YMMV / James Bond Jr.

• Crosses the Line Twice: The leader of a Qurac nation is named Sheikh Yabootie.
• Fashion-Victim Villain: Oddjob is for some reason dressed like Flavor Flav.
• Funny Moments:
  • When James and his friends returned from an adventure in the desert, they brought Trevor a "gift". A bag of sand they dumped on him. James said Trevor would not go hungry because he could search his pockets for "the sand which is there".
  • The utterly bizarre Villains Out Shopping scene in "Garden of Evil" where Doctor No excuses himself for lunch, which consists of an entire cabbage that No blends before sipping the resultant slop in front of a bewildered Oddjob.
  • Whenever Jaws and Nick Nack have to work together for a villain, they almost always argue and cause a lot of headaches for the villains. One example is in “Queen’s Ransom”, where a girl named Jade who was kidnapped with her missile engineer father managed to escape and was rescued by James after SCUM agents pursued her. When Walker D. Plank informed her father of Jade’s escape, he blamed Jaws and Nick Nack for leaving her unguarded. Nick Nack promptly blamed Jaws, who denied it, leading to a brief argument that Plank had to stop. Fridge Brilliance kicks in when you consider that the most likely reason why Jade was left unguarded was because Jaws and Nick Nack were so busy arguing (possibly over who would watch her) that they forgot to guard her properly!
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • A flying Aston Martin DB5? Whoever would conceive of such a thing?
  • A pirate named Walker D. Plank sounds much funnier after one knows about One Piece, especially with the fact that pirates with the middle initial "D" are seen as special.
  • And courtesy of Spectre, the head of the titular organization, Ernst Stavro Blofeld (born Franz Oberhauser) is the foster brother of James Bond. Suddenly, James Junior's existence becomes a particularly hysterical piece of Black Comedy.
  • James' hair and accent may bring to mind Joseph Joestar.
  • Bond Jr's appearance and "British" accent look and sound an awful lot like Pierce Brosnan, four years before GoldenEye was released, creating theories that Brosnan's Bond is the same version, helped by the fact everyone else got noticeably older or outright had 'retired'.
  • While Pierce's Bond continued to use the original Q up until his own 'retirement', Daniel Craig had a very excitable younger geeky version of Q, making him seemingly the adult version of I.Q, having inherited his grandfather's profession after R was dismissed.
• Like You Would Really Do It: In the episode "Hostile Takeover", James discovers a SCUM plot to kidnap the head of the British Secret Service as part of a plan to take over the organization. He is found and after a chase through the rooftops of Warfield Academy, he seemingly falls from a great height into the water below, and his friends (along with the villains) believe James died. But of course, James not only was alive, he never actually fell into the water! Instead, one of the villains who had an appearance-changing device was mistaken for James and fell to his death. It Makes Sense in Context.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • In her debut episode, Goldie Finger has a minion who had failed her dragged off to an unknown fate by Barbella. It is later revealed that the man was killed by being drenched in molten gold, and that he has joined the ranks of a bunch of other gold-entombed victims that are kept on display by Goldie.
  • "The Thing in the Ice" has a bleak Antarctic setting, and is surprisingly suspenseful, taking its time to unveil the Mechanical Monster, which has a creepy wailing shriek.
• Retroactive Recognition: Jeff Bennett gets his first major voice acting roles as Horace "I.Q." Boothroyd III and Nick Nack.
• So Bad, It's Good: The animation is stiff, the voice acting is cheesy, the villains make those in Captain Planet and the Planeteers look nuanced by comparison, and the attempts at humor are hilariously dated to the early 90s. However, most episodes perfectly mimic the structure of a James Bond film, and the writers did not let the complete lack of budget get in their way of throwing every idea they had at the wall. The show is dumb, but watched in the right mindset it can be hilarious viewing.
• Squick: The Chameleon's face-shifting looks kind of gross, and the sound effects used for it certainly do not help.
• Trapped by Mountain Lions: It was not uncommon for the main storyline to be interrupted by an inane comic relief subplot that usually involved Trevor.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: The experimental mining robot from "The Thing in the Ice." The characters express no sympathy or pity for it after it is destroyed, giving the impression that they saw it as Just a Machine, even though it was clearly intelligent, and tragically depicted as being desperate to create more beings like itself, at one point even being shown protectively clutching its "eggs."

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