History YMMV / SquareOneTV

* NarmCharm: UpToEleven if it can make a compelling plot (and a likeable character) from a [=BSoD=]'d ventriloquist who can only communicate via his dummy.

** The music video for "Angle Dance" dips into UncannyValley territory at times, with some of the moves looking forced. It looks like [[WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs what you'd get if someone studied geometry while tripping on LSD]].

* LameExcuse: The intro to ''Mathnet'' starts with "The story you're about to see is a fib, but it's short." As if being short somehow excuses it being a fib.

* MagnificentBastard: Mr. Glitch once goaded Mathman into a long rant, getting him to ignore the time limit.

** One episode featured a Japanese chef making popovers in a lecture about measuring. That chef, played by Alan Muraoka, would go on to play "Alan" on another popular PBS show, ''[[Series/SesameStreet]]''.

** And once for absolutely no reason at all. That time, [[NightmareFuel he filled the whole damn screen]].

* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: Any time Mathman won a free game would be enough to qualify, but the segment where he successfully argued against Mr. Glitch's claim that arithmetic and mathematics were the same thing deserves special mention.
** Glitch got Mathman back in a later episode, where he successfully provoked Mathman into going into a rant about how every occupation uses math in some capacity... before revealing that he agreed with Mathman all along, but just wanted to distract him from the time limit clock that just expired. Game Over.
--> "You ran out of time with all that preaching there, Mathy!" ''(eats him)''
** The ending of "The Case of the Unkidnapping", in which the cast investigates the criminal on-stage, singing and presenting it as a big musical number.
** An awesome BigLippedAlligatorMoment in "Purloined Policies": In the middle of a confab with Tuesday and Frankly, Johnny Dollar throws both darts at once and scores a double bullseye.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In one of the "Groaning Wall" sketches during season 2, Cynthia Darlow and Reg E. Cathey share the calendar's-days-are-numbered joke, and Luisa Leschin comments to Reg that "Your days are numbered". Fast-forward to 2018, when Reg E. Cathey was the first of the main seven to pass away.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In one of the "Groaning Wall" sketches, Cynthia Darlow and Reg E. Cathey share the calendar's-days-are-numbered joke, and Luisa Leschin comments to Reg that "Your days are numbered". Fast-forward to 2018, when Reg E. Cathey was the first of the main seven to pass away.

** The music video for "Angle Dance" dips into UncannyValley territory at times, with some of the moves looking forced.
*** WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: It looks like what you'd get if someone studied geometry while tripping on LSD.

** Two words. ANGLE. DANCE.

** In the original Los Angeles-based episodes of ''Mathnet'', the chief, Thad Green, was played by Creator/JamesEarlJones. Despite a change in chiefs with the move to New York City, Jones made one appearance via phone in a season 4 episode.
** Gary Owens, alias the title character in ''WesternAnimation/RogerRamjet'', as Lt. Dirk Niblick of the Math Brigade. (Furthermore, like ''Roger Ramjet'', the Dirk Niblick segments were written by Jim Thurman and animated by Fred Crippen.)
** Jim Thurman as Glitch in the ''Mathman'' segments and as supporting characters in the Dirk Niblick segments.

* EarWorm: Some of the music videos are still stuck in people's heads 25 years later. Nine nine nine...
** "I... am a neighborhood superspy. (Superspy!) I... am an undercover kind of guy. (Undercover kind of guy!) I... should be working for the FBI. (FBI!)"
** "Probability / Don’t you mess with me / Help me make the most of a chance / Might be win or lose / Still I’ve got to choose / Long as there’s a ghost of a chance"
** "Estimaaaaation - when the answer doesn't have to be exact"
** "You'll never reach infinity, it just goes on, and on, and-on-and-on-and-on..."
** The musical number performed in Mathnet's "The Case of the Unkidnapping".

* HarsherInHindsight: In Mathnet's "The Case of the Mystery Weekend", [[spoiler:the bad guy plans to kidnap people he thinks were wrongfully released and keep them in his dungeon for several years. Since the episode was released, there have been several high-profile cases where people were kidnapped and kept for several years. And like our heroes taking a wrong turn, several of them were only discovered by sheer luck. There's also the [[{{Franchise/Saw}} Saw franchise's]] much grimmer take on the subject.]]

** Reg E. Cathey, of ''Series/TheWire'', ''Series/HouseOfCards'' (2 Emmy nominations), and ''Film/FantasticFour2015'' as one of the repertory players.

** The voice of [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Lisa Simpson]], Yeardley Smith, has a guest starring role as "Jane Rice Burrows", the teenage friend of the gorilla Grunt, in the Mathnet story "The Problem of the Missing Monkey".

* MomentOfAwesome: Any time Mathman won a free game would be enough to qualify, but the segment where he successfully argued against Mr. Glitch's claim that arithmetic and mathematics were the same thing deserves special mention.

* WheelchairWoobie: In one Mathnet week, Kate Monday was in a wheelchair. It made you feel sorry for her, and [[spoiler: it made her a DamselInDistress at one point, too.]] Neither the audience nor the other characters ever learned [[NoodleIncident just how she got injured]]; she said on-screen that it was embarrassing in response to being asked about it.

* BunnyEarsLawyer: George Frankly, and to a lesser extent, Kate Monday of Mathnet. Considering the show was aimed at kids, it's to be expected.