History Awesome / VEEP

* The Season 5 finale reveals the true greatest MagnificentBastard of the series to be VP Doyle, who finally gets back at Selina by screwing ''both'' her and Tom James out of the presidency, while earning a cushy job as Secretary of State for the new president.

--> Where I come from, we kill people for looking at us funny. We waterboard folks who haven't even done anything. And you raped my tit. Oh, yeah, you did. So I'm coming for you 'cause I'm an [[VideoGame/AngryBirds Angry Bird]] right now and you're a pig.

-->'''Jonah''': If you want to work for me...

-->'''Jonah''': Then I would start treating me with the respect that I deserve.

-->'''Jonah''': If you ever want a job for me...

-->'''Selina:''' Don't look around. No one's gonna save you.

--> '''Catherine''': Okay. Your big day is a travesty. I get it. It's like my 21st birthday. Or my 18th birthday. Or every other birthday, okay? Your entire life has been leading up to this moment. As a result of that, my entire life has been ''awful''. Posing for Christmas cards, watching C-SPAN instead of "Sesame Street," going to memorials of old Israeli men that I've never even heard of. I have had a hard, lonely, miserable life. The only thing that is going to make it worthwhile is if I become the daughter of the next President of the United States. So you need to go out there. And you need to stop behaving like a little bitch.
* Amy [[spoiler: leaking to Jonah to get Ray and Dan fired and land herself the campaign manager job]].
* Selina being sworn in as [[spoiler: the first female President in the third season finale]].

--> '''Kent''': I detest jazz, but this is impressive.

* In "Convention", Amy finally [[RageBreakingPoint snaps]] from Selina consistently ignoring her sensible advice, and [[spoiler: quits, but not before giving Selina a scathing TheReasonYouSuckSpeech about how ineffective she is as a politician, and how her only accomplishment will be ensuring no one ever wants a female president again.]]
--> [[spoiler: I have bitten my tongue so long, it looks like a dog's cushion. But no more. You have made it impossible to do this job. You have two settings: no decision and bad decision. I wouldn't let you run a bath without having the Coast Guard and the fire department standing by, but yet here you are running America. You are the worst thing that has happened to this country since food in buckets and maybe slavery. I've had enough. I'm gone...You have achieved nothing. Apart from one thing. The fact that you are a woman means we will have no more women presidents because we tried one and she fucking sucked. Good-bye, ma'am.]]
** It's made more awesome that, immediately after, Selina realizes that Amy was right and [[spoiler: goes with her suggestion of Tom James, and fires Karen]].

-->'''Selina''': Don't look around. No one's gonna save you.

--> '''Selina''': You're playing a very dangerous game of chicken with the head fucking hen, 'cause if I don't win the White House, O'Brien is gonna sink your stupid boats and you're gonna look like a hair-sprayed asshole in your 1980s mother-of-the-bride dress. And if I do win, I will have my administration come to your shitty little district and shake it to death like a Guatemalan nanny. And then I'm gonna have the IRS crawl so far up your husband's colon, he's gonna wish the only thing they find is more cancer.
--> '''Nickerson''': ''(quietly)'' Good God.
--> '''Selina''': So can I count on your vote? Or do I need to shove a box of White House M&Ms up your stretched-out six-baby vag?

--> '''Nickerson''': Yes you can count on my vote.
--> '''Selina''': I think I want to hear an 'Okey-dokey, Annie Oakley.[[note]]an expression Nickerson used earlier to Selina's annoyance[[/note]]
--> '''Nickerson''': Okey-dokey, Annie Oakley
--> '''Selina''': Super-duper, trooper! Now get the fuck out of here, congresswoman.

* The Season 5 finale reveals the true greatest MagnificentBastard of the series to be [[spoiler:VP Doyle, who finally gets back at Selina by screwing ''both'' her and Tom James out of the presidency, while earning a cushy job as Secretary of State for the new president.]]
** The reaction is terrific from Tom who earlier had mockingly offered Selina the VP slot again. [[spoiler: as he just stares in utter shock, Selina can only choke out "now you know what it feels like."]]
** After Selina learns that [[spoiler: she'll be neither President ''or'' Vice-President]], Gary chews out the rest of the staff for only caring about how it affects them, with no concern for Selina's feelings. It's so stunning that everyone in the room is either too impressed, too amused, or too taken aback to snark back at Gary when he's done.
-->'''Dan''': ''(on phone)'' I have to call you back, something amazing is happening.
-->'''Ben''': ...Well, that makes the whole last year worth it.
* The revelation that ''Sue'' is the one member of the staff asked to stay on for [[spoiler: President Montez.]]

* At the end of Season 6, [[spoiler:Mike losing his diary of Selina's time in office ends up revealing to the public that she was the true mastermind behind the freeing of Tibet that Montez has been taking credit for. This actually gives her such a big popularity boost that she can genuinely run for president again.]]

** A minor moment, but all the better considering [[ButtMonkey who it's coming from]] -- Mike zinging Dan for his fashion choices. [[spoiler: And in the DistantFinale has become CBS' main anchor.]]
** [[spoiler:Richard eventually becomes President years after Selina's single term, and wins the Nobel Peace Prize for a [[TakeAThirdOption three-state Middle East peace solution]].]]

* From the GrandFinale: [[spoiler:Richard eventually becomes President years after Selina's single term, and wins the Nobel Peace Prize for a [[TakeAThirdOption three-state Middle East peace solution]].]]

* In "Super Tuesday", Richard inadvertently exposes that a number of Iowa state legislators are in the pocket of long-time scumbag Sydney Percelle, leading to them all being arrested. As one of them is the lieutenant governor, the governor asks Richard to take his place.

* In "South Carolina", Richard is video chatting with Catherine when a crop duster suddenly crashes nearby. Shortly after, a panicked Catherine tells Marjorie that something happenned to Richard. We then see on the news that Richard singlehandedly prevented any fatalities from the crash.

-->'''Selina''': Why don't you show some respect for the women like me who built the ladder you use to get up on your soapbox!

-->'''Amy''': "You want me to think about the children, you hog-fingering fucks? I did think about this. I considered it and I cried and yeah, suck my cock, I even prayed a little. And here I am. So you can back the fuck off, you hypocrtical cunts, before I show up to the piss-puddle that is your house and protest your husband wacking it to your daughter's seventh grade yearbook."

-->'''Amy''': "You want me to think about the children, you hog-fingering fucks? I did think about this. I considered it and I cried and yeah, suck my cock, I even prayed a little. And here I am. So you can back the fuck off, you hypocrtical cunts, beofer I show up to the piss-puddle that is your house and protest your husband wacking it to your daughter's seventh grade yearbook."

* In "Discovery Weekend", Tom throws Selina off her game by claiming to have realized that he's always been in love with her. She's genuinely touched by this, until she learns that he's having an affair with his deputy chief of staff. Incensed at having been used, Selina proceeds to not-quite call them out on the affair in public, and putting the other woman in her place, sending her to [[YouGetMeCoffee get her a drink]].

* At the end of Season 6, [[spoiler:Mike losing his diary of Selina's time in office ends up revealing to the public that she was the true mastermind behind the freeing of Tibet that Montez has been taking credit for. This actually gives her such a big popularity boost that she can genuinely run for president again.]]

--> '''Nickerson''': You can count on my vote.

--> '''Nickerson''': Good God.

--> '''Di Benedetto''': Good God.

* The climax of "Judge" has Gary [[CallingTheOldManOut chewing out his emotionally abusive father]].

** The reaction is terrific from Tom who earlier had mockingly offered Selina the VP slot again. [[spoiler: as he just stares in utter shock, Selina can only choke out "now you know how it feels."]]

-->"You can have your trophy wife, and your trophy office, and your trophy baby who you won’t even live to see go to college. But I still got to be president, and you never will."

* While it's incredibly petty, Jonah gets another moment in "Blurb", when he and his bloc of followers in Congress cause a government shutdown in order to stand up to and spite Furlong and the other leadership members who have been looking down on them.

** In the same episode, after Selina is pretty much press-ganged into acting as an international observer for Georgia's first free election, she manages to walk away from the situation with several wins -- a sizable donation to her Presidential library (albeit not nearly as large as she was expecting), credit for the election even happening, and a bit of payback at Doyle by claiming the spread of democracy as the "Meyer Doctrine", rather than his self-named "Doyle Doctrine".

* In "Georgia", after previously going through the indignity of having to play the "supportive wife" to her scandal-ridden fiancé, Amy ruins her fiancé's attempt to gracefully leave the gubernatorial race by refusing to stand by his side at his announcment.

* In "Georgia", after previously going through the indignity of having to play the "supportive wife" to her scandal-ridden fiance, Amy ruins her fiance's attempt to gracefully leave the gubernatorial race by refusing to stand by his side at his announcment.