YMMV / Jake and the Never Land Pirates

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Tick Tock the Crocodile in this show occasionally passes up opportunities to eat Hook, and when he tries it's less intense of an effort compared to the original film. Is this just a byproduct of the show being Lighter and Softer, or has the croc actually figured out that he'll lose his purpose in life if he succeeds and is trying to drag the chase out for as long as humanly possible?
• Anvilicious: With any Aesop they have, they can't drive it home enough. And then they sing about it.
• Awesome Music: Any song Peter Pan partakes in in the "Peter Pan Returns" special. That boy can sing! And it's not just that, with the series as a whole being packed with good songs, a good portion being thanks to Captain Bogg and Salty as some of the series' composers.
• Funny Moments: Too many to count.
• Heartwarming Moments: Again, too many to count.
• Growing the Beard: Season 2 fleshes out the world of Neverland more, with a better emphasis on finding actual treasures and Fake Interactivity being almost non-existent. Hook and Smee are also used to much more imaginative and funny means than just "stealing X of the day". Captain Jake and the Neverland Pirates grows the beard even further by having removing most if not all traces of Fake Interactivity and further ramping up the action adventure elements that wouldn't feel out of place in an ARPG.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In "Jake and the Great Neverland Rescue", Peter Pan guides Jake in saving the magic of Neverland. Months later, another boy was guided by Pan to save Neverland's magic...and it was a trick, with the boy (temporarily) dying as a result.
• Ho Yay: Being lightened up for a younger audience, Hook's relationship with Smee has been Ho Yay-ified tenfold to any older viewers. There's much more hugging, many more sweet gestures, an entire episode about the two riding a tandem bike, and even Smee suggesting the trophy he made for Hook should have been for "Tastiest Captain" rather than "Meanest". Smee even calls the man fetching and "dear Captain Hook sir". Hook not being able to threaten Smee with a gun also makes any squabbles feel much more like marital argueing, and outside of being simple throw-away gags, you have to wonder about some of Hook's alternate hands. Like a feather? Kinky.
  • The picnic episode is lousy with this. Hook is just so helpless without Smee, and is so hurt when he sees him with Jake and company. And when they're reunited and all air is cleared, they both get all sappy and make up just like a couple of giddy girl friends.
  Smee: [chuckle] He's just so lost without me..!
  • How 'bout Smee treating an injured Hook and singing him the boo-boo song? That whole thing was adorable.
• Just Here for Godzilla: The Periphery Demographic will gladly admit to watching just for the antics of Hook and Smee. Some also get excited by those episodes where other characters from the original film, like Peter Pan or Wendy, show up.
• Memetic Mutation: "A good pirate never takes another person's property!"◊^Explanation This image from one of the show's book releases was joked about since stealing people's property is what pirates are supposed to do. Often followed by the phrase "I'm not sure Disney understands this concept very well." The show usually features one of these "Pirate Pledges" at the beginning of each episode.
• Moral Event Horizon: In pretty much all media Hook's done some pretty evil stuff, and even for a preschool show he managed to do one particularly ruthless act befitting his film version: throwing Tinker Bell into the Never Sea in "Neverland Rescue" definitely qualifies as crossing the line.
• Nightmare Fuel: Has its own page.
• Periphery Demographic: There is a sizeable portion of the fanbase for this show that is composed of people way above the intended demographic, be it for Hook and Smee, the music, the charming nature of the series, or even the visuals. If that's not enough, the series even once dethroned Mickey Mouse Clubhouse as Disney Jr.'s most popular children's series.
• Ugly Cute: Tick Tock. He's just so goofy-looking in the show that he comes off as adorable.
  • The baby crocodiles seen at the end of one episode as well. (You can see them at the end of this official video.)
• The Un-Twist: If the robes don't do it for you, then the flying fairy-like light around the mysterious man in Jake and the Great Neverland Rescue makes it obvious that it's Peter Pan and Tinker Bell.

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