Passions/YMMV

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Ethan Crane got this a lot, as a lot of fans saw him as an asshole who treated both of his women like shit. He refused to cut bait on Gwen for her own mental well-being while refusing to allow Theresa to move on with her life.
  • Theresa and Gwen also qualify: Theresa's a batshit crazy stalker who can't deal with rejection, while Gwen is the poor cheated on woman who at worst, simply can't see that the man she is in love with is an asshole who doesn't love her but keeps leading her on because his reputation can't let him dump his longtime girlfriend for a crazy stalker he's fallen in love with.
• Arc Fatigue: This show is the epitome of this trope.
• Ass Pull: The writers pull this in the series finale. It is revealed that Gwen and Rebecca once went to Vegas together to get over Ethan. While there, Gwen got drunk and married a total stranger by an Elvis impersonator, therefore making her marriage to Ethan null and void so that Ethan and Theresa can be free to marry. Oh please!
• Non Sequitur Scene: When Theresa is giving birth to her son she, Gwen, and Ethan break character and start singing the theme song.
• Broken Base : Fancy being introduced as Luis' new love interest. This lead to some pretty nasty internet board wars between Sheridan and Luis fans and Fancy and Luis fans.
  • And let's not talk about the fans who argue about Gwen and Theresa, always fighting over who's the better of the two and why. Despite Theresa having the majority of the fanbase on her side, this still happened nevertheless.
• Complete Monster: Alistair Crane.
• Crazy Awesome: THE WHOLE DAMN SHOW. Seriously, it has an old lady FIGHTING OFF MOUNTAIN LIONS WHILE WATER-SKIING. THIS IS THE GREATEST SHOW EVER.
  • Let's not forget the Crazy Awesome Lesbian partners-in-crime Norma Bates (a very obvious homage to Norman Bates) and Edna Wallace. Norma carries her "Daddy's" skull around and talks to it as if it were alive, and constantly plots with Edna to kill Tabitha.
  • This is somewhat YMMV due to the at times the overly convoluted Villain plots and endless plot filler seemed to at times derail even the shows Crazy Awesome and paranormal elements.
• Ensemble Darkhorse: Tabitha and Timmy. Fancy Crane also counts, given how her pairing with Luis caught on with fans and ultimately replaced Sheridan/Luis as the super-couple default couple. Not to mention Esme, Fancy's perpetually drunk and pill-popping best friend.
  • Also Fox Crane, when played by Justin Hartley. It's almost hard to believe there were a full three years of this show before he slid into town.
• Fan-Preferred Couple: Hank/Gwen, Fox/Theresa.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Quite possibly the saddest one yet: Josh Ryan Evans died the same day that Timmy's death aired.
  • David Bailey, the second actor to play Alistair Crane, died after drowning on his pool. His death occurred while the show was airing a story arc about other characters who were trying to kill him.
• Memetic Mutation: It's Fatuh.
  • "Wait a minute. I know what's going on here!" (Note: He doesn't.)
• Misaimed Fandom: Gwen; she does some extremely bad things that qualify as Moral Event Horizon crossing, but some fans generally justify it by pointing out that she's driven to these things by Ethan's manipulation of her.
  • Also Theresa pretending to be her friend just to get close to Ethan.
• Moral Event Horizon: Gwen agreeing to help her mother with the Juanita Vasquez plot, arguably.
  • Theresa's rape of Ethan (disguising herself as Gwen and drugging his drink). Same goes for Sheridan: Fancy tries to prove to Luis that her attacker came back into her room, and to prove it, she says a button got ripped off from his shirt when she fought him off. Sheridan sees it first on the floor. She grabs it and keeps it for herself in order to try and convince Luis that Fancy is crazy and is only trying to get attention.
• Portmanteau Couple Name: ET or Therethan (Ethan/Theresa), Shuis (Sheridan/Luis), Charguel (Charity/Miguel), Chadney (Chad/Whitney), Gram (Grace/Sam), Savy (Sam/Ivy), Juvy (Julian/Ivy), Evian (Eve/Julian), Therox (Theresa/Fox), Gwank (Gwen/Hank, but although they were never a couple, fans liked the idea of the two together).
• So Bad It's Good: The whole damn show positively embodies this trope.
  • So Cool Its Awesome: The real embodiment of this show.
• Special Effects Failure: Magically throwing around a vase through bad compositing.
• Super Couple: Ethan/Theresa, Sam/Grace, Miguel/Charity, Sheridan/Luis.
• Tear Jerker: Gwen's utter devastation of her stillborn daughter Sarah in LA and her aborted son Nathan from the "Who's The Mommy?" storyline.
• They Just Didn't Care: The quality of the writing for the show got less and less realistic and more pathetic as the show went on.
• Unfortunate Implications: Kay gives into rape and selling her soul into stealing Miguel away from Charity. It completely worked.
  • Similarly, Theresa raped Ethan at least three times. They are happily married in the finale.
• The Woobie: Theresa, Gwen (she does have moments of this), Charity, Sheridan, Fancy, Timmy.