YMMV / Goodnight Sweetheart

• Anti-Climax: The series teases Gary being trapped on one side of the portal permanently. But when it finally happens, it comes right out of nowhere with no fanfare. Also, there was the possibility that one of Gary's wives would learn of his bigamy and confront him, but when Yvonne is told, it's after this has happened so there's no big confrontation.
• Awesome Music: In the final episode, "Accentuate the Positive", at a party to celebrate VE-Day, Gary plays Queen's "We Are the Champions".
• Harsher in Hindsight: Yeah, "Have You Ever Seen a Dream Walking?" (the episode with the Rolf Harris cameo) doesn't get repeated much anymore. And when it does, the nightmare gets cut short just before Harris appears on screen.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • In "Fools Rush In", Gary, a time traveler, wears a brown suit with trainers and a long coat.
  • In "It Ain't Necessarily So", Ron cracks a joke that Steven Spielberg had bought all of Blitz & Pieces' stock for a new war film. Only a few months later Spielberg would start filming a new war film, Saving Private Ryan.
  • Gary discusses being struck by lightning in "My Heart Belongs to Daddy", which would end up happening to him in "Mine's a Double", the very next episode.
• Ho Yay: In "Mine's a Double" (the episode where Gary ends up accidentally splitting himself), the final Gary, "Good Gary", is gay, and starts to hit on Ron. If these are parts of Gary, you have to wonder what this implies about him.
• Tear Jerker:
  • The old and senile Reg Deadman alone in a nursing home in "Love the One You're With".
  • The expression on Gary's face when he meets his grown-up alcoholic son Michael in the 1990s and realizes that he had failed as a father by never being there for him in "My Heart Belongs to Daddy".
  • Not one single constable or member of staff at his police station found the heart to turn up to Reg's retirement party even though he had been there for twenty-five years in "California Dreamin'". He was never well-liked, and he was incompetent, but to not even give him the traditional pocket watch that Reg mentioned was disgusting. You can see on his face that he wasn't deluded enough to really believe that they had confused the dates. This leads to a Heartwarming Moment when Gary tries his hardest to cheer him up.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • Michael is somehow able to use the time portal in "A Room with a View". This is never brought up again at any point in the series.
  • In the fifth series episode "When Two Worlds Collide", the portal temporarily opens for anyone and anything, allowing Phoebe and Ron to come and go. This only lasts until the next episode, "Mairzy Doats", with Ron's trip back to the past being a disaster. It would have been interesting for this to go on longer, requiring Gary to set up barriers, or possibly have Ron try to live in The '40s like Gary attempted and learning how hard it really was, only to be unable to go back and be stuck on that side of the portal.
  • In the finale, "Accentuate the Positive", Yvonne finally learns about the time travelling but her confrontation doesn't really go anywhere, and it isn't until the portal's closed that she learns what's going on.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: While there are times when Yvonne is right to chew Gary out, at the end of the Series 4 episode "In the Mood", she gives him a long-winded, self-righteous lecture for losing their nephew Arthur before storming off to have a girls' night out with her friends. It comes across as very hypocritical for Yvonne to lecture Gary about taking responsibility for a child, when she earlier claimed to be too sick to look after Arthur herself but is now well enough to go clubbing with her friends.
• Values Dissonance: The way Yvonne talks about her Korean business partners as "Oriental sods feeding me God knows what" and blaming them for her miscarriage would seem much more dubious nowadays.

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