Pasila/YMMV

"Pöysti's Date: Can I ask you one thing?
 * Animation Age Ghetto: Averted. The show is both marketed for and enjoyed by adults. (And kids, but a lot of stuff will go over their heads.)
 * Broken Base: The announcement of an official English dub has fans (both Finnish and otherwise) divided on whether it will be good or not. One of the major complaints from Finns is that they're localising all the names (with the exception of Helga).
 * Crosses the Line Twice: On occasion. The brothel episode comes to mind... See also the Repomies example at Cowboy Cop in the main article.
 * Crowning Moment of Funny: When Repomies, after spending the entire episode giving Pöysti progressively more demeaning and exhausting tasks in order to establish his authority after Pöysti refused to do the mopping since technically it's not part of his job, actually tries to get Pöysti to stop mopping because he worries it'll make Pöysti seem like the moral victor, Pöysti defies him by singing... a surprisingly well-pronounced rendition of "Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen", in English. He then later moves on to other songs, all English, singing loudly over Repomies's pleas for him to stop and attempts to wrestle the mop away from him.
 * Hilarious in Hindsight: Semi-example. On March 21, 2011, several conservative Christian organizations in Finland launched a campaign called "Don't Submit!", aimed at teenagers and essentially telling them that they can be "cured" from homo- or bisexuality if they believe in God. On that very same day, the Pasila episode "Sect", which revolves around a conservative, anti-gay Christian group, was aired... Counts because the episode was (of course) made before the writers had any way of knowing about the campaign.
 * Ho Yay: The episode with the first legal whorehouse in Finland eventually devolves into this:
 * In the first episode:

Pöysti: Only once, I was in the army, and we were all drunk.

Date: What?

Pöysti: Nothing, go on!"

"Neponen: I can't think of anything else.
 * When Jemmica Laamanen requests that a "hunky" bodyguard be present when she meets the man who's been stalking her, Neponen offers this suggestion: "I'd trust Pöysti, he's a genius in these things. BLINDLY, I'd trust him." All said while leaning (kneeling?) at Pöysti's eye level, mere inches from his face. There's even a close-up. It's very... interesting.
 * In episode "Repomies, A Real Man": When Pöysti explains to Neponen why Salonius plays with the police and doesn't dig his robbery loot up:

Pöysti: Oh, Neponen. Endearingly naive Neponen. Because he doesn't have that loot."


 * Memetic Mutation:
 * In Finland, whenever anyone mentions the word "jännä" (= "fascinating", Routalempi's Catch Phrase), it's certain that someone will start musing like he does.
 * Phil Collins -hangover.
 * Random ramblings will be interrupted by someone shouting "MEDS!".
 * "If you can't tell the difference between an equal relationship between two adults and bestiality with a house animal, I recommend that you never get a dog."
 * Repomies' rambling stop-and-go speech patterns.
 * Squick: While attempting to get a group of bank robbers to turn themselves in via his usual methods,
 * In addition to his slideshows, many of the things Repomies ends up rambling on about also have a tendency to cross over to this territory: he's especially fond of describing any of the maladies brought on by his old age in great detail, including and not limited to warts, varicose veins, blisters and lumps as well as asking people to look, touch, smell and taste any of them.
 * The Untwist: The reason why Kyösti sucks on a pacifier isn't really any more elaborate than most of the guesses various characters have made during the show which he has denied to be correct: as stated in one of the newer episodes, he sucks on one just because he "never got around to dropping the habit as a kid, I was a spoiled child at home and a loner at school, and thus I had no peer pressure to get rid of it".