YMMV / Fresh Off the Boat

• Abandon Shipping: Anyone who wanted to see Eddie and Nicole together had their hopes dashed when Nicole came out as a lesbian.
• Broken Base: There are those who side with Eddie Huang (whose memoir serves as the inspiration for this show) and criticize the writers for moving away from the source material and the darker aspects of the real Eddie's childhood (racism, domestic abuse, drugs, etc.) in favor of more traditional sitcom plots that focus more on the idealized fictional versions of Louis and Jessica. The other side prefers the Lighter and Softer approach, saying that the show can still address the darker issues while providing the audience with an entertaining show that features an ethnic group that is greatly underrepresented in American pop culture.
• Crazy Is Cool: Jessica. She deals with dine-and-dashers by hitting them with her van, and then taking the one that escaped out by hitting him with a thrown onion.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • The real Eddie Huang lobbied for the show to preserve its original title rather than being changed because it better represented his experiences. Subsequent changes to the show's narrative in relation to his life ultimately led him to quit since it wasn't about his childhood anymore.
  • The highly vitriolic reaction to Constance Wu's public disappointment that the show was renewed for a final season looks worse when in 2022, Wu revealed that she was partly ready to move on from the series because during the early years of the series, she was repeatedly sexually harassed by a producer.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Stan Lee cameoed in a season 3 episode. A few months after it aired, Randall Park joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe, as Agent Jimmy Woo (who makes his big-screen debut in Ant-Man and the Wasp).
• Jerkass Woobie: Jessica. All of her Jerkass behavior are born from worries for her family, cultural differences or because she tried too hard to please someone (especially her mother).
• Memetic Mutation:
  • It's become popular to recreate the "Neutral Face of Displeasure" scene with characters from other fandoms.
  • "The garbage man is right. Promote him. Promote him to garbage boss."^explanation Jessica's comment on a janitor being able to explain Four Is Death is also used as a reaction image to people or characters that are massively disliked but still manage to say something correct.