History YMMV / GoodOmens

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Pestilence retired following the invention of penicillin, because with the invention of antibiotics and other improvements in medicine, they just didn't have as much to work with anymore. Then in 2020, the world is hit with the Coronavirus pandemic...

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: Pestilence retired following the invention of penicilin. Come 2020, the world is hit with the Corona pandemic.

* MagnificentBastard: Crowley and Aziraphale both. Also, arguably, God and His ineffable Plan.

** Pollution/Famine is an extremely popular ShipMate for either of the above. No, really.

* ValuesDissonance: Shadwell has rather racist views, two characters make homophobic comments, and Newt's Wasabi model car has a voice with an AsianSpeekeeEngrish accent. While the first two examples weren't really supposed to be positive and were more about demonstrating how ignorant said characters are, none of this would be considered very funny today. Creator/NeilGaiman himself has acknowledged that those moments haven't aged well since the time the book was published, and as a result they were removed from [[Series/GoodOmens2019 the series]].

** Americans in general are either stupid, TriggerHappy, bigoted, or some combination thereof. Perhaps best represented by that one soldier guarding the base: not only is he easily impressed by the Witchfinder Army's business card, he thinks they burn gays (faggots being used in the bundles-of-wood sense back then), a stance he wholeheartedly agrees with, and is defeated by Anathema poking him in the back with a stick.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Pestilence has quite a few pieces of fanfic/art for someone who [[TheGhost never actually appears in the book]].

*** Actually, he does have the line, "Tartan is stylish" Where argyle comes into play though, is unknown.

** It doesn't help that Aziraphale comes off, in the words of the text itself, as "gayer than a treeful of monkeys on nitrous oxide".

** The casting of Creator/DavidTennant (the Tenth Doctor) as Crowley turns the presence of [[Series/DoctorWho beeping pepper pot-lookalike aliens]] in the books and Wensleydale's line about watching Doctor Who into this. Plus, Crowly occasionally exhibits snakelike behaviour, just like Barty Crouch Jr. (also played by Tennant) in ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire''.

* AngelDevilShipping: [[CaptainObvious Crowley and Aziraphale.]] Subverted though, since they're both NotSoDifferent.

** The casting of David Tennant (the Tenth Doctor) as Crowley turns the presence of [[Series/DoctorWho beeping pepper pot-lookalike aliens]] in the books and Wensleydale's line about watching Doctor Who into this. Plus, Crowly occasionally exhibits snakelike behaviour, just like Barty Crouch Jr. (also played by Tennant) in ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire''.

* NightmareFuel: [[AndThereWasMuchRejoicing The telemarketers]]. (Surprisingly, possibly the only instance in a book involving demons and the apocalypse.) [[FanNickname Pterry]] blames Neil Gaiman for anything in the book involving maggots.

** The casting of David Tennant (the Tenth Doctor) as Crowley turns the presence of [[Series/DoctorWho beeping pepper pot-lookalike aliens]] in the books and Wensleydale's line about watching Doctor Who into this. Plus, Crowly occasionally exhibits snakelike behaviour, just like Barty Crouch Jr. (also played by Tennant) in ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire''

* GeniusBonus / PunnyName: The etymology of "nice" (or [[YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe "ni∫e"]] if you prefer) has changed drastically over the centuries. Roughly around the time Agnes would have written her book it could indeed have meant "precise". However it's original meaning was "foolish" or "stupid." Then there is the modern meaning attached to the word. They all apply to some extent.

** The ''Buggre Alle This''-Bible calls Mr. Scraggs a "Southwarke knobbestick". This seemingly innocuous phrase takes on new layers of meaning when you know that Southwark was London's RedLightDistrict at the time said bible was (supposedly) printed.

** Interestingly, it is also his CrowningMomentOfAwesome. Well, one of them, anyway.

* MoralEventHorizon: Played with, sort of. Crowley crosses it, at least in the eyes of the other demons, by daring to [[spoiler:use ''Holy Water'' on another demon]].

* MagnificentBastard: Crowley. Also, arguably, God and His ineffable Plan.

* EvilIsSexy: Crowley.

** The casting of David Tennant (the Tenth Doctor) as Crowley turns the presence of [[Series/DoctorWho beeping pepper pot-lookalike aliens]] in the books and Wensleydale's line about watching Doctor Who into this. Plus, Crowly occasionally exhibits snakelike behaviour, just like Barty Crouch Jr. (also played by Tennant) in ''HarryPotter and the Goblet of Fire''

** The casting of David Tennant (the Tenth Doctor) as Crowley turns the presence of [[Series/DoctorWho beeping pepper pot-lookalike aliens]] in the books and Wensleydale's line about watching Doctor Who into this.

** The ''Buggre Alle This''-Bible calls Mr. Scraggs a "Southwarke knobbestick". This seemingly innocuous phrase takes on new layers of meaning when you know that Southwark was London's RedLightDistrict at the time said bible was (supposedly) written.

* HilariousInHindsight: **Music/OwlCity fans will get a kick out of the Antichrist being named Adam Young.

* HilariousInHindsight: Music/OwlCity fans will get a kick out of the Antichrist being named Adam Young.