YMMV / Mr Peterson

• Alternative Joke Interpretation: Is Alan actually adopted or is Agnes just Trolling him?
• Creepy Cute: Bonnie may be a murderer with a Hair-Trigger Temper, but she's also a Bespectacled Cutie with cute Girlish Pigtails, and Harley Cubberley's melodic accent.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Deco, despite being Out of Focus in his second scene. It's widely agreed that Adam Douglas was perfect casting, the character being likable while still being annoyingly hilarious and his Precocious Crush on Patsy being cute as opposed to creepy.
  • Archie is no slouch either, showing Thomas Fitzgerald can be quite funny when he wants to be. He and Deco almost warrant their own spin-off.
• Funny Moments:
  • The entirety of Alan's refusal to listen to his mother's Cassandra Truth. The best part is when she starts squealing "Jesus!" at the sounds of the car, and he just snarks...
  "Jesus would hardly be driving a Mini now. A Honda maybe, at a push."
  • Aunty M's constant trying to make everything all about her. As Bob is exclaiming "shocking", she believes it's over how gorgeous she is in the morning. The best part? "Especially with me rolls, look" was an ad-lib by Miranda Hamilton.
  • The entire Clyde family's Skewed Priorities when Bonnie and Robbie mention that Mr Peterson accused them of being thieves.
    Bonnie: I'm not a thief, daddy.
    Robbie: And neither am I.
    Bob: I know. My babies aren't thieves.
  • Selina pranking Concetta by invoking Eek, a Mouse!!, right after she brags she has ears like an elephant.
    "Your ears like mouse, and memory like elephant."
  • Deco masturbating (although it looks quite PG) right there in the diner...after Patsy is no longer on the TV.
  Deco: There she is.
  Archie: Where? That's a commercial for chicken dippers!
  • Patsy's forecast has her snarking that "the weather's gonna be crap alright...unlike the rest of the country" through clenched teeth.
  • Patsy doesn't even realise the Ship-to-Ship Combat that's happening in her honour - between an incompetent police officer and a teenage thief.
  Deco: Yeah, well she's mine, pal. So back off!
  Hope: She isn't anybody's son; she's off the telly.
  • Deco's apt Logic Bomb of why he and Archie couldn't have killed Mr Peterson; they don't even have their drivers' licences and he was run over repeatedly. He'll rob a dead man's money and house pet, but don't you dare ask him to drive illegally.
  • Behind the scenes, Miranda Hamilton was getting stressed about remembering all her lines (she'd flown out specifically for two days to film her part in between a Stanislavsky training course) and director Ronya Phoenix put her at ease with a magnificent one-liner.
  "Just keep buttering your biscuit."
  • Likewise behind the scenes, Adam Douglas's casting prompted a Running Gag between Bobby Calloway and Greg Young. The former recommended Adam, who was signed on immediately, and the entire cast were notified via email. Bobby woke up to a screenshot from Greg with Adam's name underlined, and joked in a few interviews that Greg said "how the hell did he get in this film?" (Adam being outside their normal circle of filmmakers). Greg meanwhile maintains he was told in advance that Adam was being suggested for the part, and the above line is a minor Berserk Button for him.
  • On set, DP Eli Cahn gave Greg Young a mock interview asking him how he got into character to play such a Jerkass. Greg responded with a story about a time his mother fell down the stairs and instead of helping her, he just tickled her face with a feather duster. Eli responded with a Flat "What", assuming he was serious. Ronya Phoenix then chimed in with something to the effect of "I don't often pick up sarcasm, but even I could tell he was joking!"
• Ham and Cheese: Miranda Hamilton did not hold back playing the ridiculous Aunty M.

• Harsher in Hindsight: It's a gag that Alan's mother Agnes hasn't left her house in years, and Alan snarkily encourages her to go outside and actually experience the world. One month after the film was completed, the COVID-19 pandemic led to nationwide lockdown and quarantine.

• He Really Can Act: Adam Douglas shows just how far he's come from The Nutters; he displays some killer comic timing, absolutely nailing Deco's ditziness for maximum comedy potential and giving one of the most memorable performances in the movie. Doubly impressive, considering he had to recreate the whole thing through ADR as well.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: Bobby Calloway admitted on the Actors' Life Podcast that he and Adam Douglas didn't know each other before the film, and had only just started talking when Adam was recommended for the part. Through working together on set, they became Fire-Forged Friends (along with Greg Young, who they both knew separately).
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Patsy complaining about the upcoming wet weather becomes amusing as of Ireland's 2020 summer, where it would be so hot a hosepipe ban was instigated before June was even over. It was actually relevant for the time it was recorded, as there were three storms in January alone.
  • Harley Cubberley was previously in the short Takbir playing a murder victim getting revived by...Bobby Calloway. Although, there it was a shooting. Greg Young (Alan) produced that film to boot!
  • Speaking of Greg Young, he and Adam Douglas play extremely contrasting roles from The Nutters; Greg was previously the Country Mouse who was innocent and naive to the world, now playing a hard drinking Casanova Wannabe. Adam meanwhile was the closest thing The Nutters had to the Only Sane Man and now plays the Adorkable Dumb Blonde Deco.
• Ho Yay: Archie and Officer Prey have a Held Gaze and an Accidental Innuendo ("I'll have your arse within a minute, boy"). Could count as No Yay as well, considering Archie is supposed to be a teenager.
• Memetic Molester: Given his habit for flirting with one of his witnesses, and the accidental innuendos he keeps dropping, one has to wonder if Officer Prey has a dark side.
• No Yay: Bobby Calloway says he felt that Bonnie and Robbie may have had something going on. In addition to them both being murderers (though it's possible Bonnie is the only psycho, and Robbie is just led astray by her) there's the whole Brother–Sister Incest.
• Moe:
  • Melanie Jones, doing her best to help the police...imitating a budgie's chirping. The way she asks if they want to write it down, d'aww.
  • Deco becomes this once he starts fantasizing about Patsy.
• One-Scene Wonder:
  • Rebecca Dunne takes the cake as Patsy Pinkett. Her snarky weather forecast and subsequent meltdown on the air sticks in the memory at once.
  • Aunty M is a close second. With her It's All About Me attitude, Messy Hair and Hurricane of Puns - she's a brilliant hot mess.
  • And the twin sisters Zoe and Maggie, especially the former who flirts with the cops investigating a murder. The editor admitted to occasionally forgetting it was only one actress playing both of them.
  Zoe: I was asleep when it happened. In my bed. All alone.
  After the cops have left.
  Maggie: You're a filthy slut, you know that!
• One True Threesome: There's no reason Patsy couldn't have both Officer Hope and Deco to solve everyone's problems (though this would require her to know about both her suitors first).