Parenthood (film)/YMMV

1989 Movie

• Crowning Moment of Funny:

Gil: (about Grandma) If she's so brilliant, how come she's sitting in our neighbor's car?

• He Really Can Act: Keanu. Yes he plays Tod, yet another spaced-out slacker, but does so with grace and pathos.
  • He really delivers one of the defining speeches of the movie and shows Tod's Hidden Depths subtly but clearly.

2010 Television Show

• Ensemble Darkhorse: Alex. His scene with Kristina after he and Haddie broke up was a Tear Jerker and one of the best moments of Season 3
  • Also Drew. Positively adorkable.
  • Amber, Max and most definitely Sarah.
• Family-Unfriendly Aesop / Unfortunate Implications: In an episode where an aspergers child has to learn to apologize with the help of a teacher regarding his getting into a fight, the teacher showed him a tape of someone apologizing for something he did so he'd have a way to emulate how to apologize. The video she showed as the model was when Bill Clinton had a public broadcasted apology shortly before the Lewinsky Sex Scandals and Clinton impeachment hearings came about, which alongside the issue of whether Clinton was actually sincere with his apology, carried the implication that the teacher was essentially teaching the kid to fake remorse and deliver a unsincere apology. The PJTV Poliwood series episode "Toeing the Communist Party Line: How The Left Conquered Hollywood" even lampshades this.
• The Woobie: Judging by his politeness for a 14-year old boy who has been though parental abandonment and all sorts of nasty hardships, his reactions to awkward family situations, and how the audience plain loves him, Drew is fitting this trope to a T. The audience continues to beg for more of him every episode.
  • Mr. Cyr as well, given Sarah's treatment of him since his introduction as a love interest and the recent re-appearance of Seth. bordering on a concerted effort to Break the Cutie.