History YMMV / HarveyBirdmanAttorneyAtLaw

** To anyone who has a pet cat (or heck, any similarly predatory pet, like a bird of prey), this isn't that big of a deal. Harvey probably just regards Avenger's kills the way one might a dead rat their cat brings home. As for the sapience of Avenger's victims, this may be balanced by the fact that they tend to be [[TheScrappy Scrappy-Doo]], or [[AssholeVictim annoying talking monkeys]].

* QuestionableCasting: The narrator from the "Employee Orientation" episode? That's Ferdinand Jay Smith, best known as the composer for the [[Creator/{{HBO}} Starship HBO]] and the [[Creator/{{ABC}} ABC Star Tunnel]]. One has to wonder how he got roped into this...
** He even came back for the ''Attorney General'' special.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Does Phil have genuine problems seeing things, or is he just screwing with Harvey? ("Sit down, Birdman. Not there, there!!")

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation:Does Phil have genuine problems seeing things, or is he just screwing with Harvey? ("Sit down, Birdman. Not there, there!!")

* GeniusBonus: In "The Incredible Hippo", what flavor of Heisenberg Brothers Bagels should Potamus have? Harvey's [[QuantumPhysics not certain]].

* WTHCastingAgency: The narrator from the "Employee Orientation" episode? That's Ferdinand Jay Smith, best known as the composer for the [[Creator/{{HBO}} Starship HBO]] and the [[Creator/{{ABC}} ABC Star Tunnel]]. One has to wonder how he got roped into this...
** He even came back for the ''Attorney General'' special.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: In "Blackwatch Plaid", after a short series of security camera footage, the episode suddenly transitions into a montage of a live-action Birdman doing completely random things. This has absolutely no bearing on the rest of the episode and is never brought up again.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: The entire "Deadomutt" two-parter from season one, which involves Birdman [[spoiler:murdering a dog out of jealousy, going to trial for murder, being found Not Guilty, having that verdict overruled and sent to prison on death row, spending five years in jail, getting [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext married to a gorilla]], and then finally being sent to the electric chair...at which point it is revealed that the whole ordeal was actually a big prank thrown for Birdman's 40th birthday (a CallBack to Birdman stating he is thirty-six [[BrickJoke in the first part]]), and that the dog he apparently killed is actually fine. Birdman fails to see the funny side, especially when it's revealed the marriage is totally legit and wasn't part of the prank.]]

** The rather notorious scene where Scrappy is murdered by the avenger sparks some resemblance to ''Literature/GuardiansOfGahoole's'' Laughter Therapy--a humiliating ritual employed by the cultish Saint Aggie’s ‘orphanage’ to punish wayward owlets by picking them up in their claws and carrying them around while everyone laughs at them. That being said, since it's [[TheScrappy Scrappy]] getting this demise, ''Guardians of Gahoole'' readers may find this Hilarious in Hindsight instead.

* NightmareFuel: While all the cast experiences adaptational jerkass, the Avenger has become ''a serial killer''. ''And Birdman knows about it.'' This is not an ordinary animal with predatory instincts. he is intelligent enough to write, and he always chooses sapient animals as his victims. And he's just out and about. No amount of comedy can quite take off the edge of the utterly chilling idea that that quiet secretary of your defense attorney, the one you must have passed a million times without even giving him a second thought, has taken innocent lives, keeps the corpses, and treats those corpses as playthings behind closed doors.

* {{Squick}}: Phil Ken Sebben lusting after Birdgirl. He is repeatedly told the truth but doesn't believe it. Near the end of the episode where he and Birdgirl are to be married [[spoiler:he looks out over the crowd and decides "...there... might... have... been... someone... else... (he)... was... meant... to... be... with". Birdgirl's [[{{Squick}} aunt]] Phyllis, Phil's [[BrotherSisterIncest sister]]]]! Not to mention how [[spoiler: Aunt Phyllis looks just like Phil with a blonde wig and very large boobs in a dress. Yes, the eyepatch and mustache too]]. When he finally does understand who Birdgirl is (in the last episode) he is utterly disgusted and disappointed in her for trying to get into his pants. Especially since he's helpless, [[DoubleEntendre with the one eye. ...in his pants]].