YMMV / The Ben Stiller Show

• Genius Bonus: The "Mohican Master 2000" sketch really assumes that you have a great memory for the details of The Last of the Mohicans, making jokes out of Hawkeye's pronunciation of "Yan-Kee traders" and "KAAN-tuck-EEE."
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Michael Pheret the slimy agent tells Roseanne she shouldn't keep her show going until it's in the middle of the pack with Seinfeld.
• Memetic Badass: Bruce Springsteen.
• Retroactive Recognition: Besides being part of the writing staff, David Cross makes a brief appearance on camera, before his collaboration with Bob Odenkirk on Mr. Show (the writing partnership between Odenkirk and Cross began here).
• Too Good to Last: As Stiller himself quipped in promotional spots for the series' 1995 re-airing on Comedy Central, The Ben Stiller Show was considered a couple of years ahead of its time^note  "Of course, that was three years ago, so now we're a year late. But it's still kinda funny..." and so, despite positive critical reviews, it struggled to find an audience, leading the axe to fall after just twelve episodes (leaving a thirteenth unaired until the Comedy Central run).

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