History YMMV / HighwayToHeaven

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: An early episode deals with Mark making a promise to God to quit smoking and almost relapsing, the turning point coming when he buys a pack of cigarettes with a large note from God on the inside reading "BREAKING YOUR WORD CAN BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH". Victor French died after filming the final season from lung cancer.
* HarsherInHindsight: The child actress Brittany Benov briefly appears as young Bonnie in the final episode. Her character is later shown as an adult in her 30s. Sadly, Benov would never be that old, as she became severely depressed from bipolar disorder, and ultimately died in her 20s of a drug overdose.

** In a early episodes, Mark has to deal with quitting smoking. When Jonathan chastises him for starting again, he reveals that in his mortal life, he died of lung cancer. Michael Landon died of a different type of cancer- pancreatic cancer.

* WriterOnBoard: The episode "Child of God," written and directed by Michael Landon, has Jonathan commenting that a woman's previous affair with a married man was not a sin at all. It's hard not to see this as an apologia for Michael Landon's own life choices, which included an extramarital affair with a woman he met on the LittleHouseOnThePrairie set, an affair which ended his second marriage and resulted in his third one.

%%* {{Anvilicious}}: Incredibly so.

%%* {{Anvilicious}}: Incredibly so. Then again, sometimes SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.

* {{Anvilicious}}: Incredibly so. Then again, sometimes SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: An early episode deals with Mark making a promise to God to quit smoking and almost relapses, the turning point is when he buys a pack of cigarettes with a large note from God on the inside reading "BREAKING YOUR WORD CAN BE HAZARDOUS TO YOUR HEALTH". Victor French died after filming the final season from lung cancer.

* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: Too many to list, but one has to be the one seen in every title sequence afterwards, where Jonathan is walking away alone and Mark rolls up and offers him a ride. Jonathan's delighted beaming really sells the scene.
** In 4x13, Jonathan's truly overjoyed face when Mark wakes up from his coma. Earlier in the episode, he called him "my friend." It's so rare [[VitriolicBestBuds for him to actually say that.]]

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Jonathan and Mark have several of those, see it [[Awesome/HighwayToHeaven here]].
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Too many to list, but one has to be the one seen in every title sequence afterwards, where Jonathan is walking away alone and Mark rolls up and offers him a ride. Jonathan's delighted beaming really sells the scene.
** In 4x13, Jonathan's truly overjoyed face when Mark wakes up from his coma. Earlier in the episode, he called him "my friend." It's so rare [[VitriolicBestBuds for him to actually say that.]]

** There is an episode titled "One Winged Angel". No relation to [[OneWingedAngel the trope]] or [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII the song]].

* HeterosexualLifePartners: They do have a few VitriolicBestBuds moments, but Jonathan and Mark are very much this. So much so that Mark genuinely worries about Jonathan earning his wings and never seeing him again.
** Michael Landon and Victor French were a real life example, and their friendship added a lot to the chemistry between Jonathan and Mark respectively.

* HilariousInHindsight: Brittany Benov's appearance is also this, considering the environmental theme of the episode she's in. A year later, she would voice Delphineus, your dolphin friend, in ''[[VideoGame/EcoQuest Ecoquest: The Search for Cetus.]]''

* HarsherInHindsight: The child actress Brittany Benov briefly appears as young Bonnie in the final episode. She had a troubled life in later years, as she became severely depressed from not achieving the kind of acting career she envisioned, and ultimately died in her 20s of a drug overdose. The title of the show makes this rather hard to take.

* HilariousInHindsight: Brittany Benov's appearance is also this, considering the environmental theme of the episode she's in. A year later, she would voice Delphineus, your dolphin friend, in ''EcoQuest: The Search for Cetus.''

* HarsherInHindsight: The child actress Brittany Benov briefly appears as young Bonnie in the final episode. She would later suffer from bipolar disorder and die in her 20s of a drug overdose. The title of the show makes it even harder to take that this was her final live-action role.

* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Jonathan and Mark have several of those.