History YMMV / TomGoesToTheMayor

* TooBleakStoppedCaring: Part of the reason Tim and Eric moved onto other projects is that the show's ratings were miserable thanks to this trope. After a while, once it's clear Tom will be screwed over every chance the show gets, you stop caring enough to watch, especially considering this was the only recurring joke the show really had. The show's [[WorldOfJerkass mean-spirited tone]] and [[CrapsackWorld overall cynical atmosphere]] don't help matters either.

* ReferencedBy: Satan can be seen watching the intro during the first episode of WesternAnimation/LucyTheDaughterOfTheDevil.

* {{Squick}}: The Mayor feeding an unconscious Tom wet cat food for several weeks in "WW Lazers"

** Stealing money from a fountain at a mall? Horrible. Stealing money from a fountain that was supposed to ''grant sick children their wishes as the stare at him stealing from them''? ''Hilarious''.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: The WW Lazers restaurant's doo-wop singers, with Franklin Roosevelt on the keyboard, Tojo on the electric guitar, and ''Hitler'' on vocals.

* TheWoobie: One can't help but feel bad for Tom, whether it be due to ExecutiveMeddling ruining his ideas or his AwfulWeddedLife to Joy. Special mention goes to the episode where his stepson [[spoiler:[[PopGoesTheHuman explodes after overeating at a buffet.]]]]

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The constant mention of CD-Rs, the employment of hipstery, cheerful muted horns with big, blocky, colorful text in the end credits, and Tom's use of both a [=BlackBerry=]-esque device and Website/MySpace-like social network all point to this show taking place in a very specific timeframe, around [[TurnOfTheMillennium 2004 to 2006]].

* TooBleakStoppedCaring: Part of the reason Tim and Eric moved onto other projects is that the show's ratings were miserable thanks to this trope. After a while, once it's clear Tom will be screwed over every chance the show gets, you stop caring enough to watch, especially considering this was the only recurring joke the show really had.

* Main/Squick: The Mayor feeding an unconscious Tom wet cat food for several weeks in "WW Lazers"

* CrossesTheLineTwice: The WW Lazers restaurant's doo-wop singers, with Franklin Roosevelt on the keyboard, Hitler on vocals, and Tojo on the electric guitar.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: The WW Lazers restaurant. Enough said.

* HoYay: It's all but outright stated between The Mayor and Dr. Ian Black.

* RetroactiveRecognition: In what has to be the most bizarre example of this possibly ever, the voice of Joy Peters is Creator/StephanieCourtney, who two years after the show ended would become world-famous as Flo, the {{Advertising/Progressive}} Girl.

* TooBleakStoppedCaring: Part of the reason Tim and Eric moved onto other projects is that the show's ratings were miserable thanks to this trope. After a while, once it's clear Tom will be screwed over every chance the show gets, you stop caring enough to watch, especially considering this was the only recurring joke the show really had.

* TooBleakStoppedCaring: Part of the reason Tim and Eric moved onto other projects is that the show's ratings were miserable thanks to this trope. After a while, once it's clear Tom will be screwed over every chance the show gets, you stop caring enough to watch, especially considering this was the only recurring joke the show really had.
* UncannyValley: The animation style deliberately evokes this. Characters rapidly switch between static poses that generally only vaguely connect with the emotion they are meant to be conveying, and their expressions and/or features are often exaggerated through editing to look even weirder. Even [[OnlySaneMan Tom]] is almost always contorted in some kind of bizarre and unfitting way. The fact that all character designs are taken from photos of actual people makes everything look slightly unsettling at all times.

* RetroactiveRecognition: In what has to be the most bizarre example of this possibly ever, the voice of Joy Peters is Stephanie Courtney, who two years after the show ended would become world-famous as Flo, the {{Advertising/Progressive}} Girl.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Part of the reason Tim and Eric moved onto other projects is that the show's ratings were miserable thanks to this trope. After a while, once it's clear Tom will be screwed over every chance the show gets, you stop caring enough to watch, especially considering this was the only recurring joke the show really had.

* FollowTheLeader: While Creator/AdultSwim shows weren't exactly normal, ''Tom Goes To the Mayor'' truly pushed the boundaries of ironic anti-humor at that time and, more importantly, had significant doses of live-action in it. A lot of productions on Adult Swim that premiered after it seemed to keep taking the same [[BlackComedy darkly comedic]], bitingly ironic approach to humor to more and more logical extremes and were also done in live-action, rather than animation: ''Series/SaulOfTheMoleMen,'' ''Series/FatGuyStuckInInternet,'' and even later additions like ''Loiter Squad.'' It's not altogether far-fetched to see ''Tom Goes To the Mayor'' as a major early symptom of Adult Swim's NetworkDecay: for context only a few months after the show was cancelled came the infamous [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_Boston_Mooninite_panic publicity stunt]] for ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce,'' which many have pointed to as ''the'' moment Adult Swim began a long and almost fatal decline.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Part of the reason Tim and Eric moved onto other projects is that the show's ratings were miserable thanks to this trope. After a while, once it's clear Tom will be screwed over every chance the show gets, you stop caring enough to watch. Especially considering this was the only recurring joke the show really had.

* NightmareFuel: The episode "Spray a Carpet or Rug". It starts with a toxic foam that causes people to gorily disintegrate, and ends with [[spoiler:Tom hanging himself in prison, leading to a MindScrew sequence where {{Satan}} appears as an extremely scary version of the Mayor.]]

* UncannyValley: The animation style deliberately evokes this. Characters rapidly switch between static poses that generally only vaguely connect with the emotion they are meant to be conveying, and their expressions and/or features are often exaggerated through editing to look even weirder. Even [[OnlySaneMan Tom]] is almost always contorted in some kind of bizarre and unfitting way. The fact that all character designs are taken from photos of actual people makes it look even weirder.

* UncannyValley: The animation style can be this for some.

* NightmareFuel: The episode "Spray a Carpet or Rug". It starts with a toxic foam that causes people to gorily disintegrate, and ends with [[spoiler:Tom hanging himself in prison, leading to a MindScrew sequence where {{Satan}} appears as an extremely scary version of the Mayor.]]

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Part of the reason Tim and Eric moved onto other projects is that the show's ratings were miserable thanks to this trope. After a while, once it's clear Tom will be screwed over every chance the show gets, you stop caring enough to watch.

* NightmareFuel: The episode "Spray a Carpet or Rug". It starts with a toxic foam that causes people to gorily disintegrate, and ends with [[spoiler:Tom hanging himself in prison, leading to a MindScrew sequence where {{Satan}} appears an an extremely scary version of the Mayor.]]

* HighOctaneNightmareFuel: "Spray a Carpet or Rug"

HighOctaneNightmareFuel: "Spray a Carpet or Rug"