YMMV / The Mr. Men Show

• Adaption Displacement: In America at least, where the original books aren't as known there as they are in their native UK.
• Adorkable:
  • Miss Whoops is a glasses-wearing klutz who wants to help others; her nasally US voice is more pleasing.
  • Mr. Nervous is a glasses-wearing coward who is huggable whenever he is scared.
• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Mr. Stubborn when he was trying to sell his car to Mr. Persnickety. Was he really just stubborn, or was he trying to scheme the buyer?
  • Miss Whoops with her causing accidents. Are they just simply accidents, or is she doing them on purpose?
  • Similar to Miss Whoops, is Miss Helpful just oblivious or is she a Jerkass who intentionally messes things up for her own sick kicks? This is because in "Inventions", she runs off quickly once Miss Calamity starts having chaos in her house after Mr. Lazy uses the remote, implying she wanted to cause trouble for Miss Calamity.
  • Many fans see Mr. Tickle as having a tickle fetish, Mr. Bump as a masochist, and Mr. Persnickety/Fussy as having OCD.
  • Some fans have speculated that Mr. Rude has a fart fetish considering his obsession with farting seems to go beyond normal Gasshole tendencies, such as having a doorbell that makes a farting noise.
• Aluminum Christmas Trees: Many of the dishes Mr. Grumpy and Mr. Fussy say in the show may sound obscure to younger viewers (e.g., Mashed Swede and yams, crepe suzette, bangers, and mash), but they are real foods.
• Awesome Music: The theme song. Quite a lot of the numbers within the show can be pretty boppy too, such as "Dillydale Dance Floor".
• Base-Breaking Character: Because of how the show is done with different character traits, many fans will have different opinions on the many characters.
  • Mr. Rude has gotten this treatment from the fanbase. He's either liked for having some of the funniest lines or disliked for being a soulless French stereotype whose entire schtick is fart jokes.
  • Characters like Miss Naughty and Miss Scary can be either seen as characters who either make the show enjoyable or don't get any comeuppance for their ruthless actions.
  • Miss Calamity, despite being loved by many, is disliked by some for her annoying voice and character design having a more human-like hairstyle.
  • Mr. Funny not being able to speak, in contrast to his book counterpart, which some fans were turned off by as they would've liked to hear him speak. Though some think it's probably a good thing he didn't, as it would've clashed with Mr. Scatterbrain (Mark Risley stated this was the reason they changed him).
• Better on DVD: The series is better on DVD, as the footage is 16:9, compared to how it's shown on television. This is also the case with the British version, which aside from what the American version has to offer, doesn't have the audio high pitched and contains the missing segments!
• Broken Base:
  • Some fans of the Mr. Men franchise hate this show for being unfaithful and In Name Only to the books and previous adaptions (the redesigns of several characters, the very different Americanised setting and the Denser and Wackier tone for instance); other people don't really mind and see the show good in its own right.
  • The redesigns of the characters are either good or bad, depending on your view.
    • Mr. Nosy's is one of these that fans tend to polarize. Some dislike the new look, as the old design with his long nose helps portray the character for his traits. But there's some that like the new look, as it's more friendlier looking (considering the original made it look like something else).
    • Mr. Lazy's redesign, being the most drastic, was bound to have this reaction. Some hate the new look as it looks nothing like his book counterpart, while others feel it fits his personality.
  • The different voices for the British and American versions can be like this. British viewers might find the American voices annoying, while American viewers can found the British voices bland.
• Crack Pairing: Fans love to ship Mr. Rude and Mr. Stubborn despite the two only having two segments together and ultimately hating each other.
• Cult Classic: The show still has a sizeable fandom well over a decade after it completed its run. It helps the franchise at large is still going.
• Designated Monkey: Mr. Bump tends to suffer this a lot, especially in the second season. Although it's clearly in his name, some fans dislike it.
• Epileptic Trees:
  • The theory that Mr. Bump died by being impaled by a clock hand in "Clocks", which has infamously led to multiple edit wars.
  • What happened to Mr. Noisy if he was still a whale after Travel, as he didn't appear after that episode (aside from a voiceover). Though the graphic novels show him back to his normal self.
  • Miss Calamity's absence, as some fans speculated that she may've died after the first season. Though like with Mr. Noisy, the comics revealed that she still exists.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Miss Calamity, despite her only appearing in the show's initial first season is loved by many.
  • Mr. Funny, Little Miss Bossy, Mr. Tall and Little Miss Curious, despite not having many appearances (and in the latter two's case, hardly did anything outside of cameos) have a bit of love by fans.
• Ethnic Scrappy: Mr. Rude certainly applies. A walking French stereotype (though he's given a different accent in the French dub of the show), his entire persona is to simply walk around being a...well, rude Jerkass towards everyone else. To make matters worse, he's also a major Gasshole, making him a cartoonish "Smelly Frenchie" stereotype.
• Fanon: Plenty of fans have their own ideas and imaginings for how the characters from the original books who were either Adapted Out or created after the show's run would work on this show.
• Fandom Rivalry: An inter-franchise example: in the show's early days, fans of the show and fans of the original books were in flames due to the characters' redesigns.
• Fridge Brilliance: In "Flying", Mr. Grumpy says he started working as a flight attendant 30 years ago. 30 years before the episode premiered was 1978, when Mr. Grumpy's book was released.
• Friendly Fandoms:
  • The fandom of both this show and the book series overlaps highly with the Thomas & Friends fandom. Considering the similarities towards the two franchises, it's not all that surprising.
  • It was quite common on sites like DeviantArt to see this series crossed over with the Total Drama series, as it was airing on the same network at the same time and they each have their own wacky, colorful casts of characters with different personality traits.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Starting to become this in France alongside the franchise as a whole, where the French-dubbed episodes outnumber the original English episodes in views on YouTube.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • When the show first came out, various fans of both this and Thomas & Friends did parody clips depicting several Thomas characters as the Mr. Men and Little Misses. A year later, some of the UK and Israeli voices from the show would play characters for Thomas. (Though Mr. Tickle and Stubborn's VA and Mr. Bump's VA for the Hebrew dub already voiced Thomas and Mr. Conductor Jr in Thomas and the Magic Railroad).
  • Speaking of Thomas, Mr. Fussy's catchphrase (in the US) "Sweet Henrietta!" become more funny since Rob Rackstraw voices Toby, who owns a carriage named Henrietta.
  • Mr. Fussy saying he doesn't believe in ghosts is funny as his voice actor would go on to voice a ghost.
  • Both of Mr. Stubborn's voice actors (Godfrey in the US and Lewis MacLeod in the UK) went on to voice characters in future Cartoon Network originals.
    • His UK voice actor even voiced a character with the same name as a character on this show - Mr. Small. He left after the first season, though.
  • Cheryl Chase using her Angelica voice for Little Miss Bossy is made even more perfect when Alicyn Packard (the voice of Little Miss Naughty, Sunshine, and Whoops) joins that series' reboot.
• Ho Yay:
  • Some people get this from, Mr. Small and Mr. Nosey. They are Heterosexual Life-Partners who are almost always together and share a house.
  • In the episode 'Dance, Dance, Dance', after hearing that Mr. Grumpy will be his partner in a tango lesson, Mr. Tickle puts a rose between his teeth and looks at Mr. Grumpy in a rather flirty manner.
  • In mid-2021, Mr. Rude x Mr. Stubborn took off, as fans began warming to the idea of them being Like an Old Married Couple.
• Improved Second Attempt:
  • The writers for both Mr. Strong and Miss Sunshine's comics added Miss Calamity after the fan reactions that she was removed in the show.
  • Mr. Tall was given more screentime in Miss Daredevil's comic since he was hardly used in the show.
• It's Short, So It Sucks!: A lot of fans who like the show were disappointed that it didn't last that long.
• Memetic Molester: Mr. Tickle comes as close as a character can for a lighthearted kids' show.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "This X is CHEAP!"
  • "I'll give you X!" (honk)
    • "MR. RUDE!"
• Older Than the Demographic: The show is aimed at young kids (ages 4-10), yet despite the Vague Age on the characters, they are depicted as adults due to them having jobs.
• Older Than They Think:
  • Little Miss Helpful being a Southern Belle was actually first done in the American dub of the 80s Little Miss cartoon.
  • This isn't the first time Renegade Animation made a cartoon about a non-American property - few people realize their last series was based on the Japanese pop star duo Puffy AmiYumi.
• Periphery Demographic: The show is viewed by teens and adults either because they're fans of the books or grew up with the show when they were younger or just because they spotted the show when it aired on Cartoon Network or Milkshake.
• Second Season Downfall: While not considered outright bad, season 2 is seen as weaker then the first for several reasons, such as Miss Calamity being removed, Mr. Bump and Mr. Fussy's increased Butt-Monkey nature, the reduced amount of shorts and the new characters not having enough screen time.
• Special Effect Failure: The Miss Calamity statue, as it's an edited photo of a figure of her.
• Squick:
  • Mr. Messy has some rather revolting habits, especially to a Neat Freak like Mr. Persnickety/Fussy.
  • Mr. Rude passing gas, particularly in the 2nd season, where they changed the sounds from cartoony honks to more realistic sounds.
• Tear Dryer: In "Surprises", Miss Sunshine's Surprise Party has gone awry and the inside of her house is an utter mess. Miss Sunshine sees the state of her home and sadly asks if this is the surprise. Things immediately brighten when most of the other Mr. Men and Little Misses appear on a floating platform above her, yelling, "Surprise!!", much to her joy.
• Tear Jerker: It may have been brief, but in the episode "Surprises", when after she's told by Miss Helpful that there was going to be a surprise party for her, when she sees the chaos her home is in, Miss Sunshine looked heartbroken and hurt, almost to the point of tears. That may have been a brief moment, but you can't help but feel sorry for Miss Sunshine here.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Mr. Tall and Little Miss Curious. For most of Season 2, they were relegated to nothing more than cameos, and even their speaking appearances had little to no bearing on the plots of the sketches they appeared in. Mr. Tall would've had great plots concerning his height, and Little Miss Curious (who only has two lines in the entirety of the show) could start one off with a question. Alas, it was not to be.
• Unintentional Uncanny Valley: The Miss Calamity statue from "Trees", as it looks realistic compared to the rest of the show because it’s actually an edited photo of a blind-bag toy of her.
• Unexpected Character: Mr. Tall playing a semi-prominent role in the first plot of "Travel" with no foreshadowing he'd appear. Considering he was no more than a background character before this, the fans may have been just as surprised to see him as Mr. Fussy was.
• Unnecessary Makeover: Mr. Persnickety /Pernickety was redesigned from the character Mr. Fussy, but by the time the second season happened, he was given a drastic change in terms of looks. He was repainted dark green and renamed like his book counterpart due to Chorion wanting the show be more like the books. Some fans that grew up watching the show since the first season thought the makeover was unneeded for a few reasons. For one, his original name from the first season made him more high class sounding as compare to "Fussy" which sounds more childish. While fans like his skin color to be more darker compare to the other brightly colored green characters, some thought he should've kept the green hair color like in the first season. The last major complaint from fans was him being more one noted. While Mr. Fussy had his moments in the first season being a neat freak, he does try to be friendly with the other characters. But the second season makes him more meaner as the show focuses more on him being uptight (worse in the comics by Viz where he is strict about the rules) compare to him being fleshed out from the first season.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Little Miss Scary, due to her deep, boyish voice (in the American dub) and spiky hair.

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