Americans Hate Tingle: This show is largely obscure in the United States, but when it has come up, typically in the context of YouTube "cartoon community" reviews, it gets outright panned for its mean-spirited nature and repetition; meanwhile, in its native UK, the show is a reasonably strong Cult Classic.
Ensemble Dark Horse: Liz may be horrid to Eric, but a lot of people find her funny.
Fridge Brilliance: While Eric does never win at the end of every episode, him always dying in the end could, in a twisted way, be seen as a reward, given that his misery actually ends there.
Growing the Beard: The second season was less formulaic and mean-spirited in its humour. That's not even mentioning the brighter colour palette.
Newer Than They Think: Believe it or not, this was England's first adult animated sitcom. They had produced plenty of animation before this, but it was largely either for kids or short form. Since this particular production company was a novice in TV production, they let Klasky-Csupo in America handle the animation side of it (with Anivision providing the overseas animation as usual).
The donkey falling apart in "Pony" as if it was made of LEGO. That's to say nothing of later when it literally explodes.
The ending of "Au Pair" where the Feebles and a reformed Maria are confronted by one of the failed auditionees for the latter's job with a tank, with all four of them screaming in terror. And we don't see what happens to them afterwards. not to mention it was the last episode produced ("Drool" aired after this one, but was produced beforehand). It just shows to know that even without his vein strangling him, Eric always meets some fate.
Claire, considering everything can make her ill, in addition to which she probably feels that she's been abandoned by her mum and she's too scared to talk to her dad about it because she's worried that it will probably lead to him getting strangled by that vein in his forehead. Again.
