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1* SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments: His dissection of the media's coverage of mass shootings. Sadly, nobody seems to get the message even after the video is shared ''repeatedly'', and after more or less every shooting since.
2* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic:
3** The opening tune is ''great''!
4** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-uI1TJxUbQ Youtube link]] submitted as conclusive evidence to this fact.
5* SugarWiki/FunnyMoments:
6** A joke that CrossesTheLineTwice by using some very clever [[ManipulativeEditing sentence-mixing]] as Charlie discusses newsreaders.
7---> '''Charlie:''' ''[in voiceover]'' Many of the familiar newsroom faces had side-jobs, such as warm-throated dapper-chap-about-London-town Richard Baker here, who, when he wasn't telling us about Lieutenant William Calley who'd been convicted of killing twenty-two civilians in [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar My Lai in South Vietnam]]... \
8'''Richard Baker:''' ...[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Lieutenant William Calley, who was convicted of killing twenty-two civilians at My Lai in South Vietnam]]... \
9'''Charlie:''' ...doubled as the narrator for ''charming'', genteel, cardboard-kiddie-wink cartoon ''Mary, Mungo & Midge''! \
10'''Baker:''' ''[in voiceover]'' There's Mary. There's Mungo. And there's Midge...[[RuleOfThree who was convicted]] [[ManipulativeEditing of killing]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice twenty-two civilians]] [[BreadEggsMilkSquick at My Lai in South Vietnam]].
11** Nebbish Charlie [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BM0uxf8XrnE recreating]] [[Creator/BillOReilly Bill O'Reilly]]'s ''Inside Edition'' meltdown.
12** Also, the how to report the news segment from series 2.
13* TheScrappy: As evidenced by the show's Youtube comments, many viewers consider Tim Key's segments to be unfunny and pointless.

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