YMMV / Moville Mysteries

• Anvilicious: While every episode had a warped lesson of some kind, "Goo On You" is notable for how comedically blunt it is about its Green Aesop.
  Mo: When you think about it, the planet would be a lot better off without us. It's kinda hard to argue with what the goo is trying to accomplish. (sigh) But I can't shake this nagging obligation to the human race.
  Mimi: On behalf of the rest of us, gee, thanks a bunch.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Mo (who, granted, was in "narrator mode" at the time) stepping out of a mirror at the end of "Mirror, Mirror Off The Wall." There's also the bizarre object that looks like a squash with an ear attached to it that the camera briefly lingers on in at least three episodes.
• Complete Monster ("The Day Rico Became Smart"): The avaricious Professor Kindly has taken to eliminating his rivals so that he can steal and profit from their ideas. Finding his targets through papers that have been submitted for peer review, Kindly lures the victims to his lair, where he cuts their brains out while they are fully conscious and aware, at one point informing a would-be victim, "Now then, this won't hurt a bit...it'll hurt a lot!" After extracting information from the excised brains, Kindly keeps them as souvenirs, preserving them in jars that adorn his mantel. When Rico Caliente, a jock who gained Sudden Intelligence from a concussion, loses his newfound intellect and escapes Kindly's clutches before his knowledge can be harvested, Kindly sees it as no big loss, since no one will believe what the boy has to say, and he still has Rico's stolen cold fusion thesis to claim as his own and get rich off of. A greedy, sadistic Serial Killer, the professor stands out as the show's starkest example of Humans Are the Real Monsters, as his episode is the only one without any paranormal elements.
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • Coach Konkout's "home movies" include a tape of his father's death, which involved him being crushed by his entire football team doing a celebratory dog pile on him.
  • Matilda selling her soul to the Devil, and trying to get him to take her brother Rodney’s soul instead when he comes to collect? Horrifying. Her selling her soul to be good at polka because she couldn’t be bothered to practice? Funny. Rodney’s bewildered reaction just sells it.
• Cry for the Devil: The gnomes in "Gnome Sweet Gnome" tried to rob the witch Grundegulda, who caught and turned them into concrete. The only one who managed to escape spent the next five-hundred years trying to restore his brethren while posing as a statue. He can't break the curse, but he can transfer it to someone else, namely the residents of Ouigee Falls. They were thieves who were going to turn dozens of innocent people into inanimate objects, but at the end of the day you can't help but have at least a little sympathy for the gnomes because, after all, who wants to spend eternity as tacky lawn art that dogs and birds routinely crap on?
• Cult Classic: While the show is largely unknown to most, it has a small but vocal fanbase that speaks very passionately for the series and adores its horror elements and Twilight Zone-styled writing and humor, with a few still eagerly holding out for its return. The fact that the show has a pretty high user rating on IMDb speaks well to that.
• Esoteric Happy Ending: "The Day Rico Became Smart" ends with Rico giving up his humanitarian aspirations and feigning being a nincompoop, convinced that he will be happier that way, while agents of an oil company called by Mo murder Professor Kindly (not that he didn't deserve it) and destroy his stolen cold fusion papers to prevent the proliferation of clean, cheap and sustainable energy.
• Friendly Fandoms: While the show's fandom is comparatively small, there is a certain amount of overlap with Gravity Falls fans due to both shows being about mysterious or supernatural events.
• I Am Not Shazam: "Moville" is the surname of the main character, the town is called Ouigee Falls.
• Moral Event Horizon: Characters subjected to a Fate Worse than Death usually crossed it to ensure that we didn't feel too bad for them, with examples including Norman (his greed was so immense that he tried to hire mercenaries to deal with his creditor rather than simply pay the debt, which he easily could have done) and Matilda (she sold her soul to the Devil for musical talent, but then tried to weasel out of the deal by manipulating her brother into taking the fall for her).
• Retroactive Recognition: Mimi's voice actress Tara Spencer-Nairn would later go on to become more well known on Canadian television for playing Karen Pelly on Corner Gas.
• Squick: It was a Grossout Show, so even the most lighthearted episodes have disgusting bits, not helped by the animation style resembling an even Gonkier variation of Klasky-Csupo's.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: Like Courage the Cowardly Dog, the show is horror-oriented and isn't afraid to get downright messed up, so we get things like a brain-snatching Serial Killer, various instances of people being Eaten Alive, a boy who is permanently transformed into a zombie slave and another who gets turned into a rat, and a girl who sold her soul to the Devil attempting to condemn her brother to Hell in her place. And that's not getting into all of the Inferred Holocausts like the ones in "Swarm Enough For Ya?" or "How Now Meowing Cow" or "Something Fishy In Lake Gimmee-Gimmee-Itchee-Owee."
• The Woobie:
  • Rico Caliente from "The Day Rico Became Smart" is a sports prodigy and a Lovable Jock who was made super-intelligent by head trauma; while he wanted to use his newfound intellect for the benefit of humanity, his parents couldn't have cared less, and to ensure that their meal ticket was still viable they forced him to give up his studies in favor of returning to sports, and eventually resorted to trying to give him a head injury, convinced that it would return him to normal. Rico's genius also made him the target of a brain-snatching maniac, and in the end he resigns himself to pretending to be a nitwit again, convinced that he'll be happier that way.
  • Coach Coach Konkout from "Ghoooul!!" was raised by a psychologically abusive father who treated him like a worthless loser while drilling it into him that nothing in life was more important than winning. Konkout has worked at Lone Pine High for eighteen years, and during that time none of the teams that he has coached have ever won or even scored. The crappy childhood and abysmal track record have turned him into an emotional wreck and pariah whose home is routinely vandalized by angry parents.
  • Alonzo Longneck from "Just My Luck" is the town jinx; he lives in a dilapidated RV in a grungy trailer park on the outskirts, has never had a chocolate bar that didn't have maggots in it, and has been struck by lightning five times (with two of those times being while he was indoors). A lucky penny turns his life around, but it's short-lived, as he's forced to give it up to save Ouigee Falls from the plague of bad luck that has been ravaging it. While he does get hailed as a hero for this, everyone still refuses to sit with or go near him.

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