History YMMV / UnbreakableKimmySchmidt

** Kimmy's life in general, from having a mother that wasn't always around to being kidnapped into a cult for 15 years by a insane man to which it makes you wonder how she hasn't to breakdown.

* OneSceneWonder: Joshua Jackson as Purvis the cashier in season 2, episode 8.
* SignatureScene: Not in small part due to the heavy advertising on it, Titus' parody of Hold Up became this.

** In season 2, Lillian tells Kimmy that on some occasions giving up on some certain things isn't necessarily bad all the time as it can be healthy for you in the long run and let's you look forward to much better things in life.

* LoveToHate: Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne is such a disgusting pervert and all around a horrible human being, but [[Creator/JonHamm Jon Hamm's]] [[EvilIsHammy Hammy]] and [[TheCharmer charismatic]] performance, has made it hard not to [[LaughablyEvil laugh]] at the Reverend.

* LoveToHate: Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne is such a disgusting pervert, but [[Creator/JonHamm Jon Hamm's]] [[EvilIsHammy Hammy]] and [[TheCharmer charismatic]] performance, has made it hard not to [[LaughablyEvil laugh]] at the Reverend, but still recognize him as a horrible human being.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic:
** Cyndee to many fans. She's painted up as a mess of a person who needs attention, but her self-destructive tendencies, self-absorbed attitude, naivete bordering almost on TooDumbToLive and occasional {{wangst}} makes it hard to feel all that bad for her.
** Lori-Anne Schmidt, Kimmy's mother. While it is somewhat understandable that she couldn't handle being the object of pity among her small town (much like Kimmy herself), the sympathetic qualities end quickly when you take in account how Lori-Anne is an emotionally distant, manipulative and abusive mother who abandoned another daughter of hers in her hometown to the custody of a TooDumbToLive stepfather and never once even tried to get in contact with either of her daughters.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter:

** Xanthippe is heavily hinted to start her character development back in mid-season one, after Titus and Lilian show her that her friends are awful and that she could be better off without them, with the end of the episode implying she is wondering about it. However, the season ends with Xanthippe being sent to Connecticut and never undergoing any real CharacterDevelopment and her only friendly interaction with Kimmy being ignored by the fact that Kimmy is the one to send her there. [[spoiler:Good thing she comes back in Season 3]].
** In season 4, Artie. [[spoiler:He's KilledOffScreen in the premiere, with Lilian mourning him afterwards, rather than seeing how Lilian and him interact]].

** in the last episode of season 2, it drops this anvil: some people have parents who aren't always around or did a terrible job in raising them that we just want to yell at them for it but in the end no matter what has been said it ultimately doesn't change the past so the only thing you can do for yourself is to accept what has happened and move on with your life.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Cyndee to many fans. She's painted up as a mess of a person who needs attention, but her self-destructive tendencies, self-absorbed attitude, naivete bordering almost on TooDumbToLive and occasional {{wangst}} makes it hard to feel all that bad for her.

** in the last episode of season 2, it drops this anvil: there are some people out there who have parents who have some shortcomings ( or trauma for Kimmy's case) from parents aren't always there for them and sometimes we want to scream that at them but in the end no matter what is said it ultimately doesn't change the past so the only thing you can do is accept what has happened and move on with your life.

** in the last episode of season 2, it drops this anvils: there are some people out there who have parents who have some shortcomings ( or trauma for Kimmy' case) from parents aren't always there for them and sometimes we want to scream that at them but in the end no matter what is said it ultimately doesn't change the past so the only thing you can do is accept what has happened and move on with your life.
-->'''Kimmy''':But there's nothing I can say that will un-kidnap me or fix my childhood or give you the life you wanted before you had me.

** in the last episode of season 2, it drops this avils: there are some people out there who have parents who have some shortcomings aren't always there for them

** In season 2, Lillian tells Kimmy that on some occasions giving up on some certain things isn't necessarily bad all the time as it can be healthy for you in the long run and let's you look forward to much better things in life.

** Perry. Different than Kimmy's other love interests, he isn't gone and their parting ways was very amicable, showing them as still friends afterwards, with Kimmy knowing exactly where he is. Despite that, he doesn't come back in season 4, nor Kimmy gets a new LoveInterest, and some fans wanted them to be the end game couple of the show.

* MagnificentBastard:
** Played with with Reverend Richard Wayne Gary Wayne. On one hand, anyone up against two incompetent prosecutors, dealing with a judge who is more interested in building a birdhouse than presiding over the case, and dealing with a fairly gullible jury would go away scot free. On the other hand, his speeches have a strangely cultish charm to him that nearly take a toll on even less gullible people like [[DeadpanSnarker Titus]], which implies that he is some variant of this trope, mostly a [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] one.
** Played more straight with [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Orson Snyder]], who is powerful, charismatic, and ''always'' gets his way. He effortlessly avoids Jacqueline's seemingly ironclad plan to blackmail him by [[spoiler: selling out his equally horrible, but far less competent, son.]] While she does manage to get what she wants from him, she does so only by showing him [[PragmaticVillainy even more profitable ways of being even more shameless about pandering to people's worst instincts.]]

** Season 4 is unapologetically feminist, even more so than the other seasons, however, it takes place together with the #MeToo movement and focus on how some men try to [[NeverMyFault deflect the guilt to women (or to anything, really)]], try to get away from their trouble by [[PlayingTheVictimCard claiming there is a war on masculinity]] and want for the world to go back to the GoodOldWays. Furthermore, it drives the point home that men ''aren't'' naturally bad or evil, rather, you have a society that does not teach young men to respect women or take responsibility for their actions, which is almost mentioned in an episode when Kimmy deconstructs the behavior of the PrinceCharming in fairy tales like Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella and Snow White.

** A small one, but with ''Series/OrangeIsTheNewBlack'', due to a small crossover in the end of episode 5 of the third season, in which [[spoiler:Gretchen]] gets send to the jail where the show takes place, even befriending Black Cindy and with intentions of [[spoiler:starting her new women-only cult there]].

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Season 4 is unapologetically feminist, even more so than the other seasons, however, it takes place together with the #MeToo movement and focus on how some men try to [[NeverMyFault deflect the guilt to women (or to anything, really)]], try to get away from their trouble by [[PlayingTheVictimCard claiming there is a war on masculinity]] and want for the world to go back to the GoodOldWays. Furthermore, it drives the point home that men ''aren't'' naturally bad or evil, rather, you have a society that does not teach young men to respect women or take responsibility for their actions, which is almost mentioned in an episode when Kimmy deconstructs the behavior of the PrinceCharming in fairy tales like Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella and Snow White.

** Season 2 similarly got a lot of flak with its dismissive response to the controversy, portraying everyone who complained as whiny Social Justice Warrior stereotypes. Season 3 introduces Xan's college roommates, who are similarly liberally inclined but portrayed far more realistically, while the same episode introducing them also features a similarly exaggerated right-wing ConspiracyTheorist character.

* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: Cyndee to many fans. She's painted up as a mess of a person who needs attention, but her self-destructive tendencies, naivete bordering almost on TooDumbToLive and occasional {{wangst}} makes it hard to feel all that bad for her.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Season 4 is unapologetically feminist, even more so than the other seasons, however, it takes place together with the #MeToo movement and focus on how some men try to [[NeverMyFault deflect the guilt to women or to anything, really]], try to [get away from their trouble by [[PlayingTheVictimCard claiming there is a war on masculinity]] and want for the world to go back to the GoodOldWays.

** Furthermore, it drives the point home that men ''aren't'' naturally bad or evil, rather, you have a society that does not teach young men to respect women or take responsibility for their actions, which is almost mentioned in an episode when Kimmy deconstructs the behavior of the CharmingPrince in fairy tales like Beauty and the Beast, Cinderella and Snow White.

* {{Squick}}: In Season 2, Kimmy takes Buckley and his play-date into the sewer system for a Ninja Turtles-themed birthday party. They emerge boasting, "We ate sewer pizza," complete with brown smudges around their mouths.