YMMV / Summer Memories

• Bizarro Episode: The show in general is pretty bizarro, but even then, there are some episodes that especially stand out from the pack. Some of these end up becoming Innocuously Important Episodes in the show's vaster narrative scheme though.
  • Due to be the first episode not focused on Jason, "That Ain't The Way I See It" can come off as this initially, as it shows Tim's perspective and depicts him as a cheerful, innocent boy while Jason is a selfish, hot-tempered brat at least until the ending when both characters assume the personalities we see at the start of the series.
  • "Bummer Memories" takes a break from the show's storyline to do an episode where Tim and Snake go through a slideshow of alternate universes where Jason and Ronnie never became friends to find out what happens in each reality.
  • "Spaghetti Daze" comes immediately after the Downer Ending of "Heat Wave", but rather than focusing on the aftermath of it (as one might come to expect from the series this far into it), it takes the viewers to earlier in the summer with Jason, Ronnie, and Tim having to cope with an elderly adult friend who had never been seen or mentioned prior leaving town with Mother Nature. This episode however serves to set up the death metaphor used in "Smile Like It's the End of Summer" regarding Jason's Disappeared Dad and is ultimately revealed to be a memory Jason is trying to use to cover up the pain of the memory of the events of "Heat Wave".
  • "Summer Forgettory" starts off simple enough - Jason and Ronnie can't keep the details of a particular event straight and decide to ask around for answers on who's remembering things correctly. It quickly spirals into a deeper examination of the show's Unreliable Narrator element that climaxes in the two meeting the show's creator (presented as a talking chimp) before ultimately ending in the show's narrative present where Jason is standing in front of the Every Episode Ending fridge and for the first and only time in the series, Tim speaks like a regular child.
• Cult Classic: Extremely obscure, but has been met with extremely high praise by those who have seen it, including a staggeringly high IMDb rating of 9.1 and numerous award nominations (with Tricia Black, the voice of Jason, even winning Best Performance in an Animated Program or Series at the Canadian Screen Awards).
• Quirky Work: The show's surrealism can make it seem like it came straight from somebody's acid trip sometimes. This is a show whose recurring characters include Mother Nature, a businessman with the lower body of a snake, a girl with her face hidden behind clouds (whose parents wear the same sweater together and keep all their other kids in it with them), and a pregnant man. And the usage of Unreliable Narrator means reality is very tenuous most of the time, with things like objects or animals randomly gaining the ability to speak and a baby shower as a literal meteor shower but with babies.