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1	* AdaptationDisplacement: Not many people know that this started out as a comic.
2	* AlternateAesopInterpretation: Season 2's "It's Just A Matter Of Slime" at face value might be about not being racist, as the Snorks except Allstar didn't go near or associate with the Kelp-Helpers because of their occupation with cleaning and eating algae, which then was followed with Junior Wetworth insulting Fuzzy Muzzle, resulting in the Kelp-Helpers leaving until Governor Wetworth and Junior apologized in person. At the same time, the episode can be interpreted as about the importance of key-stone species, as the Kelp-Helpers controlled the Algae build-up. Once they left, Snorkland went into a standstill as every snork had to clean up the algae, much to everyone's fury at Governor Wetworth and his son, as well as snork-eaters being attracted to algae heavy areas. Which leads to everyone demanding for the Kelp-Helpers to return.
3	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Junior tends to be this to a lot of fans.
4	* HarsherInHindsight: In "The Day They Fixed Junior Wetworth" we learn that the real reason Junior is such a prick is that he used to be constantly bullied, and when he learned how to stick up for himself, he took it too far. Since this kind of stuff is a ''big'' concern for kids today, this episode is a bit cringeworthy now.
5	* HilariousInHindsight: In "Hooked on a Feeling" Occy falls [[CargoShip in love with an octopus-shaped fishing lure]]. "She" nearly gets the enamored little fellow eaten by attracting an even bigger fish. So, kids of the 1990s, what [[WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers other cartoon had someone fall for a fishing lure and causing the same kind of disaster?]]
6	* JerkassWoobie: Junior in Junior's Secret where he can't sleep without his childhood seaturtle plush toy.
7	** Junior again in "In Junior's Image", where Junior thinks his friends will shove him into the mirror instead of his clone Ditto who came from there.
8	* NightmareFuel: Every now and then the Snorks would come face to face with creatures that will eat or kill them. Season 1 and 2 would have the Snorks deal with Wolffish. Season 2 and onwards would have them deal with Snork-eaters.
9	** Season 2's The Shape Of Snorks To Come is one of the darkest episodes ever as Junior Wetworth is transported to a future timeline that followed a corrupt governor's harsh rules that includes no mentioning of Allstar's name and everything else about him. Later the prisoners consisting of the whole town break out of the prison when a huge seaquake happens and goes after the Governor. Junior heads off to where he got transported, only to find himself being chased by some of the enraged townsfolk. Among the angry crowd is Allstar. Who knows what they would have done to Junior and the Governor.
10	** Whenever Occy gets mad, especially at Junior Wetworth during Season 1 and 2. As Galio said in "Junior's Octopuppy" Occy seemed gentle as a lambfish, except around Junior. That is due to the fact that Occy has not forgotten when was once Junior's pet. It is somewhat possible that Occy still dislikes Junior because of how he cowardly tries to run away from the Snork-eater mess he unintentionally created and brings upon his fellow students when having Occy learn to hunt.
11	* SeasonalRot: This is what [[BrokenBase some]] fans tend to think about the last two seasons.
12	* {{Tearjerker}}:
13	** In "Hooked on a Feeling" Occy and the octopus lure are banished beyond the limits by Governor Wetworth so that Snorkland is safe from Sydney the Swordfish. The sad farewell from his friends especially Casey, Daffney, and Tooter really sell this scene. Later on, Occy discovers that the octopus lure was just a machine after it short circuited. You really want to give him a hug.
14	** Whenever Junior Wetworth belittles Tooter during Season 1 and 2.
15	** In "The Shape Of Snorks To Come" Junior Wetworth is transported to a future timeline ruled by a paranoid and tyranical governor who turns out to be Junior himself in the future. At the same time despite his harsh no-list and what he did, there is some element of sympathy to him: He no longer has the smart-mouth, snarky, and mischievous persona he once had when he was younger. If anything he is paranoid, angry, and probably having a sense of self-loathing, made clear based on how Junior tells his future self that he is the greatest when the latter misses the days when he was younger, he tells his younger self that he knows him to well. As if he is aware of how bad of a governor he was.
16	* TheyCopiedItSoItSucks: Most non-fans of the show tend to decry it for being a Hanna-Barbera show that's ''incredibly'' similar to ''The Smurfs''.
17	* UnfortunateCharacterDesign: Some of the female snorks, especially Daffney Gillfin, are shown not wearing any underwear underneath their dresses. It isn't intentional as this is a show for kids/families and given that it was made in the 80s, no one really bat that big of an eye about it at the time. It also helps that no detail was presented.
18	* TheWoobie: Tooter Shelby during Season 1 and 2 really falls in this trope, especially regarding his inability to properly communicate which made him a target of Junior's bullying, as well as being framed for vandalizing Governor Wetworth's portrait that he runs away. He even got an F in speech because of his inability to communicate.
19	** Junior when he was little. Moose made him do his homework with the threat of giving him a black eye if he didn't.

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