* ArchivePanic:
** More than 8,330 seven-to-eight minute episode segments, and the number's still growing. Moreover, there's something of an ''actual'' archive panic concerning the show, as most episodes haven't been released on home video or made available on Amazon and thus very few copies of its many episodes even exist. It's unclear how many might well be [[MissingEpisode lost]].
** Add points that almost no ripping groups (that is, all the groups that record all the anime that come out in Japan in order to be uploaded to the Internet) have touched this anime whatsoever. So, finding broadcasted episodes is a very difficult (likely impossible) task to run, and preserving them, much more.
** Luckily (or unluckily, depending on your perspective), it would still take a while to watch all of the episodes you ''can'' find. It would take 20 hours of non-stop viewing to watch everything that's already on Amazon, and that number might grow in the future.
* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: It has a decent following in China.
* ItsPopularNowItSucks: While very obscure outside of Japan, some hardcore {{Otaku}} who know of ''Sazae-san'' and its mainstream popularity in Japan resent the series for various reasons related to this. For example, ''Sazae-san'' being labeled as a stereotype of what the elderly conservative majority in Japan wants ''all'' anime to be like (combined with their general marginalization of {{Otaku}}), which was especially prevalent when Tokyo mayor Shintaro Ishihara introduced the [[MoralGuardians Youth Ordinance Bill]].
* RetroactiveRecognition: Katsuo's first voice actress was Nobuyo Oyama, who would later become famous for voicing Manga/{{Doraemon}}. Her stint on the show was very short-lived, only lasting 12 episodes.
%% * TheScrappy: Wakame. Translated from a [=YouTube=] comment: "I think I'll have grilled onigiri for lunch. How futile. If everyone hates Wakame so much." [[spoiler:There's a pun in that haiku: Wakame's name means seaweed, and onigiri is a rice snack wrapped in seaweed.]] %% This example doesn't explain what qualities make Wakame so hated within the fanbase.
* UnintentionalUncannyValley: The realistic versions of ''Sazae-san''[='=]s characters made for the anime's 50th anniversary [[https://kotaku.com/anime-made-realistic-oh-goodness-why-1836810413 will haunt your nightmares.]]
* ValuesDissonance:
** Much of Sazae's home life seems quaint by modern standards, and even in Japan, the series is enjoyed primarily as nostalgia for the Showa-era boom times. This is in contrast to the comic's postwar origins and Sazae's (for the time and place) extremely liberated, feminist views.
** In an early episode, when Tarao is being bratty, Sazae punishes him by locking him in the shed for ''several hours'', and even forgets he's in there until after dinner. This wouldn't fly nowadays for multiple reasons, even in Japan.