* {{Moe}}: The puppies playing the Buddies can be too cute for words, arguably making them all the more endearing.
* OvershadowedByControversy: Conversations about the films often end up about the treatment of the puppy actors and the [[https://amp.www.complex.com/pop-culture/2016/12/snow-buddies-killed-five-puppies deaths of several of them due to an outbreak of parvovirus]].
* SweetnessAversion: Much of what some of the Buddies say may come off this way for some viewers.
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