History YMMV / GreenWing

* RetroactiveRecognition: Creator/JohnOliver has a bit part as a car salesman in the first episode.

* AluminiumChristmasTrees: While Sue White is toying with Guy she says that being called Mr is "one above" being called Doctor. Although medics can use the title Doctor after qualifying the exception is members of the Royal College of Surgeons, whose male members are given the title Mr. Becoming a surgeon in the UK is considered one of the hardest career choices in medicine.

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* DudeNotFunny: In-universe example; when Angela confides to Guy and Martin that his ex, Holly, is not only engaged to a top surgeon at another hospital but is also pregnant (note Holly aborted her child with Mac) and asks them not to say anything. When Martin accidentally blurts it out, Guy [[KickTheDog takes the chance to start taunting him about it.]] After Mac gives a very understated [[TranquilFury "Fuck you."]] and leaves, Guy laughs it off and says Mac can't take a joke, and this is Angela and Martin's non-verbal response, to the point it makes ''Guy'' awkwardly leave.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: In the very first episode, Joanna tells Sue during their walkie-talkie conversation "I'd rather stick pins in my eyes, frankly." This is [[spoiler: the punishment that Oedipus visits on himself]] when he [[spoiler: discovers that he's slept with his mother]]. This might be a hint at the reverse.
** Potentially [[CallBack called back]] in the first episode of the second series when Kim and Rachel read Sophocles [[spoiler:in front of Joanna to give her a hard time about sleeping with her son, Guy]].

* TheScrappy: Holly.

* AsideComment: Guy asks Caroline as she storms off if she actually does look up pleadingly during intercourse. He turns and looks over his shoulder to comment, as if to somebody standing nearby, that she probably does. This is possibly a BehindTheBlack moment but there hasn't been anybody in the immediate vicinity of the conversation that he could be talking to.

* {{Squick}}: Among many examples, Dr. Statham eating a gall bladder mid-operation and Guy [[spoiler: accidentally having sex with his own mother]]. Also, near the end of Season 2, Alan ''drinks Joanna's urine''. (He was pretending it was apple juice.)

* AlternativeCharacterInterpretation: After the "slave auction", Martin is about to take Caroline out for a meal and, panicking, asks Mac for advice. Mac says Martin should try being more assertive and less nice, as Caroline mostly just views Martin as a friend, while Guy acts like a scumbag most of the time and is still popular enough with women. Though this is fairly straightforward advice, Martin of course messes it up massively...but did Mac know that he would and did he give Martin said advice [[GreenEyedMonster because he was trying to sabotage his date with Caroline?]]

* PuritySue: Emmy. As Caroline says, "Don't men realise that women who are too nice are secretly evil?"

** Caroline, arguably.

* EstrogenBrigadeBait: Mac and Boyce.

* FridgeBrilliance: What's the song that Guy is singing in the opening of the first series finale? Stayin' Alive by the BeeGees, of course. And how does that song go? "Whether you're a mother or whether you're a brother"? Genius.

* {{The Scrappy}}: Holly.

** JerkassWoobie: Guy, especially after he [[spoiler: accidentally sleeps with his own mother]].

* CrowningMomentOfFunny: When Alan comes up with the medical alphabet song to try and impress the director filming at the hospital. He fails, and Alan is seen later venting his frustration.
-->'''Alan''': A is for aperectomy, B is for barium, C is for cystitis... F is for ''fucking director''... S is for slut and tiny tits is T and V, W, X is for wanky-wank and Y-fronts is for Y and... oh, cock off!
* {{Crowning moment of Heartwarming}} : Alan singing Lional Richie down the phone to Boyce.
** When Guy, for the first time ever, decides to put someone before himself and convinces Mac to propose to Caroline.

* {{The Scrappy}}: Holly
* TheWoobie: Martin