History YMMV / Avenue5

* CrossesTheLineTwice: In Episode 8, several of the passengers get it into their heads that they're in some form of escape room situation and never left Earth, and try to exit the ship. Through the airlock. After three people die this way, Ryan sarcastically asks if anyone else thinks it's a game show; ''four more people'' (including Sarah) enter the airlock, and consequently die, which includes their eyeballs exploding as the observers scream in horror and disgust; Sarah's hand even breaks off when she hits the side of the airlock as the corpses are ejected into space! And ''then'' news comes through that the son of two of the dead people, who was in a coma back on Earth, has woken up and wants to know where his parents are.

* TooBleakStoppedCaring: Every episode drills in how stupid, self-centered, and entitled every single character on the ship is, over and over, with little variation. After a while, it's easy to throw your hands up and walk away rather than deal with yet *another* episode of entitled morons making things worse for themselves and others.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: The airlock scene, where a bunch of people get killed thanks to their proud, defiant ignorance, first aired just weeks before the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic reached the United States. Comments on [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skXaeucDYHo the YouTube video]] frequently compare the people who die in that scene to the people who believed that COVID-19 wasn't dangerous and protested mask-wearing, vaccinations, and other safety procedures meant to contain the pandemic. Ashley Spurgeon, [[https://www.nashvillescene.com/arts_culture/film_tv/and-another-thing-i-avenue-5-i-s-airlock-scene-is-the-perfect-pandemic-analogy/article_3347680e-b0c2-5b4b-9a6c-718b52203389.html writing]] for ''Nashville Scene'', called the airlock scene "the perfect pandemic analogy".
-->''The Airlock Scene was written and filmed months before any pandemics swept the globe, but look: Here it is, ready to educate on arguably the most human aspect of our strange condition: stupidity.''

* IdiotPlot: Actually an essential part of the premise. Thanks to massive cost-cutting by Judd in every single aspect of his company, the supposed crew are made up almost entirely of actors who have no idea what they're doing, while the passengers are a bunch of rich idiots fully prepared to "stupid themselves to death" at the slightest opportunity. Even the smarter characters like Iris and Billie have moments of just being driven out of their minds by the rest until they end up joining them. The entire plot of the ship being knocked off course kicks off because Joe is outside doing totally useless maneuvers to boost the communications system to appease Mr. Judd (even though Joe and Billie know full well the laws of physics say there is no way to "fix" the delay experienced when talking to Earth) when the gravity malfunctions.

* SignatureScene: The infamous airlock scene tends to be what people know about the show.

* HilariousInHindsight: The aforementioned airlock scene was filmed before the COVID-19 pandemic, but [[https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-06-17/avenue-5-hbo-armando-iannucci more than one person]] (including Iannucci himself) has remarked on how it now works as a ''very'' dark satire on people's eagerness to ignore death around them, while authorities say the exact least helpful things.

* IdiotPlot: Actually an essential part of the premise. Thanks to massive cost-cutting by Judd in every single aspect of his company, the supposed crew are made up almost entirely of actors who have no idea what they're doing, while the passengers are a bunch of rich idiots fully prepared to "stupid themselves to death" at the slightest opportunity. Even the smarter characters like Iris and Billie have moments of just being driven out of their minds by the rest until they end up joining them. The entire plot of the ship being knocked off course kicks off because Joe is outside doing totally useless maneuvers to boost the communications system to appease Mr. Judd (even though Joe and Billie know full well the laws of physics say there is no way to "fix" the delay experienced when talking to Earth) when the gravity malfunctions.

* IdiotPlot: Actually an essential part of the premise. Thanks to massive cost-cutting by Judd in every single aspect of his company, the supposed crew are made up almost entirely of actors who have no idea what they're doing, while the passengers are a bunch of rich idiots fully prepared to "stupid themselves to death" at the slightest opportunity. Even the smarter characters like Iris and Billie have moments of just being driven out of their minds by the rest until they end up joining them. The entire plot of the ship being knocked off course kicks off because Joe was outside doing totally useless maneuvers to boost the communications system to appease Mr. Judd (even though Joe and Billie knew full well the laws of physics said there was no way to "fix" the delay experienced when talking to Earth) when the gravity malfunction.

* IdiotPlot: Actually an essential part of the premise. Thanks to massive cost-cutting by Judd in every single aspect of his company, the supposed crew are made up almost entirely of actors who have no idea what they're doing, while the passengers are a bunch of rich idiots fully prepared to "stupid themselves to death" at the slightest opportunity. Even the smarter characters like Iris and Billie have moments of just being driven out of their minds by the rest until they end up joining them.

* GeniusBonus: Cyrus forgetting to include the passengers’ weight in his calculations for the return trip may be a reference to the Apollo 13 disaster, where Fred Haize miscalculated the LEM’s air supply because he forgot to account for how all three crew members would be staying in it rather than the intended two.

* GeniusBonus: Cyrus forgetting to include the passengers’ weight in his calculations for the return trip may be a reference to the Apollo 13 disaster, where Fred Haize miscalculated the LEM’s air supply because he forgot to account for how all three crew members would be staying in it rather than the intended two.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: In Episode 8, several of the passengers get it into their heads that they're in some form of escape room situation, and try to exit the ship. Through the airlock. After three people die this way, Ryan sarcastically asks if anyone else thinks it's a game show; ''four more people'' (including Sarah) enter the airlock, and consequently die; Sarah's hand even breaks off when she hits the side of the airlock as the corpses are ejected into space!

* GeniusBonus: Cyrus forgetting to include the passengers’ weight in his calculations for the return trip may be a reference to the Apollo 13 disaster, where Fred Haize miscalculated the LEM’s air supply because he forgot to account for how all three crew members would be staying in it rather than the intended two.
* RealityEnsues: Several passengers get convinced the ship isn't real and step into the airlock. Almost immediately upon the doors closing the airlock opens and kills them.

* GeniusBonus: Cyrus forgetting to include the passengers’ weight in his calculations for the return trip may be a reference to the Apollo 13 disaster, where Fred Haize miscalculated the LEM’s air supply because he forgot to account for how all three crew members would be staying in it rather than the intended two.

* GeniusBonus: Cyrus forgetting time include the passengers’ weight in his calculations for the return trip may be a reference to the Apollo 13 disaster, where Fred Haize miscalculated the LEM’s air supply because he forgot to account for how all three crew members would be staying in it rather than the intended two.