YMMV / Wishbone

• Awesome Music:
  • The music that plays while the kids are trapped in and escaping from a burning barn in "Salty Dog" is epic.
  • The theme song.
• Cult Classic: Despite not lasting as long as other popular shows on the PBS Kids block, Wishbone is fondly remembered by the audience who grew up with it and is considered to be one of the block's best shows.
• Narm Charm: The concept of a well-read Jack Russell terrier dreaming and imagining himself as the hero of various stories and novels is bizarre, but at the same time impossible to be indifferent to.
• Older Than They Think: The concept of an animal with human trains of thoughts and a big imagination had already been explored in The Secret Lives of Waldo Kitty, through Waldo Kitty was half-animated/half-acted and it had shout outs to more modern pop culture (of these days) than classics.
• Periphery Demographic: A lot of teenagers and adults enjoyed the show and still do.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Amy Acker appears in a few episodes, playing a different role each time.
  • Jensen Ackles appears in the last five minutes of "Viva Wishbone".
  • Larry Brantley, the voice of Wishbone, would go on to be a regular voice actor for Funimation, starring in series such as One Piece (Hody Jones) and Fairy Tail (Chapati Lola).
• Squick: Many episodes, such as A Tale of Two Cities and Pride and Prejudice featured the titular canine playing a heroic lead together with a human, female love interest. This lead to many, many scenes of attractive young actresses behaving in a romantic and cuddly manner to a freakin' dog!
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Amanda when the trio tends to characterize her as the jerk and their Sitcom Archnemesis. Sure, she's a bit arrogant, but she can back up her Awesome Ego with a talent for acting, memorization, and spelling. What's more, Amanda will apologize if she's gone too far, like when she berates Sam for forgetting her lines during a staging of The Tempest and enviously says that she wanted to be Miranda. It at least dies down in the books, where Sam notes Amanda's talents in Stage Invader and says she's not the saboteur because Amanda doesn't hurt people, and it wouldn't benefit her to ruin the play when she's the understudy.

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