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As one of the largest media conglomerates in the world, it's no surprise that Disney likes to reference to its own works within its own works. A lot. They also own ABC, ESPN, The Muppets, Pixar, Marvel Comics, Lucasfilm, and most of the Fox-related assets such as 20th Century Studios, Searchlight Pictures, and Fox and related television stations, many of which have gotten in on the cross-references as well (and are thus lumped into this subpage). You can imagine how hectic that gets.

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  • 102 Dalmatians: Kevin and Chloe's dogs see the famous Spaghetti Kiss in Lady and the Tramp, via a VHS copy of it.
  • In Air Buddies (2006), when the Buddies are at the drive-in movie, 101 Dalmatians is playing.
  • Aladdin series:
    • Aladdin: The Genie Knows Jack Nicholson, so of course he also knows other Disney characters:
      • When Aladdin promises Genie that he'll use his third wish to free him, Genie believes he's lying and promptly turns his head into Pinocchio's, complete with growing nose.
      • When searching a book for a spell that will turn Aladdin into a prince, he mentions "Alaskan King Crab" and gets his finger snapped from inside the book by Sebastian, complete with the first few bars of "Under the Sea" playing.
      • The Beast is one of the Sultan's toy animals.
      • When trying to coax a depressed Aladdin into freeing him, Genie says to him as "When You Wish Upon a Star" starts to play...
        Genie: Aladdin, you just won the heart of the princess! What are you going to do next?note 
        (Aladdin doesn't listen and drops onto a pillow)
        Genie: Hey, your line is "I'm going to free the genie." (beat) Any time.
      • At the end, the newly-free Genie prepares to see the world and dons a tourist getup, complete with a Disneyland Goofy hat. Doubles as an Actor Allusion, as Robin Williams wore that same outfit for the short film Return to Neverland.
    • Aladdin: The Return of Jafar: Genie turns into a set of animatronics and sings the line ""it's a small world" after all!" as a way of explaining why he's returned from his intended world tour so soon. Then when he releases the protagonists from the dungeon, he chants "Bippity-boppity-boo!"
    • Aladdin and the King of Thieves: Among Genie's impersonations are several characters from other Disney films, such as Tinkerbell, Pocahontas, Pumbaa, and the Steamboat Willie version of Mickey Mouse.
      Genie: [as Pumbaa] Hakuna matata! [as himself] Whoa. Talk about an out-of-movie experience.
  • Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day: Celia's teacher calls Anthony "Wreck-It Ralph" after he knocks over the school's trophy cases.
  • In Alice in Wonderland (2010), the scene where the Jabberwock appears bears a striking resemblance to Chernabog emerging from the mountain in Fantasia.
  • Bedtime Stories (2008):
  • In Bolt, Blake (one of the Los Angeles pigeons) cross references Pixar when he says, "Don't freak out. This is how you blew it with Nemo."
  • In Brave, Merida's archery style, including her winning tournament shot, is patterned off that of Disney's own Robin Hood.
  • A Bug's Life: Flik says the Toy Story quote "To infinity and beyond!" in one of the outtakes.
  • Cars series:
    • In the entire series, Lightning McQueen has Lightyear brand tires, which on top of being a pun on the real-life tire brand Goodyear, is a reference to Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story.
    • Cars:
      • The biggest race sponsor is Dinoco, which is the brand of the gas station seen in Toy Story.
      • During the end credits, Mack watches several car versions of previous Pixar films at a drive-in theater, specifically Toy Car Story, Monster Trucks, Inc., and A Bug's Life. This scene doubles as an Actor Allusion as the scenes shown here feature characters voiced by John Ratzenberger, who voices Mack in this movie.
      • The first thing Mater says to Lightning McQueen is "Mornin', Sleepin' Beauty!" Disney had dealt with Sleeping Beauty once before, in 1959, by adapting it into a film.
    • Cars 2:
      • A drive-in marquee appears at one point mentioning a film titled The Incredimobiles.
      • In Paris, a restaurant called Gastow's is seen, referencing Gusteau's from Ratatouille.
    • In Cars 3, a shelf in Sterling's office has Cinderella's carriage on it.
  • Chicken Little:
    • In the opening, while Buck Cluck tries to figure out a way to start the story, he uses a familiar sunrise before discarding it.
    • The alien father wears a three-eyed Mickey Mouse watch.
  • Classic Disney Shorts: At the beginning of Soup's On, as Donald is preparing dinner, he sings "Zippity-Doo-Dah".
  • Coco:
    • Three to Toy Story; an emo skeleton is seen wearing the shirt that Sid from the first Toy Story wears, the Pizza Planet truck appears when Miguel is introducing Elena, and Miguel runs past pinatas of Woody and Buzz Lightyear.
    • With the Woody and Buzz Lightyear pinatas is also a pinata of Mike Wazowski from Monsters, Inc.
  • Elemental (2023):
    • The movie has several posters that parody previous Pixar films.
      • This one◊ features Gale Cumulus in a parody of WALL•E called "Wind-E", as a pun on the fact that she's a wind elemental. The background is colored blue, similarly to much of the promotional art for Wall-E.
      • This one◊ features Wade in front of a grass background and a logo reading "Wave", in reference to Brave.
      • This one◊ with Clod, an earth elemental, has a logo in the background reading "Soil" in the same font as the logo for Soul.
      • This one◊ showing Ember with a school student name tag is a spoof of Turning Red, with the student name tag being similar to the one Mei wears and a logo for "Burning Red" in the corner, a pun on how Ember is a fire woman.
    • In the film proper, Ember and Wade go to a movie theater with a poster for a movie called "The Good Element" on the outside, referencing the Pixar movie The Good Dinosaur.
  • Encanto:
  • Early on in Escape to Witch Mountain, Tony, Tia and the rest of the kids at the orphanage go to a movie theater to watch Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. note 
  • Finding Nemo franchise:
    • Finding Nemo:
      • Buzz Lightyear appears as one of the toys in the dentist's waiting room, a boy can be seen reading a Mr. Incredible comic book, and Mike Wazowski makes a cameo in the end credits.
      • On the Disney side of thingsnote , the original 2003 widescreen DVD's menu has Dory mentioning she always wanted to see The Little Mermaid.
    • A driver near the end of Finding Dory has a bandage of Lightning McQueen from Cars on his right hand, also serving as production foreshadowing for Cars 3.
  • Flora and Ulysses showcases several Marvel Comics superheroes. Also, The Imperial March from Star Wars is used as Flora's house's doorbell chime.
  • Frozen franchise:
    • Frozen: Rapunzel and Eugene are seen in the crowd entering the castle when the gates are opened.
    • Frozen II:
      • In the prologue with a young Anna and Elsa playing with snow figurines, two of them look like Baymax and Dumbo.
      • During the game of charades, Olaf acts out "mouse", which he conveys by imitating Mickey Mouse, complete with the distinctive ears and nose, as well as Mickey's most famous pose.
      • Young Agnarr says he's reading a book by "some Danish author" implying Hans Christian Andersen. It's confirmed when you can see the book in question has a silhouette of the famous image from The Little Mermaid's poster of Ariel sitting on a rock surrounded by water.
      • During "When I Am Older", Olaf wanders into a rather dark part of the forest where eyes glare out at him from the shadows, and it's eerily reminiscent of Snow White's trek through the forest in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
      • During the post-credits scene, Olaf recounts his revival by sitting up with arms forward and saying "I live," which mimics a scene in Mulan where Mushu combines the same line and pose.
  • George of the Jungle:
  • A Goofy Movie series:
  • The Great Mouse Detective: One of the toys in the toy shop resembles Dumbo.
  • In the prologue of The Haunted Mansion (2003), Gracey and his fiancee are hosting a fancy dress ball and he's wearing a blue jacket with gold trim while she's wearing a gold ballgown with her hair done up. Ergo, they look like the Beast and Belle respectively from Beauty and the Beast.
  • Haunted Mansion (2023):
    • Travis, Gabbie's son, plays with Marvel action figures throughout the film.
    • "It's a Small World" is played in one scene.
  • Hercules: Hercules' poses with a Nemean Skinning of Scar.
  • Hocus Pocus: One of the background trick-or-treaters is dressed as Mrs. Potts from Beauty and the Beast.
  • Hocus Pocus 2: Look closely at the crowd during "One Way or Another" and you'll see a lady dressed like Ursula the Sea Witch from The Little Mermaid.
  • Honey, I Shrunk the Kids:
    • The original shrink ray's display seems evocative of the digitizing laser's in TRON (and the equipment is even tested on a piece of fruit).
    • The scientist that tells Szalinski not to be discouraged after his failed presentation is named Dr. Brainard after The Absent-Minded Professor.
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame:
    • "Out There" has references to no less than three previous Disney movies. Fellow France native Belle is seen strolling along reading yet another book, Pumbaa is shown being carried through the street on a stick, and the Magic Carpet is draped over a man's arm. In addition, Jafar's old man disguise appears for a slapstick gag in the climax.
    • Clopin's animator noticed how similar the music for "Court of Miracles" was to Dukas' L'apprenti sorcier (best known for its use in Fantasia), that at one point, he had Clopin dance and lift with his robe like Mickey. This melodic similarity is probably what led Alan Menken to change the melody for the song in the theatrical adaptation.
    • One can hear the Goofy yell at one point during the film.
  • The Incredibles: Talking about Bob being unable to get over his Glory Days and paying to hide evidence that he and his family are superheroes, Rick spews out "money, money, money, money, money", a quote from the first Toy Story.
  • Incredibles 2: The Pizza Planet Truck from Toy Story can be seen outside the building where Elastigirl captures and rescues the fake Screenslaver. The truck likely belonged to him considering Evelyn revealed the one she set up was a pizza delivery guy.
  • Inside Out:
    • When Joy and Sadness pass through Imagination Land, among the things that can be seen is a board game called "Find Me" which has a cartoon Nemo on it.
    • The Brazilian Portuguese dub changes Sadness's line about finding a movie where a dog dies funny so that she says "Remember the funny movie where the lion cub's father dies?" instead.
  • The Jungle Book (1967): Near the end of the film, Bagheera delivers a eulogy to the apparently dead Baloo as a somber organ music plays. Surprisingly, the background music is a Grief Song and a shout-out to "Chorale for Snow White" from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
  • In The Jungle Book 2, when Kaa gets pelted with prickly pears, the end result ends up looking suspiciously like he's wearing a Mickey Mouse disguise.
  • Lilo & Stitch:
    • Nani has a Mulan poster in her room.
    • Lilo has a toy of Dumbo in her room as well.
    • Teaser trailers for the film had Stitch barging in and ruining various iconic scenes from other Disney movies, as a way of saying "This ain't your mama's Disney movie!"
  • The Lion King (1994):
  • The Lion King (2019) has a few references that weren't in the original:
  • In The Lion King 1 ½, a myriad of other Disney characters appear near the end of the film at the cinema, specifically: Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy; Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; Belle, the Beast, Mrs. Potts and Chip; The Genie, Aladdin and Jasmine riding on Carpet; Lady and Tramp; Hyacinth Hippo; Stitch; The Mad Hatter; Rabbit (from Winnie the Pooh); Peter Pan, Tinkerbell and The Lost Boys; Quasimodo and the gargoyles; Pocahontas; Dumbo; Terk; Mowgli and Baloo; Fauna, Flora and Merriweather; and Br'er Bear.
  • In Luca, a Donald Duck cloth toy can be seen in Giulia's room.
  • The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh: A live-action shot of different toys in Christopher Robin's room features two of the soldiers, as well as a boat with a cannon and two cannonballs, from Disney's film version of Babes in Toyland.
  • In Mars Needs Moms, a poster of Mr. Incredible from The Incredibles can be see in Milo's room.
  • In Mary Poppins Returns, during "Can You Imagine That", Mary Poppins makes reference to pirates who play around all day and never get old, which brings Peter Pan to mind.
  • Meet the Robinsons:
    • In the baseball field where Goob is playing, a banner with Mowgli and Baloo is seen on a sign.
    • A scene that didn't make it into the film would have had Carl give Wilbur a note with Winnie the Pooh characters on it saying "Get out! ♡ Carl".
  • Moana:
    • While trying to get his shapeshifter powers back, Maui is briefly transformed into Sven.
    • The Stinger has Tamatoa still toppled over, pleading the audience to help him up. After getting none, he states that they probably would help him if his name was Sebastian and he had a cool Jamaican accent.
  • Monsters, Inc.:
    • Among the toys seen in Boo's room are Jessie and the ball with the star design from Toy Story, and Nemo from Finding Nemo (which hadn't released yet).
    • The outtakes feature Rex from Toy Story in place of a giant monster who appears in the film proper waiting near the street.
  • The castle featured in the Disney logo at the beginning of Mulan (2020) is Shanghai Disneyland's Enchanted Storybook Castle.
  • The Muppets (2011): On the map at the very beginning of the movie, Gary and Walter's Boy Scout camp is labeled to be in Paradise Falls.
  • Onward:
    • Triple Dent Gum, a Bland-Name Product version of Trident gum first seen in Inside Out, is sold at the gas station Ian and Barley visit.
    • One particular location on the map used by the elf brothers is "The Brave Wilderness".
  • In The Parent Trap (1998), Meredith is called by the name of the villain from 101 Dalmatians, Cruella DeVil, several times.
  • Pinocchio (2022):
    • The painted castle backdrop seen in Stromboli's puppet show looks an awful lot like Sleeping Beauty Castle from the Disney theme parks.
    • Geppetto's cuckoo clock collection has turned into a Cameo Cluster of characters from various Disney films ranging from fairy tale classics like Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Sleeping Beauty to more anachronistic picks like Dumbo, The Lion King, Toy Story and Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
    • While seeing the Coachman’s henchmen capturing the donkeys, Jiminy hides behind his umbrella like Wendy, John, and Michael do when the Lost Boys are approaching in Peter Pan.
  • Prep & Landing: Wayne watches Mickey's Christmas Carol on TV.
  • Ralph Breaks the Internet: The Oh My Disney! section is based on a real Disney website by that name and is packed with cameos from other Disney properties - for example, Vanellope meets the Disney Princesses, who have C-3PO from Star Wars as their butler.
  • Ratatouille has a couple to The Incredibles:
    • When Linguini considers sneaking Rémy into the kitchen in his trousers, we get a brief glimpse of his boxers which have the Incredibles logo imprinted on them.
    • During the Good-Times Montage, Linguini and Colette skate past a mime who heavily resembles Bomb Voyage.
  • In The Rescuers, a Mickey Mouse watch can be seen in the Rescue Aid Society's meeting room.
  • Near the end of RocketMan (1997), "When You Wish Upon a Star" from Pinocchio plays when Julie and Fred are dancing together.
  • The Santa Clause 2: During Scott and Robo-Santa's fight, the latter shouts, also as an Actor Allusion, "You're a sad, strange little man!".
  • Strange World:
    • To Atlantis: The Lost Empire—The Clades trying to keep president Callisto from making the Pando infection worse is very reminiscent of what happens when Milo realizes Roark's true purposes for visiting Atlantis and tries to stop him- both scenes even take place on similar airships! The general tone of the film is also very similar.
    • It also features a reference to Winnie the Pooh (2011); the Backson from that movie appears during the closing credits.
  • Tarzan: The tea set in the Porters' campsite resembles Mrs. Potts and Chip.
  • Toy Story series:
    • Toy Story: Andy has several books in his room that have the titles of Pixar Shorts on them, such as "Red's Dream", "Tin Toy", and "Knick Knack".
    • Toy Story 2: There are several A Bug's Life toys in Al's Toy Barn.
    • Toy Story 3:
      • One of the kids in the daycare looks like an older version of Boo from Monsters, Inc.. When she first appears, she is reenacting a scene from said film using a couple of toys, specifically the scene where Sully accidentally scares Boo (she even says "Boo! No, no, no! What's the matter?").
      • The fact that Totoro from My Neighbor Totoro appears as a toy in the film might be a bit of a weasel call in regards to his connection to Disney, as he's a Studio Ghibli character, but Disney had the rights to distribute the Studio Ghibli films in the United States when Toy Story 3 came out.
    • There are several in Toy Story 4. For example, Bo's remote-controlled skunk vehicle runs on Buy n' Large batteries.
    • Lightyear: One of the buildings on T'Kani Prime is clearly modelled on Space Mountain.
    • There's one in each of the Toy Story Toons shorts.
      • Hawaiian Vacation: A DVD commentary mentions that Chuckles the Clown's luau chant translates to "Bound and rebound", a line from the previous Pixar short Boundin'.
      • In Small Fry, there is a toy among the discarded ones Buzz meets who looks like the eponymous character from Condorman.
      • The toilet seat in Partysaurus Rex has a fur design based off the Monsters, Inc. character Sulley's fur.
  • Continuing a tradition of "hidden Mickeys", TRON features a silhouette of Mickey Mouse during the Solar Sailor escape.
  • Turning Red:
    • One of Mei's books bears a sticker resembling the rabbit from Burrow. It can only be seen for a split second. Multiple Burrow-esque rabbit stickers also appear on a promotional poster.
    • The logo of Star Command appears as a sticker on Miriam's skateboard, serving as a case of Pixar's Production Foreshadowing for Lightyear. The promotional poster mentioned above also features a sticker of Sox.
    • Mei affectionately refers to the red panda statues in front of her family's temple as Bart and Lisa, a reference to The Simpsons, which Disney got in their Fox acquisition.
    • In the bathroom scene, where Mei's group tries to hide her, one of the stall doors in focus has Nemo in sticker form.
    • At Tyler's place, the Luxo Ball is floating in his large pool while Mei's group is looking down at the backyard.
    • While Mei makes her frantic escape from school, she bumps into a blonde man and a hijab-wearing woman. On the upper left, the papel picado skull designs featured in Coco can be seen.
    • The gothic Carter is wearing an Escápula t-shirt, the heavy metal band also featured in Coco .
    • As Mei heads towards the Skydome in her Red Panda form, she passes a parked Pizza Planet Truck on her left.
    • The recurring A113 in-joke appears three times in the movie: the SkyDome seat number seen in the TV ad for 4*Town, the actual ticket featured in the credits, and the chalk wheelbarrow used by Jin to makeshift a stadium-sized banishing circle for Ming.
    • A restaurant in Mei's neighborhood has the logo for Bao on its sign.
  • Underdog: Dogs on a date batting meatballs back and forth? Lady and the Tramp. One of them is a Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, similar to the movie.
  • Up: A girl seen when the house takes flight happens to have a Minnie Mouse-esque appearance complete with afro puffs representing the mouse ears, the star ball from Luxo Jr., and a doll of Lotso Huggin' Bear from Toy Story 3, the Pixar film that followed Up.
  • There are several in WALL•E. For instance, the robot mice that nibble around EVE in the trash room are called REM-E's, and during the mosaic section of the end credits, a big turtle, two smaller turtles, and an orange fish swim by.
  • Your Friend the Rat: P.T. Flea from A Bug's Life appears, trying to catch the audience's attention when a flea is credited with causing the Black Plague. Remy mentions it's not him, to which P.T. Flea becomes disappointed.
  • Zootopia:
    • The movie has a character called Duke Weaselton, whose name is an obvious Shout-Out to the Duke of Weselton. Both are even voiced by the same actor. They also have similar roles in the story: being minor antagonists.
    • Another Frozen reference, along with some Biting-the-Hand Humor comes in when Bogo berates Judy for being unsatisfied with her current job, telling her "Life isn't some cartoon musical where you sing a little song and your insipid dreams magically come true! So LET IT GO."
    • Later on, Weaselton is seen on the streets selling pirated movies, all based on fellow Disney movies, two of which are based on movies that weren't out yet, and one of which (Gigantic, parodied as Giraffic) was cancelled.

    Television 
  • 101 Dalmatians: The Series:
    • In "Mall Pups," Lt. Pug is knocked into a basket of toys which includes a Woody doll.
    • While she doesn't refer to it by name, Cadpig refers to seeing Cinderella when she suggests that the pups should make a dress for Amber, Roger & Anita's niece.
    • The mermaid on Captain Ahab's ship is Ariel.
    • Pumbaa makes a cameo in "Good Neighbor Cruella".
    • Rolly has a doll of Mickey Mouse in "Roll Out the Pork Barrel".
  • In the season 2 Halloween Episode of Abbott Elementary, Ava and Melissa show up dressed as the Marvel heroines Storm and Scarlet Witch, respectively.
  • Aladdin: The Series contains several. For example, in one episode, Saleen the mermaid attempts to give Jasmine a new hairstyle and ends up giving her one resembling the hairstyle of Ariel ("She looks like any other princess under the sea.").
    • Another episode had a gag where Genie shapeshifts into Baloo from TaleSpin and even talks like him using the phrase "little britches".
  • A Season 2 episode of the ABC series American Crime has one of the main character browsing posters in a comic book shop. All of the comic characters characters featured (Elektra, The Daughters of Dragon, and Melinda May) are Marvel heroines, while a prominent advertisement for Totally Awesome Hulk can be seen in the background.
  • Amphibia:
    • There's an episode where Anne and the Plantars go to the Amphibia's version of the Mystery Shack, which is run by Amphibia's versions of Stan and Soos. Additionally, Kristen Schaal is in another episode as a guest star. Much of the show's crew previously worked on Gravity Falls, also making this a Production Throwback.
    • Keith David's role as the Big Bad is meant to be a reference to Gargoyles, as the show's crew were fans of the show growing up.
    • Crumpet the Frog is an obvious reference to The Muppets' Kermit the Frog, and is even voiced by Kermit's puppeteer, Matt Vogel.
  • A Big City Greens episode has a crane game that contains stuffed dolls from other Disney Television Animation series, featuring Rufus, Agent P, Bill Cipher, Wander, Star Butterfly, Sprig Plantar, and King.
  • Bill Nye the Science Guy: In an episode about water, Bill compares a model of an H2O atom to a pair of mouse ears, and later says "See ya real soon." Disney produced both Bill Nye and The Mickey Mouse Club.
  • The black•ish episode "Scarred for Life" has the family dressed as the cast of Black Panther (Dre and Devante as T'Challa, Bow as Nakia and Junior as Killmonger) for Halloween.
  • Cars on the Road:
    • The title card for Episode 2 resembles the logo for the The Haunted Mansion.
    • The production company for the movie in Episode 7 is Breaklight Pictures, a nod to Searchlight Pictures, which Disney also owns.
  • Chip 'n' Dale: Park Life: In "The Flight", while Dale is flying with the ducks, he can be heard singing something similar to "You Can Fly! You Can Fly! You Can Fly!".
  • Darkwing Duck: The statue that Drake Mallard pounds on to activate the chairs and send him and his allies to Darkwing Tower is of Basil from The Great Mouse Detective.
  • Doc McStuffins:
    • One episode is called "Awesome Possums", referencing Bonkers.
    • In "Smitten With a Kitten," Chilly suggests that the reason a toy kitten isn't able to talk is because a sea witch stole her voice.
  • In the first episode of DuckTales (1987), Scrooge McDuck tells a worker "there'll be no whistling while you work!"
  • DuckTales (2017):
    • In the episode "The Dangerous Chemistry of Gandra Dee", Gizmoduck fights a Mad Scientist named Dr. Atmoz Fear who looks and sounds a lot like Dr. Doofenshmirtz from one of Disney's other shows, Phineas and Ferb.
    • The episode "Quack Pack" is a reference to the other Huey, Louie and Dewey series, Quack Pack, and also features a version of Goofy based closely on Goof Troop. In fact, most of the Disney Afternoon gets referenced at some point in the series.
  • Forky Asks a Question: Several of the shorts feature an emotional moment that's underscored by "Boo's Theme" from Monsters, Inc.
  • One episode of Gamer's Guide to Pretty Much Everything uses a doll of Clover as a stand-in for a bunny.
  • In a Halloween episode of Gargoyles, Eliza dresses up as Belle in her ballroom gown, making her the Beauty to Goliath's Beast.
  • Goof Troop:
    • Several references to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs:
      • In "Midnight Movie Madness", Goofy is against Max seeing a scary movie, saying that Max was scared of the Witch from Snow White.
      • In "Date with Destiny", Max lies to his principal that Goofy is getting married and says "and we'll all live happily ever after like Snow White and Dopey and stuff."
    • In "Calling All Goofs", Peg tells Pete to keep Goofy away from a surprise family reunion until noon, "even if you have to clean his clothes, shine his shoes, or take him to Disneyland!"
  • Gravity Falls: Old Man McGucket's raccoon-based spaghetti kiss in "The Land Before Swine" is referencing Lady and the Tramp.
  • Hailey's On It!: In "Smells Like Queen Spirit", Hailey laments about not being meant to be a princess and is shown to be holding a pillow that has the same design on it as the dress worn by the eponymous character of Moana. Hailey is played by Moana's voice actress, Auli'i Cravalho.
  • In an episode of Hercules: The Animated Series, the Romans opt to have the Greek gods be given new names for them to worship. When Hades receives a letter stating they want to call him Pluto, he's outraged by the name and states that he wouldn't even name his dog "Pluto", a reference to Pluto the Pup.
  • In Holey Moley, Joe and Rob wear the same yellow jackets that ABC's 1970s sports commentators did in shows like Wide World Of Sports. 3D in 2D makes another reference with a ski-jump-themed hole called Agony of Defeat, referring to the famous line from Wide World's opening and accompanying clip of a ski jump wipeout.
  • Kim Possible:
    • In one episode, Dr. Drakken reacts to some good news by saying "It's a zip-a-dee-doo-dah day!", a reference to the Disney film Song of the South.
    • The Cuddle Buddies toys that appear on the show are spoofs of The Wuzzles.
  • In The Little Mermaid (1992), Mickey, Donald and Goofy can be seen during King Triton's concert hall entrance.
  • Mickey Mouse (2013) has quite a handful of Disney references, mostly to the Disney Animated Canon. Just to name a few examples, Lady and the Tramp appear in "Third Wheel" and have their signature Spaghetti Kiss interrupted by Goofy, Donald bumps into Belle and the Beast during a dance in "The Adorable Couple", and "Wish Upon a Coin" features appearances from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
  • Monsters at Work:
    • The little boy in the pilot wears Mickey Mouse pajamas and has a Winnie the Pooh doll.
    • Lilo & Stitch has two references in the shownote :
      • In the pilot, it's shown on the envelope of Tylor's acceptance letter that his home address is 626 Croak Street; 626 is Stitch's experiment number, and a frog appears with Stitch in a couple scenes of the first film.
      • In the third episode, baby "Snore" has a plush toy of Stitch's love interest and mate Angel (Experiment 624) in her room.
    • A magazine Roze is reading during the cold open of "The Big Wazowskis" has a photograph of Nessie from The Ballad of Nessie on its front cover.
  • The Muppets Mayhem: During Floyd's hallucination in "Break on Through", he sees "Weird Al" Yankovic appear in a cloud formation and asks if Al's going to tell him to reclaim the Pride Lands (from The Lion King).
  • The Owl House:
    • In the "Escaping Explusion" episode, Hop Pop appears on the cover of a book about the life cycle of the common swamp toad.
    • In "King's Tide", Camila has a story about Anne Boonchuy being missing in a "frog land" up on her tablet.
  • One episode of Phineas and Ferb is titled "Troy Story", a reference to Toy Story.
  • The 2019 revival of Press Your Luck is produced by ABC. The new Whammy animations include parodies of The Bachelor and The Oprah Winfrey Show, both of which are other ABC shows.
  • In one of The Proud Family's earlier episodes, Oscar explains that an incident with a fish at a restaurant left him so scared of fish that he had to watch The Little Mermaid (1989) with his hands covering his eyes.
  • The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder:
  • There are a few in The Santa Clauses episode "Chapter Four: The Shoes Off the Bed Clause".
    • At the start of the episode, Scott notices Lucas holding a Grogu plush and briefly mentions the child owns Toy Story-themed pajamas with Buzz Lightyear on them.
    • When Edie, one of the elves, vanishes into thin air, her last words before doing so are "I don't feel so good."
  • Sofia the First features a bunch of them, but just to name a couple, King Roland's domain is part of the Tri-Kingdom Area, and in the episode "The Ghostly Gala", Dax sings about meeting his Uncle Walt and Uncle Roy (referring to none other than Walt and Roy Disney) and summons some familiar-looking dancing skeletons.
  • The Star vs. the Forces of Evil episode "Trial By Squire" ends with Star and Marco buying (among other things) gnomes resembling the ones from Gravity Falls. They then use the catchphrase from Phineas and Ferb, "Yes, yes we are". The sloths that run the store might be a reference to the sloths running the DMV from Zootopia.
  • Stitch!:
    • In the first episode, several kids are shown playing a game that is very obviously Spectrobes 2.
    • In the opening, there is a Hidden Mickey in the sushi just after the opening theme.
    • An episode focuses on a trip to Tokyo Disneyland.
  • In one episode of Tangled: The Series, a book for Beauty and the Beast can be seen in the royal library.
  • One episode of Wander over Yonder has the characters watching TV and one of the shows on is an alien version of Gravity Falls but combined with Warner Brothers' Scooby-Doo. The premise of the cartoon is "Dipper", "Mabel", and "Stan" traveling around in the "Mystery Machine" and solving mysteries.
  • Zootopia+:
    • Near the beginning of "Duke the Musical", Duke proclaims himself as the "Duke of Weasel Town". This references Frozen, which features the Duke of Weselton (which is usually mispronounced Weasel Town) as a character. This counts as an Actor Allusion, as both Dukes have the same voice actor.
    • During his song, Duke wears the same crown Prince John from Robin Hood does.

    Print Media 

    Video Games 
  • Epic Mickey:
    • Tomorrow City's boss, Petetronic, is based off TRON; he shoots disks off his back and can summon rotating shields, and his armor has Tron Lines. His battle arena also looks like the computerized environments in TRON. His name is also a portmanteau of "Pete", "Tron", and "electronic".
    • There are cameos from non-Mickey Mouse Disney characters; Tortooga has the pirates from Peter Pan in it, while a statue of Simba from The Lion King is in Lonesome Manor.
  • Finding Nemo: The ball you bounce in certain levels is none other than the recurring Luxo Ball that's been around since Pixar's inception.
  • The Incredibles: The Eggman Movers and Pizza Planet trucks from Toy Story can be seen during the Late for School level, despite the latter not appearing in this game's parent film.
  • In Monsters, Inc.: Scream Team, Buzz Lightyear from Toy Story appears as a statue in one of the city levels.

    Marvel Entertainment 

    Lucasfilm 
  • Strange Magic: Marianne is seen training with a sword while blindfolded, much like the hero in A New Hope.
  • The Force Awakens: The way the sky reflects off BB-8's lens after it sees an explosion is reminiscent of Wall-E.

    20th Century Studios/Fox 
  • DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story has Fox Sports Net signage visible at times during both the dodgeball and cheerleading tournaments (though it's not clear why it's there for the dodgeball tournament, since ESPN-8 "The Ocho" is supposed to be the only one covering the event). Became Hilarious in Hindsight after the Disney purchase of Fox; this also included the Fox Sports regional networks, but they were sold to Sinclair Broadcast Group shortly after for competition reasons.
  • Family Guy:
    • Subverted in the “Helen of Troy” segment of Heart Burn, one of the first episodes made post-Disney buyout, has Peter Griffin (as Paris) hoping that Hercules could show up now that they’re owned by the company, but is told off-screen that are forbidden to do and have to settle for Launchpad McQuack instead.
  • Free Guy has a few:
  • Ice Age: Scrat Tales: The official poster depicts Scrat performing a "Lion King" Lift on his acorn with Baby Scrat clinging to it.
  • In Ron's Gone Wrong, among the many skins a B-Bot can have are Iron Man, Black Panther, and Captain Marvel from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as well as Darth Vader and Stormtroopers from Star Wars.
  • The Simpsons:
    • In the episode "A Fish Called Selma", the family go see Troy McClure star in a musical called Stop The Planet of the Apes, I Want To Get Off!. Both The Simpsons and Planet of the Apes are owned by Fox.
    • One episode is titled "I, (Annoyed Grunt)-Bot" and another is "Them, Robot", a reference to the similarly 20th Century Fox-produced film I, Robot.
    • "Treehouse of Horror XXX", one of the earliest episodes in the post-Disney era of Fox, has Ned Flanders attempting to kill Maggie because she has demonic powers. When he shows Homer and Marge the mark of the beast on her, he comes across a demonic Mickey Mouse mark that reads "Property of Disney" on it and asserts that's the wrong one.

    Disney Channel India 
  • In Bhaagam Bhaag, the main character, Sunny, owns a Simple Samosa backpack. Not only do both shows air on Disney Channel India, but they were both created by the same person (Sanjiv Waeerkar).
  • Simple Samosa:
    • "Sumo Momo": The episode's basic plot, as well as several of its plot beats - namely, that both feature a main character musing about a sumo wrestler and being made to fight said sumo wrestler by a friend who assumed they wanted to have a wrestling match with them, and both feature a character going into a rage and defeating the sumo wrestler at the end - are similar to the Mickey Mouse (2013) episode "Tapped Out".
    • The episode "Banana Fontana" is about Samosa pretending to be a popstar named Banana Fontana, which is most likely derived from one of Disney's American series, Hannah Montana.
    • "Sauce Awakens" derives its name from fellow Disney property Star Wars' film, The Force Awakens.
    • In "Mission 925", Dhokla watches a soap opera called Yeh Nashta Kya Kehlata Hai that parodies Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai. That airs on StarPlus, which Disney acquired in their purchase of the Fox properties in 2019.

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