History YMMV / DerryGirls

** In the episode [[Recap/DerryGirlsS2E1 "Across the Barricade"]], the kids generate a LongList of differences between Catholics and Protestants. They range from accurate descriptions of religious practice (''Catholics love incense'') to completely outlandish (''distance between the eyes''). The standout, however, was ''Protestants keep toasters in cupboards'', which became a meme fairly quickly after the episode line aired.

* SpoiledSweet: This would be a sympathetic interpretation of Jenny Joyce. Taken at face value, she doesn’t seem to realise that not everyone has a trust fund at their disposal, and puts a lot of effort and generosity into organising events for her peers, albeit there’s a great deal of ego involved. When Erin argues that Jenny’s alleged rigging of the Prom Queen award in “The Prom” is trivial considering how much work she put into organising the dance, it comes across as a fair point, notwithstanding that Erin is [[RightForTheWrongReasons motivated in saying so out of spite towards Mae]].

** Protestants keeping the toaster in the cupboard became a meme fairly quickly after the line aired.

* AcceptableTargets: People from Belfast, apparently. May count as BitingTheHandHumor considering the series is ''filmed'' in Belfast.

* 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 funny.

* MemeticMutation: Protestants keeping the toaster in the cupboard became a meme fairly quickly after the line aired.

* SpoiledSweet: This would be a sympathetic interpretation of Jenny Joyce. Taken at face value, she doesn’t seem to realise that not everyone has a trust fund at their disposal, and puts a lot of effort and generosity into organising events for her peers, albeit there’s a great deal of ego involved. When Erin points out that Jenny’s alleged rigging of the Prom Queen award in “The Prom” is trivial considering how much work she put into organising the dance, it comes across as a fair point, notwithstanding that Erin is [[RightForTheWrongReasons motivated in saying so out of spite towards Mae]].

* SpoiledSweet: This would be a sympathetic interpretation of Jenny Joyce. Taken at face value, she doesn’t seem to realise that not everyone has a trust fund at their disposal, and puts a lot of effort and generosity into into organising events for her peers, albeit there’s a great deal of ego involved. When Erin points out that Jenny’s alleged rigging of the Prom Queen award in “The Prom” is trivial considering how much work she put into organising the dance, it comes across as a fair point, notwithstanding that Erin is [[RightForTheWrongReasons motivated in saying so out of spite towards Mae]].

* SpoiledSweet: This would be a sympathetic interpretation of Jenny Joyce. Taken at face value, she doesn’t seem to realise that not everyone has a trust fund at their disposal, and puts a lot of effort and generosity into into organising events for her peers, albeit there’s a great deal of ego involved. When Erin points out that Jenny’s alleged rigging of the Prom Queen award in “The Prom” is trivial considering how much work she put into organising the dance, it comes across as a fair point, notwithstanding that Erin is [[RightForTheWrongReasons motivated in saying so out of spite towards Mae]].

* UnexpectedCharacter: Nobody expected [[spoiler: Chelsea Clinton]] to make a cameo in the DistantFinale.

* 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, Clare), caffeine overdose (Clare) and being drunk (Michelle)... as well as Mary keeping silent about the dog.

** Most of the series really, considering it's BlackComedy set during The Troubles. But Episode 2 takes the cake, where Michelle accidentally burns Fionnuala's curtains when she's supposed to be cleaning. So their parents try to make it look like they were the victim of a robbery - as one of Erin's uncles had been robbed a couple of days ago. [[spoiler: It doesn't work]].

** Michelle says of James's existence - her aunt went over to England to get an abortion[[note]]In the '90s, abortion was illegal throughout the island of Ireland and the common option to obtain an abortion would have been travelling to England. Abortion was legalized in the Republic in 2018 and decriminalized in Northern Ireland in 2019.[[/note]] but they only discovered she didn't get it when she arrived home with James sixteen years later. Crossed a third time, when James immediately reveals afterwards that this is the first he’s heard of this.

** Michelle also sums up the Great Famine of 1845 - where around one million people died of starvation and loads more had to emigrate abroad - as "they ran outta spuds and everyone was raging".

* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: American viewers loved the show, and it proved very popular when it was streamed on Netflix. The actors have also got messages from fans in countries like Afghanistan and Iraq who relate to growing up in the time of conflict.

** Conleth Hill as the campy, ham-tastic psychic in Season 3 - who manages to relay messages from spirits in between screaming at his battleaxe of a mother.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: The Netflix version of Season 1's finale changed the song Orla dances to from "Like a Prayer" to Take That's "Pray" - which means that her choreography makes less sense.

* 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, Clare), caffeine overdose (Clare) and being drunk (Michelle)... as well as Mary keeping silent about the dog.

* 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.

** Michelle also sums up the Great Famine of 1845 - where around one million people died of starvation and loads more had to emigrate abroad - as "they ran outta spuds and everyone was raging."

* SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome: The teens ''finally'' getting to the Take That concert, after everything they went through. And it’s implied that they’re not going to get caught, due to Gerry deciding to keep silent about seeing them on the news.

* OneSceneWonder: Fionnuala, the owner of the chipper, appears only in episode 2, but is among the more memorable of the side characters. It helps that she's an in-universe MemeticBadass.

* BaseBreakingCharacter:

** Clare, being a NervousWreck and [[spoiler:(initially) closet lesbian]] who's as {{Moe}} as they come, and seems to be perpetually on the brink of tears. As if it wasn't bad enough, [[spoiler: her father Sean had a bad aneurysm and died in the hospital bed in the Series 3 finale]]

** Clare, being a NervousWreck and [[spoiler:(initially) closet lesbian]] who's as {{Moe}} as they come, and seems to be perpetually on the brink of tears.

** Most of the series really, considering it's BlackComedy set during The Troubles. But Episode 2 takes the cake where Michelle accidentally burns Fionnuala's curtains when she's supposed to be cleaning. So their parents try to make it look like they were the victim of a robbery - as one of Erin's uncles had been robbed a couple of days ago. [[spoiler: It doesn't work]].

** Michelle says of James's existence - her aunt went over to England to get an abortion[[note]]In the '90s, abortion was illegal throughout the island of Ireland and the common option to obtain an abortion would have been travelling to England. Abortion was legalized in the Republic in 2018 and decriminalized in Northern Ireland in 2019.[[/note]] but they only discovered she didn't get it when she arrived home with James sixteen years later. Crossed a third time when James immediately reveals afterwards that this is the first he’s heard of this.

** Long-winded Uncle Colm has relatively few scenes in the show but seems to be a hit every time he appears.

** Gerry is never anything but nice to his family, but his controlling wife runs roughshod over him and he is subject to extremely antagonistic behavior from his father-in-law on a daily basis.

* HarsherInHindsight: In Episode 4, one of Erin and Orla's family refers to Katya, Erin's foreign exchange student from the Ukraine as "the Russian". While the joke was supposed to be that Erin's family member was being ignorant, after Russia's appalling treatment of the Ukraine in 2022, that now comes across as completely tasteless.

* HarsherInHindsight: In Episode 4, one of Erin and Orla's family refers to Katya, Erin's foreign exchange student from the Ukraine as "the Russian". While the joke was supposed to be that Erin's family member was being ignorant, after Russia's appalling treatment of the Ukrain in 2022, that now comes across as completely tasteless.