YMMV / Animal Mechanicals

• Accidental Innuendo: In the episode "Turbo Bean Trouble", there's the line "Turbo beans do not like being touched".
• Awesome Music: The theme song, due to its heavy metal traits. Sounds pretty badass for a preschool show.
• Ass Pull: In the episode "Puffer Cloud Island", the team comforts a small cyan cloud that feels different from the rest of the other clouds via telling it that everyone is different and that's OK. Later, to reinforce the moral, the little cloud feels different from the rest again, so the team discusses that each of them has a special power that sets him or her apart from the rest and ask the cloud what's its. It says it still doesn't know, but later, and without any explanation whatsoever, it reveals it's actually a raincloud.
• Fanon Discontinuity: Animal Mechanicals NEW is despised by pretty much everyone, for being a lower-budget, borderline In Name Only reboot that derails the entire cast into selfish jerks. WildBrain seems to have taken the hint, as "NEW" episodes have barely any presence on their channel compared to the original, and only got more sparse over time.
• Fandom Rivalry: At least in the Brazilian part of the fandom, there's some form of rivalry with PAW Patrol.
• Fridge Logic: Why does a robot need glasses, anyway?
• Funny Moments:
  • Sasquatch and Komodo are walking, talking Crowning Moments of Funny.
    • Sasquatch jumpscaring Komodo twice in "Pop-Apart Penguins" just to tell him afterwards that he, like the others, doesn't know why the peguins need a bigger igloo and (later) why they don't want to enter the igloo the team just built.
    • "I'm a tree!"
    • Anytime Komodo ends up with circling tools thanks to Sasquatch or gets a silly tool during his Transformation Sequence.
    • In "Jigsaw Shark Island", Sasquatch holds Komodo up high so the latter can figure out how to put the giant puzzle pieces together. However, Mouse, who is scared of the Jigsaw Shark, begs for Sasquatch to hold her hand. Sasquatch does so, completely forgetting he was holding Komodo and making him fall. Komodo gets circling tools and we get this gem:
      Sasquatch: See anything Komodo?
      Komodo: Only your foot.
    • Anytime Komodo freaks out with a popping balloon in "Balloon Volcano Island".
    • Special mention to the "Not now, Sasquatch!" Running Gags in "Mechana Coconut Island" and "Mechana Hide 'N Seek Hamster Island". Sasquatch tries to warn Komodo about a falling coconut and some incoming giant hamsters (respectively), but to no avail. What does Komodo say after Sasquatch asks him if it's a good time to warn him about those?
      Komodo: Better late than never.
  • The moments on which Rex is so hungry that his eyes become asymetrical and he acts like a zombie. Complete with a distorted voice, a Zombie Gait and him entering Third-Person Person territory.
    • The fact that sometimes Sasquatch of all people is the one to put him in line.
    • Special mention to his hunger outburst in "Mechana Hawk Rocket Island". At one part, he, following his usual leadership, splits the team in two, instructing Unicorn and Mouse to look for the missing Giraffe Crane, and Komodo and Sasquatch to load the melon cargos in the namesake Hawk Rocket. Then...
      Rex: And Rex, you eat melons!
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The series was very popular in Latin America and Brazil, mainly due to the fact that it aired on Discovery Kids, the main preschool cable channel in both regions.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The series starred an Animesque turned-into-alicorn unicorn that can cast magic spells with her horn two years prior to the whole "magic horn" unicorn stereotype expanding in media due to Friendship Is Magic and five years prior to Twilight's transformation into an alicorn.
    • Speaking of Friendship is Magic, Animal Mechanicals also has the logic of a Zany Cartoon (which is shown during Komodo and Sasquatch's antics).
    • Also, the shy Animal Mechanical is yellow-coded and Speaks Fluent Animal. In other words, Mouse predates Fluttershy.
  • In the episode "Tiger Knight Island", the team must complete a test of strength, a test of intelligence and a test of courage in order to deliver a green Energy Emerald that will restore the Tiger Knights' power. Said emerald is given to the Animal Mechanicals by a Techno Toad. Hmm... tests of strength, intelligence and heart, along with a green powerful gem and an amphibian character? Yeah, about the word "amphibian"...
  • The series features the same comedic tone and pink-red-yellow-green-blue colour scheme that would later crop up in Smile PreCure!, released five years after Animal Mechanicals. In both series, the yellow one is also The Baby of the Bunch.
• Ho Yay: Komodo×Sasquatch is popular in some circles.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: This was the main reason why Animal Mechanicals NEW flopped. Fans were upset about the massive changes, from the character designs to the personality overhauls to the lack of dialogue.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Some viewers thought that Mouse was a boy.
• Woolseyism: In the episode "Mechana Pegosaurus Island", Sasquatch mistakes the story of The Three Little Pigs with Humpty Dumpty and Rumpelstiltskin. As those two stories aren't well known outside of English-speaking countries, the Brazilian dub changes them to Aladdin and the Lamp and Little Red Riding Hood, while the French dub does so to Tom Thumb and Hop-o'-My-Thumb (the latter being a story well known in France).

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