History YMMV / VoyageToTheBottomOfTheSea

* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: Richard Basehart, full stop, period.

* ColbertBump: The show would probably be a lot more obscure now without ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'' having featured a RunningGag of Gypsy's obsession with Richard Basehart.

* MagnificentBastard: "No Way Out": [[DirtyCommies Victor Vail]] is an Eastern Bloc assassin who is introduced succeeding at a training mission in a replica of the ''Seaview'' and then has a friendly chat with his handler while [[WhatMeasureIsAMook dismissing the revelation that he killed one of the instructors by hitting him too hard]]. He kills and impersonate an official who will be on the ''Seaview'' at the same time as Anton, a wounded defector, by posing as a chauffeur and booby trapping a car seat. Victor's attempts to be alone with Anton and kill him are constantly interrupted, and he maintains his cover as an impatient but ultimately reasonable official. He attracts little suspicion until he has to take a call from his cover identity's superior. He tries to bluff his way through the conversation, and when that fails, [[OneManArmy kills or incapacitates many sailors while fleeing through the ship]]. He makes it to Anton's room through an air vent and learns that there is another deep cover agent aboard who he didn't know about. He is amused rather than slighted and doesn't protest when the other agent lets him get captured to sell a WoundedGazelleGambit after they fail to kill Anton together.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: The giant squid in the film. Also, the shark is clearly a plastic toy.

* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: Richard Basehart on the series, full stop, period.

* HilariousInHindsight: "The Cyborg" sees Victor Buono as the BigBad taking on aquatic heroes. [[Series/ManFromAtlantis It wouldn't be the last time either]].

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic
* ArtisticLicenseScience: So very, very much of it in the film. And the show.

* ArtisticLicenceScience: So very, very much of it in the film. And the show.

* ArtisticLicenceScience: So very, very much of it in the film.

* ArtisticLicenseScience: So very, very much of it in the film.

* HillariousInHindsight: "The Cyborg" sees Victor Buono as the BigBad taking on aquatic heroes. [[Series/ManFromAtlantis It wouldn't be the last time either]].

* SeasonalRot: The television series began with largely the same tone as [[Film/VoyageToTheBottomOfTheSea the 1961 film]], but by the fourth season they'd gone quite loopy and neck-deep into fantasy elements. Whether that's [[BrokenBase a good or bad thing]] is up for debate, but it's hard to believe that the show moved from "City Beneath the Sea" to something like "The Deadly Dolls" (the latter is exactly what it sounds like: a story about cursed puppets that would seem more at home in ''Series/TheTwilightZone'' than in what began as "serious" SciFi).

* AwesomeMusic

* SeasonalRot: The television series began with largely the same tone as [[Film/VoyageToTheBottomOfTheSea the 1961 film]], but by the fourth season they'd gone quite loopy and neck-deep into fantasy elements. Whether that's [[BrokenBase a good or bad thing]] is up for debate, but it's hard to believe that the show moved from "City Beneath the Sea" to something like "The Deadly Dolls" (the latter is exactly what it sounds like: a story about cursed puppets that would seem more at home in ''Series/TheTwillightZone'' than in what began as "serious" SciFi).

* SeasonalRot: The television series began with largely the same tone as [[Film/VoyageToTheBottomOfTheSea the 1961 film]], but by the fourth series they'd gone snooker loopy. It's hard to believe that the show moved from "City Beneath the Sea" to something like "The Deadly Dolls". The latter is exactly as stupid as it sounds.

* SpecialEffectsFailure: The giant squid in the film.

* ColbertBump: The show would probably be a lot more obscure now without ''MysteryScienceTheater3000'' having featured a RunningGag of Gypsy's obsession with Richard Basehart.

* SeasonalRot: The television series began with largely the same tone as the 1961 film, but by the fourth series they'd gone snooker loopy. It's hard to believe that the show moved from "City Beneath the Sea" to something like "The Deadly Dolls". The latter is exactly as stupid as it sounds.

* AdaptationDecay: The 1961 ''Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea'' was a fairly staid, entertaining sci-fi film, despite the DeusExNukina and TechnoBabble UpToEleven. The television series began with largely the same tone, but by the fourth series they'd gone snooker loopy. It's hard to believe that the show moved from "City Beneath the Sea" to something like "The Deadly Dolls". The latter is exactly as stupid as it sounds.