- Adorkable:
- Laurie, the coach's kid and least skilled member of the team is endearingly anxious and tries her best to look unbothered.
- Frank is a nerdy, but determined teacher with a passion for fantasy literature and a nervousness about finding a new partner. He's quite likable because of this.
- Awesome Art: The highly expressive animation combined with varying art styles makes this one good looking show.
- Awesome Music: Campfire gives plenty of bops throughout the series, with special attention to "What It All Means", "Paradise", "The Joke is On Me" and "Key to Life".
- Ensemble Dark Horse: Odo is a fan favorite due to being such a weird character as well as his random appearances.
- Fan-Preferred Cut Content: Fans, especially trans ones, think that the mention of Kai's transgender identity and the scrapped animation device of her face being jumbled or puzzled to symbolize her struggle, should have been kept. As such, some state that the series not outright stating Kai as trans does not mean she isn't.
- Fanfic Fuel: Fans would like to see the perspectives of the supporting characters like Hannah, Tom, Taylor, James, The Bleacher Creatures, Odo, etc.
- He Really Can Act: Will Forte is better known for playing comedic roles in works such as Saturday Night Live, The Last Man on Earth and The Great North. But as Coach Dan, he actually runs the gamut of emotions, while still retaining a bit of humor.
- Launcher of a Thousand Ships: Laurie has been shipped in fanart and fanfiction mostly with Rochelle, Kai and Yuwen.
- Realism-Induced Horror: The climax of "Raspberry" is akin to every parent's worst nightmare. In desperate need of $200, Rochelle goes to another side of town to a stranger's house who's having a wild teenage house party. It was a trap where the Bleacher Creatures actually wanted her for her keys to steal from a snack bar she works at. Rochelle is then chased down while having a panic attack, gets her knee scraped and glasses broken, and has to call from a payphone because her mom, Vanessa, took her smart phone without her knowing. Luckily, Vanessa arrives as quickly as she could and they hug, both upset at the whole ordeal.
- Spiritual Adaptation: This is essentially Pixar's version of One Hundred Years of Solitude as no one seems to question the Magic Realism events going on. For example, Odo's sipping of orange soda that gives him premonitions is eerily similar to a priest who seems to levitate after drinking chocolate. Another character is seemingly able to increase his body mass like Coach Dan literally inflates when stressed out.
- Squick: Sweaty's entire concept is seen as gross to audiences. They are a living sweat blob formed after Laurie sweats too much from anxiety and just gets bigger when she gets more anxious. It's especially gross when Laurie barfs up some of Sweaty while talking to her dad.
- The Woobie:
- Laurie, the coach's daughter, feels that her lack of skill and prowess compared to most of the team makes her a liability. She is riddled with anxiety and a lack of self-esteem, to the point she imagines a giant talking blob of sweat that voices her own negative thoughts.
- Ira, a highly imaginative boy who has a hard time making friends since he likes to talk about inappropriate topics. The only person who was there for him was his older sister Taylor, but she started growing distant from him after she started dating Yuwen. He then fell in with the Bleacher Creatures, who seemed like genuinely friendly cool kids to him. Then he realizes how questionable their antics are, but when he accidentally ruins a scam and lets a witness run away, their leader trashes his toy telescope. When he goes back to his sister to confide in, she's already too upset with how Yuwen's acting to care, so she storms off telling him to grow up.
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