YMMV / Wild Kratts

• Awesome Music: The entire soundtrack, courtesy of Pure West. Special mention, however, has to go to the theme song.
• Foe Yay Shipping: There has been fan speculation of Zach and Aviva having been in a relationship at one point, and let's just say that she remembers things about him that no one else would remember about someone they purport to dislike. Also, in "Mystery of the Weird-Looking Walrus", she knew the code to disable the skullcaps without being told - either Zach is that much of a moron/creature of habit that he'd use the same code, knowing his opponents knew it as well and could disable his systems before he knew anything, or else she knows him a lot better than she's putting on.
  • Many fans have also suspected that Zach has a thing for Chris, considering how often Zach has captured him throughout the series and how Chris tends to interact directly with Zach more than any other member of the team.

  • Many ship Donita and Martin because Donita has put Martin in suspended animation or used him as a model multiple times, and seems to be a little too into him, especially in Flight of The Dracos.

• Friendly Fandoms:
  • The fandom of the show is pretty friendly with the fandoms of Odd Squad, Ready Jet Go!, and Nature Cat, especially on Tumblr, since they're all popular PBS Kids shows. It also helps that the Kratt Brothers actually made a cameo in an Odd Squad episode, and appeared as bats in an episode of Nature Cat.
  • In the show's early years, there was overlap with the WordGirl fandom.
  • Now extended to Molly of Denali, in which the Bros likewise made a guest appearance in an episode about wolves.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The show is very popular in Germany, where it is called Go Wild! Mission Wildnis.
• Growing the Beard: If the episodes are in at least semi-correct order, the show does this in season 2 (started with "Ker-Honk"). If they're in some kind of reverse order, then the show has gotten worse (although by a negligible margin).
• He Really Can Act: Though Chris and Martin are playing themselves, they demonstrate pretty good emotional range as voice actors.
• Ho Yay: In "Honey Seekers", Koki calls Aviva "honey".
• Most Wonderful Sound: The transformation sounds the Creature Power Suits make when activated (which has it's own Theme Music Power-Up).
• Periphery Demographic:
  • The show has a small but thriving community of older fans who remember the Kratt Brothers' earlier shows fondly.
  • Quite a few professional biologists and science teachers watch it too, because it's a true pleasure to see a kids' educational program that's this fixated on the natural abilities which the biologists, themselves, always believed were superpower-caliber cool.
• Squick: The Kratts are a little too fascinated with worm slime in "Mystery of the Squirmy Wormy."
• Suspiciously Similar Song: The theme song is basically an altered version of the Zoboomafoo theme.
• Tear Jerker:
  • Maxilla's death in "Voyage of the Butterflier XT."
  • Aviva crying when her family heirloom - a badminton birdie - was stolen in "Caracal-Mitton".
  • Martin being unable to save the Dodos from extinction in "Back in Creature Time, Part 1."
  • In "Part 2," Martin tries to take a baby Tasmanian Tiger to the present, but realizes he'll be taking him away from his parents.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • In "Lemur Legs," (about sifaka lemurs) there wasn't even a reference to Zoboomafoo, whose titular lemur was a sikafa. Possibly intentional, as the latter wasn't depicted realistically, unlike how Wild Kratts portrays its creatures; also, reminding viewers of the silly Zoboomafoo may have detracted from this show's serious message about lemur conservation.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Maybe the Kratts played Zach the way he is so we'd like him, or maybe they didn't, but Zach's Psychopathic Man Child nature has led some fans to feel like he doesn't really know what he's doing.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: So far, we've heard talk of cannibalism, seen a Secretary bird kill a snake (complete with minor blood spillage), saw a coyote marking Martin-the-Tree as his territory (although we just saw the wet spot and not the genitals nor the stream), seen animals frozen alive with full consciousness still intact, saw T-Devils eating an ambiguous dead thing… are we sure this is on PBS? The brothers actually ended up naked in one scene, though their modesty was covered up by gigantic leaves.

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