YMMV / Yvon of the Yukon

• Awesome Music: The theme song. Being catchy as hell and a perfect summary of the show’s premise, it’s hard not to get pumped for the show just from the intro alone, making it perhaps one of the best Expository Theme Tunes out there. The background music is equally memorable too.
• Cult Classic: Although little known outside of Canada, the show has a loyal following with Canadians who grew up watching it on YTV, holding nostalgic value for many as an icon of Canadian animation and being appreciated for its quirky if sometimes crass charm and humor, its surprisingly solid writing, and its great soundtrack.
  • In the UK, the series was a key part of the popular weekend show Dick & Dom in da Bungalow.
• Quirky Work: Often considered the archetypal "Weird Canadian Cartoon", although for its fans, that's the appeal. The show is many things, but above all else, it is clearly proud of its "Weird Canadian TV Show" status.
• Squick: Being a Grossout Show, it’s no surprise that the show has its share of squicky moments, almost entirely thanks to Yvon’s legendarily terrible hygiene (seriously, the man hasn't bathed in over 300 years!). The Season 3 episodes "Parasite for Sore Eyes" and "I Thaw Your Butt" are good examples of this.
• Tear Jerker: In "Brussels Lout", the proud Frenchman falls into a depression when he learns he is actually Belgian rather than French.
• Values Dissonance: Being a product of late 90s/early 2000s Canadian kids TV at a time when most Canadian TV shows didn't air much outside of Canada, the show has a few aspects to it that are either very dated or quite shocking to people who didn't grow up with the show. While the frequent Demographically Inappropriate Humour is probably the most obvious example, there are also many National Stereotypes depicted for comedy (Canada and France are the main targets, but there's also episodes with jokes about Britain and Native Americans, and most infamously, the thickly Engrish-speaking Japanese navymen in “The Walrus Between Us”).
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: As TheCartoonGamer8000 describes when he covered the show in his video on Canadian animation, the show is loaded with eyebrow-raising jokes and scenes that would probably get the show banned in the States. Even outside the risque jokes and grossout, there's also depictions of characters smoking and drinking, some surprisingly violent scenes (such as Harland hacking a shark to pieces in a rather gory manner and later getting his toe chopped off in one episode), and numerous National Stereotypes that would be completely unacceptable in any other show.
  TheCartoonGamer8000: This show's got a lot of jokes that will make you wonder how they ever got away with a G rating. And this isn't on the line of something like Animaniacs where you go "Ooh, that was a little dirty". This show's sense of humor is warped and twisted.