YMMV / Young Indiana Jones And The Masks Of Evil

• Bizarro Episode: The Transylvania part, so very much. The rest of the Young Indiana Jones series was pretty much grounded in the real world; this one ... not so much. In its original form, it was presented (via the bookend segments) as a story told by Old Indy to some children at Halloween, so there was the possibility that it was completely made up just to scare them. But the Re-Cut got rid of that. It does, however, feel closer in tone to the movies which often have supernatural shenanigans and goings-on — as do many of the novels and comic books in the wider Indyverse.
• Complete Monster: Mattias Targo is not just a bloodthirsty Romanian general, he's also a vampire who is implied to be the reincarnation of Vlad the Impaler — meaning that to all intents and purposes, he's Dracula. Targo "liberates" a prisoner-of-war camp full of Allied soldiers in order to either transform them into members of his vampire army or just kill them by impaling them on stakes around his castle. When three spies (two Americans and a Frenchman) are sent to investigate his affairs, Targo sends body parts from each spy to their superiors as a grisly warning (it is initially implied from this that he killed them but it's later shown that they are, in fact, undead — and missing the relevant body parts). When more spies (including Indy) show up, Targo has gruesome designs for them and actually performs an act of vivisection on one of them. A sadist who's so in love with his own brutality that he falls asleep to the sound of tortured screaming, Targo plans to have his army of the undead sweep through Romania and cleanse it in a wave of blood, slaughtering all those he decrees "intruders" onto his land.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: A decade before Spooks, Peter Firth plays a spy who, unlike Harry Pearce, actually is a Double Agent.
• Just Here for Godzilla: Many a viewer may be interested in this episode purely because it's the one where Indiana Jones takes on Dracula.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Colonel Waters is presented as an adventurous Spymaster who can speak multiple languages — in short, a potential mentor figure for Indy who, as Waters points out, is still just 19 years old. In addition, he's American which could have helped in terms of off-loading the whole "Henri Defense" thing. There must surely have been the potential to have him as a Recurring Character of some sort, yet he is the first of the group to die.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: Narrowly averted in the case of the original "Transylvania, January 1918" episode; in May 1994, The BBC intended to broadcast it in the 6pm timeslot, but ultimately decided not to as it was deemed too violent.