YMMV / Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye

• Anvilicious: As the show began to focus more and more on terrorism (particularly Muslim extremism), it dropped an awful lot of anvils about how racial profiling just makes sense and how liberals are putting the American people in danger by making it harder for the FBI to do their jobs. The show was one of the first dramas conceived and produced post-9/11, and the level of pro-government jingoism on display would probably be considered in bad taste today.
• Catharsis Factor: After Mutumbu Kintu has spent the entire episode using his diplomatic immunity to get away with things like beating a woman in public, targeting Bobby for trying to stop him, and enslaving members of his own nation, it's very satisfying to see the FBI finally arrest him.
• Funny Moments:
  • "A Snitch in Time":
    • The subplot deals with the FBI workers trying to get a new office, but to do so, they've got to go through a bureaucrat who none of them, especially Myles, like. By the second encounter, Myles mutters under his breath that "loathing" isn't a strong enough word to describe his feelings for the man. After the bureaucrat denies them the offices, he declares war.
    • Howie, the titular snitch, offers to tell the FBI what he knows about the steroid thing, only he wants "the blonde" (Sue, who just came in for a moment) to be his contact. Bobby calls out the door that Howie wants to talk to Levi as Howie looks startled at the apparent miscommunication.
  • "Silent Night": The team's Running Gag of making jokes treating Santa Claus like some kind of arch-criminal when a crook dresses up as him to rob a bank.
  • "Did She or Didn't She?": Myles' freak-out when he finds that Howie decided to sneak onto the bed while he was asleep and hope he wouldn't notice.
  • "Secret Agent Man": Myles' struggles with a spirited older lady, Thelma Goggie, who first mistakes him for a thief after her groceries and her coat and then compares him and Webber (negatively) to third graders.
• Harsher in Hindsight: In "Hit and Run," Sue is held hostage and blindfolded so she won't know where they're going. She panics, saying, "I'm deaf! My eyes are everything to me!" A scary moment for the character, made harsher by the knowledge that the real Sue Thomas started gradually losing her sight later in life, and that could happen to the fictional Sue Thomas as well.
• Ho Yay Shipping: Although there isn't much slash in the fandom, there are a few Bobby/Jack fanfics. Shipping Goggles help the pairing come out in a few episodes, notably "The Gambler."
• Nightmare Fuel: Sue ends up cornered in her own apartment and nearly throttled by a Serial Killer of women. She struggles and screams desperately, but Levi is locked in the bathroom and Jack has gone to pick up some fast food. Just to cap it off, when Jack reappears in the nick of time, he says that he forgot his phone. If he hadn't noticed or had decided it wasn't important to go back for it, the villain would have won.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Jack is played by Yannick Bisson, who would play the title character of Murdoch Mysteries.
  • Prior to earning an Academy Award for his performance in CODA, Troy Kotsur played recurring character Troy Myers.
• Suspiciously Similar Song: To the Chicken Dance at the end of "Breaking Up is Hard to Do."

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