History YMMV / ThatMitchellAndWebbLook

** In the ''Numberwang'' sketches, most viewers will recognise Simon as Paterson Joseph, who's best known for his role as Alan Johnson in Series/PeepShow. Funnily enough, the show also stars David Mitchell, Robert Webb and Olivia Colman.

* SeasonalRot: Many fans will either believe that Series 3 or 4 was when the humour wasn't as good as the previous series.

** The replacement for the doorbell sketch. Particularly the end.
** The Kat-Kat and Kid-Kat segments. Particularly the cat "burial".

** S2E5 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zchHfDKCTzE has a scene]] in which a little girl knights Sir Digby Chicken Caeser on the beach. Nine years later, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLHDyY1p8oU Nigel Farage]] had a [[LifeImitatesArt similar experience]].

* EarWorm: [[StandardSnippet "The Devil's Gallop"]], thanks to Sir Digby's rendition.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: ''Angel Summoner and BMX Bandit'', about a duo of superheroes with vastly different power levels and the tension this creates, is a rather apt metaphor for Mitchell (Angel Summoner) and Webb's (BMX Bandit) later careers.
-->'''BMX Bandit''': Your ability summon a horde of celestial superbeings at will is making my BMX skills a bit...redundant.

* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: The old ladies of the Little Old Lady Job Justification Hearings. Are they [[CoolOldLady Cool Old Ladies]] who force self-important people to take a look at their lives and start to do worthwile things, or are they passive-aggressive [[BitchInSHeepsClothing Bitches In Sheep's Clothing]] who bully people into giving up their passions and conform to their old-fashioned standards?

* RetroactiveRecognition: In the ''Numberwang'' sketches, most viewers will recognise Simon as Paterson Joseph, who's best known for his portrayal as Alan Johnson in Series/PeepShow. Funnily enough, the show also stars David Mitchell, Robert Webb and Olivia Colman.

* HarsherInHindsight: ''Angel Summoner and BMX Bandit'', about a duo of superheroes with vastly different power levels and the tension this creates, is a rather apt metaphor for Mitchell (Angel Summoner) and Webb's (BMX Bandit) later careers.
-->'''BMX Bandit''': Your ability summon a horde of celestial superbeings at will is making my BMX skills a bit...redundant.
** The OrphanedPunchline about Creator/JimmySavile receiving three life sentences. "You think you know a guy, and then he does something like that..." Although, considering that it was allegedly an open secret at the BBC, it may simply have been a deliberate (if slightly sick) InJoke that "got out".
** The joke about finishing ''Series/TheYoungOnes'' before [[Creator/RikMayall one of the actors dies.]]

* RetroactiveRecognition: Future ''Film/GetOut2017'' and ''Film/BlackPanther2018'' star Creator/DanielKaluuya shows up in one of the ''Speedo'' sketches as a young black kid who is on trial for a crime he didn't commit.

** In the radio version, Olivia Colman plays Queen Elizabeth II in a sketch involving the Queen getting ridiculously excited over a bunch of D-grade pop bands being contracted to play the Royal Variety Performance. In 2017, it was announced that the role of Elizabeth II in seasons three and four of ''Series/TheCrown'' was going to be played by... Olivia Colman.

* JustForFun/XMeetsY: 'German Dad's Army' is essentially ''Series/DadsArmy'' meets ''Film/{{Downfall}}''.

** Hennimore is actually messing up his boss' commands on purpose. Because otherwise you'd expect him to get the tasks right *half* of the time.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Future ''Film/GetOut'' and ''Film/BlackPanther'' star Creator/DanielKaluuya shows up in one of the ''Speedo'' sketches as a young black kid who is on trial for a crime he didn't commit.

* EndingFatigue: A one-episode recurring gag where Mitchell and Webb play co-workers in various professions who are, in the end, revealed to be gay.

** The OrphanedPunchline about Jimmy Savile receiving three life sentences. "You think you know a guy, and then he does something like that..." Although, considering that it was allegedly an open secret at the BBC, it may simply have been a deliberate (if slightly sick) InJoke that "got out".
** The joke about finishing Series/TheYoungOnes before [[Creator/RikMayall one of the actors dies.]]

** The villain in the ''[[Film/CasinoRoyale2006 Casino Royale]]'' spoof doesn't look much like Le Chiffre, but he does resemble later Bond villain [[Film/{{Skyfall}} Silva]].

** The Kat-Kat and Kid-Kat segments. Particularly how the cat "burial".

** The Bmx Bandit now has an anime counterpart, if anything even more OvershadowedByAwesome, in [[OnePunchMan Licenseless Rider.]]

** The OrphanedPunchline about Jimmy Savile receiving three life sentences. "You think you know a guy, and then..." Although, considering that it was allegedly an open secret at the BBC, it may simply have been a deliberate (if slightly sick) InJoke that "got out".

** One sketch had David [[RealDreamsAreWeirder dreaming about being married]] to actress Creator/KeeleyHawes - in 2013, he starred in the Creator/{{BBC}}2 series ''Ambassadors'', with Keeley playing his character's wife