YMMV / Baldo

• Crosses the Line Twice: One strip in 2002 had them go on a road trip through Colorado and talk about how beautiful its Scenery Porn is... only for them to find the state apparently burnt down◊. At the time, Colorado was in the news for wildfires, and the timing caused a lot of people to find it Actually Pretty Funny.
• Heartwarming Moments: One strip features Sergio and Baldo volunteering at a soup kitchen, with Sergio talking about how it's better to help the homeless instead of just complaining about it, and saying that he hopes Baldo will teach the same lesson to his children. The last panel shows an older Baldo volunteering at the soup kitchen with his young son, telling the boy the same thing Sergio told him.
• Squick: One series of strips featured Baldo romancing a bottle of conditioner in the shower.
• Values Resonance:
  • One early collection was "Night of the bilingual telemarketers". Telemarketing suffered a resurgence in The New '10s.
  • One story involving a gang activity monitor named Mr. Harold (falsely) accusing Baldo of being in a gang based on his ethnicity and misinterpretation of gang activities (such as "rock, paper, and scissor" as gang signs, and sharing adult magazines as plans) became more relevant as many crime-prevention methods based on "tough on crime" policies—especially anti-gang activities—has been scrutinized on their harsh punishment on relatively minor crimes and use of racial profiling that often had people who ended up in prison where many either failed to reform or became hardened criminals.

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