YMMV / Mike Tyson Mysteries

• Anti-Climax Boss:
  • Chupacabra, which goes down after a swift Groin Attack.
  • Chainsaw Charlie goes down after Mike uses a taser on him.
  • Satan goes down with a single punch to the face.
• Awesome Art: Being produced by Warner Bros. Animation, the studio behind all modern incarnations of Hanna-Barbera properties, the show does an excellent job recreating the exact look of the studio's cartoons from the mid-70s, and it compliments the comedy perfectly.
• Awesome Music: The opening theme sets the tone for the series’ blend of action and comedy.
  • The music that plays during the end credits of each episode is pretty soothing as it wonderfully contrasts with the show’s offbeat tone.
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • It would be easier to count any of Pigeon's lines that aren't the punchline to some horrific politically incorrect joke, but hearing it all come out of a cute, harmless little pigeon in Norm Macdonald's trademark deadpan delivery makes it all too ridiculous to be offensive. It helps that his comments are already considered offensive In-Universe, so most of the comedy comes from everyone putting up with what he says rather than from any of the actual offensive comments themselves, and he's regularly on the receiving end of enough comical abuse to justify it.
    "I love Dabney Coleman! He's a reason not to kill yourself!"
  • An incompetent mystery team whose missions regularly end in one or multiple violent deaths due to their incompetence? Not that funny. A moderately competent mystery team whose missions regularly end in one or multiple violent deaths despite their best best efforts and by pure circumstance? Now it's funny.
• Genius Bonus:
  • John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry was a boxing enthusiast who endorsed the set of rules that are the basis of modern boxing.
  • Many of the jokes are surprisingly literary in tone:
    • The first episode is about writer Cormac McCarthy with a joke about "all his pretty horses!"
    • The second episode is basically an extended Searching for Bobby Fischer joke.
    • "A River Runs Through It Into a Heart of Darkness" is not just a title reference to the novels A River Runs Through It and Heart of Darkness but shares similarities to the plots of the books, particularly the latter.
  • In "Old Man of the Mountain," Marquess mentions in passing that his mother was Jewish, to which Pigeon remarks that that makes Marquess Jewish. Traditionally, having a Jewish mother is the "official" way to tell whether or not a person is (since it's much easier to determine who your mother is than your father).
• Harsher in Hindsight: Pigeon attempts to upskirt Yung Hee in season 1, which becomes grosser when she turns out to be his daughter later on.
• Love to Hate: Pigeon. To everyone in the show, he's a loathsome cad who regularly insults or sells out his friends and any real person who was as much a pervert as he is would be a total bastard. And yet it's exactly what makes the character so hilarious.
• Narm Charm: Mike Tyson isn't a trained voice actor nor is he part of the show's creative process, so a good amount of humor can be found in listening to him stumbling through his lines, sometimes to the point where it sounds like he's legitimately confused about the script he's reading from. And it works perfectly for his animated counterpart, whose grasp on reality seems tenuous at best.

• Quirky Work: A former pro boxer, a Korean-American teenager, a ghost, and a pigeon. They fight crime. Why? Oh, right, because the first of these is the Trope Namer for The Tyson Zone.

• Seasonal Rot: While nowhere near mediocre, many agree that the later half of the series is something of a step down compared to the first two seasons. This is due to the show veering extremely hard into Black Comedy and Cruel Twist Endings while downplaying the more absurdist and supernatural feel of the earlier episodes.
• Special Effect Failure: The low-grade CGI mass of swallows in "San Juan Puerto Rico Blows, But San Juan Capistrano..." is about only slightly above those seen in Birdemic.
• Squick:
  • In "Life is but a Dream", when Mike and the team enter Diane's dream to figure out why she's staying in a coma, they're disgusted to discover it's because in her dreams it's the only place where she can have sex with her stepson. Once she wakes up from her coma, she hugs her stepson while moaning.
  • In "Unholy Matrimony", Mike and the team are hired to find out if Amy's fiancé, Rick, has any secrets about him. It turns out that, Walter, Amy's father, has a private island where he has sex with animals and has children who are animal hybrid. Rick, who is revealed to be half-pig, is one of his sons. After the truth comes out, Amy still wants to marry Rick, despite them being brother and sister, and Walter's wife doesn't care that he has sex with animals. Marquess and Yung even lampshades this problem.
  • "Your Old Man" retroactively makes Pigeon's lecherous behavior towards Yung even squickier when it's revealed he's her father And let's not forget "Ogopopgo" where Yung watches Pigeon and his ex-wife have sex for waaaaay too long. Again, it's her FATHER.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Many fans feel the show would be even funnier if it was a full half-hour long.
• Unpopular Popular Character: In-universe, Pigeon is despised by everyone except Mike. Out of universe, he's considered by most to be the most hilarious character in the show.
• The Woobie: Miss Ensler's husband was killed in a very gruesome matter. Not helping matters is how other characters mention it in explicit detail.