History YMMV / TheEmperorsNewSchool

* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: In the episode "Yzmopolis", what finally convinces Kusco to make the wish that fatefully starts the plot rolling? His attempt to cheat got Malina in trouble, and (aside from her anger) he's upset at how being different from the students even makes her life hard.

* NightmareFuel: The skeleton ant eater. On the bright side it came with a [[EarWorm really catchy song.]]
* SeasonalRot: The 2007-2008 second Season in comparison to the 2006 first season. Season 1 was very straightforward, with a standard 21 episodes that formed an almost equal mix of two-part episodes and episodes with two stories (9 and 12, respectably). Season 2 was 31 episodes long, and all but a handful of them were episodes containing stories--among the exceptions being the holiday specials and series finale--suggesting the writers couldn't come up with a story to last 22 minutes.

* SeasonalRot: The 2007-2008 second Season in comparison to the 2006 first season. Season 1 was very straightforward, with a standard 21 episodes that formed an almost equal mix of two-part episodes and episodes with two stories (9 and 12, respectably). Season 2 was 31 episodes long, and all but a handful of them were episodes containing stories---among the exceptions being the holiday specials and series finale---suggesting the writers couldn't come up with a story to last 22 minutes.
* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: The series reused so many jokes from the movie so many times that they became more annoying than funny.

** Vacation Time. Vacaton Time. So much fun.

* CharacterExaggeration: Kuzco's intelligence, big time. In the movie, he's sheltered and spoiled, but savvy enough to know that Yzma is trying to do his job behind his back and that she has a secret lab, in addition to being manipulative enough to play Pacha for a sap twice. In the series, he's often BookDumb or a straight-up IdiotHero.

* CanonSue: Malina in the first few episodes. Later on, [[DependingOnTheWriter more episodes tended to give her faults.]]

* The theme song in general.

* Flanderization: Kuzco's intelligence, big time. In the movie, he's sheltered and spoiled, but savvy enough to know that Yzma is trying to do his job behind his back and that she has a secret lab, in addition to being manipulative enough to play Pacha for a sap twice. In the series, he's often BookDumb or a straight-up IdiotHero.

* EarWorm: Vacation Time. Vacaton Time. So much fun.

* AndTheFandomRejoiced: PatrickWarburton and Eartha Kitt reprising their roles from the movies.
** And John Goodman reprising his role in Season 2.
* CanonSue: Malina in the first few episodes. Later on, [[DependingOnTheWriter more episodes tended to give her faults.]]
* EarWorm - Vacation Time. Vacaton Time. So much fun.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aL1G40piqy0 Yzmopolis, my metropolis...]]

*** Another LampshadeHanging comes when Yzma struggles to think of something new to turn Kuzco into and suggests a llama. Kronk asks, "You're kidding, right?"
*** Yet another LampshadeHanging in that episode comes when Yzma tells Kronk to pull the lever, and Kronk does, causing something they've seen before to come down. He then keeps pulling the lever saying "Seen that, seen that" until they flip in. If I remember correctly that was basically a whole LampshadeHanging episode about Kronk feeling like they're in a rut.
** This is more of an ItsBeenDone thing if anything but how do they keep things so fresh and funny anymore.

* NightmareFuel: Show of hands, who ''wasn't'' freaked out by the skeleton ant eater? On the bright side it came with a [[EarWorm really catchy song.]]

* CanonSue: Malina in the first few episodes.

* CanonSue - Malina. Although she may just be a reasonable teenager, she has her Sue moments. It's kind of a case of DependingOnTheWriter, really.
** Malina might be the latest version of the female llama-herder from the early film productions of ''Kingdom of the Sun'' (later ''Kingdom in the Sun'').
*** She seems to advert it though, due to her moments of her showing her intense competitive nature and confidence derived from her beauty, both of which have gotten their own aesop episodes.

*** They don't.

*** Another LampshadeHanging comes when Izma struggles to think of something new to turn Kuzco into and suggests a llama. Kronk asks, "You're kidding, right?"

*** She seems to advert it though, due to her moments of her showing her intense competitve nature and confidence derived from her beauty, both of which have gotten their own aesop episodes.

* MissedMomentOfAwesome: The series isn't too bad as far as series adaptations of movies go, but with the format, would it have killed them to fit part of the plot of ''Kingdom of the Sun'' into the series somewhere? There were places it could've been done and worked...and likely have been awesome.

* MissedMomentOfAwesome: The series isn't too bad as far as series adaptations of movies go, but with the format, would it have killed them to fit ''Snuff Out The Light'' (the awesome, but cut, VillainSong recorded for Yzma) into the show somehow?