YMMV / Yonderland

• Ascended Fanon: As mentioned below, Laurence Rickard agrees with the headcanon of Ho-Tan being trans, essentially making it canon since he’s a writer. Even without this, what other reason would she have for wishing to be female?
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Basically the whole plot of Pete's mum getting drunk at Christmas. She wanders into Yonderland, but because she was so sloshed at the time she naturally remembers absolutely nothing the next morning. Nobody even notices she wandered into the other world, not even Debbie who's been shepherding people back and forth all night.
• Escapist Character: Debbie is a normal mum who finds that what a fantasy world needs to save it isn't violent heroics or powerful magic, it just needs some serious mumming.
• Fan Community Nicknames: Yonderdarlings, taken from a tweet from Mat Baynton regarding the main cast.
• Fanon: It is widely accepted that Scribe Elder Ho-Tan is a trans woman, despite the show not being able to come right out and say it. Laurence Rickard, Ho-Tan's actor, supports the idea himself.
• Foe Yay Shipping: Some started shipping Negatus and Debbie after she pecked him on the cheek and helped him discover he was good at soccer in episode eight.
• Funny Moments: The Crone's reappearance in Episode 4.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Any time someone mentions something going on for "centuri"^Explanation  pronounced "cen-TYOO-rye" and assumed to be a fancy fantasy way of saying "centuries" before episode 4, where it's revealed that seven thousand centuri is only about five years.
  • There's a running joke in S2 about Pete believing the house is haunted. Little does he know that in the writers' next major series, the central house really will be haunted - by the actor playing his wife, among others!
  • Jamie Demetriou plays an estate agent in "Swapsies", a couple of years before his Star-Making Role playing the titular lettings agent in Stath Lets Flats. It's made funnier in retrospect by the fact that in contrast to Stath, his character in Yonderland actually appears to be quite professional and competent.
• Like You Would Really Do It: Who actually thought they'd really burn Nick the Stick up to close the portal for good? Especially since there were still three episodes left at that point?
• Nightmare Fuel: The thing with glowing purple eyes in Ennythingos and Debbie nearly being hypnotised into burning herself alive.
  • Larry Rickard's "teutonic glam rocker pervert" Kendall in Episode 7 for some people - including Martha Howe-Douglas (Debbie) herself.
• Periphery Demographic: As a carryover from HH, along with children and their parents, the show seems to be developing a healthy young adult fandom.
• Trans Audience Interpretation: See Fanon.
• Ugly Cute: Elf, for some. Also, Mojo.
  • One might argue that Jeff the demon counts, with his dopey rounded features and floppy puppy ears.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids? and What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids? at the same time. Some jokes and implications fly over the heads of the kiddies, and others...don't.
• The Woobie: Trevor the Blob Elder, especially in the first episode of Series 2 when the other Elders gang up to try and eat him.

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