Does This Remind You of Anything? moments in Odd Squad.
- In "Double Trouble", Otto asks Oscar if he can give some parting words to the Delivery Debbie clones before Oscar zaps them back into the real deal. Combined with him asking why the clones can't be saved and Oprah telling him that he needs to let go, it looks an awful lot like Otto is saying goodbye to a few relatives that are on the verge of death (perhaps by assisted suicide) but can't accept that they're dying.
- "Crime at Shapely Manor" shows General Pentagon's hands stained with red paint when he touches the farmhouse in Lord Rectangle's painting, which is an obvious kid-friendly equivalent to a soldier who has blood on their hands from fighting in wars.
- Olive having some sort of trauma is hinted at pretty often throughout Season 1. As one example, in "The Briefcase", she comes face-to-face with her trigger, pie, by way of the Shapeshifter's head turning into one to intentionally scare her, then transforming the briefcase she has to find into a pie to ward her away from retrieving it. The latter attempt ends up failing when Otto gives Olive some encouraging words. By the time OddTube rolls around, Olive has made a few steps on the road to recovery and is eating different pastries in order to work up to eventually eating pie.
- Olaf whipping out a pair of giant scissors in "Best Seats in the House" is quickly met with scared reactions from Olive, Otto and Oren. Although the intent was to cut the chairs in four pieces in order to split it evenly, the reactions make it out to seem like Olaf is planning on cutting his partner and two rivals instead, though when he takes out the giant scissors again to cut the desk lamps at the end of the episode, everyone is fine with it.
- "Life of O'Brian" has many implications of workplace bullying, harassment and human trafficking with one of the most blatant ones being O'Brian blocking access to the tubes for anyone that makes him upset and those daring to stand up to him receiving harsh consequences in return (Octavia being underground for so long that she forgot what the sky has looked like, as one example). To hammer the point home, the only agent to stand up to O'Brian by telling Oprah about what he was doing ended up receiving a punishment that not even Oscar is willing to share.
- In "Dance Like Nobody's Watching", after Oprah becomes frozen, Otto puts on his headphones and listens to music to calm himself down, isolating himself from Olive and Oscar — a common coping skill that those with disorders such as autism and anxiety employ. Driving it home further is Olive giving an eyeroll in response, which is a common reaction for those in Real Life to have when it comes to those with disorders who use music to calm themselves down.
- Dr. O yelling at Baby Genius in "Jinx" wouldn't be so bad...if it weren't for the fact that she works a babysitting job as a side gig, making it reminiscent of parents and other caregivers who verbally abuse their children. The fact that it's the first thing she does after encountering Rivka and Baby Genius doesn't help matters.
- The commercial for the Shmumbers Hotel featured in "The O Games" advertises rooms with two separate beds that people can push together to make one bed, which correlates to couples who sleep in separate beds but push them together when they want to have sex.
- A couple episodes have Olive treating Otto in such a way that they appear to have a mother-son relationship instead of a best-friend relationship.
- "Bad Lemonade" has Olive taking away Otto's cup when he continues to drink it despite it being sour, like a parent taking away a drink from a child when they feel they've had enough.
- "Olive and Otto in Shmumberland" has Olive scolding Otto for drawing on the wall by explaining that her comic is a collector's edition, only for her to concede with an "If you must."
- "Captain Fun" opens up with Olive leaving Headquarters to take a day off, giving Otto a few copies of her phone numbers, informing him that Dr. O is upstairs if he gets injured, and fretting over something happening while she's gone while he assures her that everything will be fine. And of course, the second Olive leaves, Oprah emerges from her office to declare her intentions of finding a Captain Fun, which snowballs into an entire conflict.
Olive: That's the last time I'm taking a day off. - "Not So Splash" has Olive and Otto enter the Mathroom while Orchid is using it. When they greet her, she asks them if they've ever heard of knocking, which Olive responds to by saying that they didn't know Orchid was in the Mathroom. Coupled with the Mathroom being used as a source of Toilet Humor by the name alone, the ordeal makes it look like Olive and Otto both walked in on Orchid in a one-toilet bathroom while she was in the middle of relieving herself.
- There's Oprah nearly murdering Oscar as a couch in "Oscar the Couch", and then there's Oksana actively wanting to murder Oscar when he's turned back into a whole human being.Oksana: We're still splitting it into four equal pieces, right?
- The mannerisms of the reformed Todd in "Mid-Day in the Garden of Good and Odd" are reminiscent of schizophrenia.
- "The Cherry-on-Top-inator", where Oona seeks to destroy the titular gadget and strip it to use its parts for other gadgets and gives unhinged screams every time she goes to destroy it, draws quite a few parallels to mentally ill people who may harm living beings or objects that hold sentiment to their friends or family. To drive the point home, instead of wielding a gun, Oona wields a mallet, and she's shown snapping at her friends numerous times without actually physically assaulting them.
- In "Sir", the titular client refuses to believe that he has Spaghetti-itis and refuses to come with Odd Squad to get his illness treated, with his wife encouraging him by telling him that she wants to see him get the help he needs.
- Oprah going through juice withdrawal in "Xs and Os" is very reminiscent of an alcoholic trying to go cold turkey and failing.
- Similar to the maternal Olive examples above, Olympia takes away Otis's sour ice cream cone in "Negative Town" in a way meant to evoke a mother taking a food item away from a child when they've had enough to eat.
- "License to Science" is essentially what happens when you take a "teenager begins to drive for the first time" plot and tweak it so the subject is a preteen obtaining a work license instead. There's even an Odd Squad equivalent to the DMV, known as the DMG (Department of Motorized Gadgets).
- In "There Is No 'O' in O-bot", Omega orders Olympia and Otis multiple times to climb inside him, telling them to "put your skeletal forms inside my robot core" and ordering them to move faster when they go too slow for his liking. To top things off, Hopkins ends up joining them when they enter through Omega's back after leaving his workplace.
- The ending of "It Takes Goo to Make a Feud Go Right" is full of sexual innuendos, from the Goo People shooting out goo from their bodies when they're happy to the face Gooey Randall makes when the camera cuts away from the goo-covered Olympia, Otis and Oprah.
- Olympia explains to Oprah that what brings two people together is them sharing a meal they both like, which is reminiscent of a couple going on a date. She even states that it's one of her favorite things, which implies that she's actually been on a date before with someone.
- "The Scientist" is eleven minutes of footage of a person who has survived a widescale disaster, like the apocalypse or a tornado, only in an Alternate Dimension. Said person also undergoes Sanity Slippage from being the only person left in the alternate dimension, with her recording footage for any other people that may be around.
- Otis's backstory, revealed in "Who is Agent Otis?", has him telling the courtroom that his Absurd Phobia of ducks comes from the fact that he is afraid his adoptive duck family will come back to hurt him — a common fear of those who have been abused by family members or significant others.
- In "Odds and Ends", Todd introduces Otis and Oprah to his meeting at the Home for Villains as though they're new students attending a kindergarten class in school for the first time. He even leads the villains in "show-and-yell" and does the "1, 2, 1-2-3" hand-clapping technique many teachers of young students use to get attention.
- "Orla's Birthday" has Oswald informing Omar of things that Orla wouldn't want at her birthday party because they're linked to events she experienced and apparently is suffering from trauma over.
- Another maternal agent example from "Jeremy", where Opal hands the titular kid her phone while she and Omar deal with something else that's more important, which is reminiscent of a parent who gives their child their phone to play with while they're busy.
- "Jeremy" as an episode directly references the target demographic, who want to join Odd Squad and become agents.
- "Substitute Agents" has Oxley, a boy, wearing a hat that looks similar to the "pussyhat"
◊ that was popularized by the Women's March in 2017. The fact that Oxley is shown wearing it and not Olanda, a girl, drives the point home further. - When Evil Sculptor goes to help a postal worker with her packages in "16-and-a-Half Blocks", she protests and calls out "Villain!" repeatedly, and is quickly joined by a myriad of other people in the immediate vicinity. The scene contains two allegories — being a victim of harassment or assault, and being someone who doesn't fit society's norms who tries to help other people but gets mistaken for a criminal with bad intentions.
- In "Double O Trouble", Osmerelda talks with a client who tells her that she's been feeling unhappy lately. Osmerelda asks her if she feels like she has a dark cloud hanging over her head. While this is taken literally and the client does have a Personal Raincloud, the scene is reminiscent of a client going to see a therapist to help treat their depression. Made especially apparent by the fact that not only does the client look and sound depressed, but Osmerelda is holding a notepad and a pencil much like a therapist would.
- The scene where Omar and Osmerelda prepare to get rid of their clones looks and sounds an awful lot like they're committing an act of mass murder, from the two "leader" clones' terrified expressions when they're gathered to them saying a few final words before "disappearing for good" to them deciding to attack the real deals in retaliation. The episode also zig-zags between Osmerelda's and Omar's views of the clones — depending on the scene, either they think their clones are expendable or they think they are capable of thoughts and feelings.
- As if the title of "Can You Wrangle It?" wasn't enough of a Double Entendre, the episode has Omar, Oswald and Orla inhaling the newly-installed cheese pyramid in a way that makes it seem like they're huffing inhalants, complete with Oswald wistfully saying "That's the stuff..." When Osmerelda takes a sniff and says that she can't smell anything (at least until cheese powder gets on her nose), Oswald encourages her to take deeper breaths, and what follows is an Overly Long Gag of everyone inhaling the scent of cheese before being interrupted by Orpita calling them.
- Orla calling Oswald to have "one last meal" together with him and Osmerelda before she is turned into a puppy in "Ahead of the Times" draws parallels to someone knowing they're about to die and wanting a final moment with their loved ones or friends.
- During Orpita's voiceover in "Welcome to Odd Squad", she explains that Odd Squad agents need to have strong stomachs and not be easily nauseated. This is accompanied by a clip of Oscar from "Oscar of All Trades" working as a concessions worker and offering roasted nuts to passing agents. He means the food, but roasted nuts on their own aren't usually nausea-inducing...however, then there's the other kind of roasted nuts.
- "Set Lasers to Profit" has the Mobile Unit agents give a speech to Threesie Louise-ie, Tommy Two-sie and High Five that contains two allegories — getting scammed out of your money by a Con Artist, and spending money on drugs in vain efforts to improve your health.Orla: This gadget does not give you powers. It takes your power away.
Oswald: You'll just have to keep spending and spending to make it work.
Osmerelda: Where will it end? - In "Why Did the Chicken Cross the Dimension?", Omar, Osmerelda, Orla and Oswald decide to use a baby laser chicken to blast away completely harmless beings with its Eye Beams. This is, for all intents and purposes, abuse of a child, especially since the chicken is sensitive to loud noises and Logan, who has poisonous skin, is holding it in his hands.
