YMMV / Bob (1992)

• Audience-Alienating Premise: In his autobiography, Bob Newhart said that the show was promoted as having a Bob Newhart that the public had not seen before - and that the public did not want a Newhart they hadn't seen.
• Critical Dissonance: While the show was given good reviews by critics, the ratings were initially very poor (due to airing on the Friday Night Death Slot).
• Harsher in Hindsight: Bob is considered for a job working on a comic book adaptation of a Barney expy called Willy Mammoth, at the end of their interview, Willy tells Bob he's high on the list of artists to consider, and Bob has an Oh, Crap! moment when realizing he'll probably get hired for that. Seems Bob either didn't take or didn't get that job (or that comic book got canceled fast), as when Mad Dog gets hired, he doesn't have that job to fall back on.
• Moment of Awesome: In one episode, Trisha jumps rope for charity, and flawlessly jumps rope in succession. Making it more awesome is when Kaye jumps in and is as good as she is. At one point, Iris pushes a bucket her way to get her to stop, but she flawlessly backs up and continues her jump roping.
  • In "I'm Getting Remarried in the Morning", Trisha wants to give Bob and Kaye a special wedding for their silver anniversary, which she does not realize until the night before is this year as opposed to next, and oversleeps in planning. They have to stop at a store on the way, and a robber comes in to hold up the place... Only for an impatient Trisha to just take the gun out of his hand and throw it out.
• Older Than They Think: This show demonstrates that the concept of "boomerang kids" existed before the millennials that it's commonly associated with (Trisha is actually a Baby Boomer).
• Retroactive Recognition: Lisa Kudrow plays Trisha's roomate Kathy.
  • Mara Wilson as an orphan in "Have Yourself a Married Little Christmas", which was produced the year Mrs. Doubtfire came out (though this is one of a handful of episodes that did not air until 1997).
• Seasonal Rot: Season 2 had been considered as the worst turn since it had abandoned its comic book premise for a generic story involving the greeting card company.
• Values Resonance: The entire theme in Season 1 dealing with gritty superheroes revival for the sake of "modernity", along with fallout among the readers and creators, has aged well in The New '10s ,with the proliferation of superheroes in public mainstream.