Walker, Texas Ranger/YMMV


 * Anvilicious: We get it. Criminals are scum. That's no excuse for thinking we won't know it unless they Kick the Dog at least every other scene.
 * Awesome Music: The theme song. And yes, Chuck Norris himself is the one singing.
 * Not the first Theme Song the show had; the original was a rather forgettable steel guitar solo, which was replaced by a more rockish tune, which was replaced by "Eyes of the Ranger". This list might not be conclusive.
 * Complete Monster - Though the show doesn't give the villains subtlety, there are villains that manage to stand out.
 * Victor LaRue, one of the few recurring villains on the show, is a madman who wishes to rape Alex. First debuting in Cowboy, it was revealed that he was once a soldier before being discharged for being too ruthless with his missions. In addition to wishing to rape Alex, he has a habit of kidnapping his victims, and then murdering them after ransoming them. In his second appearance, he tortures Walker by putting toxic scorpions on his bare chest. One of his worst actions comes in his last episode when he takes an entire court room hostage, and plans to murder a child. Even his own lackey in the same episode starts to become disgusted with him after a while. Instead of arresting him, Walker shoots him to death.
 * Ted McNeely from "Six Hours", is the bodyguard of a wealthy millionaire (Tim Preston)'s daughter Heather. After discovering that his employer plans to dismiss him, he kidnaps Heather and extorts 100 million from Tim in exchange for her safety, murdering a limo driver in the process of the kidnapping. When her father agrees to pay him, he decides he's going to kill her anyway, and plans on making Tim watch her daughter die on the internet. In addition, he murders his own minions to complete his disappearance (along with the cops escorting them to the police station), and murders one simply so that he doesn't have to pay him.
 * Damsel Scrappy: doesn't seem like not one episode can go by without Alex screaming "WALKER!" while being kidnapped?
 * One would expect that with all the time Alex spent with Walker she would take some self defense lessons or take a few levels of badass.
 * God Mode Sue
 * Harsher in Hindsight:
 * An episode featured an Arab terrorist purchasing a sonic laser ... intending to destroy the Capitol building with it, and, he says, "maybe the White House too". This story also provided a brief example of Even Evil Has Standards when one of the henchmen displays outrage at this plan. The episode aired in the spring of 2000, a year and a half before the events of September 11.
 * The season five episode "Plague" has a group of Corrupt Corporate Executives distributing a vitamin supplement for the cows to eat on an Native American reserve. This is despite previous attempts at testing profit boosting drugs on live communities ended horribly in Uganda. The local shaman comes off as the Only Sane Man when he widely disapproves of the supplement being introduced into the reserve's farms until the milk got poisoned. Fast forward a decade later and many Americans are complaining about similar methods of vitamin and steroid boosted animals affecting our food supply to negative effect (though thankfully, not nearly as lethal as this episode).
 * Hilarious in Hindsight: In the episode with Haley Joel Osmont, when Walker talks to him about spirits, Haley replies "You mean like ghosts and stuff?" This episode aired two years before Haley saw dead people.
 * Lighter and Softer: Starting around Season 6. The Brainchild episode in particular seemed like it had been written for some '80s Disney flick.
 * If one looked at the earlier seasons of Walker it resembles close to a gritty cop show than the later seasons which are more tonned down and cartoony in comparison.
 * The later seasons also have their share of dark moments. For example Halloween episode "The Children of Halloween" dealt with satanic cult kidnapping young children and planning to kill them. "Lucas" two-parter is also rather dark, dealing with young boy with AIDS and it ends with
 * Memetic Badass: see Chuck Norris Facts.
 * Memetic Mutation: Many clips popularized by Conan, but most of all... "Walker told me I have AIDS."
 * Moral Event Horizon: Lyle Eckert has been stealing jewels for years, but he crosses the line when he decides to bury a girl alive.
 * Nightmare Fuel: Episode 173 - The Bachelor Party. Everything Is Worse With Bears
 * Tear Jerker:
 * The ending of "Lucas" two-parter,  and in the second part  . Two-parter is practically a Tear Jerker episode.
 * A lot of episodes involving children and teenagers are this.
 * A lot of episodes involving children and teenagers are this.