History YMMV / ManOfTheYear

* IdiotPlot: The voting system glitch upon which the entire plot hinges is ridiculous in many ways. First, the program somehow fails basic math and defaults to alphabetical order. While faulty programming is certainly possible, this is a glitch that should have been caught before the program was ever released as it is the ''primary function'' of the software. Second, the glitch should have been discovered immediately after the election. There should have been a record of every voter and the votes they made, and someone should have noticed that the system called it wrong. Third, that the entire system could be installed ''without'' the rigorous testing necessary to prove it functions correctly (which took Eleanor literally five seconds to prove that it didn't) is unbelievable. Fourth, when Eleanor does said testing, her numbers are always in the low tens of thousands, a number her boss complains is ''large'' (just for reference, a single congressional district represents ~700,000 people). The only way this entire plot could ever possibly go down is if the voting numbers were limited to 8-bit (255) and no one tested above that number.

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: An {{Inversion}}. The film was marketed as a straight comedy and the premise itself seems to suggest it as such, but the movie itself is actually a much darker political drama that happens to have some comedy in it because the plot revolves around a comedian. The main heroine Eleanor is a lonely woman with mild mental health issues who by the end is near-fatally injured in an attempted murder orchestrated by her psychopathic bosses to cover up the computer glitch, events the Tom Dobbs character is unaware of and detached from; he instead spends most of the film worried and depressed that he is going to be elected President because he knows he isn't qualified yet feels pressured by everyone around him to make a go of it. The premise is already improbable to the point of ridiculousness, but the film spends less time on jokes and more on trying to make actual semi-serious points about the American political system and ultimately it isn't clear at all ''who'' this film is supposed to be aimed at.

* RomanticPlotTumor: Everything with Eleanor and Tom's fledgling relationship, which is eventually parlayed into a false scandal by the villains, especially as the movie's juggling so many other concepts as is.

* HilariousInHindsight: A comedian being elected president? [[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-48007487 Happened in Ukraine in 2019]].

* AudienceAlienatingPremise: An {{Inversion}}. The film was marketed as a straight comedy and the premise itself seems to suggest it as such, but the movie itself is actually a much darker political drama that happens to have some comedy in it because the plot revolves around a comedian. The main heroine Eleanor is a lonely woman with mild mental health issues who by the end is near-fatally injured in an attempted murder orchestrated by her psychopathic bosses to cover up the computer glitch, events the Tom Hobbs character is unaware of and detached from; he instead spends most of the film worried and depressed that he is going to be elected President because he knows he isn't qualified yet feels pressured by everyone around him to make a go of it. The premise is already improbable to the point of ridiculousness, but the film spends less time on jokes and more on trying to make actual semi-serious points about the American political system and ultimately it isn't clear at all ''who'' this film is supposed to be aimed at.

* IdiotPlot: The voting system glitch, upon which the entire plot hinges, is ridiculous in many ways. First, the program somehow fails basic math and defaults to alphabetical order. While faulty programming is certainly possible, this is a glitch that should have been caught before the program was ever released, as it is the ''primary function'' of the software. Second, the glitch should have been discovered immediately after the election. There should have been a record of every voter and the votes they made, and someone should have noticed that the system called it wrong. Third, that the entire system could be installed without the rigorous testing necessary to prove it functions correctly (which took Eleanor literally five seconds to prove that it didn't) is unbelievable. Fourth, when Eleanor does said testing, her numbers are always in the low tens of thousands, a number her boss complains is ''large'' (just for reference, a single congressional district represents ~700,000 people). The only way this entire plot could ever possibly go down is if the voting numbers were limited to 8-bit (255) and no one tested above that number.
* RomanticPlotTumor: Everything with Eleanor Green.

* HilariousInHindsight / HarsherInHindsight: Which it is obviously depends on your view of the 2016 election, but DonaldTrump...

* IdiotPlot: The voting system glitch, upon which the entire plot hinges, is ridiculous in many ways. First, the program somehow fails basic math and defaults to alphabetical order. While stupid programming is certainly possible, this is glitch that should have been caught before the program was ever released, as it is the ''primary function'' of the software. Second, the glitch should have been discovered immediately after the election. There should have been a record of every voter and the votes they made, and someone should have noticed that the system called it wrong. Third, that the entire system could be installed without the rigorous testing necessary to prove it functions correctly (which took Eleanor literally five seconds to prove that it didn't) is unbelievable. Fourth, when Eleanor does said testing, her numbers are always in the low tens of thousands, a number her boss complains is ''large'' (just for reference, a single congressional district represents ~700,000 people). The only way this entire stupid plot could ever possibly go down is if the voting numbers were limited to 8-bit (255) and no one tested above that number.

* IdiotPlot: The voting system glitch, upon which the entire plot hinges, is ridiculous in many ways. First, the program somehow fails basic math and defaults to alphabetical order. While stupid programming is certainly possible, this is glitch that should have been caught before the program was ever released, as it is the ''primary function'' of the software. Second, the glitch should have been discovered immediately after the election. There should have been a record of every voter and the votes they made, and someone should have noticed that the system called it wrong. Third, that the entire system could be installed without the rigorous testing necessary to prove it functions correctly (which took Eleanor literally five seconds to prove that it didn't) is unbelievable.

* IdiotPlot: The voting system glitch, upon which the entire plot hinges, is ridiculous in many ways. First, the program somehow fails basic math and defaults to alphabetical order. While stupid programming is certainly possible, this is glitch that should have been caught before the program was ever released, as it is the ''primary function'' of the software. Second, the glitch should have been discovered immediately after the election. There should have been a record of every voter and the votes they made, and someone should have noticed that the system called it wrong. Third, that the entire system could be installed without the rigorous testing necessary to prove it functions correctly (which took Eleanor literally five seconds to prove that it didn't) is unbelievable.