YMMV / Muzzy in Gondoland

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The scene early on where Cat is playing with Corvax's computer. She's playing a slot machine game that, in at least some of the languages, she refers to as bingo, and gets excited when she spins three plums... only for a hatch on the console to open and bury her in plums, as an exasperated Cat shouts "Plums, plums, plums!" The scene comes entirely out of left field and is never referenced again. Unless you see it as a foreshadowing that Corvax's computer can produce many physical copies of the same thing, which it does with Sylvia.
• Fridge Horror: After Corvax gets demoted at the end of Muzzy in Gondoland, he ends up working in the kitchen... where he could have the opportunity to poison the royal family in revenge anytime (that is, assuming there was no royal taster). Fortunately, either the idea never crosses his mind or he just wouldn't go that far.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Some of Norman's facial expressions look awfully similar to the Lenny Face.
• Memetic Mutation: Muzzy's deep-voiced "Bonjour!" when first greeting Bob in the French version has become synonymous with Muzzy in Gondoland thanks to it opening a long-running TV ad for the cartoon. It saw a resurgence as a meme thanks to the Angry Video Game Nerd comparing Muzzy's line to muffled-sounding gibberish from a mage boss in Virtual Hydlide.
• Nightmare Fuel: When the King attempts to fix Corvax's computer, he somehow gets trapped inside it. This stops the computer from creating more clones of Sylvia, but Muzzy has to find a way to get him out. Claustrophobia and technophobia invoked! Made worse in the 20-episode TV airing, when the scene takes place at the very end of one episode. The King vanishes, and the kids will wonder what happened to him until the next episode.
• Spiritual Successor: Muzzy was inspired by the British TV programme Follow Me, a similar concept albeit live-action. It taught English to foreign viewers and was very big in China during the 1970s.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!:
  • American viewers who grew up with the original British version (the one where Bob's voiced by Derek Griffiths of SuperTed) would be upset that some of the characters were redubbed with American voices.
  • The biggest offender was when the series was redone to CGI and flash.
• Unintentional Uncanny Valley: The characters in the CGI remake have disturbingly lifelike detail to them, especially Muzzy.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?:
  • Everything single thing that Corvax does in the beginning of Lesson 3 screams "predator". He sits by his computer fantasizing about Sylvia, creates a virtual image of her body (labelled "The Body") while snickering "I've got you now", prints out and kisses a life-size image of her, and then creates a three-dimensional copy of her.
  • Corvax's Evil Plan in the sequel is equally creepy: he kidnaps Amanda so she can become his wife and queen once he claims the throne. She's a baby that can barely talk.

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