History YMMV / TheGreatestAmericanHero

* LifeImitatesArt: In "My Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys" Ralph repeatedly states "I grew up on this guy!" regarding Radio/TheLoneRanger. Now a lot of people who grew up in the early 80s say the same thing about Ralph and GAH.

* HilariousInHindsight: The "Captain Bellybuster" episode features Chuck [=McCann=] as said role, years before he'd become the voice of Duckworth on Disney's ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987''. What's amusing is in this episode, Bellybuster, along with Ralph and Bill, are referred to as "Huey Dewy, and Louie" by a villain at one point.

* YouLookFamiliar: The actor who played Pam's Hardware store owner Dad in "Here's Looking at you Kid" shows up as a sports announcer in "It's All Downhill From Here" and "The Price Is Right".

* BrokenBase: Ralph losing the second instruction booklet. Some fans claim that TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot about a ton of scenarios involving Ralph learning the full capabilities of the suit, while still maintaining the mishaps that made the show more than a conventional action adventure show (when Ralph begins to read the second book, he displays the ability to shrink and becomes smaller than an ant, but can't figure out how to return to normal size), and that it could have opened up new scenarios where HilarityEnsues because what Ralph tries to do [[GoneHorriblyRight goes horribly right]]; while others think that letting Ralph kept the instruction manual meant that he'd no longer have a reason to be incompetent at super-heroics, and thus risk turning him into a boring InvincibleHero.

** Averted in the minds of some viewers who feel the television budget obvious green screen and reuse of scenes have the side effect of nicely parodying the Superman Movie's "You will believe a man can fly" effects.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/DannyGlover is a vice cop in the episode "Fire Man".

** Seeing Faye Grant and Richard Herd in the pilot when you know they both appeared in [[Series/{{V1983}} another 1980s series involving aliens visiting Earth]].

* BrokenBase: Ralph losing the second instruction booklet. Some fans claim that TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot about a ton of scenarios involving Ralph learning the full capabilities of the suit, while still maintaining the mishaps that made the show more than a conventional action adventure show (when Ralph begins to read the second book, he displays the ability to shrink and becomes smaller than an ant, but can't figure out how to return to no rmal size), and that it could have opened up new scenarios where HilarityEnsues because what Ralph tries to do [[GoneHorriblyRight goes horribly right]]; while others think that letting Ralph kept the instruction manual meant that he'd no longer have a reason to be incompetent at super-heroics, and thus risk turning him into a boring InvincibleHero.

** Seeing Faye Grant and Richard Herd in the pilot when you know they both appeared in [[Series/V1983 another 1980s series involving aliens visiting Earth]].

* BrokenBase: Ralph losing the second instruction booklet. Some fans claim that TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot about a ton of scenarios involving Ralph learning the full capabilities of the suit, while still maintaining the mishaps that made the show more than a conventional action adventure show (when Ralph begins to read the second book, he displays the ability to shrink and becomes smaller than an ant, but can't figure out how to return to normal size), and that it could have opened up new scenarios where HilarityEnsues because what Ralph tries to do [[GoneHorriblyRight goes horribly right]]; while others think that letting Ralph kept the instruction manual meant that he'd no longer have a reason to be incompetent at super-heroics, and thus risk turning him into a boring InvincibleHero.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/DannyGlover is a vice cop in the episode "Fire Man".
* SpecialEffectFailure:
** Averted in the minds of some viewers who feel the television budget obvious green screen and reuse of scenes have the side effect of nicely parodying the Superman Movie's "You will believe a man can fly" effects.
** The sea monster at the end of "The Devil in the Deep Blue Sea" is a laughably bad hand puppet that thankfully only appears for a few seconds.
** The current page image for [[SpecialEffectFailure/LiveActionTV the live action TV subpage]] is from an early episode ("Here's Looking at You, Kid") in which Ralph is trying to control his invisibility powers, and ends up becoming partly visible—with great dirty overlaps between the blended shots.
* WeirdAlEffect:

** Averted in the minds of some viewers who feel the television budget obvious green screen and reuse of scenes have the side effect of nicely parodying the Superman Movie's 'You will believe a man can fly" effects.

* EarWorm:
-->''Believe it or not, IIIIII'm walking on air,''
-->''I never thought I could feel so free-hee-hee.''
-->''Flyin' away on a wiiiing and a prayer.''
-->''Who could it be?''
-->''Believe it or not, it's just me.''
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9Q3orQhEcA ...You're welcome.]]

* HilariousInHindsight: The "Captain Bellybuster" episode features Chuck [=McCann=] as said role, years before he'd become the voice of Duckworth on Disney's ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales''. What's amusing is in this episode, Bellybuster, along with Ralph and Bill, are referred to as "Huey Dewy, and Louie" by a villain at one point.

*** It was also used in [[Anime/{{Ukinojoe}} Dog of Wisdom]], being sung by the two dogs in the video.

* HilariousInHindsight: The "Captain Bellybuster" episode features Chuck McCann as said role, years before he'd become the voice of Duckworth on Disney's ''DuckTales''. What's amusing is in this episode, Bellybuster, along with Ralph and Bill, are referred to as "Huey Dewy, and Louie" by a villain at one point.

*** It was also used in [[{{Ukinojoe}} Dog of Wisdom]], being sung by the two dogs in the video.
*** In ''Film/{{Kickassia}}'', it forms the tune on Sean's answering machine ("''Believe it or not, Sean isn't at home...''"), which may have been a parody of both the original theme and the ''Seinfeld'' spoof.