Jake and the Never Land Pirates/YMMV

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  • Anvilicious: With any Aesop they have, they can't drive it home enough. And then they sing about it.
  • Crowning Music of Awesome: Any song Peter Pan partakes in in the "Peter Pan Returns" special. That boy can sing!
  • Designated Villain: Hook's villainy is always stealing something....in other words, being an actual pirate.
  • Ear Worm: The theme song.
    • The Sharky & Bones songs as well.
  • Fridge Brilliance: Peter doesn't need his shadow to fly! He can just use Tinkerbe... oh yeah...
  • Ho Yay: Being lightened up for a younger audience, Hook's relationship with Smee has been Ho Yay-ified tenfold to any older viewers. There's much more hugging, many more sweet gestures, an entire episode about the two riding a tandem bike, and even Smee suggesting the trophy he made for Hook should have been for "Tastiest Captain" rather than "Meanest". Smee even calls the man fetching and "dear Captain Hook sir". Hook not being able to threaten Smee with a gun also makes any squabbles feel much more like marital argueing, and outside of being simple throw-away gags, you have to wonder about some of Hook's alternate hands. Like a feather? Kinky.
    • The picnic episode is lousy with this. Hook is just so helpless without Smee, and is so hurt when he sees him with Jake and company. And when they're reunited and all air is cleared, they both get all sappy and make up just like a couple of giddy girl friends.

Smee: [chuckle] He's just so lost without me..!

    • How 'bout Smee treating an injured Hook and singing him the boo-boo song? That whole thing was adorable.
  • Ugly Cute: Tick Tock. He's just so goofy-looking in the show that he comes off as adorable.
  • Villain Decay: Hook was a comical but fearsome pirate in Peter Pan. In this show, he's a flat-out Harmless Villain.
    • Except in the Peter Pan Returns one hour special, where, while not allowed to be blatantly life-threatening, he devises a reasonably competent plan to get rid of Peter Pan and is more like he was in the original movie in being actually pretty tough to stop. Most likely he takes things more seriously when his Arch Enemy is involved.
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