History YMMV / VEEP

** Jonah Joy Ryan hints at having a learning disorder (what he describes as "dyslexia, but for numbers"note , which is why he failed algebra). Whether this is legitimate or merely an excuse for his boorish behavior and poor performance in school is unknown.

** The fallout from a data breach haunting the woman nominee in the 2016 presidential election is something Selina Meyer and Hillary Clinton have in common even if the circumstances are different. Selina’s team was the perpetrators (they outed a little girl from Alabama as being HIV+ and got other confidential medical information trying to target bereaved parents) whereas Hillary Clinton was the victim of two data breaches. The first was from the Bernie Sanders campaign in December 2015 for which he later apologized and fired the responsible actors (like in the show). The second data breach(es) were on the DNC by, according to the U.S. intelligence community, the Russian government in their attempt to hurt her in the election. They stole Team Clinton's emails which were later disseminated across the internet and even used in congressional elections. Most of the emails were released late in the election before most people understood the scope of what was happening and were used against her till the end. While in such a close election (it roughly came down to about 78k votes in three states), it's impossible to say one way or another to say what exactly was the nail in the coffin but the stolen emails did a lot of damage to her image. The scandal is undoubtedly what hurt Selina very badly in her run as well.

** Likewise, the final season has Jonah's team realizing his rallies are super-spreader events for the outbreak. Cue 2020 when rallies for certain political figures were cited in the same way with Covid-19.

** When the Nevada poll results come in, Selina demands that they cancel the recount "like Anne Frank's bar mitzvah".

** Jonah's increasingly idiotic behavior as the show progresses. Is it the result of {{Flanderization}}, or is it SanitySlippage due to spending [[DrunkWithPower too much time in the world of politics?]] The brief CharacterCheck he gets in the flashback sequence in "Groundbreaking" implies the latter.

* AccidentalAesop: What happens at the end of the GrandFinale. Bad politicians will come into power, but they will eventually be replaced and better people will be in charge.

* AccidentalAesop: What happens at the end of the GrandFinale. Bad politicians will come into power, but it will eventually come to pass and better people will be in charge.

** Selina at the end of the show. [[spoiler:It is revealed in the DistantFinale that she only had one presidential term and her funeral was upstaged by news that Tom Hanks died. Was her dream a failure because she didn't have her team to back her up or [[HeroicBSOD did she lose the motivation to carry it on]] because she felt guilty over betraying her team?]]

* NeverLiveItDown: Discussed in "Helsinki" after Selina is [[spoiler:sexually assaulted by the Finnish prime minister's husband]], and the reason why they can't let anyone know about it.
-->'''Amy:''' It's not like we can go public about it. [[spoiler:Your tit being fondled by a Finn]], that'd be all you were remembered for. You can't build a statue on that.

* AcceptableTargets: Jonah's height comes for a great deal of mockery.

** Kent Davison is incredibly meticulous, reserved to the point of DullSurprise, exhibits some {{cloudcuckoolander}} behavior [[note]] such as his ostentatious workout wardrobe or his membership of a biker gang [[/note]], [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness a high-end vocabulary]], extensive knowledge of esoteric facts, and has difficulty empathizing with others. While the last one can be attributed to WorldOfJerkass, some viewers (and Ben) have taken these traits as evidence that he may be on the autism spectrum.

** Kent Davison is incredibly meticulous, reserved to the point of DullSurprise, exhibits some {{cloudcuckoolander}} behavior [[note]], [[SesquipedalianLoquaciousness a high-end vocabulary]], extensive knowledge of esoteric facts, and has difficulty empathizing with others. While the last one can be attributed to WorldOfJerkass, some viewers (and Ben) have taken these traits as evidence that he may be on the autism spectrum.

** Kent Davison is incredibly meticulous, reserved to the point of DullSurprise, exhibits some {{cloudcuckoolander}} behavior, and has difficulty empathizing with others. While the last one can be attributed to WorldOfJerkass, some viewers (and Ben) have taken these traits as evidence that he may be on the autism spectrum.

-->'''Kent:''' Catherine, America doesn't like you.
-->'''Catherine:''' What?
-->'''Kent:''' ''(thoughtfully)'' That sounded way too harsh when boiled down to a headline thought.

** Season 7, which has been criticized as the show's weakest year, with complaints about the shortened number of episodes making it feel rushed, much of the cast being underutilized for their swan song, and the far more blatant than ever parodies of real life politics. Interestingly enough though, the series finale wound up being acclaimed as one of the show's finest episodes despite all this.

** Season 7, which has been criticized as the show's weakest year, with complaints about the shortened number of episodes making it feel rushed, much of the cast being underutilized for their swan song, and the far more blatant than ever parodies of real life politics

* CatharsisFactor: After seven seasons of watching her scheme and claw her way to the highest office of power (throughout it becoming increasingly psychopathic and downright '''''evil'''''), there’s an almost perverse glee to be had in watching the DistantFinale and seeing Selina’s entire legacy basically amount to nothing. She’s reduced to such a point of irrelevance that her own funeral gets upstaged by another person’s death.

* FranchiseOriginalSin: Though Season 5 is often held up as just as good as the the Iannucci seasons, some have noted that several issues of the following two Mandel seasons ([[DemotedToExtra Amy being underutilized]], [[Flanderization Mike becoming much stupider]], [[KarmaHoudini Dan's]] [[IdiotHoudini inexplicable success]]) actually popped up in Season 5, before being made much more noticeable later on.

* CatharsisFactor: After seven seasons of watching her scheme and claw her way to the highest office of power (throughout it becoming increasingly psychopathic and downright '''''evil'''''), there’s an almost perverse glee to be had in watching the DistantFinale and seeing Selina’s entire legacy basically amout to nothing. She’s reduced to such a point of irrelevance that her own funeral gets upstaged by another person’s death.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: Dan and Amy's individual arcs in Season 7 are criticized for DemotedToExtra and feeling out-of-character.