YMMV / What's with Andy?

• Adaptation Displacement: For most 90s/2000s kids (especially if you're Canadian) this show is way more well known than the book series it was based on.
• Fridge Brilliance: In the books based on the TV show, Lori is known as 'Lisa'. Other characters like Jen and Danny who are in both the books and TV show keep their names, so why was Lisa's changed? Well, simple. What Norse God happens to be the Trickster God, which pranks and the like fall into? Loki, of course. Whose name happens to be ONE letter off from Loki? You see, Andy being in love with Lori could be a metaphor for how he loves pranking since Loki happens to be the god of pranking.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: The show was rather popular when it aired in places such as Czechia, Germany, Russia, and Poland, the later three countries even got full releases of the series on DVD. Disney XD (Jetix's successor) at one point even started rerunning it in certain places like the Germany, Poland, and the Netherlands.
• Squick:
  • "Emergency Spew Relish" had its squick-y moments, including Andy's stink bomb stinking the majority of the passengers out of the train car and what Andy said before it:
    Andy: I don't know what was in that burrito I had this morning, but I have to lay a bomb.
  • Later in the above episode, when he pretends to vomit, he says to the old lady that he gets train-sick and he's "not sure if it's safe where she's sitting".
  • Andy's Imagine Spot in "Busting" after he mentions he will explode, of him drinking a Gigantic Gulp then exploding into an ambiguous liquid and the old man with the splint diving into it.
  • The Diaper Change at the end of "Daddy".
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: The changes for the opening song for the second season and especially the third were not well-received (the former is seen as passable but not as fitting for the show as the original, while the latter is just regarded as bad).
  • Germans hated the third song so much, that instead of dubbing it, they made a completely new song for the third season that is actually extremely catchy.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: In the Season 2 finale "Mr. E.G. Goes to Moosehoof", we're introduced to Suzy, a Distaff Counterpart of Andy who he considers to be a Worthy Opponent in their pranking war. She had a lot of potential to be brought back as a Friendly Rival for Andy (and possibly even an alternative love interest to Lori), but she ultimately remained a one-shot character.
• Values Dissonance: In "Weight to Go, Andy", Jen warns Teri that her retarded brother is approaching. Such a slur would not fly in today's society, especially on a kids' show.

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