Accidental Innuendo: "Ow! I crushed my cookies..." Said by Philly Phil when suspended in this position (after having literally bought cookies).
Adorkable: Kam is an Adorably Precocious Child despite his attempts to act mature and refined. He is also one of two characters to visibly blush, the other being Eddie.
Is Sunny a flawed and likeable character, or a Self-Insert? Season 2 tends to put him more out of focus at the least.
Eddie: Does he genuinely love Tamika as a person and is just really bad at trying to win her over, or does he feel entitled to her? Evidence seems to point towards the first option.
Anvilicious: Several of the episodes with morals feel like this. With "The Devil and Lil'D" being the most blatant on how fame changes a person.
Awesome Music: ALL OF THEM. If Andre 3000's writing the songs, what do you expect?
Base-Breaking Character: Many like Madison for her cheerful personality and adorable design, but some dislike her, or at the very least roll their eyes at her, for her stupidity.
Subverted in "Mini Mentors." The introductory scene helps play up Sunny's image as The Ace to better contrast his attitude for most of the episode.
Played straight in regard to the song in "Take a Hike!", which almost comes out of nowhere.
Bizarro Episode: "The Devil and Li'l D" has several supernatural elements not present in most of the series.
Character Rerailment: Season 2 does this to the characters who were Flanderized in Season 1.
Tamika: Her nicer side is brought out more often while maintaining her brash streak. She ultimately takes a level in kindness even compared to early Season 1.
Diagnosed by the Audience: Between Philly Phil's very odd personality, lack of social skills, and secretly low self-esteem, some fans interpret him as having Asperger's syndrome.
Genius Bonus: Quite often, there are references to musicians and instruments that the average watcher may not recognize.
Germans Love David Hasselhoff: For some reason, the show is quite popular in Eastern Europe, as the show's Eastern European dubs are easy to find.
Growing the Beard: Season 2 is generally agreed to be better than Season 1.
Eddie and Philly Phil are comfortable enough together to go as a two-piece zebra.
Kim and Madison seem awfully close for just friends...
Philly Phil is good at this. Some of his interactions with Li'l D can be read as more than friendship.
Launcher of a Thousand Ships: Madison. She's been shipped with all of her classmates. Li'l D, Kim, and Kam are usually paired with her.
Moe: Madison. Chipper with a fairly adorable design and a rather cute personality, being bouncy and nearly always smiling.
One-Scene Wonder: The money-obsessed preacher only shows up for about a minute in "Home" and a few seconds in the "Throwdown" music video.
One True Threesome: Given the vast amount of Ho Yay, fans have started speculating on possible poly combos. They include:
Maddison/Li'l D/Phil. This may or may not include Kim/Phil and/or Kim/Maddison and it's not uncommon for it to include both.
Tamika/Eddie/Phil. Which may or may not include Kim/Phil and could well include Tamika/Maddison.
And of course the whole music class being shipped together (with or without Twincest) is seen as a possibility since all the kids clearly care deeply about each other.
Ship Mates: Fans of Li'l D/Madison get along well with Kim/Phil fans, and it's not uncommon for fanfiction to feature both. And Eddie/Tamika shippers are friendly with both parties.
Signature Song: Outside of the theme song, "Throwdown" is probably the best remembered song from the series, with a bumper featuring the song being seen often during the end of the CN City-era of the network's on-air branding.
Tear Jerker: The "Life Without Music" song is absolutely heartbreaking. Not to mention that the music class kids are actively panicking at the idea of being separated without a teacher for their class; clearly all of them have some degree of trauma about being rejected by outside peers.
"Rich Shade of Blue" also counts too. Given that it's about Eddie spending a good portion of the episode feeling wrong for existing with emotions because standard beliefs are that being born rich means that he, at worst, has problems that are trivial and can and should be ignored and thus is being a Spoiled Brat throwing a tantrum for exposing his feelings about his emotions and problems.
To anyone who was shunned in school for who they were, Phil's Season 2 episodes (Free Philly, Big Robot on Campus) can hit a little too close to home.
"Kam Inc." features Kam and Eddie nearly shattering their friendship forever not only fighting over a girl but over a girl who was a complete Gold Digger only interested in what material goods she could get from them.
Due to the series abruptly ending, the main characters besides Sunny and Li'l D didn't get much development.
Despite Lil Jon, Fergie, and Cee-Lo Green guest starring in the Christmas episode, they aren’t well utilized and don’t sing even once. It doesn’t help that it has the most songs out of all the episodes.
Toy Ship: Anyone shipping two (or more) of the seven kids is invoking this trope.
Kam is consistently ignored, even when he has a point. He is also one of two characters (the other being Tamika) to actually be heard crying. This comes to a head in "Kam Inc", where he gets used by a gold-digging girl that he actually had feelings for, and even nearly loses his friendship with Eddie over it. It's all Played for Laughs, but the events of that episode will likely stay with him for the rest of his life.
Phil is strongly implied to have been shunned before he met the other kids. In "Free Philly", after screwing both up the music class's victory on Field Day and the resulting attempt at apologizing, he transfers to a science school. Even there, he's teased for being the "music geek", complete with his new science-minded friends point-blank telling him that existing as someone who loves both science and music is wrong and he has to pick one or the other; after a display from his friends (which includes Li'l D admitting that they were at fault for making him feel wrong for being himself), Phil does end up returning to Westley but it's pretty sobering that it took nearly losing him forever before the other kids realized how much Phil meant to them and that Phil is probably well-aware that if he had reacted even slightly differently, he could have been forced to watch the first friends of his life die while thinking he hated them.
"Big Robot on Campus" is arguably even worse, as it lasts throughout the episode. To begin, he is the only one not invited to Jared's birthday party, and worse, all his friends attend. He then builds a robot intending to become popular by association with it, but the robot ends up ditching him because according to Phil, he "[cramped BROC]'s style." Even when Kam points out that BROC has no right to say that, Phil's response is just a shrug, implying that he's used to this. That the kid is as kind-hearted as he is is a small miracle.
position (after having literally bought cookies).
