The reference wasn't jump in your face, but my assumption was that Illyria was playing some kind of game, and managed to make the TV explode, whether from kicking it in, or making the game do something the TV couldn't handle.

I think more people got it than you might think.

This drabble made me think of one I wrote, so I put it in together and posted some of my Spike vs Illyria drabbles.