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  • Playing Against Type: Sharon Stone as the narrator of an animated show based on a children's book series.
  • Recursive Adaptation: The HBO series actually spawned several baby books.
  • Referenced by...:
    • In "Chapter 22" of Legion, Gabrielle Xavier reads a passage from this book to her infant son David.
    • Robot Chicken:
      • A sketch from "Bugs Keith in: I Can't Call Heaven, Doug" has Harold kill his abusive drunk father by drawing him a bottle of poison to drink. Harold then draws himself a new father who never yells at him and has a three-year chip from Alcoholics Anonymous, whom he sails away with.
      • A sketch from "May Cause Indecision… or Not" has Harold do battle with Rudy Tabootie from ChalkZone.
    • The Rocko's Modern Life episode "Cabin Fever" ends with Ed Bighead being stuck with two sailors on a Deserted Island. The sailors are playing a game of charades, with one of them guessing Harold and the Purple Crayon.
    • The Simpsons:
      • One Couch Gag has Harold drawing up the Simpsons' living room and then a beer for Homer.
      • In "Bartless," Ralph uses a purple crayon to draw a passageway on a wall and actually enters into it. In the end credits scene, Chief Wiggum tries to convince Ralph to come out of the drawing.

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