Line #1 YMMV/SmartGuy


1	* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation:
2	** Marcus: A put-upon brother ButtMonkey or just a whiney asshole that takes T.J.'s gifts for granted?
3	** Also, is T.J. just a sympathetic InsufferableGenius 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?
4	** 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 similar to 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.
5	* DesignatedVillain: The owner of the soda company in "The Soda Wars" comes off as a CorruptCorporateExecutive, but he's not doing anything illegal by raising prices and effectively finding ways to get back the customers who had switched to T.J.'s soda.
6	* EnsembleDarkHorse: Mo. The wackiest character in the show, he is a favorite of a number of ''Smart Guy'' fans.
7	* 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.
8	* PlatonicWritingRomanticReading: 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.
9	* 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]], Creator/ChristinaMilian, Creator/GabrielleUnion and Creator/TarajiPHenson.
10	** [[Series/TheRealHousewives Kenya Moore]] appeared as Vivian, one of the computer company reps who pitches T.J. about which of their computers to select for Piedmont High's new computer system in "Brother, Brother".
11	** Fans who remember Mo were probably surprised to see the sitcom-friendly Omar Gooding (also recognizable from ''Series/WildAndCrazyKids'' and ''Series/HanginWithMrCooper'') as a gangbanger a few years later in the 2001 film ''Film/BabyBoy''.
12	* ToyShip: [[ExpositoryThemeSong Like the song says:]] "he's got a way with the ladies, and he's keepin' it real." T.J. got more than a couple of girls during the series, most notable being recurring [[OppositesAttract complete]] [[SassyBlackWoman opposite]] Brandi, played by Creator/KylaPratt early in her career.

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