Pups Solve the Mystery of the Missing Art/Trivia

*This episode is similar to Season 8's "Pups Save a Royal Painting".
**Ironically, both episodes have an exact year difference, but this episode aired in Canada a year after.
**Villains are vain.
**Involves a villain stealing paintings (Sweetie, Mayor Humdinger).
**Both villains are subject to humiliation in defeat (house arrest for Sweetie, menial labor for Humdinger).
*The painting Mayor Humdinger made of his kitties playing cards is an inversion of Dogs Playing Poker by Cassius Marcellus Coolidge.
**This is the second episode to reference that painting. 
**The first being "Pups and the Ghost Cabin".
*This is the second episode to have a painting in the title card.
**The first being "Pups Save a Royal Painting".
*This is also the second episode to have the word "Art" in the title.
**The first being "Pups Save the Chalk Art" from Season 7.
*This is the second time Mayor Humdinger steals something (the paintings) from the museum. 
**First being the Royal Purple Jewel in "Ultimate Rescue: Pups Save the Royal Kitties".
*Cassie, Emmy and Eddie returned since Season 8's "Pups Save the Kitties and the Kiddies".
**This is Cassie's first full appearance.
**They also became antagonists in this episode.
*This is the fourth time the pups are seen creating art. 
**First being "Sea Patrol: Pups Save the Pier".
**Second being "Pups Save the Chalk Art".
**Third being "Pups Save a Royal Painting".
*There is a blue snowflake painting similar to the one Julius showed Mayor Goodway in "Sea Patrol: Pups Save the Pier".
**Ironically, the US airing date for this episode is the same as the Japan airing date for "Sea Patrol: Pups Save the Pier".
*This is the second time Mayor Humdinger dresses up as a clown. 
**First being "Pups Save a Clown".
*Rocky and Rubble collecting the paintings from getting lost is similar to when they collected Ms. Marjorie's books from getting lost with Everest in "Pups Save the Bookmobile".
*Alongside "Pups Save the Tooth Fairy", this is the first episode of the series where the writers Andy Guerdat & Steve Sullivan serve as story editors.
*The bobblehead in the clown car looks similar to Toodles.
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