History YMMV / CarnivalPhantasm

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: The ending, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWJwmtk0f44 "Fellows"]] by [[JAMProject Masaaki Endoh]].

** The entire "Saber ''Alter'' Maid" sequence in episode 8 has gone on to be one of the most famous sequences in the entire show, with "I'm a cute goth-loli maid waitress, ''sir''!" being practically a meme in and of itself. It got to the point that ''F/GO'''s 2017 summer event featured an entire version of Saber Alter as a dedicated reference back to it.

* MemeticMutation: Related with the "Unlimited XXXX Works" meme from the original ''Fate/stay night'', Episode 9 gave a new version out of the moment when Shirou keeps inserting coins into the Unit Lion to make it go faster: '''UNLIMITED COIN WORKS'''.

* AscendedMeme: Fans often joked that the major difference between Saber and [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Saber Alter]] was that the latter didn't have her {{Ahoge}} and that she could probably will the transformation just by pulling it off, which was the plot of at least one doujinshi. Cue Saber doing just that in Episode 8.

** A lesser example in the same episode is how quickly Rider takes to her granny bike, even giving it a name within seconds while blushing the entire time. Quite possibly also a ContinuityNod to Hollow Ataraxia where she offers Shirou ''anything'' in exchange for borrowing his bike.

* AscendedMeme: Fans often joked that the major difference between Saber and [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Saber Alter]] was that the latter didn't have her {{Ahoge}} and that she could probably will the transformation just by pulling it off. Cue Saber doing just that in Episode 8.

%%* {{Moe}}: Ilyasviel and perhaps, everyone!
%%** Extra worth noting would be Caster, as shown in the first episode while doing Tennis, proving that yes, Caster can be moe... and ''yes'', AtsukoTanaka can do ''{{Moe}}''!!

** Berserker using Lancer as a Noble Phantasm (somehow) is strong against Archer. Now, how the TacticalRockPaperScissors works in VideoGame/FateGrandOrder...

* TastesLikeDiabetes: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k62pZ_qu9k The opening]] has the most cheery music of anything associated with Fate Stay Night or Tsukihime and involving the girls of the casts dancing like idol singers.

* DudeNotFunny: Episode 6 attempts to play Shinji's abuse and rape of Sakura for ''comedy''.

** Another, more minor one is the idea of Archer having an Unlimited Food Works attack given his younger self loved to cook. In the Ilya Castle special, he assaults his enemies with a hail of cooking utensils.

* EarWorm: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvbaM-URygs opening theme]] is not something to listen to right before going to bed.

* TastesLikeDiabetes: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0k62pZ_qu9k The opening]]... dear god...

* EarWorm: The opening theme is not something to listen to right before going to bed.

* HilariousInHindsight: It is extremely appropriate for Rin and Akiha to be sharing a table with [[KaraNoKyoukai Azaka Kokutou]] during the episode 12 epilogue.

* [[MoeMoe Moe]]: Ilyasviel and perhaps, everyone!
** Extra worth noting would be Caster, as shown in the first episode while doing Tennis, proving that yes, Caster can be moe... and ''yes'', AtsukoTanaka can do ''{{Moe}}''!!

* StopHelpingMe:
** Sakura kicking Rider around just to make her point.
** Rider gets Shinji to feel this way by doing a sadistic version of this that keeps getting him hurt every time he tries to be a {{Jerkass}}, basically an animated version of a doujinshi with the same plot. Bonus points for milking his perception of how useless she is and weaponizing it.

* MundaneMadeAwesome: Yes, it's a "Granny Bike," but in the hands of Rider...

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Sadly, there wasn't ever a combined session of Tiger Dojo with ''Teach Me, Ciel-sensei.''
** Sella and Kohaku at a table with Leysritt and Hisui; Taiga, Gilgamesh and Iskander at a table; Kiritsugu, Irisviel and Ilya at a table; we want season four!

** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppZJTxJGjOw Final Dead Lancer]], played at the end of episode 11.

** Saber has several moments: Not getting to nap with Shirou, getting curb stomped by Berserker, putting up with Gilgamesh in episode 8, having all of her hopes about the Holy Grail War being an honorable battle between knights being shattered, being denied food from not getting 1st place in the Ilya Castle Special stages, and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking having to potentially live on just tea and rice after Shirou spends all his money]]!

* InformedWrongness: In the date scenario where Shiki and Shirou chose Arc and Saber over dating all the girls, they get berated by them for not saying much sooner how they felt on wanting to make all of them happy and choosing the main heroines over them. And this comes after the other girls started to go all Yendere on them for not being chosen in the first place.

* CrazyAwesome: Gil driving on a '''hillside'' with a motorcycle.