History YMMV / BestOfTheWorst

* TheWoobie: While it’s all in good fun, Rich Evan’s takes a lot of abuse throughout the series. In addition to watching horrible tapes regularly, he’s regularly insulted and humiliated by his friends, with Mike taking perverse glee in doing so.
** Despite doing nothing worse than making a geeky video about a topic he genuinely loves, Larry ends up attracting the scorn of the group with [[DudeNotFunny Mike being happy he’s dead and Jay and Rich backing him up.]] Sure, his video may be a bore, but there are several filmmakers on the show who’ve done far worse stuff than him that didn’t get treated as disrespectfully.

** A meta example occurs when the gang lands on ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatoing}}'', only to abandon ship partway through. Fans were dismayed for two reasons. The first was that the special guest for the episode [[Creator/PattonOswalt starred in]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}} the film]] ''Ratatoing'' knocks off. The other reason is that in the show's 90-plus episode run, they've ''never'' covered a feature length animated film [[note]] They have reviewed animated content before -- most notably "Where Did I Come From?", "Tales From Genesis Space", and "WesternAnimation/TheChristmasTree" -- but those were no longer than 60 minutes each[[/note]], much less one from the legendary schlock-masters at Creator/VideoBrinquedo.

* SignatureScene: “[[BigEntrance Ladies and gentlemen, will you please make welcome to the stage, the incredible]] [[EnsembleDarkhorse Shoji Tabuchi!]] Cue {{Engrish}} singing and hysterical laughter.

* SignatureScene: [[EnsembleDarkhorse Shoji Tabuchi’s]] GrandEntrance. After several episodes of build up and the group waiting through his very long show, Shoji’s name is suddenly spelled through a laser fiddle, at which point he walks onstage and sings in horribly broken {{Engrish}}, causing the crew to start laughing hysterically.

* TheScrappy: Creator/MaxLandis was already a BaseBreakingCharacter for his one appearance, but after being outed as serial sexual harasser, you’ll find very few fans who admit to liking him. The group themselves have severed all ties to him, delisting all of his appearances on the channel. There were those that thought Landis cane across as an annoying {{Keet}}, and that his extremely loud and overly hyper personality didn’t mesh well with the rest of the gang. The silver lining was that he introduced Creator/MacaulayCulkin to [=RedLetterMedia=], and Mac has meshed well with the crew and become a fan favorite on his own.

** The ''Star Wars Holiday Special'' episode had Rich Evans loudly proclaiming "Baby Jesus is an ''asshole''!" It gets turned into a Christmas card.

** A minor one, but while reviewing ''How to Become a Teenage Ninja'', the crew wonders why they didn't hire a real martial expert or a Japanese man for the video and, while Rich theorizes he might be one, he is quickly shot down by Mike and Jay. The person in the video is Bryan Genesse, a genuine UsefulNotes/BrazilianJiuJitsu black belt and international medallist. He also acted in several action movies in the 80s and 90s, which makes it a bit surprising that they didn't recognize him.

* TheScrappy: Creator/MaxLandis was already a BaseBreakingCharacter for his one appearance, but after being outed as serial sexual harasser, you’ll find very few fans who admit to liking him. The group themselves have severed all ties to him, delisting all of his appearances on the channel.
** More specifically in regards to his in shoe appearance, many thought Landis cane across as an annoying {{Keet}}, and that his extremely loud and overly hyper personality didn’t mesh well with the rest of the gang.

*** Jim; Colin’s fellow [[CanadaEh Canadian]] is also popular for his well meaning, likable presence and quiet wit.

** ''Surviving Edged Weapons'' has been hit with this in the wake of countless police brutality incidents and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests the 2020 George Floyd protests]]. With activists and ordinary citizens alike looking at police tactics with increased scrutiny, it's impossible to ignore how the main thesis of the video -- "everyone you see is a threat, so hurt/kill them before they can kill you" -- has shaped the way cops conduct themselves out in the field, especially when dealing with Black civilians. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement And that's all we'll say about that.]]

** "Wheel of The Worst #8" has ''Y2k Survival Guide With Creator/LeonardNimoy'' as one of the options. From offscreen Mike snarks, "Good thing it wasn't C.O.P.D. survival guide." [[note]]Nimoy died of C.O.P.D. shortly before this episode aired. This comment does get a TooSoon response in-universe, though.[[/note]]

* In the wake of countless police brutality incidents and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Floyd_protests the 2020 George Floyd protests]], ''Surviving Edged Weapons'' has been hit pretty hard with this. It's impossible to ignore how the thesis it preaches -- "everyone you see is a threat, so hurt/kill them before they can kill you" -- has shaped the way cops conduct themselves out in the field, especially when dealing with Black civilians. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgement And that's all we'll say about that.]]

** A number of these crop up in the delisted Creator/MaxLandis episode in light of sexual assault allegations against Landis. Two of the most obvious ones are when Landis jokes that his Tinder profile features reviews that use the phrase "stunning desperation," and the gang looks at Landis when the back of the DVD of ''How I Saved the President'' asks, "What have you done that you didn't want to do but did anyway because you knew it was wrong?"

** Fans quickly recognized ''California Big Hunks'' from its use in [[https://youtu.be/UNIiz3Ee04A a segment of]] ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway''. The fact that the contestant's name was [[NamesTheSame Collin]] makes it even funnier.

** A meta example occurs when the gang lands on ''WesternAnimation/{{Ratatoing}}'', only to abandon ship partway through. Fans were dismayed for two reasons. The first was that the special guest for the episode [[Creator/PattonOswalt starred in]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Ratatouille}} the film]] ''Ratatoing'' knocks off. The other reason is that in the show's 90-plus episode run, they've ''never'' covered a feature length animated film [[note]] They have reviewed animated content before -- most notably "Where Did I Come From?", "Tales From Genesis Space", and "WesternAnimation/TheChristmasTree" -- but those were no longer than 60 minutes each[[/note]], much less one from the legendary schlock-masters at Creator/VideoBrinquedo.
* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotPolitical:
** During the "Wheel of the Worst" where they watch ''Key Matters'', Jack opines that the ethnic families come off as being stereotyped, resulting in a racist portrayal.

* FunnyAneurysmMoment[=/=]HarsherInHindsight: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2ugxX1lh5A Curse of the Worst]], which points out jokes in episodes relating to [[Series/TheLifeAndTimesOfGrizzlyAdams Dan Haggerty]], {{Music/Prince}}, Creator/BillPaxton, and Creator/DonRickles shortly before their deaths. [[spoiler: [[CrossesTheLineTwice Then they try]] TemptingFate by remarking how Creator/WilfordBrimley is still alive.]]
** Also occurs during the discussion cold open in ''Wheel of the Worst 10''. Rich makes a one-liner about the Flint Water Crisis that first became national news around 2016, right around the time the episode aired. The gang [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] how long lead times between episodes will all but guarantee that topical humor will "certainly be out of date by the time you watch this video". Unfortunately, the water crisis is still ongoing as of 2019, a full '''three years''' after the episode aired.

* HilariousInHindsight: During the opening of "Celebration of Age", Mike mentions that the narrator sounds like she's summoning demons. Given that the lineup includes [[VideoGame/Persona4 Ishtar]] [[Franchise/ShinMegamiTensei and]] [[VideoGame/Persona5 Hecate]], he may actually be correct.

** While discussing ''Night of the Lepus'', noted ''Star Trek'' aficionado Mike Stoklasa--who has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reApQlk5JiA a (fan-made) half-hour supercut of every time he's compared the franchise to something they're reviewing]]--confuses the plots of "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E15ShoreLeave Shore Leave]]" and "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E24ThisSideOfParadise This Side of Paradise]]".

** During the "Wheel of the Worst" where they watch ''Key Matters'', Jack opines that the ethnic families come off as being stereotyped, resulting in a racist portrayal. Fans in the comments disagree, thinking Jack is trying to be too "politically correct".
** The crew's debate on Cynthia Rothrock's perceived obscurity as a possible result of sex-based discrimination in the film industry at the end of the ''Undefeatable'' evaluation also got a lot of criticism. In spite of Rothrock's undeniable and very impressive real-life martial arts skill, Jack's assertion that she got shafted by Hollywood despite being a better and/or more charismatic actor than Creator/ArnoldSchwarzenegger or Creator/SylvesterStallone (''[[Film/{{Rocky}} especially]]'' [[Film/FirstBlood Stallone]]) is... ''dubious'', to say the least.
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** No one on the panel for ''Black Spine #1'' can discern a connection between Don Beveridge's constant non-sequiters about bagels and Dunkin Donuts. Anyone who's ever stepped foot in a Dunkin Donuts, however, would know that bagels are just as much a cornerstone of the breakfast chain as coffee and doughnuts.

** Jay and Mike are befuddled by Don Beveridge's constant non-sequiters about bagels during his Dunkin Donuts Customerization Seminar in ''Black Spine #1''. Anyone who's ever stepped foot in a Dunkin Donuts, however, would know that bagels are just as much a cornerstone of the breakfast chain as coffee and doughnuts.

** Jay and Mike are befuddled by Don Beveridge's constant non-sequiters about bagels during his Dunkin Donuts Customerization Seminar. Anyone who's ever stepped foot in a Dunkin Donuts, however, would know that bagels are just as much a cornerstone of the breakfast chain as coffee and doughnuts.

* ThoseTwoGuys: "Hey, it's Jim and Collin, from [[CanadaEh Canada]]!!"
** Jack and Josh can come off like this sometimes.

** A number of these crop up in the delisted Max Landis episode in light of sexual assault allegations against Landis. Two of the most obvious ones are when Landis jokes that his Tinder profile features reviews that use the phrase "stunning desperation," and the gang looks at Landis when the back of the DVD of ''How I Saved the President'' asks, "What have you done that you didn't want to do but did anyway because you knew it was wrong?"