YMMV / The New Adventures of Lucky Luke

• Awesome Music: The theme song is extremely catchy.
• Heartwarming Moments: In the episode "Dalton Junior", the Daltons start taking care of a baby given to them. Joe is very reluctant towards the idea of keeping the baby. But over the course of the episode, he warms up to him and even goes to the doctor because he feels genuine love and cannot comprehend it. At the end of the episode, the baby and Joe are separated, but it's obvious that Joe can't forget him.
• Tear Jerker:
  • The ending for "The Daltons Cowboys" is surprisingly bittersweet, even though the character deserved it somewhat. Cynthia, a daughter of a wealthy ranch owner, is in her thirties and her father laments that she had not yet found a man... until she develops a crush on Averell and instantly becomes an Abhorrent Admirer to the point of making Averell miserable. When he admits that he does not return her feelings, and because it was her first crush, she is Not Good with Rejection and becomes emotionally unstable. And when she thought she was tricked by him by trying to reconcile with her (who was actually Joe in disguise) just to steal her family's fortune, she goes after Averell (and his brothers to an extent) in an attempt to kill them. When Lucky Luke makes her see how crazy her infatuation has made her, she tearfully surrenders. The last shot of the episode is Cynthia stealing one last glance at Averell with tears in her eyes as he and his brothers are led away by Lucky Luke back to prison, implying that she's regretful at how she treated him.
  • A minor one, both on account of lasting very little and being predictably an act, happens in "Vultures in The Plain, Vultures Over The Prairie". Our cowboy befriends and speaks kindly to one of the similar-faced undertakers named Barnaby, who is peer-pressured by a much more sociopathic undertaker named Deadflower to raise his clientele by naturally raising the body-count. Luke decides that the best way to deal with Deadflower is to fake his death in a duel, which leads to Barnaby breaking down and crying over losing the only person who ever spoke to him as a friend. Even though he didn't really die, the genuine pain in the words of a man who got used to being avoided all his life can be heartbreaking.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: “Jackpot for the Daltons”, the episode where Averell becomes an Evil Genius after getting zapped by a bolt of lightning. While they milk Smart!Averell putting Joe in his place for all its comedic potential (and Catharsis Factor), the former never actually confronts Lucky Luke (due to the effects of the lightning bolt wearing off by the time Luke catches up with the brothers), despite the episode seemingly building up to it. One can only imagine what a showdown that would have been.

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