YMMV / Team Service Announcement

• Awesome Music: The series really knows how to pick the right music for any situation:
  • Minigun Spinup uses TXT Adventure
  • Fake Players sums up the awkwardness quite well with "Frolic" by Luciano Michelini, then Soldier's anger with "Mercy" when he realizes everyone on the server is a bot.
  • Pop It, Don't Drop It: "Ho! One more time, I'm back with a new rhyme / Hey! Here we go again, Ha! Turn it up my friend..."
  • Sentry Knockback has "Testarossas For Everyone", but according to the fans, the only "good part of the song" is the first 28 seconds of it (which is where the song is cut off in the video itself). Though it's still awesome because of the Ubered-Medic blocking a Sentry by twerking in front of it.
  • Subtlety and Objectives use the appropriately-named "Sneakman" as the Spy's leitmotif.
  • Teleporters: "The Things We Could Share" used at the Dance Party Ending.
  • Body Blocking: Uses an unused song from the game Wario Land: Shake It! called Plumber's Cave.
  • Blown Cover uses "Museum" from Sly 2: Band of Thieves while the camera pans around the obstacles Spy has to get around.
• Bizarro Episode: Deep Serpent Assignment. While the regular Team Service Announcements can be weird enough, the Deep Serpent Assignments are just utter nonsense. Out of all the regular Team Service Announcements, Melee is probably one of the oddest.
• Faux Symbolism:
  • Cooperative Engineering has a brief Crucified Sniper Shot. This makes as much sense as the vid's 2nd half.
  • Melee: Whatever Demoman floating among the Balloonicorns means.
• Genius Bonus: The songs used in the shorts usually have a matching Leitmotif related to the topic or character:
  • Nothing To Worry About by Peter Bjorn and John, used in "The Revolver", is just one big reference to the Spy attempting to pass himself off as an Enemy Engineer, and (badly) attempting to convince the Engineer in front of him to give up.
  • The Things We Could Share is used in "Teleporters" about the priority list of who gets to use the Teleporter.
  • Lobster Bucket by the Aquabats is used in "Attention and Initiative". The song has lyrics all about helping friends, and how they'll be there when you need help if you help them, and the short's theme is all about looking out for allies and not ignoring the issues around you.
  • Frolic by Lucio Mancini, while already a well-established song used in meme videos on acts of stupidity and foolhardiness, the name can also refer to the bots in "Fake Players" frolicking around doing little of anything.
  • "Mercy" from the same video has lyrics about someone trying to escape an empty life while surrounded by people who are in the same rut; if the "empty life" in question is a bot-filled server and the people "looking lost and lethal" are the bots, it fits Soldier's cathartic rage like a glove. Additionally, the video starts from the second verse, which is more blatantly about how some things are ephemeral and you need to watch for them, like how the video advises the player to be vigilant against botted servers and understand that any enjoyment that comes from them is fleeting at best.
  • Sneakman by Hideki Nakanuma is the Spy's Leitmotif in Subtlety and Objectives; the name being in clear reference to Spy being an infiltrator of the classes.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Fake Players features a blatant presentation of bots populating an otherwise empty server. This will be harder to sit through knowing that as of 2020s the hacker and bot count has drastically increased making the game much more unplayable outside of community servers. Krunkidile himself would end up updating the description, lampshading how the video as it was originally released was entirely out of date.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Pop It, Don't Drop It spawned a new taunt for both Medic and Heavy, and occasionally players will play or sing its music when Ubercharging.
  • To a lesser extent, expect to hear someone quote "It's like Christmas mornin'" whenever someone talks about a sniper imbalance.
• Misaimed Fandom: Part of the reason why Krunkidile doesn't enjoy making Team Service Announcement videos as much is due to this trope. The series was made to appeal to newer players who don't know any of the tricks of the trade when it comes to playing the game. However, the majority of viewers and commenters on TSA tend to be veteran players who see the videos as a satirization of incompetent players for their entertainment.
• Older Than They Think: "Crotch-chop Heavies", the memetic dancing Heavies of Pop It, Don't Drop It, first appear in Compression Blast.
• Signature Scene: The BLU Medic's dance at the end of Pop It, Don't Drop It.