References in Neighborhood Pals

The Neighborhood Pals Franchise contains a wide variety of cultural references.
== Anime/Manga/Books ==
* Jacob mentioning a character from the Horror/Abuse Book series called Killing Stalking.
== Video Games ==
*The Season Five episode called "The last of Lee", was a play on words for two reasons, one refereces being "The last of Us", as Lee is one of the last of her species, the other one being "The last of Me".
*Hannah Star, Aiko Goyo and Zander Underbridge playing Minecraft in multiple Episodes.
**It was planned to have a Minecraft Episode where them three get pulled into Minecraft, but the episode was scrapped.
**A scene that was planned for Neighborhood Pals: The Awakening, was that Zander would fight the Neighborhood Pals and go into Hannah's Minecraft Server to avoid them.
* Shinesun Island which is mentioned throughout Neighborhood Pals, is based on Dead Island and Dying Light, two games created by Techland and Deep Sliver.
*In NHP, Team Painful is based on the Pokémon Team called Team Rocket.
*Episode 15 Season 5 of Neighborhood Pals, when Jacob says "Yeah! you a little sus!" music plays above, that being the Impostor intro to the popular game in 2020 being Among Us.
*Team Diskoo is based on the Futuristic team from Pokémon Ultra Moon & Ultra Sun, originally Team Diskoo was from another Series that was created in 2014 to 2018 called Queen Diamond Farm, another project of Jacob Aarons, the Team was from an alternate storyline of the original books, yet was extremely changed for the story in Neighborhood Pals.
*In Season One, Episode 6, Hannah mentions the famous characters owned by Nintendo, being Pacman & Super Mario.
*In "Cosmic Arrival" the Marysville Police Stations outside view was revealed, and it was also revealed that the buildings outside was inspired by Raccoon City Police Station from the Resident Evil Franchise.
== Movies ==
* Hannah Star saying "I dont feel so good", is a movie reference to Avengers Infinity War when Spiderman slowly dusts away near Iron Man. 
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* In the final moments of Neighborhood Pals: The Awakening, half of earth is taken by King Marcoson, another reference to Avengers Infinity War, when Thanos snapped his finger, killing half the Universe.
*In Neighborhood Pals: Taking Space the Cover photo is based on Avengers: Endgame. 
*Jacob and Jessica mention Netflix. within the first episode of the series, also mentioned again in Episode 6 of Season 1.
*In Season One, Episode Six, Sherwynn mentions Fifty Shades of Popcorn, a parody of Fifty Shades of Grey.
== Shows ==
*Sherwynn begins to sing a parody version of Steven Universe's Main Theme song called "We are the Crystal Meths". 
* In Season Three, Connor enters the Marysville Drag Race, which was based on the popular TV Series "RuPaul's Drag Race".
*Hannah Star within Episode 16 of Season 5 saying in the kitchen "Hey, its Hannah, Hannah Star", which was a reference to Hannah Baker from 13 Reasons why when she opened her tapes. 
*Season One, Episode Six, Jacob mentions Two and a Half Men, and then continues to sing the shows theme song.
*In Neighborhood Pals: The 70's Files, a Series based on the 70's within an Alternate timeline was inspired by WandaVision, a Marvel product where Wanda Maximoff had changed her surroundings into the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80s and more different eras of TV, but within the 70's Files, the Episodes are based on 70's Television.
== Music ==
* Sherwynn singing a Parody of "When i grow up" by the Pussycat Dolls which as the same beat and rhythm as the song.
== Culture & Reality ==
* The character Bob Jane accidentally being named after a real life individual with the same name.
*Hannah also mentioning Pornhub.
*The mentioning of T-Series, from The Indian Commerical Man, as it was a rival of Pewdiepies in 2018.
*Mentioning of Netflix.
*The mentioning of Facebook.
*The mentioning of Youtube in multiple Episodes.
*Within Neighborhood Pals Season Two, we see Connor send Zander and his mother Dove to Hell, meaning Heaven and Hell exist within this Universe, even though within this series we never hear of characters religions or beliefs, yet the Devil has been mentioned multiple times.
**The Devil was meant to be present within Neighborhood Pals, but then was later removed as the series was never about religion but on Spells, Curses and creatures.
**Hell isnt called Hell within Neighborhood Pals, but called "The Underworld", where Dovetopia resides. 
* Moople being a parody version of Google.
*A character from in real life was an easteregg within Neighborhood Pals during the Minecraft scenes that was cut from "Neighborhood Pals: The Awakening" was going to be a reference to Jacob Aarons old minecraft username being "Teddybear10981", yet the scene was unreleased.
*In Neighborhood Pals: Remastered, Tinder debuts as the first creature that attacks.
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