Line #35 YMMV/AlvinAndTheChipmunks


1	For individual works:
2	* ''YMMV/TheAlvinShow''
3	* ''YMMV/TheChipmunks''
4	* ''YMMV/TheChipmunkAdventure''
5	* ''YMMV/AlvinAndTheChipmunksMeetFrankenstein''
6	* ''YMMV/AlvinAndTheChipmunksMeetTheWolfman''
7	* ''YMMV/LittleAlvinAndTheMiniMunks''
8	* ''YMMV/AlvinnnAndTheChipmunks''
9	----
10	!!For the whole franchise:
11	* {{Adorkable}}:
12	** Theodore is shy, naïve, and gullible, but sweet.
13	** Jeanette's clumsiness, kindness, and DitzyGenius tendencies make her come off as this.
14	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/74104 This Flash animation]] portrays the Chipmunks as gangsta rappers who rant about how Dave treated them like garbage behind the scenes. The funny thing about this is that, minus the gangsta rapping, some people see Dave and the Chipmunks as a DysfunctionalFamily long before it was even made.
15	** Alvin gets yelled at in their famous Christmas Don't Be Late song because he doesn't respond when Dave calls his name. Then Dave gets angry and yells at him. That can be seen as incredibly abusive in and of itself. There's also a kind of seizure called an absence seizure. Think about it... what if Alvin is having an absence seizure and Dave is yelling at him for something he literally can't control? That is of course TruthInTelevision - many children who have that kind of seizure are accused of ADHD or just daydreaming.
16	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Many people consider the cover songs better than the originals. Most [=YouTube=] videos of them will have people stating that or how their cover of it made people like the original song in the comments.
17	* BaseBreakingCharacter: Dave Seville is either a kind-hearted man who loves his family but gives them tough love or an annoying father who treats them like garbage.
18	* ClicheStorm: [[WesternAnimation/TheAlvinShow Every]] [[WesternAnimation/TheChipmunks TV]] [[WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks series]], [[WesternAnimation/TheChipmunkAdventure The Chipmunk Adventure]], the holiday specials and [[Film/LittleAlvinAndTheMiniMunks Little Alvin and the Mini-Munks]] are ultimately this.
19	* CoveredUp: Ross Bagdasarian did this to himself regarding "Witch Doctor", as the Chipmunk version of the song has become much more well known than the original version of his 1958 hit single.
20	* CrackPairing: Crack pairings go through many different phases among the fandom, which almost always ensures a string of fluff fanfics from different authors. Popular phases over the years have included pairing Alvin with Eleanor, Simon with Brittany, Dave with Vinny, and even Alvin with Simon, however, none of them have quite put the "crack" in "crack pairing" as much as Dave and Brittany, with even a few fanfics involving Dave impregnating Brittany.
21	* EpilepticTrees: The Chipmunks and Chipettes grew to human size after coming in contact with the same chemical that mutated [[Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles the Ninja Turtles]] (which makes sense, as both series' 80s incarnations were produced by Murakami-Wolf-Swenson, although they only did this series for a few Eps).
22	* FanNickname:
23	** The term "to chipmunk a song" means to edit the song to give the vocals (and consequently the rest of the song) a higher pitch. The term finds its roots in these characters. Just add "chipmunk" to any search for a song on Website/YouTube, and you're bound to find one. Oh, and watch out for fake chipmunked songs. "Real" chipmunked songs are actually pitch-adjusted (like real Chipmunks songs) and are the same length as the original. The fakes are the result of simply speeding up the original and are much shorter. Some people think that the former sounds better than the latter.
24	** Because they've earned much disdain from a good-sized portion of the fanbase, the CGI character designs (the ones from the live-action movies, NOT the ones from ALVINNN!!!) have earned the not-so-affectionate nickname, "CGI Rats".
25	* {{Fanon}}: Charlene was the first Chipette. She appeared in only one song before being replaced with Brittany and her sisters the following year. She has never officially appeared in anything besides her sole song, however fans noticed that an unnamed chipmunk girl in a red dress from ''WesternAnimation/TheChipmunksRockinThroughTheDecades'' looked ''a lot'' like Charlene. Thus, she's considered Charlene and Charlene is never drawn in anything but a [[AgeInappropriateDress rather skimpy]] [[LadyInRed red dress]]. When she appears in fanworks she's usually a [[LongLostRelative long-lost sister]] or cousin to the Chipettes.
26	* HeartwarmingInHindsight: The December 1988 episode "The Wall" has Alvin, Simon, and Theodore performing a rock song called [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "The Wall"]], during which the UsefulNotes/BerlinWall starts to crack and it falls, reuniting families and friends. Alvin wakes up on the plane where he says [[AllJustADream "it was just a dream, but it doesn't have to be"]]. 11 months later, the wall was finally torn down.
27	* MemeticMutation:
28	** Chipmunking songs is very popular on the internet. Bonus points if it's a song [[ClusterFBomb full of curse words]] or [[IntercourseWithYou sexual references]].
29	*** Then there's the exact opposite concept, "Chipmunks on 16 Speed", where Chipmunk songs are slowed down so that, rather than sounding like rodents singing popular hits, it sounds like they're some normal-voiced DoomMetal or IndustrialRock or {{Shoegazing}} band doing downtempo cover versions. Platform/YouTube commenters [[PlayAlongMeme play along]] by discussing The Chipmunks as though they were a RealLife cutting edge band, hindered by their AddledAddict frontman Alvin and his various troubles.
30	** Who's getting the best head? [[labelnote:Explanation]]A RuleThirtyFour image of the Chipmunks receiving fellatio from the Chippetes gave birth to some heated debates on who's experiencing the most pleasure.[[/labelnote]]
31	* {{Moe}}:
32	** Eleanor might qualify. It helps that she's [[AdorablyPrecociousChild Theodore's]] counterpart.
33	** Jeanette ''definitely'' qualifies. Take a look at the fandom, fans quite often put her on a pedestal.
34	* OlderThanTheyThink: Not only did Ross Bagdasarian Sr. have an extensive music career (both under his real name and the David Seville StageName) before creating the Chipmunks, but "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas, Don't Be Late)" wasn't even his first Christmas novelty song--that was "Let's Have a Merry, Merry Christmas" in 1953, where a cheerful orchestra and chorus (conducted by Nelson Riddle, before his work with Music/FrankSinatra) repeats the title over and over while Ross plays a nervous man telling his wife Mabel about a bunch of Christmas-related mishaps.
35	* PopularWithFurries: Most versions of The Chipmunks and The Chipettes are popular with furries. Their 80s-early 2000s and movie designs are the most popular.
36	* PortmanteauCoupleName: Each of them, but there are also some disputes...
37	** Alvin and Brittany = Alvany and Alvittany are two common ones, though the former seems to be prefered by more fans over the latter.
38	** Simon and Jeanette = Simonette. The common accepted spelling is Sim'''o'''nette, though the fan who is said to have coined the name said it's supposed to be spelled Sim'''a'''nette; this is still being disputed.
39	** Theodore and Eleanor = Theonor
40	*** And of course, all of the various different mixed and {{Crack Pairing}}s have them too:
41	*** Alvin and Jeanette = Alvinette
42	*** Alvin and Eleanor = Alvinor
43	*** [[IncestYayShipping Alvin and Simon]] = Alvon
44	*** Brittany and Simon = Brimon
45	*** Theodore and Jeanette = Theonette
46	* SelfFanservice: Evident if one were to ever browse through [=FanFiction=].Net or deviantART. This is especially true of The Chipettes, moreso than The Chipmunks (though, that's not to say the boys don't have their own fair share). In the case of fan art, many fans age up The Chipettes considerably, giving them an excuse to be drawn with [[IHaveBoobsYouMustObey boobs]] and HartmanHips. Eleanor, in particular, is drawn much slimmer than she's usually depicted in the franchise, and also has a tendency to be glammed up as well, [[CrackPairing especially when she's paired with Alvin]] in the fan work. Brittany also gets glammed a lot, though it's usually more because of how she's already quite a fashionista, and in the case of fanfics, Brittany ReallyGetsAround, with just about ''everybody'' ([[IncestYayShipping even her own sisters]]). Jeanette's fan art usually tends to be just a tad more tasteful, for the most part, but however, fanfiction is an entirely different story: either she's a depraved horndog dying to have one of the boys (mostly Simon) inside her (or even play with Brittany), or a constant rape victim. It also doesn't help that often in fanfiction, the girls' physical appearances and maturity are almost-always explained in ''very detailed'' descriptions.
47	* ShipToShipCombat: There is a serious divide among the fandom with canon shippers and mixed shippers. It occasionally even grows to a point where the two groups of shippers practically go to war over why their respective shipping is better, and why the opposing shipping sucks.
48	* SignatureSong: Generally, there are two candidates: "The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late)" and "We're the Chipmunks" (the theme tune for the 1980s and 2015 cartoon series).
49	* ToyShip: The Chipmunks and The Chipettes, who are all about 8-9 years old (though you wouldn't normally tell with the way they act).
50	* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
51	** Literally every incarnation of the franchise and almost every album is essentially a glimpse into popular music at the time of release. The Chipmunks themselves are essentially a cover band that plays contemporary tunes. The Chipettes are also prone to FashionDissonance due to dressing in less timeless clothes than the boys' sweaters or hoodies.
52	** "The Chipmunk Song" has Alvin asking for a hula hoop for Christmas, which was all the rage in 1958. These days, you'd wonder why he would want something so simple.
53	* ValuesDissonance:
54	** Dave lovingly singing "Bicycle Built for Two" to a young girl ''NOT'' his daughter and riding with her on a bicycle, would ''NOT'' sit well with today's audience, and come off as borderline creepy.
55	** The break in "Ragtime Cowboy Joe" had Alvin playing around with a gun. Unthinkable if the song came out in the 21st century.
56	** A minor one in the Japanese dub, but in this version, the relationship between the chipmunks with Dave (at least in the dubs of ''WesternAnimation/TheAlvinShow'' and ''WesternAnimation/AlvinAndTheChipmunks'') was changed from Dave being a father figure to a ''big brother'' instead. This partly very likely because Dave isn't a chipmunk like them, and, for the time period when the series was released in Japan, a human can't be a father figure for an animal, so the best thing Dave can be for them is being a brother for them. Keep in mind Japanese language is very specific regarding family relationships, especially towards very unusual ones. On the other hand, the dubs of the live-action films retains the same family dynamics from the original English version.
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58	!!The Live Action[=/=][=CGI=] movies:
59	* {{Adorkable}}: Simon's CGI counterpart, voiced by Matthew Gray Gubler. His fans see him as this, since they consider him quite cute himself in various ways and play it in contrast to Alvin's outright ChickMagnet.
60	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment:
61	** In the first film, the two scenes of Dave being woken up by the TV blasting the opening theme to ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' were this because those parts were put in unintentionally. They were wrong because it was a Director Allusion, being that Tim Hill worked on [=SpongeBob=] in the past.
62	** Digger the Gopher's (as voiced by Creator/EricBauza) inexplicable cameo in the second movie. There's no build-up to him, nor is he even a side gag. He just happens to appear as a DeusExMachina during the climax. Most people don't even know who he is (he's was then-sister company Fox Sports' mascot for UsefulNotes/{{NASCAR}} Racing coverage; he was dropped in 2012 after years of viewer backlash). Additionally, his part is not included in the Novelization.
63	* CriticalDissonance:
64	** Seriously, people had nicer things to say about ''Film/TransformersRevengeOfTheFallen''. For the first movie, it didn't do very well with the critics in the first place, but at least some of them liked it. The reaction was the same for the sequel.
65	** By the time the third one came out, it became almost unanimous that the series had outstayed its welcome, and this hit a tipping point in 2015. To clarify, [[CriticProof the third movie did horribly with critics, but was among the highest-grossing films at the time]]. The critics were quick to make insinuations on what kind of person would actually like such a movie, as reflected in the Website/RottenTomatoes consensus:
66	-->''"Lazy, rote and grating,'' Chipwrecked ''is [[LowestCommonDenominator lowest-common-denominator]] family entertainment that is strictly for the very, very, very young at heart."''
67	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Even the movie's haters tend to agree that Creator/DavidCross as Ian Hawke is a pretty humorous character, [[RootingForTheEmpire and often want him to end up with the chipmunks instead of Dave.]]
68	* FirstInstallmentWins: While it’s miles from being a masterpiece, The first movie is generally [[DamnedByFaintPraise seen as better in comparison to its sequels]] as evident by the fact it received the highest rated reviews of the four movies. Even those fans who unironically enjoy the series tend to regard it as the best one.
69	* MemeticBadass: Ian Hawke. A popular joke on Tiktok is to include him in various "who would win?" grudge match videos, where he inevitably defeats whatever superpowered characters he is pitted against.
70	* MemeticMutation: Dismissively calling sequels "[[OddlyNamedSequel2ElectricBoogaloo The Squeakquel]]".
71	** The infamous [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qW636Cab0tw "Pizza Toots""]] TV spot for ''The Road Chip'' is becoming this, if only for how obnoxiously immature and disgusting it is.
72	** With ''The Road Chip'' being released on the same day as ''Film/TheForceAwakens'', ''WesternAnimation/{{Ferdinand}}'' being released opposite to ''Film/TheLastJedi'', and then ''Film/{{Cats}}'' competing with ''Film/TheRiseOfSkywalker'', many have joked about the competition having SuicidalOverconfidence in their ability to overthrow ''Franchise/StarWars'' [[CashCowFranchise of all franchises]], with many jokingly saying "''Star Wars'' is going to get [[SarcasmMode absolutely slaughtered]]!"
73	* NarmCharm: Surprisingly, "The Road Chip" manages to pull this off. WebVideo/AndreTheBlackNerd perfectly describes it in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6SNFstpnWM: this video]]
74	* NoYay: Alvin flirts with some human girls. High school girls. Think about it, then take a long shower.
75	** Not only that, but the human girls actually ''reciprocate'' his advances. Might want to go take a longer shower.
76	* QuestionableCasting: Some felt this way about big names being cast as the Chipmunks and Chipettes, since the inevitable voice modulation would make their voices unrecognizable.
77	* RetroactiveRecognition: Is that [[WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse Eda Clawthorne]] as [[Creator/WendieMalick Dr. Rubin]] and [[Film/Shazam2019 Shazam]] as [[Creator/ZacharyLevi Toby]]?
78	* TheScrappy: You won't find too many fans of Claire considering she's a CanonForeigner and her subplot of Dave's relationship serves no point to the plot in any way.
79	* {{Sequelitis}}:
80	** ''Chipwrecked'', which received mostly negative reviews and even David Cross went on the record of saying that just the making of the movie [[CreatorBacklash was the most unpleasant experience he'd ever had]].
81	** The fourth movie fell into Sequelitis since when Fox found themselves without the ''Star Wars'' franchise after 35 years and attempted to compete with the now-rival series by releasing the fourth movie the same day ''The Force Awakens'' came out, and ''Road Chip'' was blasted by critics.
82	* SignatureScene:
83	** The ''Born This Way/Firework/Ain't No Stopping Us Now" at the end of the third film.
84	** The "Uptown Munk" is this for the fourth film.
85	* {{Squick}}:
86	** Simon eating Theodore's ''poop''. At least he didn't ''swallow'' it. Double squick.
87	** The Chipettes having more feminine bodies in the movies. Their first appearance has them naked. The dance scene that follows is kinda creepy.
88	** The Chipmunks attempting to cover up what's happened to Dave's aunt by stating that she's taken up ''pole-dancing''. This is made even worse by how it's in a movie ''[[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids for kids]]''.
89	** The ''Road Chip'' contains a cameo from infamous cult director Creator/JohnWaters to which Alvin says he's actually seen ''Film/PinkFlamingos''. Giving most adult viewers [[FridgeHorror the horrifying image]] of Alvin watching [[NauseaFuel such a film]] rather than a clever ParentalBonus.
90	* TaintedByThePreview: Some fans who grew up on the 80's cartoon did not gravitate towards the eponymous Chipmunks looking more chipmunk than humanoid, and fans in general were not amused by the poop-eating gag shown in the trailer. Much to the latter's relief, the movie only really had two instances of ToiletHumor.

Context YMMV / AlvinAndTheChipmunks