History YMMV / DARYL

* CultClassic: Beloved to anybody who grew up with it some way or another considers it one of the most underrated movies of the '80s.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: "Somewhere I Belong" performed by the late Teddy Pendergrass is an amazingly deep and powerful ballad and given the ending of the movie? It's no wonder why.

* AcceptableBreaksFromReality: While the plot [[RuleOfCool would be far less interesting without a SR-71]], the entire scene is as far removed from RealLife as Mars is from Earth.
** The security details for the SR-71 during TheEighties were armed guards stationed around the plane 24/7. Anyone not having proper security clearance and getting near the plane would be shot without question. In film, it's parked in an open hangar with no guard from airbase gate to hangar, at all.
** SR-71s took off with very little fuel, as the airframe had to be properly heated and expanded to seal itself, and they were fully fueled in the air.
** SR-71 engines could not be started on the ground without a trained crew and a truck sized starter-cart to spin the engines to speed. D.A.R.Y.L. just hits a button and the engines start.
** The plane was semi-disassembled between flights and it took 28 hours to fully prepare for a flight, during which a large team of trained techs worked non-stop. No batteries were aboard the plane until 4 hours before flight, and no fuel until 20 minutes before flight, with the crew already aboard and cockpits sealed. The engine's silicone-based lubricant was solid at normal temperatures and the engine could not spin up if it were not pre-heated by ground machinery for a few hours.
** During the flight the airspeed indicator shows Mach 2.25, at low altitude above a town. Assuming the plane could hold Mach 2+ so low above ground, the noise would shake the ground and buildings like an earthquake.

* PlayingGertrude: Colleen Camp is only 13 years older than Amy Linker, who plays her daughter.

* OlderThanTheyThink: Beat ''Film/AIArtificialIntelligence'' to the punch by over ten years in having a protagonist who is a robot child struggling with his identity as a human.
* StrawmanHasAPoint: The military, though going way too far in wanting Daryl terminated, is not entirely wrong in being wary of him. See the EmergentHuman entry - when even the people who programmed him have no idea where his emerging personality and emotional responses are coming from, it's definitely time to be careful.

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: The movie is rated PG, but it was released before the PG-13 rating was introduced. The movie does have some language (including a mention of rape!) that would never get past the censors with just a PG rating, for example.

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** The security details for the SR-71 during TheEighties were armed guards stationed around the plane 24/7. Anyone not having proper security clearance and getting near the plane would be shot without question. In film, it's parked into an open hangar with no guard from airbase gate to hangar, at all.

** The plane was semi-disassembled between flights and it took 28 hours to fully prepare for a flight, during which a large team of trained techs worked non stop. No batteries were aboard the plane until 4 hours before flight and no fuel until 20 minutes before flight, with crew already aboard and cockpits sealed. The engine silicone-based lubricant was solid at normal temperatures and engine could not spin if not pre-heated by ground machinery for a few hours.

* OlderThanTheyThink: Beat ''AIArtificialIntelligence'' to the punch by over ten years in having a protagonist who is a robot child struggling with his identity as a human.