YMMV / Postcards from Buster

• Awesome Music: "Hey Buster! Where you off to?" Sung by Wyclef Jean nonetheless.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The "Boy, that's a lot of moms!" controversy in "Sugartime!" has become this, now that in the parent show showed Mr. Ratburn having a gay wedding in 2019. This also doubles as Heartwarming in Hindsight as that episode garnered far less controversy than the one from this show. Most definitely due to society being more accepting of LGBT representation in media years later.
• Nightmare Fuel: "Lost and Found" shows the very real fear of being lost in a foreign country without learning its main language. Buster gets separated from the friends he made in Guanajuato and tries to ask for directions from the people around him including a police officer, but since he doesn't understand Spanish, they are of no help. Luckily, his friends manage to find him, but he is shaken up by this experience that he later has a Nightmare Sequence about it.
• Overshadowed by Controversy: Nowadays, the controversy revolving around the episode "Sugartime!" and its featuring of a child with two moms tends to be the only thing most people remember about this otherwise fairly forgotten spin-off.
• Special Effect Failure: Oftentimes the effect to put Buster into the live action footage will look pretty clunky. With the family picture in "Sugartime!" being one of the uglier examples.
• Sweet Dreams Fuel: It's a relaxing series overall.
• Tough Act to Follow: Postcards from Buster is very much overshadowed by Arthur. The show is often considered merely okay, with neither many dedicated fans nor active haters. It's simply par for the course as an Edutainment Show.
• Unintentional Period Piece: A documentary-style series telling stories about kids in North America is bound to get a little out of date as time goes on. Some examples include:
  • In "A Sense of Direction", Buster visits the Sears Tower, which has since been renamed the Willis Tower.
  • Many landmarks in various places like Los Angeles don't exist anymore.
  • In the first Nashville episode, the idea of a kid going to an expensive studio to record her original song seems a tad excessive, given the technology to record a song is freely available from one's own house.
  • In the second Nashville episode, the Kurdish girl Buster and D.W. (who's in town for a family reunion) meet talks about her father, who's currently serving in Iraq as a translator. The episode aired in early 2005, when the Iraq War was still going on.

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