Littlest Pet Shop (2012) / YMMV

Adorkable:
- Sunil's timid, awkward and nervous nature and tendency to have his magic tricks backfire on him made him very endearing to a lot of fans.
- Russell is The Smart Guy of the pets and is a Schedule Fanatic who is also endearing to many fans.
Aluminum Christmas Trees: The idea of jet fuel in a cleaning agent makes a bit more sense when you remember that people used to clean their clothes with gasoline.
Anvilicious: "Pump Up the Panda" really hammers in its "be happy with your body" aesop, with two of the three plots being dedicated to it.
Ass Pull: The Biskit twins' Missing Mom is eventually revealed to have been stuck in her room with a headache for the past three and a half seasons, though they lampshade how implausible this is.
Awesome Music:
- While a lot of the music on this show could count, the Thriller parody song " Wolf-i-fied" definitely stood out as being especially great.
- The "Biskit Twins Rhapsody" from "Grounded", which is a given considering it's based on the works of Queen.
- "If I could talk to the humans" was very impressive and emotional, with the pets singing about how much they wish to speak to their owners, in an epic stage show musical number.
- "Pets and Humans" is a song celebrating the connection between humans and their animal friends. It's both awesome and heartwarming. Bonus points for the fact that, in-universe, it's actually two songs syncing up perfectly.
Base-Breaking Character:
- You either love Buttercream and find her eccentricities adorable, or you'll find her character tics annoying and her usurping personality and Merchandise-Driven episodes even more so.
- Not even the main character, Blythe, is innocent. Some fans love her for her personality, design, and voice while others dislike her for being a Flat Character, an occasional Ditz, and so forth. Her human friends are also like this to some people.
- Out of all the day camp pets, Zoe Trent and Penny Ling get the most treatment.
  - Zoe is hilarious and adorable and genuinely kind to some — to others, she's a highly irritating jerk who's entirely self-centered.
  - Either Penny Ling is sweet and adorable or useless and oversensitive.
- Sugar Sprinkles, surprisingly, is now this after "Secret Cupet". Either you liked the episode and thought her love spells are funny, or you think she's unfairly Easily Forgiven for her actions in the episode were all sorts of wrong. Then there are those people who try not to blame the character for the writer messing up.
- The Biskit Twins. Either you find their antics funny and endearingly incompetent or you find them too mean-spirited or boring to appear in so many episodes.
- Blythe's dad, Roger, is either a funny goof or an annoying goof who gets in the way depending on how you look at it.
- You either like Eliza Biskit's singing or find it annoying. Characters In-Universe tend to side with the latter.
- Peachie Fluffton. Is she cute because she smiles so much or creepy for the same reason?
Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
- "Blythe's Pet Project" has Blythe go into Sweet Delights looking for Anna Twombly's misplaced glasses. Once inside, Youngmee and her Aunt Christie launch into a bizarre vaudville musical number where all three get sucked into the lost and found box and find, among other things, the Holy Grail. Aside from an off-hand reference by Blythe in the next scene about musical theater, it's never mentioned again and has absolutely no impact on the plot.
- "What Did You Say?" has a couple moments that have little to do with the rest of the episode:
  - Blythe tries to clear out her ears (she has a head cold) by sticking a towel in one ear, pulling it out the other and flossing back and forth. Not only is the gag cartoonier than is normal for the show, it's usually reserved for characters that are far more ditzy than Blythe is and demonstrates how little's going on in their head. This is never brought up again and the rest of the episode treats her cold relatively realistically.
  - The "Humanarian" song comes out of nowhere and is a series of eighties music video homages that don't have much to do with the episode's topic.
Broken Aesop: The lessons for Penny Ling's plot in "Two Peas in a Podcast" seem to be "listen to what your friends have to say before jumping to conclusions" and "don't take your loved ones for granted". The problem with the former is, Penny Ling claims that she did try to tell the truth but the others wouldn't listen, and while the pets do cut her off to announce what activities they have planned for her, both Russell and Zoe stop to ask her to finish what she was saying, which gives her two chances to clear things up. However, Penny Ling chooses to back out of putting a stop to the misunderstanding simply because she's enjoying being the centre of attention. The problem with the latter is, at no point in the series have the pets ever taken Penny Ling for granted. In fact, any time she has a problem, the others will drop everything to help her, no matter how small it is. But apparently it took watching her friends waiting on her hand and foot for her to finally realise how much she means to them, so the episode just makes Penny Ling come off as an Attention Whore who doesn't feel appreciated unless she's getting her way 24/7.
Broken Base:
- There are those people who thought "Secret Cupet" was funny or cute, or just try to ignore its issues, and those who think the episode was disgusting.
- There have been mixed reactions over the writers bringing back previously likeable characters Delilah and McKenna and turning them into Jerkasses in Season 4.
- The series finale is either seen as So Okay, It's Average or absolutely hated for not providing a proper sendoff to a fantastic show.
- Some are sad that the series didn't go on longer and reach a proper conclusion, while others feel it had a decent amount of seasons and it might have been subject to Seasonal Rot if it went on too long.
Common Knowledge: Zoe is often thought to be a dog version of Twilight Sparkle due to the two sharing a similar color scheme and both cartoons being tie-ins to Hasbro toys. However, Zoe's fashionista attention-seeking diva personality is closer to Rarity's, of all ponies.
Die for Our Ship: Quite a few young Sepper (Sunil and Pepper) shippers have come to dislike Captain Cuddles and Delilah, even though the two characters were very nice to the main pets. Delilah did return and Took a Level in Jerkass, however.
Draco in Leather Pants: Some fans of the Biskit Twins like to paint them as innocent while making Blythe out to be the real bully. Some episodes, such as "What's in the Batter?", unintentionally give some credence to this.
Ensemble Dark Horse
- Mrs. Twombly is this to some extent. It helps that Kathleen Barr, the voice of Trixie from Friendship is Magic, voices this character. Even better is her crazy cleaning fever season during "Eve of Destruction" that gained her more popular status.
- The Biskit Twins' butler, who gets his groove on during a musical number in "Penny For Your Laughs", gets noticeable love from YouTube viewers.
- The Biskit Twins themselves got a rather popular fanbase, mainly due to their ambiguous background story and humorous character.
- Out of all the guest pets Madame Pom, Shahrukh, and especially Sugar Sprinkles are the most popular.
Fan Nickname:
- "Twilight Barkle" for Zoe Trent has picked up some steam due to her fur and hair color resemblance to Twilight Sparkle.
- Also "Appleblythe", seeing as a large portion of the episode "Terriers and Tiaras" involves Blythe sounding exactly like Applejack.
- Roger, who looks vaguely similar to Mitt Romney, is "Mittens".
Harsher in Hindsight: Considering "Lotsa Luck" was likely written around the time of Neil Armstrong's death, the news of Twombly's retirement from kung-fu quilting overshadowing Armstrong's moon landing retroactively comes off as this.
He Really Can Act: Kelly Metzger was criticized by many My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fans for her unconvincing portrayal as a Drill Sergeant Nasty character in "Wonderbolts Academy". However, many found her terrifying when she acted as Sugar Sprinkles under an Ax-Crazy Sanity Slippage.
Hilarious in Hindsight:
- When Zoe Trent was revealed, comparisons to Twilight Sparkle were instantly made, while Twilight herself reminded many of Anarchy Stocking. Plus it's made funnier when certain fans imagine Princess Celestia using the Royal Canterlot Voice and being as hammy as possible but as a diva.
- Considering that the main character designed clothes, and is voiced by Rainbow Dash's voice actor, one wouldn't be surprised if this little number becomes quite the running meme based around Blythe.
- In "Books And Covers", the pets think that a cat named Scout is a spy. So, in other words, they think the Scout is a spy.
- In "Door-Jammed", Sunil and Vinnie believe that Russell, a hedgehog, is a hedgewolf. Or should I say "werehog"?
- While no doubt coincidence Digby shares his name with another brown dog with similar ears
- The two pets adopted by the Biskit Twins are named "Cashmere" and "Velvet". ^note The game had origins tied to another one of the Hub's shows.
Ho Yay: Has its own page.
Humor Dissonance: In "Lotsa Luck", Old Bananas is treated by the pets as the funniest thing in the history of forever, in spite of his humor hardly being funnier than that of Pepper's.
Jerkass Woobie
- The Biskit Twins are this to some fans. "What's in the Batter?" just emphasizes their Woobie status after the pets crashed their relatively tame party, and even attack them after they show themselves willing to give back Blythe's necklace. "Bakers and Fakers" also boosted their Woobie status at the later half of the episode being publicly humiliated during the judging of their cakes.
- Vi from "Penny for Your Laughs" after Blythe inadvertently hurts her feelings.
Moe: All the main pets from the flashback in "In the Loop" (sans Penny Ling as she hasn't joined the day camp yet) are absolutely adorable.
Narm: In the series finale, as weird as it sounds, Blythe and the pets get rescued by a whale. Even by the show's Magical Realism standards, this may come off as a bit odd.
Older Than the Demographic: The audience for this show is supposed to be ten or younger, but Blythe's clearly an early teen.
One-Scene Wonder: The canine cop. He was only the focus of one scene in the episode "Super Sunil", where he told Russell and Sugar Sprinkles why they must arrive at the sweet spot at exactly 9:30 AM. He is often depicted in fanart being shipped with Sugar Sprinkles due to the latter calling him cute in said scene.
Periphery Demographic: The show has a lot of My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fans who decided to check out MLP's sister show. The fact that many of the voice actors and actresses from MLP also provide voices here probably helps.
Popular with Furries: Not as much so as its sister show, of course, but it has a reasonably-sized fandom, with Zoe seeming to be one of the most popular characters, given that she looks suspiciously like a certain other female main character in a show by Hasbro and DHX media.
Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: The Biskit twins for some in Season 4, where most of the episodes featuring them showed more redeeming qualities from them than before.
Seasonal Rot: Overall, Season 4 has not been as truly well-received or considerably noteworthy to a lot of fans of the show as the previous 3 seasons before it.
- It could also be argued that Season 2 suffered from this issue as well, when the show actually had more of a fanbase to speak of than it did after that and of Season 3, in comparison.
Ship-to-Ship Combat: Fans of Sunil/Pepper vs fans of Sunil/Vinnie. Then adding to that there are the Sunil/Delilah fans.
Squick:
- In "Trading Places", when Russell gets lost at Blythe's school, Blythe tries to find him in various parts of the lunchroom, one of them includes the trash can. She then picks out the trash and puts it on her lunch tray, understandably disgusting another student passing by.
  - In the cold open of the same episode, Zoe gets a huge pimple on her nose, complete with a zoom-in of it pulsing.
- In "Plane it on Rio" in Act 2, Penny Ling eats Ramon's half-eaten burger.
- In the Season 4 episode "Go Figure!" when Sunil and Vinnie are exploring the superhero convention, Sunil is seen picking out strips of some fuzzy stuff and leaving a trail of it to help them find their way back to Blythe. When Vinnie asks Sunil where he got it, Sunil lifts up his shirt and reveals that the "fuzzy stuff" is actually the lint growing out of his belly button.
Suspiciously Similar Song: The theme song sounds similar to Katy Perry's "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)".
Sweetness Aversion:
- The only thing more sugary sweet than Buttercream are the sweets she eats on a daily basis.
- Blythe's "My Small Squirrel" Imagine Spot in "Blythe's Pet Project".
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
- Eliza Biskit was introduced in season 4, only to appear in just three episodes, with her final appearance being a silent cameo.
- Blythe's mother was hinted at appearing in the finale of the show, but she never appears. Possibly justified, as it is all but stated that she passed away.
- Pick any guest pet and you'll see fans complaining that they didn't make another appearance aside from a cameo. Gail deserves special mention because some fans were disappointed that despite being a sibling of one of the main characters, she was never seen or even mentioned after the early episode "Gailbreak".
They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
- Some fans were disappointed that we didn't get to see how Madison's job at Largest Ever Pet Shop went.
- The possibility of Scout Carrey being a spy against Littlest Pet Shop was hinted at, but this never gets answered or delved into.
- Some were disappointed that 100th episode had a bland plot and wasn't a Milestone Celebration episode.
- Some were quite disappointed that "LPS: The Moosical", the episode that aired after the 100th official episode of the series was not an actual musical episode at all.
- Some were very disappointed that Betty's journal was only the focus of about 4 episodes in season 4, which is part of Seasonal Rot the show suffers from here - that, and the lack of seeing what Betty (could have) actually looked like...
- Youngmee is looking for a pet to call her own in the first half of the fourth season, but has been unable to find one. Some people assumed that she could have adopted fan-favorite Sugar Sprinkles since she's a stray cat with no home who lives in Youngmee's place of work and could've gained more character development. However, the two never once interact in the series and Youngmee ends up adopting a Satellite Character for a pet in the end.
- All of Blythe's human friends besides Youngmee and Mrs. Twombly were completely absent from the series finale, while the Biskit family only made a brief silent cameo. Also, only a small handful of season 4 guest pets returned, rather than fan favorites like Buttercream and Sugar Sprinkles. To be fair to the writers, they didn't know it would be the series finale.
- Zoe reveals that she's grown great disdain for cats in the series finale after her stint with Delilah, but Blythe and the others are attempting to gain a famous cat celebrity to help make a film to boost publicity for the pet shop. However, Zoe never once interacts with Felina Meow, a famous cat diva who appears to be her Evil Counterpart, at all during the finale and gets Demoted to Extra.
- Some were disappointed that Mrs. Twombly and Mrs. Biskit never got to interact.
Toy Ship: Blythe and Youngmee are often shipped with each other due to the frequent Les Yay between them.
Ugly Cute: The "wolf-i-fied" versions of the pets who aren't Sunil and Vinnie that star in the "Wolf-i-fied" number in "Door-Jammed" may be rugged with Big Ol' Eyebrows, but they still look like the cute pets they're normally known as.
Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Penny Ling can be this for some viewers. One particular instance is "Mean Isn't Your Color", in which her anger is meant to be her unable to properly express her distaste over what she thinks is her costume, but the thing is she throws a borderline destructive tantrum and yells at her friends because of a mix-up with her outfit, something they weren't even responsible for.
Vocal Minority: While the series and its toyline were popular enough to last four seasons, some fans of the older Littlest Pet Shop toys disliked it for looking different from the old toys, thinking the characters (especially Blythe) creepy and weird looking, and focusing more on humans than the pets. But when the next installment A World of Our Own addresses those complaints enough fans were put off that it only lasted one season due to the toyline not pushing.
The Woobie:
- Penny Ling after Pepper's "jokes" about her. Taken up a notch in an episode of Penny repressing her own feelings about a man suit she assumed was her outfit for the ball. And once again after Zoe and Pepper getting into a fight on whose party theme is suitable for her.
- Vinnie after going into a Heroic BSoD in "So You Skink You Can Dance"
- Blythe during the episode "Helicopter Dad", especially when she breaks down crying after telling her dad to leave her alone.
- Zoe Trent on the latter half of "Terriers and Tiaras".
- Sunil in general can be seen as this. His magic tricks often blow up in his face and he's pretty much a Nervous Wreck. Taken up a notch in "Lights, Camera, Mongoose!" and as of season 2, he's been washed down a river, nearly drowned and received unwanted fame in the Meme episode. On top of this, Blythe referred to him as "Worrying Mongoose" once he became a famous meme instead of his own name which probably depressed him. Then there's episodes like "Super Sunil" and "Sunil's Sick Day" which make him an even bigger woobie than he already was.
- Ollie in "Eight Arms to Hold You", with his story of how he arrived in Littlest Pet Shop serving only to exemplify how pitiful his existence is.
- Sweet Cheeks from the episode "Pawlm Reading". He oozes Moe to such a degree that he even rivals Penny and Sunil and on top of that, he's a poorly socialized Shrinking Violet, cooped up in his owner's purse who is scared of even touching grass. Also, his Phony Psychic owner assumes he loves nummy nuggets which he hates.
- Poor Russell, you can't help but feel sorry for him in "In the Loop" when he was trapped in a time loop causing the day to repeat over and over again almost completely losing his sanity. As well as his "quilling" condition in "The Hedgehog in the Plastic Bubble" he was more or less heartbroken because he thought he'd never be safe enough to be around his friends again.
- Jebbie the ferret, when we learn that she was separated from her owner.

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