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  • Awesome Music: Many of the songs featured in the show, such as "I’m A King", "Twice As Fine" and "This Is The Process", have gotten this reception, and it’s easy to see why.
  • Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Basically the whole plot of Pete's mum getting drunk at Christmas. She wanders into Yonderland, but because she was so sloshed at the time she naturally remembers absolutely nothing the next morning. Nobody even notices she wandered into the other world, not even Debbie, who's been shepherding people back and forth all night.
  • Dry Docked Ship: Writers who prefer to go a different route with Vexgatus (see Ships That Pass in the Night) will sometimes choose to portray them this way.
  • Ensemble Dark Horse:
    • Kendall the Jeweller has only a few minutes’ screen time and dies at the end of the one episode he’s in, yet he’s proven popular enough to inspire a lot of fan art and other content.
    • Though they have a bigger role, the Cake Ladies from "Boo" have gotten a similar treatment to Kendall.
  • Escapist Character: Debbie is a normal mum who finds that what a fantasy world needs to save it isn't violent heroics or powerful magic, it just needs some serious mumming.
  • Fan Community Nicknames: Yonderdarlings, taken from a tweet from Mat Baynton regarding the main cast.
  • Fanfic Fuel: Backstories of minor characters or unanswered details about the world the show is set in are frequently explored in fan fiction.
  • Fan Nickname: Some fans have taken to calling Ho-Tan’s female form when she gets her wish in "Careful What you Wish For" Ho-Tana.
  • Fanon:
    • It is widely accepted that Scribe Elder Ho-Tan is a trans woman, despite the show not being able to come right out and say it. Laurence Rickard, Ho-Tan's actor, supports the idea himself.
    • The Elders’ Youngers’ names are sometimes given these names, based on user Aleindolin’s works:
      • Alvin = Ho-Tan’s Younger
      • Irk = Vex’s Younger
      • Daisy = Flowers’ Younger
      • Barry = Pressley’s Younger
      • Sepal = Choop’s Younger
  • Foe Yay Shipping: Some started shipping Negatus and Debbie after she pecked him on the cheek and helped him discover he was good at soccer in episode eight.
  • Funny Moments: The Crone's reappearance in Episode 4.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight:
    • Any time someone mentions something going on for "centuri"Explanation before episode 4, where it's revealed that seven thousand centuri is only about five years.
    • There's a running joke in S2 about Pete believing the house is haunted. Little does he know that in the writers' next major series, the central house really will be haunted - by the actor playing his wife, among others!
    • Jamie Demetriou plays an estate agent in "Swapsies", a couple of years before his Star-Making Role playing the titular lettings agent in Stath Lets Flats. It's made funnier in retrospect by the fact that in contrast to Stath, his character in Yonderland actually appears to be quite professional and competent.
  • Incest Yay Shipping: The two characters from "Panic In The Streets Of Yonderland" whose gag is that one of them kisses the other for no reason (to his confusion) before it’s revealed they are cousins have been sincerely shipped by some, regardless of how arguably misaimed it is.
  • LGBT+ Periphery Demographic: A fair amount of fans are LGBT, mostly for the reasons listed under Watched It for the Representation.
  • Like You Would Really Do It: Who actually thought they'd really burn Nick the Stick up to close the portal for good? Especially since there were still three episodes left at that point?
  • Memetic Molester: In "Swapsies", When Debbie is asking the Elders how to switch back to her own body and says to them that she doesn’t want an elf to be the wife of her husband, Ho-Tan’s reply being "He could do worse…" following by her smirking have led some fans to jokingly declare that she’s a "monster-fucker" or has a thing for elves and call the Crack Ship "Elftan".
  • Memetic Mutation:
    • "No, no, but it’s not funny, at the end of the day, is it? It’s serious…" Explanation
  • Narrowed It Down To The Guy I Recognise: In season three, Cuddly Dick being played by Stephen Fry may give away that he has a larger role in the season’s arc than is apparent at first.
  • Nightmare Fuel: The thing with glowing purple eyes in Ennythingos and Debbie nearly being hypnotised into burning herself alive.
    • Larry Rickard's "teutonic glam rocker pervert" Kendall in Episode 7 for some people - including Martha Howe-Douglas (Debbie) herself.
  • Obscure Popularity: The show has a small but dedicated fanbase and has won awards, yet it’s mostly unknown to general audiences and outside the UK.
  • One-Scene Wonder: Due to its format, many characters who have become iconic only appear briefly.
  • Periphery Demographic: As a carry-over from HH, along with children and their parents, the show seems to be developing a healthy young adult fandom.
  • Portmanteau Couple Name:
    • Vex + Ho-Tan = Vextan.
    • Vex + Negatus = Vexgatus.
    • Negatus + Debbie = Debgatus.
    • Dissectus + Voltari = Disstari.
  • Quirky Work: This series is most definitely a Weird British Thing - a surreal comedy where the protagonist is taken into a fantasy world, including things such as a talking blue egg and a race of people who fire themselves into the sun, by an elf puppet and his sentient stick.
  • Ships That Pass in the Night:
    • Some people ship elders Vex and Ho-Tan (Vextan), despite them not personally interacting much in canon.
    • A slightly less popular ship which also makes even less sense is Elder Vex and Negatus, who have never interacted at all.
  • They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: The majority of characters introduced being minor or one-off has led many viewers to wish that they had gotten more screen time and/or development.
  • Trans Audience Interpretation: See Fanon.
  • Ugly Cute: Elf, for some. Also, Mojo.
    • One might argue that Jeff the demon counts, with his dopey rounded features and floppy puppy ears.
  • Uncertain Audience: The show seems to switch between What Do You Mean, It's for Kids? and What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids? - it’s advertised as a family show which includes some jokes that fly over kids’ heads. Yet many times (especially in the later seasons) the jokes are likely a little too explicit to still be considered family friendly, and it’s apparent that they were aiming more for the vibe of "show that looks kiddy but isn’t".
  • Watched It for the Representation: The inclusion of many minor (and some main) queer characters who have that as part of their gags while still never intentionally going into Queer People Are Funny territory is an aspect which has been praised by viewers and is part of its appeal for some.
  • What Do You Mean, It's for Kids? and What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids? at the same time. Some jokes and implications fly over the heads of the kiddies, and others...don't.
  • The Woobie: Trevor the Blob Elder, especially in the first episode of Series 2 when the other Elders gang up to try and eat him.

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