YMMV / The Eltingville Club

• Jerkass Woobie: Even though he is obviously one of the worse behaving members of the club, it's hard not to feel sorry for Josh sometimes. Compared to the rest of the group, he receives the most abuse from Bill, both verbal and physical, and often finds himself in deep trouble because of the club teasing him or not helping out in a pinch.
• Memetic Mutation: On September of 2023, the trivia debate of the pilot episode reached a memetic status, after being discovered by animation circles of Twitter and brought into the mainstream spotlight. It became popular to recreate the battle by changing the questions with obscure trivia of a specific fandom, alongside Ward Willoughby asking the duo a very easy or somewhat awkward trivia question and getting pushed by Joe for it.
• Tear Jerker: Though he's a Neanderthal asshole who in the end deserved it, one can't help but feel a twinge of sympathy for Joe during "This Fan, This Monster", when he returns to find his store completely in shambles courtesy of leaving Bill in charge.
  Joe: Twenty-nine years I been here. Through recessions, snowstorms, hurricanes, riots, competition, market collapse, speculator collapse, distributor wars, Marvelution, black-an'-white boom an' bust, variants, holograms, embossed foil, poly-bags, bad girls, pogs, bookstores, Amazon, digital, diabetes, audits...but this? This takes the shit cake. This is a knife in my heart.
  • "This Fan, This Monster" ends with the group being harshly lectured by their parents and feeling guilty and ashamed about their involvement in Joe's store destruction, with the sole exception of Bill, who's trying to ignore his mother's worried scorns to watch Agents of SHIELD instead of reflecting on his actions.
    • The final page is about Jerry looking at his twiki figure and reminiscing about the times when they first met and they just wanted to have innocent fun with their shared nerdy hobbies.
• Unintentional Period Piece:
  • The epilogue has Bill starting a crowd stampede at Comic-Con by announcing a secret Firefly cast reunion panel featuring Joss Whedon, which obviously dates the comic to the 2010s, before exposés of Whedon's abusive behavior to cast members and colleagues destroyed the Creator Worship he had previously experienced.
  • Though the failed pilot generally averts this, the "ECW!" chants when Bill and Josh briefly tangle date it to a very specific point in time.
• Values Resonance: For better and for worse, the reason why the series had a resurgence in popularity during the 2020s (and why the creator grew to dislike what he worked on) because the satire of toxic fanboyism has become even more relevant in an era nerd culture has become a lot more mainstream, and much more people have become aware of toxic traits in fandoms.