YMMV / Peter Pan Goes Wrong

• Awesome Music: "Hey for Davy Jones," the Pirate Song, is a simple but surprisingly well-written sea shanty, and the singers do some great harmonization in it. Too bad the song is mostly drowned out by the chaos happening on the rest of the set.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: During the "World of Make Believe" musical number in the BBC recording, Robert suddenly turns up in a shiny morphsuit and makes sexual groaning noises while the other cast members lay in a circle around him, as a sensual saxophone plays. He then runs at the camera and shouts "WOW!" Context for this is never given.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Lucy made an impression with audiences due to her characterization as a nervous wreck forced into performing against her will but stepping up when the moment calls for it. She couldn't become a part of the main cast because Ellie Morris took over the role of Sandra for the West End production of The Play That Goes Wrong but Lucy was eventually brought back for a guest spot on The Goes Wrong Show due to popular demand.
• Growing the Beard: While the humor of the series was already perfectly established with The Play That Goes Wrong, this sheds more light on the actual characters and their dynamics which would be further seen in future projects.
• Heartwarming Moments: Max finally getting his star turn near the end of the play, followed by Sandra leaving Jonathan for him.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Chris and Robert's discussion of Jonathan and Sandra comes across more gossipy, but they do raise a legitimate concern about cast mates being involved with each other—generally something that's frowned upon in a professional theatre environment. Not that it never happens, of course.
• Jerkass Woobie:
  • Chris is snobby, self important, and a Bad Boss, but his crankiness is very understandable given all the crap he has to deal with behind the scenes and onstage in terms of both the actors, and the audience. The fact that he's one of the show's stronger actors and actually does care about his crew just adds to this.
  • Robert can be quite a diva and acts as an Evil Uncle and Stage Mom to Lucy, but he's one of the night's biggest chew toys, suffering several injuries, getting trapped in the set twice, and even being set on fire. Not helping matters is that he has to see his niece suffer even worse injuries, something that he's clearly horrified by, and will almost certainly result in nasty family drama once the production is over.
  • Jonathan isn't on his best behavior here, being quite cruel to poor Max, and cheating on Sandra without hesitation. But the mere fact that he has to put up with the production's faulty harness related stunts earn him sympathy. Even worse in the television version, as he winds up exposing himself to the entire BBC audience.
  • David Suchet may try to downplay his responsibility for the death of a young child, and he clearly didn't learn his lesson after this incident, but the look on his when he speaks to the audience about it implies that he's quite haunted with guilt over the whole thing.
• Memetic Mutation: Max's "Snap Snap" as the Crocodile took off, with the phrase becoming a hashtag used by fans on social media. Dave Hearn also says that people call him the "Snap-Snap Guy" when they recognize him on the street.
• Retroactive Recognition: Bryony Corrigan plays one of the Cornley stagehands in this production. She'd go on to join the main cast as Vanessa in The Goes Wrong Show.
• Unpopular Popular Character:
  • Max is disliked by most of his coworkers and considered an incompetent nuisance. The audience, however, adores him and tend to give him lots of sympathy. By the end of the show, he's being treated slightly better by the other characters.
  • Despite frequently being booed, insulted by, and arguing with the In-Universe audience, Chris is very much loved by the real one.
• The Woobie:
  • Max is a sweet, well-meaning ditz who just wants to put on a good show and is trying his best to do just that. For his trouble, he gets humiliated onstage and insulted by everyone. Fortunately, he gets to save the day in the end.
  • Poor Lucy has terrible stage fright, gets berated by her uncle both onstage and behind the scenes, is the butt of many moments of unintentional abuse, and hobbles around on crutches because she broke her leg during the show. No wonder she spends most of the show looking like a deer in the headlights... though, like Max, she also helps save the show at the end.
  • While everyone involved goes through their own series of Amusing Injuries, Annie goes through a near death experience. After this incident, she's seemingly thrown a bone when she and Jonathan passionately kiss, but this is ruined by his girlfriend Sandra entering, resulting in a Cat Fight.
  • Sandra finds herself in a nasty and highly uncomfortable Love Dodecahedron, where she's being pined after by Max, and then discovers that her boyfriend Jonathan has started to two time on her with Annie, something she's quite understandably upset about. Thankfully, by the end she winds up with Max, and seems much happier for it.