YMMV / Close Enough

• Accidental Aesop: "Where'd You Go, Bridgette?" has an implication through its pair of Bad Influencers: Be wary of True Crime influencers, these people are not forensic experts, they're not necessarily working, in touch with, or even care about the police or victims, and they're not necessarily bound to the truth by anything.
• Adorkable: Josh is quite cheery and energetic, despite being a Bumbling Dad.
• Angst? What Angst?: A hilarious example at the end of "Logan's Run'd"; as the laughter of the "Everybody Laughs" Ending dies down, Alex reminds everyone that they had witnessed a public execution earlier making their sudden joy rather jarring despite the traumatizing event.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
  • When Randy appears at the end of "The Perfect House", he is bruised and bandaged as if he had been in a fight. This is his only appearance in the episode, so there is no indication of what caused this.
  • In "100% No Stress Day", Candice appears to be wearing an outfit made from a garbage bag. This is never explained, or even acknowledged by anyone else.
• Bizarro Episode: "World's Greatest Teacher" is bizarre not for how weird the episode is, but rather how shockingly banal it is. Other than River Lake's secret vitriolic side and Campbell's mug supposedly being alive, nothing outwardly insane happens.
  • On the opposite end of the scale, "Secret Horse" is weird even by the show's standards. It's a series of vignettes about the entire cast taking turns hanging out with a horse that gives them their best day ever and seemingly gets increasingly magical over time. Absolutely nothing about the horse is explained or contextualized whatsoever, and the narrator outright calls the viewer "dumber than some kind of asshole" for thinking it was a metaphor for something.
• Magnificent Bastard: "Joint Break": Barb leads a crew of elderly women on a series of successful bank robberies to pay off their medical bill, using their guise as elderly folks to avoid suspicion from the police. Befriending Pearle Watson, Barb tricks her into becoming her getaway driver and persuades her to join her crew for a job involving stealing an armored truck filled with money. Aware of Pearle's past as a cop, Barb took all the bullets from Pearle's gun when she tries to stop them. Stopped by Pearle's friends on the force, Barb convinces Pearle to let her take one more water aerobics exercise in the ocean, letting the waves kill her and going out on her own terms.
• Memetic Mutation: "I. AM. OLD!" ^Explanation Alex says this line in "Logan's Run'd" after declaring multiple things that consider him to be old. He does this not only to save Josh and Emily, but to get himself killed out of fear of getting old. This line has had many recreations by fans who jokingly profess how old they are by mentioning several things from when they were younger. Numerous examples can be found here.
• Moe: Candice is a sweet and cheerful child who always approach everyday with optimism and glee.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • In "Logan's Run'd", the titular club "Logan's", where only customers under thirty are allowed in. Anyone over thirty ends up being declared a VIP (short for Very Irrelevant Persons), where they are raised up into the air by a couch and shredded into a bloody paste by a giant ceiling fan. Josh, Emily, and Alex are justifiably horrified when they see it happen and try to find Bridgette and leave, while the rest of the crowd sadistically cheer for it while getting splattered in the unfortunate victim's blood. The fact that the owner does this for an extremely petty reason doesn't help matters either, and Alex's line at the end of the episode indicates just how traumatizing it was to watch.
  • In "Snailin' It", Emily obtains a magic hat that can slow down time from a deal made with a giant talking snail, but ends up making her age rapidly with every use. When she breaks the deal with the snail, the latter ends up absorbing Candice into his body to use as his arms and legs while donning a second hat to run away. The ensuing fight has Emily and the snail rapidly aging and de-aging each other, with Candice being reduced to an unborn fetus when the snail is turned into a baby, and Emily becoming a skin-and-bones old woman who's missing her nose. Yeah, not pleasant to see either of those happen.
  • "First Date" has Josh and Emily try to recreate their first date by visiting a haunted house attraction. However the attraction they pick is a lot more extreme than the one from their youth, as they are chased by demonic creatures into a hall of mirrors, where their talking reflections convince them that they actually died in an accident at the start of the attraction and have left Candice as an orphan. Even the proprietor refers to the attraction as psychological torture.
  • "Hellspital", after Alex goes unconscious, he is then dragged into Hell in the form of a hospital and as he is being taken to the emergency room he sees other people being horrifically tortured. The nurse gives Alex Sadistic Choice where she can cut out his tongue, feed him his ears, or take his temperature which looks normal that Alex chooses that... only for the nurse to insert the thermometer into a torture device and was about to drill into Alex's mouth had it not been for his dad's intervention.
  • "Never Meet Your Heroes": Alex's favorite author, Jack Kleghorn, is a fraud who uses a magical space meteorite he found to repeatedly switch bodies with younger artists in order to take credit for their work. And the artists in Jack's old bodies? Jack immediately killed them as soon as the switch was made. He's been doing it since he first found the meteorite, when he was a caveman.
  • Appropriately enough the Halloween Episode "Halloween Enough" has a literal example with Candice's nightmare. In it, she literally Broke the Fourth Wall and ends up inside Cartoon Network Studios. The entire time this 5-year old girl is both confused and terrified as she wanders this strange new place, seeing things like concept art and sketches of the people she knows. She meets the shows creator J. G. Quintel believing he is her father, but he doesn't know her. She hears her mother's voice only to find the likes of Gabrielle Walsh, Kimiko Glenn and her own voice actress Jessica DiCicco in the recording booth… and as she runs out of the building in terror it dawns on her where she is, and what that means for her as she is swarmed by a crowd of insane fans.
  • "The Perfect Couple": During an outing at a restaurant, Emily and Josh's new friends, Evan and Danielle, reveal that their daughter, June, is actually their dog that they dress up as a little girl. The three then proceed to messily tear into a plate of raw meat. Thoroughly creeped out, Josh, Emily, and Candice attempt to leave, but are pursued by Evan and Danielle, who insist that raising a dog is exactly like raising a child; when Emily and Josh disagree, Evan and Danielle sic a pack of angry dogs on them.
• Spiritual Successor: Being a Coming of Age Story for people already well into adulthood, it's often called the best animated show that Judd Apatow never made. It's also favorably described as a hypothetical Animated Adaptation of Neighbors (2014), due to the similar premise of a young married couple and their daughter.
• Sweet Dreams Fuel: While it's not intended to be family-friendly, Close Enough is way more idealistic than other adult cartoons are generally known for. The two main characters are a pair of uncertain Millennial parents who lack the stability to have a second child or to even live separately from their friends (with the friends in question being divorced and having to live together because they're equally strained financially), yet they're nonetheless a loving and supportive family that can accept each other's flaws, keep the relationship going after the passion has subsided, take good care of their daughter and approach mundane activities with zest and imagination.
• Tear Jerker:
  • At the end of "Prank War", Emily seemingly gets killed, with her husband Josh very devastated by it and crying before it is revealed to be just a prank.
  • In "Hellspital", the reason why Alex is scared of hospitals is because his father went to one and died. As it turns out, he was sick for months and hid it from his family because he was scared of what the doctor would say to him.
• Unintentional Period Piece: In "Halloween Enough" during Candice's nightmare, Cartoon Network Studios is shown to be in the building at the corner of Palm Avenue and 3rd Street in Burbank, as it was at the time the episode originally aired in 2022. Cartoon Network would move out of said building to a location closer to Warner Brothers Studios only a year later.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: Sure, it's made by the same guy who did Regular Show (which did have its share of dubious moments, but was more-or-less meant for children), but, unlike Regular Show, Close Enough does not try to cover up the fact that it's an adult cartoon nor does it go overboard with adult content. It's basically Regular Show with a TV-14 rating.
• Working Title: Splittin' Rent.

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