History YMMV / BaldisBasicsInEducationAndLearning

* NightmareFuel: The loading screen easter egg. It can catch unexpecting players off guard since it's a JumpScare.
** "Congraaaatulations! You found all seven notebooks! Now all you need to do is: '''''GET OUT WHILE YOU STILL CAAAAAAAN!!!!'''''"

** Playtime and the Principal. With Playtime, she forces you to do a game of jump-rope before letting you go, giving Baldi a bigger chance of killing you. The Principal is worse, as if he sees you breaking school rules, he instantly runs towards you, and doesn't stop until he catches you. When he does, he puts you on detention for a certain amount of time, and this gives Baldi a chance to go in and kill you, especially if you have a ''99 second detention''. If you have the Principal's Keys, you can escape detention, but there's a chance of the Principal putting you back into detention.

* XMeetsY: [[TheSlenderManMythos Slender Man]] meets a pastiche of early 1990s edutainment games.

* DemonicSpiders: Playtime and the Principal. With Playtime, she forces you to do a game of jump-rope before letting you go, giving Baldi a bigger chance of killing you. The Principal is worse, as if he sees you breaking school rules, he instantly runs towards you, and doesn't stop until he catches you. When he does, he puts you on detention for a certain amount of time, and this gives Baldi a chance to go in and kill you, especially if you have a ''99 second detention''. If you have the Principal's Keys, you can escape detention, but there's a chance of the Principal putting you back into detention.

* MemeticMutation: Gotta Sweep has become the subject of many memes, all of which have to do with his lines, such as "GOTTA SWEEP SWEEP SWEEP!" and "LOOKS LIKE IT'S SWEEPING TIME!"

* {{Mondegreen}}: In Baldi's line after you collect all 7 notebooks, due to the poor sound quality, people seem to be split on whether Baldi says you "found" or "failed" the notebooks (for the latter, he is presumably being passive aggressive).

* NightmareFuel: The loading screen easter egg. It can catch unexpecting players ofd guard since it's a JumpScare.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The game opens with a message clarifying that despite imitating an old EdutainmentGame in style, this is indeed a horror game. The message warns readers not to let their kids play it "unless, of course, they enjoy horror games."

** The Bully could count as well. He requires you to give an item to him for him to move, but he can block paths to a notebook.

* {{Mondegreen}}: In Baldi's line after you collect all 7 notebooks, due to the poor sound quality, people seem to be split on whether Baldi says you "found" or "failed" the notebooks (for the latter, he is presumably being passive aggressive.)

* UncannyValley: Baldi himself is a poorly made 3D model with unblinking eyes and [[MouthFlapping flapping]] red lips. Given the {{Stylistic Suck}}y nature of the game, this was almost certainly intentional.

* {{Mondegreen}}: In Baldi's line after you complete all 7 notebooks, due to the poor sound quality, people seem to be split on whether Baldi says you "found" or "failed" the notebooks (for the latter, he is presumably being passive aggressive.)

* {{Mondegreen}}: In Baldi's line after you complete all 7 notebooks, people seem to be split on whether Baldi says you "found" or "failed" the notebooks (for the latter, he is presumably being passive aggressive.) That part is so [[SensoryAbuse staticy and loud]] that it's hard to tell.

* MookBouncer: Arts and Crafters can teleport you to where you started, but it can also teleport ''Baldi''. It only attacks when every notebook is collected, though.

* MemeticMutation: Gotta Sweep has become the subject of many memes, all of which have to do with his lines, such as "GOTTA SWEEP SWEEP SWEEP!" and "LOOKS LIKE IT'S SWEEPING TIME!"

* DemonicSpiders: Playtime and the Principal. With Playtime, she forces you to do a game of jump-rope before letting you go, giving Baldi a bigger chance of killing you. The Principal is worse, as if he sees you breaking school rules, he instantly runs towards you, and doesn't stop until he catches you. When he does, he puts you on detention for a certain amount of time, and this gives Baldi a chance to go in and kill you, especially if you have a ''99 second detention''.

* DemonicSpiders: Playtime and the Principal. With Playtime, she forces you to do a game of jump-rope before letting you go, giving Baldi a bigger chance of killning you. The Principal is worse, as if he sees you breaking school rules, he instantly runs towards you, and doesn't stop until he catches you. When he does, he puts you on detention for a certain amount of time, and this gives Baldi a chance to go in and kill you, especially if you have a ''99 second detention''.

* DemonicSpiders: Playtime and the Principal. With Playtime, she forces you to do a game of jump-rope before letting you go, giving Baldi a bigger chance of catching you. The Principal is worse, as if he sees you breaking school rules, he instantly runs towards you, and doesn't stop until he touches you. When he does, he puts you on detention for a certain amount of time, and this gives Baldi a chance to go in and catch you, especially if you have a ''99 second detention''.

* EarWorm: The background music at the beginning.

* DemonicSpiders: Playtime and the Principal. With Playtime, she forces you to do a game of jump-rope before letting you go, giving Baldi a bigger chance of catching you. The Principal is worse, as if he sees you breaking school rules, he instantly runs towards you, and doesn't stop until he touches you. When he does, he puts you on detention for a certain amount of time, and this gives Baldi a chance to go in and catch you, especially if you have a ''30 second detention''.