The Pebble and the Penguin/YMMV

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  • Angst Dissonance: Taken Up to Eleven in "Good Ship Misery."
  • Complete Monster: Drake could be a contender for this trope. He has no redeeming features, his villainy is played seriously, (two skuas, which eat penguins in real life, fear him), and he's as blatant a depiction of a violent rapist as you could get in a kids' movie.
  • Crowning Music of Awesome: "Now And Forever" is a pretty good musical number in a movie with otherwise lackluster songs.
    • Also, "Don't Make Me Laugh." Cheesy lyrics? Yes. But it's sung by Tim Curry.
  • Ear Worm: "Don't make me laugh! HAHAHAHA! Don't make me laugh! HAHAHAHAHA! My funny friend, don't make me BEEEEEND in HALF! Don't be a card, babe, don't mess with Drake, don't make me laugh so hard that you begin to ache!"
  • Ham and Curry: Tim Curry as Drake is often the one thing praised about the film.
  • Ho Yay Shipping: Hubie and Rocko. Plenty of viewers can attest to seeing it. Particularly during their Friend Song.
    • There's scenes where it's Played for Laughs, such as Rocko waking up with his arms around Hubie, and not realizing it until Hubie's already wide awake, or times when you swear it was done on purpose, like later in that same scene where Hubie says, "It's beautiful!" and Rocko (who is looking down at Hubie or a moment) stutters and says yes, too, before seeing that Hubie was talking about an iceberg.
  • Moral Event Horizon: Drake makes no attempts to hide the fact he'll beat Marina if she doesn't do as he says. He also outright threatens her with death if she refuses to mate with him during Don't Make Me Laugh, saying she'll "be a shark's dinner" and that he'll write her epitaph if she refuses. This is flat out rape through threats to her well-being. At first he just seemed like a Jerk Jock but it's around this point he shows he's much more evil than that.
  • So Okay It's Average: Pretty much the consensus for this film.
  • Tastes Like Diabetes: Watch the trailer.
    • And let's not forget "Goodness Glaciers!"
  • Ugly Cute: Though as the poster shows, some of the characters fail at the cute part.
    • To be fair, in the movie Drake's the only really ugly one. Hubie and Rocko just happen to be caught in rather unflattering poses.
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