YMMV / Blark and Son

• Crosses the Line Twice: The sheer audacity of Blark having Chimpy stuffed and put into Son's closet just to scare the shit out of him for shits and giggles the very same day Chimpy was killed is both fucked up and hilarious.
  • From season 1, Blark tries catching his son out in his lie by concluding that they have to murder Fletch for causing Son's "injured" hand. While Son eventually confesses, Blark realizes that Fletch never "caught my nod" about the plot, leading to Fletch having stared down the barrel of a gun while genuinely thinking his best friend was about to murder him.
    Blark: It's not like the gun was loa- (gun goes off) holy, it was!
• Funny Moments:
  • Fletch preventing Blark from interrupting Son while he tries to confess to Regina in "Only an Ex-GI Can Stop This Embarrassing Dad" results in not just one of the show's biggest memes mentioned below, but has other moments such as Fletch dressing up like Muldoon and trying to literally hunt Blark down, who is acting like a vicious predator.
  • Right before Blark can smash open a window into the room Son and Regina are in, Fletch manages to tranquilize him before he can do so, leaving Blark humorously slurring with an overbite in his usual end of episode talk with Son as the sedative was still in his system. As he leaves Son be, he walks into the door before closing it. Not a moment later, Blark busts back in and tries to talk to Son about removing Zeke from the picture, only to get tranquilized a second time with such force that he hits the door and slides off of it.
  • In "Stacey Goes Into A Downward Spiral" Stacey and Blark have a 'dad fight' over the coin Son and Junior were fighting over earlier. Since Blark is much more experienced in combat, he levels the playing field by having them both fight 'walrus style' with their arms restrained, only being able to headbutt and push each other. Stacey puts up a fight for a little while before getting headbutted so hard that his puppet ragdolls onto the floor.
  • In "A Very Fateful Sleepover" Blark spots a shady figure breaking into Stacey's home and treating it like a life or death situation, takes matters into his own hands and gives the stranger a sucker punch to the face. Said stranger was actually just Stacey coming home earlier than expected.
    Blark: Come on you Stacey-defiling clown! You're either leaving here in a tiny clown ambulance or a tiny clown hearse!
    Stacey: Blark, it's me! (turns on lights)
    Blark: My God! That Stacey mask is incredible! If we survive this I need the number of your mask guy! (Throws another punch at Stacey's face)
    Stacey: OWGH! DAMNIT BLARK!! It's really me!
  • While Stacey was going on a tirade about his failures to Blark he confesses that while he loves Junior, raising him is way more work than he expected and that "He's weird! So f*cking weird!!" as the camera pans over to some very creepy photos of him on the wall.
  • Son pulling a Your Mom on Chimpy in "A Boy And His Chimpanzee Brother" by saying he couldn't hear Chimpy's mother because she was gagging on his banana. Though much smarter than the average ape, Chimpy still had to slowly and verbally figure out that Son was saying he had Chimpy's mom blow him in a unique spin on Don't Explain the Joke. Chimpy's expressions go from cross-eyed and dumbfounded to shaking and seething in anger as he realizes exactly what Son is saying, culminating in Chimpy suddenly jumping at Son while yelling "Penis!" at the top of his lungs. The split-second shot of his puppet lunging at Son with it's mouth open extremely wide is both cursed and hilarious.
  • This little exchange as Chimpy tries to kill Son
    Chimpy: (While holding his sharpened wooden stick) This no desk!
    Son: No shit, Sherlock!!
  • After Blark comes in to save Son from Chimpy by knocking him out with a cooler containing an albatross Chimpy hunted earlier in the episode, Blark tells Son to thank his brother for catching a knockout dinner.
    Son: (Exhausted from almost being killed) You gotta be f*cking kidding me.
  • In "Keep Blark Out", Son and Regina decide to talk things over regarding the tension between them after the disastrous date night from before, while Fletch is busy keeping Blark out of the room. Some of the highlights:
    • Blark's reaction to Fletch requesting him to leave the kids alone is that of a betrayed mafia boss (with guitar playing in the background, even!), caressing Fletch's cheek and leaning into his ear, whispering "I'll never forgive this." Fletch's stunned reaction to this is pure gold.
    • Blark already loses his goddamn mind 9 minutes in, pulling out a gun and threatening to shoot himself if Fletch doesn't call off the favor. Fletch doesn't buy it, prompting Blark to empty the entire clip into the ceiling and start throwing a tantrum in the kitchen.
    • To pass the time, Fletch and Blark are playing cards. When asked if he has a Queen card, Blark denies. However, after the clock hits 6:42 as per agreement, Blark goes off-chain with such intensity that he begins to levitate and before leaving for Son's room, he flips the desk over, revealing that he had a Queen card in his hand all along.
    • Earlier in the episode Son and Regina ate some root, believing it would help them with easing the tension between them as they talk things over. All it does is give them a bad case of stomach problems, which reach the explosive climax as Blark barges into the room and makes them shit themselves. Blark's and Fletch's reaction (and subsequent mocking of the two kids) when they enter the room is nothing short of hilarious.
• Heartwarming Moments: In "Stacey’s Mom Has Got It Going On", Blark stands up for Stacy immediately after his Calling the Old Man Out moment with his mother. Stacey points out he wrote his failed pop finance book because his mother thought it would sell and reveals he actually wants to write fantasy novels and when his mother goes to leave, Blark points out that Stacey just snapped from stress and emotional pain and needs her to be there for him. Blark makes it a point that his home should be a safe space for all sons, and that includes Stacey. Making this better, Blark is enamored with the woman, so his standing up to her makes the moment more powerful.
  "HEY! This baby bird just fell from the nest! He needs his mama bird! Now! I don't know about you! But my nest is a safe space for all sons, and I'd like to keep it that way.
• He Really Can Act: People have praised Jim Rash for his performance as Stacey, giving the comedic timing and the emotion for his more serious moments.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • "He's in the walls... HE'S IN THE GODDAMN WALLS!"^Explanation Blark has Fletch restrain him to stop him from doing something that might embarrass Son while Regina's coming over... and then Ninja Logs his way out of the restraints, prompting Fletch to say this line as he picks up a rifle with all the tone and urgency of a war flashback. The line became a meme during late 2022, as various unwanted things (hallucinated or otherwise) crawling around in people's walls had already picked up memetic steam by then.
  • Blark suddenly levitating out of his sheer bottled Bumbling Dad-ness going completely unchained as he heads for Son's door in Keep Blark Out got popular as well, with memes comparing it to others getting sudden bursts of power.
• Nightmare Fuel: Chimpy as a stuffed corpse in the season 2 finale is genuinely unsettling, looking much stiffer than he ever did alive. Not to mention the sharpened bamboo stick that was used to kill him still sticking out of his chest, it's no wonder Son was screaming in terror at the sight of him.
• Tearjerker:
  • The ending of "Son Swap". Junior reveals his Dark and Troubled Past to Blark, his real parents died after surviving a car crash only to get eaten by wolves, and dealing with bullying in his foster home for being a weird kid before being halfheartedly adopted by Stacey. Junior thought he found a kindred spirit in Blark, only for Blark to bluntly tell him he can't live in his house causing him to run home crying to Stacey. After Stacey slips on a wine bottle and knocks himself out, Junior still tries to find comfort by lying down and sleeping with Stacey on the cold, hard floor. As much of a Creepy Child Junior is, he's still just a kid who wants to be loved and it's hard not to feel bad for him in this episode. Blark himself is at first left speechless when Junior reveals this and he even seems hesitant to tell him that he can't stay.
  • In the same episode, Stacy, though understandably still upset by Junior burning his latest manuscript, starts bonding with Son after he reveals his love for Wizards of Wallstreet and eventually gets him to open up about Regina after their disastrous date.
  • "Meet Mr. Pockets" ends with Son having to kill his beloved imaginary friend, admitting that it is time for him to finally grow up. Although Mr. Pockets accepts his death and even tells Son it is for the best, Son is clearly distraught. He does not even attempt to join back with his friends for their party and just holds a Thousand-Yard Stare; remorseful of his action as his view of what it means to be a man is shattered.