History YMMV / NipTuck

** In one episode, the patient is conscious during her surgery, can feel all of the pain, and screams and begs for the doctors to stop in voiceover.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: In the Season two finale Gina, [[spoiler: who's had her face sliced up by The Carver]], jokingly tells Sean and Christine before surgery, "I don't wanna look like the Joker."
* HarsherInHindsight: Nanette Babcock wants a bypass surgery to lose weight, but Christian tells her it would be too dangerous. In response she says "I hope you get cancer".

** Maybe that's it. She wouldn't have to constantly ''remind'' her of her own insecurities.

* {{Squick}}: What the show is built on. Plastic surgery is inherently kind of squicky, but this show manages to gross you out every episode. An recent example from the fifth season was a rejected client carrying out a DIY mastectomy with a motorized knife in the middle of a waiting room.

* TheWoobie : Poor Miss Gaines.

* TheScrappy: Gina. GINA

* RewatchBonus: Quentin giving "Rhea Reynolds" a confused DoubleTake. When it's later revealed that ''he's'' the Carver, it makes perfect sense--he doesn't recognize her and is wondering how she could be claiming to be a victim.

* ArtisticLicenseBiology: A woman has lost both legs to diabetes, yet still drinks "a 12-pack every night." Riiiight.
** They seem pretty loose with prescriptions, as well. No emergency room in the world (see Season 6, episode 2) just hands out Oxy.

* DisproportionateRetribution: Your wife had a one-night stand because you were neglecting her and she has already regretted it? Leave her for a slut and shove that in her face. Now you are equal. (Sean, the Santa)

* InformedAttractiveness: Everyone, and I mean ''everyone'' seems to find middle-aged Julia attractive. She's definitely not ''ugly'' and while Eurocentric beauty standards are always the norm, it does seem a bit strange that in Miami of all places, a thin, blonde, blue-eyed, middle-aged mother is the object of pretty much everyone's affection and people constantly go on about how pretty she is. Christian also falls into this as well, for obvious reasons.

* ManipulativeBastard: Matt when Julia got pregnant in the first season played his parents off of each other using PassiveAggressiveKombat. Calling his mother out for having another baby she didn’t want while guilt tripping her for it. However after the miscarriage he did the same thing his father telling him that he was sad that he didn’t get a brother.

** UnsettlingGenderReveal: Along with the reveal of the Carver...

*** An older gay man who has his boytoy go under the knife to make him look more like himself as a young man.
*** {{TruthinTelevision}} The pianist Liberace had this done to a young lover.

** Joan Rivers' appearance in season 2. First, she says "Imagine what I'll look like when I'm 90." Then she books an unscheduled operation to "kill a little time." She died during an operation.

* WhatAnIdiot: The case of the patient with a Lesch-Nyhan syndrome, who has chewn his own lips down. The disorder isn't treated, a plastic surgery is [[SarcasmMode more important]], with a result which probably will last as long as he wakes up and becomes motile. But he must be supported for the touching speech he held to Sean and Christian.

* FauxSymbolism: [[http://www.aoltv.com/2009/12/17/review-nip-tuck-wesley-clovis-season-finale AOL TV]] says that by the Season 6 finale[[note]]actually the finale of the first half of the sixth and final season[[/note]] episode's end, [[spoiler:"watching Wesley [Clovis] die from lethal injection brought forth all sorts of metaphors, the most obvious of which being Jesus. Wesley lay there, arms outstretched on the cross-shaped surgical table, bloodied from the staples in his stomach (his own crown of thorns), an innocent man, slowly dying for someone else's sins", and that includes the sins of Matt, Sean, Christian, the murder victim's father, the courts, and "the guy who actually perpetrated the crime Wesley was accused of."]] Not to mention the fact that [[spoiler:Matt's denial of Wesley's innocence at the last moment in exchange for his own freedom could be relevant to St. Peter's denial of Jesus for the safety of his own life]].

* CompleteMonster (seasons 5 & 6): [[MadDoctor Dr. Theodora "Teddy" Rowe]] is a beautiful [[DeadlyDoctor anesthesiologist]] of charm and class who absolutely charms Sean [=McNamara=] and his family. Actually a greedy SerialKiller and BlackWidow, Teddy seduces wealthy doctors and murders them for their money, killing a patient who recognizes her. On a camping trip with Sean, Teddy tries to kill him along with his children, even the [[WouldHurtAChild extremely young Connor]], to obtain Sean's insurance money.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: The show is full of dysfunctional, rather unsympathetic characters who grow more and more dysfunctional and unsympathetic as they (poorly) navigate a seemingly endless series of increasingly improbable, horribly disturbing situations.

* RewatchBonus: Quentin giving "Rhea Reynolds" a confused DoubleTake. When it's later revealed that ''he's'' the Carver, it makes perfect sense--he doesn't recognize her and wondering how how she could be claiming to be a victim.