YMMV / Spicy City

• Alternate Character Interpretation: Did the old man at the end of Tears of a Clone know that the clone wasn't his daughter, but kept her because he was so lonely? Or was he just Senile and couldn't tell the difference?
• Audience-Alienating Premise: This was a big reason why the show is largely forgotten outside of being a Cult Classic. Being a very adult and overly sexualized cartoon in 1997 turned away mainstream audiences and critics, while it's Tales from the Crypt-esque style with surprisingly well-written and deep plots didn't go over very well with most people who only showed up for the smut. While it actually got decent ratings, in the end, its audience was just far too narrow for it to ever even get a home release, and Ralph Bakshi refused to allow the network to fire his writing team and hire professional screenwriters (presumably to retool it into something more mainstream to avert this) which sundered any chance of it ever getting a second season.
• Best Known for the Fanservice: Which our lovely, flirty hostess Raven is happy to provide, as well as most of the other female characters.
• Complete Monster:
  • "Sex Drive": Otaku is a technician who works for M&G Corporation, and is involved in virtual prostitution. To this end, Otaku abducts prostitutes, experiments on them, and extracts their personalities on behalf of his superiors, leaving the prostitutes catatonic, subsequently reworking their personalities on a disc to make them compliant. Capturing the cyborg prostitute Virus, Otaku extracts her personality and programs her to seduce his superiors at M&G and extract their intelligence so he can overtake them. When Virus returns, Otaku gropes her as he extracts information from her, unaware that police officer turned taxi driver Nisa Lolita is recording the exchange.
  • "Raven's Revenge": Corbin is the CEO of AlternaCeuticals, the company that created Raven. A psychopathic eugenicist, Corbin wants to wipe out all those he's deemed genetically inferior and aberrant, and plans on doing it with a virus that he tests on Raven and carnival freaks. When symptoms begin to manifest in the carriers, Corbin has the crowded carnival bombed under the pretense of containing an outbreak before instructing his men to Leave No Witnesses as they move in to capture Raven. When confronted, Corbin implies that he was responsible for the death of Raven's mother, and rants about how he is going to eliminate all the "mutants and freaks" with his plague, which he also intends to profit from thanks to his "good fiscal policy" of Withholding the Cure to diseases in favor of overpriced treatments that are developed as slowly as possible.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Raven, due to being a charming, sensuous hottie dressed up like a classy Femme Fatale straight from a Film Noir flick. She's beloved even by those who haven't seen the show and most Spicy City fan art you find online is pinups of her.
• Just Here for Godzilla: The primary appeal of the series appears to be fanservice.
• Older Than They Think: As stated on the main page, most people think that South Park was America's first animated series to get a TV-MA rating (back when America's TV content rating system was just getting started). However, Spicy City (created on July 11, 1997) was made before South Park (which was created on August 13, 1997), and South Park became a smash hit while Spicy City — like many of Ralph Bakshi's works — is seen more as a Cult Classic.

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