History YMMV / Wings

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Antonio. A fan favorite from day one, his role grew more prominent each season. Just before the show's cancellation, he was heading rapidly toward BreakoutCharacter status.

** Just about anything Paul did after leaving the Beatles but before ''Music/TheBeatles Anthology'' will be attributed to Wings. It doesn't help that compilations make little distinction between Wings and Paul on his own; they all include songs from both "artists" regardless of what the focus of the compilation is supposed to be. ''All The Best!'' is officially a PaulMcCartney album, but over half the songs are by Wings. ''Wingspan'' features quite a few songs which are Paul solo or Paul and Linda. Even ''Wings Greatest'' includes Paul solo and Paul & Linda.

* TheScrappy: Casey. Some fans were able to appreciate what she brought to the ensemble, while others disliked her. Others feel she sucked at first, but [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap got better]] once the writers ditched the spoiled rich girl persona and gave her an actual personality.
** Alex, the character who preceded Casey, was not universally popular herself, as she was intended to be a strong career-minded woman, but in practice tended to come across as being completely stiff and humorless. Many fans also didn't like that she ended up in a relationship with Brian, when her personality seemed like a much better match for that of Joe. (Though in hindsight, the writers had a good reason for not putting her with Joe- it would have interfered with their plans to get Joe and Helen back together.)

* RecycledScript: The three Sandy Cooper episodes were accused of this.

* OldShame: Not that the series was bad, but the team that created it came off of {{Cheers}} and ended up making {{Frasier}}, so this show really isn't in the same class. The creators have gone on record saying that the series taught them the dangers of using a RecycledPremise, so they went out of their way to make Frasier a completely different type of show.

** Alex, the character who preceded Casey, was not universally popular herself, as she was intended to be a strong career-minded woman, but in practise generally tended to come across as being completely stiff and humorless. Many fans also didn't like that she ended up in a relationship with Brian, when her personality seemed like a much better match for that of Joe.

* ReplacementScrappy: Budd Bronski, the mechanic who replaced Lowell. He was criticized for essentially being the same character, and quietly dropped after a handful of appearances.

* OneSceneWonder/ HeyItsThatGuy: Future legend Gary Cooper gave a breakout performance in his cameo as a Cadet White.

* HilariousInHindsight: In the ''{{Cheers}}'' CrossOver episode "Planes, Trains, and Visiting Cranes," Joe calls Lillith Crane "Morticia." Bebe Neuwirth would later originate the role of Morticia in TheMusical version of ''Series/TheAddamsFamily''.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Tim Daly played a character married to someone named Helen. Three years after the series ended, in the remake of ''TheFugitive'', he played a character (the title character, in fact) married to someone named. . .Helen.

* ReplacementScrappy: Budd Bronski, the mechanic who replaced Lowell. He was criticized for essentially being the same character.

* OneSceneWonder/ HeyItsThatGuy: Future legend Gary Cooper gave a breakout performance in his cameo as a Cadet White.

* TheScrappy: Casey. Some fans were able to appreciate what she brought to the ensemble, while others disliked. Others feel she sucked at first, but [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap got better]] once the writers ditched the spoiled rich girl persona and gave her an actual personality.

* TheScrappy: Casey. Some fans were able to appreciate what she brought to the ensemble, while others feel her arrival is when the show [[JumpingTheShark jumped the shark]]. Others feel she sucked at first, but [[RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap got better]] once the writers ditched the spoiled rich girl persona and gave her an actual personality.

* NeverLiveItDown: InUniverse. Although her character was thin throughout the run of the show, Helen was constantly teased because she ''used'' to be fat. In fact, there were more fat jokes about Helen's character than the actually overweight Roy.

** Alex, the character who preceded Casey, was not universally popular herself.

* UncannyValley: The puppet that Joe's date brought with her in "Four Dates That Will Live in Infamy". There are actual people who do that in real life.

* FollowTheLeader: ''{{Taxi}}''

* JustHereForGodzilla: The story might not hold your attention as well as the skyborne action scenes and/or Clara Bow (aka The [[MsFanservice It]] Girl) can.

* OneSceneWonder/ HeyItsThatGuy: GaryCooper started a long film career in his cameo as a Cadet White.

* YokoOhNo -- Linda. Even she wasn't crazy about her being in the band.

* ReplacementScrappy: Budd Bronski, the mechanic who replaced Lowell, solely on the basis that he replaced Lowell.