History YMMV / Coupling

* HoYay: Jeff imagining Steve nude.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Jeff claiming his girlfriend Julia is dead is a lot less funny and way more depressing when her actress died of cancer two years after the show ended.

* FridgeBrilliance: The first time we meet Oliver's ex-girlfriend Tamsin, he asks her if her breasts are bigger, and she tells him that no, they're just more inaccessible to him. But in later episodes, we learn that she is several months pregnant, meaning that yes, her breasts really were bigger, and Oliver is more perceptive than he at first appears.
* FridgeLogic: Which leads to a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}}.
** During the episode "Inferno," after Jane's very vague grasp of what vegetarianism is, we get this exchange between her and her therapist at dinner:
--->'''Jill:''' A vegetarian is someone who does not eat meat, you insane '''bitch.'''\\
'''Jane:''' I get enough of that language during our sessions.
** Realize that Jane is so screwed up, she has sent a licensed health professional so over the edge, she's insulted her repeatedly -- even calling her "insane," which is not a word psychiatrists are generally fond of. It was our first major glimpse into how messed up Jane really is.
--->'''Jill''': We agreed two months ago to end your therapy, it was going nowhere.
--->'''Jane''': I thought that was just an exercise to help me cope with rejection!
--->'''Jill''': No, that ''was'' rejection.

** In the episode "Bedtime" in series 4, Oliver wears a sweater that says "Bring Back ''Series/DoctorWho''". Considering [[Creator/StevenMoffat who writes the show]], and that a mere ten months after that episode aired, the 9th Doctor made his first appearance... even better, Jack Davenport's wife played TheMaster.

* SeasonalRot: Some believe the show went off the rails at the start of the fourth series, when Richard Coyle quit, Richard Mylan proved an inadequate replacement, and the Patrick-Sally relationship began to receive too much emphasis. Others believe the real rot began in the third series, where the laughs seemed more predictable and less spontaneous than before. Geoffrey Perkins leaving the BBC in 2001 (he was once described as an "enormous influence" by the ''Series/FatherTed'' writers) may have had something to do with this.
* TheWoobie: Jeff.

** In the episode "Bedtime" in series 4, Oliver wears a sweater that says "Bring Back ''Series/DoctorWho''". Considering [[Creator/StevenMoffat who writes the show]], and that a mere ten months after that episode aired, the 9th Doctor made his first appearance... even better, Jack Davenport's wife currently plays TheMaster.

* InformedAttribute: Jeff and Jane are the designated weirdos there, but the others are just as eccentric.
** Patrick's penis is obviously never seen, but according to everybody it's ''huge.''

* NiceMeanAndInbetween:
** Jane and Jeff are nice. While Jeff is a socially inept {{Cloudcuckoolander}} and Jane is an eccentric AttentionWhore, both are actually very sweet and typically kind if a bit blunt. Hapless nerd Oliver also eventually falls into this category.
** Sally and Patrick are mean. Patrick is often oafish and rude, treats women like playthings, and has ''very'' low emotional intelligence, while Sally is incredibly catty and superficial and snaps at people at the slightest provocation.
** Steve and Susan are in between. Steve has his moments of surly, aggressive behavior and Susan can be an emotionally manipulative control freak, but both are capable, grounded people who care about their friends and are committed to making their relationship work.

* ButtMonkey:
** ''Jeff''. Most egregiously, in one episode he does a blindfolded striptease in front of all of his friends, family, and coworkers because he thinks he's alone in a room with a woman he likes. ''And nobody thinks to tell him until he's completely naked.''
** Steve is this the few times he spectacularly blows his cool and goes on an epic rant that usually features him admitting rather some rather embarrassing details about himself.
** Averted with Jane. While she frequently winds up in embarrassing situations (getting caught naked in an apartment that's not her own, talking favorably about sex before marriage and insulting Christianity in front of a Christian group), she completely lacks awareness of this--in fact she often seems to rather enjoy them.

** Steve is this the few times he spectacularly blows his cool and goes on an EpicRant that usually features him admitting rather some rather embarrassing details about himself.

** Jane often winds up in embarrassing situations, but her lack of self-awareness of the embarrassment keeps her from truly being this.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Jeff.