YMMV / Victor and Valentino

• Awesome Music:
  • The theme song will suck you in right in due to its mesmerizing melody.
  • "Tez Sez" from the episode of the same name. Christian Lanz certainly has the chops.
• Base-Breaking Character: Victor is a highly divisive character, mostly from how he's a huge jerk. One side thinks he's too unlikable, causes many of the problems of each episode, and feel he never really seems to actually learn anything. The other side thinks he's still a good person even with his flaws, is slowly yet surely developing into a better person, and there are times where he can be sympathetic nonetheless.
• Broken Aesop: "Plandemonium" has Valentino make a plan for a day with Isabella, only to have a miserable time because things went awry. The episode ends with an Aesop of "go with the flow and don't be too meticulous", however, the issue isn't with plans themselves but more that Valentino was inflexible, assumed everything would go smoothly, and didn't prepare contingencies.
• Complete Monster ("The Collector"): Chip is an antique collector, obsessed with keeping his merchandise in mint condition. Growing unsatisfied with collecting only items, he decided to collect people. He turns them into dolls, where they are conscious, but trapped, a fate which he has inflicted on many people, including Valentino's younger brother. He is more than willing to inflict the same fate on Valentino when he tries to rescue them.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Charlene immediately became popular thanks her Creepy Child personality, cute gothic design, and performance by Cristina Milizia.
  • Xochi is also quite popular thanks to her Action Girl personality, attractive design, and impeccable performance by Cristina Valenzuela. The fact that she's also revealed to be lesbian boosted her popularity even more.
• Epileptic Trees: Throughout the show's running of 3 seasons, the audience is starting to paint a picture of what Monte Macarbre is about and why the brothers are sent there; ranging from the brothers pulling a town-middle-of-nowhere to the brothers trying to learn some lesson from their supernatural peers, presumably that these brothers have the memory capacity of Samsung Galaxy 5G smartphone. Time will tell?
• Fanfic Fuel: The finale of OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes reveals that Mr. Gar's home is Monte Macabre. What kind of adventures could happen with the characters of both worlds meeting up?
• Friendly Fandoms:
  • Due to thematic similarities (a two-sibling team with differing personalities, living with an older relative for the summer, and being in a small town with supernatural creatures), the series has some overlap with fans of Gravity Falls. However, this also coincides with a largely one-sided Fandom Rivalry, due to accusations of the show borrowing too many elements from GF.
  • Fans of Over the Garden Wall also get along well due to the clashing siblings and the strange supernatural oddities that appear.
  • Most fans of the show are also fans of other shows with heavy Latin American culture, the standout ones being ¡Mucha Lucha!, El Tigre, and Elena of Avalor.
• Genius Bonus:
  • Chata's house has a double-headed serpent sculpture above a doorway.
  • In the flashback telling how Huehuecoyotl got sealed away, the illustration of the god who did it to him is the same as the Aztec depiction of Tezcatlipoca.◊
  • Tez's identity is immediately given away if you know anything about Aztec Mythology, namely that "smoking mirror" is also a nickname for Tezcatlipoca and that Tezcatlipoca lost his leg to a winged feathered serpent (Quetzalcoatl) or a crocodile ate his foot, referencing his other backstory where Cipactli ate it.
  • Besides Aztec mythology, the show also features some Nahuatl, the language of the Aztecs, which nowadays is obscure enough that only historians and language nerds would pick up on it. Examples:
    • Chata's bird is called Huitzi, which means hummingbird.
    • Old Man Teo's name is a shortened form of Huehueteol, the Mesoamerican god of fire. Also depicted as an old man wearing a crown.
• Growing the Beard: Most fans agree that the last ten episodes are of particularly high quality, especially "Oneiric Vic" as it is extremely experimental and uses no dialogue. Meanwhile the plot threads are largely wrapped up in the other ones.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Don Jalapeño's voice actor, Jason Hightower, would go on to voice a role in the video game Cyberpunk 2077 as the protagonist V's first major ally Jackie Welles, a former member of a largely-Hispanic gang called the Valentinos.
• Ho Yay: Don Jalapeño seems downright enamored with Tez, right down to wearing a T-shirt of him or nearly fainting in his presence.
• Jerkass Woobie: While most episodes portray Victor as a bit of a jerk, the "Welcome to the Underworld" two-parter does portray him more sympathetically; it turns out that many people underestimate or baby him because of his size and the fact that he's the younger brother.
• So Okay, It's Average: The general consensus on the show. It's regarded as being a fairly generic "heroes screw up and must defeat the Monster of the Week to fix everything and learn a big lesson in the process about responsibility" type of show, but otherwise harmless enough to avoid being straight-up bad. It has garnered a large Latino-American following though, which is the show's intended audience.
• Squick:
  • While looking for Valentino, El Colorado comes across Victor's special (lint-covered) jawbreaker, Selena... and starts licking it.
  • Lechuza feeds her "babies" via regurgitation. It's not pretty.
• Tear Jerker: Val and Isabella's relationship. It's revealed in "Starry Eyes" that Isabella isn't real rather she is the disguise of the tzitzimime queen who wishes to plunge the town into darkness. Val's presumably first crush not only used him for her own personal gain, but she was an inhuman creature that never cared about him and wanted to use him to conquer the world. Poor kid.
  • It even works both ways since it is strongly implied that Isabella did genuinely like Valentino and is truly hurt by how he describes her true form. She runs away in both confrontations, the first time trying to hide her face and the second time wiping away tears. It gets worse in "Star Child" where he rejects her because of Poor Communication Kills, driving her away to affiliate with her people. And in the Grand Finale, the moment she tries to redeem herself, she's overpowered by Tez and punished for treason, disintegrating into the stars, much to Val's regret and devastation.
• The Woobie: Valentino. Victor treats him like crap and his brother's actions usually get him in trouble. He also doesn't seem to be as popular as his brother in-universe.

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