History YMMV / FrankieBoyle

* AcceptableTargets: ''Everyone''. But especially anyone in the public eye and Kerry Katona. But most of all, [[SelfDeprecation the]] [[NWordPrivileges Scottish]].
* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: In an article he wrote for The Guardian, Frankie posed that UsefulNotes/DavidCameron is in fact an evil, stone-faced [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]].

** His joke about Rebecca Adlington's face resembling someone looking at themselves in the back of a spoon, which was arguably one of the final straws before he left ''Series/MockTheWeek'', was revisited during the 2012 Olympic Games when he posted the following on his Website/{{Twitter}} account:

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: In an article he wrote for The Guardian, Frankie posed that David Cameron is in fact an evil, stone-faced [[TheChessmaster chessmaster]].

** His joke about Rebecca Adlington's face resembling someone looking at themselves in the back of a spoon, which was arguably one of the final straws before he left Mock The Week, was revisited during the 2012 Olympic Games when he posted the following on his Twitter account:

* HilariousInHindsight: Frankie commented on [[UsefulNotes/ScottishPremierLeague Rangers' relegation into the lower leagues of Scottish football]] by imagining their team sheet "read out in Gaelic by Series/{{Dotaman}}". Possibly coincidentally, a few months later, that year's Series/OnlyAnExcuse special featured a Dòtaman homage character singing Rangers songs in Gaelic.

--->'''Frankie:''' "A video of [[TopGear Richard Hammond]] trying to remember his own wedding day."

** Michael Jackson's Children's Hospital. That is all.
* ExecutiveMeddling: The reason why Frankie left ''Mock the Week'' and the reason why ''Tramadol Nights'' didn't keep its original title, ''Deal With This, Retards''.
* PlayingAgainstType: In a surprising moment that even takes back Dara, Frankie (momentarily) takes the moral high ground on ''Series/MockTheWeek''.
--> '''Frankie:''' "He's too busy raising money for cancer, [[SarcasmMode the selfish bastard]]."
--> '''Dara:''' "I can't believe you're taking the moral high ground."
--> '''Frankie:''' "It's been a while. God, it looks strange up here."

* PlayingAgainstType: In a surprising moment that even takes back Dara, Frankie (momentarily) takes the moral high ground on MockTheWeek.

* TooSoon: His answer to "Lines you wouldn't hear in a superhero movie", just after ''Film/TheDarkKnight'' was released.
--> '''Frankie:''' "What's that, Joker, you'll be back? ''Somehow'', [[HeathLedger I don't think you will be!"]]

--> '''Frankie:''' "What's that, Joker, you'll be back? [[HeathLedger ''Somehow'', I don't think you will be!"]]

--> '''Dara Ó Briain:''' "There's a line in the sand, right, and you can't even ''see'' the line in the sand. You're actually out of sand into, like, tropical tundra regions."

* DudeNotFunny: Inevitably.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: After joking about Richard Hammond's near fatal car accident.
--> '''Dara Ó Briain:''' "There's a line in the sand, right, and you can't even ''see'' the line in the sand. You're actually out of sand into, like, tropical tundra regions."
** He's pulled this one off a few times:

--->'''Frankie:''' "A video [[TopGear Richard Hammond]] trying to remember his own wedding day?"

--->'''Frankie:'''"I worry that Rebecca Adlington will have an unfair advantage in the swimming by possessing a dolphin's face."

--->'''Frankie:''' What about Richard Hammond trying to remember his own wedding day?