History YMMV / Taxi

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Both Latka and Jim are candidates. Latka was intentionally conceived as such, but the edge goes to Jim, who originated as a one-shot character in the season 1 episode "Paper Marriage" and was reintroduced as a regular in season 2.

* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvn-tBeLpCk Jim's driving test, concluding with the oft-repeated "What does a yellow light mean?"]]

* HilariousInHindsight: Once, Alex told Jim that he didn't see ETTheExtraterrestrial because he didn't like sci-fi. Years later, Judd Hirsch was in IndependenceDay, one of the most successful science fiction flicks of all time.
** In one episode Jim mentions that he loved ''StarTrek''. A few years later ChristopherLloyd played the villain in ''Film/StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock''.
** In another episode, Louie is watching TV, and the program is playing a public-domain song called ''Temptation Sensation'', which is better known these days as the theme from ''ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'', which of course also stars Danny [=DeVito=]. Amusingly, both shows also have an intro sequence that consists of footage filmed from a car while a cast member drove.

** In one episode Jim mentions that he loved ''StarTrek''. A few years later ChristopherLloyd played the villain in ''StarTrekIIITheSearchForSpock''.

** In another episode, Louie is watching TV, and the program is playing a public-domain song called ''Temptation Sensation'', which is better known these days as the theme from ''ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'', which of course also stars Danny [=DeVito=].

** In another episode, Louie is watching TV, and the program is playing a public-domain song called ''Temptation Sensation'', which is better known these days as the theme from ''ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'', which of course also stars Danny DeVito.

** In another episode, Louie is watching TV, and the program is playing a public-domain song called ''Temptation Sensation'', which is better known these days as the theme from ''ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'', which of course also stars Danny Devito.

** In another episode, Louie is watching TV, and the program is playing a public-domain song called ''Temptation Sensation'', which is better known these days as the theme from ''ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'', which of course also stars DannyDeVito.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: In "Call Of The Mild", Elaine thinks that going to a week's retreat from civilization would be too much for a group of NewYork cabbies. And being trapped in a cabin in the middle of a mountain for a week without either food or electricity just before an snowstorm isn't a nice experience.

* VindicatedByCable: As mentioned above, the show's wacky humor set it apart from the rest of the sitcoms made at the time, becoming a victim of low ratings which led to its' [[TooGoodToLast early ending]] after five seasons (''DifferentStrokes'' lasted seven seasons, one year less than ''WhosTheBoss'' and ''TheCosbyShow'', while both ''{{Cheers}}'' and ''TheJeffersons'' lasted eleven seasons, and ''AllInTheFamily'' combined with ''Archie Bunker's Place'' aired for twelve years). During TheNineties it was heavily re-run on Nick @ Nite.

* TheWoobie: Bobby is the most notorious example of this.

* VindicatedByCable: As mentioned above, the show's wacky humor set it apart from the rest of the sitcoms made at the time, becoming a victim of low ratings which led to its' [[TooGoodToLast early ending]] after five seasons (''DifferentStrokes'' lasted seven seasons, one year less than ''WhosTheBoss'' and ''TheCosbyShow'', while both ''{{Cheers}}'' and ''TheJeffersons'' lasted eleven seasons, and ''AllInTheFamily'' combined with ''Archie Bunker's Place'' aired for twelve years). During TheNineties it was heavily re-run on Nick @ Nite.

* VindicatedByCable: The show's wacky humor set it apart from the rest of the sitcoms made at the time, becoming a victim of low ratings which led to its' [[TooGoodToLast early ending]] after five seasons (''DifferentStrokes'' lasted seven seasons, one year less than ''WhosTheBoss'' and ''TheCosbyShow'', while ''TheJeffersons'' lasted eleven seasons, and ''AllInTheFamily'' combined with ''Archie Bunker's Place'' aired for twelve years). During TheNineties it was heavily re-run on Nick @ Nite.

* VindicatedByCable: The show's wacky humor set it apart from the rest of the sitcoms made at the time, becoming a victim of low ratings which led to its' [[TooGoodToLast early ending]] after five seasons (''DifferentStrokes'' lasted seven seasons, as well as ''WhosTheBoss'' and ''TheCosbyShow'', while ''TheJeffersons'' lasted eleven seasons, and ''AllInTheFamily'' combined with ''Archie Bunker's Place'' aired for twelve years). During TheNineties it was heavily re-run on Nick @ Nite.

* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: At the time the show began, Danny [=DeVito=]'s height wasn't well-known, so the pilot was able to make a surprise joke with it when he climbs out of the cage and appears next to the other actors he'd just been ordering around.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment / ReverseFunnyAneurysm: When Latka was convincing his mother he would be better off in America, he showed her a ''People'' magazine and explained "In America, a man can become another O.J. Simpson!"

* AcceptableCulturalTargets: Latka and his nameless fictional [[CrapsackWorld crapsack homeland]], where postage stamps are issued commemorating barbed wire. The homeland has its own acceptable targets in the "mountain people", who are the butt of jokes; Latka and Simka's initial relationship in the season 2 episode "Guess Who's Coming for Brefnish" was brought to an end by this (she's from the mountains).

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvn-tBeLpCk Jim's driving test, concluding with the oft-repeated "What does a yellow light mean?"]]
* GrowingTheBeard: When John Burns left after the first season and Reverend Jim joined in the second.

* CrazyAwesome: Jim.