YMMV / Life's a Zoo

• Awesome Music: Every episode featured a music video played while the houseguests took part in some activity, but they saved the best for last. Episode 20 featured a more somber song ("Leave Alight" by Krista Muir) playing while amnesiac Chi Chi was watching the entire run of the show to get her memory back; the depressing music plays while Chi Chi starts her mental breakdown, when she sees how badly the show has changed her.
• Base-Breaking Character: Whether Jake is a irredeemable Jerkass or a likeable loser whose pathetic nature makes him far more likable than the majority of the cast depends on who you ask.
• Cargo Ship: Jake and Juanita, a papaya; to be fair to Jake, he was horribly sleep-deprived at the time.
• Crazy Is Cool:
  • Ray is a complete party animal, and totally off the wall, and his craziness has saved the day a couple of times.
  • Morreski is a Cool Old Guy with an Expansion Pack Past, who takes as a mark of pride what others consider embarrassing, and who makes the majority of these accomplishments 'completely drunk. There's even an episode dedicated to him where everybody else dresses as Morreski and try to be as crazy as he is.
• Jerkass Woobie: Jake at times.
• Replacement Scrappy: Bobbie for Claude, the former less sympathetic and overall not as affable as the latter.
• Tear Jerker:
  • Jake suffers a breakdown when he overdoses on everyone's addictions as a replacement for his own, and when he goes to the hospital, the other houseguests are told he won't make it; thinking Jake's dying, they have a group hug, and hold a mini memorial for Jake. He gets better, so long as he can stay away from Minou that is.
  • Chi Chi's descent into insanity and misery brought on by her horrible roommates.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: Why are the monkey and crocodile in the closet? And that was in the first episode.
• The Woobie:
  • Just watch the last episode, and try not to cry along with Chi Chi.
  • Episode 14 is on Chi Chi's birthday, and no one paid any attention to her; worse, she gets saddled with the job of nurse when the others get sick after eating some of her food, which was Ray's fault.

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