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- Adaptation Displacement: The version on Newgrounds completely displaced the older Ludum Dare 47 build.
- Anti-Climax Boss:
- After the fast-paced "Eggnog", "Winter Horrorland" is slower and much easier to follow.
- 6's final song, "Thorns", while certainly not as easy as some of the songs from earlier weeks, maintains a mostly constant rhythm with little if any harmonizing, making it much easier than you would expect from a malevolent spirit that intends to take Boyfriend and Girlfriend's bodies, especially after the absolutely grueling "Roses".
- The originally Dummied Out song "Monster" finally got added back in the Week 7 update. However, compared to the difficult "Spookeez" and "South", it's arguably as tough as "Fresh". Its note patterns are slow enough and not really complex, even on Hard. Monster just can't win.
- Badass Decay: Many people who knew Pico well before FNF were put off by his Lighter and Softer portrayal in Week 3, more specifically, how he challenges Boyfriend to a rap battle instead of shooting him on the spot. The fact that some fanfics portray Pico as a Draco in Leather Pants didn't help matters either, though his later appearance in Week 7 brought him closer to his original portrayal.
- Breather Level:
- While the songs in Week 3 pick up in speed, none of the charts are as note-dense as the tougher parts of "South" from Week 2, and Week 4 brings the difficulty up a lot more by mixing more notes into faster songs. Pico also doesn't harmonize as much as the opponents he's sandwiched between.
- If you want a breather beforehand, look no further than "Monster". It focuses more on the shock value of the Monster than the difficulty, so even on Hard (and its introduction of two notes being pressed instead of one during some segments), it's cake.
- Same goes for Week 5. None of the songs in this week have a pace as fast as M.I.L.F. from the previous week, and even though there are some note-dense verses, mostly from Mommy Mearest, they are less frequent than most of the songs in the previous three weeks. Additionally, "Winter Horrorland" is much slower than both of the Parents' previous songs, once again focusing on the Monster's shock value, giving you more time for your notes.
- While the songs in Week 3 pick up in speed, none of the charts are as note-dense as the tougher parts of "South" from Week 2, and Week 4 brings the difficulty up a lot more by mixing more notes into faster songs. Pico also doesn't harmonize as much as the opponents he's sandwiched between.
- Broken Base: As the game grows larger and larger in popularity, it led to quite a debate about how fun the game is between amateurs and veterans who played this game. A lot of people believed that the game's unique style (graphics, music, Newgrounds culture, etc.) and accessibility attracted a lot of fans, especially younger ones. Indeed, a lot of them even expressed how this is the first rhythm game they've ever played, and led them into the Rhythm Game genre. Since they do not have the experience, some have expressed how hard the songs are. However, many rhythm game veterans have instead stated how easy the base game is, even with difficult mods, despite the game's not designed to be hardcore difficult. Along with the fact that the whole chart of the song is slightly too early, many veterans didn't understand how the game could get so popular. Some fans have also expressed how this game may have overshadowed other rhythm games like Guitar Hero or osu!. That being said, there are still veterans who enjoy the game.
- Come for the Game, Stay for the Mods: The game's major claim to fame is its open source nature, meaning it is extremely easy to mod with whatever one may desire; as a result of that and the long development time of the base game, the community mainly thrives off these mods, to the point many fan characters are loved just as much as the original cast.
- Common Crossover:
- Since the beginning, there has been much fan content juxtaposing Friday Night Funkin' with Parappa The Rapper, since both Rhythm Games involve rappers trying to win over their love interests to call-and-response music.
- Following the release of Week 6, fans immediately began producing content of Senpai with Monika and .GIFfany, as all three are seemingly friendly Dating Sim characters that turn out to be much more malicious than initially presented.
- Ever since The Tricky Mod released and caused a Colbert Bump to the series the titular character came from, mods crossing over with Madness Combat are common. Especially mods of the protagonist of the series, Hank J. Wimbleton, despite him being planned to appear in the vanilla game.
- Common Knowledge:
- At first, it was commonly thought that the Monster is a personified tribute to the one-man band Lemon Demon, due to his design (which also vaguely resembles a hornless version of Lemon Demon's logo
), his general style of music, and that some of Lemon Demon's works such as The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny were big on Newgrounds back in the 2000s. However, Ninjamuffin claimed that the Monster wasn't directly based on anything, and any similarities are just coincidences, publishing concept art as proof of it. Bassetfilms has also stated that the Monster's songs were actually inspired by The Blake Robinson Synthetic Orchestra. That didn't stop "Lemon Demon" from being adopted as a Fan Nickname for the Monster, though. - It's commonly mistaken that Pico was a school shooter/started the school shooting in his game, Pico's School, often by people who discovered him through FNF and haven't played Pico's School or only watched a playthrough of him doing the optional kills. In reality, the actual school shooters, the Goth Punks (led by Cassandra), are Pico's enemies in his game. The confusion is referenced in Week 7, where Tankman insults Pico by asking "Don't you have a school to shoot up?"
- At first, it was commonly thought that the Monster is a personified tribute to the one-man band Lemon Demon, due to his design (which also vaguely resembles a hornless version of Lemon Demon's logo
- Crosses the Line Twice: Pico takes Girlfriend's place as the "metronome" during Week 7's "Stress" by shooting and killing Tankmen to the beat of the music.
- Difficulty Spike:
- Many players agree that Week 2 represents a big jump in difficulty. Imagine barely beating "Dad Battle", essentially a rapping boss battle with appropriately fast and frequent notes with instances of harmonizing with your opponent rather than copying them. Now imagine that times two with two spooky boys that don't know how to let up, and Boyfriend's crotch will be numb with the amount of times he gets blueballed.
- While Week 2's songs were made easier on Easy and Normal upon the addition of Week 4's songs to smooth the curve, Week 4 makes up for it with constantly intense beats and frequent duet parts that can quickly turn your chances with Girlfriend into roadkill. "MILF" in particular can be described as the craziness of "Dad Battle" but dialed up.
- Draco in Leather Pants:
- Despite the increasing number of nods both in-game and from the creators themselves that the parents are trying to attack and/or kill Boyfriend, and have done so to others, it's very common for fans to portray them as laid-back but overprotective parents who are wary of Boyfriend but decide to give him a chance, likely due to Soundtrack Dissonance.
- Pico is a hired assassin who recognized Boyfriend and decided to embarrass him in a rap battle instead of killing him, and is described by ninjamuffin as hating the two despite ultimately sparing Boyfriend's life, but fanwork often depicts him as a "third friend" to Boyfriend and Girlfriend who regularly hangs out with them. In shipping art, Pico is sometimes depicted as being a grumpy tsundere. However, canon ended up supporting the more heroic (in his own way) interpretation of Pico, when he saves Boyfriend and Girlfriend from being shot by the Tankmen.
- Fan-Disliked Explanation: Canonically, both main characters are Fearless Fools, too dumb or too overconfident to realize the danger they're in, but the fandom by and large chooses to ignore that in favour of having Girlfriend stick around either out of love for Boyfriend or because she's desensitized to danger because of her parents.
- Fan Nickname:
- Due to the Nameless Narrative, fans were quick to come up with their own names for some of the characters. Some of the most used are "Keith" for Boyfriend, "Cherry" for Girlfriend, and "Luis" for Daddy Dearest.
- Fans commonly refer to Monster as "Lemon Demon"; while initially because fans thought he was a reference to the band of the same name, it stuck due to still being a very apt description.
- A decent number of Virtual YouTubers and their fans have taken to calling Senpai "Evil Roberu" after playing the game, due to both being brunette Bishonens that possess strong womanizing ways, but with Senpai turning out to be bad news more than just competitively.
- Fandom-Enraging Misconception:
- Don't make the mistake of saying that any of the crossover characters originated from Friday Night Funkin'. This will piss off fans of these characters, who are all older than the game (Pico for example has existed for over 20 years at the time of FNF's release).
- VS Whitty, The Tricky Mod, and other extremely popular Game Mods are just that, mods. While some mods may have become nearly as iconic as the main game, claiming that their characters and songs originate from the actual Friday Night Funkin' game will out you as someone who hasn't actually played the game.
- And do not make the mistake of thinking that FNF stands for Five Nights at Freddy's.
- Fandom Rivalry:
- With fans of most rhythm games such as DanceDanceRevolution, with Friday Night Funkin' being perceived as unfairly overshadowing many better rhythm games. FNF fans get along well with Parappa The Rapper fans though.
- There's one with fans of other Newgrounds works that are incorporated in the game, such as Pico and Tankmen. These fans don't really have gripes about the game itself or the portrayal of their works' characters, but rather with how the game's fandom portrays them, especially the leather-pantsing of Pico and thinking that the guest fighters are original to the game. For what it's worth, the developers have taken this rivalry largely in stride, expressing their happiness that discussion around old Newgrounds works has been revitalized.
- A small one-sided case with the Sonic the Hedgehog fandom. As ever since Vs Sonic.exe spiked in popularity, mods themed after the Sonic series have become so frequent to the point where they overtake the popularity of other mods, and a portion of the Friday Night Funkin' fanbase had grown sick of them.
- Fandom-Specific Plot: The most common type of story for a mod is having BF and GF stumble across a character (through means that range from normal to ludicrous) and have a bout against them, usually to get to know each other. Another route is to have said character have a connection to Daddy Dearest (usually as a hired hitman or someone screwed up by him) with the intention to murder Boyfriend. They may take the singing competition lightly and just have a fun time while at it, or go nuts as they grow more frustrated from being defeated.
- Fanfic Fuel: The Reveal that Daddy Dearest has been involved in and/or screwed over the lives of countless others, whether it be using Hired Guns or trapping them in video games, leaves lots of story potential to be explored in fanworks. This often involves a previous victim or associate of Daddy Dearest being the antagonist of a mod, trying to kill Boyfriend or Girlfriend as part of a job or payback for their fate, though setting them as a Hero of Another Story is not out of the question either.
- Fan-Preferred Cut Content:
- Existing early on in the game's files was the "Stalker Girl", a character sketch of a crazed girl, and another sketch of the same crazed girl wearing a bloody onesie and holding a knife, dubbed "Neko Freak". She was scrapped very early on, but the fandom grew attached to her due to her cute design and the file name implying she would be after Boyfriend and not Girlfriend. Her concept has been used in plenty of mods, such as Vs Neko Freak, Friday Night Funkin' FlipSide, and FNF Baddies.
- When one of the game's artists posted old concepts for Senpai's design — which had two-toned hair, blue and green eyes, and ear piercings — it garnered just as much love as Senpai himself due to being charmingly drenched in anime clichés. In fan works, fans either make the design a separate character or incorporate elements of the old design into Senpai's final, in particular his heterochromia.
- Fanon Discontinuity:
- Some fans refuse to accept Pico and Boyfriend being exes despite Word of God confirming it to be canon. This is most likely due to the multiple times ninjamuffin99 stated he was only joking about them being exes before he eventually confirmed it. And of course, there are those who simply don't want Boyfriend and Pico to be queer and therefore ignore this fact just for that.
- Fanon tends to completely ignore Word of God's statement that Pico hates Boyfriend and Girlfriend, and instead goes with the interpretation that Boyfriend and Pico are Amicable Exes who hang out regularly, with the latter having lingering feelings for the former. It helps that he saves the two when Tankman tries to kill them.
- A lot of the fandom has ignored Word of God that Boyfriend's beeps and bops aren't a language, and instead he's simply making noises, as many have taken these noises to indicate that it is a primary language of his, or exclusively speaks in that manner (unless Rule of Funny calls for him to say something in English, especially if it's obscene). In reality, he can speak English, but prefers to speak through his noises as he finds having to talk to most people a rather boring activity. Sometimes, however, some mods depict Boyfriend reacting appropriately to terrifying situations while Girlfriend's personality is played straight.
- Inside the modding community, it's often common to see Boyfriend and Girlfriend become genuinely scared when fighting opponents such as the loud-voiced Ruv or the emotionally fragile Whitty, while in reality PhantomArcade has stated that the two are Fearless Fools who wouldn't break a sweat.
- Skid and Pump's designs are slightly tweaked for their appearance in the game, most notably Pump's signature square tooth being replaced with his mouth curving at the ends. In fan works, the designs are either combined or fans just go with their original Spooky Month designs, even if the context is strictly Friday Night Funkin'.
- Fanon Welding:
- It is commonly believed Boyfriend is the brother of Hatsune Miku, as both are blue-haired singers with an electronic voice. Further fueling the fans are the creators of Friday Night Funkin' jokingly calling it canon, as well as Miku making a cameo in the background of Week 5, closer to where Boyfriend's end of the battlefield is.
- To contrast with the idea of Miku and Boyfriend being siblings, some depict Senpai and Monika as also being brother and sister, due to both being Dating Sim AIs who are Bitches in Sheep's Clothing. However, this would end up dying down after Monika Full Week's Takeover update, and even more after the Plus update to that mod.
- Following a series of cover videos with vocals and/or dialogue featuring the two, Pico being in some kind of friendship with Botan Shishiro because of their mutual love for guns has gotten some traction as well, which additionally complements Boyfriend's relations to another form of virtual idol.
- First Installment Wins: A weird example regarding the music. Usually, the first song in each week is regarded as the most memorable in it. For example, while Week 7's "Guns" and "Stress" are considered good songs in their own right, they're considered nowhere near as great as "Ugh", which is widely considered to be one of, if not the best song in the game. A similar argument could be made about Week 3's "Pico" in comparison to "Philly Nice" and "Blammed", although it's generally agreed upon that "Blammed" is one of the more memorable songs in the game as a whole.
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- Germans Love David Hasselhoff: If the amount of fanart on sites like Twitter is any indication, then there are lots of Japanese and Korean fans of Friday Night Funkin'. In the case of the former group, it's likely that the game taking inspiration from Japanese rhythm games such as DanceDanceRevolution helps its case.
- Heartwarming Moments:
- Girlfriend's "Week", Tutorial qualifies. It's not really much of an actual Week rather than it being Boyfriend trying to impress Girlfriend, with Girlfriend even smiling and waving with genuine enthusiasm when Boyfriend completes a "verse".
- In Week 7's final song Girlfriend is carried in Boyfriend's arms while Pico fights off the Tankmen in the background. Additionally, right after she teleports into his arms, she hugs him lovingly and he blushes!
- Hilarious in Hindsight: One of the Couch Gags reads "too overexposed—-Newgrounds can't handle us". Come the release of Week 7, Newgrounds crashed due to an overload of people trying to access the game.
- It's Easy, So It Sucks!: The most elitist side of the rhythm game community, known for being extremely gatekeeping and aggressive towards players that do not meet certain skill standards, is very verbal about hating on Friday Night Funkin' and its fandom due to the more casual approach the game takes when it comes to charting; due to the game's nature of syncing notes to the character's voice, it's impossible to make overly difficult tracks without making them sound like a total mess, and the community is always very vocal to calling charts and songs out when stuff such as "jacks"note and triple or double notes are added into songs for the sake of making them harder.
- It's Popular, Now It Sucks!:
- While members of the rhythm gaming community are happy that the genre is getting more recognition, many of them are annoyed about Friday Night Funkin' overshadowing all of them despite being relatively new.
- Many within the Friday Night Funkin' fandom itself express concern over the game's sudden popularity, fearing that it will cause the fandom to devolve into a toxic cesspool like other indie games that hit the mainstream before it. Such fears weren't unfounded, especially in the wake of Whitty's creator, sock.clip, citing such toxicity as the main reason she ceased work on the Vs. Whitty mod and left the fandom.
- Jerkass Woobie: Yes, Senpai is a rather foul-mouthed Sore Loser who threatens Boyfriend and especially Girlfriend with assault, but based on the words of Spirit and how Boyfriend and Girlfriend were put into the game in the first place, it's not hard to gauge that it wasn't Senpai's fault that Spirit was put into the game and his body to begin with, nor did he necessarily deserve to die when Spirit broke free.
- Memetic Badass:
- Thanks to the game's extensive modding community, Boyfriend has become a figure of unparalleled musical skill that can defeat anyone, including other Memetic Badasses such as Shaggy and Matt, by rapping at them.
- Mommy Mearest is often portrayed as an indomitable, all-powerful Dominatrix, likely due to her songs (especially "M.I.L.F") being quite difficult. To a lesser extent, Skid and Pump are also occasionally portrayed as powerful badasses because their respective challenges are the point where the game starts to become technical.
- Memetic Loser: While most of the fandom depicts Daddy Dearest as the Retired Badass he is, some picture him as a weak Sore Loser unrivaled by Boyfriend due to his songs being extremely easy.
- Misaimed Fandom:
- Despite the mature themes of the story, a lot of the song names (particularly in Week 4), the presence of Pico as a major character, the fact that Zone-tannote makes a cameo in Week 5, and basically all of Week 7, the game is often mistaken as being a kid-friendly game when it clearly isn't.
- Further complicating matters, the GameBanana page for the game disallows any mods containing nudity, despite the game's aforementioned mature themes and the fact that, with a few exceptionsnote , the site does allow for nudity, provided it's marked as NSFW first and isn't pornographic in naturenote .
- Moe: Girlfriend is chibi, cheerful, and just having a fun time watching her boyfriend sing. Her cheering on Boyfriend on in "Tutorial" and her quivering in fear at lightning in Week 2 is especially adorable.
- Most Wonderful Sound:
- Daddy Dearest's voice in "Dad Battle" is surprisingly soothing and melodic.
- The first note for "Gettin' Freaky" after beating a song in Story Mode, especially after winning a very grueling week.
- Older Than They Think:
- It's not too hard to find fans who think that Pico is original to this game; he was made almost two decades earlier, but since he fell into obscurity as Newgrounds became less popular, Friday Night Funkin' is where many first heard of him.
- One of Pico's songs is often called "Blamed", with one m, due to people not being familiar with Newgrounds or its culture. "Blammed" refers to something on Newgrounds getting deleted due to getting enough negative reception, and it has nothing to do with blame.
- Despite how it's laid out in the week selection screen, "Tutorial" was not the first week made for the game. The older Ludum Dare 47 build had Week 1 available, though "Dadbattle" wasn't made yet.
- One True Threesome: Following ninjamuffin99 stating that Boyfriend and Pico used to date, Girlfriend/Boyfriend/Pico immediately sprang up in popularity as a happy compromise between the two pairings.
- Popular with Furries: Somehow, despite neither the currently playable game nor the planned full game having any furry characters in them (unless you count Ritz), it has managed to amass an utterly massive furry fanbase. The most plausible explanation for this is that the easily-moddable nature of the game means numerous furry fans are free to create downloadable mods featuring their OCs, e.g. VS. Kapi - Arcade Showdown (Kapi the Cat), Friday Night Gamin' (Loki the Wolf), and more, all of which draw in even more furries who enjoy said mods and the game itself.
- Recurring Fanon Character: There are many fan-created mods for the games where the opponents are either characters from pre-existing properties or completely original characters made by the mods' creators. In the case of the latter group, some mod characters become so popular that they spread across the entire fandom. These include:
- Whitty, a humanoid bomb, is a very popular fanon characternote due to his incredibly well-done fan week, to the point where it could easily be mistaken as official. As such, he often appears in fanart and memes, and the developers of the base game occasionally retweet art featuring him. Interestingly enough, he was an already-existing OC who was around before Friday Night Funkin' was a thing. When his mod was taken down after Whitty's creator left the fandom, the community mourned like he actually died.
- Hex the basketball robot is the star of another "good enough to be official" fan week with a whopping five songs. Mostly, Hex is liked because of how friendly he is compared to most other opponents, both in canon and in other mods.
- Carol is one of the first fan characters to really gain a hold in the fandom, beginning as a simple sprite swap of Girlfriend before getting her own week, and is frequently seen across fan works due to her mods being well-made, in addition to being just plain adorable. Some fans have gone as far as to ship her with another popular fan character, Whitty, be it as a Crack Pairing or a genuine Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl relationship. The two were eventually made canon by Carol's creator with the release of the Date Week mod.
- Sarvente and Ruv from Mid-Fight Masses have been steadily gaining a foothold in other fan content outside their fan week. While the character dynamics between them and Boyfriend/Girlfriend couple provide fun enough potential material and the week songs are enjoyable, the thing most people like focusing on is the utterly badass Russian hard-bass style of Ruv's "singing", which fans like pairing up with other fan characters such as Whitty through song remixes, just to hear that bass comboed with other "singing" styles. Even Phantom Arcade mentioned how much he enjoyed "Zavodila", the song featuring Ruv in the actual mod. Alongside that, their children from another universe, Selever and Rasazy, are also rather popular. Like Vs. Whitty, when Mid-Fight Masses was taken down following one of the creators being heavily harassed by their newly-acclaimed fanbase, the community mourned.
- Garcello from Smoke 'Em Out Struggle; on top of the mod being well-made in general, Garcello himself became incredibly popular for being a surprisingly nice guy whose songs are incredibly fun to play without being ridiculously hard to beat. What endeared him the most to the fanbase, however, is how his smoking habit had gotten him killed in the middle of the mod, and how his final goodbyes at the end made him a very likable and tragic character, to the point where fans want him to be an official character in the game itself.
- The titular Sky of Vs Sky remains a hit within the FNF fandom, having received a steadily increasing amount of recursive mods and other fan-content that include her, with most of her popularity starting after her original mod was deleted, mainly because when people heard it was deleted everybody wanted to check out the hubbub through mirrors and videos and ended up enjoying it, allowing her to be a mainstay in the fandom roster of fan characters, especially those who can separate the character and art from the artist and their inspiration.
- Tabi is a rather popular fan character, thanks to not only the mod he came from being enjoyable and having amazing songs, but also because of his interesting backstory that gives an interesting case of Adaptational Villainy to Girlfriend and delves into how villainous Daddy Dearest is.
- A Guy on the Internet, or A.G.O.T.I., from Friday Night Funkin': ENTITY is a popular character due to his well-made mod and absolute bangers of songs. Yet another point is his voice, which not only sounds nice, but also fits really well with songs from other mods. Even the controversy regarding his namesake didn't deter people from liking him.
- Bob from literally every fnf mod ever; the popularity stems from the mod being a parody of the "Character turns mad at third song" trend, while being both hilarious and completely terrifying, something that isn't common for mods of the type.
- Scrappy Mechanic: The lack of calibration options in the game means that, depending on your input device(s) and monitor, the whole thing can end up being slightly off-sync, meaning that you have to force yourself to play slightly in advance of the beat, which can really bring down one's enjoyment of the game.
- Self-Imposed Challenge: "M.I.L.F." on Hard Mode. On a Dance Pad. With your feet.
- Ships That Pass in the Night:
- There exists a small following for Hatsune Miku and the Monster, based on the fact that the two are standing next to each other in the background of Week 5. Other than that, they don’t even interact.
- There's a following for shipping Mommy Mearest with Skid's mother Lila from Spooky Month, due to them both being hot MILFS.
- Pairing Monster with Skid's mother Lila is exceedingly popular, in part from the Fanon of Monster being friends with and/or acting as a father towards Skid and Pump, in part because the dynamics can range from Angel/Devil Shipping to Dating Catwoman depending on how one spins the characters.
- Shipping Monster with Senpai is surprisingly popular, especially for those who consider Senpai and Spirit to be the same character, due to the utter contrast of Senpai and Monster's designs and both Spirit and Monster being supernatural abominations. Those who don't consider Senpai and Spirit the same character but still ship Senpai/Monster then get the humor of Spirit being confused and disgusted over why Senpai would want to tap that.
- A small following exists for Cassette Girl and Hank J. Wimbleton, stemming from them being the remaining two characters from the game's initial reveal that have yet to be added to the game proper.
- Surprise Difficulty: Think this game, with its charming art style and bumpin' beats, is gonna be easy? Try playing the weeks on higher difficulties. If you can't handle the beatboxing sections of "Fresh", then chances are you aren't prepared for the other songs. Starting from "Dad Battle", the songs get faster and with much more notes than before. Week 2's first two songs have tricky charts, with a few instances of having to press three different kinds of notes in rapid succession, and its third song may be slower but has an erratic rhythm that will throw you off your pace. Week 3 doesn't let up either with Pico spitting bars, especially with his second song, "Philly Nice". Week 4 proves to be merciless with Mommy Mearest putting up a lightning-fast barrage of both regular and held beat arrows, peaking at "MILF" that has an infamous beat drop known to wreck combos and bring game-overs.
- Suspiciously Similar Song: The main melody of "Dad Battle" sounds a bit like Paul de Senneville's Mariage d'Amour, better known as "Chopin's Spring Waltz".
- That One Attack:
- The beatdrop in Week 4's "MILF" consists of Mommy Mearest repeatedly sending notes in a spinning fashion. For many players, a single mistake here will make you lose all coordination and a decent chunk of HP, though it can be endured with enough HP and a few hits.
- Week 6's "Roses" has the point where Senpai grows desperate against Boyfriend, sending a barrage of arrows in a practically unreadable pattern near the end. By the point you get there you'll probably have enough energy to survive it, but the final verse has Senpai repeat it again without letting you get much energy to recover before he does. Better have your fingers ready, or you'll have to begin the song from the beginning.
- Week 7's "Guns" has its final section, which appropriately brings an already-tough song to an even harder finish. Once you reach the section, Tankman begins yet another relatively complex pattern...but just keeps on going and going. He spends a whole 32 beats on this part, and now you have to copy it. Even worse, he does this same pattern three times. It hurts especially to end up losing here, too, because Guns is quite the long runner.
- That One Level:
- Skid and Pump, the first opponents of Week 2 before Monster. The duo only have two songs, but they were both difficult due to their rather unique style compared to Dad's songs, so if you thought Dad Battle was a nightmare and the next song was going to be a breather, you'd be wrong.
- "Spookeez", their first song, was a tough cookie even on Normal. The song was infamous for its massive difficulty spike after "Dad Battle". The song ended up being made easier on Normal difficulty in version 0.2.5.
- "South", their second and final song, but only if you're playing in easy or normal mode. The song itself isn't that long, but the notes often have ridiculous patterns and are so tightly packed together, it will be more likely than not to mess up at trying to press the buttons correctly, even cranking down to easy difficulty won't save you. Thankfully though, in hard mode, this song is less note-dense than some of those in other weeks within said mode.
- "M.I.L.F.", Week 4's final song. It's Mommy Mearest's version of "Dad Battle", except the dial's cranked up. It's faster, more aggressive, and way more note-heavy than "Dad Battle". Those notes are much more varied too with having to flip between fast-paced hold notes followed by storms of regular notes. You'll also be harmonizing with Mommy Mearest almost constantly, meaning there's hardly a moment to catch your breath, and it's also the first playable song in the game to go on for two minutes.
- The main reason this song was brought to infamy was because of its infamous beat drop, which involves Mommy Mearest delving into heavy note-spamming territory with the same difficult note combination eight times in a row. This verse is cited as what caused many to lose several times in a row and what made many consider it the hardest song in the game.
- "Roses", Week 6's second song. There's a reason you have to be careful when Senpai gets mad. You'd think the song's not that fast, and it's easy to get the beginning verses right, but it only gets harder from here. As the song progresses, Senpai would throw in more and more notes for each verse, making each verse more note-dense than the last. It goes to the point where, by the time you've reached the 7th and 8th verses, it's almost impossible to get all the notes right if you didn't learn to play with both hands at the same time. Then the song goes back to the first two verses again... only to mess you up one last time by throwing in the 8th verse at the end, i.e. the most note-dense verse of the song.
- While all the songs in Week 7 are bangers, it's due to how fast Tankman spits his bars. However, the speed of the songs means that (according to ninjamuffin99) Week 7 is basically the beatdrop in M.I.L.F., but for three songs straight. While "Ugh" starts the week a little more comfortably and "Stress" gives Boyfriend a few opportunities to recover, "Guns", the second song of the week, gives the player no such mercy. Tankman frequently spits bars like crazy on almost every verse, and this song is among the fastest songs in the game. What's more, the second half of "Guns" swarms you with what's possibly the longest note sections in the whole game, meaning you'll hardly have any room to catch your breath. Just when you think you're safe, Tankman will occasionally throw one or two quick notes your way during his part. To top it all off, this is the longest non-Monster song in the whole game, clocking in at a brutal 2 minutes and 20 seconds. Due to the length and throwing every trick in the book Boyfriend's way at a blazing pace, "Guns" can make even M.I.L.F. look like the tutorial level.
- Additionally, "Guns" and "Stress" have the most notes of all the songs overall, with both of them having over 400 notes on Hard, with only "M.I.L.F." also exceeding 300 notes on Hard!
- Skid and Pump, the first opponents of Week 2 before Monster. The duo only have two songs, but they were both difficult due to their rather unique style compared to Dad's songs, so if you thought Dad Battle was a nightmare and the next song was going to be a breather, you'd be wrong.
- They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Some fans aren't happy with Boyfriend's health bar icon being changed in the Week 4 update, citing that the old one was more expressive and easier to edit for Game Mods. Fortunately for fans like them, the original head was still in-game by pressing 9 on your keyboard to switch between the old and new icons.
- Unexpected Character: While Week 5 having cameos of Newgrounds characters in the background wasn't much of a shocker, who would have thought that Zone-tan would appear?
- Visual Effects of Awesome: Week 7 has cutscenes that look like a very high-quality flash animation instead of a game, and the week's climax where Pico shoots and spins his dual UZIs against an army of tankmen to the beat of the song is done in a very spectacularly smooth manner, and the developers plan to only improve the art from this point on.
- What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: Sure, it might be a fun rhythm game with a cartoonish art style, but it contains swearing, sexual imagery and references, and elements of horror, with Week 7, in particular, containing explicit swearing and graphic violence. This hasn't stopped kids from playing it and liking it, however. The developers themselves seem to have become heavily ticked off by this, with the breaking point being an incredibly Bowdlerized version that was released on Roblox that goes as far as to edit Girlfriend to wear a pair of pants, hence why Week 7 was purposefully made to be so much edgier than previous ones - so that the game would be less accessible to children and there would be no way to lighten it for them. This was, word by word, the general public's reaction to Week 7 due to Tankman spouting hard swear words to the point of saying the C-Word twice in a row, this due to the game growing a massive Periphery Demographic of a child fanbase that seemingly missed or were too innocent to understand the sexual jokes and tones throughout the game.
