History YMMV / AsToldByGinger

* JerksAreWorseThanVillains: [[DesignatedHero Dodie]] is the most hated character on the show due to being a selfish AttentionWhore who frequently betrays Ginger despite being her best friend. She's much more hated than [[AlphaBitch Miranda]], the antagonist who regularly bullies and blackmails Ginger. Miranda is already [[HateSink supposed to be despised]], but being mistreated [[WithFriendsLikeThese by a friend]] comes off as even worse to the viewers. Plus, Miranda is actually quite funny for being a DeadpanSnarker and surprisingly quotable so that has earned her some favor. While Dodie doesn't anything to earn her favor.

* JerksAreWorseThanVillains: [[DesignatedHero Dodie]] is the most hated character on the show due to being a selfish AttentionWhore who frequently betrays Ginger despite being her best friend. She's much more hated than Miranda, the antagonist who regularly bullies and blackmails Ginger. Miranda is already [[HateSink supposed to be an enemy]], but being mistreated [[WithFriendsLikeThese by a friend]] comes off as even worse to the viewers. Plus, Miranda is actually quite funny for being a DeadpanSnarker and surprisingly quotable so that has earned her some favor. While Dodie doesn't anything to earn her favor.

* JerksAreWorseThanVillains: Dodie is the most hated character on the show, because she's a selfish AttentionWhore who frequently betrays Ginger, despite being her best friend. She's much more hated than Miranda, the antagonist who regularly bullies and blackmails Ginger. Miranda is already supposed to be an enemy, but being mistreated [[WithFriendsLikeThese by a friend]] comes off as even worse to the viewers. Plus, Miranda is actually quite funny for being a DeadpanSnarker and surprisingly quotable so that has earned her some favor. While Dodie doesn't anything to earn her favor.

** Additionally, the series finale showed Ginger as an author that presumably published stories about her childhood. Fast forward to TheNewTens, and suddenly stories about middle school became ''very'' popular.

* ValuesResonance: Over two decades later the series is still praised for dealing with issues that cartoons typically avoid like death or depression. It concerning SlutShaming, having strong AmbiguouslyGay characters, and other such things make it especially popular in today's time. The episode where Dodie becomes the morning speaker and reveals the list of kids who have lice, is especially resonant with issues like doxxing and hacking into private accounts and revealing information like nude photos.

** Ginger standing up to Joann in "Lunatic Lake" after the latter spent the entire episode being shrill bitch definitely counts - especially since she finally loses her temper with Joann when she starts [[BigBrotherInstinct badmouthing Carl in front of her.]]

* AccidentalAesop: Dodie's status as a BitchInSheepsClothing to Ginger that she nevertheless forgives and sticks with until late on in the show can be interpreted as, "When you're a kid you'll make terrible friends out of proximity and/or convenience because you don't know any better, but eventually you're likely to outgrow them and move on." Though this is somewhat averted by the fact that the final scene of the show shows [[spoiler: a grown up Dodie in the book reading audience, meaning that unless she was only there for that event, she still stayed friends with Ginger.]]

* JerksAreWorseThanVillains: Dodie is the most hated character on the show, because she's a selfish AttentionWhore who frequently betrays Ginger, despite being her best friend. She's much more hated than Miranda, the antagonist who regularly bullies and blackmails Ginger. Miranda is already supposed to be an enemy, but being mistreated [[WithFriendsLikeThese by a friend]] comes off as even worse to the viewers.

** Sasha is the most disliked of Ginger's love interests, and not just for his callous treatment of her in later episodes; even at Camp Caprice, he acts extremely judgmental and doesn't seem to have many redeeming qualities beyond being attractive.

* UncannyValley: Creator/KlaskyCsupo is known for their exaggerated and oddly-proportioned character designs, but some people feel that this show took it UpToEleven, with characters being absolutely hideous even by the company's standards. Worsened by the fact that the art-style feels completely out-of-place for a down-to-Earth, slice of life of show.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: After about 15 years, the fact that the show's run was in the early to mid-2000s becomes more and more eapparent, with mentions of stuff like VHS-tapes and players, scrunchies, pagers, Carl and Hoodseys' few attempts to achieve pre-Website/YouTube fame along with the hairstyles and clothing worn by many of the characters, especially Courtney's hair and wardrobe along with Ginger wearing boho-style girly clothing, cargo pants, and baggy jeans (pre-skinny jeans and jeggings). The episode "The Right Stuff" featured a banner for a science fair proclaiming its then-current year: 2000. There is also the Gripling's ostentatious lifestyle (pre-Great Recession) and Mipsy's 13th birthday bash (again pre-recession and more or less similar to ''Series/MySuperSweetSixteen'') and the rich, popular girls all having cell phones (as a sign of their parents' affluence and of being spoiled). YMMV on Ginger's clothes, though. Given her financial status compared to characters like Courtney and Miranda, she doesn't dress to be stylish--the more boho pieces could be some of her mother's old clothing.

* {{Fanon}}: Fans have a tendency to portray the Gripling siblings as being gay. Specifically with [[HoYay Courtney falling for Ginger]] and [[FoeYay Blake falling for Carl]]. It helps both Griplings seem to have a bit of a fixation on the Foutleys.

* FoeYay: Exhibited between Carl and Blake with the fact that the latter keeps a framed photograph of Carl on his dresser among other events, one involving Blake getting straddled on a hospital bed.

* WhatAnIdiot: In "I Spy a Witch", Miranda vandalizes the school statue and tries to blame it on Ginger so that she can take her place as the lead in the school play. At first, the plan works, and Miranda probably never would have been caught if Mipsy hadn't photographed the misdeed and sent the picture to some of the other girls, including Courtney, who ''uploaded it on the Internet''. Inevitably, Ginger eventually sees the picture and Miranda is forced to confess during the play that she was the true vandal.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: A gag in "Nurse's Strike" is Courtney lamenting that she and her mother have never had a chance to bond through hard times (the hardest of which was merely losing the platinum card in Jamaica for three hours). In the series finale the Griplings lose their fortune.

* FanPreferredCouple: As the years go by, more and more fans like Ginger/Courtney. Blake and Carl have a considerable fan-following as well, though their relationship comes off as a lot more onesided on Blake's end.

* UncannyValley: Creator/KlaskyCsupo is known for their exaggerated and oddly-proportioned character designs, but some people feel that this show took it UpToEleven, with characters being absolutely hideous even by the company's standards. Worsen by the fact that the art-style feels completely out-of-place for a down-to-Earth, slice of life of show.

** Dodie, thanks to her [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]] and {{hypocrit|e}}ical personalty and willingness to [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder betray Ginger]] for a selfish need. Odds are if any episode on Website/YouTube has Dodie doing something unsavory or being a bad friend, the top comments would be how much hate they have for her.

* AssPull: In the episode "Wicked Game", Ginger learns that her two best friends Dodie and Macie betrayed her with Mipsy and Miranda to try to break her up with Darren. The episode ended with Dodie on Ginger's answering machine apologizing to her. The next episode Dodie and Macie are friends with Ginger as if the betrayal never happened. What worse is that Courtney mentions the betrayal when she tells Ginger how Dodie was not a good friend to her.

* AssPull: In the episode "Wicked Game", Ginger learns that her two best friends Dodie and Macie betrayed her with Mipsy and Miranda to try to break her up with Darren. The episode ended with Dodie on Ginger answering machine apologizing to her. The next episode Dodie and Macie are friends with Ginger as if the betrayal never happened. What worse is that Courtney mentions the betrayal when she tells Ginger how Dodie was not a good friend to her.

** Ginger's Copper-Colored Ponies song. It's without a doubt corny, and should have been a complete cringe. And yet, the context of singing in front of a camp with dozens of kids you know watching and her obvious embarrassment makes the whole scene very endearing. And just sort of... works. Courtney later refers to it as "nauseating".

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: The series had dropped a few:
** Like Lois said: Being in a relationship for the sake of being in a relationship isn't very wise and you have to make sure your heart is with the person you commit to. Really needed due to the fact that even in the 21st century, Singletons (esp. women) are looked on with pity and people often enter into relationships that are {{unwanted|Spouse}} or abusive. Relationships don't complete you. After seeing characters like Literature/BridgetJones and [[Series/MadMen Joan Holloway]] deal with the ChristmasCake trope [[note]] And it's total for their growth when they turn down the chance of a relationship that would compromise their dignity[[/note]], it's refreshing to see someone refute it.
** Carl telling Hoodsey that you don't have to like your relatives, just respect them. Refreshing for those who grew up in DysfunctionalFamily settings and have tense relationships with family members, that they don't have to conform with the sugar-coated model of familial love if that relative caused them grief.
** If you don't accept yourself now, no one can accept you... especially colleges.
** No matter how hard you try, you shouldn't try to repeat or revisit a moment that felt special because no matter what it will not feel as special as the first time.
** The episode "Stuff will kill you" shows Ginger developing an addiction to coffee. Lois had previously gotten away with her ParentalHypocrisy about makeup and leg-shaving, but she is called out on her ''own'' dependency on coffee (which, for a nurse, is ''very'' TruthInTelevision) for hypocrisy as well as not setting a very good example for Ginger.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment:
** The episode "About Face" ends with a truly ''bizarre'' closing credits sequence featuring Lois and Dr. Dave doing a disco-fied "Diamonds Are Forever" parody in silhouette, with Noelle karate-chopping across the screen at one point.
** The subplot of "Mommie Nearest" has Carl sporting a large prosthetic chin which freaks out all his schoolmates.
** In "Battle of the Bands", as the protest against cutting band becomes more intense for Ginger, especially after losing the support of Dodie, Macie, and Orion, she dresses as a giant ear while holding a sign reading "DON'T TURN A DEAF EAR TO OUR MUSIC" and plans to run onto the football field in the middle of the game.

* LoveToHate: Joann Bishop might be an abusive {{Jerkass}} but she also gets some hilarious lines and the sheer amount of TakeThatScrappy moments she gets helps balance it out.

** Ginger's Copper-Colored Ponies song. It's without a doubt corny, and should have been a complete cringe. And yet, the context of singing in front of a camp with dozens of kids you know watching and her obvious embarrassment makes the whole scene very endearing. And just sort of... works.

** Miranda, surprisingly, but she's implied to have a difficult relationships with her parents ([[DrillSergeantNasty her dad]] in particular), and she seems very insecure Courtney will replace her as her best friend, leading her to take her jealousy out on Ginger.

** Dodie has been forgiven for a lot of things but her behaviour in "Wicked Game" - trying to split Ginger and Darren up - makes her irredeemable to most viewers.

** Some fans go overboard with the Dodie hate. It's worth noting that the show usually does call her out for her worse actions ("Wicked Game" being the exception, but Macie was just as much to blame in that situation). Usually if she does something overboard, she learns AnAesop and she often does apologise - and in "Lunatic Lake" she tries to apologise for her mother's treatment of Carl. She does apologise at the end of "Wicked Game" too but the subsequent fallout is never explored.

* TheScrappy: Dodie, thanks to her [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish]] and {{hypocrit|e}}ical personalty and willingness to [[ChronicBackstabbingDisorder betray Ginger]] for a selfish need. Odds are if any episode on Website/YouTube has Dodie doing something unsavory or being a bad friend, the top comments would be how much hate they have for her.

** Joann getting food poisoning from rancid shellfish.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: During the episode with the camping trip, Ginger and Macie are just about the only sympathetic people. Yes, Carl actually ''tried'' to be nice to Jojo even though his attempts made her sick, but he still snuck out with Hoodsey at night. Dodie tries to teach Ginger all about accepting the quirks of her parents, but if anything, she and her father come off as enablers to Jojo's veritably toxic behavior.
* UnnecessaryMakeover: Many fans prefer Lois as a BigBeautifulWoman rather than her after she lost weight for her wedding with Dr. Dave.

** The show also predates ''Film/MeanGirls'' by about four years. Given Dodie's pathetic grasps for popularity, it's easy to see her as a proto-Gretchen - and it suggests that her insecurities would not go away by being in the clique. And in both, the protagonist is red-haired.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: During the episode with the camping trip, Ginger and Macie are just about the only sympathetic people. Yes, Carl actually ''tried'' to be nice to Jojo even though his attempts made her sick, but he still snuck out with Hoodsy at night. Dodie tries to teach Ginger all about accepting the quirks of her parents, but if anything, she and her father come off as enablers to Jojo's veritably toxic behavior.

* BestKnownForTheFanservice:
** Even for a cartoon animated by Creator/KlaskyCsupo, more than a few male fans are willing to admit that they found Courtney and Miranda attractive.
** Many people with foot fetishes have cited this show as one of the leading causes of their fascination, which isn't surprising given the ample number of times the girls would show off their bare feet, especially Ginger's toenails being painted in one episode and the close-up of Courtney's sole in "Ginger the Juvie".

* HardTruthAesop: This show was ''not'' above giving some...
** As shown in the high school episodes, popularity in Middle School is not the same as it is in High School. Sometimes your friends ''will'' drift apart as they discover themselves.
** One episode has Miss Zorsky be replaced with a substitute SadistTeacher. Two of these are delivered for the price of one:
*** When the students are inevitably pushed too far by the SadistTeacher, they decide to egg her house. Ginger thinks this is too much and actually defends her. The teacher simply shrugs Ginger off. Sometimes? People just won't appreciate it even ''if'' you did the right thing.
*** The next day in class, possibly inspired ''by'' that particular insult against her, Ginger snaps and gives the teacher a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech... and the episode ends with her sitting in detention. Giving someone, especially an authority figure such as a teacher, a well deserved TheReasonYouSuckSpeech will often end up with you [[RealityEnsues being punished for it]].
** As shown by the AccidentalAesop, Ginger's friendship with Dodie can be defined as a combination of inertia (Because they were friends with each other since elementary school), proximity (Because they live near each other and go to the same school, plus their brothers are friends), and convenience (Because they are near each other and often end up in the same classes). It's obvious as hell that despite a few particular moments, Dodie is ''not'' a good person and Ginger&Macy are ''way'' too good for the likes of Dodie.
** Another episode ends with the aesop about how other parents are just different and she needs to accept this. Unfortunately, Jojo's "quirks" are anything ''but'' normal - and Dodie spends the entire episode enabling her, much like her father does.