make its final voyage Friday.

Without question, the sitcom, centered on a Taiwanese-Chinese American family in the 1990s living in predominantly white Orlando, Florida — will be immortalized in the canon of Asian-American representation. It accomplished some unique firsts, like being the first American TV show to film on location in Taiwan and having a majority of dialogue in one episode be in Mandarin. It paved the path for movie stardom for Park (“Always Be My Maybe”) and on-screen wife Constance Wu (“Crazy Rich Asians,” “Hustlers”). And having passed 100 episodes, the Huangs will live on in syndication for years to come.

Hudson Yang, 16, was 9 years old when he won the role of Eddie. Thanks to his father, journalist Jeff Yang, he had an inkling this wasn’t just any TV gig.

“My Dad would definitely talk about how important it was to have this kind of show. We talked about how previously ‘All-American Girl’ tried to do the same thing,” Yang said. “I knew a little bit about how important it was but I didn’t really know the full scale until a little bit later on.”

The series used culturally specific humor while trying to universally appeal to a broadcast network audience.

“What was smart was having a writers’ room, showrunner and actors that felt more empowered like they were part of the process,” said Stephen Gong, executive director of the Center for Asian American Media. “They take that stereotype-based joke and turn it on its head a little bit more. That’s where the in-community joke gets funnier.”

The show may also be remembered for headlines generated off-screen. Wu, who was not available for an interview, shocked viewers when she angrily tweeted about the show’s renewal in May. She issued an explanation the next day, saying she would have to give up another project. She also apologized for being “insensitive” to struggling actors.

During the show’s first season, the real-life Eddie Huang distanced himself from the show. In an essay for Vulture in 2015, he slammed it as a “cornstarch story” that was less about specific moments in his life and was instead a bland, “one-size-fits-all” narrative. Huang hasn’t wavered.

“I take representing my experience as an Asian American in this country very seriously,” Huang said in an interview in January. “I never compromised it for what a company or brand or studio told me to do.”

For better or worse, the show was often treated as a default ambassador for the Asian-American experience. So, the cast understands some of the criticism from Huang and others.

“As expected, there were some people who were like ‘This isn’t my family.’ It’s an understandable kind of response when there’s only one,” Park said. “But I get stopped by people of different races who say how much they love the show.”

“Fresh Off the Boat’s” absence leaves “Awkwafina is Nora from Queens,” the Comedy Central series led by the star of “The Farewell,” as the only other U.S. series with a mostly Asian cast. But because of “Fresh Off the Boat,” there’s already hope that Asian American-led successors will no longer be seen as out of the ordinary.

“It is redefining what mainstream culture is. I think that’s the legacy,” Gong said. “It helped redefined a space that will help all creative Asian American media, producers and artists.”