History YMMV / UncleGrandpa

* MemeticMutation: Uncle Grandpa survived the purge. [[labelnote:Explanation]]In August 2022, various shows were removed from Creator/HBOMax, including ''Uncle Grandpa''. However, a single episode of ''UG'', fittingly titled "Fleas Help Me", was left watchable by accident. After this was discovered, cartoon fans started making jokes about the cast of ''Uncle Grandpa'' being the sole survivors of some kind of a cataclysmic event.[[/labelnote]]

* ValuesDissonance: Uncle Grandpa’s hero, who is a comic book character named ''Weird Man''. He saves the day by simply being his flamboyant self to the bad guys. His behavior would obviously not be considered weird today due to better accepting of gender.

* BizarroEpisode: Most episodes that Nick Edwards boarded tend to fall under this, even by the [[WidgetSeries standards of this show]]. Especially "Wasteland", "Pal 2.0", "Wicked Shades", "A Gift for Gus", and "Uncle Cupid".

%% * WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: C'mon, this was a question you had to ask the first time you saw this show.
* WidgetSeries: From the moment Uncle Grandpa reappears in the picture frame ''after'' disappearing from view ''from outside'', and then walking into frame from the side (if not sooner), it's been made incredibly clear that this show isn't simply on a rocket train to Weirdsville, it already arrived long ago, made itself at home and set up shop.

** [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. [[spoiler:Aunt Grandma, aka Priscilla Jones, has hated Uncle Grandpa since she was younger for taking her on a trip, while her science project got damaged, along with the length of the trip leaving her with no time to repair the damage herself, resulting in second place. While it may be DisproportionateRetribution, she is right to point out how Uncle Grandpa is obsessed with bringing kids along on unnecessary adventures instead of dealing with their problems and being too simple-minded to care for them. However, the problem is that invalidates her point; Uncle Grandpa arrived to not help her with her project but to help ''her'' in needing to relax and have fun once in a while, especially since that 2nd place isn't that bad. If Uncle Grandpa does his routine in a way that helps a person's character with a once-in-a-lifetime experience, then Priscilla's experience ''was'' necessary]].

* VindicatedByHistory: Around the show's arrival in later 2013, everyone more or less passed Uncle Grandpa off as yet another stupid show of the late 00's - early 10's. As the show went on, and especially after it ended, its reputation has softened considerably, with its animation style and humor being seen as unique instead of awful, with positive comparisons to UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation. It helps that creator Pete Browngardt went on to produce ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunesCartoons'', which [[RevisitingTheRoots brings]] ''Franchise/LooneyTunes'' [[RevisitingTheRoots back to its original Golden Age glory]].

* MemeticMutation: Uncle Grandpa survived the purge. [[labelnote:Explanation]]In August 2022, various shows were removed from Creator/HBOMax, including ''Uncle Grandpa''. However, a single episode of UG, fittingly titled "Fleas Help Me," was left watchable by accident. After this was discovered, cartoon fans started making jokes about the cast of Uncle Grandpa being the sole survivor of some kind of a cataclysmic event.[[/labelnote]]

* HilariousInHindsight:
** Fellow Creator/CartoonNetwork series ''WesternAnimation/FostersHomeForImaginaryFriends'' featured another [[AnthropomorphicFood talking pizza slice]] in the episode "Seeing Red" where Terrence devours it after using his imagination to create it in the first place, showing no regard to its cries for help.
** Likewise, a later-released adult animated film called ''WesternAnimation/SausageParty'', a movie about AnthropomorphicFood who believe that their human purchasers are "Gods" with little knowledge of their fate, features another talking slice of pizza, who berates the Stoner for having eaten his legs and family members while having to crawl inside his box.

* MemeticMutation: Uncle Grandpa survived the purge. [[labelnote:Explanation]]In August 2022, various shows were removed from Creator/HBOMax, including ''Uncle Grandpa''. However, a single episode of UG, fittingly titled "Fleas Help Me," was left watchable by accident. After this was discovered, cartoon fans started making jokes about the cast of Uncle Grandpa being the sole survivors of some kind of a cataclysmic event.[[/labelnote]]

* IdiotPlot: "Escalator". When an escalator in a mall breaks down, it's a breaking news level event that people are stuck on it.

** [[IntendedAudienceReaction Invoked for Uncle Grandpa]]. WordOfGod says that the episodes are written so that [[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/interviews/interview-with-uncle-grandpa-creator-pete-browngardt-88005.html "at the end, you don’t know if he’s an idiot or a genius"]]. {{Lampshade|Hanging}}d in "Aunt Grandma" after Aunt Grandma reveals that her hatred of Uncle Grandpa stems from [[spoiler:his getting too distracted by playing hacky-sack with Martians to help her win a science fair when she was a kid]]. He himself can't remember if he was trying to teach her how to have fun and not be so uptight or if he was just really obsessed with hacky-sack.
** Is Beary Nice really oblivious to Hotdog Person's suffering or is he a sadist who is intentionally putting Hotdog Person through torture and enjoying it? The bath episode in particular really points towards the latter.

* MemeticBadass: Uncle Grandpa himself has become one due to how a single episode of his show remained for several days after the mass removal of programs from HBO Max. This led to many jokes about how he's too powerful for WB to truly get rid of and portraying him as Cartoon Network's last hope in a similar vein to [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate Kirby in the World of Light]]. This is helped by how he's canonically a RealityWarper and has apparently visited many different CN shows according to the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' {{Crossover}} "Say Uncle."
* MemeticMutation: Uncle Grandpa survived the purge. [[labelnote:Explanation]]In August 2022, various shows were removed from HBO Max, including Uncle Grandpa. However, a single episode of UG, "Fleas Help Me," was left watchable by accident. After this was discovered, cartoon fans started making jokes about the cast of Uncle Grandpa being the sole survivors of some kind of a cataclysmic event.[[/labelnote]]

** [[PlayingWithATrope Played with]]. [[spoiler:Aunt Grandma, aka Priscilla Jones, has hated Uncle Grandpa since she was younger for taking her on a trip, while her science project got damaged, along with the length of the trip leaving her with no time to repair the damage herself, resulting in second place. While it may be DisproportionateRetribution, she is right to point out how Uncle Grandpa is obsessed with bringing kids along on unnecessary adventures instead of dealing with their problems and being too simple-minded to care for them. However, the problem is that invalidates her point; Uncle Grandpa arrived to not help her with her project but to help ''her'' in needing to relax and have fun once in a while, especially that 2nd place isn't that bad. If Uncle Grandpa does his routine in a way that helps a person's character with a once-in-a-lifetime experience, then Priscilla's experience ''was'' necessary]].

* MemeticBadass: Uncle Grandpa himself has become one due to how a single episode of his show remained for several days after the mass removal of programs from HBO Max. This led to many jokes about how he's too powerful for WB to truly get rid of and portraying him as Cartoon Network's last hope in a similar vein to [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate Kirby in the World of Light]]. This is helped by how he's canonically a RealityWarper and has apparently visited many different CN shows according to "Say Uncle."

* MemeticBadass: Uncle Grandpa himself has become one due to how a single episode of his show remained after the mass removal of programs from HBO Max. This led to many jokes about how he's too powerful for WB to truly get rid of and portraying him as Cartoon Network's last hope in a similar vein to [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate Kirby in the World of Light]]. This is helped by how he's canonically a RealityWarper and has apparently visited many different CN shows according to "Say Uncle."

* MemeticBadass: Uncle Grandpa himself has become one due to how a single episode of his show remained after the mass removal of programs from HBO Max. This lead to many jokes about how he's too powerful for WB to truly get rid of and portraying him as Cartoon Network's last hope in a similar vein to [[VideoGame/SuperSmashBrosUltimate Kirby in the World of Light]].
* MemeticMutation: Uncle Grandpa survived the purge. [[labelnote:Explanation]]In August 2022, various shows were removed from HBO Max, including Uncle Grandpa. However, a single episode of UG was left watchable by accident. After this was discovered, cartoon fans started making jokes about the cast of Uncle Grandpa being the sole survivors of some kind of a cataclysmic event.[[/labelnote]]

* VindicatedByHistory: Around the show's arrival in later 2013, everyone more or less passed Uncle Grandpa off as yet another stupid show of the late 00's - early 10's. As the show went on, and especially after it ended, its reputation has softened considerably, with its style of humor being seen as unique instead of awful.

* ComedyGhetto: The most widely accepted reason for the show's [[VindicatedByHistory initial]] disdain. At the time ''Uncle Grandpa'' aired, cartoon series that leaned more towards story-driven {{dramedy}}, most notably ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'', and ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', were becoming more common in an attempt to divert from the AnimationAgeGhetto. So this show, with its episodic nature and sole emphasis on silly and wacky comedy, stood out like a sore thumb. However, the show's fans would argue that this was entirely the point.

* ComedyGhetto: The most widely accepted reason for the show's [[VindicatedByHistory initial]] disdain. At the time ''Uncle Grandpa'' aired, cartoon series that leaned more towards story driven {{dramedy}} were becoming more common in an attempt to divert from the AnimationAgeGhetto. So this show, with its episodic nature and sole emphasis on silly and wacky comedy, stood out like a sore thumb. However, the show's fans would argue that this was entirely the point.

* ComedyGhetto: The most widely accepted reason for the show's [[VindicatedByHistory initial]] disdain. At the time ''Uncle Grandpa'' aired, cartoon series that leaned more towards story driven {{dramedy}} were becoming more common in an attempt to divert from the AnimationAgeGhetto. So this show, with its episodic nature and sole emphasis on silly and wacky comedy, made it stand out like a sore thumb. However, the show's fans would argue that this was entirely the point.