YMMV / Dawn of the Croods

• Base-Breaking Character: Ugga. Some like that she has more of a personality and character beyond "wife and mother", with episodes dedicated to her. Others are annoyed that she is essentially a completely different character, looking and acting nothing like her film counterpart.
• Funny Moments:
  • In "The Good Surprise", while practicing on surprising their mom, Eep and Thunk told Munk he won 100 free eggs.
  Munk: I did?!
  Thunk: No! But look how happy you are now!
  [Munk cries in a fetal position.]
  • Speaking of Munk, he can't get a Gran-headed bird out of his head in "The First Picture Show".
  "Squawk! Loser. Squawk! Loser."
  • Speaking of "The First Picture Show",the way everyone makes their own shadow-puppet tales of Thunk's story can be interpreted as the first ever instances of fan-fiction.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • In the first episode, "A Gran Day Out", when Grug allows Gran to move into the cave.
  Grug: Normally, I say don't to anything new, but just this once, I'll say do. Do move into our cave. But only I sit on my slab.
  Gran: I promise nothing, Glop.
  Ugga walks by.
  Ugga: Woah, you two agree on something?
  Grug: Yes. We both love you.
  Ugga brings the two into a group hug.
  • Similarly, in the eighth episode, "Mom Genes", when Ugga loses her temper and tells her family to stop their arguing, Grug and Gran look at each other, sharing a look of concern.
  • Whenever Eep's Big Sister Instinct towards Thunk kicks in.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The film’s long-gestating sequel will feature a new character named Dawn.
• Ho Yay:
  • Lerk is overly clingy towards Eep, and some of the faces she makes give the impression that there's more than a platonic attraction.
    • In "The Eep-Over", Lerk jumps into Eep's arms after being terrified of a sound. Then Lerk pats Eep's cheek and said she's pretty, while looking at her with dreamy eyes. Though she does it with Steve too.
    • In "Bad Sandy" she carved a statue of Eep and said she had "weird plans" for it.
    • In "It Crushes" she found the good-looking Kevin unattractive and almost threw up when he started kissing her arm.
  Lerk: You're not even close to my type.
  • In "It Takes Ahhh! Valley", Lerk replaces Eep as her friend with her own hand with a face drawn on it, like some use to practice kissing.
  • In "The First Picture Show", Amber seems to like Pretty, Hunk's girlfriend in Thunk's story.
  Eep: (playing Pretty) "I'm Hunk's girlfriend, Pretty!"
  Amber: (intrigued) Well, well, Amber think this just get interesting!
  • "This Is An End" has a moment in the middle of multiple characters kissing each other, including right after a gay kiss, where Lerk looks like she's about to give Eep one. She actually pulls her into a bear hug.
• Older Than They Think: The invented word "vacate-shun" was actually used first in the Eek! B-cartoon "The Terrible Thunderlizards", which also starred a pair of hapless cavemen who passed their days having misadventures or dodging predators, and routinely came up with innovations to (ostensibly) help their quality of life in a harsh environment.

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