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  • Best Known for the Fanservice: Show of hands: who else tuned into this show just because of Six's cleavage adorning the poster?
  • Les Yay:
    • Between Six and T'nuk on rare occasions:
      • On the first episode "God is Our Copilot" when Chode and Gus accidentally kill God at the beginning of the universe and they find that everything has changed because of it. The first thing they discover is that Six and T'nuk are now a lesbian couple.
      • In "You Wanna Put That Where?", they pose as a lesbian couple while on Fabulous Heaven, with Six merely wearing an "I'm With Butch" T-shirt (pointing at T'nuk at first) and mini-skirt and T'nuk wearing a women's golfing outfit.
      • In "Six, Lies, & Videotapes", T'nuk is dressed like a butch cop (using a photo of Rosie O'Donnell as reference) and puts her hand inside Six's butt for a cavity search. Six gasp in a mix of shock, pain, and ecstasy.
    • Many lesbian couples in "You Wanna Put That Where?".
    • The women's prison, especially the Shower Scene, in "Six Lies, and Videotapes".
  • Replacement Scrappy: Jenny McCarthy replacing Gina Gershon as Six. With the Gina version (and, to some extent, the Carmen Electra version), there was humor in the only consistently decent and intelligent character being the sexier-voiced sexbot. The one-dimensional airhead Jenny brought to the cast permitted Chode's character to dominate more screentime, with the less original humor that had already been exhausted in previous seasons.
  • Special Effect Failure:
    • While impressive for its time, the CGI shows its age in many areas. Texturing in particular ranges from passable to non-existent depending on the model.
    • Some of the animations look rather stiff and robotic, especially during the first two seasons.
  • Unintentional Period Piece: If the CGI isn't enough to convince you that this originally ran from 2004 to 2007, the some of the show's more politically charged jokes should do the trick, having had jokes about the then-current Geroge W. Bush administration, among other things that haven't aged well. Even the pop cultural references can come across as this, due to the things being referenced no longer being relevant.
  • Unintentional Uncanny Valley: Thanks to the era it was produced in, some of the more humanoid designs like Six and Adam look rather off in this day and age.

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