YMMV / Freaknik: The Musical

• Awesome Music: "Freaknik is Back!" "We The Mob" and "Ghetto Commandments" being the standouts.
• Better on DVD: Aside from the uncensored swearing, the DVD release also features all the material that was cut for time, giving us not only some funny gags but also tying up some plot threads that were left unaddressed in the TV edit.
• Harsher in Hindsight: There's a scene where Trap Jesus is shown in prison, calling the Sweet Tea Mob from behind a Plexiglass barrier. Lil' Wayne, who voiced Trap Jesus, actually was in prison when the special first aired.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In 2019, Freaknik did come back, a whole 10 years after it was cancelled.
• One-Scene Wonder: Some of the characters played by bigger-named stars such as Snoop Dogg, Lil Jon, and Big Boi don't show up for very long despite receiving close-to-top billing in promos, but they nevertheless leave an impression.
• Unintentional Period Piece: Seriously, the whole special is basically what hip-hop and urban music was in 2007-2011. Beside guest starting rappers who were at their peak such as Rick Ross and Lil Wayne ^note  who, while both still very popular, their popularity aren't the same as their peak due to the rise of acts like Meek Mill and Drake, both of whom are signed to Ross's Maybach Music Group and Wayne's Young Money Entertainment respectively and having rappers and musicians who fell off the mainstream music consciousness such as star T-Pain, ^note  who completely fell off the mainstream charts after 2011 and is now relegated to reality TV and a steamer on Twitch Lil' Jon ^note  who's popularity was long starting to wane due to Crunk already being long dead by 2010 and is now a DJ, hypeman, and reality show star who's last hit was "Turn Down For What" with DJ Snake in 2014 , and Cee Lo Green ^note  who career became mostly quiet at this point after his controversial tweets discussing his infamous sexual battery case in 2014 and is now focused on reality TV and quietly releasing music every once in a while that gather no interest in audience , the special's soundtrack is also sound very clearly from the late-2000s as artists in the vein of T-Pain are all but dead in the mainstream consciousness by 2012 due to the rise of similar rap/R&B/pop-hybrid artists like Drake and The Weeknd and the rise of Trap Music and off-shots such as Latin-trap and Reggaeton throughout the 2010s has made this whole special a product of its time.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not Symbolic?: Trap Jesus just happens to actually be Jesus. He even has his own Ghetto Ten Commandments.

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