YMMV / Good News Week

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Tim Minchin singing while Jimeoin left to use the toilet.
  • A few episodes earlier Craig Hill did the same thing when Mikey ran off to the bathroom.
• Crosses the Line Twice: As with Black Comedy, Paul and Mikey thrive on it, and basically everything Akmal Saleh and Tom Gleeson says crosses at least three or four lines.

  Paul: Ha ha, I hope the kids have gone to bed.

  • In the 2010 premiere, Paul tried to put a stop to these jokes. In two minutes, Akmal Saleh said 'We fuck camels'. You can imagine how the rest of the night went.
  • One episode, Paul and Mikey spent a few minutes discussing sticking platypi in a blender. Started off just jokingly saying it, then crossing the line by using the phrase 'pleading eyes', then back over by complaining about how the beak gets stuck in the blades.
• Ho Yay - Mikey and Paul on a regular basis.

  Mikey I'm not good with my hands.

  Paul Oh, that's not true. (Aside Glance)

  ...

  Mikey, to Claire: We've told you, it's never going to happen!
  ...

  Mikey, holding Paul close while watching Tom Gleeson chase Josh Thomas through the audience: That's what you call Unresolved Sexual Tension.

  (this was a quadruple Ho Yay moment, and all the more driven by the fact that Josh Thomas had recently outed himself)
  • This video contains Ho Yay for Paul and Jason Byrne, Paul and Reginald D. Hunter and the best example of Ho Yay between Paul and Mikey.
  • Every time Sammy J and Randy the puppet are on. This was lampshaded by Paul during a session of Couch Potato with them, which ended up with Randy sucking on Sammy's nipple.
  • Hamish and Andy performing Ben.
  • Paul's session with Tim Ferguson on The Couch.
    Paul: -as the audience coos at the two talking about how they met- Oh, the ladies love that. Wanna see us kiss?
• Memetic Mutation: An internal example with "jet sparrow". An offhand joke by Paul turned into Claire mentioning an Unusual Euphemism used by her father, and no-one would let it go throughout the entire episode. At the end of the 2008 season, the mock awards presented were called the Jet Sparrow Awards.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: Claire took over as team captain from Julie McCrossin, who did not sign on for the revived series. Of course, the purists declared the show to be ruined.
  • After just one episode, Good News World is already copping "ruined" flack in responses from Twitter and the official site.
  • Good News World appears to have led to the demise of the show entirely.