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** Gus and Wally for being a realistic and positive depiction of a gay couple in an animated sitcom, which was a rarity when it aired (who would have received more appearances if the rest of the series had been completed). A spin-off featuring the two is even in the works.
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** Gus and Wally for being a realistic and positive depiction of a gay couple in an animated sitcom, which was a rarity when it aired (who would have received more appearances if the rest of the series had been completed). A spin-off featuring the two is was even in the works.
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* ValuesResonance: Gus and Wally's portrayal was amazingly ahead of its time.
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* HarsherInHindsight: "Stories of Hope and Forgiveness" can be a little harder to watch after 9/11 and the War on Terror.
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** Expansion packs being sold in physical boxes - very common back in the day. Not so common after internet made {{DLC}} much more practical.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The series' use of music, like Music/{{REM}}'s Everybody Hurts, or Music/TheFlamingLips [[Music/TheSoftBulletin The Spark That Bled]], and its use of Ska. Sadly though, when the series was released on DVD the producers were unable to secure the license rights to any of the music used in the broadcast and syndicated versions of the show, with the exception of Cake's 'Italian Leather Sofa'. Low-quality, muzak-esque songs back DVD episodes and for anyone who has seen the episodes on TV with the intended music, it can be a bit of a letdown. WordOfGod confirms this in the DVD commentary.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The series' use of music, like Music/{{REM}}'s Everybody Hurts, or Music/TheFlamingLips [[Music/TheSoftBulletin The Spark That Bled]], and its use of Ska. Sadly though, when the series was released on DVD the producers were unable to secure the license rights to any of the music used in the broadcast and syndicated versions of the show, with the exception of Cake's 'Italian Music/{{Cake}}'s "Italian Leather Sofa'.Sofa" as it was a re-recording commissioned for the show by the band. Low-quality, muzak-esque songs back DVD episodes and for anyone who has seen the episodes on TV with the intended music, it can be a bit of a letdown. WordOfGod confirms this in the DVD commentary.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: In addition to some really appealing postmodern comic strip-like designs, the show is unique for it's saturated, neon-bright color pallet, making it one of the few traditionally animated works which required its animation to be created with hand-painted cels to work.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: In addition to some really appealing postmodern comic strip-like designs, the show is unique for it's its saturated, neon-bright color pallet, making it one of the few traditionally animated works which required its animation to be created with hand-painted cels to work.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: In-universe. In the episode "The Douchebag Aspect", Kevin learns about Ska music for the first time and muses on whether the Beatles ever made any songs in that genre. Andy rolls his eyes and says no, and neither have any of Kevin's other favorite bands. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" was their first crack at making a Caribbean-sounding song, using inspiration from a number of Ska songs they liked.
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* HeReallyCanAct: While Creator/TomKenny has always been praised as a talented voice actor, anyone [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants more familiar with his more goofy characters]] might be shocked to hear him sound legitimately angry when he blows up at Kevin for inviting so many people to the premiere of ''The Man From Pluto''.
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* HeReallyCanAct: SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: While Creator/TomKenny has always been praised as a talented voice actor, anyone [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants more familiar with his more goofy characters]] might be shocked to hear him sound legitimately angry when he blows up at Kevin for inviting so many people to the premiere of ''The Man From Pluto''.
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* FanNickname: The businessman who repeatedly whispers "penis" to people is officially called the Concerned Businessman, but most people just call him the Penis Pervert.
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** Gus and Wally for being a realistic and positive depiction of a gay couple in an animated sitcom, which was a rarity when it aired (who would have received more appearances if the rest of the series had been completed).
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** Gus and Wally for being a realistic and positive depiction of a gay couple in an animated sitcom, which was a rarity when it aired (who would have received more appearances if the rest of the series had been completed). A spin-off featuring the two is even in the works.
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** Kevin trying to look up a lost movie is solidly pre-internet, as he goes to a small video store to find someone knowledgeable on obscure films, rather than searching online and asking in forums.
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** The show was a very detailed and accurate satire of city life and youth culture in the late 1990s. This makes it impossible to separate the show from the era it was made in, a high point just before 9/11 and the War on Terror devastated the country. In particular, the episode "Stories of Hope and Forgiveness" portrayed overreaction to media saturation during artificially pumped-up "crises" in a way that was utterly prescient to 9/11 but which nobody would dare write after that disaster.
** Zigzagged with "Kevin vs. The UsefulNotes/SATs". In 2006, the College Board split the Verbal section into Reading and Writing and, with 3 sections as a result, adapted a 2400-point system. However, in 2016, Reading and Writing scores were merged back into one and as a result the 1600-point system was reinstated, ''but'' the non-mathematic half of scoring is now called "Evidence-Based Reading and Writing" rather than Verbal.
** The gag of Toby calling his mother from a pay phone as a rabid dog slowly follows him around is firmly planted in the pre-cell phone era, as it relies entirely on him being unable to stand next to the pay phone long enough to even finish a sentence. Another gag has Kevin call Andy at work, only for Ron to broadcast it over the PA system, something that doesn't work if everyone has a cell phone.
** The show was a very detailed and accurate satire of city life and youth culture in the late 1990s. This makes it impossible to separate the show from the era it was made in, a high point just before 9/11 and the War on Terror devastated the country. In particular, the episode "Stories of Hope and Forgiveness" portrayed overreaction to media saturation during artificially pumped-up "crises" in a way that was utterly prescient to 9/11 but which nobody would dare write after that disaster.
** Zigzagged with "Kevin vs. The UsefulNotes/SATs". In 2006, the College Board split the Verbal section into Reading and Writing and, with 3 sections as a result, adapted a 2400-point system. However, in 2016, Reading and Writing scores were merged back into one and as a result the 1600-point system was reinstated, ''but'' the non-mathematic half of scoring is now called "Evidence-Based Reading and Writing" rather than Verbal.
** The gag of Toby calling his mother from a pay phone as a rabid dog slowly follows him around is firmly planted in the pre-cell phone era, as it relies entirely on him being unable to stand next to the pay phone long enough to even finish a sentence. Another gag has Kevin call Andy at work, only for Ron to broadcast it over the PA system, something that doesn't work if everyone has a cell phone.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: In addition to some really appealing postmodern comic strip-like designs, the show is unique for it's saturated, neon-bright color pallet, making it one of the few traditionally animated works which required it's animation to be created with hand-painted cels to work.
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* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: In addition to some really appealing postmodern comic strip-like designs, the show is unique for it's saturated, neon-bright color pallet, making it one of the few traditionally animated works which required it's its animation to be created with hand-painted cels to work.
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* CriticalResearchFailure: In-universe. In the episode "The Douchebag Aspect", Kevin learns about Ska music for the first time and muses on whether the Beatles ever made any songs in that genre. Andy rolls his eyes and says no, and neither have any of Kevin's other favorite bands. "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" was their first crack at making a Caribbean-sounding song, using inspiration from a number of Ska songs they liked.
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* HilariousInHindsight:
** Kevin's "Bling blong" sounds an awful lot like "[[WesternAnimation/InsideOut Bing Bong]]."
** In ''Andy and Kevin Make a Friend,'' a Franchise/{{Batman}} cosplayer can be seen in the background. Wallace Langham, Andy's voice actor, would later provide his voice for three separate ''Batman'' cartoons as [[WesternAnimation/TheBatman the second Clayface]], [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold the Ocean Master]], and [[WesternAnimation/BewareTheBatman Anarky]], and Creator/ScottMenville's (Kevin) StarMakingRole would be [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans Robin]].
** During Andy's recruitment for ''Series/TheRealWorld'', he says that he wants to be a cartoonist, and one of the executives assures him it could be a stepping stone into the entertainment business. This is uncannily similar to the story of Creator/JuddWinick, a ''Real World'' participant who would later go into the comics industry and create his own animated series, WesternAnimation/TheLifeAndTimesOfJuniperLee.
** This show wouldn't be the last time [[MemeticMutation the Internet latched onto]] a Creator/TomKenny character [[WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack saying "penis"]].
** ''Stories of Hope and Forgiveness'' jokes about Dennis Rodman being a diplomat. By 2013 that would come true when he began to visit North Korea, trying to smooth tensions between Kim Jong-un and the United States.
** Kevin's "Bling blong" sounds an awful lot like "[[WesternAnimation/InsideOut Bing Bong]]."
** In ''Andy and Kevin Make a Friend,'' a Franchise/{{Batman}} cosplayer can be seen in the background. Wallace Langham, Andy's voice actor, would later provide his voice for three separate ''Batman'' cartoons as [[WesternAnimation/TheBatman the second Clayface]], [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold the Ocean Master]], and [[WesternAnimation/BewareTheBatman Anarky]], and Creator/ScottMenville's (Kevin) StarMakingRole would be [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans Robin]].
** During Andy's recruitment for ''Series/TheRealWorld'', he says that he wants to be a cartoonist, and one of the executives assures him it could be a stepping stone into the entertainment business. This is uncannily similar to the story of Creator/JuddWinick, a ''Real World'' participant who would later go into the comics industry and create his own animated series, WesternAnimation/TheLifeAndTimesOfJuniperLee.
** This show wouldn't be the last time [[MemeticMutation the Internet latched onto]] a Creator/TomKenny character [[WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack saying "penis"]].
** ''Stories of Hope and Forgiveness'' jokes about Dennis Rodman being a diplomat. By 2013 that would come true when he began to visit North Korea, trying to smooth tensions between Kim Jong-un and the United States.
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* HilariousInHindsight:
** Kevin's "Bling blong" sounds an awful lot like "[[WesternAnimation/InsideOut Bing Bong]]."
** In ''Andy and Kevin Make a Friend,'' a Franchise/{{Batman}} cosplayer can be seen in the background. Wallace Langham, Andy's voice actor, would later provide his voice for three separate ''Batman'' cartoons as [[WesternAnimation/TheBatman the second Clayface]], [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold the Ocean Master]], and [[WesternAnimation/BewareTheBatman Anarky]], and Creator/ScottMenville's (Kevin) StarMakingRole would be [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans Robin]].
** During Andy's recruitment for ''Series/TheRealWorld'', he says that he wants to be a cartoonist, and one of the executives assures him it could be a stepping stone into the entertainment business. This is uncannily similar to the story of Creator/JuddWinick, a ''Real World'' participant who would later go into the comics industry and create his own animated series, WesternAnimation/TheLifeAndTimesOfJuniperLee.
** This show wouldn't be the last time [[MemeticMutation the Internet latched onto]] a Creator/TomKenny character [[WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack saying "penis"]].
**HilariousInHindsight: ''Stories of Hope and Forgiveness'' jokes about Dennis Rodman being a diplomat. By 2013 that would come true when he began to visit North Korea, trying to smooth tensions between Kim Jong-un and the United States.
** Kevin's "Bling blong" sounds an awful lot like "[[WesternAnimation/InsideOut Bing Bong]]."
** In ''Andy and Kevin Make a Friend,'' a Franchise/{{Batman}} cosplayer can be seen in the background. Wallace Langham, Andy's voice actor, would later provide his voice for three separate ''Batman'' cartoons as [[WesternAnimation/TheBatman the second Clayface]], [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold the Ocean Master]], and [[WesternAnimation/BewareTheBatman Anarky]], and Creator/ScottMenville's (Kevin) StarMakingRole would be [[WesternAnimation/TeenTitans Robin]].
** During Andy's recruitment for ''Series/TheRealWorld'', he says that he wants to be a cartoonist, and one of the executives assures him it could be a stepping stone into the entertainment business. This is uncannily similar to the story of Creator/JuddWinick, a ''Real World'' participant who would later go into the comics industry and create his own animated series, WesternAnimation/TheLifeAndTimesOfJuniperLee.
** This show wouldn't be the last time [[MemeticMutation the Internet latched onto]] a Creator/TomKenny character [[WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack saying "penis"]].
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