YMMV / Dungeons & Daddies

• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • After beheading what is seemingly Terry Jr.'s dad in front of Terry Jr. while he cries that he can't go through losing his dad again, Ron asks "Who's your daddy now?"
  • The first thing Glenn does in Waterdeep after stealing the car and ditching the dads is bet on a child fight. And he almost immediately convinces Nick to participate in the fight.
  • In episode 25 the dads go into the pyramid. The pyramid is actually Universal Studios "Revenge of the Mummy" ride. They discover the mummies in the pyramid were their wives who were searching for them. Glenn ends the episode with this little gem. "Now you all know why I fucking stick with Disney Rides."
• Mood Whiplash: As a general rule, almost any episode can have this in SPADES. Don't let an episode full of laughs and goofy hijinks fool you into thinking there won't be a heartbreaking moment later on. Some notable examples include:
  • The bag of beans the dads get early on ends up being thrown onto the ground and hilariously destroying an entire town by spawning a pyramid out of nowhere. Provides plenty of laughs and an easy way for the Dads to escape until the Dads return to the city and have to face the consequences of killing untold thousands of families, in addition to finding the mummified corpses of their wives.
  • The episode on the bridge where the dads have their first proper fight against the purple robes, who are also their fathers. Willy Stampler's emotionally controlling and abusive personality, played completely straight by Anthony, destroy any possibly goofy or silly moments. Add onto the fact that almost all the Dads get physically demolished, Paeden is almost killed, and is only saved by the Intern's sacrifice. The entire episode is a tense fight wherein the Dads, and the audience, get a taste for how truly dangerous their fathers are.
• Tear Jerker:
  • In the first episode, as the van is traveling through the vortex, the dads are given a psychic impression that literally brings Daryl to tears.
    Daddy Master: Every single sense that you have is overtaken. You feel with more certainty that gravity exists, that up is up and down is down, that you have not been a good father to your child.
  • The end of episode 25, "Mummy Issues": The Dads find the mummified bodies of their wives, who have left notes explaining how they spent the remaining years of their lives searching for their husbands, trying to get into the Forgotten Realms but ultimately failing. Even more heartbreaking is the note that Ron finds for him.
    You are enough as you are.

    — Samantha Stampler
  • "Death of a Salesman" is incredibly dark, playing Ron's previously Hilariously Abusive Childhood completely straight and in horrifying detail. The scene of Ron being forced to give up his dog Rogue is so sad it even makes the DM choke up.