History YMMV / HowItsMade

** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fy0MXQ3hAwo opening theme itself]] is pretty awesome, a fittingly industrial-influenced banger that really sets the tone for the following episode.

* MemeticMutation: The Latin American Spanish dub of the Bread episode rose into fame after a WebAnimation/YouTubePoop video presented a deranged version of it by twisting many parts of the explanation on the making of bread, all for laughs. Even those who later watched the normal episode [[CantUnHearIt have been unable to properly listen the narrator's speech without being reminded of the twisted version]]. Some of the phrases popularized by the YTP version include, but are not limited to:

** Anytime an instrument is the subject being made, viewers are treated to the instrument being played over the end of the segment in a nice bit SomethingCompletelyDifferent.

* ReplacementScrappy: Inverted with Mark Tewksbury, the show's first host, who did absolutely nothing to fight the common stereotype that all athletes have very dull personalities and voices. Predictably, many people skip the parts where he introduces the show, and hate the fact that they're forced to listen to him drone on during the narration. Check the Website/YouTube comments for the first episodes.
** Played straight with Zac Fine, who replaced Brooks Moore as the American narrator in seasons 9 and 10. While Fine doesn't do a necessarily ''awful'' job, Moore had been with the show since its very inception, so it was inevitable there'd be backlash from viewers who were used to and enjoyed his narration. Moore would return to the series permanently by season 11.

* ReplacementScrappy: Inverted with Mark Tewksbury, the show's first host, who did absolutely nothing to fight the common stereotype that all athletes have very dull personalities and voices. Predictably, many people skip the parts where he introduces the show, and hate the fact that they're forced to listen to him drone on during the narration. Check the Website/YouTube comments for the first episodes...

* EarWorm:
** The short [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGs7kXE8Pp8 opening theme]] is incredibly catchy.
** The segments themselves have simple and repetitive BackgroundMusic that will be stuck in your head for a while.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The background music that plays in the "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBskjhd076o Pipe Organs]]" segment is called "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9pN_RZTC4E Variations on O Filii et Filiae]], Op. 49, No. 2" by Alexandre Guilmant.

* EarWorm: The short [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGs7kXE8Pp8 opening theme]] is incredibly catchy.

* NauseaFuel[=/=]{{Squick}}: The "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGdrXarpi34 Artificial Eyes]]" segment. The way it's being done is just... gag-and-barf-worthy.

** Alternately, you could've seen it as [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments rather funny]], the chicks trying to run away while the conveyor whisks them off to be packed. "No, I don't wanna go in the box!"

* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: In some episodes, ESPECIALLY the aforementioned "artificial eyes" and "hatchery chicks" segments.
** One episode show the making of an animatronic crazy woman (Crazy Karen). The host actually says some images would be too disturbing for children. He wasn't wrong.

* HilariousInHindsight: The end of the "Video Games" segment shows people playing ''VideoGame/PrinceOfPersiaTheSandsOfTime'' as the narrator says that programmers would send the completed version of the game to people for review before buying it "and hope it becomes a hit". The narrator is not far off, for at the time the segment aired in 2003, ''The Sands of Time'' became one of the best reviewed games for [=PlayStation=] 2, Xbox and GameCube, scoring around 92% and 92 out of 100 at [=GameRankings=] and Metacritic; it even went so far as to win the Editor's Choice Awards for [=GameSpot=] and IGN; Best Action/Adventure Game at the E3 2003 Game Critics Awards; Best Absolutely Everything (Game of the Year 2003) at Penny Arcade; and 2003 Game of the Year at ''Electronic Gaming Monthly''.

* ReplacementScrappy: Inverted with Mark Tewksbury, the show's first host, who did absolutely nothing to fight the common stereotype that all athletes have very dull personalities and voices. Predictably, many people skip the parts where he introduces the show, and hate the fact that they're forced to listen to him drone on during the narration. Check the YouTube comments for the first episodes...

* ReplacementScrappy: Inverted with Mark Tewksbury, the show's first host.

* XPacHeat: The first episodes were narrated by pro swimmer Mark Tewksbury, who did absolutely nothing to fight the common stereotype that all athletes have very dull personalities and voices. Predictably, many people skip the parts where he introduces the show, and hate the fact that they're forced to listen to him drone on during the narration. Check the YouTube comments for the first episodes...

* AccidentalNightmareFuel: The "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVf6KXVIZ5I hatchery chicks]]" segment. Oh, God! Scenes of little chicks getting hatched only to be tossed about in {{conveyor belt|ODoom}}s and machines... [[SoundtrackDissonance all to a tune of some happy/creepy music]]! Sure, they get better and all, but still...
** Alternately, you could've seen it as [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments rather funny]], the chicks trying to run away while the conveyor whisks them off to be packed. "No, I don't wanna go in the box!"

** Alternately, you could've seen it as [[CrowningMomentOfFunny rather funny]], the chicks trying to run away while the conveyor whisks them off to be packed. "No, I don't wanna go in the box!"

** Alternately, you could've seen it as rather funny, the chicks trying to run away while the conveyor whisks them off to be packed. "No, I don't wanna go in the box!"

* ReplacementScrappy: Inverted with Mark Tewksbury, the show's first host; see XPacHeat for why.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The background music that plays in the "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBskjhd076o Pipe Organs]]" segment is called "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9pN_RZTC4E O Filii et Filiae]], Op. 49, No. 2" by Alexandre Guilmant.

* BetterThanItSounds: For technology-minded people, this show is like a drug. Woe to you if someone links you a YouTube video of ''How It's Made'' when you're supposed to be doing serious stuff - the "related" tab is going to kill your productivity dead.

* BetterThanItSounds: for technology-minded people, this show is like a drug. Woe to you if someone links you a youtube video of ''How it's made'' when you're supposed to be doing serious stuff - the "related" tab is going to kill your productivity dead.

* XPacHeat: the first episodes were narrated by pro swimmer Mark Tewksbury, who did absolutely nothing to fight the common stereotype that all athletes have very dull personalities and voices. Predictably, many people skip the parts where he introduces the show, and hate the fact that they're forced to listen to him drone on during the narration. Check the YouTube comments for the first episodes...

* XPacHeat: the first episodes were narrated by pro swimmer Mark Tewksbury, who did absolutely nothing to fight the common stereotype that all athletes have [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP-E0KIgOd0#t=0m22s very dull personalities and voices]]. Predictably, many people skip the parts where he introduces the show, and hate the fact that they're forced to listen to him drone on during the narration. Check the YouTube comments for the first episodes...