YMMV / It's Showtime

• Anvilicious: In particular the Magpasikat 2023 performance by Jhong, Kim and Ion which decried the pitfalls of smartphone and social media use where people immerse themselves on said devices at the expense of real-world friendships and responsibilities.
• Ending Fatigue: Some felt that Vice's jokes (and occasionally those from the other hosts) tend to drag down and pad out the show's runtime quite a lot.
• Iron Woobie: It's hard not to crack up jokes and have a straight face as the hosts when something dire happens to the cast or the show itself, case in point Vhong Navarro's imprisonment in 2022 due to long-standing allegations of rape carried out against Deniece Cornejo, or earlier in 2020 when Philippine authorities nixed proposals for the reinstatement of ABS-CBN's broadcast licence.
• Memetic Mutation: Querubin Llavore's reaction to winning in "Tawag ng Tanghalan" has become a meme format of its own.
• Misblamed: The show took the fall in 2010 for a callous remark made by guest judge Rosanna Roces towards teachers. The MTRCB ordered the show to be suspended even if the main cast had little to nothing to do with it. In fairness, the judges could've been briefed on what (not) to say on live television, but still, some felt that the suspension (which ABS-CBN briefly circumvented by airing a similarly-structured placeholder show called Magpasikat) was draconian and underhanded when it had more to do with an errant guest anyway.
• Retroactive Recognition: Martin Gambuta II, a teenage "Tawag ng Tanghalan" hopeful from Bohol who got gonged^note A gong is hit to halt a contestant's performance if a judge thinks their performance is going poorly. This was modelled after Major Bowes Amateur Hour which had a similar gong gimmick used to eliminate sub-par contestants (those who watched Cartoon Network back in the 90s to early 2000s may be vaguely familiar with this through the 1936 Merrie Melodies short I Love to Singa where a Jack Benny-esque judge hits the gong on poorly-performing contestants en masse)., is now among the three main vocalists of ALAMAT.
• The Scrappy: GirlTrends. ABS-CBN produces a lot of these kinds of groups, frequently consisting of entertainers that don't make it as leading ladies or leading men but whom the network still wants to push. They sing and dance, with quality seldom guaranteed, these groups often coasting by Fanservice. So GirlTrends is nowhere near unique in it pushing network favorites to become cult idols through Fanservice, but their repeated screentime on such a platform as It's Showtime has made them the subject of widespread ire. Take this performance, which went viral for negative reasons (e.g. a lack of synchronicity, bad vocals). The network refusing to even give their clips neutral titles, hyping them up to the masses' skepticism (e.g. "GT charms the Madlang People with their performance!'' despite the unanimously poor reception) no matter how much they mess up, probably doesn't help things.
• Never Live It Down: The infamously disastrous GirlTrends rendition of Sam Smith's "How Do You Sleep." However, the subsequent Memetic Mutation is actually largely intentional, with ABS-CBN spinning bad publicity into something good for them, naturally. People have also grown more lenient towards the GT members after they've shown they have a good sense of humor about their terrible performance.
• Values Dissonance: Happens a lot. One of the more recent examples is the Ship Tease between Jhong and the dancer Sanrio. The fact that he's 43 and she's 19 in 2019 should speak for itself. To be fair to Jhong, it's mostly other people insisting they have something going on. When he had the opportunity to make an 18-year-old audience member act as his bride in an improvisation segment, he dropped the girl upon finding out her age.