YMMV / Crash Zoom

• Adorkable:
  • Lucy, despite her (justifiably) exasperated exterior, she's shown to be a comic book nerd and a LARPer and admits to being social awkward.
  • Ben as well sometimes, like when he dresses feminine or acts like a Manchild.
• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Why does Lucy hang out with the Dexters despite all the chaos they cause? With her life being rather depressing, perhaps she appreciates them breaking the monotony once in a while.
  • Excluding "Orcs & Dorks", Kate never actually uses her powers unless ordered by Ben ("Firing Squad", "Grave Mistake") or to save him and Lucy ("Movie Massacre","Cover Up"). Ben could be a Morality Pet of sorts to her.
• Angst? What Angst?: The second scientist from "Cover Up" doesn't seem much disturbed by the death of his twin brother.
• Awesome Music: The theme song is really fun and sets the series' mood perfectly well, especially the ska intro by Skatune Network for the second season onwards.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • In "Movie Massacre", Lucy singing to Ben that despite her wanting to stay out of his antics, she still considers him her friend. Ben, on his part, apologises and the two make up quickly.
  • In "Firing Squad", despite initially refusing to destroy his camera monster, Ben does so upon hearing Lucy scream his name as it attacks her.
  • A minor one, but the scene in Shell Shock where Lucy hugs a raccoon is so darn adorable!
  • Also in Shell Shock, and weirdly enough, the reunion between Linda Weaver and her son, with her learning Turtle Man didn't eat her son, but rather was her son.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Though most of Grave Mistake would qualify as Lightmare Fuel, being basically a Zombie Apocalypse Played for Laughs, we see Ben at his most unhinged, psychopathic and terrifying, as he raises more and more zombies from the dead with the help of his sister, manages to create a peaceful zombie society, only to have them all massacred by the living humans, all for the sake of making a movie. The Nightmare Face and Laughing Mad he makes certainly makes it worse.
  • The Stinger of Firing Squad shows Kate (or at least a hooded figure resembling Kate) stealing the creature Dr. Bill Tedderson previously captured, and put its spirit in her scepter before leaving with an Evil Laugh. Then the doctor comes out of the shadows and is about to shoot Kate, but can't bring himself to do it. Then his science labrador shows up and asks to be fed, and the video suddenly glitches into a split-second loop with a Scare Chord.
  • In Out Of Time, when Father Time actually kills Ben and Kate, the way he says he's just going to kill them is rather spine-chilling, then he proceeds to Rapid Aging them and causing their bodies to distort into a barely recognisable skeletal corpse before crumbling into dust. It's actually quite off-putting to see our protagonists dying in such a horrible way.
  • The introduction scene of Shell Shock where a group of kids perform a Summoning Ritual, but are interrupted by another kid who arrived late, angering the spirit of the soul-reaper, who vaguely looks like Kate, and are all turned into furniture. The transition into the present showing the kids-turned-furniture now all decrepit after an unknown amount of time, does not help matters at all.
• Tear Jerker:
  • After he gets them fired from various jobs due to his filmmaking, Lucy throws his camera away and snaps at Ben in "Firing Squad", shouting that he doesn't care about anyone but himself and his "worthless movies". When Ben quietly apologises and leaves, Lucy, regretting what she said, attempts to go after him and apologise.
  • A minor one in Out Of Time: after Ben and Kate messes with timelines, Father Time comes over and kills them both, then Lucy falls to her death. That's right, all three protagonists actually die. Thankfully, since they ended up in the Victorian Era, Lucy wrote a message to warn her "future past" self to prevent Ben and Kate from tampering with time.
• Squick: The deformed boy-man in "Firing Squad".
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: Despite the series looking all cartoony and using and playing with some typical cartoon tropes, its violence is much more brutal and the humor slightly more adult-oriented than that of a kids cartoon; Tom even stated that he received distressed comments from actual children watching Crash Zoom and he complained that they're not supposed to watch his videos to begin with.
• The Woobie: Lucy, the Only Sane Woman miserable at her job, reeling from her breakup and constantly dragged into her friends's dangerous schemes.

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