YMMV / Gimme a Break!

• Ensemble Dark Horse: Many fans wish Angie had a larger role or even her own spin-off.
• Growing the Beard: For some, adding Joey, as the show began to focus more on Nell, and the girls were already felt to be too old as it was.
• Harsher in Hindsight: In the episode "Nell's Friend", Addy talks about the progress of Black Women in modern American society. She says "Thank God, we finally put to rest that old stereotypical image of the black woman as nothing but an Aunt Jemima." Right at that moment, Nell walks in wearing a bandana tied Aunt Jemima style on her head, wearing a raggedy dress, and carrying a big basket of laundry; at which point the audience roared with laughter. Fast-forward to 2020 when Quaker Oats excised the Aunt Jemima brand over concerns of racial stereotyping.
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Lara Jill Miller, later an acclaimed voice actress with roles such as the likes of Kari Kamiya, Juniper Lee, Misao Kusakabe, Libby Stein-Torres and Lisa Loud, as Sam.
  • Dennis Haysbert appears as a reverend in "Baby of the Family".
  • Jeff Franklin wrote an episode; Franklin is best known as creator and executive producer of Full House, its spin-off Fuller House, and Hangin' with Mr. Cooper.