- Accidental Nightmare Fuel: Some may consider the appearance of Worzel and other non-human characters a bit unsettling.
- The opening titles, which start with peaceful flute music over a long shot of a scarecrow in a field, followed by a sudden cut to Worzel turning to the camera and grinning in close-up, and an abrupt burst of brass music, could easily qualify.
- Adaptation Displacement: The original books by Todd are are still well liked and often reprinted, but have been thoroughly eclipsed by the TV adaptation.
- Can't Un-Hear It: It's impossible to separate Jon Pertwee from Worzel Gummidge.
- Genius Bonus: The first thing Worzel does when he decides to take up 'Wangling' is steal a stuffed pike from the pub.
- Tough Act to Follow: When Mackenzie Crook was cast in the 2019 adaptation, he was inevitably compared to Jon Pertwee's take. Crook (who also wrote and directed the 2019 series) was likely aware this would happen, and chose not to base it on the Pertwee series but rather do an entirely new take on the original books. In promotional interviews, Mackenzie Crook even admitted to have never watched the Pertwee series (though he was aware of it, and had occasionally read the comic strip based on it in Look-In Magazine as a child).
- Unintentionally Sympathetic: In one episode, Worzel tries on a "handsome head", which leads to him being mistaken for an electrician. Then, when he's asked to do electrical work, he fearfully refuses, and then Mrs. Bloomsbury-Barton kicks him out of the house, thinking of him as a very unprofessional electrician. When Worzel complains to the Crow Man, he berates Worzel for "upsetting people", claims he is solely at fault, and that he should be "handsome inside" as well as visibly handsome. Viewers are meant to side with the Crow Man, but Worzel was absolutely right in refusing to do electrical work, since he was not actually an electrician, and electrical work is dangerous for a human to do if they don't know how, let alone a scarecrow. Also, Worzel didn't actually insult Bloomsbury-Barton; her ire was solely because she thought he was bad at a job he didn't really have.
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