History YMMV / UglyBetty

** From ''"Million Dollar Smile"''. Since it takes place in Betty's head, her subconscious apparently believes there can only be ''one'' pretty sister, which, in the alternate universe of the dream, is Betty. She realises, to her horror, that being pretty made her into a self-centred bitch. So what exactly does this say about how Betty may see Hilda, since ''she's'' the pretty one in the real world...
*** Given that Betty is much smarter and far more ambitious than Hilda, being ''also'' attractive would've inflated her ego to astronomical levels. Beauty, along to her brilliance and ambition would have exposed the world to the horrors of an unbelievably bitchy Betty, who's closer to a Wihelmina 2.0, than Hilda.
*** Considering how much grief Betty gets from Hilda and Ignacio for putting her career ahead of taking care of her family (culminating in the ultra-{{anvilicious}} "Sisters on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown", whereby after quadruple-bypass surgery Ignacio suddenly also becomes senile because the plot demands it, and Hilda blames Betty not only for having a demanding full-time job that prevents her from babysitting her father, but also for her somehow preventing Hilda from working when a lucrative gig comes up--[[AssPull with no explanation as to why]]), Betty may have a point.

* FairForItsDay: Alexis being transgender qualifies in hindsight, particularly in season one. On the one hand, there are a number of jokes about the process and comments from otherwise likable characters that would absolutely not be acceptable now and Alexis is played by a cis actress, which would also go over very poorly. On the other, she is a well-rounded and three-dimensional character, her gender and pronouns are eventually respected by all her friends and family and her trans identity and struggles with it prior to her [[FakingTheDead death]] are treated very sympathetically and having a lead character in a show be transgender, even with the aforementioned issues, was significantly more progressive than other comedy shows where trans characters were treated as nothing more than a punchline or something to be horrified by were doing at the time.

* TheWoobie: Daniel. For a guy who has absolutely no desire to cause problems, he often gets the short end of the stick.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In-show example. Sophia derides an article Mode published titled 'Ten Ways to Lose Thighs and Get Guys'. Presumably her justification of planning to write an article telling women how to manipulate men into marriage is that she wouldn't provide weight loss tips.

* TheScrappy: Walter... dear God, Walter...

** Molly wasn't well liked for [[DieForOurShip getting in the way]] of [[FanPreferredCouple Daniel/Betty]], but [[spoiler:her cancer diagnosis and death was extremely sad.]]

* FanPreferredCouple: Daniel/Betty
*** Ironically the US version subverted this pairing, with Daniel falling for Betty at the very end of the show and Betty largely seeing Daniel as a surrogate sibling for the bulk of the run, a deviation from the source material.

** Tony Plana plays the father of America Ferrera's character Amy in ''Series/Superstore''.
** Ana Ortiz plays a corporate slave trying to close down the Cloud 9 in ''Series/Superstore''.

* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/RitaMoreno and Creator/JustinaMachado guesting as members of the extended family in "A Tree Grows in Guadalajara". Ten years later, they lead their own family-centric sitcom as mother and daughter on ''Series/OneDayAtATime2017'', where Tony Plana ''also'' has a recurring role as the family's [[PosthumousCharacter deceased patriarch]] .

* {{Anvilicious}}: Undeniably so, but it could be argued that this is a case where SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.

* CommitmentIssues: Marc, which tanked the only serious relationship he ever had.

* HilariousInHindsight: Creator/RitaMoreno and Creator/JustinaMachado guesting as members of the extended family in "A Tree Grows in Guadalajara". Ten years later, they lead their own family-centric sitcom as mother and daughter on ''Series/OneDayAtATime2017''.

** Molly wasn't well liked for being a RelationshipSue and getting in the way of [[FanPreferredCouple Daniel/Betty]], but [[spoiler: her cancer diagnosis and death was extremely sad.]]

* GrowingTheBeard: The show had a some what lacklustre second and third season only for it to come back stronger than ever in season 4.

** One recent episode has a scene in a mall...only it's not a mall. It's an atrocious green screen background.

* RelationshipSue: Molly

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment:
** About half of the episode ''"Million Dollar Smile".'' Understandable given that it's Betty imagining an AlternateUniverse via a DreamSequence.
* CommitmentIssues:
** Marc, which tanked the only serious relationship he ever had.

* EnsembleDarkhorse:
** Marc and Amanda, whose double-acts always steal the show.
* FanPreferredCouple:
** Daniel/Betty

* FunnyAneurysmMoment:
** In-show example. Sophia derides an article Mode published titled 'Ten Ways to Lose Thighs and Get Guys'. Presumably her justification of planning to write an article telling women how to manipulate men into marriage is that she wouldn't provide weight loss tips.

* JerkassWoobie:
** Both the Meade siblings.

* MemeticMutation:
** InUniverse: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_edtFYNWNU I'm Wilhelmina Slater and I don't get wet!]]
* MoralEventHorizon:
** When Wilhelmina [[spoiler: tampers with her sister's medication, so that she'll go on another psychotic episode and be readmitted to a mental institute. What had her sister done to deserve this? She was dating Daniel Meade.]] However, as it was never mentioned again, she went back to being a sympathetic villain while the viewers and writers simply [[{{CanonDiscontinuity}} forgot about it.]]
* NightmareFuel:
** In "The Fall Issue", where during the scene of Matt and Betty eating lunch, cue Penny Meadows landing on the hood of a car, having fallen 28 floors whilst [[TooDumbToLive trying to shoo away pigeons]]. Rather jarring, even if the audience saw it coming a mile off.
* RelationshipSue:
** Molly
* TheScrappy:
** Walter... dear God, Walter...

* TheWoobie:
** Daniel. For a guy who has absolutely no desire to cause problems, he often gets the short end of the stick.

* RelationshipSue:
** Molly

** The first season also featured the "fakest graveyard ever" which a [[TelevisionWithoutPity TWOP]] reviewer described as making "The Haunted Mansion at Disneyland look like stark realism."

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: