History YMMV / BigDaddy

* AcceptableProfessionalTargets: Despite Hooters getting a very prominent ProductPlacement, ''working'' for the restaurant is depicted as the single most demeaning and humiliating occupation someone can possibly hold, seeing how it's used as a constant subject of ridicule for Corinne and treated as Vanessa's LaserGuidedKarma at the end of the film.

** Played straight with Arthur Brooks. The social services agent who brings suit against Sonny for fraudulence and kidnapping appears to be heartless when he drags a frightened, begging Julian out of Sonny's apartment. However, he sincerely has Julian's best interests at heart and was right to bring Sonny to trial. When [[spoiler: it appears that]] he is going to lose his case, instead of becoming bitter he is so moved by Sonny's testimony that he immediately takes out a cell phone and calls his own father (along with most of the rest of the cast).

** The "Sweet Child of Mine" {{montage|s}}, after Sonny loses custody of Julian, along with Julian's heartbroken "I want Sonny to be my daddy!".

* ValuesResonance: Sonny's ''incredibly'' casual acceptance of two of his longtime (male) friends having fallen in love and the pair being portrayed in a loving, stable relationship throughout the film; though fairly common in 2019, such a thing was both bold ''and'' rare for a film 1999. [[note]]a time when members of the LGBT community, though slowly gaining more social acceptance and civil rights than ever before, were still used by and large as incredibly tone-deaf punchlines in fiction.[[/note]]

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Sonny briefly hangs out with some of Julian's friends in the schoolyard, slyly questioning them to try to find out if they're "smoking dope" or "drinking rum." They aren't. As unusual as this scene is the punchline from a previous scene. Layla mentioned that she heard one of the biggest influences on a child is who s/he hangs out with and the such, and then makes a joke about how she hopes Julian isn't hanging around drugheads at school. She sees his reaction, assuming it's concern, but the ensuing BLAM reveals it might be shame.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: "When I Grow Up" by Music/{{Garbage}} definitely counts. It became a Top 5 dance hit after the film's release.

* CriticalDissonance: Critics were very mixed towards the film, but audiences loved the film. The film holds an audience score of 74% on Rotten Tomatoes compared to the 40% critic score. The film was also a hit at the box office, making back six times its budget.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: Sonny briefly hangs out with some of Julian's friends in the schoolyard, slyly questioning them to try to find out if they're "smoking dope" or "drinking rum." They aren't. Unusual as this scene is the punchline from a previous scene. Layla mentionned that she heard one of the biggest influences on a child is who s/he hangs out with and the such, and then makes a joke about how she hopes Julian isn't hanging around drugheads at school. She sees his reaction, assuming it's concern, but the ensuing BLAM reveals it might be shame.
* CriticalDissonance: Critics were very mixed towards the film, but audiences loved the film. The film holds an audience score of 74% on Rotten Tomatoes compared to the 40% critic score. The film was also a hit at the box offie, making back 6x it's budget.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The ProductPlacement scene in which Sonny is very disappointed to have missed the 10:30 cutoff for breakfast at UsefulNotes/McDonalds will seem weird to future viewers, since the restaurant started serving breakfast all day in 2015.

* HilariousInHindsight:
** Sandler was a Toll Booth man in a scene. [[Recap/AdamSandlerS1E13TollBoothWillie Does that sound familiar?]]
** The UsefulNotes/McDonalds scene will seem weird to future viewers since the restaurant started serving breakfast all day in 2015.

* ValuesResonance: Sonny's ''incredibly'' casual acceptance of two of his longtime (male) friends having fallen in love and the pair being portrayed in a loving, stable relationship throughout the film; though fairly common in 2019, such a thing was both bold ''and'' rare for a film 1999. [[note]]a time when members of the LGBT community, though slowly gaining more social acceptance and civil rights than ever before, were still used by and large as incredibly deaf punchlines in fiction.[[/note]]

** NarmCharm: In an otherwise tear-jerking moment: "But I wipe my own ass! I wipe my own ass!"

** Sandler was a Toll Booth man in a scene. [[Recap/AdamSandlerS1E13TollBoothWillie Sounds familiar?]]

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: "When I Grow Up" by Music/{{Garbage}} definitely counts. It became a Top 40 hit after the film's release.

* AwesomeMusic: "When I Grow Up" by Music/{{Garbage}} definitely counts. It became a Top 40 hit after the film's release.

* Sandler was a Toll Booth man in a scene. [[Recap/AdamSandlerS1E13TollBoothWillie Sounds familiar?]]
* The UsefulNotes/McDonalds scene will seem weird to future viewers since the restaurant started serving breakfast all day in 2015.

* Sandler was a Toll Booth man in a scene. [[Recap/AdamSandlerS1E9TollBoothWillie Sounds familiar?]]

* Sandler was a Toll Booth man in a scene. [[Recap/AdamSandlerS1E11TollBoothWillie Sounds familiar?]]

* Sandler was a Toll Booth man in a scene. [[Recap/AdamSandlerS11TollBoothWillie Sounds familiar?]]

* Sandler was a Toll Booth man in a scene [[Recap/AdamSandlerS9TollBoothWillie Sounds familiar?]]

* HilariousInHindsight: The UsefulNotes/McDonalds scene will seem weird to future viewers since the restaurant started serving breakfast all day in 2015.

* RealitySubtext: The cute waitress who serves Julian a root beer at the sports bar? It's Jackie Titone, who became Mrs. Adam Sandler just a few years later.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece:
** Sonny mentions to Julian that [=McDonald's=] did not have breakfast items when he was Julian's age, and that he remembers the day that Egg [=McMuffins=] were first introduced. (That was in 1973, when Sonny would have been about two years older than Julian.) Now that [=McDonald's=] is marketing breakfast items all day...
** In the penultimate scene, Nazo invites Sonny to his place, where "I've got Spice Channel." That adult pay-per-view network would later be renamed the "Fresh" Channel.

** Sonny mentions to Julian that [=McDonald's=] did not have breakfast items when he was Julian's age, and that he remembers the day that Egg [=McMuffins=] were first introduced. (That was in 1973, when Sonny would have been about two years older than Julian.)
** In the penultimate scene, Nazo invites Sonny to his place, where "I've got Spice Channel." That adult pay-per-view network would later be renamed the "Fresh" Channel.
** And now that [=McDonald's=] is marketing breakfast items all day.