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  • Accidental Innuendo: The title, though meaningful, also sounds like an Unusual Euphemism.
  • Demographically Inappropriate Humour:
    • For the most part, the game is fairly kid-friendly. However, some areas contain posters that depict a ball with bunny-ears captioned with Playbob.
    • The soccer/football minigame in the arcade is called A Kick in the Balls.
  • Friendly Fandoms: With Polandball, due to both being about living balls patterned with country flags, although Bang-On Balls has no relation due to the lack of political elements and being family-friendly in content. Funnily enough, Bang-On Balls was even developed by a Polish studio.
  • Funny Moments: The Zombies in The Viking Invasion constantly scream 'Zombie! Zombie! Zombie!' in an unfittingly high-pitched voice.
  • Game-Breaker: The jet hat allows you to float in midair for several seconds, which can completely break several platforming sequences. It also raises you in the air slightly, which also allows you to reach higher places. Both of these combined also notably make the otherwise hairpullingly difficult Ultimate Bang-On Mega Bricks minigamenote  much easier.
  • Most Wonderful Sound: "Bang on!"
  • Quirky Work: It's a 3D platform game in which all the characters are balls with eyes patterned with country flags. Additionally, the levels are located inside tv portals that you jump into. None of this is explained in-game, but that's what makes it so hilarious.
  • Spiritual Successor:
    • Essentially a modernized take on the Banjo-Kazooie formula. Though its worlds are far more open-ended.
    • It's also one to Gex Enter The Gecko due to the movie-based setting.
  • That One Sidequest: The arcade machine outfit in "Ultimate Bang-On Mega Bricks" is utterly ludicrous to get under normal circumstances that you'd be forgiven for thinking it was a joke. The other arcades have tough-but-fair requirements for their gear, with A Kick In The Balls going 3,7,10,12,15 and Super Car Banger Turbo having a little more extreme 2,4,8,16,32, but then Bricks shoves all of that aside and goes 1,2,3...and then jumps all the way to 17! Not helping matters is during the 3rd round another ball appears on the center podium that will throw tetris pieces at you to try and knock you off. The only saving grace is that you can cheat the system by using a flying item (The winged cap you get from defeating Viking Bob Boss or the jetpack you get at the end of Space Race) to get onto the podium and bypass a lot of the hardships.
  • Vanilla Protagonist: Bob barely has any characteristics, though you can customize him to your liking.

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