YMMV / The Twisted Tales of Felix the Cat

• Anvilicious: Parodied in "Star Trash", which mocks the preachy green aesop laden cartoons of the 90's.
  Poindexter: "You can't use our planet as a junkyard!"
  Captain: "Why not? You do."
  Audience: "Oooooh..."
  Captain: "Your rivers, your beaches, your canyons, your frankfurters, all filled with the filth you so frivolously fling!"
  Felix: "Poindexter, this is horrible. We're prisoners in a cartoon with a moral to it!"
• Awesome Music:
  • The opening is as awesome as it is bizarre. It's a portal into just how weird the show is.
  • The first season was scored by the Club Foot Orchestra, who gave their scores a jazzy sound that authentically replicates cartooon soundtracks from the 1920's and 1930's. They would proceed to create a new soundtrack from one of Felix's classic cartoons.
• Bizarro Episode: Every episode. It might as well be a Bizarro series.
• Broken Base: Among the small number of fans, opinions are split on which voice actor for Felix is considered better for the character, Thom Adcox Hernandez for his more youthful and innocent-sounding approach, or Charlie Adler for his more energetic and comedic approach.
• Cargo Ship: Pretty much inevitable since Everything Talks, but still used really weirdly, much like every other trope in the show.
  • In "Manhattan Triangle", the Chaotic Stupid Bermuda Triangle comes to New York and unleashes random, surreal stupidity everywhere it goes. Felix decides that the triangle just needs some excitement and sets him up with the sultry female Times Square. At the end of the episode, Felix is best man at their wedding.
  • In "Viva Lost Wages", Felix's relationship with the bag of tricks is played as a romance.
  • In "Felix's Gold Score", a sexy lady cactus tries to seduce Felix. It doesn't work since she's...well, a cactus, and in the end she gets paired with a mountain.
• Cult Classic; The show wasnt popular even in its heydey and had a rather short run overall due to its subpar second season getting cancelled eight episodes in, but it maintains a devoted fan following to this day, particularly among fans of cartoony animation, due to its 1930's cartoon aesthetic and all around surrealistic tone.
• Designated Villain: Fuzzy Bunny's thuggish actor from the episode "The Fuzzy Bunny Show". Sure, he was a jerk to his co-workers and the polar opposite of his cutesy persona, but it wasn't his fault at all that Felix's show got cancelled in favor of his since the show was someone elses idea and it was pitched to replace Felix's show due to its declining ratings. But since he indirectly ruined Felix's career, being revealed to be a jerk behind the scenes is all Felix needs to decide to publicly humiliate him on live TV and destroy his career in order to further his own again.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • The premise of "The Fuzzy Bunny Show", where Felix gets his show cancelled by the network in favor of the cutesy pie Fuzzy Bunny show, became this when Twisted Tales was cancelled only a few episodes later.
  • Upon learning that his series was cancelled due to low ratings and Executive Meddling in "The Fuzzy Bunny Show", Felix remarks "They wouldn't do this to the Ninja Turtles!". One month after this episode aired, the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon was cancelled, it too a victim of low ratings and Executive Meddling.
  • Ironically, both final episodes aired on the exact same day.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In the episode "Wet Paint", a rooster rips Felix's face in half (in a non-graphic way), which Vinesauce and Siivagunner fans will undoubtedly find familiar...
  • Another episode with a нет moment is "Dueling Whiskers", where Felix rips the face off of a clone. One of the comments shows screenshots of other нет moments in the show, including the aforementioned "Wet Paint" scene.
• Questionable Casting: Both of Felix's actors in this show get a mixed recaction.
  • Thom Adcox Hernandez, Felix's voice in Season 1, is often considered to be a peculiar choice for Felix since his voice is unusually young and juvenile sounding for an ostensibly adult character like Felix. This is partially justified by the fact that Thom had been cast just weeks before the first episode aired and the episodes he lent his voice to had to have their dialogue animated to scratch tracks due to just how much behind the scenes trouble Film Roman had with casting a voice for Felix. Notably, Film Roman themselves had considered redubbing the season 1 episodes later on due to the poor reception of Thom's performance as Felix.
  • Charlie Adler as Felix in season 2, despite his performance being considered a step up from Thom's. The voice change is jarring to begin with since Charlie doesn't even try to keep his voice consistent with Thom Adcox Hernandez's performance in season 1, but his raspy voice (which is basically the same voice he used for Ickis) goes in the opposite direction and sounds too adult for Felix, and just doesnt match his appearance or personality at all. Funnily enough, not only would Adler himself admit that he was miscast as Felix, but also felt that Thom did a much better job as the character.
• Retroactive Recognition: Maxwell Atoms (credited here by his real name Adam M. Burton), future creator of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, began his animation career on this show as a character designer. Interestingly, this was before he attended University of the Arts in Philadelphia to study animation.
• Second Season Downfall: Season 2 took a budget cut in the animation, attempted to take the series into a more script driven and less weird direction with more emphasis on the Joe Oriolo era of the Felix the Cat series in an attempt to bump up the ratings higher than the first seasons underperformance. This, along with its turbulent behind-the-scenes production, completely backfired on the show—the ratings for it tanked even harder than the first seasons underperformance due to alienating what little audience it had managed to build up. It only lasted eight episodes before the show was cancelled altogether. Even the production team and one of Felix's own voice actors considered the second season to be a complete disaster.
• Shallow Parody: A lot of "Star Trash" basically consists of cheap and mean-spirited potshots at Star Trek: The Original Series, with the implications being that the show (and its successor) are hokey and pretentious TV garbage that only appeals to nerds. It even makes broadsides at it that aren't even true, such as depicting the ersatz-Kirk as being a reckless Cowboy Cop with an unusual way of emphasizing words (in the actual show, Kirk was usually a rational, level-headed and by-the-books Captain, and William Shatner's unique way of delivering dialogue wasnt nearly as over the top as parodies make it out to be) and the joke of the Spock expy, Mr. Gleep, claiming that he's not unemotive, just "a bad actor" in particular is rather petty considering that in reality, Leonard Nimoy had much more versatile acting chops than his role as the rigid and unemotive Spock implied (including both in the show itself and the six movies following up on it), but he rarely got to show them off due to the inescapable typecasting he got from the role). While the jabs at nerds might have been relevant in the mid 90's, in light of nerd culture growing in the years after and eventually becoming a mainstream culture unto itself (with Star Trek itself eventually breaking into the mainstream and becoming a billion dollar franchise around the 2000s and still running to this day with shows like Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Picard) it's safe to say that this episode has not aged all that well, especially in comparison to other Star Trek parodies like Galaxy Quest.
• Spiritual Successor: To Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog. Like Sonic, this show is a tribute to The Golden Age of Animation filtered through 1990s Ren and Stimpy sensibilities, with heavy creative contributions from Milton Knight and many ex-Ren and Stimpy people. It's also a strange case of coming full circle, as one of the key inspirations for Sonic's design was Felix.
• Values Dissonance:
  • The episode "Step Right Up" has a gag invoving a Bearded Lady (who doesn't have a beard) that is clearly meant to be a cross-dresser. This was already a risque thing to put in a kids cartoon in the 90's, but from the 2010s and on, where mistreatment of LGBT individuals and jokes made at their expense are taken much more seriously than in the past, a gag like this would now be seen as being in extremely bad taste and would never fly in a kids cartoon today.
  • Its very unlikely a character like Peking Duck would fly in today's cartoons either. While the character isn't Asian in nationality, his Yellow Peril overtones (since he's basically a G-Rated Fu Manchu) are a relic of an era when it was still barely acceptable to use such old fashioned exotic Asian-themed stereotypes as villains and likewise probably wouldn't fly today either, at least not without a big overhaul to his shtick.