* {{Anvilicious}}: Like most animated films today, the PowerOfFriendship is presented in full force. Unlike most animated films today, it manages to work in the movie's favor.
* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Kuzco-as-a-llama telling himself-as-a-[[InteractiveNarrator narrator]] to stuff the self pity, and gamely attempting to start a new life as an ordinary llama.
* EarWorm: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5F7NbRjqXA "Run Llama Run."]]
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Kronk.
* FashionVictimVillain: Yzma, who has a mannequin-head for nightly "storing" of her enormous fake eyelashes.
* FridgeBrilliance: Yzma asks Kronk "Why do we even have that lever?" Well, really, what happens when Kuzco and Pacha try to sneak into the lab? Maybe ''that's'' why! Except that Kuzco and Pacha just get right past the alligators with little problem,[[IronicEcho so this happens]]:
--->'''Kuzco''': Why do they even ''have'' that lever?
* HilariousInHindsight:
** Creator/PatrickWarburton apparently likes [[WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers playing the bodyguard to a very skinny, inept mad scientist]].
** Chicha [[{{Tangled}} using a frying pan]] to KO Kuzco.
* MemeticMutation:
** "Kuzco is my favorite Disney Princess" on Tumblr.
** Pull the lever!
*** WRONG LEVERRRRRRRR!!
**** Why do we even ''have'' that lever?
** Smash it with a [[DroptheHammer HAMMA]]!!!
** IT'S BRRRRRRRRRILLLIANT!
** Fans consider Kuzco to be the first male DisneyPrincess.
* MoralEventHorizon: Parodied when, at least according to Kronk's shoulder devil, Yzma crossed it when [[spoiler: [[FelonyMisdemeanor she admitted to never liking Kronk's spinach puffs.]]]]
* OlderThanTheyThink: Look at [[http://www.cornel1801.com/disney/Saludos-Amigos-1942/film2_1.jpg this kid]] from ''SaludosAmigos''. Does the outfit look familiar? Maybe if we put it on [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9_UOkwurFo8/TzTj8YLIhgI/AAAAAAAACHE/MtbUGWOPZMs/s1600/saludos_lake+titicaca.jpg somebody]] [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_locxc5bPCx1qhigt0o1_500.gif else]] ...
* TheProblemWithLicensedGames:
** Averted. The PlayStation game was just as humorous and satirical as the movie is, [[LampshadeHanging hanging lampshades]] on video game clichés long before ''VideoGame/TheSimpsonsGame'' did. However, there are changes to the plot, such as game Kuzco knowing Yzma is trying to kill him right from the start, while in the movie he did not learn that until after the diner scene. Should also note that Yzma's crocodiles are, shall we say, [[NightmareFuel more competent guards]] than they were in the movie.
** There was a PC game as well. It was also a good game and funny, but NintendoHard.
* {{Sequelitis}}: The direct-to-DVD ''Kronk's New Groove'' was dire, save perhaps one or two individual moments. The follow-up TV series ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool'' regained some lost ground but had a tendency to take jokes from the original movie and re-re-re-use them until they lay in tatters.
* VindicatedByHistory: The film was eventually a modest money-maker, and has garnered a new lease on life in the post-''{{Shrek}}'' world as an example of how to do a timeless animated comedy ''right'' - many of the gags aged far better than the heavily modern pop-culture based humor of ''Shrek'' and its knock-offs, and the character of Yzma is now viewed as one of the best Disney villains.
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From ''Kronk's New Groove''..