History YMMV / DerryGirls

** In the first episode of season 3, the girls discover that they passed their[=GCSE=]exams.

** In the first episode of season 3, the girls discover that they passed their{{=GCSE=}}exams.

** In the first episode of season 3, the girls discover that they passed their GCSEs.

** The gang's performance of "Who Do You Think You Are?" by the Music/SpiceGirls in 3.02 shows the main cast to talented singers in addition to actors, and their choreography routine is simply fantastic.

* FanPreferredCouple: Despite James maintaining platonic relationships with the girls being sorta a selling point of the group's dynamic, he's shipped with Erin and Orla quite a lot (though not often with [[IncompatibleOrientation Clare]] or [[KissingCousins Michelle]] for obvious reasons). Erin more so, given that she's both the protagonist ''and'' it's actually backed up by solid ShipTease. Cast members like Saoirse Monica-Jackson (who plays Erin), Dylan Llewellyn (who plays James), and Nicola Coughlan (who plays Clare) support the pairing. Meanwhile, [[WordOfGod Lisa [=McGee=], the show's creator,]] [[https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2019-08-07/derry-girls-writer-lisa-mcgee-series-3-james-erin/ confirmed]] that James and Erin ''are'' attracted to each other, but don't realize it (yet), and it's likely that nothing consciously romantic will happen onscreen between them in the duration of the show itself.

* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Tommy Tiernan has developed haters in TheNewTens for aspects of his routine that involved [[UnacceptableTargets mocking people with Down Syndrome, remarks towards Jewish people and the Holocaust]] that were in very poor taste, a weak defense where he claimed [[NWordPrivileges "Irish people aren't racist; they're just having the craic"]] and from people who [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking don't think his energetic style of comedy is funny]]. Here he plays the OnlySaneMan to perfection, many finding his performance as Gerry ActuallyPrettyFunny.

* AcceptableTargets:
** People from Belfast, apparently. May count as BitingTheHandHumor considering the series is ''filmed'' in Belfast.
** Subverted with Mae in Season 2. Having a second Asian from Donegal tell Clare about Mae's psychotic tendencies was clearly there to avoid UnfortunateImplications at the only ethnic minority in the cast being EvilerThanThou.

** Subverted with Mae in Season 2. Having a second Asian from Donegal tell Clare about her psychotic tendencies was clearly there to avoid UnfortunateImplications at the only ethnic minority in the cast being EvilerThanThou.

* FanPreferredCouple: Despite James maintaining platonic relationships with the girls being sorta a selling point of the group's dynamic, he's shipped with Erin and Orla quite a lot (though not often with [[IncompatibleOrientation Clare]] or [[KissingCousins Michelle]] for obvious reasons). Erin more so, given that she's both the protagonist ''and'' it's actually backed up by solid ShipTease. Cast members like Saoirse Monica-Jackson (who plays Erin), Dylan Llewellyn (who plays James), and Nicola Coughlan (who plays Clare) support the pairing. Meanwhile, [[WordOfGod Lisa [=McGee=], the show's creator,]] [[https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2019-08-07/derry-girls-writer-lisa-mcgee-series-3-james-erin/ confirmed]] that James and Erin ''are'' attracted to each other, but don't realize it (yet), and it's likely that nothing consciously romantic will happen onscreen between them in the duration of the show itself. As for James/Orla; although not the front-and-center fanon couple, a lot of people prefer it to James/Erin ''because'' James/Erin is weaker in shippers' eyes compared to the perceived easier, more pleasant chemistry of James/Orla (for instance, Orla rushing to hug James in the S2 finale and him carrying her for the embrace, [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/95951be2258c7fe76aef6a48c19448a4/d87331231f69641b-95/s640x960/8cb3940e12167b5b40f401c1f45c94f4a88d15e8.gif as pictured in this GIF.]])

* FanPreferredCouple: Despite James maintaining platonic relationships with the girls being sorta a selling point of the group's dynamic, he's shipped with Erin and Orla quite a lot (though [[IncompatibleOrientation Clare]] and [[KissingCousins Michelle]] are both obviously off-limits). Erin more so, given that she's both the protagonist ''and'' it's actually backed up by solid ShipTease. Cast members like Saoirse Monica-Jackson (who plays Erin), Dylan Llewellyn (who plays James), and Nicola Coughlan (who plays Clare) support the pairing. Meanwhile, [[WordOfGod Lisa [=McGee=], the show's creator,]] [[https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2019-08-07/derry-girls-writer-lisa-mcgee-series-3-james-erin/ confirmed]] that James and Erin ''are'' attracted to each other, but don't realize it (yet), and it's likely that nothing consciously romantic will happen onscreen between them in the duration of the show itself. As for James/Orla; although not the front-and-center fanon couple, a lot of people prefer it to James/Erin ''because'' James/Erin is weaker in shippers' eyes compared to the perceived easier, more pleasant chemistry of James/Orla (for instance, Orla rushing to hug James in the S2 finale and him carrying her for the embrace, [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/95951be2258c7fe76aef6a48c19448a4/d87331231f69641b-95/s640x960/8cb3940e12167b5b40f401c1f45c94f4a88d15e8.gif as pictured in this GIF.]])

* NauseaFuel: The girls attempt to dispose of Michelle's drugged scones by flushing them down the toilet, but they instead clog it up instead. When the adults find them, they are ankle deep in dirty toilet paper, Orla kneeling down in it for some reason.

** Michelle appears to be the favorite of the protagonists, with Jamie Lee O'Donnell being named as the breakout star of the cast.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Some people find Joe's intolerance of Gerry hilarious, while others find it unnecessarily harsh and petty.

* FanPreferredCouple: Despite James maintaining platonic relationships with the girls being sorta a selling point of the group's dynamic, he's shipped with Erin and Orla quite a lot. Erin more so, given that she's both the protagonist ''and'' it's actually backed up by solid ShipTease. Cast members like Saoirse Monica-Jackson (who plays Erin), Dylan Llewellyn (who plays James), and Nicola Coughlan (who plays Clare) support the pairing. Meanwhile, [[WordOfGod Lisa [=McGee=], the show's creator,]] [[https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2019-08-07/derry-girls-writer-lisa-mcgee-series-3-james-erin/ confirmed]] that James and Erin ''are'' attracted to each other, but don't realize it (yet), and it's likely that nothing consciously romantic will happen onscreen between them in the duration of the show itself. As for James/Orla; although not the front-and-center fanon couple, a lot of people prefer it to James/Erin ''because'' James/Erin is weaker in shippers' eyes compared to the perceived easier, more pleasant chemistry of James/Orla (for instance, Orla rushing to hug James in the S2 finale and him carrying her for the embrace, [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/95951be2258c7fe76aef6a48c19448a4/d87331231f69641b-95/s640x960/8cb3940e12167b5b40f401c1f45c94f4a88d15e8.gif as pictured in this GIF.]])

* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct: Tommy Tiernan has developed haters in TheNewTens for aspects of his routine that involved mocking people with Down Syndrome, remarks towards Jewish people and the Holocaust that were in very poor taste, a weak defense where he claimed [[NWordPrivileges "Irish people aren't racist; they're just having the craic"]] and from people who don't think his energetic style of comedy is funny. Here he plays the OnlySaneMan to perfection, many finding his performance as Gerry ActuallyPrettyFunny.

* FanPreferredCouple: Despite James maintaining platonic relationships with the girls being sorta a selling point of the group's dynamic, he's shipped with Erin and Orla quite a lot. Erin more so, given that she's both the {{Protagonist}} ''and'' it's actually backed up by solid ShipTease. Cast members like Saoirse Monica-Jackson (who plays Erin), Dylan Llewellyn (who plays James), and Nicola Coughlan (who plays Clare) support the pairing. Meanwhile, [[WordOfGod Lisa [=McGee=], the show's creator,]] [[https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2019-08-07/derry-girls-writer-lisa-mcgee-series-3-james-erin/ confirmed]] that James and Erin ''are'' attracted to each other, but don't realize it (yet), and it's likely that nothing consciously romantic will happen onscreen between them in the duration of the show itself. As for James/Orla; although not the front-and-center fanon couple, a lot of people prefer it to James/Erin ''because'' James/Erin is weaker in shippers' eyes compared to the perceived easier, more pleasant chemistry of James/Orla (for instance, Orla rushing to hug James in the S2 finale and him carrying her for the embrace, [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/95951be2258c7fe76aef6a48c19448a4/d87331231f69641b-95/s640x960/8cb3940e12167b5b40f401c1f45c94f4a88d15e8.gif as pictured in this GIF.]])

** Saoirse-Monica Jackson is fairly popular in Liverpool, but that's justified due to the town's long association with Irish people.

* ValuesDissonance: Naturally PlayedForLaughs, when the gang go to a wake in 2x04. James is horrified by the casual way the dead body's laid out for people to view and that visitors can touch her. The girls are baffled by the fact that it's the first time he's ''ever'' seen a dead body, due to British funerals being far more formal and even clinical; open caskets aren't as common and wakes are usually held ''after'' the person's already been buried.

* DesignatedVillain: Mae Chung in [=S02E05=]. The other significant characters have done countless questionable things, many of them crossing the line from "harmless character mistakes" to "malicious or actually harmful behaviour". Granda Joe and Michelle are the most consistent offenders, although none of the rest are exceptions, even (or especially) {{Protagonist}} Erin. In the one episode she appears in, she's immediately subjected to casual persistent racism (from both the titular Derry Girls to Jenny Joyce and her cohorts) that's never seriously addressed; Erin treats her poorly for no good reason; and Michelle successfully persuades the gang to participate in stealing clothes (which is not a first-time act on her part), in addition to cracking a needless and homophobic [[BlackComedyRape rape joke]] about James and his stepdad. Yet Mae is made out to be irredeemably so much worse than any other character later on, and Erin's irrational behavior earlier is thus vindicated just as she was beginning to apologize for it. Mae's written as so cartoonishly cruel that she was kicked out of her last school off-screen for being a bully, and probably won't appear in any more episodes of the show because of said bullying, although what we've seen of it in [=S02E05=] can't really be said to be irrefutably so much worse than everyone else's misconduct in a show rife with ComedicSociopathy. This expulsion plot device also quashes any potential for more nuanced and sympathetic moments for Mae, which even the hyper-privileged and spoiled BitchInSheepsClothing Jenny Joyce received in S2's final episode.

** Subverted with Mae in Season 2. Having a second Asian from Donegal tell Claire about her psychotic tendencies was clearly there to avoid UnfortunateImplications at the only ethnic minority in the cast being EvilerThanThou.

* BizarroEpisode: Episode 3 of Season 1 is even wackier than the rest, which involves the girls mistakenly thinking a dog peeing on a statue of the Virgin Mary is the statue actually weeping - and a parish priest even believing the story. That said, weeping and moving statues were actually a bit of a fad/mass delusion in the late 80s, after a statue allegedly moving in Ballinspittle triggered a wave of copycat "visions" so they were still in the zeitgeist in 1993/4. InUniverse justifications could be exam pressure (Erin, James, Claire), caffeine overdose (Claire) and being drunk (Michelle)... as well as Mary keeping silent about the dog.

* BizarroEpisode: Episode 3 of Season 1 is even wackier than the rest, which involves the girls mistakenly thinking a dog peeing on a statue of the Virgin Mary is the statue actually weeping - and a parish priest even believing the story. That said, weeping and moving statues were actually a bit of a fad/mass delusion in the late 80s, after a statue allegedly moving in Ballinspittle triggered a wave of copycat "visions". So they were still in the zeitgeist in 1993/4.

** James. He's abandoned by his mother to live with his aunt in Northern Ireland, where everybody makes fun of his English accent, thinks he's gay no matter how much he denies it, and belittles him and makes fun of his lack of traditionally masculine traits. To boot, he is the only boy in an all-girl's school because it was thought that he would be bullied even more harshly in an all-boy's school.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The recurring use of Dreams by [[Music/TheCranberries The Cranberries]] beautifully captures the feel of 90s Northern Ireland. Made poignant by the fact that lead singer Dolores O'Riordan suddenly died 11 days after the first episode aired.

* DesignatedVillain: Mae Chung in [=S02E05=]. The other significant characters have done countless questionable things, many of them crossing the line from "harmless character mistakes" to "malicious or actually harmful behaviour". Granda Joe and Michelle are the most consistent offenders, although none of the rest are exceptions, even (or especially) {{Protagonist}} Erin. In the one episode she appears in, she's immediately subjected to casual persistent racism (from both the titular Derry Girls to Jenny Joyce and her cohorts) that's never seriously addressed; Erin treats her poorly for no good reason; and Michelle successfully persuades the gang to participate in stealing clothes (which is not a first-time act on her part), in addition to cracking a needless and homophobic [[BlackComedyRape rape joke]] about James and his stepdad. Yet Mae is made out to be irredeemably so much worse than any other character later on, and Erin's irrational behaviour earlier is thus vindicated just as she was beginning to apologise for it. Mae's written as so cartoonishly cruel that she was kicked out of her last school off-screen for being a bully, and probably won't appear in any more episodes of the show because of said bullying, although what we've seen of it in [=S02E05=] can't really be said to be irrefutably so much worse than everyone else's misconduct in a show rife with ComedicSociopathy. This expulsion plot device also quashes any potential for more nuanced and sympathetic moments for Mae, which even the hyper-privileged and spoiled BitchInSheepsClothing Jenny Joyce received in S2's final episode.

* FanPreferredCouple: Despite James maintaining platonic relationships with the girls being sorta a selling point of the group's dynamic, he's shipped with Erin and Orla quite a lot. Erin more so, given that she's both the {{Protagonist}} ''and'' it's actually backed up by solid ShipTease. Cast members like Saoirse Monica-Jackson (who plays Erin), Dylan Llewellyn (who plays James), and Nicola Coughlan (who plays Clare) support the pairing. Meanwhile, [[WordOfGod Lisa [=McGee=], the show's creator,]] [[https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2019-08-07/derry-girls-writer-lisa-mcgee-series-3-james-erin/ confirmed]] that James and Erin ''are'' attracted to each other, but don't realise it (yet), and it's likely that nothing consciously romantic will happen onscreen between them in the duration of the show itself. As for James/Orla; although not the front-and-centre fanon couple, a lot of people prefer it to James/Erin ''because'' James/Erin is weaker in shippers' eyes compared to the perceived easier, more pleasant chemistry of James/Orla. (For instance, Orla rushing to hug James in the S2 finale and him carrying her for the embrace, [[https://66.media.tumblr.com/95951be2258c7fe76aef6a48c19448a4/d87331231f69641b-95/s640x960/8cb3940e12167b5b40f401c1f45c94f4a88d15e8.gif as pictured in this GIF.]])

* WhatAnIdiot: In Episode 5, with the Orange Order parading around Derry, the Quinn family and friends need to find a way to escape the riots. Da Gerry has the map and informs Granda Joe that he’ll take the lead and that they’d need to escape carefully this year.\\
'''You'd Expect''': Granda Joe to listen to his son-in-law and follow Gerry’s lead as quickly and quietly as possible.\\
'''Instead''': Claiming to have endured many parades, Joe takes the map and the lead.\\
'''The Result''': In a GilliganCut, Granda Joe leads his family through a police barricade and right into the parade, getting stuck there for a little while. It also kicked off the trunk-rider subplot following that.