History YMMV / ShaunMicallefsMadAsHell

* AcceptablePoliticalTargets: The Liberal Party and anyone even more right-wing than themselves are spared no mercy, but far-left know-alls are also mocked at least once per episode.
* AcceptableProfessionalTargets:
** ''The Daily Telegraph'' is routinely taken apart for producing snarky headlines for stories that really shouldn't be snarked about.
--> '''Chris Lorax:''' So we used the headline "Knife and Death" as a pun on "Life and Death", [[DontExplainTheJoke because the killer used a knife.]]
--> '''Shaun:''' That man is '''[[DudeNotFunny dead]]!'''
--> '''Chris Lorax:''' (''{{Beat}}'') just a bit of fun...
** Spiritual vocations are depicted as little more than snake-oil scams meant to give layabouts both a steady income and a sense of superiority.

* HilariousInHindsight: Mark Coles Smith regularly appeared in the ''Curiosity Cul-de-sac'' sketches, a parody of ''Series/MysteryRoad'' and other recent crime dramas filmed on location in rural areas. In 2022, Mark would star on the actual ''Mystery Road: Origin'' miniseries. The show acknowledged this in a Series 14 sketch, comparing it to Shaun doing the same thing when he appeared in ''Series/SeaChange'' a year after parodying it on ''Series/TheMicallefProgram''.

--> '''Shaun:'''...Wow. He's even more impressive than Scott (Morrison). That-that stream of consciousness beat-poet quality is rare in [[DamnedByFaintPraise somebody not on acid.]]

** ''The Daily Telegraph'' is routinely taken apart for producing snarky headlines for stories that really shou;dn;t be snarked about.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: A minor case, but it does get noticeably shocked laughter from the studio audience.

** After Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was fined $250 for not wearing a life jacket in a dinghy, Shaun praised him for "continuing the theme of Liberal Prime Ministers ignoring water safety," a reference to the drowning of Harold Holt.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMoments: Season 20 started with the Kraken getting replaced with [[ReplacementScrappy a dancing robot]], but in Episode 8 the Kraken returns and [[TakeThatScrappy curb-stomps the robot]].

--> '''Michael [=McCormack=]:''' Yes, uh, uhh, a surplus is-is a number that I know that uh, is important to get the books back in balance and that's what we've done. Uh, Labor, well they wouldn't know what the definition of a surplus was, I mean, they-they haven't produced one since 1989 when, uh, Cher was singing, ah, "If I Could Turn Back Time". Of course, [[AttentionDeficitOohShiny we all, uh, all remember that, uh, vision, ah, of her on that, uh, navy ship]], I mean, and there you go again. [[{{Metaphorgotten}} Labor didn't even]] [[{{Metaphorgotten}}''build'']] [[{{Metaphorgotten}}a navy ship]] and they had ''6 years'' of, ''6 years'' of opportunity! Didn't give a ship! Didn't give a ship at all, about, uh, making sure we built the infrastructure to increase defense capability. Uh, if Labor could only [[WaxingLyrical turn back time]], who knows what might happen?

** After Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was fined $250 for not wearing a life jacket in a dinghy, Shaun praised him for "continuing the theme of Liberal Prime Ministers ignoring water safety," a reference to the drowning of Harold Holt.

** Shaun scolding his Nonna for watching the show despite having taken the television away can be seen as harsh, him keeping the bit going for a minute is funny, when he ends it by saying it's fine because she's dead it's hilarious.

-->'''Shaun''': Aung San Suu Kyi, not turning up on the first day of Parliament in Burma a few weeks back. Not a very good look, but if you know [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aung_San_Suu_Kyi#House_arrest her history]], you know that she's used to working from home.