YMMV / My Family

• Awesome Music: Ben's rendition of "Mr. Bojangles".
• Critic-Proof: 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.
• Crosses the Line Twice: "My Will Be Done" opens with Susan coming back from the funeral of her friend Linda, and giving this description of how she died:
  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.
  Ben: Could happen to anyone, darling.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Nick Harper is easily the most popular character on the show.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • 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.
    • Ben's reluctance to hug Nick in the Series 2 Finale "Breakable".
    • Ben's reaction to Janey's cold that she caught off Kenzo in Series 7's "The Ego Has Landed".
  • The 2010 Christmas Special was exempt from BBC iPlayer due to being a Banned Episode for reasons explained in this series' Trivia page.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • 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.
  • Michelle Gomez's guest appearance in "The Second Greatest Story Ever Told" as Roger's assistant is played identically to her part in Doctor Who as Missy.
  • "Dentist to the Stars" has Ben complain about historical dramas... right in front of future Twelfth Doctor, Peter Capaldi.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • 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.
  • Nick's Leatherface impression in Series 3's "Auto Erotica".
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Comedian Kevin Bishop has a recurring role in Series 2 as Janey's boyfriend Stupid Brian.
  • The jury in the Series 4 episode "Blind Justice" includes Doris/Old Nan, and Jerwayne
  • In Series 4's "Canary Cage", one of the Spanish policemen is Syrio Forel.
  • Vanessa, the poetry student who becomes obsessed with Ben, in Series 4's "Owed To Susan" is Madame Kovarian.
  • Roy, one of the attendees at the parenting class in Series 4's "Loco Parentis" is Barry and Shrek.
• Seasonal Rot: 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 Robert Lindsay and Zoë Wanamaker, who had spent several seasons complaining about the scripts, gave up and quit.
• Shout-Out: Michael chanting "Om" repeatedly in "Auto Erotica".
• Spiritual Successor: The show is sometimes compared with the 1990s sitcom 2point4 Children, both being popular BBC sitcoms about the misadventures of a family. They even have a father character called Ben.

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