History YMMV / Hamtaro

* WhatAnIdiot: In ''Rainbow Rescue'', the Ham-Hams need to get 7 ingredients that correspond to a colour of the rainbow. Boss, naturally, wants an orange when getting an orange ingredient. The problem is that, along the way, Hamtaro gets a carrot, which is also orange-coloured, its description even explicitly saying that the carrot is orange-coloured.
** '''You'd Expect:''' The Ham-Hams would bring the carrot.
** '''Instead:''' They keep looking for an orange.

* TastesLikeDiabetes:
** Some people think Spat, the cats and the chicks are cute/funny. Other thinks they're Premium Grade-A Nightmare Fuel.
** The lyrics to Glitter's song "Love is All Around" may count. Kinda understandable since Glitter's music is mostly marketed to preteen girls such as Laura and her friends.

* EarWorm: The japanese opening, and how! In Japan, it has its [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VuIKTwhyIhI own moshpit!]]

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: It was very popular in Italy. Cristina D'Avena, who performed the Italian theme song (of this series and hundreds of other animes) made an album dedicated to ''Hamtaro'' in 2003, with 7 songs related to ''all'' the protagonists (including a shipping song about the Howdy/Pashmina/Dexter LoveTriangle, no less).

* VanillaProtagonist: Hamtaro's defining trait is that he's a NiceGuy and he likes spending time with his friends, while his owner is a normal GirlNextDoor. All of his friends have their own quirky personalities, all different from each other, and many of them also have interesting backstories.

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: It was very popular in Italy. Cristina D'Avena, who performed the Italian theme song (of this series and hundreds of other animes) made an album dedicated to ''Hamtaro'' in 2003, with 19 songs related to ''all'' the protagonists (including a shipping song about the Howdy/Pashmina/Dexter LoveTriangle, no less).

** More recently, some fans have started to read a bit too far into the "red string of fate" symbolism regarding how Laura and Maria's families both ended up not moving away after seeming like they'd have to (as in, applying the symbolism to Laura and Maria themselves instead of just to Hamtaro and Bijou as was probably intended).

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KREZpxI68RQ This scene has another awkward-feeling moment of this trope]

* {{Mondegreen}}:
** The second season theme is so fast-paced and contains so much ham-speak that it's not unusual for transcriptions of it to often get at least some of the lyrics wrong.
** And then there's ''200% no Jumon'', see Memetic Mutation above. Full of {{g|agSub}}ems like ''You see the hand with the bomb-candy!'' and ''[[Creator/JoeDante Ninja Dante]]!''
** In the English dub, when Penelope still said "Ookyoo," her saying it right after someone else said a word ending in an "f" or "ph" could have possibly [[PrecisionFStrike caused some problems.]] There's a good chance that this is why she started saying "Ookwee" in ''The Precious Letter''.

** Howdy is probably the most divisive out of the main Hams, with people finding his jokester personality funny or annoying and repetetive.

** [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/hamtaro/images/e/e6/Screenshot_2015-06-21-23-02-30.png/revision/latest?cb=20150624185536 "You hate me, right?"]] [[note]]This is a scene from episode 135 where Hamtaro have a bad dream about Laura, and the image was taken from English fansub[[/note]] Not to mention that now in the recent days you can see this scene on Website/YouTube commonly (though not widely popular), [[spoiler: but it was widely used in VideoGame/{{MegaManMaker}} community by its infamous Malaysian forum troll Fanduber for troll purpose and to annoy peoples.]]

** [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/hamtaro/images/e/e6/Screenshot_2015-06-21-23-02-30.png/revision/latest?cb=20150624185536 "You hate me, right?"]] [[note]]This is a scene from episode 135 where Hamtaro have a bad dream about Laura, and the image was taken from English fansub[[/note]] Not to mention that now in the recent days you can see this scene on YouTube commonly (though not widely popular), [[spoiler: but it was widely used in VideoGame/{{MegaManMaker}} community by its infamous Malaysian forum troll Fanduber for troll purpose and to annoy peoples.]]

** Stan, who was introduced a few episodes into the first season. Fans either love him or hate him for his [[LovableSexManiac constant]] [[CasanovaWannabe flirting]] which often borders on GettingCrapPastTheRadar.

** Stan's treatment of female hamsters other than his sister qualifies. Bijou is [[NoYay particularly uncomfortable]] when they first meet; she objects to him spinning her around and refusing to give up her paw.

* LauncherOfAThousandShips:
** Stan has been paired with just about every ham-ham on the show.
** Second to Stan is Pashmina. She already has Howdy and Dexter vying for her and Stan also flirts with her quite a bit. She also tends to be the ham-ham choice for ShipsThatPassInTheNight with ham-hams like Panda being paired with her.

** Stan has been paired with just about ''every ham-ham on the show!'' Yes, ''including [[{{Twincest}} his own twin sister]]!''

* MisaimedMarketing: Seriously, who thought this was a good idea to run this show on ''Toonami'' next to series like ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' and ''Manga/{{Cyborg 009}}''?

** Stan's treatment of female hamsters other than his sister qualifies. Bijou is particularly uncomfortable when they first meet; she objects to him spinning her around and refusing to give up her paw.

** There's also the ways Sandy objects to Stan flirting [[{{Hypocrite}} despite having Maxwell as a boyfriend]]. Usually she just drags him away while making a sarcastic comment though [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale she has used violence a few times]].

** Stan's treatment of female hamsters other than his sister qualifies. Bijou is particularly uncomfortable when they first meet, particularly when he spins her around and refuses to give up her paw.

** Stan's treatment of female hamsters other than his sister qualifies. Bijou is particularly uncomfortable when they first meet; she objects to him spinning her around and refusing to give up her paw.

* OlderThenTheyThink: There was a [[https://lostmediawiki.com/Tottoko_Hamutaro:_Anime_Dechu!_(found_%22Hamtaro%22_anime_series;_1999) short OVA adaptation]] called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XGgb67cSCmY "Tottoko Hamutaro Anime Dechu!"]] that was made in 1999. [[MissingEpisode This version was lost in Japan for 18 years]] until it resurfaced online on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPJjA0FnnuY July 20, 2017.]] This version has different character designs for the Ham-Hams and an earlier version of the show's theme song.