History YMMV / JumpStartAdventures3rdGradeMysteryMountain

** As noted on the main page, Botley's comment that he and Cosmobot never got along but are friends now seems like a metaphor for the United States' relationship with Russia. It might have been an accurate statement in the '90s, but not so much since the latter TheNewTens.

** As noted on the main page, Botley's comment that he and Cosmobot never got along but are friends now seems like a metaphor for the United States' relationship with Russia. It might have been an accurate statement in the '90s, but not so much now.

* HilariousInHindsight: Previously, the same gag of orangutan as the president applied to UsefulNotesGeorgeWBush who was elected four years after the game was released. Then in 2016, some people had said it had become [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump relevant again]].

* HarsherInHindsight: As noted on the main page, Botley's comment that he and Cosmobot never got along but are friends now seems like a metaphor for the United States' relationship with Russia. It might have been an accurate statement in the '90s, but not so much now.

* ValuesDissonance: One of the outcomes from the timeline Polly created is an orangutan being elected President of the United States. Fast forward to [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama 2008]], and this gag has since become racist. By 2016, some people had said it had become [[UsefulNotes/DonaldTrump relevant again.]]

* HarsherInHindsight: Botley's comment that he and Cosmobot never got along but are friends now seems like a metaphor for the United States' relationship with Russia. It might have been an accurate statement in the 90s, but not so much now.

* ValuesDissonance: One of the outcomes from the timeline Polly created is an orangutan being elected President of the United States. Fast forward to [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama 2008]], and this gag has since become racist.

* ValuesDissonance: One of the outcomes from the future Polly created is an orangutan being elected President of the United States. Fast forward to [[UsefulNotes/BarackObama 2008]], and this gag has since become racist.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: When Professor Spark appears, he manages to diffuse Polly in under a minute without needing to raise his voice or threaten her. That's a father who commands respect.
* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Most of Polly's joke answers (while disastrous if they were real) are ActuallyPrettyFunny, things like breakfast cereal being made with frozen fish, da Vinci not being able to make a helicopter because of spaghetti sauce...

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: Quite a bit of the dialogue, especially the exchanges between Polly and Eggbert.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Eggbert.

* MostAnnoyingSound: Botley, sometimes.

* ThatOneLevel: The biosphere is generally the minigame that makes most players groan in annoyance when they find out there's a clue in it. Not only do you have to deal with stiff and awkward controls, but the minigame takes a ridiculous amount of time to finish and you only get one life before you have to restart the whole thing. Not to mention when you reach a question, you have to listen to Polly make a snarky comment before she actually asks, which is funny at first, but gets grating pretty quickly when she does it ''every single time.'' Then there's the fact that the difficulty settings determines how fast your drone flies. Do you take the easier questions at the cost of going very slow, get through the minigame as quickly as possible with harder questions, or go down the middle with average speed and averagely challenging questions?

** Early on, the observatory is easily completed, as the first twelve times you play it, each constellation corresponds with the twelve signs of the zodiac, in order - starting with Aries and only moving on to other constellations after Pisces. If you only have to play the observatory game twelve times or less, you don't even need the clue if you know the order of the zodiac.

* SelfImposedChallenge: If you're feeling particularly spiteful, you can act just like Polly and deliberately get all the answers wrong in the Wheel of Invention rounds just to hear what Monty Monitor has to say. The game is basically multiple choice and there are infinite chances to get the right answer, making winning a foregone conclusion. The only penalty for choosing wrong is docking the amount of points earned for answering the question, but [[ThePointsMeanNothing points are just an arbitrary obstacle to access the time machine and if you're already playing the Wheel, you don't need more of them]].

* ThatOnePuzzle: While the biosphere is the most hated minigame, the constellation portion of the observatory gets a fair amount of hate as well. You're supposed to use the hint you get from the sentence unscrambling puzzle and match it with the proper constellation. Should be simple, right? Too bad there's a ridiculous amount of constellations to wade through! The way you're supposed to go about it is listen to each description until you find the proper match, but thanks to the sheer excess of them making it a needle in the haystack puzzle, you quickly realize it's better to just keep double-clicking on constellations until you find the right one. It uses up mountain energy, yes, but it's a whole lot more convenient and [[AntiFrustrationFeatures Botley just flat out gives away the answer if you guess wrong enough times anyway]].

* MagnificentBitch: Polly.

* HilariousInHindsight: One of Polly's "alterations" to history in the introduction is an orangutan as President of the United States. Now there's [[DonaldTrump one]] running for office

* ThatOneLevel: The biosphere is generally the minigame that makes most players roll their eyes when they find out there's a clue in it. Not only do you have to deal with stiff and awkward controls, but the minigame takes a ridiculous amount of time to finish and you only get one life before you have to restart the whole thing. Not to mention when you reach a question, you have to listen to Polly make a snarky comment before she actually asks, which is funny at first, but gets grating pretty quickly when she does it ''every single time.''

* SelfImposedChallenge: If you're feeling particularly spiteful, you can act just like Polly and deliberately get all the answers wrong in the Wheel of Invention rounds just to hear what Monty Monitor has to say. The game is basically multiple choice and there are infinite chances to get the right answer, making winning a foregone conclusion. The only penalty for choosing wrong is docking the amount of points earned for answering the question, but [[ThePointsMeanNothing points are just an arbitrary obstacle to access the time machine and if you're already playing the Wheel, you don't need more of them]].

* MostAnnoyingSound: Botley, sometimes.