History YMMV / TheCatWhoSeries

* FanonDiscontinuity: Book 29 (''The Cat Who Had 60 Whiskers'') is widely regarded as this by many fans who were outraged at the sudden and unexplained changes to the well-loved landscape of the stories.

* SeasonalRot: The later books in the series were widely panned by both professional critics and consumer reviews, due to shoddy plotting and characterization. Many suggested that these installments were being written by a ghostwriter, though it was more likely due to author Lilian Jackson Braun's advanced age - she was born in the 1910s, but these books kept coming out until the mid-2000s!

* ValuesDissonance: In ''The Cat Who Turned On and Off'', Qwill finds an unpublished novel by one of the murder victims that brutally reveals the secret lives of his neighborhood's residents, which include a drug dealer, a bookie... and a "sodomite." Possibly slightly defensible as characterization, considering that Qwill, a middle-aged man in the 1960s with a somewhat working-class upbringing in the midwestern US, probably would not have especially sympathetic views toward homosexuality, but still jarring to a modern audience.
* TheWoobie: The biggest woobie in the series is actually a PosthumousCharacter. A farmer in the late nineteenth century, he braved the massive wildfire that had reached his house to save his two children -- but by the time he found them, one of his arms had burned off and he could only save one of the kids -- and he had to choose which one.

* ValuesDissonance: In ''The Cat Who Turned On and Off'', Qwill finds an unpublished novel by one of the murder victims that brutally reveals the secret lives of his neighborhood's residents, which include a drug dealer, a bookie... and a "sodomite." Possibly slightly defensible as characterization, considering that Qwill, a middle-aged man in the 1960s with a somewhat working-class upbringing in the midwestern US, probably would not have especially sympathetic views toward homosexuality, but still jarring to a modern audience.

* SeasonalRot: The later books in the series were widely panned by both professional critics and consumer reviews, due to shoddy plotting and characterization. Many suggested that these installments were being written by a ghostwriter, though it was more likely due to author Lilian Jackson Braun's advanced age (she was born in the 1910s, but these books kept coming out until the mid-2000s!)
* ValuesDissonance: In ''The Cat Who Turned On and Off'', Qwill finds an unpublished novel by one of the murder victims that brutally reveals the secret lives of his neighborhood's residents, which include a drug dealer, a bookie... and a "sodomite." Possibly slightly defensible as characterization, considering that Qwill, a middle-aged man in the 1960s with a somewhat working-class upbringing in the midwestern US, probably would not have especially sympathetic views toward homosexuality, but still jarring to a modern audience.
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* EarWorm: An off-color playground rhyme: "Old Miss Perkins/Flat as a pie..."

* GaryStu: Qwill, but not in a bad way. He's always referred to as handsome and intelligent, he's insanely rich (and always donates to charity), etc.

* GaryStu: Qwill, but not in a bad way. He's always referred to as handsome, intelligent, he's insanely rich (and always donates to charity), etc.

* ValuesDissonance: In ''The Cat Who Turned On and Off'', Qwill finds an unpublished novel by one of the murder victims that brutally reveals the secret lives of his neighborhood's residents, which include a drug dealer, a bookie...and a "sodomite." Possibly slightly defensible as characterization, considering that Qwill, a middle-aged man in the 1960s with a somewhat working-class upbringing in the midwestern US, probably would not have especially sympathetic views toward homosexuality, but still jarring to a modern audience.

* GreenEyedMonster: Polly. Polly, Polly, ''Polly''. She gets jealous when she sees Qwill out with a woman who isn't her, and before he can explain, she's giving him the cold shoulder and being rude.

* CompleteMonster: It's hard not to see Rosalie, Arch Riker's first wife, as this in one respect at least. When they divorced, she had their cats put to sleep so that Arch couldn't have them.

* SeasonalRot: The later books in the series were widely panned by both professional critics and consumer reviews, due to shoddy plotting and characterization. Many suggested that these installments were being written by a ghostwriter, though it was more likely due to author Lilian Jackson Braun's advanced age (she was born in the 1910s, but these books kept coming out until the mid-2000s!)

* SeasonalRot: The latter books in the series were widely panned by both professional critics and consumer reviews, due to shoddy plotting and characterization. Many suggested that these installments were being written by a ghostwriter, though it was more likely due to author Lilian Jackson Braun's advanced age (she was born in the 1910s, but these books kept coming out until the mid-2000s!)

SeasonalRot: The latter books in the series were widely panned by both professional critics and consumer reviews, due to shoddy plotting and characterization. Many suggested that these installments were being written by a ghostwriter, though it was more likely due to author Lilian Jackson Braun's advanced age (she was born in the 1910s, but these books kept coming out until the mid-2000s!)

SesaonalRot: The latter books in the series were widely panned by both professional critics and consumer reviews, due to shoddy plotting and characterization. Many suggested that these installments were being written by a ghostwriter, though it was more likely due to author Lilian Jackson Braun's advanced age (she was born in the 1910s!)