You can see all of The Observer's other appearances here.

Fringe Easter Eggs: Observer in Concentrate and Ask Again

The Observer can be spotted at the fundraiser, walking into the room just as we come back from commercial.

You can see all of The Observer's other appearances here.

Fringe Easter Eggs: Observer in Reciprocity

The Observer can be in the crowd, near the Koi pond where the shapeshifter is found "swimming with the fishes".

You can see all of The Observer's other appearances here.

Songs In The Key Of September (Ode To An Observer)

Fringe fan lostboyragged has created this video that shows all of the Observer appearances.

Video: The Return of September

The cast talks about the Observer and the storyline for 310 "The Firefly"

Fringe Easter Eggs: Observer in Marionette

The Observer can be spotted in plain sight, at the end of the episode, just outside of Peggy's Malt Shop.

You can see all of The Observer's other appearances here.

Fringe Easter Eggs: Observer in Entrada

The Observer can be spotted outside Penn Station (known as Springsteen Station in the Red Universe), just after we cross over from Red to Blue, and before Peter and the gang show up.

You can see all of The Observer's other appearances here.