YMMV / Les Minikeums

• Fandom Rivalry: Among French nostalgics of The '90s, there's a divide between those who think the Club Dorothée was the better kids show and those who think Les Minikeums was. Of note, most of those who watched the Club Dorothée were born in the late 1970s-early 1980s (sometimes called "Xennials") while those who watched Les Minikeums were born in the mid-to-late 1980s and very early 1990s (full-on Millennials). For instance, Fred Molas, a Xennial, is a big Club Dorothée fan (up to making many a Shout-Out to it in his YouTube videos) and only did a video about Les Minikeums because of popular demand (and made no secret that he doesn't like it).
• Gateway Series:
  • This show introduced France to the DC Animated Universe in the 1990s starting with Batman: The Animated Series, and that move did much to increase interest in DC Comics characters in general there.
  • Ditto with introducing French children to the Looney Tunes and Nicktoons.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The character of Normy in the revival show was based on Norman Thavaud, a very popular French Youtuber who has become extremely controversial since 2020, most notably due to several rape accusations including minors.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: A skit from 1995 has Vaness (a puppet based on actress Vanessa Paradis) asking Zaza if she has seen the Johnny Depp movie on TV from the night before. Vanessa Paradis and Johnny Depp would be in a relationship from 1998 to 2012.
• Seasonal Rot: The MNK years (2000-2002) were reviled for removing much of what children loved about the puppet parts of the show. The colorful and practical office sets were removed and replaced by a grey futuristic CGI background, the music videos, comedic skits and Cinékeum short films were removed as well and the character lineup was considerably reduced. Audience ratings plummeted, and the show was terminated as a result.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!:
  • This was the overwhelming reaction to the 2000-2002 revamp MNK, for reasons mentioned in Seasonal Rot above.
  • Many people who were fond of the original show when they were children generally do not hold the 2010s revival in very high regard, partly because the cast includes puppets imitating the likes of Kev Adams and Norman Thavaud (who are especially reviled by such older generations and beloved by younger ones, especially celebrities who made their fame on YouTube like the latter) instead of the older ones. Nostalgia Filter applies heavily, naturally.
• Unintentional Period Piece: The revival show, especially (despite being much more recent, ironically). While the original iteration of the show was firmly rooted in The '90s, the fact that it parodied celebrities that for the most part were already well-established (and were more well-known by adults than by the actual target audience) meant that the puppets would still be recognized some years after the show ended (even decades in some cases), and that the show was less likely to suffer from sudden controversies related to real-life events, as it happened to Normy's character in the revival show (see the Harsher in Hindsight section above for details). On top on that, the revival show derived much of its humor from then-current technology fads, something that was much less present in the 90's show.
• Unpopular Popular Character: Coco was this in spades. He was an arrogant and blunt Small Name, Big Ego Butt-Monkey, but he was still the most popular character of the show for a reason.

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