* AccidentalInnuendo: Mukadender is infamous for this. With the placement of its head and neck making it look like a... sensitive area of the male human body. Doesn't help that it shoots white webbing from its mouth or the name of the episode he appears in being "I Can Beat a Monster Too."[[note]] before the Mill Creek release the episode was referred to as"I Can Conquer a Monster Too!" in English. Some one at Mill Creek may have been having a laugh.[[/note]]
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: ZAT's wandaba theme. The cliffhanger music.
* BadassDecay: Jack in Episode 52.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Even for a show as crazy as this something stand out
** In episode 3 as Taro destroys the monster Live King [[FromASingleCell (it gets better.)]] It does it EvilLaugh as the footage of it exploding is played forward and backwards to the rhythm of the laugh. It doesn't even make sense how it could even laugh at the moment considering it's frozen.
** After the monster Rodera is destroyed its remains fall down as toy cars. After that brief scene, it's never mentioned again.
* BrokenBase: Among the Showa entries of the franchise, ''Ultraman Taro'' is the most divisive with fans. While some found it to be an overall enjoyable series, others disliked its silly tone. Even in its time, the show suffered in ratings for this, leading to the DarkerAndEdgier ''Series/UltramanLeo''
* EsotericHappyEnding:
** In the episode "Heaven and Hell Island Has Moved" Taro manages to kill the monster Ganza but realizes that it was pregnant with hundreds of baby crabs. So Taro uses [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands his powers to make sure they can't grow bigger]] and lets them return to the sea. Then after that bit of mercy, it then cuts to everyone in Japan eating the baby crabs and all the characters talking about how good it is they have so many crabs to eat. Even though it was framed as a happy ending many fans found it quite disturbing, particularly with the MoodWhiplash with the previous scene.
** [[HarsherInHindsight The finale is this in hindsight]]. Kotaro decides to separate himself from Taro to prove that humanity can defend themselves. The problem is the next series, Series/UltramanLeo, Starts with Alien Magma and his monsters killing thousands of people, which may have been prevented if he was Taro at the time.
* HarsherInHindsight:
** Episodes 4 and 5 featured a King and Queen Tortoise protecting their young, with one of them perished to the [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters humans]] in the latter episode. 47 years later, a similar episode happened in ''Series/UltramanZ'' made it even more tragic, only this time the titular Ultra instead killed a Red King, only for his host to find out it was actually protecting its unhatched egg halfway. [[spoiler:Unlike Haruki who felt [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone guilty]] of the AccidentalMurder, the humans who killed the Queen Tortoise had no remorse for their actions whatsoever, going as far as to [[NeverMyFault blame]] it on the turtle monsters.]]
* HilariousInHindsight: Tarou's incidental music sounds much like the little synthesizer music Cinar mixed in to their infamous ''Series/UltraSeven'' dub.
** Also, [[Series/KamenRiderDenO a series with fairy tale based monsters associated with "Taro"]]?
* MemeticLoser: Zoffy gained this status for his embarrassing defeat at the hands of Birdon, even getting his head set on fire and briefly ''dying'' from getting stabbed by the bird monster's beak, despite being the captain of the Space Garrison and supposedly possessing the strongest beam in the universe.
* MemeticMutation: See the [[Memes/UltraSeries Franchise page]].
* {{Narm}}: The show can be [[{{Glurge}} a little too kid friendly]] or even silly sometimes...
** The series is notorious for having some of the goofiest monsters in the franchise ever to be played seriously (see: Live King, Okariyan, Mushra, Depparas, and Piccolo). Mururoa especially stands out, for being an apocalyptic, light-destroying monster that took two episodes to defeat, yet looks like a ''Muppets'' reject.
* NeverLiveItDown: This show gave Zoffy MemeticLoser status after his embarrassing defeat and temporary death at Birdon's hands and ensured viewers would always remember him as ''Fire Head Man''.
* NightmareFuel: [[NightmareFuel/UltramanTaro Now has its own page.]]
* ParanoiaFuel: The Tortoises will find whoever takes mommy's eggs ''anywhere''.
* SpecialEffectsFailure: Despite getting a big budget upgrade from the past series, this happened quite a fair bit (especially in the suits department) due to the Oil Crisis hurting Japan at the time. Especially notable for the Mukadender suit - at one point where the monster is viewed from behind, the suit actually splits open to reveal an extra in a green shirt.
* {{Squick}} The Mother of Ultra giving birth to Taro using Kotaro’s body as an incubator.
* ValuesDissonance: In the episode "The Fang Cross is a Monster’s Grave!" There's a scene where Kotaro and the 11-year-old Kenichi are taking a shower together in a public bathroom. This practice of being naked with others in public showers is far more normal in Japan than it is in America.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Taro is notable by fans as being one of the goofiest entries in the series but despite that, it may surprise some people watching the series for the first time just how dark it can be. People dying from monsters is quite common, the violence while not as bad as Ace it's still extremely vicious at times, and while the theme of family may seem like a light-hearted CentralTheme, it goes into darker territories of family like abandonment and losing loved ones.