History Series / UnbreakableKimmySchmidt

** Marcia and Chris, the prosecutors for the Mole Women case, are suggested to be Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden, the prosecutors of OJ Simpson's murder trial. They mention working on a famous trial and make numerous references to incidents at the trial. Chris even has Rev. Wayne try on the bloody glove, then laments, "Someday I'm going to find out who's glove this is!" They're portrayed as lovers and highly incompetent lawyers.

* CloningBlues: PlayedForLaughs. After the divorce, Jacqueline's ex-husband apparently had her cloned to be a replacement wife. The brief glimpse we get of the clone in Season Four shows her having a breakdown over which memories are really hers.

** Kimmy recalls Reverend Gary talking about his ideas for movies, which match the premises of ''Film/TheVillage'' and ''Film/TheHappening''.

* PragmaticVillainy: Jackie spends most of season 3 trying to get the Washington Redskins to change to a less racist name. Unfortunately, the owner is an absolutely ruthless MagnificentBastard who she can neither outmaneuver nor convince with moral pleas. Finally, she figures out a way for him to make more money by changing the name, and he comes around immediately.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSong: Done with a number of songs in the second season, and lampshaded in one episode, when Kimmy shows Titus her "Now That Sounds Like Music" cassette.
-->'''Titus (reading the case)''':"Music inspired by but legally different from the music you love."

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Each episode is "[[ExcitedShowTitle Kimmy [does something]!]]"

* InstantHumiliationJustAddYouTube: Along with the two cases listed on StupidStatementDanceMix, "Kimmy Googles the Internet!" has Xan revealing there is a video of her suffering a PottyFailure during a spelling bee, and Kimmy actively enters an embarrassing video (namely, a rap with Perry during philosophy class) just to push down the internet search results related to her past in the bunker.

* StupidStatementDanceMix:
** "Kimmy Goes Outside!" features one in the opening minutes which is used as exposition regarding the Indiana Mole Women situation. (It's even made by Music/TheGregoryBrothers.) A short edit becomes the show's theme song.
** Titus' failed interview in "Kimmy Goes to Court!" becomes one, and it goes viral in "Kimmy Makes Waffles!"

* AluminumChristmasTrees:
** The rubber room Kimmy's GED teacher [[SpringtimeForHitler wants to get demoted into]] is based on [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reassignment_centers a real historic feature of the NYC public school system]].
** "I Beat That Bitch With A Bat" is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_riJ_0L27zk a real song]]; it's been remixed multiple times, but it predates the show.

-->'''Mr. Pallitano:''' ''[severely]'' Michael, do you know what the Church says about homosexuality?
-->'''Mikey:''' No, pop.
-->'''Mr. Pallitano:''' ''[beat]'' Actually, neither do I. But the pope seems to be okay with it. And who am I to go against our gay pope?

** Played with in the season 4 episode "Kimmy Finds a Liar", where Titus is hired to be a reverse beard also called an "eyebrows", which is a gay fake partner to a closeted straight guy

-->'''Kimmy''': You need to listen to your gut.
-->'''Jacqueline''': I don't have a gut, you [[CurseCutShort motherf-]]
-->'''Kimmy''': You need to listen to your ''intuition!''

** When Kimmy makes a site to sell her book, she can't access it and shows that there are 503 errors happening, which is her misreading Error 503. [[spoiler:Error 503 is an internet error that is returned often when a site is overloaded by demand, which hints that her site might be a huge success, which is what was happening.]]

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-->'''Kimmy''': Wow, Mrs. Voorhees! You look like a million bucks!
-->'''Jacqueline, tearing up''': Wow. I know you didn't mean that to be hurtful, but...

-->'''Kimmy''': Just follow your gut.
-->'''Jacqueline''': I don't have a gut, you–
-->'''Kimmy''': No! I mean your women's intuition.

* TakeAThirdOption: "Kimmy Bites an Onion!" has Kimmy apply to be a crossing guard and tested for various sceneraios, the last of which is a trolley problem where one has to decide what to do about an out of control truck and which way to send it, which will either hit a group of children or a single businessman. Kimmy opts to direct the truck into herself instead.

* PlayingGertrude: Jacqueline's parents are played by actors only 15 and 11 years older than her. This is because they generally appear in flashbacks when Jacqueline is a teenager.

* AngryBlackMan: Invoked. Titus flamboyantly effeminate and his anger typically takes the form of catty complaints. But he easily scares off a group of white teenagers by randomly yelling "What'd you just call me?!"

* CourtroomAntic: Rev. Wayne's entire defense is built on silly tricks and theatrics that could hardly fool a child, much less hold up in a court of law. Luckily for him, Durnsville, and by extension the jury, is full of morons, he's up against a pair of prosecution lawyers who somehow know ''less'' about the law than him and a judge who cares more about building a birdhouse than presiding over a trial.

* AuthorOnBoard: The third season episode "Kimmy Steps on a Crack!", which has a number of established characters act unlike themselves and also has a number of bizarre (yes, even for this show!) things happen (including a [[DoubleStandard gender-flipped Mole Women situation]] ''entirely PlayedForLaughs''), all to deliver the [[UnfortunateImplications questionable message]] that when a woman fails at something (even when she goes about it in the dumbest way possible) it's not her fault but due to [[StrawMisogynist men being useless and not taking her seriously.]] Even the writers seemed to realise that they'd gone a bit too far with this one, since the very next episode is "Kimmy is a feminist!" in which [[StrawFeminist feminism is also shown as not being all that great.]]

* EarnYourHappyEnding

* TheJimmyHartVersion: Done with a number of songs in the second season, and lampshaded in one episode, when Kimmy shows Titus her "Now That Sounds Like Music" cassette.
-->'''Titus (reading the case)''':"Music inspired by but legally different from the music you love."

** Season One & Two: Baked Kimber-Lays, Kimmie Lee & Hoda, [[Literature/AmeliaBedelia Amelia Bedelia]], Kimbecile, Girlfrenemy, [[ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}} Kimbert]], Diva, Kimpanzee, [[Music/LilKim Lil Kim]], [[Film/KPax K-PAX]], [[Music/JustinTimberlake Kimberlake]], [[Creator/TimBlakeNelson Kim Blake Nelson]], Kimillionaire, Kimbrella, Kimstagram, Kimothy, White Weirdo, [[WesternAnimation/RainbowBrite Rainbow Brite]], Kim Kim Kim [[note]]a play on Rin Tin Tin[[/note]], Carrot Top, Miss Schmidt ([[Music/JanetJackson if you're nasty]]), [[Franchise/TheLittleMermaid Ariel]], Boy, [[Franchise/{{Lassie}} Lassie]].

** The mise en scène on Broadway of The Spider-Men, so prone to accidents of the cast.

* RhymingList: Titus manages to do this with ''an entire song'' where every phrase rhymes with the title, "Peeno Noir." Examples include "caviar," "[[UsefulNotes/ThatSoutheastAsianCountry Myanmar]]," and "mid-size car." The song even becomes SuspiciouslyAproposMusic during a montage at the end of "Kimmy Goes To School", as some of the rhymes happen to apply to other characters' subplots (e.g. "you don't have to be popu''lar'' / find out who your real friends are")

* RhymingList: Titus manages to do this with ''an entire song'' where every phrase rhymes with the title, "Peeno Noir." Examples include "caviar," "[[UsefulNotes/ThatSoutheastAsianCountry Myanmar]]," and "mid-size car."

** The show is extremely reminiscent of the Ariel Castro kidnappings. Both involve cases of multiple women in the Midwest being kidnapped and held hostage for multiple years for "freaky sex stuff". Also, in the show, the victims were three white women and one Latina woman, while Ariel Castro kidnapped two white women and one Latina woman.

* AdultFear: Adults kidnapping teens, casual racism and sexism, Kimmy wandering into strange men's vans, StockholmSyndrome and PTSD are all PlayedForLaughs. This is Creator/TinaFey after all.

** Also in Season 4, Titus bragged about playing a minor role as a doorman on ''[[Series/Daredevil2015 Daredevil]]'' to a guy on a lunch date, who's played by Creator/JonBernthal, whose best known character, [[Series/ThePunisher2017 The Punisher]], was first introduced on Daredevil.

* IncompatibleOrientation: [[spoiler: Cyndee's boyfriend, Brandon, is gay. Played For Drama when Kimmy discovers that Cyndee is well aware of this and has been using her Mole Woman status to make Brandon date her out of pity.]] This also works as a subtle CastingGag, as Creator/EllieKemper's character Becca in Film/{{Bridesmaids}} is [[spoiler:married to a childhood sweetheart who is heavily implied to be deep in the closet and wouldn't recommend the arrangement to say the least!]]

''Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt'' is a television show produced exclusively for {{Creator/Netflix}}. Created by Creator/TinaFey and starring Creator/EllieKemper, its first season aired in 2015; a second season was ordered before the first season was ever uploaded.

* MeatOVision: This happens to Titus with Dionne Warwick during his cruise flashback in "Kimmy Does a Puzzle!".

* RealityEnsues:
** Kimmy is surprisingly positive and upbeat for someone who's been through the ordeal she's been through. But she has trauma she doesn't deal with, and all the positive attitude in the world isn't going to stop it from catching up with her sooner or later. By the second season, it does: she starts lashing out violently, develops all kind of weird psychosomatic symptoms, and has at least one fugue episode. She comes to realize that her positive attitude is just her way of avoiding her problems, and she starts to confront them.
** Kimmy expected to solve a lot of issues in her first visit to a shrink, before their time runs out and she feels like they did nothing. However, as Andrea says, therapy is a process and they just started. However, this is soon thrown out of the window when Night Andrea basically says that it's always the parents fault and Kimmy should blame her problems on her mother.
** At the end of Season Three, [[spoiler:Kimmy's decision to not divorce The Reverend earlier in the season comes back to bite her when she applies for a job as a crossing guard. As the wife of a registered sex offender, the police can't let her be around children or ducks.]]
** Season Three has Kimmy admitted to Columbia University on a sports scholarship when the rowing team sees how good she is (due to the practice from turning the crank). Despite being enthusiastic about several of her courses, her barely high school education leaves her unable to maintain a decent grade average, and she's quickly forced out.
** Kimmy is desperate to keep her past hidden, except from a select few, not wanting to be seen as a victim. Except, as she learns in season three, this is TheNewTens. ''Everyone's'' online, and most people Google each other to see what comes up. And the "Mole Women" stories are on the first page.
** Lillian runs for city council to fight against gentrification and wins the election against all odds. She triumphantly goes to the first council meeting to vote down a new development project, and is promptly outvoted by the rest of the council. Then she tries to stage a filibuster, and the council just waits until she falls asleep and holds the vote anyway.
** In the series finale, after many seasons of running jokes, [[spoiler: the city discovers that Kimmy and Titus's apartment is just a sideways tugboat and condemns it to be destroyed. Slightly subverted in that, while the process would actually take months to get underway, the timeline from the city inspector's visit to the actual detonation of the apartment is only about three to five days.]]