Mythology Gag / Pokémon: Clefairy Tales

• As in the original Generation 1 games, Leaf is playing a game on the Super NES at the start.
• The battle Leaf watches at the start is initially between Gengar and Nidorino, as depicted in Japanese Red & Green and International Red, and later between Gengar and Jigglypuff, as depicted in the Blue Version.
• It would seem the Jigglypuff seen in "The Song of Jigglypuff" isn't the only one that puffs up in anger and draws on everyone's faces after people fall asleep during its song; the one that fights Gengar in Nidorino's place also does it.
• As noted in "A Mudkip Mission", there's a special breeding ground for the standard Starters found in the game.
• Several incidents from Pokémon Yellow, including a wild Pokémon jumping Red and Professor Oak before being caught by Oak and the old man failing in his initial attempt to catch a Pokémon, are shown, except here the circumstances are different (e.g. the Pokémon that jumped Red and Oak is a Clefairy instead of a Pikachu, and just like in the Red/Green/Blue versions the old man encounters a Weedle, though as a further nod to Yellow he is revealed during the second attempt to have a Rattata).
• Leaf's travel outfit is the same as that of the prototypical female character from Generation 1.
• Like Ash in the anime, Leaf arrives too late to select one of the regular starters and has to settle for a different Pokémon (in Leaf's case, a Clefairy).
• The fact that Leaf got a Clefairy in the first place references how it, and not Pikachu, was originally supposed to be Ash's starter in the anime.
• Even before Brock himself is introduced, Oak mentions that he had met his father Flint once, some years before Brock himself was born.
• Leaf dragging her Clefairy by a leash hearkens back to how Ash did the same to Pikachu at the same point in his own Pokémon journey.
• As does Professor Oak in Fire Red/Leaf Green, Red teaches Leaf the basics of a Pokémon battle.
• The Nurse Joy in Viridian City is shown to be a hobbyist, sort of like her anime counterpart.
• Pokémon Tech is brought up by Nurse Joy as the school where she got her nursing degree and minored in technology.
• Both here and in the anime episode "Pokémon Emergency", it's shown a Pokédex can be used as identification.
• Pokémon Centers in this continuity have a curfew, too.
• The Viridian Pokémon Center bears a great resemblance to its anime counterpart.
• Leaf meets a Youngster who happens to be Joey's older cousin in the Viridian Pokémon Center. Unsurprisingly, Johto gets its first reference in this series during that scene, and a city in the region, Cherrygrove, gets brought up.
• Blue's Pidgey failing to hit Leaf's Rattata with Gust is a result of the 1/256 Miss Glitch, which can cause moves with 100% accuracy to miss on occasion in the G1 games.
• As in Pokémon Origins, Brock has an Early-Bird Cameo before he's revealed to be Pewter City's gym leader. Bonus points for it serving a similar purpose here.
• Pikachu's cheeks turning gold before she unleashes a ThunderShock is a reference to some early art that depicts the Pokémon's cheeks in that color.
• The Pokémon Inspection Agency is brought up a few times early on and is said to be the reason why Viridian Gym is closed.
• As in the anime sometimes Leaf's Pokémon will come out of their Poké Balls without being summoned.
• Considering how fast Leaf's capturing her Pokémon, the Pokémon Storage System was bound to come up sooner or later.
• The incident where Ash failed to catch a Weedle is brought up when a Caterpie flees a fight with Leaf's Spearow while he and Pikachu are arguing.
• Another incident from "Challenge of the Samurai" is alluded to when Leaf refuses to pit her Kakuna against Doug's.
• Bug Catcher Rick is described as wearing the original Bug Catcher costume, from the Kanto and Johto regions.
• Once again, there's plenty of Joy to go around.
• The space shuttle in the Pewter Museum of Science which is just a few times as big as the protagonist is explained here as being a scale replica thereof, and it's explicitly mentioned to be a replica of the Columbia.
• As in Generation 5, the gym guide's name is given as Clyde.
• Once again, there's a Lass in Pewter Gym.
• Both Brock's anime travel outfit from the Kanto and Johto regions and his Generation 1 outfit are referenced; he wears the former when out in public, and the latter when inside of his gym.
• Pikachu being able to hit a Ground-type is explained similarly to in the anime in that the stronger the Electric-type is, the likelier her Ground-type opponent will feel it.
• A popular strategy among Charmander-users is referenced when Leaf tells Red how to fight Brock's Pokémon with his Charmander—specifically, one that utilizes both Ember and a non-damaging move.
• As in Fire Red/Leaf Green, Brock digs for fossils on Mt. Moon sometimes.
• Team Rocket's bosozoku influence is expanded upon, to the point of its grunts using such weapons as metal pipes and Molotov cocktails.
• Thunderbolt is described as containing 100,000 volts of electricity—a reference to its original Japanese name, 100,000 Volts.
• The Goldeen dress worn by Lily during her magic show in "Making a Splash" and later by Leaf during her Gym battle against Misty is the same one that infamously appeared in "The March of the Exeggutor Squad".
• Like Ash's Pikachu, Leaf's Pikachu doesn't like being called "cute" and will zap anyone who makes that mistake.
• Misty's challenge to the plainclothes Rocket in chapter 11 goes pretty much like her first meeting with Jessie and James in the anime.
• Sabrina's surname being D'Avalon is a reference to her French name Morgane, which is derived from a morally ambiguous Arthurian character who appears in Le Morte D Arthur.
• In an early second season chapter, Leaf directly quotes a line spoken by Misty in the 4Kids dub of "The Waterflowers of Cerulean City", even acknowledging that Misty said it.

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