Line #5 YMMV/MyFamily


1	* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: Ben's rendition of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VljmprhgiwA "Mr. Bojangles"]].
2	* CriticProof: The show was slaughtered by critics, and even the stars refused to film one episode because it was so bad. Yet it was one of the UK's top-rated sitcoms and aired over ten series.
3	* CrossesTheLineTwice: "My Will Be Done" opens with Susan coming back from the funeral of her friend Linda, and giving this description of how she died:
4	-->'''Susan''': There she was in Austria, happily skiing, then bam! She goes crashing into a tree and rebounds up the mountain into the path of an avalanche. Gets miraculously rescued, but then on the way to the hospital the ambulance doors swing open and her stretcher rolls in front of a snow plough.\
5	'''Ben''': Could happen to anyone, darling.
6	* EnsembleDarkhorse: Nick Harper is easily the most popular character on the show.
7	* HarsherInHindsight:
8	** Series 4's "It's a Window-Filled Life", Series 9's "The Guru" and Series 11's "Germs of Endearment" in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
9	*** Ben's reluctance to hug Nick in the Series 2 Finale "Breakable".
10	*** Ben's reaction to Janey's cold that she caught off Kenzo in Series 7's "The Ego Has Landed".
11	** The 2010 Christmas Special was exempt from BBC iPlayer due to being a BannedEpisode for reasons explained in this series' Trivia page.
12	* HilariousInHindsight:
13	** Comments about Michael possibly being gay in "Shrink Rap", "Desperately Squeaking Susan", "A Handful of Dust" and "The Great Escape" become this after he comes out in Series 10. Especially his and Alfie's subplot in "Abi Ever After" and his interactions with Alfie in general.
14	** Creator/MichelleGomez's guest appearance in "The Second Greatest Story Ever Told" as Roger's assistant is played identically to her part in ''Series/DoctorWho'' as Missy.
15	** "Dentist to the Stars" has Ben complain about historical dramas... right in front of future Twelfth Doctor, Creator/PeterCapaldi.
16	* NightmareFuel:
17	** Roger's description of the clown he's painted on the ceiling of his dental workspace in "The Second Greatest Story Ever Told" could be this for people with coulrophobia (fear of clowns). We never see said clown but it evidently creeps Ben out.
18	** Nick's ''Leatherface'' impression in Series 3's "Auto Erotica".
19	* RetroactiveRecognition:
20	** Comedian Kevin Bishop has a recurring role in Series 2 as Janey's boyfriend Stupid Brian.
21	** The jury in the Series 4 episode "Blind Justice" includes [[Series/GavinAndStacey Doris]]/[[Series/GameOfThrones Old Nan]], and [[Series/PhoneShop Jerwayne]]
22	** In Series 4's "Canary Cage", one of the Spanish policemen is [[Series/GameOfThrones Syrio Forel]].
23	** Vanessa, the poetry student who becomes obsessed with Ben, in Series 4's "Owed To Susan" is [[Series/DoctorWho Madame Kovarian]].
24	** Roy, one of the attendees at the parenting class in Series 4's "Loco Parentis" is [[Film/FourLions Barry]] and [[Theatre/ShrekTheMusical Shrek]].
25	* SeasonalRot: Fans tend to admit that the later seasons, were marked by a general decline in the writing, with increasingly grating {{flanderization}}, jokes being run into the ground, and Michael, who had spent several seasons near-obsessed with women suddenly and arbitrarily coming out as gay. Season 11 marked the point when the long-suffering Creator/RobertLindsay and Creator/ZoeWanamaker, who had spent several seasons complaining about the scripts, gave up and quit.
26	* ShoutOut: Michael [[Series/RedDwarf chanting "Om" repeatedly]] in "Auto Erotica".
27	* SpiritualSuccessor: The show is sometimes compared with the 1990s sitcom ''Series/TwoPointFourChildren'', both being popular BBC sitcoms about the misadventures of a family. They even have a father character called Ben.

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