History YMMV / UnbreakableKimmySchmidt

* 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.

* GeniusBonus: The interactive episode makes a few jokes about West Virginia that reference the state's history of mining. The local town is called "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_fracturing Fracktown]]," and the local bar is called "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_canary#Miner's_canary The Living Canary]]."

* FirstInstallmentWins: This show was Netflix's first attempt at comedy, and became one of its earliest smash hits, a review would go as far as to call it "the first great comedy of the streaming era", and no comedy Netflix produced since has been considered better or as good as this one.

* EarWorm:
** Titus' song "Peeno Noir".
** The theme song too.
** And the song Titus sings from the Spider-Man musical.
** "Bunny and kitty, being best friends..."
** "I'm gonna be famous..."
** "Crank you for being a crank..."
** Any of the "Now That Sounds Like Music" songs.
** For [[StylisticSuck a parody of brain-dead pop music]], "Boobs In California" is disturbingly catchy.

** Staying married to a sex offender while stopping someone else from marrying them will not do you any favors down the road no matter how noble your action are.

** Kimmy's decision to not divorce the Reverend to stop [[spoiler:Wendy]] from marrying him stop costs her a job as a crossing guard, and in "Party Monster: Scratching the Surface", she is then painted up as a faithful wife to the Reverend by Men's Right Activists that refuse to see the evil deeds the Reverend did, so ultimately the lesson is that staying legally married to someone to prevent from anyone else marrying from them will not do you any good favors down the road, and even if it was backed by good intentions, it's just not worth your time and energy.

* UnfortunateImplications: The series has garnered [[http://www.vulture.com/2015/03/unbreakable-kimmy-schmidt-native-american.html criticism]] [[http://www.bustle.com/articles/68849-is-jane-krakowski-native-american-as-a-mixed-race-woman-i-question-her-kimmy-schmidt-characters from]] [[http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/03/11/unbreakable-kimmy-schmidt-has-two-native-american-actors-it-needed-three-159559 critics]] for casting Jane Krakowski, a white Polish-American, as a Native American pretending to be Caucasian and hiding her past. That said, there have been [[http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/03/18/why-kimmy-schmidts-native-subplot-great-native-fans-opinion-159632 voices]] from even the Native American community that not only dismissed such above criticism as hyperbolic, but even supportive of the series, which makes it an OpinionOverride.

** Tina Fey's acceptance speech for the Mark Twain Prize opened with, "It's my greatest wish that just like Mark Twain, people will one day look back on my work and say, 'Wow, that's actually pretty racist.'" Well, wish granted.
** The episode "Kimmy Goes to a Play" [[TakeThatCritics strawmans]] Asian-Americans who take issue with the way they are [[EthnicScrappy typically depicted]] - or [[RaceLift erased]] - in entertainment as being cartoon [[SoapboxSadie Social Justice Warriors]].

** 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. (Similarly, in Season 4, The Reverend's friends while he's in jail are [[HeManWomanHater Men's Rights Activists]].)

** The episode "Kimmy Goes to a Play" [[TakeThatCritics strawmans]] Asian-Americans who take issue with the way they are [[EthnicScrappy typically depicted]] - or [[RaceLift erased]] - in entertainment as being cartoon [[SoapboxSadie Social Justice Warriors]]. This was in season 2, which was released in the same week that the live-action film casting of [[Film/GhostInTheShell2017 Motoko Kusanagi]], [[Film/PowerRangers2017 Rita Repulsa]], and [[Film/DoctorStrange2016 The Ancient One]] were announced. All these characters are played by or are modeled after Asian people in their source material, but are played by white actresses for their respective film adaptations.

** 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. (Similarly in Season 4, where The Reverend, and his friends while in jail are MGTOW Men's Rights Activists.)

** Dong. Some find him to be {{adorkable}} and funny and enjoy his chemistry with Kimmy, while others find him to be an obnoxious EthnicScrappy. And there are those that just find him to be [[TheGenericGuy bland and boring]] and an underwhelming love interest character.
** Mimi Kanasis, particularly after she became an AscendedExtra in season 2. Depending on who you ask, she's either hilarious or annoying.

** All of the bunker flashback scenes. When you actually stop and think about it, the fact that four these women have been kidnapped, forced underground, imprisoned, been psychologically abused and lied to, (and, as far as we're aware, specifically for Kimmy, raped), for ''fifteen years'' is deeply unsettling and horrifying. But all of the scenes in the bunker are just so over-the-top and ridiculous that it's impossible not to chuckle at them.

** Titus singing backup on a bunch of outrageously racist, sexist, and otherwise extremely right-wing songs, all while seeming completely oblivious to the content. Then the one he has a problem with is [[spoiler:simply an ode to large-breasted California girls]].

** When Lillian sees Kimmy being too hung up on [[spoiler:Dong]], She tells Kimmy that sometimes in life you have got to know when to just give up on certain things.

* IronWoobie: Kimmy, as the title of the show implies. She got kidnapped when she a teenager and forced into an underground cult for fifteen years. She refuses to let her trauma define her and remains upbeat and kind throughout the series.

* TheScrappy: Randy, Kimmy's stepfather, is widely disliked because of his TooDumbToLive nature (which is extreme even for ''this'' show) and how he's not nearly as interesting as the other characters. In particular, many fans were disappointed when he made a return in the last couple of episodes and yet Kimmy's half-sister [[ReplacementGoldfish Kymmi]] didn't.

** Xanthippe receives a lot of focus and CharacterDevelopment in the first season, only to be sent off to college at the season's end. [[TheBusCameBack She returns]] for only an episode or two in each subsequent season.
** In season 4, Artie. [[spoiler:He's Killed Off Screen in between seasons and only shows up in a flashback and recorded will]].
** Perry. Different from Kimmy's other love interests (being relatively smart, down-to-earth and calmer all around), he isn't gone and their parting was shown as 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 does Kimmy get a new LoveInterest, and some fans wanted them to be the end game couple of the show.

** Kimmy's decision to not divorce the reverend to stop [[spoiler:Wendy]] from marrying him stop costs her chance to become a crossing guard and after the events of S4 ep3 she is then painted in a image of being some sort faithful wife so ultimately the lesson is that staying legally married to someone to prevent from anyone else marrying from them will not do you any good favours for you down the road and even if it was backed by good intentions it's just not worth your time and energy.

** 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 sent to the jail where the show takes place, even befriending Black Cindy and with intentions of [[spoiler:starting her new women-only cult there]].

** It was easier to poke fun at "Marcia" and "Chris" when, as Marcia notes, O.J. Simpson was in prison anyway. However, since that episode aired, Simpson was released from prison, so the issue of his failed murder case is a more serious topic again.

* MemeticMutation: Several quotes of the show have gone memetic among their fanbase in tumblr.

** "I'm Lemonade-ing!" [[note]]Titus says this phrase in reference to himself making a bunch of tribute videos to Beyoncé's Lemonade album's videos during the trailer for season 3.[[/note]]

* TearJerker:
** 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 broken down yet.
** There just something sad about kimmy being either ignored or being cut off when she is in the middle of saying something.
** The way kimmy compares herself to a biscotti on how some people don't know what to make of her.
** Lillian tells kimmy that she should just move on from dong and save her hope for something worth her time.
*** This is coming from someone who has trouble moving on from the past and the way she gives the advice to her shows that she wants kimmy to live her life and not waste on one pointless endeavor.
** The last song from "Kimmy's Roommate Lemonades!". ''Especially'' when it shows clips of Titus and Mikey together.
** Xan's [[spoiler:SurprisePregnancy, and how bad her boyfriend treated her when she told it to him, even if the scene revealing it is played for some sort of CringeComedy]].

** Season 4 is unapologetically feminist, even more so than the other seasons, which have alienated the show from people who don't agree with the ideas of modern feminism. Those who like the shows newfound political image would argue that 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. This view on society is subjective at best though, which is why the show is now pretty much only watched by people who either agree with or don't care about its feministic image.
-->'''Jacquelyn''': Let me explain something, you flip-flop-to-church toddler, women are human beings! And they deserve your respect! If you hear a little voice in your head saying that you are more important because you can pee standing up and drive a car in Saudi Arabia, DON'T BELIEVE IT!

* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: '''All''' of the songs from "Kimmy's Roommate Lemonades!".

** Dong. Some find him to be {{adorkable}} and funny and enjoy his chemistry with Kimmy, while others find him to be a sort of EthnicScrappy with a single joke revolving around his name that gets run into the ground (although after a few episodes the show itself acknowledges this and never does it again). And there are those that just find him [[TheGenericGuy bland and boring]] and an underwhelming love interest character.
** Mimi Kanasis, particularly after she became an AscendedExtra in season 2. Depending on who you ask, she's either hilarious or highly annoying.

** The episode "Kimmy Goes to a Play" [[TakeThatCritics strawmans]] Asian-Americans who take issue with the way they are [[EthnicScrappy typically depicted]] - or [[RaceLift erased]] - in entertainment as being cartoon [[SoapboxSadie Social Justice Warriors]]. This was in season 2, which was released in the same week that the live-action film casting of [[Film/GhostInTheShell2017 Motoko Kusanagi]], [[Film/MightyMorphinPowerRangers Rita Repulsa]], and [[Film/DoctorStrange2016 The Ancient One]] were announced. All these characters are played by or are modeled after Asian people in their source material, but are played by white actresses for their respective film adaptations.

** All of the bunker flashback scenes. When you actually stop and think about it, the fact that four these women have been kidnapped, forced underground, been psychologically abused and lied to, and God knows what else (Kimmy admits that there was "weird sex stuff") for ''fifteen years'' is deeply unsettling and horrifying. But all of the scenes in the bunker are just so over-the-top and ridiculous that it's impossible not to chuckle at them.

** there just something sad about kimmy being either ignored or being cut off when she is in the middle of saying something.

*** This is coming from someone who has trouble moving on from the past and the way she gives the advice to her shows that she doesn't want kimmy to turn out like her.

** Kimmy's decision to not divorce the reverend to stop [[spoiler:Wendy]] from marrying him stop costs her chance to become a crossing guard and after the events of S4 ep3 she is then painted in a image of being some sort faithful wife so ultimately the lesson is that staying legal married to someone to prevent from anyone else marrying from them will not do you any good favours for you down the road and even if it was backed by good intentions it's just not worth your time and energy.

** The way kimmy compares herself to a biscotti.

** When Lillian sees Kimmy being too hung up on Dong, She tell Kimmy that sometimes in life you have got to know when to give up on certain things.
** Kimmy's decision to not divorce the reverend to stop Wendy from marrying stop costs her chance to become a crossing guard and atfer S4 ep3 she is then painted in a image of being some sort faithful wife so ultimately the lesson is that staying legal married to someone to prevent from anyone else marrying from them will not do any good favours for you down the road and even if it was backed by good intentions it's just not worth your time and energy.