History YMMV / OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries

* {{Anvilicious}}: The episode "Smoke Detectors" is so extreme in getting across its message that SmokingIsBad that it involves the only smoker in the show burning a house down with a cigarette.

* {{Anvilicious}}: While the TV series has AnAesop in most episodes, they never jammed them into your head. The episode "Smoke Detectors"[[note]]The pups have to try and get Cruella to stop smoking so she can move back to her house instead of living with them because the fire from her cigarettes burnt down parts of her house from smoking and sleeping at the same time[[/note]], on the other hand, falls right under this.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: The main message of "Full Metal Pullet" which is that true friends don't abandon each other for their own selfish needs, or watch each other get humiliated by others without standing up for them.

** "A Christmas Cruella" has Spot, as the Ghost of Christmas Future, showing Cruella a headstone for Fluffy. Fluffy would indeed be part of Cruella's Future, by being her dog in ''102 Dalmatians''.

** [[DesignatedVillain Lucy The Goose]]. She has a very irritable and grumpy attitude but she only wanted to swim in peace without being splashed by the pups.
** Fetch and Kelly from the episode Trick Track Toe. Sure, they laugh at Gogo for his bunny phobia but they themselves also clearly have issues.

** Cadpig's comment about "day old pizza"
* MoralEventHorizon: Pretty much everything [[spoiler: Dimsdale De Vil does in De Vil-Age Elder, including trying to use his descendant Cruella as a replacement to be trapped in Devilville for all eternity.]]
* OneSceneWonder: Rebecca, the adorable Scottish-accented carriage pup of "De Vil-Age Elder"

* CreatorsPet: Spot is mostly disliked because she's a main character and EnsembleDarkhorse Two-Tone isn't (or Patch, thus filling out the four characterized puppies from the original book.)
** The farm animals, who got way more focus and characterization than the other 96 puppies.

* FanPreferredCouple: [[BadassAdorable Lucky]]/[[TimeTravelRomance Rebecca]] and [[LittleMissSnarker Cadpig]]/[[TheBully Mooch]] are two notable examples in the TV series fanbase.

** Lt. Pug for being a loud, insufferable DrillSergeantNasty and major JerkAss with an unappealing design and virtually no redeeming qualities.

** Spot is a bird who thinks she's a dog. ''102 Dalmatians'' had a similar character in Waddlesworth.

** In "A Christmas Cruella", Spot, as the Ghost of Christmas Future, shows a headstone for Fluffy. Fluffy would indeed be part of Cruella's Future, by being her dog in ''102 Dalmatians''

** "Good Neighbor Cruella" has Cruella separating her "good side" with her "bad side". "Good Cruella" looks and acts similar to "Ella", Cruella's reformed state in ''Film/102Dalmatians''.

* FamilyUnfriendlyAesop: 'Citizen Canine' seems to have the aesop "All politicians will become corrupt to win, so you're better off going with the more experienced candidate over the novice idealist."

* EarWorm: The theme song

* VillainDecay: Cruella in the TV series, who is still a greedy criminal who hates dogs but is more of a conniving cartoonish villain than the nasty piece of work she was in the films. Also, even after the events of the film (which presumably are still part of this canon in some form), nobody else seems to hate her as much as they should (except Roger). MoralGuardians were likely opposed to the idea of vicious murder on kids' cartoon series.

** Also Lt. Pug's extreme insults and maltreatment of Spot during the episode "Full Metal Pullet", which nearly broke Spot down into tears before she stood up for herself.

* JustForFun/XMeetsY:
** ''101 Dalmatians'' meets ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}''.
** Alternatively, a Disney mashup of the "Garfield" and "Orson's Farm" segments of ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends''

* XMeetsY:

** [[TheBully Mooch.]] He pretty much has the reputation of a thuggish gang leader and bully on the farm but in "Twelve Angry Pups", he's blamed for a crime he didn't commit and in "My Fair Moochie", Cadpig crushed his heart pretty hard after he tried to make a genuine attempt to change. It's perfectly unbderstandable why he bursts into tears and sobs on Lucky's shoulder after Cadpig dumps him.
** [[MinionWithAnFInEvil Dipstick.]] Sure, he's part of Mooch's gang but just watching him cry in "Twelbve Angry Pups" kind of makes you want to cuddle and pet the poor thing. He also had his collar stolen by Swamp Rat in another episode.

** Mooch can be seen as this in the episodes "Twelve Angry Pups", and "My Fair Moochie".
** Lt.Pug. Yes, he's a loud DrillSergeantNasty who yells at everyone but in "Howl Noon", he pretty much has childhood trauma and is implied to have some form of PTSD.
** Lucky is a more mild form of this. He has the biggest ego of the four main characters and often lets power go to his head but he's been hit by BreakTheCutie quite a bit like in episodes such as Watch For Falling Idols, Unlucky and Cone Head.

** Lt. Pug.
** And Dumpling.
** And Swamp Rat.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Two-Tone.

* JerkassWoobie: In the series, the episode "Coup De Vil" actually turns Cruella into one.

* MemeticMutation: "Yard sale? I love yard sales! Actually, I hate yard sales. Of course, the pros of a yard sale are the bargains, but the cons of a yard sale are that the items are used. Ick!"

* TheScrappy: Lt. Pug.

* ViewerGenderConfusion: Rolly, with his blue collar. His weight and low voice offsets this somewhat, though.

*** [[FridgeLogic Well if she were male she'd surely be a rooster, right?]]

* VillainDecay: Cruella in the TV series, who is still a greedy criminal who hates dogs but is more of a conniving cartoonish villain than the nasty piece of work she was in the films. Also, even after the events of the film (which presumably are still part of this canon in some form), nobody else seems to hate her as much as they should (except Roger).
** MoralGuardians were likely opposed to the idea of vicious murder on kids' cartoon series.
* TheWoobie: This varies, but Rolly and Spot usually qualify for this.

* XMeetsY: ''101 Dalmatians'' meets ''{{WesternAnimation/Doug}}''.

* AbsenteeActor:
** In "Home is Where the Bark Is", Spot is out of commission, but she is shown for a split second at one point in the episode.
** Spot is absent in "You Slipped a Disk" and in "Cadpig Behind Bars".
** In "Horace and Jasper's Big Career Move", the main pups are absent for a majority of the episode. They do appear in the flashback sequences, but they also appear briefly at the very end, and Lucky has one little speaking part.

* FanPreferredCouple: [[BadassAdorable Lucky]]/[[TimeTravelRomance Rebecca]] and [[LittleMissSnarker Cadpig]]/[[HandicappedBadass Tripod]] are two notable examples in the TV series fanbase.

* ViewerGenderConfusion: Rolly, with his blue collar.