YMMV / Zoom

• Awesome Moments: One "Zoom a Cum Laude" recipient was a boy who didn't miss a single day of fourth, fifth, or sixth grade. Considering how easily many kids are precluded from accomplishing this by a lack of doctor availability outside of business hours, that's very impressive indeed.
  • Any of the ZCLs or ZOOM Into Actions that show kids volunteering or doing some kind of community service definitely counts. Even some of the Zoomers themselves were shown volunteering in some ZOOM Into Action segments.
• Awesome Music: The theme songs - both the original version and the revival version qualify.
  • The funding credits music of the revival. Also served as the music for the Z-Mail raps of seasons 1 and 2.
  • The Z-Mail rap itself is also great, especially Pablo's parts in season 1.
  • Any of the instrumental music playing during the games, ZOOMdos, and whatnot.
• Base-Breaking Character
  • Caroline. Some fans like her for being the only cast member to be on the show for 4 seasons, while others hate her for the exact same reason.
  • Also, Rachel as "Ubbi Dubbi Woman". Was having her replace Kenny as "Ubbi Dubbi Man" a good way to keep a recurring skit going, or did it push said skit into Seasonal Rot?
• Broken Base: The reunion episode. On one hand, everyone loved seeing Pablo, Jared, Lynese, David and Keiko return, but some see it as a bit of a missed opportunity since there were no Cafe ZOOM, ZOOM Playhouse, or Ubbi Dubbi segments, and wasn't the season finale many feel it should have been.
• First Installment Wins: Season 1 is largely considered the revival show's best season. That said, the next two seasons were at the very least respectable follow-ups.
• Growing the Beard: The 1999 series is considered a big improvement over the 1970s one, due to casting better kid actors.
• Mainstream Obscurity: The 1999 series is pretty well-known, but it didn’t really receive any official release and hasn’t been broadcast on PBS in almost a decade and a half; most episodes didn’t appear online in their entirety until about 8 years after the show went off the air. On top of that, most episodes only aired around 10 times (due to PBS phasing out older seasons for whatever reason), making the episodes that are still missing very hard to find.
• More Popular Spin-Off: The revival is much more popular and known than the 1972 original.
• Narm Charm
  • The kids in the 1970s series weren't the best actors, but they certainly were adorable.
  • Some 1999-era ZOOM Playhouse skits, such as "Trouble in Candy Kingdom" and "A Soup Opera!" also count, considering the new cast members were much better actors.
• Periphery Demographic: The show has found a bit of an... unusual audience.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • John Lathan was a final season cast member in the original version of the show before playing a member of the Engine Crew on Where In Time Is Carmen Sandiego.
  • One final cast member in the reboot, Taylor Garron, later became a contestant on the first season of FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman.
• Seasonal Rot
  • The original series: Season 4 is generally considered to be where the show's quality started to decline. They stopped gradually adding new cast in the mix like the first 3 seasons, instead just replacing the whole cast each season. Season 4 also decided to have 10 Zoomers which was too much. It doesn't help that many of them had Jerkass qualities, which might have been more notable because of the extra Zoomers.
  • For the revival series, Seasons 6 and 7 featured lots of changes that made fans of the first five seasons upset.
  • Some of the reoccurring skits arguably suffered this too, such as the aforementioned "Ubbi Dubbi Wo/Man", as well as the "Red Bench" series, which lasted from the second to the second-to-last season.
• Spoiled by the Format: Rachel at the end of the "Things I Love" game in season 3.
  Kenny: I wonder who it could be!
• Tear Jerker:
  • The first 9/11 episode, where the kids talk about their feelings regarding the tragedy. They then end the show with a sobering but energetic song as the credits play, which takes the place of the usual cheery theme song.
  • When Caroline finally left the show after four seasons, which for some fans meant that the show lost a connection to the past seasons. It doesn't help that the show underwent some major retooling right after she did.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Every season of the 1999 series had something changed, but the last two seasons are the most glaring example of this.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: Zoe's character in "The Story Machine" skit. She tries to take a shortcut to do her summer reading, but one of the books was Macbeth. Alice in Wonderland and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer are child-friendly and make sense to assign to a teenager, but Shakespearean prose is quite dense for the modern reader. Even college students have trouble deciphering it. Unless she had an abridged version, you can't blame Zoe for taking a shortcut.