YMMV / Ugly Americans

• Angst? What Angst?:
  • Despite being drugged by a cult and effectively raped by Maggotbone Sr. and the occasional night terrors she experiences, Callie's mom feels no ill will towards either party and is implied to have at least tried to pursue a relationship with Maggotbone before leaving to raise Callie (whom she adores) on her own.
  • This was retconned in "Callie's Little Sister" - turns out she was dating Frank Sinatra, and Mack (Callie's father) offered to impregnate her in exchange for her soul, and getting him out of his Arranged Marriage with Twayne's mother, Violet.
• Ascended Extra: Angie, the facegina girl from "Pilot".
• Awesome Art: It's EC Comics-based art-style, couple with Flash-animation so good that many viewers think the series was traditionally animated, makes it one of the best looking adult cartoons around. The animation is considered by many as one of the best aspects of the entire series.
• Cult Classic: The show never really caught on but remained with a well liked fanbase through its run and is still seem as a rather fun show even years after it ended.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Leonard, definitely.
  • Doug. Started as just another person at Mark's workplace that cried Once an Episode. Then became Mark's assistant and now has an expanded backstory as a Bolivian assassin trying to start over.
• Fan-Preferred Couple: Given the rampant amount of Ho Yay between them, Randall/Mark is pretty popular in fan-art.
• Friendly Fandoms: In Latin America, Ugly Americans fans tend to be also fans of Drawn Together.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The show was far more popular in Latin America than in the United States. A combination of a good dub-work and not being screwed over by the Latin American branch of MTV/Comedy Central is the reason why the series succeeded there.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The Manbirds have developed a distinct and complex language built around American obscenities after a traveler taught them all how to swear. Funny enough on its own, but couple that with newsreports of wild parrots in Australia incorporating expletives in their calls (having learned them from domesticated parrots) and you have a textbook case of life imitates art.
• Ho Yay
  • Extra Freaky Squicky version with Randall's secret desire to eat Mark. Added Necro Yay angle since Randall is a Zombie.
  • And don't forget when Mark is turned into Randall's ex-girlfriend—the one Randall went zombie for.
    Mark: I really wish I had that information before I turned into a girl.
    Randall: Well it might not be a total loss. You could make a long-time fantasy of mine come true.
  • Another mark for Randall and Mark: "Your denial's really turning me on. Is that weird to say?"
  • Twayne with Leonard's nemesis in "Kill, Mark...Kill!"
  • The entire Randall/J9 sequence in "Soulsucker", culminating in Randall rubbing a hand over J9's crotch.
  • The Ho Yay between Randall and Mark is taken up to eleven in "Mummy Dearest", with their lease agreement becoming an analogy for marriage - to the point that Mark proposes at the end of the episode, and Randall hangs a pretty heavy Lamp Shade on it.
    Randall: Well, I kinda wanted to the guy in this scenario... but yes!
• Moral Event Horizon: Twayne crossed the line absolutely when he kills his brother to usurp his rank as general, gets worse when he rebels when he was a baby, he killed all his brothers.
  • The whole episode this was revealed in turned out be a giant act, Twayne might not really have siblings.
• Nausea Fuel: Grimes licking urine from the floor in the episode "G. I. Twayne".
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • The very first scene in the show we get to see Callie's silhouette grinning down at us.
  • Randall's dream about eating Mark's brain.
  • Callie's giant demonic form. Not something you want to meet in a dark alley, or even a lit one.
  • Callie's demon form must be pretty tame compared to others since we don't even get to see the face of Lilith's demonic form—who is also about 10 times the size of Callie's.
  • Then there's the Larry King horde. BRR...
• Paranoia Fuel: Clark Dungaree is watching you. No matter where you are. And he's making a new hit show about it.
• Spiritual Successor: As a Work Com featuring a normal guy living in a version of New York City inhabited by Fantasy Kitchen Sink and Our Monsters Are Different fellow citizens, Ugly Americans has a lot of the same tone as Futurama, only skewed slightly more to fantasy than sci-fi.
• Squick:
  • In "Pilot", a taxi driver of seemingly Jamaican decent complains to Mark about how his sister married a land whale. If we are to believe his sister is human, well... do with that what you will. Most of the series will probably embody this trope as well, as it comes from the same people who did Superjail.
  • The less mention of Twayne in a man-thong, the better. And those barbell nipple-rings. Ugh.
  • To some, that may be Fanservice, he is fit at least
  • Mark getting turned into a hot woman? Kinky. Having said hot woman's body go into a cursed rapid aging? Bad. Having to stop the curse by having sex with a man? Back to kinky... maybe. But having to have sex with the geriatric-fetish coworker? SQUICK.
  • In the episode "Mummy Dearest", Grimes receives a French kiss from...His mother. And if that wasn't enough, his mom also happens to be a thousand-years mummy. Worse, there is a closeup of her rotten tongue while she does this.
• Tear Jerker:
  • Mark's depression after he arranged a zombie to work as a window washer at the Municipal Brain Depository by mistake.
  • Albert, the teenaged Manbird Mark raised, singing "Oh Danny Boy" to his dying father... who rejects him immediately after.
  • The example below, in The Woobie.
• The Woobie: Doug (Koala Man).
  • This has been all-but confirmed in "Wet Hot Demonic Summer" (if not Butt-Monkey status). Even after making their escape (led by a panicked Doug who was digging out to avoid being eaten), Randall still wants to eat him... with everyone else just silently approving.
  • He gets even more Woobie points when its revealed that he's an ex-assassin trying to find a new life in America. He also lives in a pet shop.