History YMMV / FatherOfThePride

* MisaimedMarketing: Despite being made for an adult audience, the show was ironically advertised as "From the producers of (the more kid-friendly) ''Shrek''," which got the creators in a bit of trouble from MoralGuardians. The controversy, combined with the show's overall failure, effectively killed off the possibly of computer animation being used for entertainment geared strictly at adults. There has since been [[WesternAnimation/SausageParty exactly one other attempt]].
** The show was mentioned in an issue of Disney Adventures magazine and Daryl Sabara (Hunter's voice actor) was interviewed. Hopefully no kid who read it decided to watch the show...

* DancingBear: The show was sold on its high-quality computer animation, which, at the time, was considered on-par with Creator/DreamWorksAnimations' features.

* DancingBear: The show was sold on its high-quality computer animation, which, at the time, was considered on-par with Creator/DreamWorks' features.

* AcceptableTargets:
** One episode has a white-trash ''antelope'' named Tom and his bully son named Anthony.
** Then-vice president Dick Cheney makes two appearances, depicting him as both a {{manchild}} and TheFriendNobodyLikes.

** A combination of AnimationLeadTime and the show's release date being held back a year so after Roy Horn of Siegfried and Roy was attacked on-stage by one of the tigers resulted in the show debuting a year after the duo's real-life Las Vegas show closed for good but was still in the general public's consciousness. Horn and Fischbacher's eventual passings in 2020 and 2021 respectively also date the show to a time were they were actually ''alive.''

* UncannyValley: That state-of-the-art CGI [[TechnologyMarchesOn doesn't really hold up 10+ years later]]. Most of the problems with early computer animation, such as plastic-looking humans, [[NoFlowInCGI awkwardly-patched hair]] and "dead" eyes plague this show. The designs of the big cats, meanwhile, all have an odd mix of realistic animal anatomy, human facial features (the pink lips are a dead giveaway) and cartoon proportions. Some of the more exaggerated characters, such as Sierra and Roy, fair a bit better.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: The biggest critique the show got was that it barely utilized its setting of the Las Vegas strip. Most of the crazy adventures in such a wild, zany, eccentric city are b-plots given to Siegfried and Roy. The lions mostly remain in the Secret Garden, itself a barely exaggerated parody of a generic suburban neighborhood. On a more general note, some, like WebVideo/{{Saberspark}}, wonder if the show could have [[GrowingTheBeard gotten better as it went on]] had it been given more seasons. Alas, [[WhatCouldHaveBeen we may never know]].

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: One of the bigger victims. The fact that it was advertised as "from the producers of ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}''" actually got the showrunners in a considerable bout of trouble with the [[MediaWatchdog Parents Television Council]], not helped by its aforementioned UncertainAudience.

* OvershadowedByControversy: The show had the misfortune to debut almost immediately after the real life Roy Horn was allegedly attacked onstage by one of his tigers[[note]]There are conflicting reports of exactly what happened. Siegfried and Roy claim that Roy had a stroke on stage and the tiger was trying to safely carry him off, while one of their assistants claim that Roy had not been working closely enough with the tiger for it to trust him and it did, indeed, attack him in self-defense.[[/note]]. Despite their insistence that the show continue, many felt it much too awkward at the time. A joke {{Lampshading}} this appears in "Possession" where one tiger is shunned because of [[NoodleIncident something unspeakable]].

* EnsembleDarkhorse:
** Hunter. His endearing innocence and tendency to say inappropriate things he does not understand make him one of the show's saving graces.
** Siegfried and Roy. Even people who hate the show find their LargeHam and FunnyForeigner schtick hilarious.
** Sierra still tends to get a lot of fanart [[SelfFanservice for obvious reasons]].
* FunnyAneurysmMoment: "Larry's Debut and Sweet Daryl Hannah Too" has a RunningGag of Siegfried holding complete contempt for ''Today Show'' host Matt Lauer for the crime of... [[FelonyMisdemeanor interrupting people]] (much to Roy's annoyance). Over a decade later, Lauer would be fired from the show for the ''actual'' crime of sexual harassment, making Siegfried's distrust feel less ironic and more justified.

* {{Glurge}}: The "Copper Kettle" song is this InUniverse. Overlaps with TrueArtIsIncomprehensible.
* HilariousInHindsight

* SoUnfunnyItsFunny: {{Invoked|Trope}} with Hi Larious's corny, painfully unfunny BorschtBelt-style jokes (he even provides his own RimShot!), which all of the other characters hate. Watching him try so hard to get a laugh out of such awful material just makes him hilariously pathetic.

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: InUniverse. Kate's feminist group encourages her to paint her feelings in a free-form painting. One of her group members (and, a little later, [[StrangeMindsThinkAlike Hunter]]) recognize it as "anger, with a touch of hope" and the two laugh before sobbing in each other's arms, all while Larry stares at the thing, completely baffled.
** "Bring out the copper kettle..."

* FunnyAneurysmMoment
** "Larry's Debut and Sweet Daryl Hannah Too" has a RunningGag of Siegfried holding complete contempt for ''Today Show'' host Matt Lauer for the crime of... [[FelonyMisdemeanor interrupting people]] (much to Roy's annoyance). Over a decade later, Lauer would be fired from the show for the ''actual'' crime of sexual harassment, making Siegfried's distrust feel less ironic and more justified.
** In "Catnip and Trust," Larry, a stereotypical middle-aged, classic rock-obsessed baby boomer, tells his (presumably) millennial daughter that he is of a generation of parents who "had a lot of fun so you don't have to"... which is ''exactly'' what millennials would accuse baby boomers of once they reached adulthood, arguing that the previous generation's habit of taking whatever they wanted without considering the consequences left future generations to clean up a horrifically polluted natural environment and fix a crippled job market without having been prepared with any adult survival skills, along with the opinion that the alleged "peace and love" generation had [[MeetTheNewBoss become the exact kind of stifling conservatives that]] ''[[MeetTheNewBoss their]]'' [[MeetTheNewBoss parents had been]] by [[{{Hypocrite}} calling millennials entitled, lazy whiners]] when called out on it (in some circles, "boomer" has even become derogatory shorthand for being the least bit out-of-touch, even if the person in question is not a baby boomer). It makes Larry's joke, along with his line right afterwards ("We are not [the worst parents ever]! ''My'' parents were!") seem less like SelfDeprecation and more like extremely bitter social commentary.

* UncertainAudience: One of the main reasons the show flopped as badly as it did. It was advertised as being from the producers of the family-friendly ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' films and even had a crossover episode centered around Donkey, but the humor is too raunchy for children. At the same time, much of said humor is too unsophisticated and childish for anyone over the age of 9.

* UncertainAudience: One of the main reasons the show flopped as badly as it did. It was advertised as being from the producers of the family-friendly ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' films and even had a crossover episode centered around Donkey, but the humor is too raunchy for children. At the same time, much of said humor is too unsophisticated and childish for anyone over the age of 12.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: One of the bigger victims. The fact that it was advertised as "from the producers of ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}''" actually got the showrunners in a considerable bout of trouble with the [[MediaWatchdog Parents Television Council]]. Clips of the show on Website/YouTube are also unfortunately victim to the site's poorly-implemented COPPA policy, which [[AnimationAgeGhetto frequently labels almost anything that looks like it's for kids as such]], not helped by its aforementioned UncertainAudience.

** Hunter