YMMV / It's a Big Big World

• Awesome Music: "Curve of the World".
• Retroactive Recognition: Snook is also Walter and Clyde the Cloud.
• Tear Jerker:
  • "Try to Touch the Sky", the song that closes every episode.
  • The creator of the show, Mitchell Kriegman, created the show in response to the September 11th attacks. "I was in New York when 9/11 happened, and having three kids, you discover pretty quickly that it changed their sense of the world." He wanted to show kids through this show that there was still beauty in the world, despite all the terrible events occurring around them.
  • In "The More Things Change": Ick, Bob, and Smooch & Winslow crying over things changing in the episode (Ick cries about being too big to fit into his hiding spot during a game of hide-and-seek to avoid getting tagged by Bob, Bob crying because Ick is crying, and Smooch & Winslow crying over their favorite branch breaking off the tree).
  • In "King of the Tree": Bob becomes upset that all the rain they've been getting during a downpour ends up getting his entire house waterlogged, then worrying that the rain will wash away all the ants.
  • In "So Long Planty": Smooch mourning the loss of her house plant Planty.
• Visual Effects of Awesome: While the Shadowmation backgrounds haven't aged the best, the combination of bunrako and muppet style puppetry remain beautifully expressive.