Line #11 YMMV/AlfredJKwak


1	* AdaptationDisplacement: Outside of Germany and The Netherlands, the animated series (and the 1987 comics to a lesser extent) are more well-known to the general public than the original theater show by Creator/HermanVanVeen and Creator/ErikVanDerWurff. Inverted in The Netherlands and Germany, where the original musical and stage show is more well-known since Herman Van Veen and his works are more prominent in those countries.
2	* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: In episode 43, sir Poen opposed king Franz's idea of [[spoiler: turning Waterland into a presidential republic]]. Was it because he was worried about the possible larger consequences or the peoples' reactions? Or was he just worried about how would it impact nobles like himself?
3	* {{Anvilicious}}: The main antagonist is literally [[JustForFun/RecycledInSpace Bird Hitler]]. Then again, for a kid's cartoon, the dangers of a racist, fascist dictatorship is pretty impressive for happening at all.
4	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Only natural with a celebrated artist like Herman van Veen and Erik Van Der Wurff at the helm.
5	** The opening and ending themes, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDaRe8u8Doc "Spetter Pieter Pater"]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMXV7TRYTNQ "Zo Vrolijk" ("So Happy")]], as mentioned below.
6	** "Nog Nooit" ("Never Before"), Johan's (and later Alfred's) enchanting, heartfelt love theme.
7	** "Kijk Niet Om" ("Don't Look Back"), the awesomely catchy and intense main action theme throughout most of the series. It even gets an even more awesome variation for the last two episodes.
8	** The ominous theme that plays during the flashback to the Evil Genie of Darkness' reign of terror, and recurs during various scenes throughout the show. That saxophone and the eerie synth makes everything feel that much more sinister.
9	** "De Sjeik" ("The Sheikh") is a wonderfully eerie, dreamy theme.
10	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment:
11	** Some weird demon thing lifts Alfred up from the back of an elephant in the intro. It never appears again.
12	** In one episode, Alfred is seen building some kind of cleaning robot while he's on the phone with Winnie. Why he's building it or how he suddenly became a robotics expert is never explained, nor does the thing ever appear again.
13	* CompleteMonster ("[[Recap/AlfredJKwakS1E9DeGeestInDeFles The Strange Bottle]]" and "[[Recap/AlfredJKwakS1E10DeHeiligeTulband Flying Carpet]]"): [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast The Evil Spirit Of Darkness]] is an [[JackassGenie evil genie]] who terrorized the land long ago for fun, causing droughts, floods, storms, plagues, and fires, destroying cities and killing many people. After [[GodOfGood The Almighty One]] sealed the spirit [[SealedEvilInACan inside a bottle]], the spirit vowed that when it was freed, it would [[UngratefulBastard kill whoever freed it]] to spite the god who punished it previously, before returning to its homeland to terrorize the people once more. When Dolf and Alfred free the spirit, it tries to eat Alfred despite the fact that he is a child.
14	* DesignatedHero: For all of his good qualities, Alfred does have a few moments of this:
15	** When K. Rokodil's advanced new fishing boat threatens to wipe out the herring population, Alfred and Henk are willing to sink it to save them regardless of the innocent sailors aboard possibly getting killed in the process. They only decide to back out at the last second when they find their friend Captain Stoppel would be on the boat, only for the sawfish they called in to sink the boat for them to go ahead with the plan anyway and blow the thing out of the water. Fortunately, the ship was still moored at the harbor and the single sailor aboard got out alive, but it's still a sketchy thing for Alfred and Henk to be involved in.
16	*** Apparently they assumed that the crew would use the lifeboats to save themselves from the sinking ship, and they remembered the principle of the captain going down with his ship only after Captain Stoppel rescued Alfred. The sawfish blew up of the ship on his own account, and afterwards Alfred and Henk aren't exactly okay with this, both due to Stoppel's sadness and [[NiceJobBreakingItHero K. Rokodil's announcement to build a new, more advanced fishing boat]].
17	** During the Land of Two arc, Alfred obtains a magical violin which has the power to make things disappear and reappear, and intends to use it to rid the titular country of the Mozons virus. However, he first demands that the king ''immediately'' share the wealth of the north with the impoverished south, which is an unrealistic demand even if the greedy king were willing to cooperate. Then, in order to further persuade the king, Alfred uses the violin to make '''all the children in the entire country disappear'''. Every last innocent boy and girl, regardless whether their parents are part of the rich or the poor, vanishes overnight, creating widespread panic, all so the king will cave in to Alfred's demands, in one of the biggest cases of DisproportionateRetribution imaginable. Granted, Alfred does bring the children back no worse for wear when the king honors his half of the bargain, but ''damn''.
18	** During one of the last episodes, Alfred and Dolf engage in a car chase and wreak havoc all over town before Dolf gives Alfred the slip. Alfred, meanwhile, chases after another identical car thinking it's Dolf, runs it off the road, and proceeds to drag the dazed, innocent driver out of his vehicle before he realizes he's got the wrong guy. Naturally, Alfred gets off scot-free from this bit of recklessness.
19	* DracoInLeatherPants: Dolf is oddly charming when he puts his mind to it, such as when he's flirting with the White Queen or joking with his campaign managers.
20	* HarsherInHindsight: Henk’s Hebrew voice actor was Yuval Zamir, who was convicted of sodomising high school boys he taught acting. He also voiced the narrator in the ''WesternAnimation/SpotTheDog'' cartoons, but this role is extra-{{Squick}}y because he voices someone who ''raises a boy on his own''.
21	* HilariousInHindsight: While Bob Rock Pop is modeled after singer and activist Bob Geldof, the creators likely didn’t know the existence of Canadian music producer Bob Rock, who would become far better known internationally by the end of the series’ run thanks to producing albums like Music/{{Metallica}}’s [[Music/MetallicaAlbum “The Black Album”]].
22	* HoYay: In episode 22 Dolf just barges in and kisses Alfred. Alfred doesn't protest in any manner.
23	* MemeticMutation: The four episodes chronicling the National Crow Party and its rise and fall are ''extremely'' popular in Finnish [[YouTubePoop SinäTuubaPaska]] videos, possibly due to the hammy performance of Pekka Autiovuori as Dolf, as well as the general accessibility of the series (it has been uploaded to [=YouTube=] in its entirety). The matter has in fact reached the point that the episodes are considered a DiscreditedMeme. This in turn has resulted in videos that use them to poke fun of their overuse; for just one example, there exists a(n otherwise unrelated) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5F_gPfi0k0 video]] that ends with Dolf performing a speech about how the Dolf episode is overused.
24	-->'''Dolf''': "Oikeus on sitä, että minua ei puupata! Korppijakso on aikansa elänyt!" [[labelnote:Translation]]Justice is that I'm not [used as poop material]! The Dolf episode is past its prime![[/labelnote]]
25	* MoralEventHorizon:
26	** Dolf starts out as a relatively harmless, slightly sympathetic school bully, and as an adult moves on to become a burglar, but it's not until he becomes the fascist ruler of all of Great Waterland and has Alfred and his friends arrested and locked up that he becomes truly irredeemable. His EvilLaugh as he watches Alfred get dragged off seals the deal that there's no turning back for him.
27	** K. Rokodil arguably starts the series having already crossed it; first driving Alfred's family from their home just to build a theme park, and then shortly after accidentally running over his parents and siblings without looking back.
28	* SeasonalRot: Season 2 had more arcs and less continuity than season 1, consisting of random oneshots or two-parters that weren't connected to each other. The animation also got worse towards the end.
29	* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: While the time period for the animated series is vague. Atrique is based on South Africa where black ducks are segregated from white ducks, geese and animals. At the time, the [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra Apartheid]] was still in effect in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) and lasted until April 27, 1994.
30	** A given, considering that large part of the whole show's point was to talk the era's societal problems. Worryingly, [[HistoryRepeats a few stories feel relevant again decades later]].
31	* ViewerGenderConfusion: A lot of viewers were unsure whether Ollie was male or female due to his feminine voice (and who was indeed [[CrossdressingVoices voiced by a woman]]). Since he eventually gets a wife and a family, we could assume the former. However, over twenty years after the show's first run, WordOfGod confirmed Ollie as transgender, stating that "these things happen in the real world too".
32	* VillainDecay: After The Crows Party arc, Dolf spends season 2 doing random low-level shit, usually for K. Rokodil. Averted however in the final episode, when he escapes from the prison and kidnapps Winnie Wana.

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