History YMMV / TeachersPet

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: The show can get very trippy, although it should be noted that Gary Baseman is known for some pretty trippy artwork himself.

* TransAudienceInterpretation: Spot wanting to be a human boy is often seen as a metaphor for being a transgender man by modern audiences, which admittedly makes the [[BrokenBase already divisive ending of the movie]][[ValuesDissonance worse for some]].

* TransAudienceInterpretation: Spot wanting to be a human boy is often seen as a metaphor for being a transgender man by modern audiences.

*** What makes this scenario hilarious is that the series was in production around the time the latter special originally premiered.

** Spot and Mr. Jolly's campy, flamboyant attitudes as well as their HoYay moments with Leonard and Pretty Boy are even more hilarious after their respective voice actors Creator/NathanLane and Creator/DavidOdgenStiers came out as gay.

** Spot and Mr. Jolly's campy, flamboyant attitudes as well as their HoYay moments with Leonard and Pretty Boy are even more hilarious after Nathan Lane and David Odgen Stiers came out.
** In the episode "A Dog For All Seasons" (Which was released in December 2000), Spot tries to figure out what kind of holiday dogs celebrate by going to a librarian, where she notes that she can't find any for dogs as Spot notes there are stories for other animals. The TV special, [[WesternAnimation/OlivetheOtherReindeer Olive the Other Reindeer]], in which a dog convinces Santa and his crew to fly with her as a replacement "Reindeer", was released a year prior; although the book was released originally in 1997. Sure, it's not a special about what dogs celebrate, but it's still a special about a dog.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: You can really tell that they wanted to make the show look like Baseman’s paintings came to life.

* AdaptationDisplacement: The movie, despite not being very well known, is still more well-known than the television series. It doesn't help that it's the only part of the franchise that was released on VHS and DVD; although the series premiere episode included on the DVD as a bonus feature.

** One of the lines in "Proud to Be a Dog" when mentioning that everything needs something else, with one of them being "Or a princess, a frog". When this line is sung, it shows WesternAnimation/{{Cinderella}} about to kiss a frog, which never happened in ''Cinderella''. Five years later, ''WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog'' was released.

** The ending to "Taint Valentine’s Day", where Youngchee is revealed to secretly love Leonard and runs away after seeing him walk by.