Lilo & Stitch: The Series/YMMV


 * Anvilicious: The strong emphasis on 'ohana' (family.)
 * Ensemble Darkhorse - Angel (#624), who recently got her own toy (only at Disney Parks, though) And of course, Reuben (#625).
 * Many of the other experiments as well, most noticeably: Sparky (#221; popular enough to be a mandatory Boss Battle in Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep), Yin (#501), Yang (#502), Bonnie (#149), Clyde (#150) and most peculiarly, Slushy (#523).
 * Fan-Preferred Couple - As of Feb 16 2011, there are no stories involving Lilo and Keoni Jameson (her crush in the series) on Fanfiction.net; there are quite a few that pair her up with Stitch. Squick or Squee.
 * It's only Squick regarding Rule 34. Several Lilo/Stitch stories are actually genuinely touching.
 * Germans Love David Hasselhoff - Angel, the pink Distaff Counterpart version of Stitch introduced in the series, is extremely popular in Japan. She has something of an Ascended Extra status there.
 * Ho Yay - Pleakley. True, it can be given in the beginning his "aptitude" with Earth customs is lacking, but early on... he openly tries girl's clothing. Also seems to crush on Jumba. Ironically, this seems to be a Disney subversion of Hide Your Lesbians.
 * Not to mention the Very Special Episode where Pleakley's family try to make him get married - he's very reluctant until the 'bride' is Jumba in a dress, and in the end his family accept that Pleakley's happier without a wife. He also promised to wear men's clothes, which set off the lie detector experiment. Meaning he intends to keep wearing women's clothes and never has any intention of ever wearing man's clothes.
 * Could you imagine modifying all your pants for three legs? I couldn't.
 * And the relationship between him and Jumba seems to go both ways: Jumba occasionally addresses him as "my little one-eyed one." Awwww.
 * Actor Allusion, Actor Allusion, Actor Allusion! Pleakley is voiced by Kevin McDonald, of Kids in The Hall fame. The man is used to playing characters in dresses. Not only that, but his family members in said episode were voiced by old castmates Bruce McCulloch, Mark McKinney, and Scott Thompson, with Dave Foley playing the priest.
 * Not to mention that Jumba's Voice Actor, David Ogden Stiers, came out of the closet in early 2009.
 * "Jumba and I have found the secret of love!" Oh, Pleakley.
 * Moral Event Horizon: Hamsterveil crosses it in "Leroy & Stitch" when he tries to wipe out all the experiments at once.
 * Most Annoying Sound - "YEEEEEEAAAAH!"
 * Fibber's buzzing noise.
 * The "Ohana" speech. Proof that, with enough repetition, anything can be unbearably annoying.
 * Narm Charm: Lilo defeating the Leroys by singing Aloha Oe. It's a bit of ridiculous resolution, but it works as a Call Back to the The first movie. Also the song is about the loss of a (metaphorical) family, which is what Lilo fears will happen to her alien friends.
 * Nightmare Fuel: In-universe, Spooky (#300) has the ability to turn into anyone's worst fear. He turns into Cobra Bubbles and tries to take Lilo away from Nani, a torrent of water that nearly succeeds at drowning Stitch, and a Monster Clown to scare Lilo.
 * Romantic Plot Tumor: I'm sorry, but how many episodes did we get an in depth look at Stitch and Angel's relationship again?
 * They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot - In the episode where Lilo is hypnotised into acting like Mertle, they missed a perfect opportunity to have Mertle say Lilo was acting weird. Instead one of Mertle's friends points out that Lilo is acting like her and nothing more is said about it.
 * Unfortunate Implications - Stitch calls the other Experiments his "cousins". But Jumba created them all, so that makes them more like brothers and sisters. Now consider his crush on Angel.
 * Not biologically.
 * That "not biologically" part is debatable. The genetic material to create the Experiments needed to come from somewhere. And given that Jumba himself has several facial characteristics reminiscent of his creations, he probably provided the needed genetic material himself. If so, then that means that all of the Experiments ARE related biologically, if only by artificial means instead of natural.
 * Still, the squick is reduced when you consider that none of the experiments seem to have sexual organs. Jumba didn't originally intend for the Experiments to live full, happy lives so much as be living weapons, so he had no reason to add in any desire to reproduce.
 * Well that's debatable. At his trial at the start of the first film Jumba mentions that 626 is the first of a new species. So reproduction might be an option.
 * Viewer Gender Confusion - Quite as few people mistook Pleakley for a woman. Which is fairly easy to assume, since he only wears dresses, and disguises himself as a lady in public.
 * Also, his first name is Wendy! it's a dude's name on his planet but still.....
 * Villain Decay - Gantu turned from the imposing but somewhat Anti-Hero thirty-something foot tall military captain from the original movie into a much shorter bumbling idiot who even proclaims that he "likes to be evil". Subverted at the end of the series when it doesn't work out for him and gets his old job back.