YMMV / Today's Special

• Accidental Innuendo: And it is painfully innocent, given that it's from Jeff, in the episode "Trash".
  Jeff: Well now, TXL, how do we turn you on? I've never done this before. What button do you suppose I press?
• Bizarro Episode: Though always fairly out there, things get weirder anytime Waldo or one of his magical friends shows up, or when Muffy breaks out the magic book Waldo gave her.
• Fridge Logic:
  • So how can Jeff function on the roof if the magic hat specifically works only within the store?
  • In the opening credits, Muffy takes off Jeff's hat in order to make a scene transition. Why would she use this type of method, knowing that taking off his hat would turn him back into a mannequin?
  • In the episode "A Visit to the Opera", Jodie and Sam have to hold down two levers on a special machine belonging to Waldo and not let go of them so that Jeff can go outside. This would be too much of a great risk considering they would be the only two in the store. And what if an emergency occurred (burglary, fire, etc.)? Or what if they needed the restroom?
  • Somewhat related: Jeff is occasionally frustrated by the fact that he is the only object in the store that is in any way self-aware. (But what about TXL?)
  • Do any of the day shift people have any idea what goes on at night?
• Funny Moments: In the episode "Adventure", when Jodie, Jeff, and Sam encounter a giant lizard.
  Jodie: That's not a ... a-a lizard, that's a (now dubbed in a low, masculine-type voice) LIZARD!
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The show was one of Nickelodeon's biggest hits in the '80s, and reruns of it lasted four years after the show ended in Canada.
• Heartwarming in Hindsight: In "Work", Jeff says what he'd like to be most is a professional dancer who performs onstage. In "Live on Stage", he gets to join his friends outside the store for a stage performance.
• Heartwarming Moments: Jeff's song to Muffy at the end of "Summer Camp". D'awwwww:
  Jeff: There's nobody, quite like you, Muffy, nobody does the things you do... Where would we be, if we didn't have you? Our days would be empty, the nighttime too, without you there'd be no sun in Sunday, all of our rainbows would be pale and gray.
  • "Butterflies": When Hazel becomes too weak to fly (we find out later she's dying), Jeff puts her in a box so she can be safe, and Jodie write's Hazel's name on it. Hazel compliments both as she lays in it. The funeral held for Hazel, and the song Muffy sings for her, are equal parts heartwarming and tear-jerking.
  • "Babies" has a little opossum girl named Wanda who runs away from home after she learns that her mother is having another baby. After her adventure, Wanda returns home, ready to be a big sister. Two weeks later, her baby brother is born. A huge party is held, and everyone adores the newborn, but as the narration tells us: "Nobody was happier about the new baby than Wanda. Wanda wasn't the littlest Willoghby anymore. Now she was a big sister, and very proud." The last image before credits is a drawing of Wanda holding up her new brother, both smiling.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • This would not be the last time Nina Keogh would puppeteer a talking mouse.
  • In the episode "Fruit", Sam says there's no such fruit as a "purple". Years later, Homer Simpson would dispute that claim.
  • In "A Visit to the Opera", Jodie and Sam imagine a story about apple farmers living in a world where living beings create, control, and are named after weather. It may sound whimsical, but come 2010...
• Nightmare Fuel: "I am slowly going crazy..."
• Periphery Demographic: It does have a small following among adults who fondly remember the show, most infamously the fanfic writer Dakari-King Mykan.
• Quirky Work: A mannequin with improbable dancing skills lives in a department store and has a magic hat that brings him to life every night. Other characters include a Magical Computer who behaves like a human being, a mischievous oversized mouse who always talks in rhyme, and "the Mime Lady" who appears in random segments for no reason. And that's just the regular cast.
• Tear Jerker:
  • Literally in the episode entitled "Tears". "Wishes" was also very sad, especially for a kids' show.
  • "Butterflies". Muffy's Butterfly friend, Hazel, starts getting weaker and weaker, and finally admits that she's dying. "Dying? You're lying!" shouts a desperate Muffy, but just seconds later, Hazel's wings droop for the last time. A funeral is held, with Hazel's grave being lined with rose petals as Muffy sings a heartbreaking song about how Hazel will be missed. Even after this, Muffy still has trouble grasping the concept of death, asking Jodie if Hazel will ever come back.
  • "Phil's Visit" deals with Sam's old friend Phil, who it gradually becomes clear suffers from alcoholism. He ends up exploding at poor Muffy in a drunken rage, and upon sobering up asks to see her to apologize. Sam sadly tells him Muffy doesn't ever want to see him again, "and frankly, neither do I," recognizing that until his friend truly accepts his problem and gets help, there’s nothing to do but keep the other people he cares about away from him.
• The Woobie: Jeff for many viewers, since he can't leave the store and explore the world outside like he wishes he could.

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