History YMMV / NeverMindTheBuzzcocks

** Boy George seemed to quite enjoy teasing original captain Sean Hughes when the former was [[IncrediblyLamePun playing for the latter's team]].

* [[WTHCastingAgency WTH Booking Agency]]: Some of the guest hosts post-Amstell attracted this criticism.

* AcceptableTargets: The captains and hosts were acceptable targets, for being fat (Phill), bizarre (Bill), from Swindon (Mark), completely insane (Noel), Irish/tactiturn (Sean) or Welsh (Rhod).
** Though practically every panelist or artist gets some stick at some point, boybands and manufactured groups were particularly susceptible -- Music/{{Blue}} and Music/{{Westlife}} to name a couple.
** Geri Halliwell. A RunningGag about her being older than the other Music/SpiceGirls was taken up to eleven, with jokes about her being around in TheThirties and so forth.

** A small minority of older fans would even go as far as to say that the show hadn't been worth watching since all the way back when [[DeadArtistsAreBetter Sean Hughes left]].

** Geri Halliwell. A RunningGag about her being older than the other Music/SpiceGirls was taken UpToEleven, with jokes about her being around in TheThirties and so forth.

* FoeYay:
** This may have been what Donny Tourette ''thought'' was going on between him and Simon on his appearance.
** Music/BoyGeorge came across as this towards Mark Lamarr on his appearance.
** In season seven, episode four, Phill jokingly refers to Mel B's and Mark Lamarr's excessive bantering as this:
---> '''Phill''': Would you two please just have sex and get it over with!

* FunnyAneurysmMoment:

* HarsherInHindsight:

--->'''Simon:''' Thank god for you! ''[[{{Glomp}} (bear hug)]]''

* {{Mondegreen}}: The point of the "Indecipherable Lyrics" game is for the teams to come up with amusing lyrics for songs whose words are hard to discern.

** In series 10 episode 6 there is this autocue joke about Music/GaryGlitter's backing band:

*** Cut straight to a shot of a smiling Ian Watkins of Music/{{Lostprophets}}...

** In series 10 episode 6 there is this autocue joke about Gary Glitter's backing band:

** In series 3 episode 7, Sean's team was made to pick out a member of Brotherhood of Man, and Sean commented that one of the lineup was "showbiz, in a Butlins kind of way". Mark then joked that his comment would be funny "in 20 years time when you're playing at Butlins". This episode was made in 1998, Sean would pass away 19 years later in 2017.

** Simon once joked that Lee Ryan would probably leave the mother of his (as yet unborn) child since all the other Blue members left the mothers of their children. About three years later, they did split up after Lee was accused of physical abusing her.

** In series 14 episode 7, Phil's team performed the intros of "Special Brew" by Bad Manners, and "I've Got A Combine Harvester..." by The Wurzels. Guess which bands performed the intros in the series 15 episode 7, for a Christmas special...

** In the '99 ChristmasEpisode, one of the lineups was a bunch of cardboard cut-outs of rappers, with the question being who ''hadn't'' been shot. The team (Phill's) was given a toy gun to shoot at who they thought the answer was ("so he feels like a success"). To make things even worse, among the line-up was ''Music/TheNotoriousBIG and Music/TupacShakur''. Again, this was in 199'''''[[TooSoon 9]]'''''.

* EarWorm:
** "Music/{{Moby}}, Moby, Moby, Moby, Michael Stipe..."
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mcjWu9JXNU "Detachable pe-nis..."]]

** Though practically every panelist or artist gets some stick at some point, boybands and manufactured groups were particularly susceptible -- Blue and Westlife to name a couple.

** In the second episode of series eight, the panel were shown part of the music video for ''Them Bones'' by the grunge band Alice In Chains. East 17 member Brian Harvey joked about how vocalist Layne Staley looked completely wasted, which even at the time was rather harsh, considering Staley's ongoing and well-documented heroin addiction and complete withdrawal from performing (although, to be fair, it seems like Harvey genuinely didn't know much about the band or Staley, considering he didn't know Staley's name, simply referring to him as 'this fella with the shit on his chin'). However, it got much, ''much'' harsher when, exactly a year and one month after the episode first aired, Staley died from a speedball (a mix of heroin and cocaine).

** Phill bending over and lets James Blunt mount and spank him.

* [[WTHCastingAgency WTH Booking Agency]]: Some of the guest hosts post-Amstell attracted this criticism.

-->"I keep looking at this photo"

* JumpingTheShark: {{Lampshaded}} by several of the guests in the following Amstell's departure.
** Amstell also did this in his first episode as permanent host, saying that with a new opening and a new host, there could be only one possible outcome: "Welcome to the ''last'' series of ''Series/NeverMindTheBuzzcocks''!" This was also a reference to just that happening to ''They Think It's All Over'' when Creator/LeeMack took over as host.
* MagnificentBastard: Both Mark Lamarr and Simon Amstell, in a comedy sense.

* HarsherInHindsight: The very beginning of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAYTnSNzU48 this]] clip.
-->'''Simon''' (to Amy Winehouse): You want us just to sit here while you drink yourself to death?
** Not to mention starting 0:50 at [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSN9D7FK9EE this clip]]
--> '''Simon:''' Can we resuscitate the old Winehouse? I loved you when you were sober!
--> '''Amy:''' Ah no! She's dead!
** On a very slightly lesser note, Simon once joked that Lee Ryan would probably leave the mother of his (as yet unborn) child since all the other Blue members left the mothers of their children. About three years later, they did split up after Lee was accused of physical abusing her.

** In a 1999 episode, it was brought up that Sean had a cameo in Terrorvision's "Tequila" video when the lead singer was a guest. A lot of the video's YouTube comments now lament the cruel irony that Sean appeared in a music video celebrating an alcoholic drink considering that he was suffering from cirrhosis of the liver when he died.

** Simon towards Danny from Mcfly. He had previously stated that Danny was his favourite member of Mcfly and then, when he was on the show, introduced him as a 'hunk', kept showing a picture of him performing naked, and acted like a spurned lover because they lost contact after their interview on Popworld.

-->'''David Tennant:''' McFly's song contained the lyrics "there's nothing on Earth that could save us since I fell in love with Uranus." Which as it happens was a line removed from the pilot episode of ''Series/{{Torchwood}}''. ''Barrowman!!'' ''(shakes fist at camera)''

* FakeIrish: About a third of the jokes aimed at Sean implied this, as he was actually born in London (albeit grew up in Ireland and had Irish parents).

* {{Tearjerker}}: [[https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DMRw2jKWsAAF3ax.jpg:large Phill's tribute]] in the wake of Sean's sudden death in October 2017. For fans of the original series, it's quite heartbreaking.

* TooSoon: During the Indecipherable Lyrics round in series 2 episode 3, guest Richard Fairbrass of Right Said Fred jokingly guessed [[Music/EltonJohn "goodbye England's rose?"]], only a month after Diana's fatal crash. After the predictable groans and nervous laughter from the audience, Mark went on to joke that the show was now cancelled.
* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Inevitable, as the show spanned three decades, and would feature famous musicians and TV personalities of the time, as well as topical jokes that may not make sense today.

** A small minority of older fans would even go as far as to say that the show hadn't been worth watching since all the way back when [[DeadArtistsAreBetter Sean left]].

** A small minority of older fans would even go as far as to say that the show hasn't been worth watching since all the way back when [[DeadArtistsAreBetter Sean left]].

** A small minority of older fans would go as far as to say that the show hasn't been worth watching since back when[[DeadArtistsAreBetter Sean left]]

* TooSoon: During the Indecipherable Lyrics round in series 2 episode 3, guest Richard Fairbrass of Right Said Fred jokingly guessed [[EltonJohn "goodbye England's rose?"]], only a month after Diana's fatal crash. After the predictable groans and nervous laughter from the audience, Mark went on to joke that the show was now cancelled.