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1* AdaptationDisplacement: Few people seem to realize it started as a comic from an anthology series.
2* {{Anvilicious}}: Every episode of the cartoon was designed to teach an important lesson via the human character Willy [=DuWitt=]. That this required a rather complicated plan on the part of the Toads, and typically left them with a rather humiliating defeat, really hammered it home.
3* SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments:
4** Bruiser is able to scare every toad off of a planet all by himself by being broadcast over Toad TV. What makes this so cool is the fact he does it TWICE.
5** Toadborg completely dominates the ''Righteous'' crew in the third episode, where they'd previously proven a match for everything the Toads could fire at them.
6* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The cartoon's theme song really is quite catchy.
7* CatharsisFactor: Destroying KOMPLEX in the arcade game after the show got cancelled.
8* CreatorsPet: Most of the time it was Willy who ultimately saved the day or received special accolades.
9* CultClassic: Despite both the series and the comic being incredibly short-lived, and there being no new official content for decades, the series has a very devoted fan following.
10* DieForOurShip: Mimi for Bucky/Jenny fans.
11* FridgeLogic: How did Deadeye identify the stacks of paper in Willy's room as valuable, let alone money, when he first visited? Granted it was actually play money, but Aniversian simolean currency takes the form of beads on a string. He shouldn't have known it from fancy scratch paper.
12* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: After rebuffing a pretty young classmate who was trying to get him to help her cheat, finally realizing he can't let himself be fooled into thinking she likes him, Willy's girl pal gives him a kiss for wising up.
13* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/LongJohnBaldry voices [=KOMPLEX=], the ruler of the Toad Empire, who is an evil (computerized) toad and is bent on taking over the galaxy. A few years later, he voiced a good toad, being Mistle Toad in ''WesternAnimation/ToadPatrol''.
14* MagnificentBastard: Al Negator is a [[BountyHunter greedy mercenary]] hired by the [[TheEmpire Toad Empire]] to steal the defense code for the planet Genus and poses as an engineer to gain access to Bucky O'Hare's ship. Al Negator then locks Bucky and his crew out of the computer room, steals the codes and sabotages Bucky's ship to escape. Later Al Negator meets Bucky's human ally Willy [=DuWitt=] and is seemingly tricked into giving up the codes but uses a copy he made to give to the Toads. Later, Al Negator helps the Toads set up a defense shield on the Koala planet after the Toads conquer it and puts a killer bee bomb on the Toad Air Marshall to ensure he gets paid. In his last appearance, Al Negator places a spy on the United Animals Federation and makes a plan to help the Toads break up an alliance between the United Animals Federation and the Corsair Canards, by [[FalseFlagOperation disguising Toads]] as Canards and making it look like they have returned to piracy. Bucky foils this scheme and captures Al Negator but he gives up the identity of the spy in exchange for his freedom.
15* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames:
16** The tie-in UsefulNotes/{{NES}} game was popular among many of those who played it.
17** Also, the arcade game, which features fully voice-acted cutscenes from most of the original voice actors, is styled in a similar fashion to Creator/{{Konami}}'s other beloved cartoon and comic BeatEmUp games, and allows Bucky to defeat the Toads once and for all, providing the only thing close to a conclusion for the series, is without a doubt awesome. Heck, at the time, it was the closest to fully playing a cartoon for a TV show.
18* NoYay: How a fair number of fans feel about the ShipTease between Jenny and Willy. Jenny looks to be a young but rather experienced adult while Willy is a preteen on the cusp of puberty, which makes the whole ShipTease between them rather hebephilic in nature. Hence, why a great many fans attribute more of a sibling-type relationship to them instead. To be fair, after the three-part pilot, the cartoon significantly toned down any hints of romantic interest between Jenny and Willy and set her up as more a CoolBigSis towards him... though not entirely so. (She still hints at being interested from time to time, telling him "We missed you" in "The Search For Bruce" while adopting a posture and tone of voice that suggests she actually means ''she'' missed him.) Something that helps keep things from getting too squicky is that it's entirely possible she just doesn't ''know'' how young Willy is by human standards; like the baboons, he towers over her and the rest of the crew. She also seems willing to give him his space, never inquiring after potential rivals in his dimension or hers. (He has at least one semi-serious preteen gal pal back on Earth who might be interested in a little more than just being friends with him, but Jenny doesn't even know she exists.) In "The Artificers of Aldebaran" Princess Felicia (a slightly younger feline training under Jenny) also gets a bit sweet on him and actually kisses him on the cheek at the end, but she never shows any signs of being jealous about that either.

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