History YMMV / AdamRuinsEverything

* 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]] [[Series/TheOwlHouse shows]] on the Disney Channel.
** Disney Stars from SeriesDogWithABlog, Series/AndiMack, and Series/MiloMurphysLaw have also appeared in later episodes, though none of those episodes talk about Disney.

* 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 [RavensHome two] [TheOwlHouse shows] on the Disney Channel.
** Disney Stars from DogWithABlog, AndiMack, and MiloMurphysLaw have also appeared in later episodes, though none of those episodes talk about Disney.

* {{Anvilicious}}: Adam's statements that "everything you know about such-and-such is all wrong" come off as this, both in-universe and out. Though, if you agree with Adam's opinion, SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped.

* 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 is the primary reason as to why Adam is so lonely in the first place, but few people pick up on that.

* DoNotDoThisCoolThing: The show mentions in-universe that Adam's lecturing is not a good way to relate to people, and why Adam is so lonely, but few people pick up on that.

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped: Many episodes have lessons that are better without subtlety on trying not to believe everything and to accept alternate solutions.

** 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, a few ten thousand people have died of COVID-19.

** 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 (although this doesn't really count, as it is quite well known at this point that China and India, the world's two biggest polluters by far, are not complying with the agreement terms, making it almost pointless for other countries to do the same.)

** 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.

** 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.

* HarsherInHindsight: 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", Adam explained that during World War 1, the Spanish Flu claimed far more lives than the war did, but because of the war it wasn’t reported on for fears it may lower morale. The Spanish Flu eventually died out, not because of anything man did, but because it claimed all the lives it could at the time. The CDC even theorizes that [[ParanoiaFuel another Spanish Flu-like epidemic may be upon us, and that in the time it takes to make a vaccine, the disease will have already claimed millions of lives.]]

* HarsherInHindsight:
** 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 Creator/DonaldTrump announced that the United States was pulling out of the Paris Agreement.
** "100 Years Ago Today", the final episode of the ''Reanimated History'' arc, ends with a segment on the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918. Adam makes the sobering argument that even today, the world is unprepared to handle a pandemic of that magnitude. Two years after the episode aired, COVID-19 came along and proved him absolutely right.

** In "100 Years Ago Today", Adam explained that during World War 1, the Spanish Flu claimed far more lives than the war did, but because of the war it wasn’t reported on for fears it may lower morale. The Spanish Flu eventually died out, not because of anything man did, but because it claimed all the lives it could at the time. The CDC even theorizes that [[ParanoiaFuel another Spanish Flu-like epidemic may be upon us, and that in the time it takes to make a vaccine, the disease will have already claimed millions of lives.]] [[HarsherInHindsight Then COVID-19 said hello.]]

** In "100 Years Ago Today", Adam explained that during World War 1, the Spanish Flu claimed far more lives than the war did, but because of the war it wasn’t reported on for fears it may lower morale. The Spanish Flu eventually died out, not because of anything man did, but because it claimed all the lives it could at the time. The CDC even theorizes that [[ParanoiaFuel another Spanish Flu-like epidemic may be upon us, and that in the time it takes to make a vaccine, the disease will have already claimed millions of lives.]]

* SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped:
** Many episodes have lessons that are better without subtlety on trying not to believe everything and to accept alternate solutions.
** The episode "Emily Ruins Adam" shows that some methods on argument, specifically being a SoapBoxSadie and intruding into people's lives to give them a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, can be more detrimental than helpful due to the fact that people will feel like they're being attacked, causing their opinions to become stronger and therefore more unlikely to actually [[EasyEvangelism accept the opposing argument]]. Consider the difficult issue of trying to win people over to more beneficial methods in current times, it is an issue worth noting for.

** The episode "Emily Ruins Adam" shows that some methods on argument, specifically being a SoapBoxSadie and intruding into people lives to give them a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech, can be more detrimental than helpful due to the fact that people will feel like they're being attacked, causing their opinions to become stronger and therefore more unlikely to actually [[EasyEvangelism accept the opposing argument]]. Consider the difficult issue of trying to win people over to more beneficial methods in current times, it is an issue worth noting for.

* HarsherInHindsight: 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 Creator/DonaldTrump announced that the United States was pulling out of the Paris Agreement.

*** Move this one to HarsherInHindsight, as of 2020.

** Also Emily in the scene right before when she thinks she’s about to die and lets Adam know that she doesn’t really hate him.

* DarknessInducedAudienceApathy: A lot of people Adam lectures are bummed out, so Adam talks about the solutions that are available to help [[AvertedTrope Avert]] this trope and replace it with AWorldHalfFull.

* HarsherInHindsight: In one segment from "100 Years Ago Today", Adam talks about UsefulNotes/TheSpanishFlu and says that another Spanish Flu-like epidemic may be upon us, and that in the time it takes to make a vaccine, the disease will have already claimed millions of lives. Considering the lives that the COVID-19 epidemic has claimed in March 2020 alone...

* HarsherInHindsight: In one segment from "100 Years Ago Today", Adam talks about the Spanish Flu and says that another Spanish Flu-like epidemic may be upon us, and that in the time it takes to make a vaccine, the disease will have already claimed millions of lives. Considering the lives that the COVID-19 epidemic has claimed in March 2020 alone...

*** And with the lives that the COVID-19 epidemic has claimed in March 2020 alone, [[HarsherInHindsight this is far more poignant]].

* {{Narm}}:
** The scene in the ChristmasSpecial in which we find out that [[spoiler:Adam ruins everything because Rhea spoiled the fact that Santa Claus isn't real for him as a kid]] is meant to be a heartfelt character moment for Adam and his (fictional) sister, but the scene is rather clumsily handled and suffers from MoodWhiplash.