The King - AVM Shorts Episode 30

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The King
Season	3
Episode (Season)	11
Episode (Overall)	30
Air date	December 3rd, 2022
Written by	Alan Becker
Episode Guide
Previous	Note Block Universe - AVM Shorts Episode 29
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The King is the 30th Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts episode, being the 11th and final installment of Season 3. It premiered on December 3rd, 2022.

Before the release of the episode, there were three teasers. The first one showed King Orange without his iconic crown in front of a playground, while the second one showed King Orange preparing to fight Herobrine while holding his staff. The last teaser that was shown confirmed the official release date of The King.

Synopsis

The origin story and season finale.

Plot

Flashback

The episode opens with King Orange standing outside on a sunny day. King Orange gazes at a playground, reminiscing about playing with his son, Gold. After a few moments, a now-older Gold appears behind him with two corndogs and hands one to him. They playfully fight for a moment, using the corndogs as imaginary swords, then head off.

The opening shot of the episode.

Later, in the evening, King Orange and Gold are seen strolling in a marketplace, where they attend a concert, try on accessories in a store, and buy drinks. Eventually, Gold watches an advertisement for Minecraft and becomes captivated with the game. Seeing a simulation booth where Minecraft can be experienced, Gold begs his father to allow him to try it out.

To allow Gold to enter the simulation, King Orange signs a waiver freeing the simulation and its affiliated parties from any responsibility for injuries attained by individuals interacting with the simulation. Afterwards, two stick programmers give Gold the "OK" to enter the hallway. With Gold in the hallway, the simulation begins: the opening at the end glows white, and Gold is "uploaded" into the Minecraft simulation.

King Orange and Gold in the marketplace together.

Outside the cube-shaped building, a TV screen displays a third-person view of Gold to King Orange. Gold and King Orange wave to each other before Gold begins collecting wood from trees, crafting a wooden pickaxe, and so on. But just as Gold is mining stone, an alarm begins to blare loudly outside the simulation. King Orange watches the two programmers as they unsuccessfully scramble to shut it down. Suddenly, within the Minecraft simulation, a black wave emanates from the Sun, turning the Sun into a black cube with black tendrils snaking from its surface. The tendrils expand rapidly, covering the ground and sky in the Minecraft world and turning them all black. Gold runs from the spreading darkness, and in desperation, opens the pause menu, where all the buttons seem to be corrupted. At the last moment, he manages to press "Save and Quit to Title", allowing him to leave the simulation.

Back in the Outernet, Gold bursts out of the entrance to the cube-shaped building back into the glass hallway. He tries to reach the entrance to the hallway, but there seems to be wind or some force pulling him the other way back into the simulation. Black tendrils writhe at the entrance to the simulation. Outside, King Orange bangs desperately on the doors to the glass hallway, but cannot break them open. Gold starts to glitch. Cerulean is still trying to pull the release switch to the simulation, but the lever accidentally breaks off. Dark Green runs over to the glass hallway and tries to help King Orange force the door open, but to no avail. Fighting immense winds, Gold slowly pulls himself towards the doorway, as King Orange continues to punch the door. The programmers still cannot shut off the simulation.

Gold's death.

In their final burst of strength, arms outstretched, Gold reaches and seems to touch the door, but immediately afterward succumbs to the wind and falls backwards into the simulation. The Minecraft world, now fully black, crashes a few moments later with Gold trapped inside, killing him. An empty, emotionless message is all that remains of King Orange's son: "Connection Lost. A fatal error has occurred, this connection is terminated". Gold is dead from this point onward.

King Orange falls to his knees in despair. The programmers quietly gather around him and attempt to comfort him, but King Orange's grief immediately transforms into burning rage. King Orange ruthlessly strangles Cerulean and knocks Dark Green and Zaffre unconscious before suddenly stopping of his own accord, seemingly hit by the realization that his kid is truly gone for good. Behind him, the gateway to the simulation glows an eerie red, and the camera then focuses on a poster advertising Minecraft.

The same poster is now seen on the wall of King Orange's small house. King Orange throws knives at it, then a chair, before resorting to beating it with his fists. Tired, King Orange then sinks to the ground, and seems to think for a moment.

King Orange's motivations for destroying the Minecraft world are revealed.

Studying the rules of Minecraft, King Orange conceptualizes the idea of a staff weapon to create a vortex, thus consuming and destroying the game. Eventually, King Orange reads of the command block's powerful properties in the Minecraft Wiki, and chooses to incorporate it into his design. After discreetly purchasing a Command Block in a dark alley for a large sum of money, King Orange begins designing staffs to hold and channel power from the block. Nearly a dozen attempts later, he succeeded in creating his first working staff, which was able to summon a single cobblestone block.

Disappointed and displeased by the Command Block staff’s apparent lack of power, King Orange turns to a book entitled "Minecraft Mysteries". Eventually, King Orange reads about the Minecraft Game Icon, described in the book as "the most powerful item in Minecraft"—however, the book lists the block's location as unknown.

King Orange takes to the streets in the early morning, asking passersby for information on the location of the Minecraft Game Icon. After a day of no one knowing the answers to his questions, King Orange dejectedly walks past an electronics store, in which is a large TV playing the beginning of the video Animation vs. Minecraft. Watching the video, King Orange sees The Second Coming picking up the Minecraft Block from the computer's taskbar, but its true power is eventually revealed when Red, possessed by Herobrine, uses the block. Impressed and encouraged, King Orange is seen hanging up Wanted Posters for The Second Coming and the Fighting Stick Figures in an alleyway. A purple arm is now seen taking one of the posters off the wall.

Indeed, it was Purple who saw the wanted poster and recognized the five stick figures from a previous encounter. Purple travels to King Orange's home and knocks on the door, revealing that he has information on the wanted stick figures' whereabouts. King Orange doesn't seem convinced that Purple's strong enough to help him, so Purple tries to prove that he will be of use to King Orange. First, Purple performs an impressive array of fighting moves, complete with flying kicks and backflips. Seeing that King Orange is still unimpressed, Purple equips his elytra, and shows off his flying abilities using fireworks. Seeing Purple's eagerness, King Orange nods and allows him into his house.

The house is a mess, the floor covered with papers as well as various disassembled portions of previous staffs, and equations scribbled on the walls. King Orange grabs the command block staff off his desk and walks to the end of the room, but stops when Purple picks up a framed photo of Gold on King Orange's shoulders at the playground. King Orange swipes the photo from Purple. They both walk towards a trapdoor at the end of the room.

The trapdoor leads to an underground passage. King Orange generates torches and clears some of the ceiling/ground blocks using his Command Block staff, before leading Purple into a room filled with command blocks of different colors. On the walls of this hollowed-out room, a screen with several readouts concerning "Parkour" can be seen, as well as a scoreboard—this is the setup for the Parkour course in AVM Shorts Episode 22: Parkour. At the end of this room is a Nether Portal, which King Orange lights with his staff, and enters with Purple following.

Landing on the top of a bastion, King Orange and Purple immediately subdue the Piglin Brutes, then use gold to bribe them into submission. King Orange then summons in blocks to create a throne, consolidating his rule. Purple kneels to King Orange, and gives him a crown, the same type he gave Green and Blue in AVM Shorts Episode 10: The End.

A fast-forward then occurs, from Parkour to Note Block Universe, showing his evolution from wielding a command block staff to creating a black hole with the combined Minecraft Game Icon.

Present Day

Just as King Orange uses the staff to create a black hole in the ceiling of the Nether, (in the present day), Purple flies in from the right on his elytra and punches King Orange stealing the staff off him and causing King Orange to fall to the ground. King Orange looks around at them. Purple then kills all of the Dark Mobs (except for one of the two Dark Titan Ravagers) using the staff, and King Orange saw his staff in the hands of Purple. Yellow stops King Orange for get his staff from Purple followed by Endie, while the medium-sized Titan Ravager attempts to kill his dark clone, everyone (except Titan Ravager) tries to stop King Orange for get his staff and then stops him. Purple tries to destroy the black hole, but he fails to do so. As King Orange is restrained and the medium-sized Titan Ravager kills his dark clone and distracts Yellow, he steals Yellow's staff and uses it to spread everyone (except Titan Ravager) and fights them while Yellow tries to give his staff back from King Orange, but King Orange kicks Yellow. King Orange fights Green with Yellow's staff and uses obsidian to throw the Warden down on the floor. The Titan Ravager hits King Orange. King Orange uses obsidian again and grabs Green. Blue shoots fireworks at King Orange and Skellington shoots arrows at him, but King Orange uses a generic shield. Red grabs Spider, the Warden throws Red at him and Spider uses a web to try to give Yellow to his staff back from King Orange, but King Orange uses a fire to cut the web. The Titan Ravager attacks him, but King Orange uses obsidian to block the Titan Ravager to attack him, causing Titan Ravager stuck, while Endie teleports, grabs Red, Green and Spider and then teleports again. Blue shoots fireworks at King Orange to try to stop him and Skellington shoots arrows at King Orange to try to stop him, Endie teleports, drops Red and Green fights King Orange and then teleports again. Red & Green and King Orange are fighting each other, and King Orange hits Red. The Second Coming and the Warden jumps to attack King Orange, but King Orange hits The Second Coming and the Warden down. King Orange uses cobblestone to run to give his staff back from King Orange. Purple tries to kill King Orange, but King Orange gives himself Invisibility. King Orange gives Purple Weakness III and Slowness III and himself Strength II and Speed III and hits Purple down and gain back the staff from Purple. King Orange takes back his own staff and uses it's power to destroy Yellow's staff. King Orange summons lightning to stun the Titan Ravager. Blue shoots fireworks at him and Skellington shoots arrows at him, but King Orange uses a generic shield. King Orange then creates a Titan Ravager-Warden Dark Mob hybrid, just then, Herobrine appears and grabs Skellington. Skellington tells Herobrine that King Orange attack them. Herobrine looks at them. King Orange tries to kill Endie and Spider. Skellington came back. When Herobrine comes, King Orange notices him. Herobrine slowly approaches King Orange, and the latter does the same. Red sees Herobrine fly slowly to attack King Orange. King Orange launches obsidian spikes, but Herobrine effortlessly dodges all of them. King Orange follows up with fireballs, but Herobrine dodges and slams King Orange into the ground. Herobrine teleports Endie and Spider away, attacks King Orange and summon a Steve to attack him. The hybrid kills the Steve. Herobrine sics multiple Steve clones on the hybrid, and then on King Orange. King Orange kills all of the Steve clones, but Herobrine just summons more to attack him. King Orange uses bedrock to attack all of the Steve clones. King Orange uses obsidian to kill Herobrine, but Herobrine dodges, knocks obsidian and attacks King Orange. Herobrine summons all the Steve clones to blasting King Orange away, and King Orange summons the lightning to kill all the Steve clones. Herobrine hits King Orange and grabs him. All of the Steve Clones use the tridents to attack King Orange to knock him down. All of the Steves Clones throws the tridents and shoots arrows at King Orange, but King Orange uses dark matter. King Orange uses bedrock to attack all the Steve Clones, and all of the Steve Clones stop him. Herobrine summons another Steve to attack King Orange. After summoning multiple Steve clones, King Orange learns that he could've absorbed the mobs. Herobrine cautiously steps back as the Steves charge towards King Orange. With his newfound knowledge, King Orange handles the Steves at a significantly better rate. King Orange then tries to absorb Herobrine into his staff, but Herobrine escapes by possessing Red. Red then creates the obsidian MegaStick and fights King Orange to a stalemate, King Orange summons the hybrid to attack him, and Red grabs the hybrid to hit it. King Orange creates the giant Netherite trident to kill Red. King Orange creates the giant Netherite axe turned into sword. The Titan Ravager, Yellow, Blue and Skellington attacks King Orange. King Orange absorbs the Titan Ravager. Skellington shoots arrow at him, but King Orange absorbs Skellington. Red uses the giant Netherite sword to attack King Orange, but Red turns sword into bow and shoots giant Netherite arrow at King Orange. King Orange hits the giant Netherite arrow to destroy the MegaStick. King Orange tries to absorb Herobrine from Red's body. Red tries to create the obsidian MegaStick again to attack King Orange, but King Orange hits Red down to stop creating the obsidian MegaStick again to attack him, and then Red creates the obsidian MegaStick again to attack him. King Orange uses the giant Netherite arrows to destroy the MegaStick and begins to absorb Herobrine from Red's body, Herobrine uses obsidian to attack him, but King Orange easily stops it and pushes Red to absorb Herobrine. Purple grabs Red, and Herobrine ends up succumbing this time.

King Orange then proceeds to absorb the other mobs back into the staff, then he uses their power to boost the black hole and everything gets sucked in quicker, causing chaos around the nether. Unfortunately, the nether was not the only one sucked in by the black hole, the nether portals that lead to other places were also being sucked in. First, the villagers in the village were panicking as they tried to flee but fail. Second, at Monster School, the whole school breaks apart and all the students fly upwards panicking. Third, at the swamp, the Witch drinks a potion to turn back to normal, only to levitate upwards into the black hole as well. King Orange attacks the stick figures, until Purple stands up against the beams, but is still no match for it. As Purple gets annihilated, King Orange notices the parallels with Gold getting trapped inside of the game. At first, King Orange ignores this and continues. But his memories of Gold are incredibly similar to those of Purple. At the last second, King Orange realized what he was doing. He dropped his staff and runs for Purple, thinking about all the times he mistreated the latter. King Orange jumps in to try saving him, but Purple disintegrates into pixels. With the universe on the brink of total annihilation, The Second Coming thinks before racing back to the nether portal. The Fighting Stick Figures sprint behind him, as they all work in tandem to get through the nether portal before their world is destroyed. In one last effort, The Second Coming manages to get the block through the portal at the very last second.

King Orange, in a vast, blank void, walks towards his house. Upon entering, he views an animation of his son being taken away from him by Minecraft. After mourning for a moment, the drawing of King Orange grows to a gargantuan size and begins attacking Minecraft. As the King Orange drawing continuously punches the drawing of Minecraft, a drawing of his son escapes Minecraft. The drawing of King Orange picks him up and hits Minecraft with it. King Orange tries to stop the drawing by hitting the wall, the drawing of Gold transitioning into Purple. King Orange finally breaks through the glass, and sees Purple. Running towards him, King Orange is seen as Dark Blue through Purple's eyes. King Orange hugs him, and Purple embraces it. The staff and the Second Coming make their way into ALANSPC, where the blocks separate. The black hole effect reverses. King Orange steps down as King and grabs the staff and reattaches the command block back. He brings back the Titan Ravager's family before handing the staff to Yellow. King Orange then relinquishes his title as King to Purple, who further relinquishes it to the Heroic Pig. Purple walks away with King Orange to go back to the Outernet, the piglins give Blue nether warts and a warped fungus. The Warden enlists into Monster School, and the monsters all warp off. The titan ravagers go back home, and the stick figures head back too. Red returns Alexcrafter28's block back to his PC, and The Second Coming puts Alan's block back into the taskbar.

Blue plays Chirp and cooks food on a grill, like the start of The Piglin War, this time with nether warts as part of the dishes.

During the credits, the Warden decimates a Steve with his sonic boom during an exam, the villagers and the Titan Ravagers team up and seemingly defeat the Witch, and King Orange and Purple are shown sitting on the fence of the playground together.

Credits

Animators:

• terkoiz
• Fordz
• Ellis02
• Shuriken225
• Simple Fox
• ajanim
• ARC
• SmoilySheep
• Able Rai
• Nemo
• Sifter
• TJB
• hexal
• Oxab
• Kursura
• Kayal
• Topium_
• Endo

Sound Effects:

• Egor
• Pepper
• Alexander Samarov

Visual Effects:

• terkoiz
• Fordz
• hexal
• Woulf
• ajanim
• Oxob

Production Manager:

• Hatena360

Storyboarders:

• terkoiz
• Ernesto Alonso

Background Artists:

• Kyokaz
• Fran
• Stickly
• luenfire
• Fabian Banu
• Sifter

3D Artists:

• Kyokaz
• DillionGoo
• Kaiyri
• Art of Anomaly

Music:

• Scott Buckley

Minecraft related:

• Skim (MC Advertisement)
• Onnowhere (MC Commands, MC Builder)
• MasterGabeMOD (MC Server Footage)
• TheKaemble (MC Builder)

Characters

Protagonists

• Stick Gang
  • The Second Coming
  • Fighting Stick Figures
    • Red
    • Yellow
    • Blue
    • Green
• Purple
• Warden
• Monster School Students
  • Endie
  • Skellington
  • Spider
• Titan Ravager Family
  • Medium-sized Titan Ravager
• Herobrine
  • Steve Clones
  • MegaStick

Antagonists

• King Orange
• Dark Mobs

Other characters

• Gold † (debut/only appearance)
• Developers (debut/only appearance)
  • Dark Green (debut/only appearance)
  • Zaffre (debut/only appearance)
  • Cerulean (debut/only appearance)
• Dark Blue (as King Orange)
• Piglin Tribe
  • Piglin Chief
  • Baby Piglin
• Piglin Brutes
• Zombified Piglins
• Villagers
  • Engineer Villagers
    • Armorer
    • Fletcher
    • Cleric
  • Musketeers
    • Farmer
    • Fisher
    • Shepherd
• Butcher
• Village Horse
• Monster School Students
  • Zombee
  • Creep
  • Cavell
  • Zupay
  • Silvester
  • Mucus
  • Maggie
  • Witton
  • Zombieswine
  • Ghist
  • Bluise
  • Multus
• Witch
• Ender Dragon (Minecraft wiki page)

Errors

• None of the three Nether Portals in the Overworld black hole scenes are portrayed correctly.
  • The village portal is correctly portrayed as a single-point vortex at ground level, but it is not in its enlarged state from The Raid. The same thing happens in The Chef.
  • The Monster School portal's black hole is depicted as planar despite the portal being not very far above the school.
  • The black hole in the Witch's domain is also depicted as planar despite there being no portals overhead.

All versions - Portal errors: The portal is supposed to be larger, like it was in The Raid.

All versions - Black hole errors: The Monster School portal's black hole is depicted as planar despite the portal being not very far above the school.

All versions - Black hole errors: The black hole in the Witch's domain is also depicted as planar despite there being no portals overhead.

• In a shot where the camera is directed towards King Orange holding his staff, the Minecraft Game Icon uses the grass block side texture, instead of its top texture.

All versions - Minecraft Game Icon errors: We see the top view of the Minecraft Game Icon, but it uses the side texture, instead of the top.

• In the fast-forward shot, the black hole that King Orange had created looked different in the episode, the same look from Note Block Universe.

Original episode + Full series - Fast-forward errors: The black hole that King Orange had created looked different in the episode, the same look from Note Block Universe.

• In a scene when the black hole is about to suck the Nether portals, it did not have tiny squares. Also, the trident that King Orange used is completely missing.
  • The trident error is fixed in the full Season 3 release, while the black hole error is fixed in the real time Season 3 release.
    • However, in all versions of the episode, when the whole Nether gets resurrected, the trident is missing.

Original episode + Full series - Black hole errors: The black hole did not have those moving squares if you look very closely. * Original episode - Trident errors: The trident King Orange used is completely missing.

All versions - Bastion remnant errors: The trident is missing after the Nether gets resurrected.

• In the original episode, where Herobrine possesses Red, there are multiple errors.
  • Green is missing amongst the group standing directly behind him.
  • When everyone gasps, they are not facing/don't look up at possessed Red, which means they aren't animated.
  • King Orange is facing/looks up at possessed Red, but his crown isn't animated.
    • These errors are fixed in the full Season 3 release.
      • However, in that same scene, a different error appears in the full Season 3 release, where Skellington is duplicated.
        • This error is fixed in the real time Season 3 release.
      • In the AvG reacts video (both the original episode and Animation vs. Minecraft Shorts Season 3) in the shot when King Orange is trying to absorb Herobrine's arm, Green is missing. But when Red gets possessed, Green is somehow now in the shot, and Skellington does not get duplicated.

Original episode - Possessed Red shot errors: Green is missing, no one looks up at Red when gasping meaning they aren't animated, and King Orange's crown isn't animated when he looks up at Red.

Full series - Possessed Red shot errors: Everything else is fixed, but Skellington gets duplicated.

AVG Reacts - Possessed Red shot errors: Green is missing amongst the group standing directly behind him. This also applies to the AVG Reacts version of the full Season 3 release.

AVG Reacts - Possessed Red shot errors: The only thing that is fixed is Green being missing, and Skellington being duplicated. No one looks up at possessed Red when gasping meaning they aren't animated, and King Orange's crown isn't animated when he looks up at possessed Red. This also applies to the AVG Reacts version of the full Season 3 release.

• During the flashback, before Purple got sucked by the black hole, King Orange and Gold are in the playground. King Orange is supposed to be walking with Gold in the background, like from the beginning of the episode, but is missing from the shot.

All versions - Playground flashback errors: King Orange is supposed to be walking with Gold in the background, like from the beginning of the episode, but is missing from the shot.

• When King Orange makes the black hole even worse, the fire is not far from the black hole beam, but then, later on, there is, after the Overworld absorb scene.
  • This error is fixed in the full Season 3 release.

Original episode - Background errors: When King Orange makes the black hole even worse, the fire is not far from the black hole beam.

• In the scene where King Orange is reading the Minecraft Wiki Book, there is a spelling mistake. In the description for Creative Mode on the game mode page, "The" is misspelled as "he".
  • This error is fixed in the full Season 3 release.

Original episode - Book page errors: In the Creative game mode section, "The" is misspelled as "he".

• After the black hole disappears, when King Orange and Purple were resurrected, the Nether Portal leading to ALANSPC does not animate.

All versions - Portal errors: The portal does not animate when King Orange and Purple are resurrected.

• All of the stick figures are being flung at the same time in both of the fighting shots, even though King Orange flung one stick figure at a time.

All versions - Time errors: All of the stick figures are being flung at the same time in both fighting shots, even though King Orange flung one stick figure at a time.

• Like in the previous episode, King Orange's crown doesn't match his head movement when he falls off from Purple punching him.
  • This error was fixed in the full Season 3 release of Note Block Universe, but not in The King.

All versions - Purple punching King Orange shot errors: King Orange's crown doesn't match his head movement when falling off from Purple punching him.

• In the full Season 3 release, the books from the left side of the screen (right side of the desk) disappear for one frame.

Full series - Background errors: The books from the left side of the screen (right side of the desk) disappear for one frame.

• When Green has King Orange's staff, there are none of the other stickfigures on the blocks above him. But when Green gets disintegrated, and throws the staff, Red then randomly appears. You can see this at timestamp 25:44 on the original episode, and timestamp 2:21:04 on the full Season 3 release.
• When the Fighting Stick Figures, Purple, and The Second Coming are running towards King Orange after he intensifies the black hole beam, Blue is seen loading a firework into his crossbow. However, there are no frames where a firework is fired, and in the next shot that Blue is in, his crossbow is loaded with an arrow.

All versions - Inventory errors: Blue has a firework loaded into his crossbow, however this firework is never fired, and the next shot with Blue in it shows his crossbow loaded with an arrow.

Blue's crossbow loaded with an arrow, despite the firework never being fired.

• When the Zombified Piglins get resurrected, they play a normal Piglin sound effect instead of the Zombified Piglin sound effect.
• Before Purple got absorbed by King Orange's black hole, the camera shows a 3D angle. But the nether background is not 3D and the obsidian texture is small.

All versions - Camera errors: The nether background is supposed to be 3D, and the obsidian texture is supposed to be bigger.

• When King Orange learns about The End dimension, in the 'Structure name' column, the "End spike" is incorrectly referred to as "End gateway".

Original episode + Full series - Book page errors: The "End spike" is incorrectly referred to as "End gateway".

Gallery

The first teaser.	The second teaser.	The third teaser.	King Orange's first staff.	Stitched out version of the waiver King Orange signed.

Trivia

• At 32 minutes long, it is the single longest entry in the entire franchise, dethroning the 17-minute Parkour - Episode 22 for being the longest single episode
• As revealed on the third community post, Alan stated that the episode started production back in April (the month The Raid aired), thus meaning that it took 8 whole months to complete.
  • It is possible the Actual Shorts were started to help fill this void.
• The contents of the book Minecraft Wiki are mostly from the actual Minecraft Wiki (specifically the wiki hosted on FANDOM website), except the page "Black Hole", which is from Wikipedia.
  • The contents of the book Minecraft Mysteries are about things appeared in previous AVM Shorts: Herobrine, Jumbo Ravager, Warden, Minecraft Game Icon and Lucky Block, written in wiki style but not as an exact copy of any wiki.
• Purple giving the crown to the Heroic Pig is a reference to Technoblade, a popular Minecraft YouTuber who died of cancer in June 2022.
• At the television shop that King Orange stops at, a rocket logo can be noticed above the television screen, foreshadowing Animator vs. Animation Season 3.
• The Wilhelm scream can be heard at timestamp 19:56.
• In the flashback, there are multiple references to King Orange being king before his son Gold was terminated.
  • There is even one when the video starts, where the crown in the Rolex logo lines up with King Orange's head.
  • There is another scene where King Orange and Gold are trying on disguises at a booth, and King puts on a crown.
  • There is also another one when King Orange is walking to know where the Minecraft Game Icon is, where the logo is the Gosha meme. You can see this at timestamp 10:01 on the original episode, and timestamp 2:05:21 on the full Season 3 release.
• Gold's stick at the start of the episode bares a similar shape kind of resembling the staff that his dad, King Orange uses.
• The episode takes place on 6/14/2021 as seen in the corner of the computer, which is an error.
• When the Stick Gang and their allies pin King down, Yellow replaces the blocks under King with soul sand. In the game, a player walking in soul sand has their speed decreased greatly, but it seems that any stick figure can walk and even sprint on soul sand without slowing down.
• There are two separate scenes where King Orange and Purple see the other as the family member they respectively lost.
  • King saw Purple as his son during Purple's last stand, when Purple was trudging toward him through the powerful beam, mirroring Gold fighting to get back to his dad.
  • Purple saw King as his dad after they both got sucked into the black hole. King ran up to Purple after seeing him, broken and alone, surrounded by flower petals.
• There are two separate scenes where King Orange pounds on the wall of his house that are parallel with each other.
  • The first time is shortly after King lost his son. He punches on a flier for Minecraft, and then punches the wall, Gold on the other side. He was unable to break through, as his son was lost.
  • The second time is when he got sucked into the void. After seeing the damage he was causing firsthand, he pounded on the wall, but this time, he managed to break through and reunite with his soon-to-be adopted son, Purple.
• The Waiver King Orange signed roughly reads: "THEREFORE under the terms of this Agreement and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged. go hereby release and forever discharge Releases (Hereinafter the "Realeasee") including their agents, employees, successors and assigns, and their respective heirs, personal representatives, affiliates, successors and assigns, and any and all persons, firms or corporations liable or who the undersigned, but all expressly denying liability, from any and all claims, demands, damages, actions, causes of action or suits of any kind or nature whatsoever, which I now have or may develop in the future, as a result of or in any way relating tot the following: Releasor releases all liability for any and all injuries incurred during the simulation. It it understood and agreed that this Agreement is made and received in full and complete settlement and satisfaction the causes of action, claims, and demands mentioned herein; that this Release contains the entire Agreement between the parties; and that the terms of this Agreement are contractual and not merely a recital. Furthermore, this Release shall be binding upon the undersigned, and his respective heirs, executors, administrators, personal representatives, successors, and assigns. This Release shall be subject to and governed by the laws located in the State of the Releasee. This Release has beed read and fully understood by the undersigned and has been explained to me."