YMMV / They Think It's All Over

• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • One of Nick Hancock's autocue jokes from a Series 5 episode with Suzanne Dando and Stuart Hall described the decision by Wolverhampton Wanderers to book, as the headline act for a cabaret at a "Kick Racism out of Football" charity event, comedian Bernard Manning (notorious for his racially insensitive humour) as the worst idea since Gary Glitter had his computer serviced (when the episode was recorded, indecent images of children had just been found on a laptop Glitter took to a computer repair shop). Sixteen years later, both Gary Glitter and Stuart Hall had received prison sentences for multiple counts of sexual assault against underage girls.
  • In a Series 19 episode with Beverley Turner and Frankie Dettori, "The Treble" included the fact that Canadian-born footballer Owen Hargreaves had been likened to a Jim'll Fix It winner since there seemed no other explanation for his being picked for the England team. Jonathan Ross joked that he had written a letter to Jim'll Fix It asking that he and Jimmy Savile never be left alone in a room together, a joke that is far less funny since the revelations that Savile was a large scale sexual predator.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: In a Series 15 episode with guest captains Steve Davis and Sam Torrance and guest panellists Rich Hall and Gary Speed, one "Sporting Bluff" question revolved around an unusual practice by the year's Super Bowl runners-up, the Oakland Raiders. Steve noted that American teams had very evocative names, and gave Hull City as an example of how dull British team names are by comparison. A decade later, Hull City's owners proposed that the team be re-named the Hull Tigers; their fans and the Football Association apparently didn't share Steve's earlier opinion that the club's name would be more evocative if it were patterned after American teams, as the fans protested vocally and the FA overruled the idea.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: For many audience members, the departure of David Gower and Gary Lineker in 2003 marked the beginning of an irreversible decline for the series. Phil Tufnell was perceived as a better guest than a team captain, David Seaman was seen as having no comic timing, Ian Wright tended to get defensive if his fellow panellists made jokes at certain sports figures' or teams' expense (particularly the England football team), and Boris Becker seemed to care more about winning than about being entertaining. Moreover, the set was overhauled and several new games introduced that were less well-received than the games they replaced (to the point that "Feel the Sportsman" was no longer being played every week by Series 18, and "The Name Game" was likewise occasionally dropped in Series 19).

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