History YMMV / RocketPower

* StrawmanHasAPoint: One early episode has the city council ban stuff like bike-riding, skateboarding, rollerblading, etc on the pier. While it's pretty obvious that they're Straw-MoralGuardians and Merv is clearly exaggerating his injury, they actually ''do'' have a point that it can be dangerous due to how crowded it is. (And in fact, it should be common sense to not skate around crowded areas with loads of foot-traffic.) That said, Ray does point out to Otto and Reggie that they initially refused to apologize for hurting Merv, justifying his complaints (if not [[DisproportionateRetribution all of his subsequent actions]]).

* AcceptableTargets: Tourists. Most of the time when they appear in the show they are loud, obnoxious, hog the beach, and don't seem to be the most intelligent sort.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The show embraces TotallyRadical to an amusing level, and even at the time it aired was considered trying too hard to be hip. While extreme sports have remained popular they have evolved a lot over the years, the show definitely focuses on the peak late 90's / early 00's X-Games popularity.

** Being a kid's show in the dawn of the 2000's, almost every episode involves [[FreeRangeChildren the gang hanging out by themselves and even sometimes going miles away from Ocean Shores without any adult supervision]] to participate in extreme sports. Needless to say it would be a lot harder for that idea to fly nowadays.

** Sam was [[MemeticMutation a kid and a squid]] [[{{VideoGame/Splatoon}} before it was cool.]]

* TastesLikeDiabetes: "Pinkie Pixie's Big Christmas Flapadoozy", the [[ShowWithinAShow Christmas special]] that Otto and Reggie are forced to watch in the Christmas episode. It features an elf with an [[CuteButCacophonic annoyingly high-pitched voice]] hugging a snowman and exclaiming that he's "the loneliest little elf in the world".

** A lot of the episodes have themes that revolve around [[GreenAesop respecting nature and keeping things clean]], being respectful to the locals when visiting new places, sharing the environment with others and creating and maintaining safe spaces for children and adults to engage in extreme sports. Over the years these messages have managed remain incredibly relevant, especially in this modern era where people often selfishly hog an area to themselves to get a perfect shot for social media, run down and ruin natural wonders and hidden spots by selfishly encroaching on protected areas and not respecting the environment and the general acceptance of skate culture among other extreme sports resulting in more demand for safe places to skate from both parents and children.
* WhatAnIdiot:
** Otto riding on the "adults-only" course after a guard told him it was forbidden, and that if he caught the kids trespassing he would put up embarrassing photos of them. He ends up with a broken leg and his friends are saddled with chores for coming along, racing him, and risking their limbs. Likewise, rather than rest up, he keeps trying to do sports with a broken leg. Even his friends think that he's going too far.

* DesignatedVillain: Merv Stimpleton is a short-tempered jerk, but he rarely does anything more than react to Otto and the gang's shenanigans.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Lars in the episode "False Alarmed." He basically ends up the subject of a [[SadistShow torture porn]] episode where he is constantly punished and yelled at for something he didn't do. Naturally we're supposed to sympathise with him... except when Twister and Otto come forward because they feel bad for what Lars has been going through, Lars ends the episode not by showing gratitude but by... mocking them for doing the right thing and getting ''him'' out of trouble. After the episode where he and his gang help them out in the sand castle and where he even shows that he does love Twister (albeit when he was the victim of a pretty sick prank...) this just makes him seem like an irredeemable {{Jerkass}}.

* HarsherInHindsight: When the gang trick Lars into thinking Twister is dead and film his reaction. After numerous prank videos on sites like Website/YouTube and [=TikTok=] where people did things like this during TheNewTens, it's not as awesome anymore.

* MemeticMolester: The infamous ''Tito's Revenge'' copypasta has him brutally raping and killing Reggie. As the ancient Hawaiians used to say...
** IT'S TIME FOR A DICKING!

* MemeticMutation: As the ancient Hawaiians used to say...

* {{Anvilicious}}: A fair number of episodes deal with the kids doing things that are some combination of dangerous and stupid (like Twister and Otto trying to get a camera back ''[[TooDumbToLive during a goddamned hurricane]]'') and getting punished for it, whether it's getting grounded by their parents or facing the natural consequences of their actions. While it is true that extreme sports can be, well, ''extreme''ly dangerous if the proper precautions aren't taken, and the MoralGuardians would have a field day with this show if not for DontTryThisAtHome moments, at times the show feels less like "cool kids do awesome extreme sports things" that the promotional material promise and more like a {{Deconstruction}} of extreme sports fiction that viewers didn't ask for.

* InformedWrongness:
** The shoobies in ''The Lingos.'' Their crime is that they think the slang the gang uses is cool and starts saying it. They seem to have freedom of speech confused with copyright infringement.
** The episode where Squid makes friends with an asocial computer geek--don't hang out with them, they have no life!
*** This is especially bizarre; because Sammy acted ''just'' like Oliver when he was first introduced. But to give the show a bit of credit, the crew accepts Oliver and find something he's good at: Keeping score and time.

* TheScrappy:
** Ironically, the main character, Otto Rocket, is this to many, for being a rude, lazy, selfish, and conceited JerkJock with a massive ego who regularly [[WithFriendsLikeThese mistreats his friends]] (especially [[ExtremeDoormat Sam]]). What's more, he suffers from a severe case of AesopAmnesia, with each episode having him learn his lesson only to see him [[StatusQuoIsGod revert back to being a hyper-competitive jerkass by the next episode]].
** [=MacKenzie=] Benders is an overly violent and needlessly antagonistic BrattyHalfPint with a super annoying voice who everyone feared (even her own parents!) meaning she always [[KarmaHoudini avoided comeuppance no matter what she did]].
** Reggie's occasionally stuck up persona and obnoxiously petty levels of StrawFeminism can make her an irritating DesignatedHero.

* WhatAnIdiot:

* BrokenAesop: One episode has Otto and Twister pull a fire alarm and Lars gets blamed for it. Wracked with guilt over seeing Lars punished for something he didn't do, they come clean. Unfortunately, Lars laughs at them for it and says he never would have done it - which makes the aesop turn from "Always come clean with something you did, even and especially if someone else takes the fall for it" to "If a BigBrotherBully takes the fall for something you did? Keep quiet.

** In one episode, after having skateboarding banned on the pier, Sam suggests that they substitute running on-foot for skating which everyone immediately shoots down as being lame. Considering how popular [=LeParkour=] is now, it's hilarious how ahead of the curve Sam was.