Skippy's treatment
I used to watch this show as a teen and, in its early years, this show was meant for my generation. I was 15 in the fall of 1982 when Family Ties first aired.
I thought that Alex was cool and I definitely found Mallory nice to look at. The family wasn't anything like my own and that was definitely a refreshing change for me.
The one thing that I never liked about the show is the way that Skippy was treated by Mallory and sometimes by the whole Keaton family. I thought that Skippy's treatment, by Mallory especially, was nothing less than cruel. I understand that: this was just a TV show, I understand that it was acting, and I have played the role of nerd a time or three myself; but still, I would have told Mallory to jump in the lake. I have never understood how that was supposed to be funny.