YMMV / Dabchick

• Awesome Music: The majority of music, composed and performed by series creator Barnaby Dixon, is extremely fun to listen to. Dabchick also sings a variety of different songs, such as original ditties, covers, and parodies, all of which are typically the highlights of the videos.
• Growing the Beard: The early episodes are much shorter and more simplistic, and feature no dialogue, very little comedy, and occasionally crude puppetry. Later episodes are much more beloved for their comedy, music, and vast displays of creative and innovate puppetry.
• Nightmare Fuel: Has its own page.
• Squick:
  • On two occasions, Dabchick has unknowingly used condoms that he found lying on the ground for things other than their true purpose: he once confused them for rubber stockings and stuck his feet in them to keep his feet dry, and another time was stranded on an island and blew it up like a balloon, applied his own feces to make a face and called the inanimate companion "Johnson".
  • Dabchick, despite being a bird puppet, seems to have all of the same fluids as a human, resulting in him having realistic vomit and snot when he gets sick.
  • In the episode "Under Cover", Dabchick ventures into Barnaby's bed sheets, pretending he is spelunking. When he switches to ultraviolet light, he finds "cave art" and rigid "robes" that glow. Dabchick states that this place "must have been reserved for the most sacred of ceremonies", then proceeds to don one of the "robes" on his head.
  • In the episode "Dabchick Has Been Drinking", Dabchick eats a series of wild mushrooms that get him high. He then hallucinates that the cat Maisy is a "demigod", and follows her to the bushes to witness the "birth of a star"... when, in actuality, it is the cat defecating on-screen.
• Tear Jerker:
  • The real-life death of Barnaby Dixon's cat Maisy is worked into the series' narrative. The episode "Goodbye Maisy" has Dixon, in-character as Dabchick, give a lengthy eulogy about how much he loved the cat and how she was more like a sibling than a pet. Dixon shows heartwarming videos of the cat in her later years, all while solemnly mourning her passing.
    • Maisy's death would come back in the episode "Hello Matilda" where Dixon (and Dabchick) adopt the new kitten Matilda. Once again in-character as Dabchick, Dixon copes with Maisy's passing, visiting her grave and sadly explaining how, as much as he loves Matilda, he will always miss Maisy.
  • In the video "Can Dabchick Be Saved?", Dabchick reveals that he is dying. Sort of. He's a puppet, and he's quickly wearing out, with pieces of him falling off and many of his mechanics failing. He says that there's nothing that can be done except be rebuilt from scratch, and then advertises a crowdfunding campaign for the funds to do so. Though the character plays it lightheartedly with jokes and a song, even reprimanding Barnaby for trying to play it dramatically, it can be saddening seeing the original puppet that audiences have grown attached to cracking and literally falling apart, as well as the knowledge that the next time Dabchick will appear, it won't be the same Dabchick.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: Despite the majority of the videos featuring puppet characters getting into hijinks, dancing, and singing, the series is definitely aimed for an older demographic, featuring swearing, politics, sexual conversations, lots of alcohol consumption, and thematic elements that would go over children's heads. Despite this, Barnaby Dixon has had to repeatedly clarify the series' intended audience, as COPPA repeatedly attempts to mark the videos as "for kids" for featuring "toys" and "bright colors".
  • This is addressed in the episode "Cop Mauled By Raptor", where the antagonistic Constable Wayne repeatedly and single-mindedly tries to shut the channel down for being a "toy channel", and Dabchick and the Raptor have to fend him off.