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* AdaptationDisplacement: The series starts out as a web manga, which features a different staff from the ones in the published manga and its anime. Suffice to say, most people are more familiar with the cast of the latter and is mostly oblivious to the existence of the former.
* FridgeLogic: In-show example.
-->'''Yachiyo:''' "But... Wouldn't have it been simpler for me or someone else to pretend to be [[spoiler:Takanashi]]?"\\
''[[[ColorFailure shocked beat]]]''\\
'''Jun:''' "[[BlatantLies Todoroki... A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.]]"\\
'''Hiroomi:''' ''"[[ItAmusedMe You just realized it now, haven't you, Satou?]]"''
* LesYay: Yachiyo and Kyouko. Most of it coming from Yachiyo. Including one blatant scene in the yonkoma:
--> '''Yachiyo:''' "But you are right, if you don't break this habit of yours, you won't be able to fall in love."\\
'''Inami:''' "Lo-!! Love..."\\
''[Yachiyo sees Kyouko walk by in the background]''\\
'''Yachiyo:''' "Ignore what I just said. It's okay if your partner is a woman."
** And then there's the scene in which Kyouko proclaims, "Yachiyo is ''mine''".
** Popura's admiration of Kotori is also slightly suspect, which even gets commented on by Jun.
** Kozue steadily ramps up towards Mitsuki, from accidentally following her instead of Youhei, to late night visits after nightmares, to straight-up propositions when Kozue's drunk. And Kozue [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl is often drunk.]]
* MemeticMutation:
** "X plays the tambourine"
** Am I Poplar yet?!
** Not Poplar anymore?
** Still Poplar!
** Sum wan wan!
** In-universe: Kawai-souma-san
* {{Moe}}: Popura, Aoi and Nazuna. In fact, Aoi even made the Top 8 during Saimoe 2010.
** Please Don't forget crossdressing, toddler Takanashi Souta.
* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: During the first season, Inami turned off a lot of people due to her preconditioned reflex to punch men if they get close to her. This was due to how overused the gag was. Come the third season, this had mostly vanished, mostly due to CharacterDevelopment.
* RomanticPlotTumor: During the first season some viewers felt that the events between Souta and Inami draw away too much attention from the other characters. Turned on its head during the GrandFinale ''Lord of Takanashi'', where Inami's love for Souta actually ''helps'' resolve a good deal of his family's problems (with a little nudge from Poplar, of course).
* TheScrappy: [[AbusiveParents Inami's dad]], full stop and more for being the reason why Inami is initially a [[TheScrappy Scrappy]]. Most people wonder why a [[HateSink character like him]] has any business being in a StatusQuoIsGod SliceOfLife {{Comedy}} series. A lot of people thought that even Takanashi's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech wasn't enough to deal with him. Some even see him as a half-assed way to make Inami seem more sympathetic.
* ValuesDissonance: Kozue accuses Mizuki of being a naughty girl for her lesbian attraction toward Yachiyo, and that she should stop her unproductive thoughts and finally fall in love with a man. Regardless of Mizuki's true feelings, this still shows that in Japan homosexuality is mostly seen as "just a phase."
* TheWoobie: Izumi is a very sick IllGirl who can barely walk around and gets muscle cramps if she carries anything heavier than a pen.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: Subverted. Though the web manga came first, the published manga and its anime star a different Wagnaria staff, thus making it plausible that the audience wouldn't be familiar with the web manga's cast. It does, however, play MorePopularSpinoff straight.

** [[EarWorm Sum wan wan!]]

* EarWorm:
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TT6UHHFvCX0 The first opening song]] is pretty cute.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90RHsazHYhk The opening for Season 2]] is pretty catchy as well.
** There's also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2lnKicYlLM season 3's op]] as well.
** All of the ending themes are incredibly catchy, especially if you're into disco beats.

* InternetBackdraft: During the first season, posts about Inami on /a/ tended to ignite arguments. Gradually died off with each subsequent season, eventually vanishing with the third, helped by the fact that Inami didn't hit Souta seriously even ''once'' during its run.
** Also, going beyond the issue of SubbingVersusDubbing (despite NIS America being newbies to the anime industry that they may not dub anything for a while), the title name change for the American release (renamed Wagnaria!!) as well as a naming of a character ([[SpellMyNameWithanS officially Popura instead of Poplar]]), have left polarizing reactions from the fandom. And that was just ''a few hours'' after the official annoucement.

* AdaptationDisplacement: Subverted. Though the web manga came first, the published manga and its anime star a different Wagnaria staff, thus making it plausible that the audience wouldn't be familiar with the web manga's cast. It does, however, play MorePoularSpinoff straight.

* AdaptationDisplacement: Subverted. Though the web manga came first, the published manga and its anime star a different Wagnaria staff, thus making it plausible that the audience wouldn't be familiar with the web manga's cast.

* TheScrappy:
** [[AbusiveParents Inami's dad]], full stop and more for being the reason why Inami is initially a [[TheScrappy Scrappy]]. Most people wonder why a [[HateSink character like him]] has any business being in a StatusQuoIsGod SliceOfLife {{Comedy}} series. A lot of people thought that even Takanashi's TheReasonYouSuckSpeech wasn't enough to deal with him. Some even see him as a half-assed way to make Inami seem more sympathetic.

** Yachiyo and her obsession with Kyouko is a good candidate for this.

* FanPreferredCouple: There are a number of people who would've preferred that Popura was the heroine.

** And as the third season reveals, the whole Takanashi clan being a bundle of neuroses was due to their domineering mother.

* FreudWasRight:
** In a rare non-sexual example, Yachiyo demonstrates a perfect example of transference when Kyouko goes away on a business trip, leaving her to attach to the one person who listens to her and consoles her on a regular basis, Jun. [[spoiler:By the final season, the fact that Jun IS the only other person she's comfortable talking with helps Yachiyo transition from thinking of him as merely a confidant to an actual significant other.]]
** Inami definitely has this. The given reason she's such an androphobe is because [[OverprotectiveDad her father]] told her from a very early age that all men were evil, going so far as to subliminally whisper it to her in her sleep. He also put heavy weights in her backpack when she was younger, which is the reason why she's so incredibly strong as well. This has [[LaserGuidedKarma backfired]] to some extent, since her severe androphobia caused her to attack him ''first'' and now he takes pains not to be seen by her at home and has to stalk her from a distance.

* FreudWasRight: In a rare non-sexual example, Yachiyo demonstrates a perfect example of transference when Kyouko goes away on a business trip, leaving her to attach to the one person who listens to her and consoles her on a regular basis, Jun. [[spoiler:By the final season, the fact that Jun IS the only other person she's comfortable talking with helps Yachiyo transition from thinking of him as merely a confidant to an actual significant other.]]

* MemeticMutation: Am I Poplar yet?!

** Izumi as well.