YMMV / Botchamania

• Archive Panic: There are currently well over 400 episodes of the series.^note Though technically there's actually no Botchamanias 1-3, or at least not ones made by Maffew: Maffew's first actual Botchamania was titled "Botchamania 4", which was made in response to three poor-quality compilations of wrestling bloopers called "Botchamania" created by two different people (though he did compile the best-quality clips he could find from the original videos into a new entry called "Botchamania 1, 2, & 3 Maffew Edition"). Granted, three episodes out of +400 is a small difference. Each is about 10-15 minutes long, with more coming out every couple of weeks. Making matters either worse or better, dozens of them have been taken down or lost, meaning you probably can't see them all, even if you wanted to.
• Crosses the Line Twice: The ending to Botchamania 157/158. Protester attempting suicide via stagedive? Not very funny. Protester attempting suicide via stagedive while overdubbed with New Jack's entrance? Utterly hilarious.
  Iron Sheik: *no comment*
• Crowning Music of Awesome: Virtually every Botchamania thanks to a soundtrack heavy on tunes from 80s and 90s video games and remixes thereof.
  • ECWPPVaMania is a two-part special backed solely by Metal Slug music. It's shocking how well the music fits.
  • 75: "High Voltage" vs. "Invincible".
  • 159: "Bowser's Theme" vs. "My Adidas".
• Harsher in Hindsight: Mike Adamle's "Jeff Harvey" quote, which is famously immortalised in the Botchamania original intro sequence (and its various versions), becomes far less funny with the revelation that he was suffering from CTE at the time (he's a former NFL player), and that he was eventually diagnosed with dementia in 2017. Maffew removed him from the intro after Adamle announced his CTE diagnosis out of respect to him.
• Just Here for Godzilla: Some viewers, burnt out on watching botches, only watch for the skits at the end.
• Memetic Mutation: "No Selling Table(s)"; tables that don't break on cue are called "Japanese tables" in contrast to the Spanish Announcers Tables that always break.
  • "I AM THE TABLE!"^note Specifically "The View". Used anytime a table doesn't break, and occasionally spliced with other music.
  • "Look It's Sabu, It's Sabu".
  • "Cena No-Sells Death"
  • "ELEVATED LIVER ENZYMES!!"
  • "IT'S THE YEHTAY!!!"
  • Countless snippets of mashups of the theme from Space Jam have been featured throughout the series.
  • "[X] Corpsing? SEND FOR THE MAN!"^note Used whenever someone corpses, it's always followed by the infamous WCW Monday Nitro bit where Randy Savage slaps Torrie Wilson to make her stop corpsing in what was supposed to be a dramatic and scary scene. After Becky Lynch started calling herself "The Man" in late 2018, she replaced Savage, showing clips of her coming to the ring. Bonus points for being set to a chiptune riff of "Beat It".
  • "JEEZUS!"
  • The sound of The Rock's imitation of a truck horn, towards Kevin Nash (in reference to his previous gimmick Diesel's truck theme) and the nWo in 2002, has become such a popular gag that several Botchamanias following the episode it was used in has had an ending featuring the clip, usually of it mixed into music.
  • Cody Rhodes telling a story about an angry Ted DiBiase Jr. complaining to Vince McMahon in regards of the botched finish of a match (in which he was supposed to pick up the win) that the referee was trying to "FUCK ON ME!" Similar to the truck horn above, several Botchamanias following the episode it was first shown had an ending featuring the clip mixed into music, such as a-ha's "Take On Me" or AC/DC's "Have a Drink on Me".
• Mis-blamed: With how often Maffew himself has sounded off about the state of copyright on YouTube (as well as how often his YouTube channels have fallen victim to it), a lot of viewers could be forgiven for thinking copyright was the reason why "I've been in the danger zone", "JEEZUS" and "We're comin' for you, nigga" were noticeably missing from the intro to Botchamania 388. As Maffew pointed out on his Twitter, they were actually cut from the intro by accident and he didn't notice until people pointed it out (presumably while inserting the usual Couch Gag over "The Yapapi").
• Never Live It Down: Botchamania 92 is, by Maffew's own opinion, one of the worst Botchamania's he's ever made. See the This Is Your Premise on Drugs entry as to why.
• One-Scene Wonder: Raja Lion, an amazingly unskilled puro wrestler who fought in only two matches, both of which can be seen in Botchamania 119. He is honored with a brief appearance in the series intro (he's the guy who crouches when making his entrance so as to not bump his head into the entrance due to his height).
• Retroactive Recognition: Kevin Steen, Sami Zayn, and Antonio Cesaro are some of the folks who did Botchamania intros while working the indie circuit in high school gyms around the country before becoming big WWE stars.
• Squick:
  • A particularly nasty blading incident is featured in a CZW botch in Botchamania 160.
  • John Nord's story about Dusty Rhodes in 172.
  • Botchamania 125 featured a match with a wrestler named Jay N, who repeatedly threw up during the course of match with another wrestler, and wound up being hit with a DDT on top of a spot where he had just thrown up.
  • James Mitchell's flash-gun incident in 121.
  • One Botchamania features a wrestler getting thrown into a trash can of light tubes, and his leg is so mangled that Maffew has to censor the injury.
• Tear Jerker:
  • The end of Botchamania 244 accurately describes the utter fucking despair of WWE fans going into WrestleMania XXX.
  • His reaction to Daniel Bryan's retirement: "I didn't think the original image was depressing enough, so I added another."
  • While one of the endings of 447 doesn't seem to be this on the surface (Dolly Parton's "Jolene", except with Triple H shouting "Eugene!"), the very last moment can count as this: William Regal comes out to confront Triple H, as the captions read "BYE REGAL" — referencing that around the time the video was released, Regal was released from WWE after over 20 years in the company.
• This Is Your Premise on Drugs: While commenting on the video for Botchamania 92, Maffew explains what he was doing while editing the video and why he wasn't particularly fond of the video itself, and he basically admits that if anyone was guessing that he was on drugs while making it, their guess was correct.
  Maffew: This was made around the time I took E for the first and last time. This was made during the god-fucking-awful comedown and I don't tend to re-watch this one much. It explains why the ending is as strange as it is... Halloween 3, Full Metal Jacket, Akira and Street Fighter The Movie. And Phillip Glass. NOT EVERY IDEA IS A GOOD IDEA.
• The Woobie:
  • Maffew apparently feels some guilt including Sonjay Dutt in Botchamania, saying that he "deserves better" each time he's featured.
  • He was also apparently reluctant to include A.R. Fox in 179, as he added text saying "A.R. Fox deliberately makes mistakes to try and make us think he's human."