YMMV / Nursery Crime

• Genius Bonus: It's easy to guess the culprit in The Fourth Bear if you're familiar with the poetry of Edward Lear, from where the majority of the characters involved with Quang-Tech originate. The Small Olympian Bear is omitted when the creators of the company are listed.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • In The Fourth Bear, Jack is required to meet with a therapist called Virginia Kreeper. Jack lampshades the ridiculousness of her name and calls her out as being a one-dimensional Threshold Guardian. (Word for word, even.) He gives her a backstory to ease the existential crisis he has put her in.
  "A one dimensional threshold guardian? No, no, you're quite wrong. Look, here!" She opened her purse and passed him a picture of a teenager in pigtails and wearing glasses. "It's my niece, she explained. "I take her out on her birthday to all kinds of places. Last year we went to the Natural History Museum. So you see I'm not poorly realized at all-I'm flesh and blood and fully in command of my own destiny- and having a recollectable past proves I'm not one-dimensional."
  She glared at him hotly, but Jack had enough experience of [People of Dubious Reality] and incidental characters to know one when he saw one.
  "What's her name?"
  "Her... name?"
  "Yes, your niece has a name, I take it?"
  Kreeper blinked at him, and tears started to well up in her eyes. "I don't know," she said at last, breaking out in a series of sobs. "''I just... don't... know!"
  • Then he proceeds to get her out of her existential crisis by giving her a larger backstory by giving her niece, brother, and sister-in-law names and personalities.
  • The Punch and Judy subplot in "The Fourth Bear." Although they fight like cats and dogs nearly all the time (aside from ten minute breaks out of every hour, they clearly love each other very much. They also happen to be rather successful marriage counselors and have a very active sex life. As Punch points out, they've been married for 328 years and, although they fight every day, they still love each other deeply, "and it is our love that binds our relationship together, regardless of the violence and the quarreling."
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • As it turns out, Jack Spratt is a nursery character himself, from the rhyme "Jack Spratt ate no fat/ his wife ate no lean", and his first wife is mentioned to have died as a result of her diet; in the 2010s, the ketogenic diet rose to prominence, which promoted foods high in healthy fats and low in carbohydrates as a way to lose weight.
  • Somehow, The Big Over Easy wouldn't be the last time that Georgie Porgie would be made into a ruthless crime boss.
  • The revelation that the Gingerbread Man is a "Ginja" Assassin created by Quang Tech brings to mind Ninjabread Man.