YMMV / Just the Ten of Us

• Awesome Music:
  • The moments in seasons 2 and 3 where the older girls form a singing group can feel absolutely wonderful to listen to. This scene, this compilation, and this scene seem to be particular favorites.
  • The intro has a decent amount of fans who describe it as a catchy, nostalgic, feel-good tune and arguably, next to the established hits, some of Bill Medley's best work.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Wendy's decoy date in "The Dinner Test" is played by Matthew Perry, and he can take whatever Graham throws at him. Graham gets desperate and tries to trick him by offering him a beer, to which the guy says that he doesn't drink. Just a few months later, Perry would appear on Growing Pains as Carol's boyfriend, Sandy, who ends up as a Special Aesop Victim after a crash caused by his drunk driving. Not to mention that Perry himself would later develop a problem with drugs and alcohol—a problem he likely already had at the time this episode was made, given that he revealed in his memoir that he began drinking at 14.
• Hollywood Homely: Marie is the nerdy, glasses-wearing sister◊ who is supposed to be less pretty than Wendy and Cindy... but she's played by the quite attractive◊ Heather Lagenkamp.
• Retroactive Recognition: Award-winning TV director Matt Shakman plays Coach Lubbock's preadolescent son, while Matthew Perry and Matt Le Blanc appear in separate episodes as dates of Wendy several years before finding fame on Friends.
• Too Good to Last: Many fans lament how the show got cancelled in its prime and without warning despite having a good cast, fairly good humor, and the occasional future Values Resonance moment.
• Values Resonance: In the episode "Cindy Breaks A Date", Cindy defends herself against a lecherous date, to the point of him being hospitalized (she broke his arm). Her sisters blame her for the incident, outright calling her a "slut" for all the things she did that supposedly led him on—ordering lobster, etc. She goes to the hospital to apologize to him—and he gropes her again, promoting her to angrily push him off the bed and break his other arm. Thoroughly mortified, she goes home to confess to her parents. . . and they're both outraged at the boy's behavior and praise her for defending herself—Graham gives a sincere, emphatic "All RIGHT!" when she tells them that she broke both of his arms and Elizabeth sits her down and gently tells her that it doesn't matter what she said or did beforehand, she has every right to say "No", and to fight back against anyone who doesn't listen. Even now, despite the #MeToo movement, there's still a pervasive victim blaming attitude, so it's refreshing to see an aversion of this from 30 years ago.