YMMV / Eek! The Cat

• Awesome Music:
  • Eek's rockin' theme song.
  • Release the Lawyers!
  • "Can't Stop The Bugs" from OutbrEek
  • The Thunderlizard's theme, as sung by Dee Snyder of Twisted Sister.
  • Klutter's cheerful theme.
  • The SNES game's soundtrack is surprisingly amazing and easily one of the hidden gems of the 16-bit era. The game itself is an obscure and Nintendo Hard platformer that somehow manages to have its entire gameplay revolve around Escort Missions.
• Cult Classic: Thanks to years of airing on Fox Kids, then vanishing after the Disney buyout, it's definitely this.
• Dueling Shows: Had many similarities to Garfield and Friends (see Follow the Leader): besides the talking cats, also had a similar two-story format.
• Fridge Brilliance: The title of the prehistoric segment "The Terrible Thunder Lizards" is actually deeper than it looks. On the surface, it suggests that they are fearsome creatures — which, in a sense, they are, given they are giant ruthless dinosaur warriors, and in-universe they do scare the humans they're chasing. But it also has the deeper meaning that Doc, Squat and Cutter are "terrible thunder lizards" in the sense that they are terrible at being thunder lizards — which is born out by how they repeatedly fail to achieve their mission. Even the opening theme plays on this ambiguous syntax to emphasize the dual meanings, with the last lines of the song being a refrain of the phrase "they're terrible thunder lizards" — the first coming when they try to blast the humans with a bee bomb mortar, and the second coming after the humans accidentally knock the bomb back at them, so it's the dinosaurs who get hurt.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • Sharky and Eek hugging at the end of "The Great Eekscape". Sharky is the one who actually initiates the hug. This was right around where the writers started giving Sharky more depth.
  • After everything a starving Eek goes through in "Misereek", his family welcomes him home with a basket of food.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • In "Eek Space 9", Scully realises Mulder was right all along when an alien spaceship crashes in her office; this was during the 1995-96 season, several years before Scully's conversion became canon on the live-action show! Made even funnier by David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson voicing their characters.
  • Also, General Galapagos was voiced by Kurtwood Smith- in a sense, being neighbors with Don Stark (who voiced The Rhino in Spiderman The Animated Series at the same time on Fox Kids) before That '70s Show came along (which also aired on Fox, to add to the irony).
  • Curtis Armstrong voices Scooter, the nice guy in a duo with the mean, grouchy Bill. A few decades later, Armstrong would play another cartoon character in a similar duo in Dan Vs.... except this time, he plays the mean guy, Dan.
• Jerkass Woobie: Sharky. There are episodes where he maims and attacks Eek but he gets abused more than any other character in the show. He is horribly abused in "Shark Therapy", forced into being nice in "A Sharkwork Orange", and bullied by mailmen in "The Gradueek". Most of his translated dialogue consists of sarcastic jabs at Eek or "Why me?" before he receives inevitable harm. Also, his soft, puppylike whimpers when he gets hurt will make you pity him in spite of the fact that he's a bloodthirsty guard dog.
• Just Here for Godzilla: Scooter and Bill are the best things about the Terrible Thunderlizards segments. Many viewers have compared them to SpongeBob and Squidward.
• The Problem with Licensed Games: The series had a miserable platformer for the SNES released by Ocean Software in 1994. Rather than simply move Eek! through the various levels as one might expect to do, Eek! has to safely guide an NPC to the exit by kicking or pushing him or her out of harm's way. This is easier said than done since the NPC constantly walks forward. Combined with miserable controls, the game is jam-packed with Fake Difficulty. Additionally, the game features some of the darkest, dingiest graphics◊ to ever disgrace the SNES. Finally, to add insult to injury, the game is little more than a mere Dolled-Up Installment of an Amiga game called Sleepwalker, with only one original level up its sleeve.
• Quirky Work: You've got: a series about a stupidly optimistic yet accident prone cat who gets caught up in all manner of fantastical scenarios; a series about three incompetent dinosaurs trying engage in genocide of humanity; and a series about a group of average teens getting into weird situations with their best friend, an mass of clothing and other bits and bobs brought to life by static electricity.
• Ugly Cute: Sharky again. Also Klutter, from his segments.
• The Woobie: You have to feel bad for Sharky sometimes. Could also qualify as a Jerkass Woobie. Eek and Bill also qualify.

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