YMMV / Wunschpunsch

• Awesome Music: The theme song to cartoon series, regardless of the language it's in. It does sound an awful lot like Bonnie Tyler's 'Holding Out For A Hero'.
• Bizarro Episode: Let's break a deal is this. Not only is it the only episode in the series where no Wunschpunsch is brewed, but it also ends with Tyranha being trapped in the Realm of Magic and Bubonic being completely incapable of rescuing her.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • In "Fancy Footwork", Mauricio asks Jacob if Tyrannia ever feeds him. In "Drop Me a Line", it's revealed that Jacob was always last in line to be fed when he was young.
  • In "Mayor for a Day", Jacob in Mauricio's body lands on his back on a moving truck, and in "You Must Be Joking" he falls onto his back through a hole. This may remind one of July 1978, when Joachim Kaps had gotten into a motorcycle accident; he skidded on an oil slick left behind by a Russian military vehicle and landed on his back on the asphalt (though fortunately his injuries weren't too serious).
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In the book, Maledictus Maggot corrected Beelzebub whenever the latter called him "Mr. Larva". When the cartoon came to Brazil, Maledictus Maggot was renamed "Maledictus Larva".
  • In "Off the Walls", Mauricio suggests that Jacob should become a masseur. Jacob's German voice actor, Joachim Kaps, played a masseur in Ferienheim Bergkristall.
  • In the German version of "By a Hair's Breadth", Maurizio calls Jacob "Watson". Sebastian Schulz (Maurizio) would go on to voice Watson in the German version of Sherlock.
  • The episode "Car Wars", wherein Bubonic and Tyrannia's latest spell turns all humans except them into living cars, is a seeming parody of Cars... released 5 years before Pixar's movie.
• Hollywood Pudgy: Mauricio is supposed to be fat- Jacob calls him "old roly-poly" in "The Big Shrinking Spell"- but he comes off as merely pot-bellied, partly because his head is almost twice the size of his body.
• Signature Scene: Both the intro and the recurring Wunschpunsch brewing scenes.
• Squick: Bubonic and Tyrannia kiss each other on the lips after becoming nice in "Nice Wizards".
• Tear Jerker:
  • Jacob accidentally trapping Mauricio inside a portrait of Bubonic's great-great-great uncle in "Off the Walls". It's only temporary, of course, but Jacob's mourning for him is heartbreaking. In the German version, he's heard quietly sobbing.
  • In "Vanity Spell", after being rescued by Jacob, a little boy wonders where his mother is. Jacob doesn't have the heart to tell him she's gone to Hollywood.
• The Woobie: Jacob in "Wacky Weather". All he wants to do is treat his rheumatism and instead the spell makes it worse, and he gets a cold on top of that.