YMMV / The Frollo Show

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• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • Is it Frollo's own fault he has so many enemies? Or is Frollo just unlucky enough to keep getting into these situations?
  • When Wilford Brimley is given the offer to join Los No Frollos, he turns it down on the grounds that he's lost his energy, but also states that he's "really not interested in that." He changes his tune when Hans and Yzma give him a potion that restores his energy, but before that point, had he merely crossed the Despair Event Horizon, or did he realize where his ambition would lead him, only for his energy restoration to turn it into an Ignored Epiphany?
  • Gaston interrupts Hans Frollo and Hades' apparent Heel–Face Turn by continuing to attack them. Did he maliciously attack them to be a dick, or did he genuinely not notice they were having a change of heart? Last Story pretty much confirm the former.
• Angst? What Angst?: Frollo and Gaston find themselves in the Underworld for eternity? Oh well, time for some random shenanigans. Justified for Frollo, since he knows Death Is Cheap.
• Awesome Music: A lot of the songs fit for their respective moods. But probably the crowning example is this remix of "Hellfire" (made by Chaos X), which plays during Frollo transforming into his unknown level Saiyan phase before flying towards a Wilford bird, ready to ram his gigantic sword into him.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment:
  • The scene involving Crazy Old Maurice in "Frollo Beats Up Evil Residents".
  • "Leet Fighters 7" have a teddy bear stuck in a sink that uses magic to destroy Bison's newspaper, this is taken care of in a few seconds and no one question why there was a haunted plush in the sink. The smoke appearing when the plush is destroyed imply that it was placed by Gaston but that doesn't explain why he would do that and why everyone forget about the haunted plush in the sink.
• Broken Base: Last Story is this among long time followers. Some viewers see the Gainax Ending as a fitting conclusion to the series; others see it as a disappointing and anticlimactic ending.
• Character Rerailment: Played menacingly straight, in a meta sense. As of "Frollo Gets Flashed", Frollo starts becoming more and more of a Knight Templar, in line with his characterization in his source material. And as of "Frollo Finally Does It" it comes back to bite him in the ass. Thankfully, Ronald McDonald of all people gives him a Heel Realization.
• Designated Villain:
  • Hades counts since Frollo, who had once been his friend, had for no reason turned on him, broken his rurus and had Lefou shit on his face.
  • Konata, who along with her friends was murdered and eaten by Bison and Guile in Leet Fighters. The revenge she seeks is completely justified (its just as reasonable as Uma Thurman's character from Kill Bill wanting revenge). Leet Fighters not only treats her character as a villain but plays her up entirely for laughs with her character getting killed every time she almost gets revenge. But that kind of dark humor is to be expected from chincherrinas.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Mormon Jesus got a large amount of popularity ever since his introduction in Leet Fighters 7 and made a surprise return in "Frollo Finally Does It".
• Fan Nickname: None of Wilford Brimley's creatures have official names. However, the fans gave them portmanteau names based on the name of the animal they are inspired by and "Wilford". For Example: The flying Wilford creatures are nicknamed "Wilfbird".
• Franchise Original Sin: Episode wise example: "Frollo Gets Flashed" was considered the best episode in the series up to that point, with the long runtime and awesome action keeping stakes at an all time high, while displaying a few much more serious and realistic fight scenes while continuing to embrace the campy side. Later episodes up to the finale however, lean a lot more on the Body Horror and realistic violence aspects with a much more pessimistic and existential tone more akin to that of Neon Genesis Evangelion, with only the Pity episode retaining the more entertaining side the series had. With its very fitting Gainax Ending finale stepping more on existentialism, it's fair to say the series very greatly deviated from its more entertaining tone beginning with Flashed.
  • Cross Series Examples: When Smash Bros. Lawl's Subspace Emissary returned with the long awaited Villain Valley entry, its story ended up relying much more on The Frollo Show's existential horror, gore and realistic violence much to the detriment of fans of Lawl.
• Genius Bonus: In "Frollo Gets Flashed by a Gothic Lolita", Hitler lackeys are attacking from the right and Stalin and Dmitri Frollo from the left. This is a reference to the nazis and communists positions on the political spectrum.
• Growing the Beard: Around the time of "Frollo Gets AIDS", the series starts getting a sense of continuity and becomes less of just a Youtube Poop. By this point Chicherrinas doesn't even consider the show to be Youtube Poop anymore.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • The Arabian Bros. committing a terrorist attack on Paris seems more disturbing in light of the Charlie Hedbo murders and theater attacks in that very city by Arab terrorists.
  • In the first episode, Gaston angrily throws his beer into the fireplace, setting Frollo's palace on fire. In episode 16, most of Frollo's palace is laid to ruin from combatants smashing through the walls and windows, and the cathedral spire was sliced off by Tommy Wiseau as part of his Taking You with Me attempt on Corset. Both of them become this in light of the massive fire that broke out at the Notre Dame cathedral on April 15, 2019, complete with the cathedral spire toppling over.
  • One of the last song in Friends Story is the music of Blaze's death from Mortal Kombat Armageddon. Blaze from that game is also the character used to represent Bleemo's beast mode and the first thing that happens in Last Story (Which is the episode right after Friends Story) is Bleemo being killed.
  • Every single friendship moments between Frollo and Gaston can be hard to watch since "Last Story" revealed that Gaston was a reality warper with powers similar to Ronald all along and that they pretty much manipulated every events in the "Frollo Finally Does It" arc, including the cruel, painful death of many characters such as but not restricted to: Frollo himself, Stocking, & others. To top it all off, he also holds responsibility for the universal reset alongside of Ronald, Panchi, & Haruhi as well, which involved people designated as strangers left to be completely erased from existence. He was also at fault for killing off Frollo's German Cousin Hans Frollo, one of the few of his family & in general which treated him with undying dignity, and seemingly doomed him to what seems to be a Fate Worse than Death for seemingly no reason other than to be a total dick.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: Frollo begins Episode 6 with a eulogy stating the recently deceased Gaston was his only friend. Not only did he resurrect Gaston, but they have both accumulated a veritable army of True Companions since.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In Episode 6, LeFou randomly announces that he likes to lick balls and subsequently gives both Gaston and Frollo some oral treatment. Crude as the comparison is, it's rather amusing given his Adaptational Sexuality in Beauty and the Beast (2017).
• Jerkass Woobie:
  • Mephiles. Despite being a Troll who enjoys playing antics on people, deep inside, he's lonely and just wants to have friends.
  • Gwonam becomes one as of episode 16, especially after he saw every one of his comrades die.
• Memetic Mutation: The Bros Pose reached meme status among Chincherrinas' fans as he encourages anyone to make their own poses. You can view the fan-made Bros Pose gallery here.
• Moral Event Horizon:
  • Batiatus crosses it when he brutally murders Ib in cold blood. Stocking was so disgusted that she killed him by her own hands. Viewers hope he ends in the Sea of Darkness.
    • And this also counts as Wilford Brimley's own Moral Event Horizon, as Bleemo reveals to Irene that he was the one who plotted Ib's and Garry's deaths, making her vendetta against Wilford personal.
  • Frollo himself crossed it in-universe when he shouted at and hit Madotsuki because she was too happy to use her emotion-based powers to find Wilford. The entire cast was caught completely off-guard when this happened, and everyone except for Gaston left him to rot alone in the desert for it.
    • Subverted in Friends Story, as everyone understood why he did it, but Frollo was so broken that they abandoned him when it was clear they had no way of stopping him from wandering off, and they only marked Lemongrab's grave out of respect for him rather than a dig at Frollo's dickishness.
  • Ronald McDonald crossed it when he tricked Frollo into killing Yomika. If he didn't cross the Moral Event Horizon before, then this is the moment where he's beyond redemption.
• Most Wonderful Sound: The sound that plays whenever the Bros Pose happens.
• Narm Charm: The entire series RUNS on this trope. Whenever there is a sad moment on one hand it is a YouTube Poop like series where there are fictional characters getting killed off yet it works so well you could end up crying for them.
• Nausea Fuel:
  • The food that Ronald McDonald gives Frollo to eat contains nasty worms inside, which Frollo accidentally eats and gains stomach pains.
  • Be warned if you don't like gore because Chincherrinas always insist on putting realistic blood and guts when someone gets wounded, even if the character is from a cartoon.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Many viewers consider that The Irate Gamer is a much more likeable character due to his friendship with Best Hercules and a rather touching death scene.
• Special Effect Failure:
  • While "Friends Story" have some amazing visual effects, the part where Ronald twists his hand in Haruhi's wound felt lazy edited as his arm become flat as paper as it turns around.
  • Chincherrinas' attempt at making moving perspective when inside Yomika's mind doesn't really work since the walls are absorbing the ground as they move.
• That One Boss: Non-Video Game example, but Video Game logic do apply here: Ronald McDonald effortlessly dodges Frollo's bullets, knocks his gun right out of his hand... Ayumu is weak against clowns... and to top it all off, Gameshark is useless against him! Thankfully he had a Weaksauce Weakness... or has he?
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: The different episodes of "Frollo Finally Does It" (with the exception of Pity Story) ran into this trope the more each chapter deranged on existentialist body horror and gore, making the final episodes feel potentially too miserable to enjoy.
• Too Cool to Live: Name at least one character a fan wishes to be back from the dead, and it's most likely Hans Frollo, Ib, or Tommy Wiseau.
• Unintentional Period Piece: A side effect of a series that debuted in 2011 is that the jokes in the earlier episodes (the more YouTube Poop-esque first five episodes, "Frollo Sees Dead People", and "Frollo Misses his Mother") mostly rely on then-contemporary pop culture references and current events (e.g. Justin Bieber's infamy), making them feel dated in comparison to the later episodes, which tone down these topical jokes. In a case of Self-Deprecation, chincherrinas's answer to this Ask.fm question lists off a moment in "Frollo Reads Mein Kampf" where Frollo and Gaston reenact the "over 9000" meme as an unoriginal scene.
• Visual Effects of Awesome:
  • The amount of effort Chincherrinas put into episodes 16 and 17 really pay off and contrast with the earlier episodes. Special mention goes to this trailer for the Friends Story of "Frollo Finally Does It".
  • It took three years for him to make the Friends Story. It shows.
• The Woobie:
  • Madotsuki, painfully so. She encounters deaths of both friends and enemies, especially three of her own friends, is broken by Wilford Brimley a handful of times, and gets depressed to end up altering Wilford's bizarre realm to find him. Is it any wonder why the poor kid snaps?
  • Ib also qualifies. Seeing her best friend impaled and then stomped on is enough to snap her into a beatdown, only for her to get murdered herself.
  • Irene gets this status from witnessing Garry's and Ib's aforementioned deaths.

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