History YMMV / SwitchedAtBirth

* TrueArtIsIncomprehensible: Bay seems to believe this--she is something of a secret Creator/{{Banksy}} and puts modern artwork all over town.

** Angelo: an estranged father hoping for a second chance, or a slimy criminal looking for a cut of the lawsuit? After the trial it became obvious that it's the former. Regina admitted early on that he wasn't really as bad as she had described him to Daphne.

* BizarroEpisode: "Yuletide Fortune Tellers" counts as it's an AlternateRealityEpisode which aired as the last episode of season three, directly after... well, see BittersweetEnding above.

** Some of the ShipToShipCombat between the Daphne/Emmett and Bay/Emmett shippers got up to these levels. The more vocal D/E shippers would often take Bay's initial [[ItsAllAboutMe selfishness]] and BrattyTeenageDaughter tendencies from earlier in the series and turn her into a domineering vixen that has a {{uke|fication}}fied Emmett under her thumb while completely ignoring her CharacterDevelopment over the course of the season. On the flipside, the more rabid B/E shippers will twist Daphne up into a possessive and psychotic {{Yandere}} that wouldn't think twice to MurderTheHypotenuse, conveniently forgetting the fact that the worst things Daphne ever did were mostly a bunch of failed and largely half-assed attempts at RelationshipSabotage. Thankfully, it's died down with the passage of time, and from Daphne ultimately pulling a genuine IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy in regards to Emmett and giving him and Bay her blessing.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Emmett, the Deaf motorcycling drummer. Also Tank.

*** Bay and Natalie have some excellent BelligerentSexualTension, and now it's canon that Natalie likes the ladies...

* SeasonalRot: This goes here, because more and more of the show's ''many'' Deaf fans are complaining that the actors are getting lazy and sloppy with their signing. To top this, according to several of the "extras" who saw behind the stage, there ''is an ASL specialist'', and yet some of the main actors refuse to listen to the specialist and continue to sign in their increasingly grammatically-incorrect way.

* WatchedItForTheRepresentation: This is a show that prominently features Deaf culture as several of its characters, including one of its protagonists, is Deaf, so many people who were Deaf and Hard of Hearing tuned in to see how the show would depict their mannerisms, culture and community.

** Take your pick. Bay, Daphne and Emmett all have their moments. Bay feels she doesn't fit with the parents that raised her and think they like Daphne more, and she feels her birth mother chose Daphne over her. Daphne feels angry with Regina for not telling her about the switch and keeping her from the Kennishes, then has Emmett choose Bay over her. Emmett watched Daphne date other guys for eight years, before having her express her feelings after he started dating Bay. Not to mention the LonelyPianoPiece that plays when he can't understand what someone's saying.

* CriticalResearchFailure:
** This goes here, because more and more of the show's ''many'' Deaf fans are complaining that the actors are getting lazy and sloppy with their signing.
** To top this, according to several of the "extras" who saw behind the stage, there ''is an ASL specialist'', and yet some of the main actors refuse to listen to the specialist and continue to sign in their increasingly grammatically-incorrect way.

** On an unrelated note, Daphne is a pescatarian, not a vegetarian, as she eats shrimp. A full vegetarian would not eat seafood. Possibly justified, as she is a teenager and may not be too concerned with the specific label. And yet, she IS concerned about being agnostic rather than an atheist. Perhaps she thought it's easier to say she is vegetarian than start explaining what pescatarian is.

* CriticalResearchFailure: This goes here, because more and more of the show's ''many'' Deaf fans are complaining that the actors are getting lazy and sloppy with their signing.

** The second season episode "Uprising" was touted as being almost completely silent (save for the non-diegetic background music), and almost entirely in ASL (with open captions for hearing viewers). However, the effectiveness of this as a storytelling technique is undermined when Bay's HardWorkMontage in the middle features a song with audible lyrics.

** Some of the ShipToShipCombat between the Daphne/Emmett and Bay/Emmett shippers got up to these levels. The more vocal D/E shippers would often take Bay's initial [[ItsAllAboutMe selfishness]] and BrattyTeenageDaughter tendencies from earlier in the series and turn her into a domineering vixen that has a {{wimpifi|cation}}fied Emmett under her thumb while completely ignoring her CharacterDevelopment over the course of the season. On the flipside, the more rabid B/E shippers will twist Daphne up into a possessive and psychotic {{Yandere}} that wouldn't think twice to MurderTheHypotenuse, conveniently forgetting the fact that the worst things Daphne ever did were mostly a bunch of failed and largely half-assed attempts at RelationshipSabotage. Thankfully, it's died down with the passage of time, and from Daphne ultimately pulling a genuine IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy in regards to Emmett and giving him and Bay her blessing.

** On an unrelated note, Daphne is a pescatarian, not a vegetarian, as she eats shrimp. A full vegetarian would not eat seafood. Possibly {{justified|Trope}}, as she is a teenager and may not be too concerned with the specific label.
*** And yet, she IS concerned about being agnostic rather than an atheist. Perhaps she thought it's easier to say she is vegetarian than start explaining what pescatarian is.