This frame is actually taken from an Illumination film, not Disney.
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The rotation of the LSD diagram is intentionally cutting off that bottom corner because it's not a hexagon like the shelves
Also the rightmost branch disappearing behind his hair wouldn't exist as it is Oxygen not Carbon.
The shows creator is Harland Williams, so its extremely likely.
Hey girl! Ya hungry?
My headcanon is that Bob is Kenny, under an alias. Maybe witness protection. But he was out one day buying avocados and he came upon a man with an ice pick and a snorkel who trained him in the ways of invention.
Enlightenment comes in a paper tab, even the corpos know that
I mean there's no elements listed so this could theoretically be a different chemical with a similar shape?
I mean ehhhhh. It's not impossible, but LSD definitely seems the most probable if we assume this is a chemistry reference (the most compelling alternative idea to LSD imo is that it could be erroneous human pattern recognition). LSD is synthesized from ergotamine and has an ergoline structure, and of the family of lysergamides that look similar, LSD clearly fits the best given its popularity and the way the carbonyl group lines up with that bit of shelf going off to the top-right.
(Please take that with a grain of salt; I'm not a chemist.)
Also this meme is about nine years old.
https://au.lifestyle.yahoo.com/drug-lsd-reference-in-disney-kids-show-puppy-dog-pals-37231747.html
The article bemoans drug references in Alice In Wonderland , which has uh... Lots of drug references.
https://mostrecommendedbooks.com/series/alice-in-wonderland-books-in-order
Idk about the caterpillar smoking hookah though, it's plausible deniability, since afaik, tobacco use is only permitted in hookah, under Islamic law. Maybe @ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world can confirm or deny, or whether it's sect-specific?
A Reddit thread from April 2017 (possibly its first appearance?) does try to critique it. Notably, for example, there's a hexagon instead of a pentagon at the base, and the top shelf has three edges instead of four.
It's easy enough to explain this away given that you have to make it a shelf and therefore level, but humans have recognized more credible-seeming patterns before (I can't cite them because I can't remember exactly what they were, but I've seen some really funny ones in the Bible), so it also seems plausible that people are just pattern-recognizing. This is professionally animated, so time went into this, and you could imagine, for example, that the bulb hanging down from one of the shelves would've have been included since it changes the structure of the compound (but then you could equally argue that the shelf was there and some other animator put a light bulb on it).
All-in-all: eh. Seems neat as a harmless fan conspiracy.
Nothing wrong with having fun. My complaint is people complaining about references that were in the wholesome original works. 😅
Animators also tend to take a lot of shortcuts, though; especially when it comes to backgrounds in shots. I could definitely believe that some animator was like, "ok, we need a science-y looking decoration back here" and so they went on a royalty-free stock 3D asset website and downloaded this one based only on what it looked like.
Heyo! Not very big on Islamic jurisprudence because it's often nonsense and haram af as it seeks to make unlawful what God made lawful (Qur'an 16:116) but it's certainly "sect-specific" for lack of a better term, since the Qur'an warns against intoxicants (basically just alcohol but I'm not doing anything "stronger" than that, like crack, even if it's not the result of fermentation, lol) but not against anything else in that category that isn't mind altering and shisha is just tobacco with flavouring, basically. 🙃
It's missing this methyl group, so it's (technically) a different molecule. 
Edit: Also the bottom left-most ring should have five members instead of six.
Disney made Fantasia which is the best thing to watch while tripping balls so I guess it tracks
Not to be confused with the much much lesser Fantasia 2000.