YMMV / Frozen '50s Man

• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Is Dick being a Lovable Sex Maniac a result of his fifties-era ideas of courtship or is it because of repressed homosexuality, a subject he keeps bringing up for little to no reason? He was comfortable being work partners with an outwardly Campy but Ambiguously Gay man back in the fifties (to the point of giving Bing a Flirtatious Smack on the Ass), and it's easy to interpret his constant chauvinism as the heteronormativity of his decade forcing him to believe that he's a hundred percent straight and loudly proclaim it to everyone around him.
  • If Bill Racehate had survived to see The Reveal that Q was actually Klaus the Nazi in episode 2, would he also have defected from Qanon like Squeaky McVirgin and Tony Edgelord or was he really that loyal to Senator Sleazy to the point where he willingly would have worked with an actual Nazi?
• Awesome Music: The main title theme by Dillon DeRosa kicks all sorts of ass, with a very Raygun Gothic Two Fisted Tale feeling to it which perfectly sets the mood for what type of show this is.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: During Dick's battle with Bill Racehate in episode 2, he and Bill go from bare-knuckle fistfighting to suddenly pulling swords and wearing medieval armor, to dressed in American Civil War outfits (with Bill, naturally, dressed as a Southerner and crying "Virginia!" as he and a blue-clad Dick trade period gunfire), to Cold War era military attire with nuclear devices, all while Alexis Buttle, previously moved to tears at the thought of losing Dick, orders some food and unhurriedly drives at a modest pace back to the house to pick him up. (It's discreetly implied some of it might be from Dick getting his skull bashed a little hard, since the sequence ends with him, back in his regular attire, moaning in pain on the floor.)
• Bizarro Episode: Episode 3 of Frozen '50s Man is so much Denser and Wackier than its direct predecessor, and that's saying something. Alexis is revealed to be the leader of ANTIFA and starts being a huge jerk toward Dick and acting a lot more like a Strawman Political than she previously did, Dick is revealed to have an obsession with porn he never had before, and the main plot of the episode is a direct parody of The Maltese Falcon (1941) except with a ton more penis jokes. While the first two episodes weren't exactly grounded, realistic or chaste (the first episode has a gay communist drinking a man he'd been having an affair with as a smoothie and the second has a far-right klansman kill himself after eating soy), they weren't anywhere near the levels of silly and sexual provided by episode 3.
• Continuity Lock-Out: For some viewers, this was the case with Episode 1 since most of its story and humor is based on gags and references to "BreadTube" content creators. A lot of fans of Atun-Shei Films who didn't also keep up with the other Youtubers parodied at best didn't understand the plot or get most of the jokes,^note such as if you didn't know who Vaush is, of whom Conrad the Comrade is an expy of, and at worst thought he was being legitimately homophobic/reactionary.^note It didn't help that one gag in particular was a parody of Philosophy Tube based on the time the host presented as male, which was correct at the time the episode was shot, but before its release said host came out as a trans woman.
• Unintentional Period Piece: The show has a handful of things which forever encode it into a very specific slice of time in the early 2020s due to Webcomic Time:
  • The first episode features a male character that's clearly a parody of the host of Philosophy Tube as the host appeared at the time the episode was shot. However, the video was released mere weeks after said host came out as a transgender woman.
  • In episode two, Twitter is described by Dick as "that program with the little blue bird". Since then, Twitter changed its name to X, and its logo was changed to a stylized "X" rather than the famous bird symbol.

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