YMMV / I Am Weasel

• Accidental Innuendo:
  • From the episode "Deep Sea Tour": "Simple—you suck."
  • In "I.R. Pixie Fairie", Weasel telling Lullabelle "Now that I'm a fairy, I must leave you." ^note  "Fairy" is a slang term for a gay man.
• Alternate Character Interpretation: Despite the show being named "I am Weasel", it's possible to see I. R. Baboon as the true main protagonist, with Weasel being more of a Hero Antagonist. The theme song seems to be written in Baboons favour, with Weasel interrupting. Also, on old Cartoon Network Game had the player helping Baboon out do Weasel.
• Badass Decay: I.R. Baboon, big time. He was successfully able to punch speeding vehicles in the first episode after Weasel took credit for building a bridge between The U.S. and Mexico. Fast forward to Season 5's, "I Am Dragon Slayer" where he gets beaten up by a tiny dragonfly.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
  • In "I.R. Ice Fisher", Weasel is helping out Baboon to catch some fish after he fails to do so. Weasel successfully catches a small fish, puts it back in the fishing hole and then suddenly, a muscular tuxedo-wearing penguin pops up from the hole, beats up Baboon for no reason and then says "That ain't no way to treat a Lady!" before hopping down the hole again. This has zero relevance to the episode, nor was it ever foreshadowed or brought up again. ^note  Baboon didn't even interact with a woman at that point of the episode!
  • "I Am Whale Captain" opens with Baboon ordered to scrape the barnacles off the whale, only for one of them to become sentient and tells Baboon to spare his family. Baboon gets sad and decides to put all the barnacles on his back so no one can't hurt them anymore. This serves no purpose for the rest of the episode and goes on for a full minute.
• Bizarro Episode: There are two of them:
  • "I.R. Plant Life" in Season 1, where Baboon marries a sapient thistle he created via stealing from a museum who he has an Interspecies Romance with, is pure Artistic License – Biology exaggerated, is a weird episode in itself. Although it was a Space Whale Aesop on conservation and environmentalism (and makes some valid points on how even the least flashiest or appreciated plants need conservation, outside of Scotland, that's what thistles are seen as); Don't Shoot the Message applies on that, it's still full-on weird. It was also the show's ninth episode in the first season, establishing a bizarro episode pretty early on, which doesn't always happen with a new series on launch.
  • "I Am Cliched" in Season 4 is a Self-Parody of Cartoon Network and toon physics, with cartoon cliches abounding in this episode.
  • "The Magnificent Motorbikini" in Season 4 is totally bizarre, being about an invention that's half-motorcycle, half-bikini and features talking hams that are cosmic beings taking A Form You Are Comfortable With; plus, Weasel wears a bikini that episode, crossdressing being something he's done occasionally. The episode gained notoriety for feeling like an acid trip, even though by the show's standards, it's had some pretty weird episodes.
• Don't Shoot the Message: "I.R. Plant Life" had a Space Whale Aesop but its message was pretty wholesome; even the smallest of plants should be conserved, even if they're weeds, which thistles are seen as. Not bad for an episode made in 1997 when climate change and conservation were not as big social issues as in The New '10s.
• Genius Bonus: Not surprising considering who the main character is.
  • Red Guy's alias in "I Am Cliched" is Louie B. Bare, which is a reference to Louis B. Mayer, the co-founder of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
  • Weasel's remark towards Baboon, "Mr. Baboon, this is not California" in "Driver's Sped" when Baboon is driving horribly may seem random and out of place , until you realize that California has one of the highest amount of car crashes in any state in the U.S.
  • "Power of Odor" ends with Baboon having to take his stinky pigs to a new city after Weasel manages to get rid of the toxic air. Baboon then states it it should be a place where people would appreciate them and considers going to Los Angeles. This is a reference to how Los Angeles being the most polluted city in the US and is covered in smog.
  • In "Happy Baboon Holidays", there is a scene where Baboon's family sees pictures of Weasel's greatest achievements, including being with the Founding Fathers, Martin Luther King Jr and Richard Nixon◊. During Nixon's picture, you can see a text reading "I'm sorry I got caught Love, Dick" which is a reference to how Nixon was caught during the Watergate Scandal, which ultimately lead to Nixon's resignation.
  • The name of the ground plane that Weasel and Baboon are operating in "Mission: Stupid" is "Enola Happy".
  • "I Are a Artiste" has Red Guy running a parody of Moulin Rouge called Derriere Rouge, which is not only french for "Buttocks Rouge", but considering that rouge is also a form of the color red, this essentially means that the place is called "Buttocks Red" or "Red Butt".
  • "I Are Gladiator" has Red Guy as the Roman emperor Glutetus Maximus, named after the largest and outermost of the three gluteal muscles and makes up a large part of the shape and appearance of each side of the hips. Its thick fleshy mass, in a quadrilateral shape, forms the prominence of the buttocks.
  • "The Legend of Big Butt" has Weasel and Baboon searching for the mythological creature Big Butt (who turns out to be Red Guy) at the Himalayas. When they reach the mountain top, Baboon starts freezing and takes his clothes off and gives it to a snow man as he feels bad for it. This has several parallels to real-life hypothermia, as the symptoms include shivering, drop in energy, loss of reasoning, blue complexion and getting the idea of taking your clothes off, All of which Baboon showed traits of in the episode.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The series was quite well received in Romania. I had reruns for years after it ended and was probably more popular there than in the U.S.
• Growing the Beard: The second season is seen as an upgrade to the first season by some due to the inclusion of the Red Guy, the improved animation and Weasel becoming less of a Hero Antagonist and more into the smarter and saner of the two friends.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • In "The Sackless Games", the final event is a luging competition (where Weasel and Baboon ride brothers with Luge for a last name). At the end, the Red Guy says "I tried to warn them that the luge is the most dangerous event in sports, but they would not listen.". 11 years later, Nodar Kumaritashvili died in a luging accident hours before the start of the 2010 Winter Olympics.
  • In "I Am Bush Pilot" I.R. almost crashes the airplane he and Weasel are piloting into a mountain. This would be far less funny years later after the Germanwings plane crash in the French Alps in 2015.
  • "I Am Franken-Weasel" features a tombstone with the engraving "Cuck" on it while Baboon is searching for a body in the cemetery. This is a reference to producer Louis J. Cuck, but due to Cuck becoming a widespread insult decades later and short for Cuckold, this can easily be misinterpreted as an adult joke. ^note  Not helped by the fact that Cow and Chicken and I Am Weasel are known for having these kinds of jokes, with the first Weasel episode even having a similar joke.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • "The Sackless Games" features the large Luge brother beating up Weasel (and later Baboon) for calling him Tubby.
  • The clothes that Percy Bruce and Priscilla (and later Weasel and Baboon) are wearing in "Leave it to Weasel" are strikingly similiar to that of what Billy and Mandy are wearing, complete with a pink dress with a yellow flower on Priscilla. ^note  Maxwell Atoms, the creator of Billy and Mandy actually wrote this episode.
  • In Brazil, Weasel's name is Máximo (so as to turn his catchphrase\title into basically "I am the greatest"). Well, a few years later the voice of Máximo would also be the voice of Maximus.
• Ho Yay: "I.R. Do" has Weasel resort to dressing himself as a bride and marrying Baboon when Baboon is despondent to learn that his bride has left him at the altar for a German hairless Chihuahua.
• Jerkass Woobie: I.R. Baboon had more than a few moments of being antagonistic towards Weasel, but it's hard not to pity him for his longing to gain the same recognition and praise his smarter rival gets.
• Memetic Mutation: "It all started when I was ni-yun..."
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Richard Steven Horvitz and Vanessa Marshall voiced minor characters on this show before going on to voice Billy and Irwin and later became prominent voice actors in the animation industry.
  • Tom Kane voiced the newsanchor Dick Pickle in the episode "I Are Music Man" in one of his earlier acting gigs before making a name for himself when he went on to voice Professor Utonium and Darwin Thornberry the following year.
  • Jennifer Martin voiced Weasel's blind date in the episode "He Said, He Said." in her second voice acting gig, before she went on to voice Ms. Sara Bellum on The Powerpuff Girls.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: Weasel's song from "I R Mommy" sounds like "Lookin' Out My Back Door" by Creedence Clearwater Revival.
• Unintentional Period Piece: The cartoon character retirement homes in "I am My Lifetime" mostly contain characters from classic Hanna-Barbera shows, with Dexter being the only Cartoon Cartoons character outside of the Cow and Chicken universe to make an appearance. This is because, at the time, Dexter's Laboratory was the only Cartoon Cartoons show that had officially aired when the episode was produced. Chances are, had the episode been made several years later, it would have included characters from other Cartoon Cartoons shows such as Johnny Bravo, Ed Eddn Eddy, The Powerpuff Girls and Courage the Cowardly Dog in place of the Hanna Barbera characters.

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