History YMMV / TheWall

** While it's often stated Richard Wright contributed very little to the album due to his departure mid-production and other musicians such as Fred Mandel, David Gilmour, and Bob Erzin helping to contribute keyboard work, the vast majority of the synthesizers, piano, and organ heard on the album are in fact Richard, and he even appears on more songs than Nick Mason.

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* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments
** On one episode, a question about the Music/RickAstley song "Never Gonna Give You Up" comes up (specifically, naming the lyric that doesn't actually appear in the chorus), and ''of course'', a clip of the video and song gets played as part of it. Hardwick mentions that he didn't think the Wall would ever Rickroll someone.
* {{Padding}}: Of course, it would not be an NBC game show without it being excessively stretched out. The final round is the worst offender. There's also the fact that it almost seems scripted for the couples/families to play it up for the cameras where they yammer on about how they've gotten to where they are now before announcing whether or not they've torn up the contract, and then the other person drags it out by taking their sweet time to get to the meat of the conversation through working up to the reveal of their final total instead of it just being a direct "I did/did not tear up the contract", followed by "we won/would have won this much money", which is ''all'' we need to know. In other words, most endings will probably have you screaming, ''"Get on with it!"''
** On one episode, the contestant's father was prone to monologuing in the isolation room about personal experiences related to the question subjects, such as that one time they went hot air ballooning and he hated that there was no navigation system. Later on, a question comes up about car brands, and his daughter [[ThisIsGonnaSuck realizes]] he is ''sure'' to bore them all with a long-winded story about his Dodge Caravan. And wouldn't you know it, he ''does'', [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments completely stalling out the game.]]
* ScrappyMechanic: Forcing contestants to take red balls in Rounds 2 and 3. They're seemingly added for no reason other than to potentially screw over contestants who play the question part perfectly.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: A teacher is played by Creator/BrendaCowling, who would later be best known for playing Mrs. Lipton in ''Series/YouRangMLord''.

** While the entire album is a good contender, some song examples include: "Another Brick in the Wall" (all parts); "One Of My Turns"; "Hey You"; "What Shall We Do Now?" from the movie; "Comfortably Numb"; and "The Trial".

* AwardSnub:
** The only Grammy it won was for Best Engineered Recording, Non-Classical. The Grammys it lost, and what they lost ''to''?
*** Best Rock Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal? Lost to Music/BobSeger and the Silver Bullet Band's ''Against the Wind''.
*** Album of the Year? Lost to Christopher Cross's self-titled debut album.

* WTHCastingAgency: Toni Tennille, best known as the vocalist for then-husband-and-wife soft rock duo Music/CaptainAndTennille, sang backup vocals for the songs in Fascist Pink's persona. Tennille even attended one of the live shows and a Pink Floyd fan recognized her but didn't believe she sang on the album until he checked the album credits, as his friend had brought a copy of the album to the show.

* AccidentalAesop: People mistaking "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" as equating schools with {{Brainwashing}}. Unfortunately that couldn't have been further from the point, which is how the teachers and their authoritarianism were part of the Wall that Pink created for himself.

** "'''TEAR DOWN THE WALL!'''"[[labelnote:Explanation]]The judge's sentencing at the end of "The Trial".[[/note]]

** "We don't need no education!"[[labelnote:Explanation]]The first line of "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)", which is easily the most famous song on the album.[[/note]]

** "My balls."[[labelnote:Explanation]]During "Mother", Roger Waters sings, "Mother, are they gonna break... my balls?" The gap between "break" and "my" makes the back half of that line very exploitable.[[/note]]

** "'''TEAR DOWN THE WALL!'''"

** "We don't need no education!"

** "My balls."

* CommonKnowledge:
** Many people think that the "Happiest Days of Our Lives/Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) sequence of the movie is the actual promo clip due to a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5ApYxkU-U VH1 Classic recording of it]] (identified by the channel as a music video) gaining nearly 400 million views and everyone can't name the "Happiest Days" song. In fact, it's actually [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrxX9TBj2zY this simpler one]].
** On a smaller note, "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" has been thought by some to be from ''Music/TheDarkSideOfTheMoon'' when it's actually the topic of this page.

* ValuesResonance: The themes of social isolation and mental decay have taken on a new resonance during the COVID-19 lockdowns and [[GoMadFromTheIsolation subsequent psychological problems]] that many people suffered, as well as the resurgence of the far right in the '10s. The album's themes also resonate with the greater focus on mental health in the 21st century.

* UnfortunateImplications: In the revived tour, "Goodbye Blue Sky" featured an animation of symbols of war and greed like the Shell logo and Mercedes logos being dropped out of planes like bombs. While Waters insists that his commentary is directed towards the State of Israel and not the Jewish religion as a whole, the juxtaposition of the dollar sign and the Star of David unintentionally invoked the "GreedyJew" stereotype. This, along with Roger Waters' support for the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement against Israel, led to [[http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/.premium-1.580138 charges of antisemitism from Jewish groups]].

* UnfortunateImplications: In the revived tour, "Goodbye Blue Sky" featured an animation of symbols of war and greed like the Shell logo and Mercedes logos being dropped out of planes like bombs. While Waters insists that his commentary is directed towards the State of Israel and not the Jewish religion as a whole. The juxtaposition of the dollar sign and the Star of David unintentionally invoked the "GreedyJew" stereotype. This, along with Roger Waters' support for the BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) movement against Israel, led to [[http://www.haaretz.com/world-news/.premium-1.580138 charges of antisemitism from Jewish groups]].

* ValuesDissonance: The movie features clips from ''Film/TheDamBusters'', supposedly what Pink is watching in his hotel, in which the squadron commander's beloved black Lab is shown, and then later in which a junior officer informs the commander that the dog has died. In both cases the dog's name, [[HisNameReallyIsBarkeep the same one the actual dog had]], is used and audible on screen: Nigger. [[OldShame Waters has since come to greatly regret that choice of clip]].

* AccidentalAesop: People mistaking "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" as equating schools with {{Brainwashing}}. Unfortunately that couldn't have been further from the point, which is how the teachers and their authoritarianism were part of the Wall that Pink created for himself.

* TearJerker:
** "Mother", "Hey You", "Comfortably Numb", "When the Tigers Broke Free", "Is There Anybody Out There?", "Stop" and [[CrapsackWorld many]] [[RealitySubtext more]].
** In the live tour, the footage of soldiers being reunited with their children in "Vera" and the memorial images of people who'd died in wars during the first half of the show are bound to have the audience in tears.
** "I've got a strong urge to fly, but I've got nowhere to fly to..."
** When Waters sings, "Some stagger and fall", he's referring to the friends he's lost because they just had enough of his bullshit and couldn't handle him anymore.
** In the film, the scene with little Pinky alone on the playground, watching the other kids playing with their loving fathers. At the end he actually tries to grab one of the leaving fathers by the arm to go home with them, and is predictably shooed away. Similarly, the later scene on the train depot, again with children reuniting with their fathers and Pinky being all alone.
** The line "The child has grown, the dream has gone" from "Comfortably Numb". It really drives home how much shit Pink has been through.

** To a lesser extent, grungy teenagers who use songs like "Another Brick In The Wall, Pt. 2" as an actual rallying cry for their own social isolation are kind of not getting the message.
** "We don't need no education." has several meanings, to believe it is a song against learning or education is to miss the subtlety. In fact, the sentence is a double negative, which literally means "We need education", suggesting that yes, education can be a good thing in developing well-rounded individuals. The song is a protest, however, against cruel teachers and systems who mold the school children into mindless drones of society. It is saying "We don't need '''this type''' of education." It's a criticism against the types of teachers and systems that, as in Pink's case, ridicule an imaginative child for writing poetry, and are aimed mainly at crushing students' individuality to mould them into an "acceptable" shape.
** [[WordOfGod Roger Waters]] explains that "[=ABITW2=]" isn't anti-education, but against the kind of strict, demoralizing, condescending, conformist schooling like Waters suffered through, which discourages free thought and expression in attempts to keep its students in line and keep them subservient. This was more evident in the demo, where the original lyric was "We don't need ''your'' education".
--->'''[[http://www.angelfire.com/ok2/wall/interview.html Waters]]''': "Obviously not all teachers are what we have to fear. The school I was at -- they were really like that. They were so fucked up that what they had to offer was their own bitterness and cynicism. Some of them, I may say, were very nice guys and understood what was going on."