YMMV / 6teen

• Americans Hate Tingle: When it originally came to the United States, Americans hated the show, and as a result, it failed to gain an audience twice in the States, first on Nickelodeon, then on Cartoon Network. The latter aired the finale, but pulled the show immediately after. Fortunately, it would eventually become Vindicated by History over there.
• Base-Breaking Character:
  • Jonesy tends to either be loved for his funny and charismatic personality, or hated for going too far with his Casanova Wannabe schtick at times and being the most prone to taking a level in Jerkass (usually due to his negative traits such as laziness or dishonesty). And unlike his girlfriend Nikki who only really becomes a Jerk with a Heart of Gold at her worst, he tends to lack the heart of gold when he does it.
  • Caitlin tends to either be loved for being a sweet and cute blonde girl, or hated for being incredibly shallow, materialistic, obliviously annoying, and tendency to be Innocently Insensitive.
  • Wyatt tends to either be loved for his love of music and being the sanest boy of the group or hated for his creepy and clingy Entitled to Have You behavior around Serena after their breakup.
• Designated Hero:
  • In "Over Exposed":
    • Nikki after Chrissy quits. Although we're supposed to believe that she's a good guy, her insulting of customers for no reason without her co-workers to stop her (and their eventual joining in) combined with the fact that she brings them to Chrissy to brag about how she's become their controller (ironic, since she thinks of herself as a free-thinking rebel) pretty much cement her as an example, at least for one episode. The comparison gets more ironic when Chrissy actually gives up her nice job to prove The Power of Friendship.
    • Jen. When Jonesy saw her naked by complete accident she and Nikki humiliate and cost him a job he was doing fine at by displaying a picture of him naked on the Soft Rock Cafe. And the episode treats this as karma.
  • In "Boo, Dude", the viewer is supposed to cheer for the boys as they attempt to pull a prank on the Jerkass Rent-A-Cop. However, their practical joke borders on being a criminal offense: they close off all bathroom stalls in the mall sans one, then cover the only remaining seat with a thin layer of butter, ensuring that whoever sits on it slides inside and gets stuck in the bowl. Their ultimate objective is to take a picture of Ron as he is helpless and with his pants down.
• Die for Our Ship: Some Wyatt/Marlowe shippers really hate Serena with a passion.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: The Clones (Nikki's coworkers at the Khaki Barn) are pretty popular characters, with Kristen (the green-eyed one with long hair pushed back with a headband that's blue with red polka dots) being the most popular.
• Fanon Discontinuity: Several Jude/Starr and Wyatt/Marlowe shippers like to pretend their breakups in canon never ever happened.
• First Installment Wins: Season one's considered to be the best season in the show considering that it had classic episodes and the character's personalities were toned down in that season than how they were portrayed in the other seasons.
• Friendly Fandoms: Fans of the show tend to also enjoy Total Drama and Stōked, which were all made by the same creators.
• Girl-Show Ghetto: Airs exclusively on PopGirl in the UK despite being a unisex show.
• Harsher in Hindsight: In one episode, a massive food poisoning epidemic hits the mall and the results get played for everyone's amusement. With several E. coli outbreaks in Canada in the decade that followed, it gets a lot less funny to look at. Also a bit of unintended foreshadowing, considering later in the series Jude gets fired for bad food management which is what caused the food poisoning in the first place.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Examples involving Total Drama:
    • In the pilot episode, when ranting about Caitlin's incompetence, Jen shouts, "I knew I should have hired that weird goth chick!" A few years later, her voice actress, Megan Fahlenbock, would voice Gwen the goth girl, who even gets called "Weird Goth Girl" by her rival Heather.
    • Kai, the assistant security guard from the episode "The New Kid", is voiced by Drew Nelson, who would later appear as Duncan, a character on the opposite side of the law.
    • In "It's Always Courtney, Courtney, Courtney" Jen complains about how her sister Courtney is the better sister. Megan Fahlenbock would go on to voice Gwen, where her legendary rival with that Courtney is because she started dating her boyfriend Duncan.
  • Count all the teenagers that turn into zombies in "Dude of the Living Dead", and then watch the first episode of Gravity Falls where they compare teenagers to zombies.
  • The Halloween special revolves around a zombie outbreak at a mall, with the few remaining survivors teaming up to rescue civilians, fighting off the undead with improvised weapons, and trying to figure out a way to escape. The exact same concept would be explored again one year later, when Capcom released the first entry in its famous Dead Rising series.
  • Wayne's hatred of Top M16 becomes this as of 2022 when a sequel to Top Gun, Top Gun: Maverick, came out and it was even more popular than the original.
• Nausea Fuel:
  • In "Crime Of Fashion" Jonesy's forced to eat a booger-covered ice cream in front of his date after Robbie puts a booger on his sundae.
  • In "Silent Butt Deadly", Nikki clogs the toilet, and her attempts to fix it cause it to overflow. When Jonesy shows up to help, he trips off-screen and falls into something "gross", implying that he got covered in her waste.
  • In "Dude of the Living Dead", Jude is kissing Starr when Jen pops her zit and showers him with pus. This causes him to vomit inside his girlfriend's mouth.
  • In "Khaki Girl" Everyone (sans Caitlin and Jonesy) start vomiting after consuming rancid Chunklets that Jonesy sold to them.
  • In "Quit It" everyone who consumed Nikki's muffins ended up going to the washrooms after she accidentally put laxatives in said muffins.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The looks of the zombies from the "Dude of the Living Dead" special can scare some younger viewers.
  • Nikki's REALLY angry face when she gives Jonesy a fist in one episode.
• Retroactive Recognition: Nikki is Iris, Jen is Ace, at least as of Season Three, and Jude was at one point MePhone4. For Total Drama fans, Jen is Gwen, Jude is Chris, Wayne is Justin, Chrissy is Courtney, Kirsten is Lindsay and Katie, Kristen is Sadie, and Serena is Leshawna. When taking the Ridonculous Race Spin-Off of the series into account, Nikki is Emma and Crimson, Jonesy is Don the host, Darth is Chet, and Chrissy is Laurie and Ellody, as well, while Kirsten is also Kitty.
• Rooting for the Empire: In "Employee of the Month", some viewers would have preferred if Nikki stayed a brainwashed clone, because of both her less abrasive personality and cute new look.
• The Scrappy:
  • Wyatt's ex-girlfriend, Serena, is definitely this: text message thing aside, breaking up with a Nice Guy like Wyatt (for a largely superficial reason) just to get back together with her ex (a guy's who arguably/ironically way less mature than Wyatt is—and who also felt it was pretty low of Serena to break up with Wyatt via text message) didn't exactly go over well with fans. And neither did Serena's Clingy Jealous Girl-antics towards Wyatt after he finally got over his feelings for her and moved on to other girls (never mind the fact that she was the one who dumped Wyatt in the place).
  • Jude's ex-girlfriend, Starr, is this (although perhaps to a lesser extent)—she became Goth all of sudden and broke up with Jude for largely superficial reasons (although she at least admitted that she still cared a lot about Jude). It got worse after she adopted a nerd-persona and became an Insufferable Genius—she decided not to pursue a relationship with Jude after deeming not to be "intelligent enough" for her (she claimed that a person has to have an IQ of at least 130 to join her new nerd clique), but it later turns out that Jude actually has an IQ of 175.
• Tear Jerker: The show's two-part series finale. Nikki's dad gets a new job. This would normally be a happy moment, but the new job means Nikki has to move away. The ending montage is especially sad.
• Unintentional Period Piece: This show is very clearly set in the first half of the 2000s —
  • Every character with a cellphone is shown with a flip-phone instead of a smartphone.
  • Video rental stores are still a thing, with two of the characters even working at one for a large part of the show—also, illegal copies of movies and TV-shows are shared by selling discs instead of just streaming them over the internet. The rival store of the video rental store is considered one of the best places to work at at the mall, and the video rental store two of the characters work at shuts down due to seemingly bad management than anything else.
  • Texting is big while apps and social media are rarely (if ever) referenced—and when the latter is referenced, it's not until much later in the series, when websites like Facebook or even Myspace were still fairly new.
  • The characters only ever have a little trouble finding new jobs with almost no references, clearly pre-Great Recession when competition for jobs made it harder for high schoolers to find part-time work in favor of unemployed adults.
  • In "The Girls in the Band," Jen and Caitlin are shown listening to a song on a portable CD-player instead of listening to music through something like a smartphone or, at the very least, a portable music player such as an iPod.
  • With both the "retail apocalypse" and COVID-19 laying waste to brick-and-mortar retail, teens wouldn't be likely to hang around at malls anymore. Well, not for a while at least.
• Values Dissonance: Canada fully legalized same-sex marriage in July of 2005 and is much more accepting of homosexuality as a whole, so "Role Reversal" (which aired in 2010) aired there no problem; but the US didn't legalize same-sex marriage in all 50 states until just less than 10 years later, and opinions on homosexuality remain starkly divisive in parts of the US, which was why the episode was banned from airing in the States.
• Vindicated by History: In the US, that is. When the show was airing on CN, many viewers dismissed it as a less interesting, economy cast take on Total Drama, another Teletoon original which was one of the channel's flagship franchises, despite the fact that this show was made first. Long after the series finale was aired, it has seen renewed interest for having much the same humor and teenage melodrama, but drastically decreased to fit a smaller cast prone to Slice of Life misadventures. The more grounded tone and cast allowed for consistent characterization, as opposed to Total Drama which tended to stretch the focus thin to try and have time for everyone. In short, the reasons for its initial dismissal were the same that earned it a solid fanbase and a better lasting reputation.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: The show aired on a kid's channel (i.e. Teletoon) with a G rating in Canada... and it featured realistically portrayed teenagers. And that means the occasional curse and talk about sex was indeed a part of the show.

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