- Awesome Music: The entire soundtrack, courtesy of Pure West. Special mention, however, has to go to the theme song.
- Foe Yay Shipping: There has been fan speculation of Zach and Aviva having been in a relationship at one point, and let's just say that she remembers things about him that no one else would remember about someone they purport to dislike. Also, in "Mystery of the Weird-Looking Walrus", she knew the code to disable the skullcaps without being told - either Zach is that much of a moron/creature of habit that he'd use the same code, knowing his opponents knew it as well and could disable his systems before he knew anything, or else she knows him a lot better than she's putting on.
- Many fans have also suspected that Zach has a thing for Chris, considering how often Zach has captured him throughout the series and how Chris tends to interact directly with Zach more than any other member of the team.
- Many ship Donita and Martin because Donita has put Martin in suspended animation or used him as a model multiple times, and seems to be a little too into him, especially in Flight of The Dracos.
- Many fans ship Paisley with Donita, as they are, or were, the two main female villains of the show, despite the minimal interactions amongst them. Paisley's redemption in "Our Blue and Green World" may throw a monkey wrench into such headcanons surrounding them, but it won't stop fans from pairing them together.
- Friendly Fandoms:
- The fandom of the show is pretty friendly with the fandoms of Odd Squad, Ready Jet Go!, and Nature Cat, especially on Tumblr, since they're all popular PBS Kids shows. It also helps that the Kratt Brothers actually made a cameo in an Odd Squad episode, and appeared as bats in an episode of Nature Cat.
- In the show's early years, there was overlap with the WordGirl fandom due to both of them being PBS Kids GO! shows.
- Now extended to Molly of Denali, in which the Bros likewise made a guest appearance in an episode about wolves. Given how this was during the two year long hiatus in between Seasons 6 and 7 of Wild Kratts, it served as a welcoming palatte cleanser as fans awaited the show's return in the upcoming year.
- Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The show is very popular in Germany, where it is called Go Wild! Mission Wildnis.
- Growing the Beard: If the episodes are in at least semi-correct order, the show does this in season 2 (started with "Ker-Honk"). If they're in some kind of reverse order, then the show has gotten worse (although by a negligible margin).
- He Really Can Act: Though Chris and Martin are playing themselves, they demonstrate pretty good emotional range as voice actors.
- Ho Yay:
- In "Honey Seekers", Koki calls Aviva "honey", and with a flirty tone to boot, too.
- In addition to Koki and Aviva, both of the fictional Kratt brothers seem to have a playful, almost Dating Catwoman, relation with one of the two non-sidekick male villains, being Gourmand for Martin and Zach for Chris. For the former, it comes from Martin’s Affectionate Nickname of “Gourmy” used in the episodes “Lemur Legs” and “Liturgusa Krattorum” as well as the tone in which he conveys it, especially in comparison to how he treats Donita as The Dreaded and gives her the nickname of “You-Know-Who” in the episode “Archerfish School” (which, granted, understandable given her debut has her kidnapping Martin and making him her unwilling model, but still). For the latter, it not only comes from some of Chris’ actions, like winking at an angry Zach after destroying one of his Zachbots in the episode “Osprey” and coming back into the room to give Zach a Jump Scare, despite the danger of him stealing back the miniaturizer that he just rescued, in the “Creepy Creatures” special, but also his inaction like not telling the others that he was capturing wild felines and canines or even told to stop when he was directly face to face with him in the “Cats and Dogs” special.
- Moral Event Horizon: Zach, Dontia, Dabio, and Gourmand faking a Heel–Face Turn upon witnessing the Wild Kratts play with the rescued baby animals so they could trap them, once again entrap said baby animals, steal most of their gear, and leave them to die trapped on an arctic ice floe in "A Creature Christmas"—is easily the lowest these four ever stoop on-screen, even counting their past and future attempts to oppose the Wild Kratts and hurt their animal friends.
- Most Wonderful Sound: The transformation sounds the Creature Power Suits make when activated (which has it's own Theme Music Power-Up).
- Periphery Demographic:
- The show has a small but thriving community of older fans who remember the Kratt Brothers' earlier shows fondly.
- Quite a few professional biologists and science teachers watch it too, because it's a true pleasure to see a kids' educational program that's this fixated on the natural abilities which the biologists, themselves, always believed were superpower-caliber cool.
- Squick: The Kratts are a little too fascinated with worm slime in "Mystery of the Squirmy Wormy."
- Suspiciously Similar Song: The theme song is basically an altered version of the Zoboomafoo theme.
- Tear Jerker:
- Maxilla's death in "Voyage of the Butterflier XT."
- Aviva crying when her family heirloom - a badminton birdie - gets stolen in "Caracal-Mitton".
- Martin being unable to save the Dodos from extinction in "Back in Creature Time, Part 1."
- In "Part 2," Martin tries to take a baby Tasmanian Tiger to the present, but realizes he'll be taking him away from his parents.
- All of the baby animals that the Wild Kratts Crew befriended from seasons 1-3 (and even some baby animals from season 4 before their debut episodes) are captured by the villains to use as Christmas ornaments in "A Creature Christmas, Part 1." Most of the animals either look scared or downright depressed.
- Fridge Horror. Slider, the otter pup, was one of the baby animals that were abducted. In his debut episode, Slider accidentally got sucked into the haul of a passing ship and ended up in the Cypress Swamp. As a result of that, Slider becomes deathly afraid of large vehicles (ships in general). Imagine how scared he must have been when he was forced onto Zach's plane.
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Where was Rex during Paisley's Heel–Face Turn in "Our Blue and Green World"? Is he still a villain? Or did he turn over a new leaf as well?
- They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
- In "Lemur Legs," (about sifaka lemurs) there wasn't even a reference to Zoboomafoo, whose titular lemur was a sikafa. Possibly Justified, as the latter wasn't depicted realistically, unlike how Wild Kratts portrays its creatures; also, reminding viewers of the silly Zoboomafoo may have detracted from this show's serious message about lemur conservation.
- Paisley Paver is widely regarded as the most underutilized villain in the show, having only 7 appearances, 4 of them being grouped with the other villains. During the hiatus in between Seasons 6 and 7, many fans speculated or hoped that Season 7 would allow more screentime for Paisley for her to stand on her own legs as one of the main antagonists. This desire was only fueled when the Season 7 premiere marathon featured her making a solo appearance. However, one year later, she would ultimately be redeemed in "Our Blue and Green World." All of that potential, down the drain.
- Tangientially related, but with how Paisley and Donita were the two female villains of the show, it didn't take long after her appearance for fans to speculate a potential team-up between the two. 8 years later, even after Paisley has formally met Donita, the two of them still have not had any one-on-one conversation or teamed up. To add further insult to injury, Paisley would redeem herself in "Our Blue and Green World" canning any chances of a potential team up.
- Unintentionally Sympathetic: Maybe the Kratts played Zach the way he is so we'd like him, or maybe they didn't, but Zach's Psychopathic Man Child nature has led some fans to feel like he doesn't really know what he's doing.
- What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: So far, we've heard talk of cannibalism, seen a Secretary bird kill a snake (complete with minor blood spillage), saw a coyote marking Martin-the-Tree as his territory (although we just saw the wet spot and not the genitals nor the stream), seen animals frozen alive with full consciousness still intact, saw T-Devils eating an ambiguous dead thing… are we sure this is on PBS Kids? The brothers actually ended up naked in one scene, though their modesty was covered up by gigantic leaves.
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