! ''[=McHale=]'s Navy'' (1962-1966)
* FairForItsDay: Fuji, the Japanese POW, was often written to the more benign aspects of the Japanese stereotype, but still was a useful member of the cast who gained some character development (or, as much as you can garner [[StatusQuoIsGod in a sitcom]]...). During the last season, the PT-73 Gang meet up with the 442nd RCT, the all-''Nisei'' combat unit fighting in Europe. Even though some HilarityEnsues over Fuji being accidentally "recruited" into the unit (read: to keep Binghampton from realizing they smuggled a POW across half the world, they dressed him in an Army uniform and were trying to palm him off as a detached 442nd member, never suspecting the genuine 442nd were in the vicinity), the 442nd are portrayed as normal Americans doing their job in the war.
* HoYay:
** Binghamton and Carpenter are often paired together, due to the the latter's SycophanticServant qualities.
** Due to the 1997 film's pairing of Creator/TomArnold's [=McHale=] with a [[GenderFlip gender flipped]] Carpenter, some fan works pair up [=McHale=] and Carpenter from the original series as well.
* {{Moe}}:
** Nurse Melba Benson, Parker's DistaffCounterpart and GirlOfTheWeek, due to being a CuteClumsyGirl who has a delightful MeetCute moment with him.
** Ensign Parker himself is more {{Adorkable}} than Moe, being a [[TheKlutz clumsy]], [[TheDitz scatterbrained]] {{Manchild}}, but the way he gets flustered around girls he likes and Creator/TimConway's round, boyish face may make some audience members feel this way.
* StrawmanHasAPoint: Despite attempting to be TheNeidermeyer Binghamton has a point that if not for lucky breaks against the enemy, [=McHale=] and his men's [[ScrewTheWarWerePartying actions]] would be grounds for a [[CourtMartialed dishonorable discharge]] at the very least.
! ''[=McHale=]'s Navy'' (1997)
* AudienceAlienatingPremise: The movie [[SettingUpdate updated a]] [[PeriodPiece period sitcom]] from the 1960s about a PT boat crew in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII to a misfit gang of modern-day US Navy officers battling a Russian terrorist in the Caribbean. Fans of the original sitcom were turned off by the drastic changes to the source material, while nearly everyone under the age of 40 was turned off by the antiquated source material itself. The result was one of the biggest flops of the '90s, grossing barely ''one tenth'' of its budget. It probably didn't help that ''[=McHale's=] Navy'' doesn't exactly have the iconic status or MultipleDemographicAppeal of, say, ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'', ''Series/TheBradyBunch'', ''Series/MissionImpossible'', or ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The whole Cuba sequence from the 1997 film. Creator/TommyChong shows up, for some reason. [[spoiler:It does give us an explanation as to how [=McHale=] got the torpedo to blow up Vladakov, though.]]

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