| 1 | * ActingForTwo: Most of the third season finale "Adam Ruins Himself" revolves around Adam confronting his insecurities, which take the form of another Adam Conover. |
| 2 | * ExecutiveMeddling: |
| 3 | ** In "Adam Ruins Malls", he mentions that his production team found a company that was willing to take [[AllNaturalSnakeOil a random formula that he made (pointing out that he's not medically licensed) and sell it as nutritional supplement]], but [=TruTV=] executives told them that it was too dangerous to do so. |
| 4 | ** The SeriesFinale "Adam Ruins Himself" reveals that he had a segment ready to go about the NCAA, but [=TruTV=] vetoed it because they air some NCAA tournament games. The episode also revealed that [=TruTV=] made him cut some jokes at [=eHarmony's=] expense in "Adam Ruins Dating" and rework a segment in "Adam Ruins Football" from being solely about Gatorade to being about hydration in general because both Gatorade and [=eHarmony=] aired ads on the network. |
| 5 | * RealLifeRelative: |
| 6 | ** During "Adam Ruins Restaurants", when discussing seafood, [[http://www.somas.stonybrook.edu/people/faculty/david-conover/ Adam's father, a marine biologist]], is the expert cited. |
| 7 | ** Murph and Emily are an actual [[CreatorCouple married couple]]. |
| 8 | * RecycledScript: Some of the episodes expand on original [=CollegeHumor=] shorts as well as keeping the original word for word, like the Diamonds, Circumcision, and Purebreed shorts. |
| 9 | * RecycledSoundtrack: If you listen closely to the background music, some of the episodes use music from ''VideoGame/TheSims3''. |
| 10 | * ScrewedByTheNetwork: Or rather, Screwed by the Network's New Owners. [[https://twitter.com/adamconover/status/1483589784903712769 According to Adam Conover,]] when AT&T bought out Creator/TruTV's parent company [[Creator/WarnerMedia Time Warner]] in 2018, they proceeded to gut the network as part of the restructuring, [[AdoredByTheNetwork focusing more]] on reruns of ''Series/ImpracticalJokers'' because that was their biggest hit at the time. The show's creators saw the writing on the wall immediately, and started planning a [[SeriesFinale big blowout finale]] and their futures after the show. When Adam got the call saying that they indeed weren't going to be renewing the show, he wasn't [[ForegoneConclusion remotely surprised]]. |
| 11 | -->'''Adam:''' If you wanna know what killed ''Adam Ruins Everything'', monopoly capitalism did. That's the murderer! |
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