Your milage may vary, when it comes to these takes on Ahmed & Salim.
- Ass Pull: Several episodes kill off the main characters and then end with it all being just a dream. If it only happened once, that'd be one thing, but they literally resort to this cop-out of an ending three times, over the course of their two-season-run.
- Crosses the Line Twice: Literally all of the show's humor. If the show isn't offending Muslims by stereotyping Islamic extremists, then it's offending Jews by having said characters quote hateful rhetoric against their people.
- Cult Classic: The show is certainly not for everybody but the small group of people who do like the show, (some of which are Muslims, themselves), are strongly devoted to the show and watch it almost ... religiously.
- Draco in Leather Pants: Ahmed and Salim are idolized by the fans of the show, especially Salim, who teenage girl fans adore just for being cute, despite the fact that both of them are literally Muslim terrorists.
- Friendly Fandoms: You'll be pressed to find an A&S fan who doesn't also like South Park just as much. Not only do the shows share a strikingly similar animation style but they share the same style of offensive humor.
- Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Although the show was made in Israel, is spoken (mostly) and subbed in Israeli, and was really only written with Israeli audiences in mind, Ahmed & Salim has garnered a massive audience in America, so much so, that the episodes are subbed into English too.
- There's also a sizeable fanbase of Arabian A&S fans, who know how to take a joke and laugh at themselves.
- Jerks Are Worse Than Villains: If Ahmed ever acts like a dick to Salim or vice versa, fans will usually express disdain for the character being disrespectful to his brother, while simultaneously not caring at all when the characters burn down a synagogue and slaughter hundreds of innocent Jewish civilians out of bigotry and hate.
- In "Episode 5", Yasser murdered Ahmed's Israeli girlfriend. The fans of the show were mostly pissed off with Yasser for ruining Ahmed's blossoming relationship with her and destroying a potentially interesting romantic story arc, than they were about the fact that Yasser literally killed the daughter of an old Israeli woman as an act of religious persecution.
- Overshadowed by Controversy: You can't talk about Ahmed & Salim without mentioning how offensive it is as well as how much controversy it stirred up on a global scale. Not only did this show get forced into cancellation by YouTube but it was also banned in the UAE for how relentlessly it mocked their people.
- LGBT Fanbase: Some LGBT fans admire the episode "Ahmadinejad is a Cock-Pirate" for portraying a gay relationship between Yasser and Mahmoud in a positive light, (as out of character for both of them as it may be), as well as tis episode pretty much making it canon that Yasser is bisexual.
- Love to Hate: Pretty much all of the characters are this since they're all bigots, rapists, and terrorists.
- Misaimed Fandom: Although the show was made by Israelis for Israelis, most people of the Jewish faith don't find the show funny at all, as they see it as being offensive to Muslims, failing to see the distinction between the show making fun of Muslim terrorists instead of all Muslims in general.
- Moe: Salim because of his cute little round head, short and stubby body, and childlike voice.
- Nausea Fuel: Yasser's constant genital mutilation, some of which is surprising to see was even allowed on YouTube because of how it treads very closely to cartoon pornography event horizon.
- There's also the constant jokes about Yasser being a pedophile, who regularly rapes 10-year-old girls. Granted, nothing is ever shown but just the implications are enough to lead some fans to barfing in their burkas.
- Offending the Creator's Own: Although the show is made by Israelis and the anti-semitic dialogue and imagery in the show is intended to be ironic, as it mocks the hateful behavior of extremists, there's a decent group of Jews, who are reasonably offended by the show's anti-Jewish rhetoric.
- Periphery Demographic:
- American audiences love Ahmed and Salim, most likely because its art style and style of humor fall in line with such popular American shows as South Park and Family Guy.
- Muslims, even Arabs, find the show hilarious and even feel represented by the titular characters, as they're both very Muslim people who act just like regular average people. Even when the show mocks them, they don't care because it's just a cartoon and they know how to laugh at themselves.
- Unintentional Period Piece: The show's constant references to memes that were popular at the time and have since become long outdated, (Nyan Cat, Leek Spin, Hurr Durr Derp, Badger Badger Badger, Hating on Justin Bieber, etc.) have made the show, today, appear more like a time capsule of the internet back in the 2000's and early 2010's.
- Not to mention how some episodes showed Ahmed and Salim going on YouTube, which exhibits the website's classic design complete with the five-star rating system, which is sure to bring back a huge rush of nostalgia for older fans.
- The Woobie: Ahmed and Salim were both this in "Osama Bin Laden is Dead", with both of them hurting over the death of their beloved uncle and grieving about it in two very different ways. Salim burst into tears crying like a baby while Ahmed kept his emotions bottled up and just silently played video games until he could no longer hold it back anymore.
