YMMV / The Great North

• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • In "Pride and Prejudance Adventure", was Judy truly oblivious to the growing romantic relationship between her crush, Crispin, and her brother, Ham, or was she in denial about her crush not being able to return her feelings until she saw Crispin and Ham kissing each other during the school dance?
  • In "Say It Again Ham Adventure", Ham realizes that he was a little disappointed the other Tobin's weren't more surprised when he came out as gay. Were the other Tobin's really trying to be that open-mined and supportive or did they always know and thus really weren't surprised at all?
• Awesome Music:
  • "Curl Interrupted Adventure" has "Let's Get The Team Back Together", a Rankin & Bass-esque duet featuring Beef and Judy reminiscing about their curling days.
  • "Keep Beef-lievin' Adventure" has "The Grown-Up Zone", where Beef looks back on the cryptids and imaginary friends he'd believed in as a child after seeing Moon give up his search for Bigfoot.
  • "Brace/Off Adventure" has Judy's fast-paced nightmare sequence song, "Brace Yourself", detailing her anxieties about what having her braces off means. The song is later reprised as "Pace Yourself", where the Tobins reassure her that growing up will be okay either way.
  • In "Tusk In The Wind Adventure", the theme song from Tusk Johnson's show is reprised over the end credits, this time sung by Alanis Morissette herself.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: In a weird way, the songs that are played over the credits are often based around these. While sometimes they will be related to the overall plot of the episode, mostly they will take a single scene or even a single line that was otherwise meaningless and make a short song about it. For example, in "Skidmark Holmes Adventure", Judy mentions she made period accurate hats for her murder mystery party. While mildly interesting, it's a detail that doesn't matter overall in the episode. But over the credits, hats with faces and legs sing a song about how great period accurate hats are (no, seriously).
• Crosses the Line Twice: The song that plays over the credits of "Avocado Barter Adventure" features Wolf and Honeybee professing their love with movie references, which would be sweet on its own, but the references are all deaths from the Final Destination movies, making the song hilarious.
• Fridge Brilliance:
  • In "Feast of Not People Adventure", Ham is revealed to be the new mysterious Cake Lady, with not even his family knowing about this. It's very likely that this is because, as established in the pilot episode, Beef is very hesitant about change, especially if it takes away from family time. For example, Beef's initial reaction to finding out Judy got a part-time job at the Point & Shoot photography studio was passive-aggressive disapproval until he realized Judy should be allowed to pursue her own interests. It's very likely that Ham was scared Beef would not be accepting of his new job, and was scared to tell his siblings and future sister-in-law out of fear that Beef would find out from them.
  • Alanis Morissette doesn't like hearing Judy's stories and becomes exasperated when she tells one. Since she is only a figment of Judy's imagination, she already knows everything Judy is going to tell her.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: In "Tusk In The Wind Adventure" Tusk had a drunken camerawoman with him named Doris. She helped Beef a little when he was looking for Wolf, but was otherwise a meaningless character in the story. Well as it turned out, in Tusk's second appearance ("From Tusk Til Dawn Adventure"), he had made a Heel–Face Turn in the time since. One of reasons Tusk became a better person is because he and Doris started a relationship, went through rehab together, got pregnant, and are getting married.
• Ho Yay:
  • A lot of Wolf's descriptions of other men are this. He's very committed to Honeybee but he's very open to calling other men handsome, granted some of his phrasing isn't great and he comes across as a little to interested in his dad. "Beef's in Toyland Adventure" comes off like Honeybee and Wolf are trying to find a third person. "A Knife To Remember Adventure" has a brief moment where to establish how desperately the family is craving Crocodile Rob's Wolf fantasizes about a shirtless Rob riding a crocodile. "Cillian Me Softly Adventure" has him call Dr. Callaghan handsome. In "Woodfellas Adventure" he's the one who notices that the male winners of the float competition are all attractive and works with his wife to rank the men of Lone Moose in order to find their sexy captain.
  • Judy and Chrissy in "Stools Rush In Adventure". After Steven and Steven's understudy break their legs, Judy gets the male lead with Chrissy still playing the wife. During their big scene together, where they sing a romantic song, Judy (in full boys clothes) picks up Chrissy and spins her around while still singing to her and with the implication that it was unscripted. Then Judy finds Chrissy backstage to tell her that she did a great job and that they made a great team, but then sees her crying and the two open up emotionally including calling each other beautiful and talented and both saying Ms. McNarama sucks at the same time. Given all this and that despite both Judy and Chrissy being into him, Steven barely says or does anything, one might wonder if the play should have had a kissing scene between them as well.
• Squick: Everything about MommaPoppa's in "Tasteful Noods Adventure". The central conflict of the episode comes from Ham learning that they rinse and re-use uneaten noodles, even the ones from dishes collected in the bus tub. Gross enough, but things escalate from there. Ham is called into Poppa's office, which has large fishtanks along the walls, several of which are coated in algae and have dead fish floating in them. Later, Ham goes to retrieve a salad starter from Momma's car, which is filled with trash and has a birdcage with four parrots crammed into it sitting in the front seat, and finds the salad sitting on the floor inside a bag that originally held mice meant to feed a snake. What's most horrifying is that they're still open at the end, even after Ham and Judy expose them through the local paper, and are presumably still keeping up the same unhygienic practices.
  Judy: Who knows how old some of those noodles are if they aren't throwing them out?! In and out of dozens of mouths, resting on hundreds of chins...
  • The Wet Wolf sandwich in "High Expectations" is a sea of condiments that leave the poor bread a sloppy, oozing mess that can't even be given away for free in the street in-universe, despite Wolf's delusions of grandeur.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Given that in "Dances With Wolfs Adventure" we learn that Kathleen had been cheating on Beef with Marcus for years before she left with him, it's surprising that in "You've Got Math Adventure" when Moon is convinced that Beef isn't his biological father, he doesn't consider the possibility that Marcus might be.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Crispin had no choice but to date a girl if he wanted to get into the dance, but the fact is that Crispin takes advantage of Judy's obvious crush on him and encourages it in order to get close to her brother with no concern for how that might hurt her. When Judy is understandably humiliated at the dance upon seeing him kissing her brother and realizing how she had been used, she is portrayed as being in the wrong for being upset (though in fairness, she is only imagining the person calling her out, so it is arguable that it's just a matter of Judy being too hard on herself). No one ever calls Crispin out on manipulating her and even Ham doesn't seem bothered by his actions that much, only initially being reluctant to date him until Judy gives him her blessing.
• The Woobie: Beef Tobin. After a few years, Beef's awful wife Kathleen ran away with a man named Marcus (with whom she had been cheating with for years), leaving him to raise their four kids alone (not that she was any help with raising them anyway). Unfortunately, because Beef was a bit blindly love with her, he sank into a deep denial that lasted several years, during which he would claim that she was eaten by a bear (completely breaking down if confronted with the truth). Even after his kids get him to accept the truth, he still fearful of his kids leaving and is slow to trying to find love again.

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