YMMV / The Crumpets

• Adaptation Displacement:
  • The TV show is substantially better known than the picture books, of which only the original Petit Dernier and its sequel Petite Pousse were out when the series debuted (more books came out between 2013-2015). However, this is a bit of a non-issue due to the show being pretty much In Name Only as an Animated Adaptation.
  • In the rest of the world, the 2014 Bulkypix mobile game based on the show was much more known, likely due to mobile app news media giving abundant attention to new games on app stores, the global availability of the show being incredibly sparse in those days, people were capable of buying the app globally, and Bulkypix being a renowned publisher. Many of those news sites reviewed it in languages the show never got dubbed in. This trope, as applied to the game, is now irrelevant since the game was almost completely pulled off the stores and doesn't load properly anymore, Bulkypix has went out of business, and some episodes are on YouTube.
• Angel/Devil Shipping: Marylin and Caprice. As of the end of season two, Marylin is much nicer in respect to animals. Caprice hates animals to the heart, despite acting briefly on rescuing/supporting them, and can be vicious to siblings and friends too. In Teen Crumpets, however, Marylin regularly lacks romantic interest on Caprice (until season four), and both can be either goodhearted or reckless simultaneously.
• Anvilicious:
  • One unsubtle moral delivered in Caprice's words to the viewer in "Puppy Love":
    Caprice: "Always stay true to who you are!"
  • "Bulles de palme": Caprice and Cassie learn of palm oil's devastating toll to the Earth's animals and environment from the internet. Caprice tries to convince her siblings to quit playing with palm oil bubble gum by borrowing Grownboy's pet elephant and giraffe and presenting them as homeless animals who have relocated to their house.
• Awesome Music:
  • An upbeat rock piece which is heard in episodes like "Sticks Stink", "No Pffuture", and "Pong! The Menace!".
  • Marylin's songs in Teen Crumpets are pretty good tunes, not only that they're catchy but that they demonstrate his in-universe songwriting talent and Gothic chic.
• Creepy Cute: Ditzy, whenever her head gets separated from her body.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: According to an interview with a Mediatoon Distribution official, the feedback for the first pair of seasons appreciated the show's teenage characters, and this led to the next seasons centering on them.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: French-speaking African viewers were noticeably more vocal on this show on social media than viewers from France. This is however a common demographic on the TéléTOON+ Facebook page.
• Ho Yay:
  • Pfff and Cordless falling in love with Jolly John the talking inflatable man in "Murder Everywhere", apparently due to hallucination.
  • In "Ice Lust", Caprice and Cassandra try to snatch the Cradley Booper cutout from a skating Ms. McBrisk, who unintentionally gets to hold Cassandra before retrieving the cutout back, leaving her daughter held by Caprice. The girls look at each other quietly.
  • Caprice and Cassie also have a couple moments together in Teen Crumpets, including Cassie sleeping on Caprice's lap in "Radeau d'ados" and a Security Cling in "Les sur-vivants". Not to mention the instances where both girls honor their close friendship amid intense disagreements with Marylin and Pfff do look very intimate.
  • In "La capuche mortelle", after Pfff permits Marylin to sleep in his bedroom for the night, Marylin hugs him and they both fall to floor, followed by the two boys sleeping on the couch.
• Moe: Ditzy, who is sweet, cute and nice compared to the other Crumpet kids, except rarely otherwise.
• Popular with Furries: A strange case. While the humanoid characters are technically humans, a slight number of furries have approached this show. One crowdfunding directory described it as "not quite furry, not quite human," and the show's obscurity has left it largely unknown to the furry community.
• Quirky Work: The show features a strange substitute for actual humans, a family of 145, peculiar stories, a woman with a dress tummy hatch, a balloon-head girl, and a grandmother with a giant Windup Key.
• Surprisingly Improved Sequel: The first two seasons may be So Okay, It's Average at best. Teen Crumpets, while not a huge jump in quality, was able to secure two awards and had a slightly higher score on a Chinese video site.
• They Copied It, So It Sucks!: A minority took note of the show appearing similar to Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends. Both shows are primarily set in heavily populated mansions that have pink rooms and portraits scattered on the walls. Both residences have a Cool Old Lady (with the same hairstyle!) and a top-hat-wearing man in charge. The Teen Crumpets episodes would make such comparisons feebler.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: The show in seasons 1 and 2 predominantly roots for Li'l-One, who is rarely a sympathetic central character when owing to stopping his goodhearted father, not to mention the greedy and selfish Granny getting highlighted too. Some episodes are cruel to innocent characters and punishing to their jerk protagonists, but some can end on a positive light if Li'l-One and/or Granny aren't worth rooting for. Season 3, on the other hand, is generally more uplifting while a bunch of cynicism is reserved for protagonists such as Caprice falling victim to comedic bad luck. Season 4 TBA.
• Unpopular Popular Character: Caprice. She's frequently portrayed as being cruel to her siblings, Cassandra, cousin Cordless and animals, and is a frequent Butt-Monkey. However, she is popular with the show's tiny fanbase.
• Values Dissonance: The inclusion of material unsuitable for children is not bizarre in the show's home country, in addition to homosexuality (gay marriage was legalized in France in 2013) being frowned upon in some other parts of the world, including the aforementioned African audience, which made complaints about it on social media.
• Viewer Gender Confusion:
  • Fynartz, a Crumpet boy with long hair and a feminine voice in the original English dub, may get confused as a girl.
  • Pfff in "Gentlemanly Modified Organism", while his hair is worn in a ponytail.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: It's from a country with loose broadcast restrictions regarding inappropriate material. Perhaps the most obvious adult material is Ma and Pa making out in their bed, not to mention that their love and sex is abstractly depicted in the opening. And other offenders include nudity, swearing, suicide threats and attempts, gambling, implied monster to human rape, a mass shooting attempt where the victims appear to be shot in the dark, substance abuse, fake blood, and animal cruelty. In other words, the show slaps pages of Kaeloo-esque black humor to a more realistic cast. These aspects were toned down in season 3 but sort of ramped up in season 4.
• The Woobie:
  • The Weather Girl in "Super Pfff". Being glamorous and famous, she spends her evening visit at the Crumpet house to see her new boyfriend Pfff, while considering terminating her relationship with Cradley Booper. The outing however gets outright unfavorable that her life goes upside-down: Cassandra and Caprice rival her over Pfff and Cradley respectively. Cassandra deceivingly ends the Weather Girl's relationship to Pfff by disguising as him and denying any past romance, and Cradley fails to respond to the Weather Girl's distress call for reconciliation. All that leads to her decision to drive her car into T-Bone's tornado and getting stuck in its wind.
  • Pfff in "L'impffossible choix". He becomes emotionally frightened due to Marylin and Caprice nagging him across the episode to choose one of themselves to go with him to a concert. It doesn't help that he falls from a balcony in an apparent suicide attempt, yet his two negligent friends don't care for his safety until he starts falling.

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