Line #3 YMMV/MissionHill


1	* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: In addition to some really appealing postmodern comic strip-like designs, the show is unique for its saturated, neon-bright color pallet, making it one of the few traditionally animated works which required its animation to be created with hand-painted cels to work.
2	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The series' use of music, like Music/{{REM}}'s Everybody Hurts, or Music/TheFlamingLips [[Music/TheSoftBulletin The Spark That Bled]], and its use of Ska. Sadly though, when the series was released on DVD the producers were unable to secure the license rights to any of the music used in the broadcast and syndicated versions of the show, with the exception of Music/{{Cake}}'s "Italian Leather Sofa" as it was a re-recording commissioned for the show by the band. Low-quality, muzak-esque songs back DVD episodes and for anyone who has seen the episodes on TV with the intended music, it can be a bit of a letdown. WordOfGod confirms this in the DVD commentary.
3	* CultClassic: Not all too well-remembered but the show still retains a sizable fanbase.
4	* EnsembleDarkhorse:
5	** The obscene man who whispered, "Penis Penis Penis," to Kevin on the street and Toby's mother over the phone.
6	** Gus and Wally for being a realistic and positive depiction of a gay couple in an animated sitcom, which was a rarity when it aired (who would have received more appearances if the rest of the series had been completed). A spin-off featuring the two was even in the works.
7	** Weirdie, the girl from Kevin's class who he pretends to be interested in when he finds out she could be his ticket into Yale. She turns out to be surprisingly well developed and interesting on her own. She's like what Kevin would be if he was more socially competent.
8	* FanNickname: The businessman who repeatedly whispers "penis" to people is officially called the Concerned Businessman, but most people just call him the Penis Pervert.
9	%%* FanPreferredCouple: Kevin and Weirdie.
10	* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: While Creator/TomKenny has always been praised as a talented voice actor, anyone [[WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants more familiar with his more goofy characters]] might be shocked to hear him sound legitimately angry when he blows up at Kevin for inviting so many people to the premiere of ''The Man From Pluto''.
11	* HarsherInHindsight: "Stories of Hope and Forgiveness" can be a little harder to watch after 9/11 and the War on Terror.
12	* HilariousInHindsight: ''Stories of Hope and Forgiveness'' jokes about Dennis Rodman being a diplomat. By 2013 that would come true when he began to visit North Korea, trying to smooth tensions between Kim Jong-un and the United States.
13	* MemeticMutation: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3RsJBhhswI PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS PENIS.]]
14	* TearJerker:
15	** In "Unemployment Part 2," Andy gets the sad news from Posey that he didn't get the job at the ad agency. Just look at his face. The color drains from it and as he tells Jim that "I'm fine," he sounds like he's about to cry. It gets worse in the following scene where Andy is seen feeling sorry for himself as he goes back to being an unemployed slacker with Stogie.
16	** "Day of the Jackass" could have a case for this with Andy if it was not for his refusal to notice the crisis affecting the world or take it seriously.
17	* ValuesResonance: Gus and Wally's portrayal was amazingly ahead of its time - they were developed for more than just "Being gay" and Gus was shown as a manly Gay man, when most were more like what you would see on the show ''Series/QueerEyeForTheStraightGuy''.
18	* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
19	** The show was a very detailed and accurate satire of city life and youth culture in the late 1990s. This makes it impossible to separate the show from the era it was made in, a high point just before 9/11 and the War on Terror devastated the country. In particular, the episode "Stories of Hope and Forgiveness" portrayed overreaction to media saturation during artificially pumped-up "crises" in a way that was utterly prescient to 9/11 but which nobody would dare write after that disaster.
20	** Zigzagged with "Kevin vs. The UsefulNotes/SATs". In 2006, the College Board split the Verbal section into Reading and Writing and, with 3 sections as a result, adapted a 2400-point system. However, in 2016, Reading and Writing scores were merged back into one and as a result the 1600-point system was reinstated, ''but'' the non-mathematic half of scoring is now called "Evidence-Based Reading and Writing" rather than Verbal.
21	** The gag of Toby calling his mother from a pay phone as a rabid dog slowly follows him around is firmly planted in the pre-cell phone era, as it relies entirely on him being unable to stand next to the pay phone long enough to even finish a sentence. Another gag has Kevin call Andy at work, only for Ron to broadcast it over the PA system, something that doesn't work if everyone has a cell phone.
22	** Expansion packs being sold in physical boxes - very common back in the day. Not so common after internet made {{DLC}} much more practical.
23	** Kevin trying to look up a lost movie is solidly pre-internet, as he goes to a small video store to find someone knowledgeable on obscure films, rather than searching online and asking in forums.
24	* UnintentionallySympathetic: Kevin in "Andy and Kevin Make a Friend." While both French brothers were painted as being petty in fighting over George's sister, Kevin made a legitimate connection with her while Andy was only interested in her sexually.

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