YMMV / Around the World with Willy Fog

• Awesome Art: The animation is stunning and the characters are so darn adorable.
• Awesome Music:
  • The Italian, French and Spanish theme tune, written by Guido and Maurizio de Angelis. Massively uplifting and incredibly catchy.
  • The English sequel theme is a charming tune that embodies the spirit of adventure that unites Fog and his companions, with lyrics that invite us, the audience, to join them in exploring many places old and new alongside them.
  • The sequel also has Captain Nemo's pipe organ theme, which is both powerful and melancholic.
• First Installment Wins: The sequel series, Willy Fog 2, is nowhere near as popular as the first series. Willy Fog 2 has been criticized for its cheaper animation and lighter plot ^note  The most noticeable change is the removal of Captain Nemo's tragic backstory, which is pretty much a cornerstone to his character in the original book. .
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff:
  • It was enormously popular in the UK.
  • It still is immensely popular in the Czech Republic. It keeps appearing approximately once or twice a year. New generations of children fall in love with the show, and adults watch it with nostalgia goggles. It helps that the voice cast is made of famous respectable actors.
  • Very popular in Hungary, especially after the public service station M2 got re-branded as a kids' channel and started airing the series again. It's mostly remembered for the same reasons as in the Czech Republic, and people often bring it up when talking about "those good old cartoon shows".
  • Amazingly popular in Finland.
• Memetic Mutation: In Spain there is a slang idiom made after this show: "¡Tienes más peligro que Willy Fog con el abono transporte!". Which roughly translates to: "You're more dangerous than Willy Fog with a public transport pass!"
• Narm: Tico in the spanish dub speaks with such a stereotypical andalusian accent and slang that it can get on the nose sometimes. For English speakers, imagine if he was speaking with the most southern redneck accent imaginable and shouting "Well, paint me green and call me a pickle" constantly.
• The Woobie: Poor Bully never catches a break; he is either seasick or homesick.

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