History YMMV / QueerDuck

* AcceptableTargets: {{Heteronormative crusader}}s, especially Dr. Laura Schlessinger, who was a reoccurring villain.

-->'''Queer Duck:''' ''(sighs)'' I'll miss ya...

* HarsherInHindsight: The episode "Ku Klux Klan & Ollie" has Queer Duck laugh with his friends after he jokingly states that he believes Kevin Spacey's claim of being straight. This doesn't age well in light of the controversy of Kevin Spacey's allegations of sexual assault and his attempt to use his coming out as gay to deflect attention from Anthony Rapp blowing the whistle on being molested by Spacey at 14.

* FairForItsDay: As this is a show about gay characters written by a straight man in the 2000s, it's a tad on the regressive side. All of the jokes are [[QueerPeopleAreFunny based around even then-dated gay stereotypes]], including some of the more harmful ones like drug addictions and AIDS, and most of the focus is exclusively on gay men while the rest of the LGBTQ+ spectrum gets a passing mention at best (transgender people, currently the spectrum's most outspoken group, are mentioned exactly ''once'' in the movie). Meanwhile, the verbal abuse Queer Duck gets from his parents is now recognized as the key source of depression and suicide in homosexuals, making it harder for it to be played as absurd. However, the gay characters always get the last laugh and {{heteronormative crusader}}s are rightfully depicted as total scumbags.

* TearJerker: After [[ItMakesSenseInContext turning HIV Possum's funeral into a disco]], Queer Duck steps out, looks sadly at a picture of his deceased friend and sighs that he's going to miss him.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In the HalloweenSpecial "Tales From The City Morgue," Oscar Wildecat digs up a grave with a headstone that reads "Music/GeorgeMichael's career." It's a little less funny now that George Michael is actually dead.

* EarWorm:
** The song "Santa Claus is Gay" from "Santa Claus is Coming Out".
-->''Santa has a beard, it's his wife!/It may seem weird, but it's his life./They don't have sex, so they don't have strife.''
** "Jimmy couldn't master masturbation/Instead he let it master him." It doesn't help that it's based on '60s doo-wop, one of the catchiest styles of music ever.

* EarWorm: "Jimmy couldn't master masturbation/Instead he let it master him." It doesn't help that it's based on '60s doo-wop, one of the catchiest styles of music ever.

* HeartwarmingInHindsight: One episode contains a song called "Santa Clause Is Gay." Almost twenty years later, a children's book titled ''Santa's Husband'', in which Santa is depicted as a gay black man, was published.

* FairForItsDay: As this is a show about gay characters written by a straight man in the 2000s, it's a tad on the regressive side. All of the jokes are [[QueerPeopleAreFunny based around even then-dated gay stereotypes]], including some of the [[DudeNotFunny more harmful ones]] like drug addictions and AIDS, and most of the focus is exclusively on gay men while the rest of the LGBTQ+ spectrum gets a passing mention at best (transgender people, currently the spectrum's most outspoken group, are mentioned exactly ''once'' in the movie). Meanwhile, the verbal abuse Queer Duck gets from his parents is now recognized as the key source of depression and suicide in homosexuals, making it harder for it to be played as absurd. However, the gay characters always get the last laugh and {{heteronormative crusader}}s are rightfully depicted as total scumbags.

* FairForItsDay: Though it's recognized as the first animated series to be about homosexuality (even if it's technically not the first animated work to feature a homosexual character) and is ultimately extremely pro-gay, it's humor is very much a product of the early 2000s. Pretty much everything is based on even then-dated stereotypes about gay men, including some of the more harmful ones like drug addictions and AIDS, not to mention all of the characters either [[HaveIMentionedIAmGay announce their homosexuality at the drop of a hat]] or are {{heteronormative crusader}}s. The verbal abuse Queer Duck gets from his parents is now seen as less absurd and more spot-on for the kind of hatred that leads LGBTQ+ people to suicide and depression, but the gay characters always wind up getting the last laugh.

* HeartwarmingInHindsight: One episode contains a song called "Santa Clause Is Gay." Almost twenty years later, a children's book titled ''Santa's Husband'' was published.

* AcceptableTargets: Dr. Laura.

* FairForItsDay: Though it's recognized as the first animated series to be about homosexuality (even if it's technically not the first animated work to feature a homosexual character) and is ultimately extremely pro-gay, it's humor is very much a product of the early 2000s. Pretty much everything is based on even then-dated stereotypes about gay men, including some of the more harmful ones like drug addictions and AIDS, not to mention all of the characters either [[HaveIMentionedIAmGay announce their homosexuality at the drop of a hat]] or are {{heteronormative crusader}}s. The verbal abuse Queer Duck gets from his parents is clearly meant to make them out to be the bad guys, but now that it's commonly recognized as a source for depression and suicidal tendencies in gay people, it's a lot harder to find it funny.

* FairForItsDay: Though it's recognized as the first animated series to be about homosexuality (even if it's technically not the first animated work to feature a homosexual character) and is ultimately extremely pro-gay, it's humor is very much a product of the early 2000s. Pretty much everything is based on even then-dated stereotypes about gay men, including some of the more harmful ones like drug addictions and AIDS, not to mention all of the characters either [[HaveIMentionedIAmGay announce their homosexuality at the drop of a hat]] or are {{heteronormative crusader}}s.

* FairForItsDay: Though it's recognized as the first animated series to be about homosexuality (even if it's technically not the first animated work to feature a homosexual character) and is ultimately extremely pro-gay, it's humor is very much a product of the early 2000s. Pretty much everything is based on even then-dated stereotypes about gay men and all of the characters either [[HaveIMentionedIAmGay announce their homosexuality at the drop of a hat]] or are {{heteronormative crusader}}s.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: The theme song is a sound-alike of the theme song to ''WesternAnimation/TopCat''.