History YMMV / SpicyCity

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: This was a big reason why the show is largely forgotten outside of being a CultClassic. Being a very adult and overly sexualized cartoon in 1997 turned away mainstream audiences and critics, while its Tales from the Crypt-esque style with surprisingly well-written and deep plots didn't go over very well with most people who only showed up for the smut. While it actually got decent ratings, in the end, its audience was just far too narrow for it to ever even get a home release, and Ralph Bakshi refused to allow the network to fire his writing team and hire professional screenwriters (presumably to retool it into something more mainstream to avert this) which sundered any chance of it ever getting a second season.

** "Sex Drive": [[GadgeteerGenius Otaku]] is a technician who works for M&G Corporation, and is [[HumanTrafficking involved]] in [[SexSlave virtual prostitution]]. To this end, Otaku abducts prostitutes, experiments on them, and [[BrainUploading extracts their personalities]] on behalf of his superiors, leaving the prostitutes catatonic, subsequently reworking their personalities on a disc to make them complacent. Capturing the cyborg prostitute Virus, Otaku extracts her personality and programs her to [[HoneyTrap seduce his superiors]] at M&G and extract their intelligence so he can overtake them. When Virus returns, Otaku gropes her as he extracts information from her, unaware that police officer turned taxi driver Nisa Lolita is recording the exchange.

** "Love is a Download": [[GadgeteerGenius Otaku]] is a technician who works for M&G Corporation, and is [[HumanTrafficking involved]] in [[SexSlave virtual prostitution]]. To this end, Otaku abducts prostitutes, experiments on them, and [[BrainUploading extracts their personalities]] on behalf of his superiors, leaving the prostitutes catatonic, subsequently reworking their personalities on a disc to make them complacent. Capturing the cyborg prostitute Virus, Otaku extracts her personality and programs her to [[HoneyTrap seduce his superiors]] at M&G and extract their intelligence so he can overtake them. When Virus returns, Otaku gropes her as he extracts information from her, unaware that police officer turned taxi driver Nisa Lolita is recording the exchange.

** "Sex Drive": [[GadgeteerGenius Otaku]] is a technician who works for M&G Corporation, and is [[HumanTrafficking involved]] in [[SexSlave virtual prostitution]]. To this end, Otaku abducts prostitutes, experiments on them, and [[BrainUploading extracts their personalities]] on behalf of his superiors, leaving the prostitutes catatonic, subsequently reworking their personalities on a disc to make them complacent. Capturing the cyborg prostitute Virus, Otaku extracts her personality and programs her to [[HoneyTrap seduce his superiors]] at M&G and extract their intelligence so he can overtake them. When Virus returns, Otaku gropes her as he extracts information from her, unaware that police officer turned taxi driver Nisa Lolita is recording the exchange.

* LesYay: In the episode "Sex Drive", the female cop is very receptive to the prostitute's seduction, and they flat out become a couple in the end.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: This was a big reason why the show is largely forgotten outside of a CultFollowing. Being a very adult and overly sexualized cartoon in 1997 turned away mainstream audiences and critics, while its Tales from the Crypt-esque style with surprisingly well-written and deep plots didn't go over very well with most people who only showed up for the smut. While it actually got decent ratings, in the end, its audience was just far too narrow for it to ever even get a home release, and Ralph Bakshi refused to allow the network to fire his writing team and hire professional screenwriters (presumably to retool it into something more mainstream to avert this) which sundered any chance of it ever getting a second season.

* OlderThanTheyThink: As stated on the main page, most people think that ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' was America's first animated series to get a TV-MA rating (back when America's TV content rating system was just getting started). However, ''Spicy City'' (created on July 11, 1997) was made before ''South Park'' (which was created on August 13, 1997), and ''South Park'' became a smash hit while ''Spicy City'' -- like many of Ralph Bakshi's works -- is seen more as a CultClassic.

** "Sex Drive": [[GadgeteerGenius Otaku]] is a technician who works for M&G Corporation, and is [[HumanTrafficking involved]] in [[KissMeImVirtual virtual prostitution]]. To this end, Otaku abducts prostitutes, experiments on them, and [[BrainUploading extracts their personalities]] on behalf of his superiors, leaving the prostitutes catatonic, subsequently reworking their personalities on a disc to make them complacent. Capturing the cyborg prostitute Virus, Otaku extracts her personality and programs her to [[HoneyTrap seduce his superiors]] at M&G and extract their intelligence so he can overtake them. When Virus returns, Otaku gropes her as he extracts information from her, unaware that police officer turned taxi driver Nisa Lolita is recording the exchange.

** "Sex Drive": [[GadgeteerGenius Otaku]] is a technician who works for M&G Corporation, and is involved in [[HumanTrafficking virtual prostitution]]. To this end, Otaku abducts prostitutes, [[PlayingWithSyringes experiments]] on them, and [[BrainUploading extracts their personalities]] on behalf of his superiors, leaving the prostitutes catatonic, subsequently reworking their personalities on a disc to make them complacent. Capturing the cyborg prostitute Virus, Otaku extracts her personality and programs her to [[HoneyTrap seduce his superiors]] at M&G and extract their intelligence so he can overtake them. When Virus returns, Otaku gropes her as he extracts information from her, unaware that police officer turned taxi driver Nisa Lolita is recording the exchange.

** "Sex Drive": [[MadScientist Otaku]] works for M&G Corporation, and is involved in [[HumanTrafficking virtual prostitution]]. To this end, Otaku abducts prostitutes, [[PlayingWithSyringes experiments]] on them, and [[BrainUploading extracts their personalities]] on behalf of his superiors, leaving the prostitutes catatonic, subsequently reworking their personalities on a disc to make them complacent. Capturing the cyborg prostitute Virus, Otaku extracts her personality and programs her to [[HoneyTrap seduce his superiors]] at M&G and extract their intelligence so he can overtake them. When Virus returns, Otaku gropes her as he extracts information from her, unaware that police officer turned taxi driver Nisa Lolita is recording the exchange.

** "Raven's Revenge": [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Corbin]] is the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive CEO]] of [=AlternaCeuticals=], the company that created Raven. A [[EvilutionaryBiologist psychopathic eugenicist]], Corbin wants to wipe out all those he's deemed genetically inferior and aberrant, and plans on doing it with a virus that he tests on Raven and carnival freaks. When symptoms begin to manifest in the carriers, Corbin has the crowded carnival bombed under the pretense of containing an outbreak before instructing his men to LeaveNoWitnesses as they move in to capture Raven. When confronted, Corbin implies that he was responsible for the death of Raven's mother, and rants about how he is going to eliminate all the "mutants and freaks" with his plague, which he also intends to profit off of thanks to his "good fiscal policy" of WithholdingTheCure to diseases in favor of overpriced treatments that are developed as slowly as possible.

* CompleteMonster: [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Corbin]], from the series finale "Raven's Revenge", is the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive CEO]] of [=AlternaCeuticals=], the company that created Raven. A [[EvilutionaryBiologist psychopathic eugenicist]], Corbin wants to wipe out all those he's deemed genetically inferior and aberrant, and plans on doing it with a virus that he tests on Raven and carnival freaks. When symptoms begin to manifest in the carriers, Corbin has the crowded carnival bombed under the pretense of containing an outbreak before instructing his men to LeaveNoWitnesses as they move in to capture Raven. When confronted, Corbin implies that he was responsible for the death of Raven's mother, and rants about how he is going to eliminate all the "mutants and freaks" with his plague, which he also intends to profit off of thanks to his "good fiscal policy" of WithholdingTheCure to diseases in favor of overpriced treatments that are developed as slowly as possible.

* OlderThanTheyThink: As stated on the main page, most people think that ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' was America's first animated series to get a TV-MA rating. However, ''Spicy City'' (created on July 11, 1997) was actually made before ''South Park'' (which was created on August 13, 1997), and ''South Park'' became a smash hit while ''Spicy City'' -- like many of Ralph Bakshi's works -- is seen more as a CultClassic.

* CompleteMonster: [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Corbin]], from the series finale "Raven's Revenge", is the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive CEO]] of [=AlternaCeuticals=], the company that created Raven. A [[EvilutionaryBiologist psychopathic eugenicist]], Corbin wants to wipe out all those he's deemed genetically inferior and aberrant, and plans on doing it with a virus that he tests on Raven and carnival freaks. When symptoms begin to manifest in the carriers, Corbin has the crowded carnival bombed under the pretense of containing an outbreak before instructing his men to LeaveNoWitnesses as they move in to capture Raven. When confronted, Corbin implies that he was responsible for the death of Raven's mother, and rants about how he is going to eliminate all of the "mutants and freaks" with his plague, which he also intends to profit off of thanks to his "good fiscal policy" of WithholdingTheCure to diseases in favor of overpriced treatments that are developed as slowly as possible.

* OlderThanTheyThink: As stated on the main page, most people think that ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' was the first adults-only cartoon series. However, ''Spicy City'' (created on July 11, 1997) was actually made before ''South Park'' (which was created on August 13, 1997).

* LesYay: In the episode "Sex Drive", the female cop is very receptive to the prostitute's seduction, and they flat out become a couple in the end.

* CompleteMonster: [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain Corbin]], from the series finale "Raven's Revenge", is the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive CEO]] of [=AlternaCeuticals=], the MegaCorp that created Raven. A [[EvilutionaryBiologist psychopathic eugenicist]], Corbin wants to wipe out all those he's deemed genetically inferior and aberrant, and plans on doing it with a virus that he tests on Raven and carnival freaks. When symptoms begin to manifest in the carriers, Corbin has the crowded carnival bombed under the pretense of containing an outbreak before instructing his men to LeaveNoWitnesses as they move in to capture Raven. When confronted, Corbin implies that he was responsible for the death of Raven's mother, and rants about how he is going to eliminate all of the "mutants and freaks" with his plague, which he also intends to profit off of thanks to his "good fiscal policy" of WithholdingTheCure to diseases in favor of overpriced treatments that are developed as slowly as possible.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Did the old man at the end of Tears of a Clone know that the clone wasn't his daughter, but kept her because he was so lonely? Or was he just Senile and couldn't tell the difference.

* LesYay: In the episode "Sex Drive", the female cop seems very receptive to the prostitute's seduction.
** ''Seems''? They flat out become a couple in the end.

* LesYay: In the episode "Sex Drive", the female cop seems very receptive to the prostitute's seduction.

* LesYay: In the episode "Sex Drive", the female cop seems very receptive to the prostitute's seduction.