YMMV / The Big Comfy Couch

• Accidental Nightmare Fuel: During the Summer segment of Auntie Macassar's song about the seasons in "Comfy and Joy", Molly's eyes and nose are visibly missing from her face (the result of a production goof), as she sits in the background.
• Awesome Music:
  • Ain't No Shame is a soaring, uplifting song to help Molly feel better about urinary accidents, since everyone has them.
  • Sometimes Things Just Are is a lovely, tender and poignant explanation of death for children, in terms similar to those used in the Sesame Street episode where Mr. Hooper's death was explained to Big Bird, but in song.
  • The Longest Night is a beautiful tribute to all the seasons of the year, perfect to sing on the night of the Winter Solstice.
  • The theme song.
  • The Foley Dollhouse theme song will stay stuck in your head for a good hour or so.
  • The Clock Rug stretch music as well.
    • The alternative Cuckoo stretch could also apply.
• Memetic Mutation: The "Liar Liar" song has gained popularity over the years due to how bizarrely hilarious and awesome it is, and for how it comes out of nowhere in the context of the episode.
• Moment of Awesome: In "Pants on Fire", a conversation between Loonette and Major Bedhead escalates into this.
• Paranoia Fuel: Hey, kids! If you don't eat your vegetables, they'll come back to haunt you in your sleep and yell at you!
• Replacement Scrappy: Ramona Gilmour-Darling replaced Alyson Court for season 7 and many of the older fans were turned off by her much more childlike take on the character of Loonette. Of course, the intended audience of toddlers and preschoolers mostly didn't care, let alone notice.
• Retroactive Recognition: Wait a minute, that's Claire Redfield as Loonette?
• Seasonal Rot: The seventh and final season is widely regarded as the worst, not only for Alyson Court being replaced with Ramona Gilmour-Darling as Loonette but also from the perception that the show by that point was getting too silly and was severely lacking in the educational content that made it so beloved in the first place.
• Special Effects Failure: Being a relatively low budget show, any green-screen effects which the show uses leave much to be desired. The final two seasons, which attempted to transition more into the digital age with even more green screen, are particularly egregious.
• Sweet Dreams Fuel:
  • Pretty much the entire show, but especially the lullaby closing theme.
  "And the clown jumped over the moon!"
  • Any time Molly and Loonette hug.
  • Molly in general.
• Unintentional Uncanny Valley
  • This is a show about clowns, after all. The show's version of its clown characters isn't too bad in this regard, thanks to the skills of the actors, but this, unfortunately, didn't translate to the dolls made of Loonette, seeing that they were based on the features of a real person. Seriously, try getting a kid to cuddle up with this◊. The voice chip inside it didn't help.
  • Molly is a pretty cute doll... so long as she's not looking directly at you with those empty dot eyes and expressionless face◊. This was remedied a bit after season 2, which made her puppet consistently cuter and more expressive, until season 7 which gave her puppet an even bigger smile◊, which depending on who you are, makes Molly more creepy.
  • The Foley Family, like most full-bodied puppets, are especially prone to this. Human proportions with cartoony heads are an off-putting mix, and the over the top reactions and sped up footage don't help.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Loonette can come off as this whenever she accidentally hurts Molly's feelings (which happens from time to time, if not frequently).
• Values Resonance: When Loonette pretends to drive the couch as a car in “Red Light, Green Light” she takes a phone call only for her to realize that she must pay attention to the road and keep both hands on the wheel. This was the year 1992, when the only people on their cell phones that often were "important" business people who had to be in constant contact with their co-workers. It works significantly far more today when smartphones have become so ubiquitous and people using them while driving has become so commonplace that what Loonette pretends to do isn't just discouraged but illegal.

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