History YMMV / KevinSpencer

** The characters fashion also fits both time periods. Anastasia is only shown wearing a purple tank top, and Timmy [=McNaughton=] reeks of the "punk kid" archetype of the 2000s.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The series is firmly set in the 1990s and 2000s.
** The technology used outright shows its age, namely the fact that the Spencers have a CRT TV and a rotary-dial phone (later seasons updated their phone to a cordless phone.

** The episodes "Spankdriven" and "Treble Charger" have appearances by the namesake bands voicing themselves, with Music/Sum41 also appearing as themselves in the Treble Charger episode. The respective episodes aired in 2002 and 2004, and the bands would fall to obscurity afterwards (Treble Charger would disband in 2006, a year after ''Kevin'' ended, and wouldn't reform until 2012, well after ''Kevin'' ended).

** The characters fashion also fats both time periods. Anastasia is only shown wearing a purple tank top, and Timmy [=McNaughton=] reeks of the "punk kid" archetype of the 2000s.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The series is firmly set in the 1990s and 2000s, what with the technology used, and the episodes "Spankdriven" and "Treble Charger", both of which have appearances by the namesake bands voicing themselves.

* TooBleakStoppedCaring: The show takes place in a borderline CrapsackWorld where our protagonist is a sociopath who regularly breaks the law just because, looks out only for himself most of the time, and is able to manipulate people into thinking he's on their side when he wants something from them, his parents frequently abusing each other or getting into fights over minor inconveniences, and the supporting cast is either just as cold and/or idiotic as the main characters.

* ValuesDissonance: The rampant politically incorrect humor would not fly in a television series nowadays, the most blatant example being the outright homophobia, notably through the frequent use of "fruity", itself a homophobic slur. Scenes such as Percy telling Kevin "bible says homos is wrong" in the pilot as well as Percy fearing that Kevin will become fruity from reading a book in "Keep the Home Fires Burning" come off as a lot less funny nowadays, with Canada being more accepting of the LGBT community after the series ended. The show outright lampshaded this in one episode where a gay character calls himself an "offensively gay stereotype".

* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: * TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: Some have compared its writing and animation to ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. Notably, Greg Lawrence stated in a 2003 news interview about about how proud he was of the show and how he thought it would be the next ''South Park''.

* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: Some have compared its writing and animation to ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. Not helping matters is the fact that the series premiered a year after ''South Park'', and the fact that it aired on The Comedy Channel, which had shows from Comedy Central itself.

** The scene in "That Guy Who Liked Pie" where Kevin questions how Allen knows how to work a time machine, almost as if Kevin's life was a TV show written by a lazy writer that lacks the talent to create a plausible narrative structure instead of a series of cheap happenstance scenarios that rely on convenient coincidence instead of proper storytelling technique. This is then followed by a rabid wolverine suddenly materalizing and mauling Kevin's foot. After this, Kevin decides never to think about such questions again.
** Percy's subplot in "Treble Charger" involves him wanting to kill Chilliwack because "their music will make a man want to kill them." Apart from that mention, Chilliwack doesn't appear in the episode.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The series is firmly set in the 1990s and 2000s, what with the fact that the Spencers own a primitive antenna TV and cord phones, and the episodes "Spankdriven" and "Treble Charger", both of which have appearances by the namesake bands voicing themselves.

* CreatorsPet: Percy largely became the main focus in the later seasons. This began around season four and only got worse in the subsequent seasons afterwards, where the episodes practically revolved around him (while Kevin was DemotedToExtra), with plots like Percy getting plastic surgery ("Plastic Percy"), Percy having illegitimate children ("Legitimate Claims"), and Percy getting his dick shredded off by a paper shredder ("Blow Job"). It reached a head in the last season, where the intro was all about Percy, while Anastasia and Kevin only received a passing mention through a single lyric.
-->''Alas, his wife is just a big, fat whore / And his son is rotten to the core''
* MemeticMutation: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-jacbXXSRU "My dad has pictures of your mother naked."]] [[labelnote:Explanation]] In "Dreamland", Kevin dreams he's in a parody of ''Oh That Lewis!'' titled ''Oh That Kevin''. When one kid calls Allen out for swearing, Kevin fires back with this line, causing him to cry. This scene (or specifically, the audio) became popular through [=TikTok=] and Gacha Life. [[/labelnote]]

* ValuesDissonance: The show would not fly nowadays with its rampant politically incorrect humor, but the most blatant is the outright homophobia: namely, the use of "fruity", itself a homophobic slur. In particular, scenes such as Percy telling Kevin "bible says homos is wrong" as well as Percy fearing that Kevin will become fruity from reading a book are a lot less funny nowadays, and would get the show banned. The show outright lampshaded this in one episode, where a gay character calls himself as a "offensively gay stereotype".

* ValuesDissonance: The show would not fly nowadays with its rampant politically correct humor, but the most blatant is the outright homophobia: namely, the use of "fruity", itself a homophobic slur. In particular, scenes such as Percy telling Kevin "bible says homos is wrong" as well as Percy fearing that Kevin will become fruity from reading a book are a lot less funny nowadays, and would get the show banned. The show outright lampshaded this in one episode, where a gay character calls himself as a "offensively gay stereotype".

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The series is firmly set in the 1990s and 2000s, what with the fact that the Spencers own a primitive antenna TV and cord phones, and the episodes "Spankdriven" and "Treble Charger", both of which have appearances by the namesake bands voicing themselves.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The series is firmly set in the 1990s and 2000s, what with the amount of pop culture references throughout, from ''The Beachcombers'' to the American ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'', and the fact that the Spencers had a primitive antenna TV and cord phones. Most prominent is the seventh season episode "Treble Charger", which has appearances from the namesake band and Sum 41 voicing themselves. The episode aired in 2004, two years after Treble Charger went down in popularity (and would disband after the series ended).

* CreatorsPet: Percy largely became the main focus in the later seasons. This began around season four with "Add Beer Ad", where the primary plot revolved around Percy being a celebrity. This got worse in the subsequent four seasons afterwards, where the episodes practically revolved around him (while Kevin was DemotedToExtra), with plots like Percy getting plastic surgery ("Plastic Percy"), Percy having illegitimate children ("Legitimate Claims"), and Percy getting his dick shredded off by a paper shredder ("Blow Job"). It reached a head in the last season, where the intro was all about Percy, with Anastasia and Kevin getting a mention via a single lyric.
-->''Alas, his wife is just a big, fat whore / And his son is rotten to the core...''

** Percy crosses it in "Invisible Sociopath", by selling Kevin to the Quebec mafia to get a reward for turning in the man who slept with a one of the members' wives.

* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: Some have compared its writing and animation to ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. Not helping matters is the fact that the series premiered a year after ''South Park'', and the fact that it aired on The Comedy Channel, which had shows from Comedy Central itself

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The series is firmly set in the 1990s and 2000s, what with the amount of pop culture references throughout, from ''The Beachcombers'' to the American ''Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?'', and the fact that the Spencers use cord phones. Most prominent is the seventh season episode "Treble Charger", which has appearances from the namesake band and Sum 41 voicing themselves. The episode aired in 2004, two years after Treble Charger went down in popularity (and would disband after the series ended, further cementing the episode to when they were popular).

* TooBleakStoppedCaring: The show takes place in a borderline CrapsackWorld where our protagonist is a sociopath who regularly breaks the law just because, looks out only for himself most of the time, and is able to manipulate people into thinking he's on their side when he wants something from them, his parents frequently abusing each other or getting into fights over minor inconveniences, and the supporting cast is either just as cold and/or idiotic as the main characters.

* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: Some have compared it's writing and animation to ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark''. Not helping matters is the fact that the shows original channel The Comedy Network had several shows from Comedy Central.
* TooBleakStoppedCaring: With the shows setting being a borderline CrapsackWorld as well as every character being cold and/or idiotic it can be hard to stomach the long eight seasons this show has.

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* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: Some have compared it's writing and animation to [[WesternAnimation/{{SouthPark}} South Park]]. Not helping matters is the fact that the shows original channel The Comedy Network had several shows from Comedy Central.

** TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: Some have compared it's writing and animation to [[WesternAnimation/{{SouthPark}} South Park]]. Not helping matters is the fact that the shows original channel The Comedy Network had several shows from Comedy Central.

** TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: Some have compared it's writing and animation to SouthPark. Not helping matters is the fact that the shows original channel TheComedyNetwork had several shows from ComedyCentral.

** TheyCopiedItSoItSucks Some have compared it's writing and animation to SouthPark. Not helping matters is the fact that the shows original channel TheComedyNetwork had several shows from ComedyCentral.

** TheyCopiedItSoItSucks
* Some have compared it's writing and animation to SouthPark. Not helping matters is the fact that the shows original channel TheComedyNetwork had several shows from ComedyCentral.

** Some have compared it's writing and animation to SouthPark. Not helping matters is the fact that the shows original channel TheComedyNetwork had several shows from ComedyCentral.