History YMMV / TheDrewCareyShow

* RetroactiveRecognition: A lot of actors who became famous on ''Scrubs'' had small bit roles on ''The Drew Carey Show'' beforehand. Sam Lloyd (Ted the Lawyer) appears as a delivery man in Season 3's "The Batmobile", Aloma Wright (Laverne Roberts) plays a security officer in "Good Vibrations", Nicole Sullivan (Jill Tracy) tricks Drew into marrying her in "Drew Gets Married",

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The show is pretty chock full of them, but one that stands out is when the crew decides to go to a midnight showing of ''Film/TheRockyHorrorPictureShow'' for almost no reason and then gets into a dance off with fans of ''TheAdventuresOfPriscillaQueenOfTheDesert''. The dance fight is broken up by police and the characters are shown back at Drew's house where the only mention of the events is Oswald complaining about high heels.

* EarWorm: [[ClevelandRocks CLEVELAND ROCKS!]] [[CoveredUp CLEVELAND ROCKS!]] [[Music/ThePresidentsOfTheUnitedStatesOfAmerica CLEVELAND ROCKS!]] CLEVELAND ROCKS! (Cleveland rocks!)

* HilariousInHindsight: Even though the sight of Lewis and Oswald dressed as Batman and Robin is already funny, it only got funnier when Diedrich Bader (Oswald) [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold went on to voice Batman in the latest Batman cartoon.]]

* BaseBreaker: Mimi is either hilarious, witty and entertaining, or very off-putting. The fact that a lot of her [[DudeNotFunny attacks on Drew]] often cross the line and are rarely dealt with.

** When Mr. Wick is caught with cocaine he's plays it off until Drew insist he's got to go to rehab. He sits down in his chair and with a weak broken voice mutters "i'm suddenly very tired."

** DaffyDuck appeared in the season 3 finale looking for a job at Winfred-Louder, in the opening scene. After Daffy leaves, the incident is never brought up again. You'd think that if a classic cartoon came into the office, most people would be talking about it for hours on end!

** This is especially common for the occasional "What's Wrong With This Episode" episodes. Every now and then for April Fools' the show had a contest to give a prize to whoever could point out the most errors. These episodes are guaranteed to be more BigLippedAlligatorMoment than actual episode as the characters turn into puppets, the show is shot entirely in ''VideoGame/TheSims'', actors switch places, or a hundred other random occurrences.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment - The show is pretty chock full of them, but one that stands out is when the crew decides to go to a midnight showing of RockyHorrorPictureShow for almost no reason and then gets into a dance off with fans of TheAdventuresOfPriscillaQueenOfTheDesert. The dance fight is broken up by police and the characters are shown back at Drew's house where the only mention of the events is Oswald complaining about high heels.
** This is especially common for the occasional What's Wrong With This Episode episodes. Every now and then for April Fools the show had a contest to give a prize to whoever could point out the most errors. These episodes are guaranteed to be more BigLippedAlligatorMoment than actual episode as the characters turn into puppets, the show is shot entirely in ''VideoGame/TheSims'', actors switch places, or a hundred other random occurrences.
** There is also the Drew Live episodes which are essentially [[CrossOver cross overs]] with ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'' in which the entire episode is shot live and the actors will at any random point be forced to ad lib a new line, or break from the show entirely to play out a ''Whose Line is it Anyway?'' improv game.

* HilariousInHindsight - Even though the sight of Lewis and Oswald dressed as Batman and Robin is already funny, it only got funnier when Diedrich Bader (Oswald) [[WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold went on to voice Batman in the latest Batman cartoon.]]

* HoYay - Oswald and Lewis. Lewis had to enter marriage counseling with Oswald and his fiancee because he plays a bigger part in Oswald's life than Oswald's girlfriend.
* NightmareFuel - The puppet segment from What's Wrong With Episode II.
* TearJerker - The end of "The Bachelor Party" where Drew watches the sex tape he made with his fiancee and [[spoiler:the audience learns it's an ''attempted'' sex tape where his fiancee realizes she's regained her old weight and breaks up with Drew, saying it's his fault she became fat because she "can't be around someone who loves to eat". At the end of the episode he rewinds it and watches it over and over. Made worse since her parents used this same phrase to describe Drew in an earlier episode but it was played for laughs.]]

** This is especially common for the occasional What's Wrong With This Episode episodes. Every now and then for April Fools the show had a contest to give a prize to whoever could point out the most errors. These episodes are guaranteed to be more BigLippedAlligatorMoment than actual episode as the characters turn into puppets, the show is shot entirely in TheSims, actors switch places, or a hundred other random occurrences.
** There is also the Drew Live episodes which are essentially [[CrossOver cross overs]] with WhoseLineIsItAnyway in which the entire episode is shot live and the actors will at any random point be forced to ad lib a new line, or break from the show entirely to play out a WhoseLineIsItAnyway improv game.

* EarWorm: CLEVELAND ROCKS! CLEVELAND ROCKS! CLEVELAND ROCKS!
* EnsembleDarkhorse - Creator/CraigFerguson's Mr. Wick was also fairly popular.

* FoeYay - Drew and Mimi

** Buzz Beer would be illegal today after the FDA crackdown on Four Loko and other caffeinated alcoholic beverages due to the reports of blackouts and alcohol poisoning.

** DaffyDuck appeared in the season 3 finale looking for a job at Winfred-Louder, in the opening scene. After Daffy leaves, the incident is never brought up again. You;d think that if a classic cartoon came into the office, most people would be talking about it for hours on end!

* EnsembleDarkhorse - Mimi, for one. But Creator/CraigFerguson's Mr. Wick was also fairly popular.

* EnsembleDarkhorse - Mimi, for one. But CraigFerguson's Mr. Wick was also fairly popular.

** The musical numbers generally come across as this, at least for people used to traditional office sitcoms.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: in "Hush Little Baby" when Steve is leaving the house, Mimi throws him a suitcase, saying that she has it in case Steve ever heated on her. Two seasons later Steve does end up cheating on Mimi.

* FunnyAneurisymMoment: in "Hush Little Baby" when Steve is leaving the house, Mimi throws him a suitcase, saying that she has it in case Steve ever heated on her. Two seasons later Steve does end up cheating on Mimi.

* HilariousInHindsight - Even though the sight of Lewis and Oswald dressed as Batman and Robin is already funny, it only got funnier when Diedrich Bader (Oswald) [[BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold went on to voice Batman in the latest Batman cartoon.]]

* TearJerker - The end of "The Bachelor Party" where Drew watches the sex tape he made with his fiancee and [[spoiler:the audience realizes it's not a sex tape but a recording of his fiancee being unable to cope with being overweight and telling Drew it's his fault she became overweight because she "can't be around someone who loves to eat". At the end of the episode he rewinds it and watches it over and over. Made worse since her parents used this same phrase to describe Drew in an earlier episode but it was played for laughs.]]