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  • Cult Classic: Whilst the show was notorious for a while for being cancelled, it had a pretty vocal fanbase during the early 2000's. By 2006 it had mostly fallen into quiet obscurity.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse: The Duggler.
  • Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The show has been run for over a decade on Canada's Teletoon (who helped finance the show), despite its brief run.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: In "Risk," Nitz complains about Good Charlotte by asking what he would know them for. At the time, it's just a joke about Good Charlotte being a relatively unknown band, with a bit of Biting-the-Hand Humor because the band provided the show's theme song. A year later, they had their first huge hit with "Lifestyles Of The Rich and Famous."
  • Ho Yay:
    • Rocko had a sex dream about Cal once. And in a scene where Nitz is messing around in a photobooth, Dan kisses him on the cheek.
    • Mump is kind of clingy and protective of his relationship with Gimpy, going so far as to sabotage Gimpy's friendship with Nitz, and Gimpy does seem to care for him above the other minions, worrying about, missing and later hugging him when Mump got carpal tunnel.
    • Cal once said "I love that guy." about Gimpy (episode being Rivalries). Sure, he's an idiot, but he also got completely broken up when Nitz left the dorm in Roommates and replaced him with a watermelon labeled 'Nitz Guy'. And judging by the flashbacks, Nitz is always the guy Cal wants to do stuff with. Heck, he's probably so stupid, he doesn't even know his sexuality; he just does whomever jumps on him.
    • Nitz and Gimpy's "Oh you..."
  • Memetic Mutation
  • Unintentional Period Piece: Aside from the dated technology and absence of social media, the show makes frequent references to the then-recent Star Wars prequels.

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