YMMV / Um Jammer Lammy

• Adorkable: Lammy. Just watch the intro cinematic of Stage 5, when she apparently forgets for a minute that she's looking for a guitar, not a car.
  Lammy: Yeah, uhmmm, I'm looking for, for a guitar.
  Paul Chuck: What kind?
  Lammy: Well, umm... a cool one, with awesome sound and has reclining seats, power-steering, and dual airbags—
  Paul Chuck: I don't have time for jokers.
  Lammy: Oh, no, nononono... (embarrassed blush) Sorry.
• Awesome Music:
  • Fire Fire's sweet bassline, brass backing, and amazingly funky beat make the track one fire you won't want to put out.
  • Taste of Teriyaki has a strange, otherworldly mood that fits the setting of Hell very well. While people are divided on Teriyaki Yoko's vocals, most agree that the gospel voices in the chorus are excellent.
  • Fright Flight is hard rocking heavy metal all the way through, with some memorable mood shifts thanks to Captain Fussenpepper's switching personalities.
  • Baby Baby. An enjoyable high-energy rock song with a baby bunny providing the lead vocals. Some people may not enjoy Cathy Pillar's "NOW PUT THESE KIDS TO SLEEP WILL YA?" lines, though some don't mind them.
  • "Power Off! Power On!" is a fun hard rock tune that will have you, in the song's own words, "rocking to the beat of the sun".
  • "Got to Move!" delivers with an uptempo and energetic sound and an amazing vocal performance from Katy Kat. It feels like a great release after all you've experienced and a sign of Lammy's growth throughout the story.
  • The credits theme, "Keep Your Head Up!", is an infectiously catchy fusion of ska punk and orchestral score about rolling with the punches no matter what life throws at you (in this case, a relationship gone wrong).
  • The instrumentals can be just as good as the vocal tracks. "Theme of Rammy" perfectly fits its namesake character with its edgy and somewhat mischevious tone. The MilkCan "Make It Sweet" version makes it even better by extending it and adding some awesomely heavy guitar solos after the initial part.
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: After Lammy has eaten too much pizza and tries to run but collapses, a parade of expectant bunny parents led by Cathy Piller marches out of nowhere and sings a brief version of "Treasure", which describes that Babies Make Everything Better! Even Lammy is confused by it.
• Memetic Molester: Paul Chuck has earned this rep due to his introductory cutscene, specifically the part where Lammy says she'll do anything for a new guitar, which gets him excited; this led people to think it was going to go a certain direction. "Wood" being a euphemism for "Penis" does not help his case. At all.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • Parappinwitme ^Explanation An Um Jammer Lammy animation by web animator AfroNinja360, showing Katy and PaRappa harassing Lammy for how unsuccessful her game is, even in the way of porting, set to KYLE's "Playinwitme". The video ended up making the rounds on Twitter in mid-2019 by Lammy fans who were rallying to have her game be remastered or get a sequel.
  • The lyric "With the funk" from "Fire Fire!!" is commonly misheard as "What the fuck?"
• Moe: Lammy. She's a very timid girl without her guitar in-hand, and somehow suffers an even more humiliating series of events in her own game; and all she wanted to do was get to her concert with her friends on time.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Teriyaki Yoko. Especially when you fail and she rises out of the ground, 100 times her size. Even in the American version.
    • The "Taste of Teriyaki" song itself. The whole thing just sounds otherworldly and threatening, which is very fitting for the stage. And the MilkCan: Make It Sweet remix makes it even more terrifying.
    • PaRappa's version of the song isn't much better. It's slower paced, with more outwardly ominous instrumentals to back up the more menacing feel.
    • The cutscene prior to her stage in the European and Japanese versions is scarily different from the American version, with the latter existing due to Bowdlerisation; while Lammy is simply flung into the Island stage in the American version, in the other two versions she literally dies and goes to some sort of dark, twisted afterlife. And after "waking up" Lammy asks herself "Is this hell?", followed by her being dragged to the stage where she meets Teriyaki Yoko who proceeds to tell Lammy she's gonna kill her. So much for Never Say "Die"...
  • Cathy Piller, who constanly vomits out strange pink barf and whose level's background is made up entirely of her body segments.
• Porting Disaster: The PSone classic rerelease for the PS3 and PSP has messed up timings, somehow being stricter and offbeat.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Sara Ramirez, the voice of Lammy, went on to have an immensely successful stage and TV career following this game. She returned to voice Lammy in 2001 for Parappa The Rapper 2.
  • Paul Chuck is voiced by Everett Bradley, who's better remembered for singing "Throw It All Away", "Supporting Me", and other songs for Sonic Adventure 2.
• Self-Fanservice: Bizarrely enough, Lammy is often treated as a Sex Goddess in fanart, being a popular anxiety-ridden subject.
• That One Level: Many players have the toughest time with Cathy Piller (due to introducing much more rapid button inputs) or Teriyaki Yoko (by combining rapid inputs with more complex patterns). The former gets lampshaded in the game.
  Rammy: I hate this stage!
• Vindicated by History: When this game was first released, it was a commercial failure, even in its home country of Japan, where it had some IMMENSE marketing. It's gotten a LOT more praise as time went on, with a good many people even saying it's probably even better than the original Parappa The Rapper, and even Parappa The Rapper 2.

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