History YMMV / AdamRuinsEverything

* FalselyAdvertisedAccuracy: Despite the show claiming to be well-researched, and proudly listing it's sources, the show is extremely ideologically biased, often only giving part of the information to get the narrative they want, and at some points outright lying. Some examples include:
** "''Adam Ruins Voting''" has him denounce the Electoral College without even acknowledging that the Electoral College can help protect smaller states from being ignored, or that "Swing States" constantly change. And ignores the potential dangers of a "Direct Democracy".
** In "''Adam Ruins Immigration''", the show exaggerates certain "facts" about The Wall, like saying it would have to stretch over 2000 miles, when the Mexico-American border is just under that ''(1989 Miles)'', and the $25,000,000,000 statement was the high end of an estimate made by Marc Rosenblum ''(an immigration expert for the Obama administration)'', and while I'm not suggesting Marc was wrong, the point is Adam used the high end of an estimate by a former Administration Member who opposed Trump and his policies. Adam also failed to mention the psychological impact of a Border Wall, for instance, a garden fence might be easy for someone to hop over, but very few people actually would as they recognize that that fence means the owner doesn't want them in. He also stated: "that all a border wall does is stop a discussion of actual solutions", even though pre-existing border walls, such as the '''San Diego Triple Wall''' and '''Israeli West Bank Barrier''', have reduced, or at least help reduce, illegal crossings by '''at least '''90%'''''.
** In "''Adam Ruins Going Green''", the 2 Degrees Celsius mark they're so afraid of has occurred at least two times in known history. First in the '''Permian Period''' ''(with an average Worldwide temperature of 16 Degrees)'', and Second during '''Roman Warm Period''' ''(having temperature that neared the mark)'', and during both periods life thrived. And as for his Enough Fossil Fuel to meet that mark '''5 times over''', comment, that came from, ''(by Adam's own admission)'', [[https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-188550/ a Political Rolling Stones article with no listed sources]] and only named random people, and the magazine itself has been found to have left-leaning bias.
*** He also talked about Carbon Dioxide as though it was the only, or at least the main, cause of Climate Change. And although the '''IPPC, EPA & NASA''' agree that human created Co2 has had an impact on the climate, both the EPA and NASA have stated that Water Vapor is the primary Greenhouse Gas contributing to Climate Change, with the EPA specifically stating; "''Water vapor is the most abundant greenhouse gas and also the most important in terms of its contribution to the natural greenhouse effect, despite having a short atmospheric lifetime. Some human activities can influence local water vapor levels. However, on a global scale, the concentration of water vapor is controlled by temperature, which influences overall rates of evaporation and precipitation. Therefore, the global concentration of water vapor is not substantially affected by direct human emissions.''" And chances are someone on Adams team knew this as NASA was referenced as a source for the episode, meaning that the segment either grossly simplified Climate Change or the info was deliberately left out.
** "''Adam Ruins His Vacation''" has Adam completely undermine Teddy Roosevelt as POTUS and fail to acknowledge any of his accomplishments, even suggesting that he hasn't done anything worth remembering, even though among other things, he was the first President to win a Nobel Prize.
*** And in terms of taking Sioux land, doesn't acknowledge that that's how most wars work ''(invading land for a resource that they want)'', and when he did take note of the fact that the Supreme Court fined the Government for breaking a treaty, he only revealed that the Sioux weren't interested in money, but never asked why they didn't just take the money and use it to buy a Billion Dollars worth of land, or check to see if they tried to work out a deal with the Government to get land in exchange for not receiving the '''1 Billion Dollars'''.
** "'Adam Ruins The Suburbs''" practically endorses the idea of "White Privilege" by:
*** Leaving out certain parts of the FHA "New Deal" of 1934, such as the fact that it also had Blue Areas ''(Which were “still desirable” areas that had “reached their peak” but were expected to remain stable for many years.)'' and Yellow Areas ''(Which were neighborhoods that were “definitely declining.”)'', and that while the Act did target Black Communities for the Red Area, Low-Income Neighborhoods could also be labelled as a Red Area, meaning that poor White people could also be denied loans.
*** Misusing the word "Segregated", ''("To set apart from the rest or from each other; isolate or divide.")'' to describe modern schools, even though there is no current Law, Rule, or Action been taken to keep Black kids out of those schools, thus even if they're all white they don't count as 'Segregated'. It also ignores the possibility of a parent enrolling their kid in a better funded school in a different part of the city, or that Suburbs are already becoming more diverse on their own. At best, they're 'segregated' by district, an issue that could easily be overcome simply by legalizing School Choice.
*** Also the show implies that people of different races naturally think differently from one another, rather than different life experiences. And uses various racial stereotypes for White People.
** In "''Adam Ruins America''" many of the problems he lists, such as trouble escaping poverty, are either directly (''through over-regulation)'' or in-directly ''(welfare programs disincentivizing poor people seeking more work)'' caused by the Government itself, rather than any faulty thinking in the American Dream he attributes it to, and Government Social Welfare Programs he suggest to solve problems such as Homelessness or Poverty actually contribute to it, with places that implement them most heavily, such as New York & San Francisco, suffering from mass homelessness soon after the fact.

* "''Adam Ruins Voting''" has him denounce the Electoral College without even acknowledging that the Electoral College can help protect smaller states from being ignored, or that "Swing States" constantly change. And ignores the potential dangers of a "Direct Democracy".
* In "''Adam Ruins Immigration''", the show exaggerates certain "facts" about The Wall, like saying it would have to stretch over 2000 miles, when the Mexico-American border is just under that ''(1989 Miles)'', and the $25,000,000,000 statement was the high end of an estimate made by Marc Rosenblum ''(an immigration expert for the Obama administration)'', and while I'm not suggesting Marc was wrong, the point is Adam used the high end of an estimate by a former Administration Member who opposed Trump and his policies. Adam also failed to mention the psychological impact of a Border Wall, for instance, a garden fence might be easy for someone to hop over, but very few people actually would as they recognize that that fence means the owner doesn't want them in. He also stated: "that all a border wall does is stop a discussion of actual solutions", even though pre-existing border walls, such as the '''San Diego Triple Wall''' and '''Israeli West Bank Barrier''', have reduced, or at least help reduce, illegal crossings by '''at least '''90%'''''.
* In "''Adam Ruins Going Green''", the 2 Degrees Celsius mark they're so afraid of has occurred at least two times in known history. First in the '''Permian Period''' ''(with an average Worldwide temperature of 16 Degrees)'', and Second during '''Roman Warm Period''' ''(having temperature that neared the mark)'', and during both periods life thrived. And as for his Enough Fossil Fuel to meet that mark '''5 times over''', comment, that came from, ''(by Adam's own admission)'', [[https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/global-warmings-terrifying-new-math-188550/ a Political Rolling Stones article with no listed sources]] and only named random people, and the magazine itself has been found to have left-leaning bias.
** He also talked about Carbon Dioxide as though it was the only, or at least the main, cause of Climate Change. And although the '''IPPC, EPA & NASA''' agree that human created Co2 has had an impact on the climate, both the EPA and NASA have stated that Water Vapor is the primary Greenhouse Gas contributing to Climate Change, with the EPA specifically stating; "''Water vapor is the most abundant greenhouse gas and also the most important in terms of its contribution to the natural greenhouse effect, despite having a short atmospheric lifetime. Some human activities can influence local water vapor levels. However, on a global scale, the concentration of water vapor is controlled by temperature, which influences overall rates of evaporation and precipitation. Therefore, the global concentration of water vapor is not substantially affected by direct human emissions.''" And chances are someone on Adams team knew this as NASA was referenced as a source for the episode, meaning that the segment either grossly simplified Climate Change or the info was deliberately left out.
* "''Adam Ruins His Vacation''" has Adam completely undermine Teddy Roosevelt as POTUS and fail to acknowledge any of his accomplishments, even suggesting that he hasn't done anything worth remembering, even though among other things, he was the first President to win a Nobel Prize.
** And in terms of taking Sioux land, doesn't acknowledge that that's how most wars work ''(invading land for a resource that they want)'', and when he did take note of the fact that the Supreme Court fined the Government for breaking a treaty, he only revealed that the Sioux weren't interested in money, but never asked why they didn't just take the money and use it to buy a Billion Dollars worth of land, or check to see if they tried to work out a deal with the Government to get land in exchange for not receiving the '''1 Billion Dollars'''.
* "'Adam Ruins The Suburbs''" practically endorses the idea of "White Privilege" by:
** Leaving out certain parts of the FHA "New Deal" of 1934, such as the fact that it also had Blue Areas ''(Which were “still desirable” areas that had “reached their peak” but were expected to remain stable for many years.)'' and Yellow Areas ''(Which were neighborhoods that were “definitely declining.”)'', and that while the Act did target Black Communities for the Red Area, Low-Income Neighborhoods could also be labelled as a Red Area, meaning that poor White people could also be denied loans.
** Misusing the word "Segregated", ''("To set apart from the rest or from each other; isolate or divide.")'' to describe modern schools, even though there is no current Law, Rule, or Action been taken to keep Black kids out of those schools, thus even if they're all white they don't count as 'Segregated'. It also ignores the possibility of a parent enrolling their kid in a better funded school in a different part of the city, or that Suburbs are already becoming more diverse on their own. At best, they're 'segregated' by district, an issue that could easily be overcome simply by legalizing School Choice.
** Also the show implies that people of different races naturally think differently from one another, rather than different life experiences. And uses various racial stereotypes for White People.

* BizarroEpisode: "Adam Ruins Games" mostly sticks to the show's typical formula, but instead of Adam following somebody around and correcting their misconceptions, we get a framing device/subplot where the Devil keeps trying to steal Adam's soul, rather unusual for a show that, aside from Adam's reality-warping, generally sticks to more realistic storylines.

** The dark twist of “Adam Ruins Murder”. [[spoiler:Brie planned all three murders of her boyfriends and acted sweet and innocent when she lied and manipulated all three of her victims. There’s also her planning to kill Adam because he saw her callously murder Jack. What’s worse is that she immediately puts on the innocent act again and blames Adam for the deaths of her boyfriends when the police show up at the crime scene.]]
** Adam's "You are going to die" speech, which is paired up with absolute silence ''but'' his voice as he describes TheNothingAfterDeath and CessationOfExistence without any ''hint'' of comedy.

* BrokenAesop: Adam's ''An Ancient History of Violence'' of his ''Reanimated History'' series has segments dedicated to talking about major players, to include Boudicca and Xerxes, whom he portrays as a dedicated freedom fighter, and an egalitarian progressive. However, in doing so, he glosses over the known brutality of those groups, including the tens of thousands of non-combatants killed by Boudicca's army, and the razing of rebellious cities by the Persian Empire. Consequentially, this creates an ironic paradox where in an attempt to tell a "real history", he omits important historical details.

* {{Adorkable}}: Adam

* ArcFatigue: The "Reanimated History" episodes are seen as this for spending too much time on the topic of history, not being as funny as the normal series and bringing the shows normally fast pace to a halt for 6 episodes to have the same narrator ruined over and over.

** In "Adam Ruins Going Green", the end-of-episode silver-lining that Adam presents the Paris Agreement as a sign that things are looking up. This episode aired on December 27, 2016, six months before the United States was pulled out of the Paris Agreement. Fortunately, recent new president Joe Biden managed to get the US back into the agreement last year so we're good.

** Disney Stars from Series/DogWithABlog, Series/AndiMack, and WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw have also appeared in later episodes, though none of those episodes talk about Disney.

* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: The show mentions in-universe that Adam's lecturing and holier-than-thou attitude is not a good way to relate to people, and it is the primary reason as to why Adam is so lonely in the first place, but few people pick up on that.

* CriticalResearchFailure: Discussed and invoked as the show even has episodes devoted to correcting flaws and oversights from previous ones as well as updating on something if studies have provided new information.

* ArcFatigue: The "Reanimated History" episodes are seen as this for spending too much time on the topic of history not being as funny as the normal series and bringing the shows fast pace to a halt for 6 episodes to have the same narrator ruined over and over.

* UncannyValley: The model used to represent Kellee Santiago in "Adam Ruins Summer Fun" is this full stop. It's supposed to look like something from ''VideoGame/{{Journey|2012}}'', but [[https://assets.vg247.com/current//2014/07/journey.jpg the art style doesn't even match]]. It doesn't help that we had a segment animated by the WebAnimation/{{Dorkly|Originals}} team not too long before this.

** Adam's "You are going to die" speech, which is paired up with absolute silence ''but'' his voice as he describes TheNothingAfterDeath and CessationOfExistance without any ''hint'' of comedy.

* HilariousInHindsight: Jake, the kid from Adam Ruins Summer Fun spends a third of the episode learning about Disney’s bad practices throughout the past when it comes to copyright law. His actor went on to have main or supporting roles in [[Series/RavensHome two]] [[WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse shows]] on the Disney Channel.

* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: When Adam breaks down at [[spoiler: Hayley's funeral.]] The scene is heart-wrenching, and not played for laughs.

* UncannyValley: The model used to represent Kellee Santiago in "Adam Ruins Summer Fun" is this full stop. It's supposed to look like something from {{VideoGame/Journey}}, but [[https://assets.vg247.com/current//2014/07/journey.jpg the art style doesn't even match]]. It doesn't help that we had a segment animated by the [[WebAnimation/DorklyOriginals Dorkly]] team not too long before this.

** In "Adam Ruins Going Green", the end-of-episode silver-lining that Adam presents the Paris Agreement as a sign that things are looking up. This episode aired on December 27, 2016, six months before the United States was pulled out of the Paris Agreement.

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: [[https://twitter.com/adamconover/status/1483589784903712769 According to Adam]], the series was effectively a causality of the creation of Creator/WarnerMedia, a mega-merger between telecom AT&T and Time Warner. In spite of the show's ratings making it the second-highest rated show on Creator/TruTV, the merger laid off major higher-ups and staff at [=TruTV=] and canceled shows indiscriminately. Following the series finale, Adam was called up and told the series was canceled, which was a ForegoneConclusion for him.

* BizarroEpisode: "Adam Ruins Games" mostly sticks to the show's typical formula, but instead of Adam following somebody around and correcting their misconceptions, we get a framing device/subplot where the Devil keeps trying to steal Adam's soul, rather unusual for a show that, aside from Adam's reality warping, generally sticks to more realistic storylines.

** The interactions between the two Adams in "Adam Ruins Himself" are done with a seamless split screen effect. There are even scenes where three Adams appear onscreen at the same time and walk in front of one another.

** In "Adam Ruins Going Green", the end-of-episode silver-lining that Adam presents the Paris Agreement as a sign that things are looking up. This episode came out December 27, 2016, six months before the United States was pulled out of the Paris Agreement.
** In "100 Years Ago Today," which aired April 28, 2018 Adam talks about how no one remembers the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic, and the world is unprepared for when the world inevitably faces another pandemic. As of this edit, millions of people have died of COVID-19.