Season: 1
Episode: Toy Meets Girl
Length: :58
Cast: Seth Green (Narrator, Otto Frank, Nazis, Chad Michael Murray), Chad Morgan (Hilary/Anne)
Characters: Hilary Duff/Anne Frank, Chad Michael Murray, Otto Frank, Nazis
Segment Summary: Hilary Duff's new film combines history and teen drama in an updated The Diary of Anne Frank.
Themes: Film, Food & Drink, Guns, Literature, Motor Vehicles, Music, Politics, Religion, Television, Animated
Allusions:
- This segment parodies the antics of the film Home Alone.
- The semi-fictional literature Anne Frank.
- Lizzie McGuire
- The ending with an animated Hilary Duff makes fun of her Disney Channel sitcom Lizzie McGuire.
- The score is a parody of one of Hilary Duff's songs, Come Clean.
- The first exclamation from the Nazis is "Mein Kampf" the title of Hitler's. Manifesto written in his time in prison
Trivia / Info:
- Hilary Duff and Chad Michael Murray had previously worked together in a movie based on Cinderella. Trailers for that movie also used Come Clean as score.
- The premise of the segment predicts Where is Anne Frank, a film that features Kitty in the modern works.
Goofs / Nitpicks:
- Anne's Diary (Kitty) is shown to have various errors.
- When writing in her diary, Anne would always begin, "Dear Kitty".
- Anne is shown to write in cursive, but in this sketch, she is shown to write normally.
- Anne would always write her diary in German, but in the sketch, she writes English.
- Anne and Otto are shown to speak in an American accent, when in most adaptations, Anne and Otto speak in a Dutch/British accent (unlike in real life where they speak Dutch).
- Anne Frank has had a lot of motion pictures, which are documentaries, and a film called "Where Is Anne Frank".
- Anne Frank's hair is blonde, when in the original, she has black hair.
- Margot, Edith, Kitty (who wouldn't appear physically until Where Is Anne Frank), the van Pels/van Daan family, Fritz Pfeffer/Albert Dussel, and the all helpers (Miep, Bep, Johannes, Victor, Jan, and Johan) are all absent.
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