YMMV / Los Lunnis

• And You Thought It Would Fail: Being an outdated Muppet-like puppet show with a fairly basic concept, most insiders doubted it would ever match its predecessor TPH Club, a much more stylized, mature show based on CGI animation. They were incredibly wrong.
• Audience-Alienating Era: Many people who watched the show as children or teens opine it lost a lot of its magic when it became a purely pre-school educative vehicle in March 2009, year in which its director Valentín Villagrasa was replaced by Xavi Viza.
• Badass Decay: Lucanero started the series as a Dastardly Whiplash who could be very dangerous if left unchecked, but he got humiliated in so many ways and manners through the years that he sometimes became actually more sympathetic than many of the heroic characters. Early episodes suggested he was a great pirate and fighter, but he went to win basically zero duels in all the series, even against opponents who weren't implied to be anything great, and his mother's dedicated episodes implied he had been a worthless buffoon all his life.
• Creepy Awesome:
  • The evil wizard Luciflor, due to the interesting-looking design of his puppet, his sinister performance, and the fact that, unlike Lunática, he can hold his own against Lubina in a Wizard Duel without any magical item.
  • Lulaña, Lutecio's absurdly intelligent pet tarantula, which he once used to sabotage Lula's spaceship during a space race.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • There were many, but Lubina was one of the most popular characters, as well as the stated favorite of some of the performers.
  • Lucho's and Lupita's grandmothers are surprisingly well remembered despite being tertiary characters at the best.
• Fandom Rivalry: There are still some people who will never forgive Los Lunnis for having taken the place of TPH Club. It went to reach executive levels within TV producers, as Los Lunnis were born when Javier González Ferrari replaced Pío Cabanillas Jr. as the chairman of RTVE and decided to erase all the shows and programming established under Cabanillas, which included TPH Club.
• Fashion-Victim Villain: The animations used in Los Lunnis de Leyenda already had a quirky style, but their portrayal of the mythic giant Geryon wearing hipster glasses and sandals with socks was possibly too much.
• Nightmare Fuel: Surprisingly, there was a lot of this in the show, with many episodes showcasing monsters, supernatural creatures or very evil Lunni villains - sometimes in parodic or lighthearted fashion, but sometimes without being played for laughs at all. In stories like Miss Lublack or the Lunalunera Monster, the tone of the episodes could become just haunting.
• Replacement Scrappy:
  • Ignacio Azkargorta, Lutecio's first voice actor, was replaced just three years into the show by Benjamí Conesa, a succesor that many disliked. While Azkargorta had been a fan favorite for his charisma and ability to sound wise and funny at the same time, Conesa was considered just plain miscast, as he was a much younger actor forced to strangle his voice to try unsuccessfully to sound like an elderly character.
  • Lucrecia being replaced in 2009 by pop singer María Isabel (until then a sporadic guest of the show) was a controversial decision due to the latter's huge Broken Base at the time, which was even worse compared to the massively fan favorite Lucrecia. Tellingly, she lasted only two years before the role of central guest was dropped altogether from the show.
  • Contrary to popular belief, Álex only worked two years in the show, just like María Isabel. This impression exists probably because his replacements, first Sergio (then unknown actor Sergio Mur) and later Lukas (theatre actor Albert Requena), were very bland and unmemorable. Tellingly, the fact that Sergio kinda looked physically like Álex confused many people into believing he was the latter.
  • Dr. Lu/The Masked Beetle, who became the show's Big Bad after its retool in 2009, was considered a poor replacement for Lucanero (and Luspector, as he was a bit of a Composite Character for both). Same with Lumbrosio, who came to play a role similar to Lurdo.
• The Scrappy: The forest's mushrooms, Lubellón and Lunega. You would be hard-pressed to find someone who liked them, not only because they were a pair of jerkasses without any redeeming quality except their love/friendship to each other, but also because their puppets were weirdly ugly.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Some of Lucanero's plots involve stealing Lula's spaceship to leave Lunalunera, apparently de-canonizing the fact that he debuted in the series with his own spaceship, which disappeared from the plot afterwards.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Lucanero whenever his mother visits him. She constantly scolds him for being evil towards the Lunnis, and there is a Running Gag that she loves Lurdo dearly yet barely cares about Lucanero at all. While the scoldings are deserved, if a bit hypocritical (she's a pirate just like him, only that she likes the Lunnis for some reason and thus makes an arbitrary exception with them), her lack of care for him is never implied to be a consequence of his misdeeds, only For the Lulz and against all of Lucanero's efforts to please her. Due to this, it is easy to feel that the audience is being told to laugh at a character merely for being abused by his uncaring mother, making her come across as a gratuitous jerkass and giving Lucanero a probably unintentional Freudian Excuse.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Sure, Lurdo is good-natured and rather endearing in his stupidity, but seeing how little impulse he needs to nonchalantly betray Lucanero in many episodes (only to return to him at the end, usually without understanding all the humiliation his betrayal brought on the captain), it is sometimes hard to root for him as the show clearly wants. This became even worse after the episode The Planet of the Lurdos revealed Lucanero raised Lurdo lovingly since he was a baby, as it retroactively painted Lurdo as an Ungrateful Bastard for being a turncoat towards his own father figure without any real reasons to do so.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: It is, but this didn't stop the show from having some shockingly dark episodic plots in his golden age, particularly those involving characters like Luciflor, the Headless Horseman and Count Ludracula, as well as Lunática, an overtly sexual Femme Fatale, and Ambrosio, a freaking The Exorcist reference. The fact that the show's TV series used to be broadcast back to back with re-runs of Digimon Tamers and Digimon Frontier is enough to tell TVE executives back then were absolutely not shy of showing some mature stuff to the kids.

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