YMMV / The Brothers Grunt

• Awesome Music: The Rat Pack-style theme song is usually regarded as the best thing about the show.
• Cult Classic: It's not a very well known show since MTV has been trying to make it forgotten and it has been critically panned by critics, but it has a small fanbase that recorded episodes back when it first aired and posted them on the internet, and it wishes to see it get a DVD release. It being created by the same guy who made Ed, Edd n Eddy a few years later has brought it to only more fame.
• Cargo Ship: Sammy is attracted to lamps. After his rivalry with a shipwrecked man over a lamp ends badly, he's shown in the bathtub with two other lamps.
  Lamp 1: All right, pally, come on, pay up. Let's go.
  Lamp 2: Yeah, we got an ottoman waiting for us uptown.
• Designated Villain: The Detective tries to find the Grunts and arrest them for their constant mayhem to the public but is painted as the villain regardless.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The overarching story as a whole can be summed up in three words: "Hey, where's Perry?"
  • In "Eat My Grunt!", two of the brothers (Dean and Sammy) spend most of the episode driving or otherwise inside a car. Years later, another brother duo consisting of a Dean and a "Sammy" would similarly spend a lot of time travelling together in their car.
  • Sammy loved lamp years before it became quotable.
  • The Irishman that Perry fights with in "Not My Potato" is basically a prototype version of Rolf.
  • The Grunts themselves are basically a peaceful, celibate version of SCP-3288.
  • The music played by the demon-possessed record player that Perry was tasked with fixing was reused in two episodes of Ed, Edd n Eddy.
• Ho Yay:
  • In "Cream Style", a military man seizes Tony and kisses him passionately. A parrot discreetly drops a corn flag over them.
  • Dean rides in a car with a creepy man who calls him "pretty boy" in "If I Could Grunt to the Animals". The same man appears in a later episode, in which he reaches into a government agent's pocket and holds his hand.
• Nausea Fuel: The entire show is filled with this, from inside close-ups of Poobah's nose, to characters drinking puke and sweat. Especially the character designs of the Grunts themselves, with many viewers saying that they look like they're in pain from simply existing.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The show's plot of the titular Grunts trying to find their brother Perry goes absolutely nowhere. Every single episode shows them doing nothing but goofing off and getting into random trouble—on the rare occasions when they get a clue to his whereabouts, they're immediately distracted by something else and forget to follow the lead. Though, perhaps that's where the humor supposedly is. The episode where the Detective discovers the monastery probably would have been a turning point for the series.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Perry. While his running away from the monastery and refusing to come back supposedly spells doom, it's never explicitly stated exactly why a Chosen One is needed to keep the brotherhood alive or why no one else can take over those responsibilities. Add to that the fact that Perry appears to be living a very good and stable life outside of the monastery, and it's a little hard to rationalize dragging Perry back to the brotherhood.