Well, at the time, I thought it was pretty good. So it might just have been 6-10 year olds in general.
However, I’m not really curious enough about it to confirm or refute my old memories, and it doesn’t have nearly the nostalgia factor of several other shows from around that time.
Mining that Irony Mine for all its worth, I see…
I was about that age when it was on, and even then I realized it was bad. I watched it and laughed at it for being so bad. And I loved my 80’s sitcoms, so for me to think it was bad, it must have been really bad. It was worse than ALF, worse than Out of This World, worse than Charles in Charge. It was bad.
I remember wondering why she had to wear that dress every day, and yet they were trying to pass her as normal. I was able to pick it apart even as a little girl.
It really has to go down as one of the worst tv shows ever created, and it is amazing that it had multiple seasons.
I loved it when it was on – but since I would have been what, seven or so when it was on, I suppose my taste wasn’t all that discriminating. :o
You must be at least 1.5 - 2 decades younger than I pictured you.
Small Wonder must have came on before or after something I liked, because I remember watching it, but I don’t remember having any opinion of it whatsoever. I feel that way about a lot of '80s shows. I should’ve spent more time outside playing.
I think that’s a compliment. But no, I’m a 32-year-old grad student. By hobbit standards, I haven’t even come of age yet.
I love “Small Wonder.” Not really in its own right, but it’s a perfect time-capsule of everything wrong with sitcoms from my childhood. It’s so poorly written it borders on being anti-humor, something I didn’t see until years later with “The Amanda Show.”
I’ve long had a dream of writing a stage play that starts off as a serious piece about a young man struggling to make ends meet and find intimacy in the soul-crushing tedium of modern middle-class life. Something of a straight-faced parody of many modern “poor me” works. In the second act, the protagonist’s sister visits. His sister is VICKY from “Small Wonder.” Hijinks ensue.