YMMV / So Weird

• Awesome Music: It's Mackenzie Phillips, so you could just randomly point to any of the songs she sings on the show and pick a winner. They managed to write or choose ones that fit the strange, creepy, or even light-hearted mood that the episode required.
• Cult Classic: Despite Disney's not-so-stellar treatment of the show during its original run or after, or the fact that they refused to release DVDs of the episodes, So Weird still has a dedicated fanbase that Keep Circulating the Tapes online.
• Fanon Discontinuity: As the first two seasons are considered brilliant examples of a well-written series, particularly for its channel and age group, most people reject the Lighter and Softer season 3 (which had new writers, a new main character, and an entirely new plot) as not being part of the show, to the point where even non-fan critics have accused the third season of almost being a low quality rip off of the seasons before it. It's also telling that the most popular kind of So Weird fanfiction stories are the ones that either ignore or redo the third season entirely.
• Genius Bonus: "Escape" is about astral projection and takes place in "Bardo County," a reference to the Buddhist concept of the state between living and death (similar to Limbo).
• Les Yay: A number of fans couldn't help but read some romantic subtext between Molly and Rebecca, especially with the song Molly sings about the latter and her heartache over her sudden disappearance from her life.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In "Pen Pal", Annie's alternate timeline evil twin describes Washington D.C. as "dank", meaning boring and uncool. A decade and a half later, that word became slang for the exact opposite.
• Magnificent Bitch: "Troll": Astrid is a pleasant-seeming old woman who is in truth a ruthless troll. Astrid runs a comfy inn in Minnesota where she plays riddle games with travelers. Unfortunately for them, Astrid is very good at riddles and anyone who fails to get seven questions right in a row is turned into a vegetable for her soup. Upon the arrival of Fi's family, Astrid targets the lot of them and gauges their weaknesses to ask any question she wants, even tricking Fi's brother Jack when he answers a question without even realizing he's playing and rejects the notion of fairness thanks to what the trolls have endured.
• Replacement Scrappy: Annie for Fi. The fact that she was effectively the face of the series' Lighter and Softer overhaul that saw the original writers leave and original plans for the characters' arcs and expansion on the Myth Arc set up throughout the first two seasons get abruptly cut short did not help her in the slightest.
• Retroactive Recognition: A behind-the-scenes example. Several members of the show's creative team went on to work for far more famous projects in the years to come.
  • Shawn Levy, who directed the pilot, went on to direct a slew of comedies in the 2000s and '10s. These days, he's probably best known as a director and executive producer on Stranger Things, which, given this show's tone and target audience, is oddly appropriate.
  • Josh Stolberg, who wrote four episodes in season two, became best known as a horror screenwriter, having written Sorority Row, Piranha 3D, and (together with Peter Goldfinger) every Saw movie from Jigsaw onward.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: The original plans for Season 3 (which involved Fi traveling to Hell to rescue her father from demons, among other things) were deemed too dark and Disney instead tried to tone it down to make it more appropriate for children. In response to this, the writers who had come up with, pitched, and written the show from the beginning quit, and then Fi's actress, Cara de Lizia, left as well, meaning that they needed new writers, a new main character, and an entirely new plot. What they threw together to replace what they lost resulted in Annie the Replacement Scrappy, every other character's arc being forgotten, and the Fanon Discontinuity listed above. Most think it would have been better if Season 3 had never been made.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Come on: you have Dionne Warwick and Bo Diddley guest star in a show about a traveling rock band and NEITHER of them sing? The latter especially feels like a missed opportunity, since that episode's plot is about a blues song that needs to be performed to satisfy a ghost and could have easily justified a performance from Diddley's character (instead of Mackenzie Phillips, who sings it instead).
• Unintentional Period Piece: The computers, mobile phones, and websites featured on the show instantly date it to the Turn of the Millennium, especially the chatrooms and instant messaging. Wireless internet access was also quite novel in 1999 but is less impressive to anyone who grew up in or after The New '10s. However, it's worth noting that most of the websites featured on the show were exaggerated even for the time, as is common with Hollywood depictions of the internet. This also goes for the show's very era-specific fashions and musical guest stars like SHeDAISY and The Moffats.