History YMMV / StillGame

** The late-2010s revival garnered this response to an extent, with a portion of the fanbase arguing that it didn't hold up to the original classic run. Common criticisms are that the newer episodes rely too much on slapstick humor and Idiot Plots, with the characters becoming [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] as a result. However, the last series was generally well-received.

** Big Arthur: Some fans think he's a funny, welcome addition to the show, while others criticize his cartoonishness and list him as one of the things that is wrong with the more recent series.
** The revival has garnered this response to an extent, with a portion of the fanbase arguing that it doesn't hold up to the original classic run. Common criticisms are that the newer episodes rely too much on slapstick humor and Idiot Plots, with the characters becoming [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] as a result. However, the last series was generally well-received.

** Even before ''Och Around The Clock'', Kiernan and Hemphill had previously used the "OAPs get up to mischief" gag in their 1995 sketch show ''Pulp Video'' (which also featured future ''Still Game'' stars Gavin Mitchell and Jane [=McCarry=]). In these skits, however, Jack and Victor were called Archie and Finlay, and while there was a "Winston" (played by Mitchell rather than Paul Riley), he was depicted as a doddering, feeble old man with apparent dementia rather than the MagnificentBastard he eventually became.

* AdaptationDisplacement: Many fans of the show probably don't know that Jack and Victor first appeared in 1998 Scottish pop music documentary, ''Och Around The Clock'', then appeared in sketches in ''Series/ChewinTheFat'' before spinning into a ''Still Game'' stage play that predates the show

** BigArthur: Some fans think he's a funny, welcome addition to the show, while others criticize his cartoonishness and list him as one of the things that is wrong with the more recent series.

* CriticalResearchFailure: At one point, Victor sarcastically refers to Jack as "Christopher Hawkins." Jack corrects Victor by saying that he means "Stephen Hawkins." They're both wrong, as the person they are talking about is the physicist Creator/StephenHawking. This doesn't seem to have been intentional, as Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill make the same mistake in the audio commentary for the episode.

** The revival has garnered this response to an extent, with a portion of the fanbase arguing that it doesn't hold up to the original classic run. Common criticisms are that the newer episodes rely too much on slapstick humor and [[IdiotPlot Idiot Plots]], with the characters becoming [[{{Flanderization}} Flanderized]] as a result. However, the last series was generally well-received.

* HarsherInHindsight: In the episode Hatch, Winston's grandson Thomas is forced to stay with his grandfather while Thomas' parents are on holiday. Thomas continues to misbehave while staying with Winston, such as sleeping with a young woman under Winston's nose. Kevin Guthrie, who portrayed Thomas, was convicted of sexual assault in 2021, thus ended his acting career.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Tam taking Joe Douglass' mobility scooter after beating him in a game of cards is treated like a MoralEventHorizon by the other characters. While depriving a man of his only means of getting around is an undeniably lousy thing to do, it was Joe's own decision to [[WhatAnIdiot gamble the scooter away]], and Tam did win it fair and square.

* NauseaFuel: Jack rooting around in his own excreta for Tam and Frances' wedding ring.

** Martin, the guy who tears his mother a new one for not getting the kind of biscuit he wants.

* ValuesDissonance: In a scene at the end of "Doacters," Jack and Victor are horrified to discover that their skin is dark brown due to side effects from drinking multiple pints of lager on top of their antidepressant pills. While the overall intent is obviously harmless, such a scene would probably not be greenlit in the present day, when the use of blackface--intentional or not--is seen by many as a [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor Career Ending Misdemeanor]].

* FoeYay: Between Isa and Winston. Averted in the final series when Winston begins an actual relationship with a woman named Winnie.

* NauseaFuel: Victor rooting around in Jack's excreta for Tam and Frances' wedding ring.

* HarsherInHindsight: In the episode Hatch, Winston's Grandson Thomas is forced to stay with his grandfather while Thomas' parents are on holiday. Thomas continues to misbehave while staying with Winston, such as sleeping with a young woman under Winston's nose. Kevin Guthrie, who portrayed Thomas, was convicted of sexual assault in 2021, thus ended his acting career.

* AdaptationDisplacement: Many fans of the show probably don't know that it was based on a stage play that spun off from ''Series/ChewinTheFat''..

* AdaptationDisplacement: Many fans of the show probably don't know that it was based on a stage play.

* HoYay: Although Jack and Victor are generally portrayed as HeterosexualLifePartners, they can occasionally cross over into this; for example, in "Hatch," Victor apparently feels comfortable walking around Jack's flat bottomless (which leads Isa to [[MistakenForGay think that they're gay]]).