History YMMV / SantaClaritaDiet

** Sheila. Period.

* AcceptablePoliticalTargets: In the first episode of Season 3, Joel mentions that there's a lot more Nazis for Sheila to eat nowdays, implying a TakeThat on the Trump era U.S.
** In season 3, a member of the Men's Rights Movement is such a huge misogynistic jerkass that he deserved to be eaten alive by Sheila as much as Neo-Nazis.

* DiagnosedByTheAudience: Aside from having an IQ of 172, Dr. Cora Wolf appears to have minor mood swings, lacks some social skills (she appears to not even understand how to hug someone properly), prefers to use words like "act of passion" instead of "sex", cannot understand sarcasm, and has no trouble piercing a woman's neck with a pen when there are other people watching.

** In season 3, a member of the Men's Rights Movement is such a huge misogynistic jerkass that he deserved to be eaten alive by Sheila as much as neo-nazis.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: Any person on this show who is a decent human being will be completely and utterly ineffectual. It can be actively draining to a viewer who the jokes aren't landing for.
* EnsembleDarkhorse: Gary, for being played by Creator/NathanFillion, and for being an endlessly snarky [[spoiler: severed head.]]

** One of Abby and Eric's classmates, Sarah, is played by Creator/KayleeBryant one year before she began staring as Josie Saltzman on ''Series/{{Legacies}}''.

* RetroactiveRecognition: Fans of Series/NeverHaveIEver will recognize Ramona Young as the grocery store employee.

* Fans of Series/NeverHaveIEver will recognize Ramona Young as the grocery store employee.

* Fans of Series/NeverHaveIEver will recognize Ramona as the grocery store employee.

* CompleteMonster: [[KnightOfCerebus Dobrivoje Poplović]], the BigBad of season 3, is a sadistic Serbian who has an obsession with the undead. He frequently has had undead people abducted and attempted to [[PlayingWithSyringes experiment on them]] while they're alive--and possibly has mistakenly abducted regular humans that he's tortured anyway. Until Poplović gets a lead in Santa Clarita, at least two undead break free and kill themselves to avoid being dissected. Poplović cares nothing for having incompetent employees [[BadBoss murdered or threatened]], threatening one of his new men by suffocation with a plastic bag, driving two to eventually quit for being abused continuously. Believing Joel Hammond to be the undead he's looking for, Poplović threatens to kill everyone at his and wife Sheila's party if he doesn't go with him. Poplović then impales Sheila to a wall when discovering she's the true undead, stating his intention to kill Joel and use her and other undead people to harvest their blood for a cure to aging that [[{{Greed}} he can profit from]].

* CompleteMonster: [[KnightOfCerebus Dobrivoje Poplović]], the BigBad of season 3, is a sadistic Serbian who has an obsession with the undead. He frequently has had undead people abducted and attempted to [[PlayingWithSyringes experiment on them]] while they're alive--and possibly has mistakenly abducted regular humans that he's tortured anyway. Until Poplović gets a lead in Santa Clarita, at least two undead break free and kill themselves to avoid being dissected. Poplović cares nothing for having incompetent employees [[BadBoss murdered or threatened]], threatening one of his new men by suffocation with a plastic bag, driving two to eventually quit and become undead who end up going on a killing spree. Believing Joel Hammond to be the undead he's looking for, Poplović threatens to kill everyone at his and wife Sheila's party if he doesn't go with him. Poplović then impales Sheila to a wall when discovering she's the true undead, stating his intention to kill Joel and use her and other undead people to harvest their blood for a cure to aging that [[{{Greed}} he can profit from]].

* NightmareFuel: The end of Season 3 is truly unsettling even beyond the show’s usual level without a single joke to lighten things up. [[spoiler:Sheia’s spider ball crawls into Joel’s ear, and after convulsing a bit he gives a high-pitched “Mama” like she’d been trying to get it to say all season. After a regretful kiss that it’s come to this, Sheila bites Joel so he can live as a zombie, but right after he wakes up the season ends with our still having no idea if it’s really him or the ball. [[CutShort And now we'll never know.]]]]

* NightmareFuel: The end of Season 3 is truly unsettling even beyond the show’s usual level without a single joke to lighten things up. [[spoiler:Sheia’s spider ball crawls into Joel’s ear, and after convulsing a bit he gives a high-pitched “Mama” like she’d been trying to get it to say all season. After a regretful kiss that it’s come to this, Sheila bites Joel so he can live as a zombie, but right after he wakes up the season ends with our still having no idea if it’s really him or the ball.]]

** In season 3, a member of the Men's Rights Movement is portrayed as such a huge misogynistic jerkass that he deserves to be eaten alive by Sheila as much as neo-nazis.

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Gary, for being played by ''Creator/NathanFillion'', and for being an endlessly snarky [[spoiler: severed head.]]

* EnsembleDarkhorse: Gary, for being played by Nathan Fillion, and for being an endlessly snarky [[spoiler: severed head.]]