You're the Worst is considered to be one of the strongest comedy series of the 2010s, with both critics and audiences applauding the show for seamlessly blending in pitch black humor and drama.
General
Jimmy's reactions to the insanity that goes on around him deserve their own entry. The man can snark with the best of them without saying a single word.
Jimmy's pre-prepared lists of absolutely terrible heckles, and his commonly used disguise of a fake mustache and a hat.
Most of the sex scenes throughout the entire show are not shown to be sensual or romantic; pretty much all of them are filmed in fast-paced, volatile manners (e.g. Jimmy spitting on Gretchen's genitals not even five minutes into the pilot).
Season 1
Jimmy and Gretchen's first conversation in the pilot.
Jimmy: What have you heard about me? Gretchen: Nothing, just that you're the worst. Jimmy: Says the girl who just stole a blender from a wedding. Gretchen: What? No... (tears open paper) Aw, man! I thought it was a food processor! (throws blender into bushes) Jimmy: Who's the worst now? Coitus ensues
And speaking of the sex that ensues...
Gretchen: Did you just spit on it? Jimmy: ... yeah? Gretchen: You spit on my vagina. Jimmy: So? Gretchen: Don't! Jimmy: Why not? Gretchen: Why don't spit on my vagina. Jimmy: It's saliva. It's gonna get there anyway. [Beat] Gretchen: (shrugs and pushes Jimmy's head back down)
Jimmy tries to start another round at the beginning of "Insouciance" and Gretchen shuts him down, joking that she's going to get latex poisoning.
Jimmy: You can't leave me like this! Gretchen: Nice try, I learned blue balls were a myth when I was twelve. Jimmy: The boy who told you that is a traitor to our gender!
Gretchen leaves her phone at Jimmy's in "Keys Open Doors", and Edgar immediately confiscates it and puts it in an excessively-stapled bag because he knows Jimmy will be unable to resist snooping. When Jimmy predictably rips open said bag while driving to Gretchen's work to return it, Edgar rolls up next to Jimmy's car on his bike, looks through the window, and just shakes his head.
Also in "Keys Open Doors", finding Sam in Jimmy's house with the male president of a college Gay and Lesbian Student Union, both clad only in underwear.
Gretchen: You're gay? Sam: Nooo. But this n***a sucks really good dick!
"Sunday Funday" in its entirety, but specific highlights include Jimmy asserting that Daniel Craig looks like an upset baby and Lindsay screeching in terror and running for the hills at the sight of Paul holding a baby.
Lindsay's definition of feminism in "PTSD".
Lindsay: You have to sleep with someone else too or you'll resent him forever. That's feminism, Gretch. That's what Susan B. Anthony died for. Gretchen: Do you even know who Susan B. Anthony is? Lindsay: She made an airplane disappear. Gretchen: Nope, what? That's Amelia Earhart, and she didn't make an — Lindsay: Whatever, history, you happened already. Let it go.
In "Equally Dead Inside", after the failed attempt at a threesome to cheer up Jimmy
Jimmy: Shut up, Dana. I didn't actually expect you to come down here, you weirdo. Dana: You masturbated while holding a giant Sandra Bernhard standee, and I'm the weirdo?
In "Constant Horror and Bone-Deep Dissatisfaction":
Jimmy: I was happy once. It was awful.
No wonder Gretchen likes him, he's basically Grumpy Cat.
Season 2
"Crevasses"
Jimmy gives his scathing opinion on an art piece. Then we see the artist was a child.
When Gretchen has to go shopping for stuff after losing most of her possessions in that fire in her apartment.
Store Clerk: What do you need to get? Gretchen:: Everything! (laughs) I just moved in with my boyfriend and I don't have any stuff except for a food processor and, like, 19 thongs, because even though at first I was like, "I am not wearing that," the patriarchy somehow convinced us that visible panty lines were unacceptable, so now I've just grown accustomed to the feeling of a fabric rope against my actual asshole all day. And anyway, even if I did buy the stuff of a life, there's nowhere for me to put it because I'm not sure this dude really wanted me to move in because I'm an irresponsible monster who burned down her apartment with her vibrator! Store Clerk: I'm just gonna leave you with this checklist for college freshmen.
"Spooky Sunday Funday": While in the "extreme haunted house", Lindsay actually befriends and gets some life advice from one of the employees.
Season 3
"The Last Sunday Funday": The entire episode could definitely count due to the utterly insane antics the group goes through to find the secret dive bar.
Edgar: One time, we found a nest of camel spiders on base. So we packed up, hit the entrance with a truck bomb, and pretended the Taliban did it.
It's revealed that Honey Nutz is 45 years old. The truth came out when he was free-styling about how the Challenger explosion really messed him up.
Edgar and Lindsay come up with a little song trying to get Jimmy and Gretchen back together. Jimmy tells them to sing it to Gretchen, so they go down to the bedroom... only to find her having rough sex with Boone.
"A Bunch of Hornballs"
"Don't emoji clap at me!"
Lindsay invites all of her coworkers to her divorce celebration party, but only Carl, the beleaguered intern, shows up.
Lindsay: Carl's basically a human participation trophy.
Jimmy attempts to hook up with another author at the erotica literature expo, and naturally, it goes badly wrong, with her vomiting from drinking too much wine and then crying about how she never had an orgasm.
"Worldstar!"
Jimmy's book, The Width of a Peach, is doing very well and ranks #1 on Amazon’s Erotica list, Subcategory Historical Romance, and subcategories WWII, UK, and Family Fun.
Lindsay is determined to rip into Becca for being the root of her problems, with Gretchen determined to film the beatdown, but their plans are subverted when it turns out Lindsay and Becca's mother Faye, a former softcore porn actress, has come to visit. Becca then walks in on Vernon masturbating to Faye's movies and punches his lights out in a rage, with Gretchen recording it all and getting to yell "worldstar!"
According to Becca, Vernon shaves his pubes into a V.
"Dad-Not-Dad"
Gretchen inadvertently getting blackout drunk with Boone's ex-wife, Whitney; when she finally comes to, she's shocked and horrified to see herself fingering her.
"From the Beginning, I Was Screwed"
Ben Folds reciting a little ditty called "Pussy On Swole" that Shitstain and Sam wrote. They're oddly impressed with his rendition.
And later, Ben comes to the recording studio, bleeding badly and clearly stupidly drunk.
Gretchen's epic failure at the "International Day" game with Boone and Olivia.
Boone recounts an incident when he accidentally lost his daughter in a mall because he was staring at a Cinnabon too hard.
Season 5
"The Intransigence of Love": Just the way Jimmy and Gretchen's fake love story just gets more ridiculous and outlandish the longer it goes on.
"The Pin In My Grenade"
Lindsay and Edgar absolutely lose it when Jimmy and Gretchen say they're going to do a courthouse elopement.
Gretchen's new office has its own personal bathroom with a high-tech toilet that shoots water up into her nether regions at the push of a button. When she finds out that one of the water jets hits her in the G-spot, she spends the rest of the day pleasuring herself with the toilet. When Gretchen finally gets up (after blacking out from multiple orgasms), a bucketload of water spills out from between her legs.
Gretchen, in a desperate attempt to make up an excuse for why she didn't show up at the courthouse, gets Lindsay to beat her up to make it look like she got mugged.
"The one Thing We Do Not Talk About"
Good dirty talk for Jimmy is Gretchen describing her feet to him.
The last-minute Running Gag that is Lindsay's new "lesbian" haircut, which resembles Paul's hair more than anything. No one loses an opportunity to mock it.
Jimmy: (upon witnessing this for the first time) Paul! Did you get Lasik?
"Pancakes"
Ben Folds' appearance in the Grand Finale, getting drunk as usual. In a strangely heartwarming moment between him and Vernon:
