YMMV / Adventures in Wonderland

• Accidental Aesop: "Objects d'Heart". White lies are fine as long as you don't hurt anyone's feelings.
• Accidental Innuendo: Some of the Hatter and Hare's duets are rife with Homoerotic Subtext. The main ones are "The Taffy Tango", where the two of them do a romantic dance while stretching a pink glob of taffy faster and faster until it explodes ("I'll pull this way/You pull the other"), and "The French Dip", which features the refrain "We're doing it" repeated over and over.
• Adorkable: The Hare. His glasses, high-pitched voice, and nerdy demeanor fit the trope to a T.
• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • The residents of Wonderland appear much more sane compared to the book and movie because, by the time of the show, Alice is just as insane as they are. The way she goes to Wonderland as a way to solve everyday problems (and the problems of Wonderland always happen to coincide with hers, mind you) brings to mind a very persistent Happy Place and apparently, aside from the Wonderlandians, the only one she can talk to about her problems is her cat.
  • The Alice in the show is not the original Alice, just an American girl from the 1990s with the same name, who likes to believe or pretend she's the Alice from Alice in Wonderland. The versions of the Wonderlandians we see are her interpretations of them.
  • Is Mr. Pinniped real, or just the Walrus's imaginary friend? "Deface in the Crowd" seems to confirm the former, but in other episodes, it's more ambiguous. You could argue there's an elaborate Split Personality situation going on.
• Awesome Music: While the musical numbers range vastly in quality, several of the songs are quite catchy. It helps that the cast featured talented musical theater actors and the composers were Mark and Bob Mothersbaugh of Devo.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The part in "Off the Cuffs", where the Queen, the White Rabbit, Tweedledum, Tweedledee, and Alice chant, "What in Wonderland can five people do when they’re tied together like they're stuck with glue? Hey!" multiple times.
• Character Rerailment: The Cheshire Cat, who was an Adaptational Jerkass in the movie, is here much closer to his generally chill and amiable characterization in the original book — even though he's still a bit of a Gadfly.
• Cult Classic: Like many shows from the pre-Network Decay Disney Channel. Its fans were overjoyed when it was finally brought to Disney+.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: The Mad Hatter seems to be a favorite for most fans. The March Hare has a similar following, either alone or with the Hatter. (No, not in that way, silly tropers. Except maybe sometimes.)
• Foe Yay Shipping: The Queen and the Duchess have a small following as a pairing among fans, both for how much they enjoy competing with each other and for the way they mask their rivalry with affection, which includes the Affectionate Nicknames "Duchy" and "Twinkletoes."
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • A minor one in "Christmas in Wonderland". When the Hatter and Hare are singing about making snow with their snow machine, one line of lyrics is "We'll turn it on and let it go". If only they had met Elsa, the special's whole storyline of "How to make it snow in Wonderland?" would have been solved then and there.
  • In "Something to Sneeze At", when the Hatter thinks he's allergic to the March Hare, they miss socializing and having tea parties together — and so the Hare joins the Hatter's tea party via video call. It doesn't really work that well, but Alice does comment on what a brilliant way this is for the two to hang out even if they have to keep their distance — a couple of decades before the Internet was developed enough (not to mention a certain pandemic going on) to make socializing via video chat a lot more commonplace.
  • In "What Makes Rabbit Run", the Caterpillar's story is about a lion prince named Elton, who doesn't want to be king because he'd rather play the piano. This aired two years before the release of The Lion King (1994) with its songs by Elton John.
• Ho Yay: The Hatter and Hare, big time. It helps that both of their actors are gay in real life.
• Memetic Mutation: "Wow, O.J. Simpson! It's really you! Right here in my room!" ^Explanation A line from the unaired episode "White Rabbits Can't Jump" that became a meme after DefunctTV did a video on the series that mentioned the missing episode.
• MST3K Mantra: Lampshaded in "Clan of the Cavebunny", when Alice points out that no one can survive being frozen in ice, and the Hare responds by essentially saying "It's Wonderland: just go with it".
• Narm: The bookends to each episode, in which Alice discusses various things with Dinah, are often this. The cat playing Dinah is usually clearly disinterested, staring at things off-camera, or acting completely opposite how Alice says she is.
• Older Than They Think:
  • This isn't the first series based on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland that has Alice visit Wonderland and then go home again in every episode. The '80s anime Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (JP) also uses this concept.
  • The name "Hedda Hatter," here used for the Mad Hatter's female cousin, was first used in Hanna-Barbera's 1966 adaptation Alice in Wonderland, or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This? for a female assistant of the Mad Hatter's, voiced by her namesake Hedda Hopper in her last role before her death.
• Padding: Most episodes have four songs, while some only have three. Most of the time, these songs will set up or advance the plot, while the last one summarizes the Aesop of that particular show. However, on some occasions, the characters burst into song for no particular reason, and then go on with the storyline without acknowledging what they just did. One such example is when the Tweedles, preparing for a photography session, lay down some rhymes about their love of taking pictures.
• Quirky Work: The opening sequence alone is enough. Then again, considering what it's based on, this should come as no surprise.
• Tear Jerker: Yes, the show was wacky and always ended happily, but there were a few sad moments here and there.
  • "Welcome Back Hatter" has the Hare dealing with the prospect of the Hatter moving away and trying his best to be happy for him even though he's heartbroken inside.
  • In "The Sound and the Furry", seeing April Hare (who is deaf) kicked out of Wonderland and forced to wander alone in a strange country is painful. It's especially bad because the situation is caused by one of the misunderstandings that appears in nearly every episode of the show—but this time, the stakes are much higher.
  • During "Christmas in Wonderland", Alice introduces her Wonderland friends to the "real world's" Christmas traditions. The mention of snow makes the Queen especially sad, which confuses the White Rabbit—it's never snowed in Wonderland before, so he can't imagine why the Queen would feel bad about it. She then reveals that when she was a little girl, her parents spent one Christmas in a snowy cabin; it was the happiest moment of her childhood, but she never got to experience it again because her parents preferred going to the beach for their holidays. The Queen had resigned herself to never see snow and experience that joy again, but now that Alice has brought it up, the memories have returned and are breaking her heart. The scene ends with her sitting quietly at a table, on the verge of tears, as she says that she knows it's impossible for her wish to come true.
• Unintentional Uncanny Valley:
  • The Walrus has one of the best make-up jobs on the show. At the same time, it looks so real it's exceptionally creepy.
  • The Cheshire Cat can also look rather creepy regarding his trademark grin. Though this should come as no surprise once you realize the puppet was made by the same guys who did Killer Klowns from Outer Space.
• Unintentional Period Piece: Instantly recognizable as early 1990s. The White Rabbit is on in-line skates, Tweedledee and Tweedledum dress and rap like MC Hammer, and the March Hare has a mullet.
• The Woobie: A few:
  • The main one being the White Rabbit, what with being ordered around by the Queen all the time.
  • Alice can sometimes qualify, too, especially in the episode that deals with her embarrassment over splitting her pants.
  • The Hare, particularly in the episode "Welcome Back, Hatter", when he thinks the Hatter is moving away.
  • In his debut episode ("I Am the Walrus"), the Walrus is one, what with everyone excluding him based on rumors they've heard. Thankfully it doesn't last.
  • The Queen, of all people, becomes one in "Christmas in Wonderland", as we see how much she misses having snow at Christmas (see Tear Jerker above).

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