YMMV / Planes: Fire & Rescue

• Accidental Aesop:
  • If you have a physical disability that affects your job performance, everything will work out fine if you don’t disclose it to your employer.
  • When your doctor says not to do something or you will die, doing it anyway and getting hospitalized as a result will mean you get patched up good as new.
• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Was Blade's hesitance in training Dusty because he thought a crop duster/racer wouldn't have what it takes to be a firefighter, Dusty not making a first good impression because of how he flew close to a fire, him never getting over the death of Nick and Dusty's champion racer status reminded Blade of his actor days of how he failed to save Nick, or was it because he didn't want to be responsible for Dusty dying as he is already too worried about the safety of his other workers?
  • Did Dusty wait until the last second to tell Blade about his broken gearbox caused by the latter's intimidating demeanor, or was it because Dusty didn't want to slow anyone down because of his disability?
• Awesome Music: "Still I Fly", an Award-Bait Song which plays during Dusty's Travel Montage.
• Moral Event Horizon: Cad crosses it when he hogged the water the firefighters needed for retardant and used it for the sprinklers of his lodge.
• One-Scene Wonder: The boat who is briefly left alone when all the guests flee the fire and gives out an adorably high-pitched scream of terror before the car towing it hastily returns.
• Surprisingly Improved Sequel: The original, while it had some good points, was a Cliché Storm with a paltry 25% on Rotten Tomatoes. Fire and Rescue managed 45% (more than Cars 2!), with a semi-original plot, interesting characters, and so on; the fandom also generally likes it better. It also helps that it focuses on a profession— aerial firefighting— that gets relatively little exposure in pop culture.
• Woolseyism: When the Transportation Management Safety Team (TMST) truck visits Propwash Junction, Sparky thinks that "TMST" stands for "this means serious trouble". In the Icelandic dub, TMST stands for Tjónaskoðun og mat sjálfstæðra trygginga ("Damage Inspection and Evaluation of Independent Insurance Companies"), and Sparky thinks it stands for telur mikla sekt í tjóni ("issues a large fine for damages").