Agatha All Along showrunner confirms Agatha is Dolly Parton's Jolene

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details from the sixth episode of Marvel Studios' Agatha all the time.

The latest episode of Agatha all the time was full of earth-shattering revelations, but it was a throwaway joke that misled the audience.

Following the sixth episode of the Disney+ series, showrunner Jac Schaeffer spoke about the winking shot, which suggests Kathryn Hahn's Agatha was also the Jolene who inspired Dolly Parton's hit 1973 single.

When asked if Agatha was really the woman who tried to steal the country legend's husband, Schaeffer laughed and told The Wrap, “In the MCU, damn it.”

In the flashback, Joe Locke's Teen (aka William Kaplan, aka Billy Maximoff) researches Agatha's centuries-old origins online and discovers that she survived the Salem witch trials, the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, and the Hindenberg disaster in 1937 was present.

Another newspaper clipping shows a black and white screenshot of a blonde woman slapping Agatha. “Does this 1972 surveillance photo of Dolly Parton show the real Jolene?” reads the headline.

Schaeffer recalled author Laura Donney recalling that the “Jolene” reference came after she gave the writing team a “fun assignment” to “come up with five vile, shameful things that Agatha did in her deep past.” .

“And I remember it was one of the funniest days in the room, with everyone coming in with their brand of low-level Agatha villains. And that was Laura Donney,” Schaeffer said. “She said, 'She's Jolene.' And we just thought everyone was down. It was so funny.”

Parton has revealed that “Jolene” was inspired by a red-headed bank teller who flirted with her husband Carl Dean. Sounds like a good cover for a secret witch.

Schaeffer previously spoke to Deadline about revealing Billy's origin story in the latest episode. “So the comic book lore, the story that's in the comics, is banal. It's very complicated and I found it difficult to understand,” she explained.

“It was hard for me to understand the whole thing, but the aspects we were committed to were his Jewishness, which was very important. The idea that the Kaplans weren't superheroes, but very good people and good parents. We were strongly committed to this from the start,” adds Schaeffer. “It was never anything other than that. We were all so excited for the Kaplans, to cast them, to see them on screen, to see a loving family without the chaos of the superhero world. We were just excited about it and especially in hindsight WandaVisionwhich contained a very archaic depiction of domestic life. It was a performance of, “This is what a happy, normal, settled nuclear family looks like.” We wanted the Kaplans to actually be that. That was really important.”