The Love Bug/YMMV

• Complete Monster: Horace. The way it was created makes it a Justified Trope.
• Ear Worm: Herbie's theme song. Not the movie's theme song, but Herbie's personal Recurring Riff.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In the first film, Mr. Wu's full name is Tang Wu, which means in Chinese, his name is Wu Tang.
• Special Effect Failure: As seen in the main page picture, The 53 gumball on Herbie's door is absent in the original film's "balancing" scene. It was a conscious choice: the bottom of the door had to be cropped so the car could clear the ground to do the stunt, which including the number would have called attention to. An odd example in that it isn't conspicuous in the film itself (it's excusable for the time period and barely noticeable in the scene itself), but a still from the scene was heavily circulated promotion and merchandising of the film, even continuing to be used when the movie was released on video.
  • The 1997 film contains quite a bit of Conspicuous CG, mostly involving Horace. It also shows up in some of Herbie's stunts, and the reveal of Simon's factory.
• Uncanny Valley: Horace and its facial expressions.
• Values Dissonance: A lot of the humor involving Mr. Wu and Chinese culture.