YMMV / The World of Peter Rabbit and Friends

• Awesome Art: The art style for the show does a great job at bringing Beatrix Potter's signature water color art style and illustrations to life. Especially the background paintings in The Tale of Peter Rabbit and The Tale of Benjamin Bunny.
• Awesome Music: With its beautiful orchestrations and memorable melodies, the whole soundtrack is this, but special mention goes to every single song in "The Tailor of Gloucester" and the show's ending theme, "Perfect Day" and "Tom Tom the Piper's Son".
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • "The Tale of Samuel Whiskers" features a pair of oversized rats who bind a kitten and prepare to eat him. There's also Mrs. Tabitha Twitchet being very anxious and paranoid after the events of The Tale of Tom Kitten fearing her kittens will disobey her again.
  • "The Tale of Mr. Tod" taps into a very parental concern when Tommy Brock steals Benjamin Bunny’s babies, ostensibly to eat them. Imagine leaving your children alone under the care of someone you know and trust, only for those children to be abducted because that same someone let their guard down around the wrong person.
  • The trout attack in "The Tale of Mr. Jeremy Fisher". The only warning we get of it is a dark shadow passing underneath Jeremy while he’s fishing - the attack itself comes out of nowhere. The sudden orchestra sting and Jeremy’s echoing scream of horror don’t help.
• Tear Jerker:
  • While Peter and Benjamin are searching for Flopsy's children in "The Tale of Mr. Tod". Between the two searching for Flopsy's children, and Tommy Brock thinking of plans to eat the baby bunnies. We see Flopsy crying by herself while Mr. Bouncer is seen listening to her weeping but hides from her sight after letting her down. Flopsy is so heartbroken that she cries herself to sleep until the next morning.
  • While brief in "The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies", Flopsy briefly starts panicking since she and Benjamin are having a very hard time to untie the bag before Mr. Mcgregor returns. Luckily, Mrs. Tittlemouse was able to cut open the bag and free their children before they return home.
• Values Dissonance:
  • Josephine Rabbit sending Peter to his room without any supper (a common practice at the time) as punishment for wandering into Mr. McGregor’s garden and losing his clothes in the process.
  • Mr. Bouncer whipping Benjamin and Peter after rescuing them from Mr. McGregor's garden. It was common in Victorian times, but to modern viewers it seems harsh after all the trauma the boys went through already and is uncomfortable to watch, just like the mice who witnessed it in that scene. Largely due to this, when Abbey Home Media reissued the show on DVD in the 2010s, that scene was removed for obvious reasons.
  • In "The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding", Mrs. Ribby suggests to have Tom Kitten whipped once she finds him. Also, Tabitha shuts her children inside a cupboard to keep them out of mischief while she bakes, which sets off the plot in the first place.
  • The book version of "The Tale of Mr. Tod" reveals that Peter’s sister Cottontail married a black rabbit, which - in an unsubtle reflection of the racial attitudes of the time - Peter and Benjamin seemingly don’t approve of.
  • Benjamin Bunny marries his first cousin Flopsy in "The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies" and eventually have the titular six rabbits together. Incestual relationships between cousins (especially first cousins) may be not be that uncommon during the period of which the book was written, but in the modern world they are not culturally acceptable or even legal in several countries.

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