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4	* AccidentalAesop: One in "Kuzclone": Just because your friend(s) have friends of their own doesn't make you are any less ''their'' friend as well.
5	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The main [[https://youtu.be/61sES1AsS0Q opening theme]] is an upbeat, catchy, funky and fun track that has a vibe similar to the music by Music/VillagePeople.
6	* BrokenBase: Kuzco's going back to being an egotistical jerk has been a sore spot amongst fans. Some despise it, feeling it [[AesopAmnesia undermines his arc and everything he went through]] in ''Emperor's New Groove''. Others though are okay with it, arguing that it was unrealistic for him to grow out of his habits completely in such a short period, given that he has been spoiled since he was a ''baby''. Some also argue that his CharacterDevelopment is kept somewhat intact, given that he is more of a JerkWithAHeartOfGold here as opposed to the unlikable {{Jerkass}} he was in the first film pre-development.
7	* ClicheStorm: Firmly cemented by the almost exclusive reliance on gags and plots from the original movie.
8	* CryForTheDevil: Yzma has it pretty rough in some episodes.
9	** In "The Emperor's New School Spirit," she recounts how her high school classmates made fun of her, calling her "pigeon-legs." At her high school reunion, they [[spoiler: [[KickTheDog cover her with honey and bird feathers and continue to taunt her]]]]. With [[spoiler:Kuzco]]'s help, she [[spoiler: gets back at them by [[TheDogBitesBack turning them into pigeons]]]].
10	** In "Take My Advice," Yzma is fired at the very beginning and has to find a new job. [[spoiler:She makes a living as the "Dinosaur Lady."]]
11	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Guaca, Kuzco's LoonyFan quickly became an AscendedExtra and even got some CharacterDevelopment.
12	* FanonDiscontinuity: A good number of fans prefer to ignore the show, largely due to Kuzco's AesopAmnesia.
13	%% * GrowingTheBeard: While it's an average show overall, consensus is that the second season is better than the first.
14	* HoYay: Guaca's strong attention to Kuzco, to the point of getting a statue of him at the end of "[[Recap/TheEmperorsNewSchoolS2E12AGiftmasStory A Giftmas Story]]", may be interpreted as him having more than just platonic feelings for him.
15	* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: Was ''heavily'' reliant on gags and jokes taken from the movie, most of which tended to appear once in every episode. It's not unusual to find fans who feel this did more to hold back the series than it was actually funny. That's to say nothing of both Kuzco's and Kronk's apparent AesopAmnesia since the first film.
16	* MagnificentBitch: "[[Recap/TheEmperorsNewSchoolS1E17KuzcogartenEvilAndEviler Evil and Eviler]]": Miss Ni is an emperor exterminator hired by Yzma to kill Kuzco, and she takes her job seriously. She rejects Yzma's ideas right away, pointing out [[DeadpanSnarker Yzma wouldn't have hired her if they were any good]] before kicking Yzma out of her own office. Acting as Vice Principal, she tempts Kuzco into pulling a prank on her so that she can send him to solitary detention to feed him to crocodiles. Her plan only fails because Yzma [[TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou refuses to let Ni be the one to kill Kuzco]] and saves him. However, even this was foreseen by Miss Ni who tells Yzma she knew the scary old lady would have a change of heart before giving Yzma the bill to her services, [[XanatosGambit showing she would win regardless of whether or not her plan to kill Kuzco succeeded]].
17	* NightmareFuel: In “Mudka’s 13”, one of Kuzco’s nightmares has him stuffing himself with meat shakes until he’s fat, and is wheeled away on a table to another room for dessert. However, Kuzco then finds himself tossed before a horde of starving, eager monsters who declare him their desert, and Kuzco has grown too fat to escape getting eaten (with one last visual of Kuzco imagining himself as a meat shake).
18	** A handful of scenes in "The Mystery of Micchu Pachu" are pretty unsettling, most of all when the skeleton anteater first appears: the ominous, ghostly growl echoing from the dark halls, followed by the scowling, rattling abomination slowly emerging from the shadows with a raspy, animalistic moan that will haunt a young kid's nightmares. Fortunately from there the episode devolves into a Scooby-Doo parody, but the initial moment is remarkably frightening.
19	* OlderThanTheyThink: Malina is actually a reworking of [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/7/74/Tumblr_n4yciwUF8o1qi8pxqo3_1280.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140519021808 a female]] [[https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/disney/images/2/2c/Tumblr_n4yciwUF8o1qi8pxqo2_1280.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20140519021801 character]] conceived for the original "Kingdom of the Sun" version on the movie, a peasant girl who would serve as Kuzco's love interest and take none of his ItsAllAboutMe bullshit. The name of the character, however, would go to the waitress at Mudka's Meat Hut, who in this series is the school lunch lady.
20	* OnceOriginalNowCommon: The series reused so many jokes from the original movie so many times that, to a certain extent at least, the jokes ended up becoming more annoying than funny.
21	** The episode "Evil and Eviler" [[LampshadeHanging Lampshades]] this for Yzma and Kronk's usual secret lab routine. Firstly, when Yzma tells Kronk to pull the lever, Kronk does, causing something they've seen before to come down. He then keeps pulling the lever saying "Seen that, seen that" until they flip in. Next, the "Roller Coaster Inside The Lab" joke was used so many times that the coaster announcer actually couldn't come up with something witty to say that hadn't been said before. When they get to the lab, Yzma struggles to think of something new to turn Kuzco into and suggests several previous animals she turned him into, including a llama. Kronk asks, "You're kidding, right?"
22	* RetroactiveRecognition: Jessica [=DiCicco=] as Malina, who would later go on to play Lynn and Lucy Loud on ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse''.
23	* SoOkayItsAverage: Even with its over-reliance on the movie’s gags and generic plots, there is enough good writing and character interactions to keep it from being bad.
24	* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Many people have noticed that the melody and instrumentation to the ThemeTune sound relatively similar to the Music/VillagePeople's "YMCA". [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61sES1AsS0Q Listen here for reference]].
25	%% * UglyCute: Baby Yzma.
26	* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Kuzco in "Groove Remover". Sure, it was cruel of everyone in Kuzco Academy to laugh at Kuzco's unpleasant appearance, thanks to Yzma's potion soap, but he really had it coming--throughout the first half of the episode, he made fun of his classmates' flaws, so the viewers may think that possessing those flaws and being laughed at is pure karma for Kuzco.
27	%% * SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: Lampshaded in Yzmopolis.

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