History YMMV / MrsBrownsBoys

** The series regularly attracts a reasonably-sized audience, despite being pretty universally despised by critics.

* DesignatedVillain: Hilary in her first appearance. She was invited to Agne's house and was polite at first, and then spent the majority of the endeavour insulted by a drunken Agnes and bearing witness to her usual insane antics. When she finally complained, Maria and the family turned on her and labelled her a JerkAss. Later episodes made her a bit more of a WorthyOpponent for Agnes.
* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: In the Christmas Special when Trevor comes home. Mrs Brown doesn't say a word, and just hugs her son. It sticks out among the rest of the show.

** While Mrs. Brown seems to put Winnie through hell half the time by the end of the day, the two are each others closest friends. The best example would be when Agnes makes Dermot give the money from the raffle scheme he and Buster cooked up to Winnie to pay for her husbands operation because he's her best friend. Later Winnie tells her that she never married her best friend, but that she moved in beside. Which is of course ruined when Agnes then asks who the feck she was talking about.

** Despite heavily contested critical reception, the series regularly attracts a reasonably-sized audience.

* AdaptationDisplacement: Believe it or not, this started out as a radio and a stage show. Unfortunately, this is probably the main reason that it is criticised for being stale.
** Okay, hands up: How many of you have actually read ''The Mammy''? For those that don't know, this is the first of three books about Mrs Brown and set directly after her husband's death, and was written by Brendan O'Carroll.
*** Or, better yet: How many of you know of the first movie based on this book? It has Creator/AnjelicaHuston as Mrs Brown. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Don't believe me?]] [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0160509/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_39 Here.]]

*** Or, better yet: How many of you know of the first movie based on this book? It has Angelica Huston as Mrs Brown. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Don't believe me?]] [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0160509/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_39 Here.]]

* DullSurprise: Most of the supporting cast are quite wooden due to them being non-actors and are just in the show because they are related to Brendan. The worst example being Amanda Woods who plays Betty. Her surname means a lot to her awful performance. Another example is Jamie O'Carroll as Bono who is just a typical wooden child "actor".
* SugarWiki/HeartWarmingMoments: In the Christmas Special when Trevor comes home. Mrs Brown doesn't say a word, and just hugs her son. It sticks out among the rest of the show.

* InternetBackdraft:
** The BBC received [[http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/shortcuts/2013/dec/09/mrs-browns-boys-mandela-newsflash-nelson-death-complaints nearly 1000 complaints- because the show was interrupted by breaking news]] ''[[http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/shortcuts/2013/dec/09/mrs-browns-boys-mandela-newsflash-nelson-death-complaints of Nelson Mandela's death]]''. To make things even worse, the episode in question was a repeat (granted, it had originally aired two years ago, but still) and [[http://metro.co.uk/2013/12/09/in-todays-multi-channel-age-the-bbc-was-wrong-to-interrupt-mrs-browns-boys-with-nelson-mandelas-death-4223451/ the media started joining in with the bashing]].
** On top of the just under a thousand formal complaints, people started flooding social media with considerably less formal complaints.

* LoveItOrHateIt:
** The show has had critically mixed reception, with all but a few reviews being extremely positive or negative. There is very little middle ground on either side of the Irish Sea.
** Averted with the film, at least according to critics. Audiences are more split along the middle.

* CaliforniaDoubling: Set in Dublin, but was shot in a studio in Scotland.

* DesignatedVillain: Hilary in her first appearance. She was invited to Agne's house, and spent the majority of the endeavour insulted by a drunken Agnes and bearing witness to her usual insane antics. When she finally complained, Maria and the family turned on her and labelled her a JerkAss. Later episodes made her a bit more of a WorthyOpponent for Agnes.

* DesignatedVillain: Hilary in her first appearance. She was invited to Agne's house, and spent the majority of the endeavour insulted by a drunken Agnes and put up with the usual insane antics. When she finally complained, Maria and the family turned on her and labelled her a JerkAss. Later episodes made her a bit more of a WorthyOpponent for Agnes.

** The film has been savaged by critics, with only [[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mrs_browns_boys_dmovie/ 8% on Rotten Tomatoes]] (with twelve reviews overall), and out of regular cinemagoers only 45% admitted to liking it. In spite of this, it made over £4 million in its first weekend, beating out ''Literature/TheFaultInOurStars'' which opened with under £2 million, then went on to remain highest-grossing for the next weekend by taking a further two million. It lost the position to ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction'' and ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2'' the week after that, although this was something of a given. Brendan O'Carroll has said that a sequel may well be made based on the financial success.

* CriticalDissonance: The film has been savaged by professional critics, with only one positive review out of twelve according to [[[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mrs_browns_boys_dmovie/ Rotten Tomatoes]]. Cinema audiences were slightly more positive, giving mixed reviews.

* CriticalDissonance: The film has been savaged by professional critics, with only 1 positive review out of ten according to [[[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mrs_browns_boys_dmovie/ Rotten Tomatoes]]. Cinema audiences were slightly more positive, giving mixed reviews.

** The film has been savaged by critics, with only [[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mrs_browns_boys_dmovie/ 10% on Rotten Tomatoes]] (with ten reviews overall), and out of regular cinemagoers only 45% admitted to liking it. In spite of this, it made over £4 million in its first weekend, beating out ''Literature/TheFaultInOurStars'' which opened with under £2 million, then went on to remain highest-grossing for the next weekend by taking a further two million. It lost the position to ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction'' and ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2'' the week after that, although this was something of a given. Brendan O'Carroll has said that a sequel may well be made.

** Averted with the film, at least according to critics.

** The film has been savaged by critics, with only [[[[http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mrs_browns_boys_dmovie/ 10% on Rotten Tomatoes]] (with ten reviews overall), and out of regular cinemagoers only 45% admitted to liking it. In spite of this, it made over £4 million in its first weekend, beating out ''Literature/TheFaultInOurStars'' which opened with under £2 million, then went on to remain highest-grossing for the next weekend by taking a further two million. It lost the position to ''Film/TransformersAgeOfExtinction'' and ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon2'' the week after that, although this was something of a given. Brendan O'Carroll has said that a sequel may well be made.

* LoveItOrHateIt: The show has had critically mixed reception, with all but a few reviews being extremely positive or negative. There is very little middle ground on either side of the Irish Sea.

* FanDumb: The BBC received [[http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/shortcuts/2013/dec/09/mrs-browns-boys-mandela-newsflash-nelson-death-complaints nearly 1000 complaints- because the show was interrupted by breaking news]] ''[[http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/shortcuts/2013/dec/09/mrs-browns-boys-mandela-newsflash-nelson-death-complaints of Nelson Mandela's death]]''. To make things even worse, the episode in question was a repeat (granted, it had originally aired two years ago, but still) and [[http://metro.co.uk/2013/12/09/in-todays-multi-channel-age-the-bbc-was-wrong-to-interrupt-mrs-browns-boys-with-nelson-mandelas-death-4223451/ the media started joining in with the bashing]].

* FanDumb: The BBC received [http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/shortcuts/2013/dec/09/mrs-browns-boys-mandela-newsflash-nelson-death-complaints nearly 1000 complaints- because the show was interrupted by breaking news]] ''[[http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/shortcuts/2013/dec/09/mrs-browns-boys-mandela-newsflash-nelson-death-complaints of Nelson Mandela's death]]''. To make things even worse, the episode in question was a repeat and [http://metro.co.uk/2013/12/09/in-todays-multi-channel-age-the-bbc-was-wrong-to-interrupt-mrs-browns-boys-with-nelson-mandelas-death-4223451/ the media started joining in with the bashing]].

*** Or, better yet: How many of you know of the first movie based on this book? It has Angelica Huston as Mrs Brown. [[NotMakingThisUpDisclaimer Don't believe me?]] [[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0160509/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_39 Here.]]

** Okay, hands up: How many of you have actually read ''The Mammy''? For those that don't know, this is the first of three books about Mrs Brown and set directly after her husband's death, and was written by Brendan O'Carroll.

* AdaptationDisplacement: Believe it or not, this started out as a radio and a stage show. Unfortunately, this is probably the main reason that it is criticised for being stale.