* CargoShip: Kel loves orange soda.
* DesignatedHero: The titular characters, arguably, though their acts are usually balanced by karma.
* EarWorm: What 90's kid DIDN'T get the opening song stuck in their head from time to time?
* HilariousInHindsight - When Kenan and Kel made a cameo in the RockyAndBullwinkle movie, they made a joke about how their show wasn't gonna be canceled anytime soon after hearing about [[EndOfSeriesAwareness the toons' first show]]. Kenan and Kel was canceled three months before the Rocky and Bullwinkle movie was released.
* JerkassWoobie: Kenan's dad, especially in "Get the Kel Outta Here"
** Kel also qualifies in the same episode.
* MemeticMutation: * sigh* Seriously, TVTropes? Who loves orange soda?
** Kel loves orange soda!
*** Is it true?
**** ''Mmm-hmmmm'' I do, I do, I doo-oo!
***** Seriously, go up to anyone, ''any''one between the ages 16 and 24 and ask them that question. If they don't reply that Kel does, run, because they're obviously some evil alien/robot replacement.
** Don't forget the time he....dropped a screw....in the tuna!
** ''WHYYY!?''
* TheScrappy: Due to Flanderization, Kel in later seasons.
* {{Squick}} Really, just about any thing involving Chris's mother: "Mother loves mashed potatoes, she'll gum these right down!" Or, "I'm so depressed, I'm going to go home and shave mother..." Or the fact that Chris would keep her foot scrapings for really no reason...