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1* {{Adorkable}}: Atchan comes off as awkwardly endearing because of his belief that he has super powers.
2* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
3** The background tunes will stick in your head for days on end.
4** Also, the show's theme song itself. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfpBn3VqHLg Check for yourself]].
5* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The Talent Suckers appearing in a time machine and then disappearing in "Puffy B.C." It comes out of nowhere and has no bearing whatsoever on the episode's plot.
6* BizarroEpisode: "Sound Off". The episode revolves around the main gang having to go and [[NoFourthWall fix their show after the animators fall asleep]]. And that's just the summary.
7* CoveredUp: The soundtrack features a cover of "Joining A Fan Club", originally by Puffy songwriter/producer Andy Sturmer's early-1990s band Jellyfish.
8* EnsembleDarkhorse:
9** Julie is very popular for a character who only appeared in one episode.
10** The Talent Suckers become this as a result of becoming protagonists of two segments.
11* {{Fanon}}: Julie was never given a canonical last name, but fans tend to give her the last name Hinikawa to keep with Ami and Yumi's Japanese last names.
12* FriendlyFandoms:
13** Thanks to the theme song played by the same group, it naturally has one with ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003''.
14** Due to following the "goth girl and pastel girl" dynamic and having a similarly trippy tone, you'll find a lot of ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'' fans who enjoy this series.
15* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff:
16** An Americanized show about two Japanese pop stars has a very popular Hispanic dub.
17** Predictably, the show was more popular in Japan than America, to the point that Japan got the entire series on DVD while America [[NoExportForYou didn't]].
18* JerkassWoobie: Julie may be a {{Jerkass}} who tried to kill Ami and Yumi, but it's hard not to sympathize with her for [[IJustWantToBeSpecial wanting to be popular like them]]. The ending to the episode makes her even more sympathetic, with the visual of her being left in the rain during her VillainousBreakdown and unable to do anything more than [[WeWillMeetAgain vow revenge]] looking especially pitiful.
19* MagnificentBastard: While the Puffy gang often encounter smug {{Jerkass}}es, these three are the exception.
20** "[[Recap/HiHiPuffyAmiYumiS1EP10TreasureMapKazvsKatzBadManager Bad Manager]]": Slick Shady, the "biggest weasel in rock", is a manager who's also an expert rock-paper-scissors player. Coercing the reluctant Kaz into betting his prize money in a game of rock-paper-scissors, Shady easily wins, and gets him to bet Ami and Yumi, whom he also wins. With the duo now his, Shady [[BenevolentBoss lavishes them in an ultra-luxurious lifestyle]], all while Kaz degrades into a washed up flea circus manager. After Ami and Yumi challenge Shady to a game of rock-paper-scissors for their release, he ups the ante by forcing Kaz to leave the music business should they lose. A man of his word, Shady allows Ami and Yumi to return to Kaz after they beat him, while also leaving his mark as the best manager the duo have ever had.
21** "[[Recap/HiHiPuffyAmiYumiS2E12RockLobstersPhantomofRockFungus Phantom of Rock]]": The titular Phantom of Rock, Johnny Ghost, is a legendary rocker who can get the best out of any band. Working with Kaz to get Ami and Yumi out of their creative stagnation, the Phantom fakes kidnapping Kaz and has the duo go through his deadly haunted castle. At the end of the trail, the Phantom reveals that he had sampled Ami and Yumi's screams and grunts to be used in an enjoyable single, ending the episode willing to collaborate with the Puffy gang again after having so much fun messing with them.
22** "[[Recap/HiHiPuffyAmiYumiS3E1SecretOriginLegendofMeiPieUndertheHood Legend of Mei Pie]]": The eponymous [[OldMaster Master Mei Pie]] is the greatest guitar maker in the world, and the one Yumi goes to for a new guitar. Mei Pie gives the rocker a list of items that require her to travel around the globe, uncaring that Yumi goes through pain to retrieve them. Once all the items are brought to him, Mei Pie, rather than giving Yumi a new guitar, instead returns her old one to her, stating that the entire thing had been a test to see how much effort she would put into accomplishing her goals, with Yumi playing far better now than she was before thanks to his methods.
23* MemeticBadass: Ninja Ami and Ninja Yumi, to the point where their outfits are featured in the video games and in the Ninja Rockstar computer games.
24* MemeticMutation:
25** "American cartoons are terrible!"
26** "Bye Bye Boo!" To the point where it became the name for a trophy/achievement of ''VideoGame/DragonBallFighterZ''.
27** [[http://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1350494-cute-little-fang Yumi's close up shot with her fang.]]
28%% * {{Moe}}: Ami and Yumi are this. Atchan and Julie can also count. %% This example should explain what makes the characters moe.
29* ParanoiaFuel: Imagine a fan with hypnotic eyes stalking you, just like Harmony did to Ami, Yumi and Kaz.
30* SugarWiki/NoProblemWithLicensedGames: The Kaznapped and Genie and the Amp games are praised for creating original storylines.
31* SpiritualSuccessor: This show busts it's seams to capture the goofiness of celebrity cartoons that Sam Register is a fan of. Even down to having the live action Ami and Yumi bookend the segments akin to the format of pre-''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' era of cartoons with the format of three shorts framed by a live action segment. Also following in the footsteps of Creator/ChuckNorris and Creator/MrT who did live action segments for their own cartoons.
32** Furthermore, considering how much ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' was linked with and used to promote the real Music/PuffyAmiYumi, as well as how the show occasionally feels like the filler episodes of the former, this can arguably be considered the ''original'' DenserAndWackier, SuperDeformed, ThickLineAnimation sequel to ''Teen Titans'', before ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo''.
33* SugarWiki/SuperlativeDubbing: The excellent Spanish dub was the reason of its popularity in Latin America, with Karla Falcon as a snarky Yumi and Leyla Rangel as a overly cute Ami and the good chemistry and comedic timing they had.
34* SweetnessAversion: The color scheme and overall "cuteness" of the series is likely to turn away a lot of viewers.
35%%* ToyShip: Yumi and Atchan.
36* UnintentionallySympathetic: Kaz, is usually mistreated by Ami and Yumi's cats, and occasionally when he manages to blow their cover in one episode, Ami and Yumi harshly try to sic them on him.
37* UnintentionalUncannyValley: For Vlad’s first design, he had realistic teeth, which is jarring compared to his cartoony feel. This was fixed by his second appearance by replacing the realistic teeth with fangs.
38* UnexpectedCharacter: The Talent Suckers' cameo appearance in "Puffy B.C.". That episode took place entirely in the pre-history and they only appear because of a never seen before (or since) TimeMachine.
39%%* UglyCute: Nikolai.
40%%* TheWoobie: Both Ami and Yumi can be this at times. Episodes like "In the Cards" and "House Unkeeping" are seen as their most woobie-ish moments.

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