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"Animation Abomination"
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## To production of animated series

* The entire episode is a parody of the production process of animated shows.
	+ Gloria references this by saying "That's animation for ya."
* Cricket and Tilly's roles in the episode while watching *The Kingdom of Lore*:
	+ Cricket is the newbie who has only seen a few episodes though is into it.
	+ Tilly is the superfan who has seen all *Kingdom of Lore* media (she has even purchased *Kingdom of Lore* tie-in cereal, referencing older shows with tie-in cereal), and has written fanfiction. The latter of which parodies fandoms as a whole.
	+ These types of fans are also seen in the *Milo Murphy's Law* episode "The Doctor Zone Files"; Milo and Sara Murphy are superfans of the *Doctor Zone* franchise (also established throughout the series, especially "Missing Milo"), while Zack Underwood and Melissa Chase are the newbies who would eventually get into *Doctor Zone* themselves.
* The name *Kingdom of Lore* is a reference to lore, a plot device in fiction which builds a fictional world in a series. In *Kingdom of Lore* it is the king from an earlier season, and lore in *Big City Greens* involves the Green family farm and how it is threatened by multiple threats including Chip Whistler.
* As seen in the episode and mirroring real life, the animation is outsourced to a South Korean-based company; Rough Draft Korea, where the episode's animation comes from, is one such company.
* The actors being talented to even mimic animal sounds is a reference to actors like Frank Welker (who voices Santa's Little Helper from *The Simpsons* and Megatron from most *Transformers* media, including the original *The Transformers* G1 cartoon) and Dee Bradley Baker (who, for example, voices the clone troopers from *Star Wars: The Clone Wars* *and* Perry the Platypus from *Phineas and Ferb*) who are both talented to do both human and animal vocals.

## Cultural

* The episode's title is a reference to the FOX programming block *Animation Domination*, where shows like *The Simpsons*, *Family Guy* and *Bob's Burgers* airs. In the episode itself, *Animation Abomination* is the name of the programming block where *Kingdom of Lore* airs.
	+ There's also a Disney XD block of the same name.
* The episode's plot is similar to *The Amazing World of Gumball* season 6 episode "The Factory", where Cricket & Tilly (Gumball & Darwin) want to beg Gloria (Nicole) to take them to her job. Major difference being that Nicole is Gumball & Darwin's mother, while Gloria is Cricket & Tilly's best friend/big sister figure. Another difference is that while Nicole has been working at the factory for quite sometime as a full-time employee, Gloria has just barely started her new job at the animation studio as an intern.
	+ The episode also has a similar plot to a *Steven Universe* episode.
* Cricket and Tilly learning about how animation is made is very similar to the plot of the *Beavis and Butt-head* episode "Animation Sucks", which involves Beavis and Butt-head and their classmates learning about animation.
	+ While already established in Random Rings, Cricket calling Princess Tarina, "Princess Tortilla", is similar to how Beavis and Butt-head often make malapropisms in *Beavis*.
	+ Also, the episode starting off with Cricket and Tilly watching TV is similar to how various *Beavis* episodes start with the titular characters watching TV, more specifically rock music videos.
	+ The episode's plot is also similar to the South Park episode "A Very Crappy Christmas" were Stan, Kyle, Kenny and Eric also make their own Christmas cartoon in a recreation of Trey Parker and Matt Stone's 1995 short; The Spirit of Christmas: Jesus vs. Santa, that shows how animation is made in another way, which the short was done by paper cutout animation as the show South Park was originally animated this way before switching to computers after the pilot episode became the only episode to be made in that way before the series begin to use computers the following episode.
* The "weird french soda" named Le Crux that Cricket drinks is a reference to the real-life La Croix Sparkling Water.
* The animation place Cricket and Tilly visit is a cross parody of Warner Bros. Animation and Disney Television Animation.
	+ To allude to this, a picture of Road Runner and a Garfield plush can be seen inside the premises, while a water tower mimicking the famous Warner Bros. water tower, which is seen in the Warner Bros. Pictures production logo from 2021 onwards, is seen in the exterior.
		- However, Garfield is currently a Nickelodeon property, though the live-action adaptations are Fox properties and are thus available on Disney+.
* The animation of *Kingdom of Lore* is similar to *The Owl House*, another popular Disney show, and is based on *The Good Witch Azura* segment in "A Lying Witch and a Warden".
* *Kingdom of Lore* itself has several references to other Disney series:
	+ The main character, Princess Tarina, and her wand weapon, is a reference to Star Butterfly from *Star vs. the Forces of Evil*. Her appearance is similar to Eda Clawthorne from *The Owl House*.
	+ The bat sidekick is a reference to King from *The Owl House*.
* In addition, the bat sidekick resembles the Pokémon Golbat and Crobat, particularly is shiny variant.
* The name "Ed Zecutive" is a play on the word "executive".
* At the very end when Cricket and Tilly get shocked for some reason, they probably saw the reviews, comments and/or fanart, though especially the first two. This references the Internet followings of series like *Big City Greens*.
* There were cereal machines behind Cricket and Tilly named "Choco Crunch", "Healthy O's", and "Sugar Flakes".
	+ These are parodies of real-life cereals Coco Puffs and Captain Crunch mixed, Cheerios (Original), and Frosted Flakes.
* The plot twist at the ending, the Evil Ghost being Tarina's father, is similar to a plot twist in the final episode of the 2017 DuckTales reboot, "The Last Adventure".