History YMMV / SmartGuy

* HilariousInHindsight:
** In "A Date with Destiny", when Floyd asks the members of Music/DestinysChild if they eat red meat, original member [=LaTavia=] Robertson responds with "we're from Texas, if you don't eat red meat, they'll move you clean out the state". 15 years later in 2014, it was revealed that Music/{{Beyonce}} – another founding member of the group and a native of UsefulNotes/{{Houston}} – has switched to a vegan diet[[note]]Which means not only does she not eat red meat anymore, but doesn't consume any animal products or byproducts, such as dairy and even honey[[/note]], later even serving as a spokesperson for a mail-order vegan meal service... and she had long moved clean out of Texas to L.A. by that point.
** This show wouldn’t be the last time Tahj Mowry would [[WesternAnimation/KimPossible play a kid genius]].

* RealismInducedHorror: Part of what makes the episode "Strangers on the Net" all the more terrifying to watch is that TJ and Karen were both this close to getting molested by a man they met online, who is a disturbingly realistic depiction of a child predator.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Episodes of this show contained early appearances of [[WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily Kyla]] [[Series/OneOnOne Pratt]], [[Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody Ash]][[Film/HighSchoolMusical ley]] [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Tisdale]], [[Series/{{Glee}} Naya]] [[Creator/NayaRivera Rivera]] and Creator/TarajiPHenson.

* RelationshipWritingFumble: Some of the interactions between Floyd and Yvette can come across as oddly romantic due to the small age difference between the two actors as well as the fact Yvette and Floyd had many plots together. They arguably came across more as a married couple than as father and daughter.

** Mr. Harrison, the substitute in T.J., Marcus and Mo's astronomy class in "My Two Dads". Some fans are divided as to whether he is really just a CoolTeacher who's NotSoDifferent from T.J., given that he arranges for T.J. to go to the same university he had accepted a job at later in the episode, or whether he had less-than-pure intentions.

* HilariousInHindsight: In "A Date with Destiny", when Floyd asks the members of Music/DestinysChild if they eat red meat, original member [=LaTavia=] Robertson responds with "we're from Texas, if you don't eat red meat, they'll move you clean out the state". 15 years later in 2014, it was revealed that Music/{{Beyonce}} – another founding member of the group and a native of UsefulNotes/{{Houston}} – has switched to a vegan diet[[note]]Which means not only does she not eat red meat anymore, but doesn't consume any animal products or byproducts, such as dairy and even honey[[/note]], later even serving as a spokesperson for a mail-order vegan meal service... and she had long moved clean out of Texas to L.A. by that point.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: "A Date with Destiny" features a TakeThat to Music/MichaelJackson about him having grown up in the spotlight, when T.J. tries to convince Floyd to let him appear on a world tour with Music/DestinysChild as a dancer:
-->'''Floyd:''' It's a crazy way to live, son.\\
'''T.J.:''' Well, Michael Jackson did it and he turned out fine.\\
'''Floyd:''' He's an exception.
** Considering that Michael was as close as the real world had to ''Literature/PeterPan'' and the problems that led to his death 11 years after the episode aired, it's clear that T.J. was wrong about Michael... oh, so much.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Episodes of this show contained early appearances of [[WesternAnimation/TheProudFamily Kyla]] [[Series/OneOnOne Pratt]], [[Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody Ash]][[Film/HighSchoolMusical ley]] [[WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb Tisdale]] and [[Series/{{Glee}} Naya]] [[Creator/NayaRivera Rivera]].

* RelationshipWritingFumble: Some of the interactions between Floyd and Yvette can come across as this due to the small age difference between the two actors as well as the fact Yvette and Floyd had many plots together. They arguably came across more as a married couple than as father and daughter.

--->'''Floyd:''' It's a crazy way to live, son.
--->'''T.J.:''' Well, Michael Jackson did it and he turned out fine.
--->'''Floyd:''' He's an exception.

* MostAnnoyingSound: Many young people have probably heard "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Song_That_Never_Ends The Neverending Song]]" from this show, featured in a scene from "Love Bug," in which Yvette and Mo sing a variant of the song to drive out one of their competitors in a contest to win a free car (it worked, BTW):
--->"I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves, everybody's nerves. I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves, and this is how it goes."

* YokoOhNo: Shakira, whom Mo begins seeing upon taking T.J.'s advice to find a girlfriend, in "Achy Breaky Heart". Though as T.J. explains to Floyd, she chooses to parrot her ideas for Mackadocious to Mo through [[CuteMute whispering]] ("She doesn't say a word, but she won't shut up").

* MostAnnoyingSound: Many young people have probably heard "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Neverending_Song The Neverending Song]]" from this show, featured in a scene from "Love Bug," in which Yvette and Mo sing a variant of the song to drive out one of their competitors in a contest to win a free car (it worked, BTW):

** Considering that Michael was as close as the real world had to ''Main/PeterPan'' and the problems that led to his death 11 years after the episode aired, it's clear that T.J. was wrong about Michael... oh, so much.

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: Marcus: A put-upon brother ButtMonkey or just a whiney asshole that takes T.J.'s gifts for granted?

* NoYay[=/=]RelationshipWritingFumble: Some of the interactions between Floyd and Yvette can come across as this due to the small age difference between the two actors as well as the fact Yvette and Floyd had many plots together. They arguably came across more as a married couple than as father and daughter.
* TechnologyMarchesOn: Inverted as the technology featured in the show may be a bit ''ahead'' of its time (though not a lot of people may be aware that ''some'' of it had existed at the time of the show's run).
** In "Diary of a Mad Schoolgirl," T.J. works with another student on a project about Lizzie Borden through file sharing.
** In "Stop the Presses," T.J. deletes Marcus and himself from a family photograph (keeping a swimsuit-clad Yvette to print in T.J.'s newspaper as retaliation for stealing a story scoop) using a Photoshop-style (not long before Photoshop existed) program.
** In "That's My Momma," T.J. mentions to Floyd that one can watch ''SportsCenter'' online and make phone calls over the computer (since this was the late 1990s, streaming ''[=SportsCenter=]'' – which didn't become possible until the very late 2000s through the [=WatchESPN=] streaming service – or any video online would only be possible with minimal issue with broadband/high speed internet, which was only starting to be widely rolled out and was relatively expensive at the time the episode aired; making phone calls over the computer is a bit antiquated these days since one can talk to someone via a webcam videophone-style service such as Skype).
** Played straight though in "Beating is Fundamental," which has T.J.'s nemesis Blake Jordan complain that T.J.'s computer (presumably his internet connection) was slow, implying he had dial-up service.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Aside from the fashion sense of some characters (Yvette's tam hats in some earlier episodes, especially), the series made quite a few pop culture references that date the show to the late [[TheNineties Nineties]].

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Marcus: A put-upon brother ButtMonkey or just a whiney asshole that takes T.J.'s gifts for granted?
** Also, is T.J. just a sympathetic {{Insufferable Genius}} or is he too smart for his own good and displaying the early signs of sociopathy with the way he often manipulates people into doing what he wants?

* GaryStu: TJ to an extent.

* NoYay/RelationshipWritingFumble: Some of the interactions between Floyd and Yvette can come across as this due to the small age difference between the two actors as well as the fact Yvette and Floyd had many plots together. They arguably came across more as a married couple than as father and daughter.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Aside from the fashion sense of some characters (Yvette's tam hats in some earlier episodes, especially), the series made quite a few pop culture references that date the show to the late [[Main/TheNineties Nineties]].

* RelationshipWritingFumble: Some of the interactions between Floyd and Yvette can come across as this due to the small age difference between the two actors as well as the fact Yvette and Floyd had many plots together. They arguably came across more as a married couple than as father and daughter.

* NoYay: Some of the interactions between Floyd and Yvette can come across as this due to the small age difference between the two actors as well as the fact Yvette and Floyd had many plots together.

* HilariousInHindsight: In "A Date with Destiny", when Floyd asks the members of Music/DestinysChild if they eat red meat, original member [=LaTavia=] Robertson responds with "we're from Texas, if you don't eat red meat, they'll move you clean out the state". 15 years later in 2014, it was revealed that Music/{{Beyonce}} – another founding member of the group – has switched to a vegan diet[[note]]Which means not only does she not eat red meat anymore, but doesn't consume any animal products or byproducts, such as dairy and even honey[[/note]], later even serving as a spokesperson for a mail-order vegan meal service... and she had long moved clean out of Texas to L.A. by that point.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: "A Date with Destiny" features a Take That to Music/MichaelJackson about him having grown up in the spotlight, when T.J. tries to convince Floyd to let him appear on a world tour with Music/DestinysChild as a dancer:

* HilariousInHindsight: In "A Date with Destiny", when Floyd asks the members of Music/DestinysChild if they eat red meat, original member [=LaTavia=] Robertson responds with "we're from Texas, if you don't eat red meat, they'll move you clean out the state". 15 years later in 2014, it was revealed that Music/{{Beyonce}} – another founding member of the group – has switched to a vegan diet[[note]]Which means not only does she not eat red meat anymore, but doesn't consume any animal products or byproducts[[/note]], later even serving as a spokesperson for a mail-order vegan meal service... and she had long moved clean out of Texas to L.A. by that point.

* HilariousInHindsight: In "A Date with Destiny", when Floyd asks the members of Music/DestinysChild if they eat red meat, original member [=LaTavia=] Robertson responds with "we're from Texas, if you don't eat red meat, they'll move you clean out the state". 15 years later in 2014, it was revealed that Music/{{Beyonce}} – another founding member of the group – has switched to a vegan diet, later even serving as a spokesperson for a mail-order vegan meal service... and she had long moved clean out of Texas to L.A. by that point.

* HilariousInHindsight: In "A Date with Destiny", when Floyd asks the members of Music/DestinysChild if they eat red meat, original member [=LaTavia=] Robertson responds with "we're from Texas, if you don't eat red meat, they'll move you clean out the state". 15 years later in 2014, it was revealed that Music/{{Beyoncé}} – another founding member of the group – has switched to a vegan diet, later even serving as a spokesperson for a mail-order vegan meal service... and she had long moved clean out of Texas to L.A. by that point.

* HilariousInHindsight: In "A Date with Destiny", when Floyd asks the members of Music/DestinysChild if they eat red meat, original member [=LaTavia=] Robertson responds with "we're from Texas, if you don't eat red meat, they'll move you clean out the state". 15 years later in 2014, it was revealed that Music/Beyoncé – another founding member of the group – has switched to a vegan diet, later even serving as a spokesperson for a mail-order vegan meal service... and she had long moved clean out of Texas to L.A. by that point.