The Mask (animation)/YMMV

• Everybody Remembers the Stripper: Literally in "Flight as a Feather," with the one-time appearance of the Mayor's ex-girlfriend Cookie BaBoom (who is a strip -- er, exotic dancer). You know there's a plot about a Swedish karaoke contest and the Mask losing his feather and running through the city to get it, but once you see that entire sequence with Cookie, you'll forget about that right quick.
• Fetish Retardant: Whenever a woman puts on The Mask it's just his regular face on a woman's body, even though whenever any man other than Stanley puts on The Mask he looks entirely different.
  • Two different women put on the Mask in the series and look WAY different than when Stan puts on the Mask and does a female transformation. If anything this is more true to the comic as the cartoon does have subtle design changes.
• Foe Yay: Pretorius has this moment from The Bride of Pretorius: "Mask, your powers are bizarre, unpredictable and beyond the realms of science ... and if you were a woman I would marry you." The Mask is suitably squicked.
• Funny Aneurysm Moment: Everything about Cookie BaBoom's assassination plot in "Flight as a Feather" stops being funny due to the following events and social changes:
  • The September 11th, 2001 attacks have effectively made putting terrorism in Western media (whether played for laughs or drama) a big taboo.
  • Cookie ending up naked in front of Kellaway and Doyle would not be considered kosher to air on television (especially children's television -- unless it's Cartoon Network) thanks to the FCC cracking down on indecency from the Janet Jackson Wardrobe Malfunction fiasco in 2004.
  • A year after this episode aired, the Bill Clinton - Monica Lewinsky scandal happened (though the idea of a corrupt city politician having an affair with a woman who has a job in the sex entertainment biz is more reminiscent of Eliot Spitzer, which wouldn't happen until the late 2000s).
  • In 2003, a man by the name of Brian Wells robbed a bank with a bomb strapped to his neck (not as outrageous as a suicide belt bikini, but the principle's the same) and died when it detonated.
  • The beginning of "Counterfeit Mask" where the Banana Republic Liberation Army freedom fighters hijack a plane. The whole thing turns out to be a dream, thankfully, which is more than what anyone can say about "9/11."
    • And after that dream sequence we get a scene where a Jerkass security guard doesn't bother to look at Stanley's luggage (which was switched with one containing counterfeit money. Imagine if it was a bomb...) because "a wimp like you couldn't sneak a peanut past a sleeping baby". And when Stanley insists he gets his bags checked he gets thrown out. Isn't negligent airport security funny? Especially in an age of body scans, pat downs and other abuses made in the name of said "security"?
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The episode "Broadway Malady" centers on a disastrous musical made from the "Mad Monkey" movie series, much like the Spiderman musical would years later.
  • The beginning of the episode, "Future Mask," has The Mask playing on a mini-golf course. The prop on the seventh hole can easily be mistaken these days as a character on the Adult Swim cartoon, Squidbillies.

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