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3	* {{Adorkable}}: Brad is really shy, nervous, and loves comics and butterflies.
4	* {{Anvilicious}}: Each episode carries a moral, and they're approached with all the subtlety of throwing a cinder block at someone's head. Then again, that's probably the point, and the lessons are good for kids anyways.
5	* AwardSnub: The show got nominated at the 2020 Annies, but lost in its 2 categories to ''WesternAnimation/AskTheStorybots'' and ''WesternAnimation/TucaAndBertie''.
6	* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt:
7	** The art style is clearly a tribute to such comic strips as ''Franchise/{{Peanuts}}'' and ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', and the animation is pretty fluid.
8	** "I Am Maya Angelou" includes powerful, colorful visuals to accompany Maya's poem. The colors stand out. Yellow is used for positivity, like when the kids are protected from the rain. Red is used for negativity when the memories of Xavier and Yadina's hurtful comments towards each other come flooding back. Towards the start, a silhouette of a king is shown. Someone whispers something mean into his ear, and he literally shatters, showing that no one is immune to unkind words, not even mighty kings.
9	** The backgrounds look gorgeous. The sunset in "I Am Sacagawea" deserves a special mention for its stunning mix of colors.
10	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
11	** The theme song is extremely catchy and manages to explain the premise of the show and get you excited for it.
12	** "It's You" is a sweet little song about friendship that is played in between some episodes of the show. It features Berby and Dr. Zoom.
13	** In "I Am Ella Fitzgerald", Ella performs a great rendition of "A Tisket, A Tasket". Kudos to Delia Chambers, the voice for her.
14	** Celia Cruz's short but catchy salsa song "La vida es un canto de amor" in "I Am Celia Cruz". Many people wish it was a real song.
15	** "I Am Ibn Battuta" has catchy, pleasant-sounding Arabic-style background music throughout the episode, fitting the episode's setting of Morocco.
16	* BrokenBase: "I Am Jackie Robinson" is a point of contention for the fanbase. It gets praise for tackling racism (something rarely done in modern preschool shows), but it also gets criticized for comparing serious issues like systemic racism to minor disagreements between kids; Yadina wasn't allowed to play on the swings because of her red coat, which is something she can change, unlike skin color. Jackie befriending Sarah, who was racist to him, was also criticized for teaching kids to befriend bigots, which can have disastrous consequences. As such, the episode was banned from PBS along with its sister episode, "I Am Anna Pavlova".
17	* CantUnHearIt: Just try to read George Washington's ''Ordinary People Change the World'' book without hearing Maxim Lutterotti's voice. Or Jackie Robinson's book without Jazz Stewart's voice. Or Amelia Earhart's book without Markeda [=McKay=]'s voice. You get the idea.
18	* CriticalDissonance: Joyce Slaton of ''Website/CommonSenseMedia'' [[AndYouThoughtItWouldFail bashed the show for containing "historical inaccuracies"]], but the show has managed to score a decent-sized fandom, not minding the reviews [[https://www.commonsensemedia.org/tv-reviews/xavier-riddle-and-the-secret-museum on the page]] left by [[{{Troll}} obvious Trolls]].[[note]]Whether or not they're [[AstroTurf AstroTurfers]] has not been confirmed.[[/note]]
19	* CrossesTheLineTwice: Children dying? Not funny. Xavier pretending to kick the bucket in "I Am Mary Shelley"? ''Hilarious''.
20	* DiagnosedByTheAudience: According to the fandom, all three of the kids are neurodivergent. Specifically, Xavier has ADHD, Yadina has OCD, and Brad is autistic.
21	* EnsembleDarkhorse:
22	** Helen Keller is the most popular of the historical heroes due to her adorable design and inspirational, heartwarming story.
23	** Sally Ride is the most popular of the heroes featured in "I Am Madam President", thanks to being the first LGBTQ+ hero featured in the series and due to her segment being the most dramatic and inspiring. [[spoiler:Great-Great Grandma Riddle has developed quite the fanbase as well]].
24	** Jamie, the new kid at school who debuted in "I Am Arthur Ashe", is already popular because of her sweet personality and adorable design.
25	** Harper doesn't appear much, but is loved by the fandom because of her love for dinosaurs.
26	** Yadina's friend Ben has fans even outside the fandom due to being good autistic representation.
27	* FanonWelding: Fans believe that the show takes place in the same universe as ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', since a FreezeFrameBonus, whenever the kids are in the Secret Museum, shows that Journal 3 is located in one of the cubbies.
28	* FriendlyFandoms:
29	** With the ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'', ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'', and ''WesternAnimation/LetsGoLuna'' fandoms, thanks to them all being well-written and educational modern PBS cartoons. It helps that Yadina from ''Xavier'' and Honey from ''Luna'' have the same VA - Zoe Hatz. Also, Brad is somewhat similar to Sean from ''Jet''.
30	** With ''Series/MisterRogersNeighborhood'', since the show featured Fred Rogers as the historical hero in the final regular episode of Season 1.
31	* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: [[Heartwarming/XavierRiddleAndTheSecretMuseum Now with its own page]].
32	* {{Moe}}: Thanks to the SuperDeformed art style and BlackBeadEyes that everyone has, all the child characters can come off as this. Shout out to Xavier, Yadina, and Brad, for having cute personalities to match their cute appearances.
33	* NightmareFuel:
34	** In "I Am Madam President", [[spoiler:Berby '''''dies''''' due to her batteries running low, and drifts off into space]].
35	** "I Am Harriet Tubman" is equally terrifying, especially due to its subject matter of slavery. Harriet and her family were enslaved and treated cruelly all because of their skin color, something they have no control over. Harriet risks her life to escape from slavery and rescue her family from the clutches of the slavemaster.
36	* PeripheryDemographic: The show already has a loyal teen and adult fanbase thanks to its clever writing and use of historical heroes.
37	* SignatureLine:
38	** "Thank you for joining our awesome adventure to meet ____"
39	** "I wonder who the secret museum will send us to meet."
40	* {{Squick}}: In "I Am George Washington", Yadina gets a crush on Kid!George Washington, but it comes off as somewhat cringeworthy rather than cute because George Washington eventually grew up, married someone else, and died, so essentially Yadina is crushing on a dead person.
41	* TearJerker: [[TearJerker/XavierRiddleAndTheSecretMuseum Now with its own page]].
42	* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Once the online shorts were released, the fandom, particularly on [=TikTok=] had negative reactions towards Xavier's new voice (in season 2, he was replaced again by Ian Ho). They even started a hashtag to get Aidan Vissers to come back; he's just that iconic.
43	* ToyShip:
44	** Some people ship Yadina/Brad, due to OppositesAttract.
45	** Harper/Xavier is gaining traction, helped by their interactions in "I Am Sir Arthur Conan Doyle".
46	** On Wattpad, people ship Brad with Brian. This consequently makes Brian an ArmouredClosetGay in fanfiction. Others ship Brian with Yadina, his victim.
47	* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome: The effects used when the kids travel through time are well-done and have a great color palette.
48	* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: The show and its accompanying book series ''Ordinary People Change the World'' can slip into this territory at times due to covering topics not a lot of other preschool shows/books do such as racism[[note]]In "I Am Rosa Parks", "I Am Martin Luther King Jr", "I Am Jackie Robinson", and "I Am Harriet Tubman"[[/note]], slavery[[note]]"I Am Harriet Tubman" again[[/note]], sexism[[note]]"I Am Marie Curie", "I Am Susan B. Anthony" and "I Am Billie Jean King"[[/note]], war,[[note]]"I Am George Washington" (book only, not the episode)[[/note]] etc, to the point where MoralGuardians and HeteronormativeCrusaders deemed the series inappropriate for kids. Also, in the ''I Am Madam President'' special, [[spoiler:Berby '''''dies''''' and drifts off into space. You read that right, a PBS Kids show killed off one of its main characters. She did come back though]].
49	* TheWoobie: It's pretty hard to not feel bad for Brad. He has very low self-esteem despite all his talents and accomplishments, has many allergies, and is always apprehensive to go back in time. Special mention to "I Am Susan B. Anthony" and "I Am Alexander Graham Bell". In the former, Xavier and Yadina won't let him have a vote on what will go where in the Secret Museum, and in the latter, he loses his voice, and Xavier and Yadina won't listen to him.

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