History YMMV / PeepAndTheBigWideWorld

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: In "Quack's Stuck Stick", Quack and Chirp find a pretty stick.[[Note]]Actually a pinwheel.[[\note]] Instead of bickering over who gets to keep it, or disagreeing about what it is, they decide to play with it, ''together'', and what follows is a montage of the two innocently playing with it, for fun, not competition, and just in general ''getting along.'' What makes it even sweeter is that Peep, who usually has to be the mediator and prompt the two to be nice, isn't present. And then even after Beaver Boy accidentally takes the stick, they are upset, but not with ''eachother'', find Peep, and work together to find it.

** [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/this_weird_close_up.jpg Here]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/crazy_chirp.jpg are]] [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/insane_chirp.jpg some]] faces of insanity.

* NightmareFuel:
** [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/peep_and_te_big_wide_world_creepy.jpg This]] Discovery Kids ad.
** The ScareChord that plays when Peep sees a scarecrow in "Peep in Rabbitland."
** In "Stormy Weather," at one point, we see [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/peep_crying.png a gloomy-looking Peep staring right into the camera,]] accompanied with 10-note gloomy minor key music!
** In "Quack's Tracks," Peep and Chirp are trapped near paw prints that have four toes. We all know that cats have four toes, and what they do to birds. [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tom_slasher_smile.png Tom's SlasherSmile]] does not help.

** "Door Tour": Peep is having a perfectly nice morning. Quack runs up and plants the idea in his head that his can needs a door, then disappears for most of the rest of the episode to decorate his hat with the fish. Peep spends a great deal of timing running to and fro trying to get a good door, and actually manages to get one. (A frisbee with some mud as a hinge) Then Quack returns, gets ''very'' sad when he realizes that he can't see Peep through the door, and then convinces Peep that he doesn't need a door afterall-and then when Peep reminds him that the door was his idea, Quack declares that it wasn't what ''meant'',and then dragging Peep off to be the judge for the hats he had fun decorating while Peep was ''slaving away trying to find a door that Quack convinced him he needed'', which ''Quack rendered pointless.''
The episode treats Quack's ''hat decoratioins'' as the biggest issue he had...as if.

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: In "Quack's Stuck Stick", Quack and Chirp find a pretty stick. Instead of bickering over who gets to keep it, or disagreeing about what it is, they decide to play with it, ''together'', and what follows is a montage of the two innocently playing with it, for fun, not competition, and just in general ''getting along.'' What makes it even sweeter is that Peep, who usually has to be the mediator and prompt the two to be nice, isn't present. And then even after Beaver Boy accidentally takes the stick, they are upset, but not with ''eachother'', find Peep, and work together to find it.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: "Sounds of Silence" is a good example of BothSidesHaveAPoint: On one hand, Quack isn't trying to bother Chirp, and Chirp's irritation at him is expressed unconstructively; all she does is yell and insult in response to Quack's disruptions. But on the other hand, we're shown how Quack acts in a genuinely disruptive manner: Thus, ideally Chirp would learn to explain to Quack what the problem is instead of just lashing out, and Quack would learn to be more self-aware of when he's bothering her. The problem is that only Quack's side of the argument is validated. ''Chirp'' is shown as in the wrong for simply ''liking'' the peace that comes as a result of Quack deciding not to speak until Chirp begs him to-And even ''Peep'' is only shown as feeling sorry for Quack-when she lashes out at Quack in Part 2, it's him of all characters[note]Who is normally completely neutral in Chirp and Quack's arguments [\note] of all characters calls her out for hurting Quack's feelings, and nobody ever once acknowledges that Quack's behavior, unintentional and InnocentlyInsensitive as it may be, is equally hurtful in its own way.

* HeartwarmingMoments: In "Quack's Stuck Stick", Quack and Chirp find a pretty stick. Instead of bickering over who gets to keep it, or disagreeing about what it is, they decide to play with it, ''together'', and what follows is a montage of the two innocently playing with it, for fun, not competition, and just in general ''getting along.'' What makes it even sweeter is that Peep, who usually has to be the mediator and prompt the two to be nice, isn't present. And then even after Beaver Boy accidentally takes the stick, they are upset, but not with ''eachother'', find Peep, and work together to find it.

* EnsembleDarkhorse:

* {{Squick}}: In one episode, Quack gets stuck in a hollow log and at one point, the other characters decide to try and make Quack slippery so that he can get out, and get some water from a nearby stream to do so. Rabbit finds a discarded can to fill with water and splash it on him. Chirp and Peep, on the other hand, drink until their mouths are full and ''spit it onto him.'' They were genuinely trying to help and Quack is ''far'' more bothered when Rabbit accidentally spills the entire can onto him all at once, but still, for the human's watching, ew.

* {{Squick}} In one episode, Quack gets stuck in a hollow log and at one point, the other characters decide to try and make Quack slippery so that he can get out, and get some water from a nearby stream to do so. Rabbit finds a discarded can to fill with water and splash it on him. Chirp and Peep, on the other hand, drink until their mouths are full and ''spit it onto him.'' They were genuinely trying to help and Quack is ''far'' more bothered when Rabbit accidentally spills the entire can onto him all at once, but still, for the human's watching, ew.

* TearJerker: Anytime a character cries.
** Splendid Bird of Paradise's Story: She lived a happy, idyllic life in the jungle, until one day she was captured by poachers and taken to a pet store and stuck in a tiny cage in the city. She escaped, but can't find her way home, and in addition to being lost, is freezing cold in an environment she was never meant for. She's old enough to fly by herself, but seems to be only slightly older then [[AdorablyPrecociousChild Peep and Chirp.]]. Her two-parter ends happily when the other birds make a new home for her, but there's still a sad note: There's no indication she can ever find her way back to the jungle she grew up in, and has to make do in this strange new place she was thrust into.
** Chirp hatched when her mother wasn't around (and why her parents weren't guarding their just about to hatch babies raises a whole new batch of questions) she fell out of her nest. The narrator states that she wasn't upset because she got distracted by a butterfly and went to follow it, but there's still something heartbreaking that she'll never be able to get to know her family because of an accident she had has a newborn. ''And in the present she doesn't remember any of this. As far as she knows, she's always been alone.'' And imagine how her parents must have felt if they found that one of their eggs had hatched, but no baby robin to be seen...
** Peep's egg was laid in a henhouse, but the egg fell out and he hatched after bumping into a rock. Peep immediately gets found by Chirp and Quack, and quickly becomes the happy, sweet, and innocent little chick we know, but just imagine how his poor mother must have felt losing one of her unborn children like that. As far as she knows, Peep's egg was destroyed.
*** It's bittersweet, since in general they seem to lead happy lives and have food and shelter, and ''do'' have older animals like Nelly and Hoot to act as mentors to them, but it's the moment when you realize all those times like when they panic when they think the world is ending because autumn has begun, or think that the big wide world has been "stolen" when there's fog, or Chirp desperately trying to fly even though she's only a baby and her wings aren't fully developed yet, all those moments where the characters are terrified or heartbroken over small, normal things and stay deeply distressed because they don't have parents to explain it to them.
* "Stuck Duck" is a pretty funny episode, but there is one moment where Quack gets anxious since it's getting dark and they ''still'' haven't gotten him out of the log. All the animals immediately cease their efforts to get him out after they leave, with Quack calling after them not to leave him alone. Peep and Chirp turn around when they hear his pleas, but it's a little sobering seeing ''Quack'' of all characters so pitiful.

* "Stuck Duck" is a pretty funny episode, but there is one moment where Quack gets anxious since it's getting dark and they ''still'' haven't gotten him out of the log. All the animals immediately cease their efforts to get him out after they leave, with Quack calling after them not to leave him alone. Peep and Chirp turn around
when they hear his pleas, but it's a little sobering seeing ''Quack'' of all characters so pitiful.

** It's bittersweet, since in general they seem to lead happy lives and have food and shelter, and ''do'' have older animals like Nelly and Hoot to act as mentors to them, but it's the moment when you realize all those times like when they panic when they think the world is ending because autumn has begun, or think that the big wide world has been "stolen" when there's fog, or Chirp desperately trying to fly even though she's only a baby and her wings aren't fully developed yet, all those moments where the characters are terrified or heartbroken over small, normal things and stay deeply distressed because they don't have parents to explain it to them.

** Peep's egg was laid in a henhouse, but the egg fell out and he hatched after bumping into a rock. Either his mother didn't even bother to rescue him, thought that the egg was doomed, or was unable to...

* Chirp hatched when her mother wasn't around (and why her parents weren't guarding their just about to hatch babies raises a whole new batch of questions) she fell out of her nest. The narrator states that she wasn't upset because she got distracted by a butterfly and went to follow it, but there's still something heartbreaking that she'll never be able to get to know her family because of an accident she had has a newborn. ''And in the present she doesn't remember any of this. As far as she knows, she's always been alone.'' And imagine how her parents must have felt if they found that one of their eggs had hatched, but no baby robin to be seen...

** The [[ScareChord]] that plays when Peep sees a scarecrow in "Peep in Rabbitland."

** This Discovery Kids ad.

* AdaptionDisplacement: ''Nobody'' knows that the 2003 cartoon was based on the 1988 animated short film of the same name, which ''[[RuleofThree in turn]]'' [[RuleofThree was based on]] the short animated film ''The Peep Show'' from 1962, which is also extremely obscure.

* BrokenBase: For some fans, the final two seasons aren't considered the classics that the first three are. It doesn't help that season 4 came nearly three years after season 3, and in that time [[Creator/DiscoveryFamily the network it had been on since the beginning]] became The Hub, and KCTS began airing it with Pocoyo. The VocalEvolution the main cast went through didn't help.

* SeasonalRot: Season 4 for some fans--partly due to the fact that the first three seasons were classically a lot better. Season five seems to have improved these mistakes, however.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: Unsurprisingly, by [=RTM2=] in UsefulNotes/{{Malaysia}}. The show wasn't given a consistent schedule, was frequently pre-empted for sporting events, and only one season was aired. It was later picked up by Discovery Kids Asia, except Discovery Kids Asia '''got screwed by its provider in Malaysia''', who dropped the channel just three years after picking it up, with the excuse that it wasn't showing anything new or interesting...

* WhatAnIdiot: Beaver Boy has tons of these moments.