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  • Aluminum Christmas Trees: Beaver Tails—the wide, flat pastries Snack Shack sells—exist in real life, and come in a wide variety of flavours. The company is Canada-based, making this trope slightly more relevant outside of the home country.
  • Americans Hate Tingle: Like its predecessor 6Teen, the show wasn't very popular in America. Cartoon Network couldn't even bother finishing the series as it was removed after the season 1 episode "Endless Bummer", leaving the rest of season 1 and the entirety of season 2 unaired.
  • Awesome Music:
    • The theme song performed by Voodoo Highway Music & Post, INC.
    • Most of the soundtrack would count, as most of it consists of mid-to-late 2000's punk rock. For example, the first scene of the show plays "Dear Maria, Count Me In" by All Time Low.
  • Die for Our Ship: Lo tends to get this for hooking up with Reef and dating him for nearly the entirety of Season 2, to the disappointment of Fin/Reef shippers who had to wait until the Grand Finale for their preferred ship to become official.
  • Fan-Preferred Couple: From the looks of a recent poll, it looks like an overwhelming amount of the fanbase would have preferred Emma to have gotten together with Johnny rather than Ty.
  • Friendly Fandoms: With Total Drama and 6teen, for obvious reasons.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: Years later, the Total Drama reboot would also have a character named Ripper for meaningful reasons.
  • Ho Yay:
    • Reef and Broseph.
    • Reef's bromance in "Groms Gone Wild".
    • Ripper and No Pants Lance.
  • It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: While generally considered a solid series in its own right, the show does get a lot of criticism for being a little too similar to its predecessors.
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  • So Okay, It's Average: Stōked has its fans and is a solid show in its own right, but doesn't particularly stand out from the rest of Teletoon's lineup in the late 2000s and is often criticized for being too derivative of Fresh TV's previous series.
  • Strangled by the Red String: How some feel of Reef/Lo, especially in the season two episode "Channel Surfers". One could say the same thing about Reef/Fin.
  • Unintentionally Sympathetic: Reef and Johnny in "O Broseph, Where Art Thou?". Despite showcasing how bad of a roommate Broseph is at the start of the episode, the pair are treated as if they're in the wrong for kicking Broseph out of their shared room. At the end of the episode Broseph has learned nothing from the experience while Reef and Johnny are stuck pampering him. In turn Broseph comes off as...
  • Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Broseph is shown at his worst at the start of "O Broseph, Where Art Thou?", crossing from slovenly to outright disgusting and disrespectful of his friends. Understandably no one else wants to let Broseph bunk with them because of his bad habits and gross behaviours so he ends up building a sandcastle on the beach to stay in. By the end of the episode, other than a brief throwaway line, Broseph appears to have learnt nothing from the experience, makes no effort whatsoever to change his ways, and instead gets Reef and Johnny to pamper him back in their shared room.
  • Vindicated by History: Much like 6teen before it, Stōked did poorly in the United States on Cartoon Network, although it tanked even harder with low ratings getting the show's airings canceled in America after 22 episodes. It certainly didn't help that it aired during the height of CN's Audience-Alienating Era. However, in the years since, the show has found some greater appreciation from fans, who see it as a much-needed source of relief in a time when CN started airing large amounts of live-action fare and have praised it for what it did right, even if the show still ultimately remains in the shadow of its much more popular predecessors.
  • What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: Like 6teen and Total Drama before it, the show features some very realistic depictions of teenagers, meaning there's some mild swearing and sexual references, as well as some censored nudity. Despite all this, the show aired on a kids' channel and got a G rating in its home country of Canada.

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