History YMMV / Stitch

* SeasonalRot: Even among people who liked this series, the third season gets a lot more heat due to switching the setting from Izayoi Island to the urban setting of Okinawa New Town, switching from the focus on yokai and urban legends to SliceOfLife, changes in Yuna's characterization, and Dr. Hämsterviel being reduced to a supporting antagonist in favor of the new, unfitting, generic anime villain Delia. There's also [[SheIsAllGrownUp that one episode in this season]] that officially made this show a SequelSeries. (Though on the flip side, it does introduce more experiments made before Stitch, including Bragg/Flute, who is arguably the most popular experiment that was introduced in this series.)

* {{Macekre}}: The English dub, due to sloppy editing[[note]]This was primarily to fit the Western standard twenty-two-minute time frame; some episodes were even reduced to half-length segments in the international version.[[/note]] and [[TheOtherDarrin the replacement of the entire original voice cast]] from the films and ''Lilo & Stitch: The Series''. Plus, the fact that its very first lines establish Stitch having left Lilo over her supposedly neglecting him over a boyfriend, which wasn't proven false until the third season, was arguably the worst decision the dub writers made as it permanently tarnished the show enough for fans to not even bother watching it past those lines.

** That being said, outside of the Mid Six-Twos (Angel, Reuben, and Stitch), most of the experiments that appear still get limited appearances. For example, Felix, who did appear in more episodes of this show compared to ''Lilo & Stitch: The Series'', only appeared in a whopping four episodes of this show,[[note]]plus one of the Kung Fu Dragon Pleakley segments in a fifth[[/note]] all of them during the Madhouse seasons, with two of them being the two halves of the season one finale, and his debut episode being one of the episodes shortened to a half-length segment in the international version.

* {{Macekre}}: The English dub, due to sloppy editing[[note]]This was primarily to fit the Western standard twenty-two-minute time frame; some episodes were even reduced to half-length segments in the international version.[[/note]] and [[TheOtherDarrin the replacement of the entire original voice cast]] from the films and ''Lilo & Stitch: The Series''. Plus, the fact that its first lines establish Stitch having left Lilo.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: A ''Lilo & Stitch'' anime isn't a hard sell in itself for Western fans. However, leaving Lilo out with no explanation as to why she, Stitch's ''ʻohana'', would ever get separated from him in the first place ''until the third season'' is enough for them to not want any part of it. The dub arguably makes it worse by explaining it away in the first episode as Lilo ''getting bored with Stitch after getting a new boyfriend''. Mind you, it was [[UnreliableNarrator Jumba]] saying it, so that doesn't mean it was correct... not to mention the dub of the episode where Lilo comes back gives the same explanation as the original version did.

** To an even lesser extent, there is an episode where the cast spends the day at [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Tokyo Disneyland]]. Yes, really. The episode was even sponsored by Tokyo Disney Resort.[[note]]Disney does not own or operate the resort; they only license it to another company.[[/note]] There were quite a few meta moments in the episode, including one where Stitch crashes his ship in front of Ride/TheEnchantedTikiRoom.

* ObscurePopularity: Being part of a popular Disney franchise, especially one that's big in Japan, this anime was quite popular in its own right within its home country. However, because Disney didn't give it much of a release in the West, and since it was released well after the franchise's heyday there has passed, many fans of the original film or the first series don't even know that a ''Lilo & Stitch'' anime was ever made. Even the title and thumbnail of WebVideo/{{Saberspark}}'s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YYAC7VDhNw video on this show]] acknowledge how so many people don't know that ''Lilo & Stitch'' got an anime spin-off.