The Tick (animation)/YMMV
- Adaptation Displacement: The comic has a strong cult following and is well-known amongst comic fans, it is still hard to find copies of the original series. The cartoon had a long run and was quite popular.
- Crazy Awesome
- Crowning Moment of Funny: Let's save ourselves some time here. 50% of The Tick is one, and the other 50% sets them up.
- Crowning Ear Worm Of Awesome: Dum Do Dwee, Do Dum Dop Dwee, Dow!
- Ensemble Darkhorse: The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight! Yeah Baby! BOOM!
- Flanderization - Just compare The Tick from his earliest appearances (among other things, he actively hopes to avoid Ho Yay) to some of his later adaptations.
- Funny Aneurysm Moment: In the opening of the episode The Tick vs Proto-Clown, you see what appears to be the World Trade Center Twin Towers in the background; they suddenly crash to the ground in a huge cloud of dust.
- Genius Bonus: Venus of the supervillain team Venus and Milo bears a strong resemblence to the prehistoric statuette known as "The Venus of Willendorf".
- Large Ham: Pretty much anytime that Tick opens his mouth. The scary part? His villains are often even bigger hams than he is! Done, as just about everything else in the franchise, as an Affectionate Parody of super hero comics.)
- Memetic Mutation: SPOOOOOONNNNNN!!!!!
- Too Good to Last: Three seasons is far from enough.