History YMMV / TheLateLateShowWithCraigFerguson

* CultClassic: Inasmuch as a talk show can achieve this status. Craig's love of smut, nerdy references and improvising was too niche to find mainstream success like Jay Leno did, but he won a devoted following, from internet geeks to fellow comedians to some of the biggest celebrities in Hollywood. [[Series/ThePriceIsRight Bob Barker]] even made it a point to stop by when he retired.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: Some of the special effects cards. Also, Craig sometimes does tricks directly into to the camera to screw with the stoned people watching. Joked about during one Tweetmail segment.
-->'''Craig:''' ''[reads tweet]'' "Some of us [[WatchItStoned really do watch the show high]], you know." Oh, I know. ''[whispers]'' Some of us ''do'' the show high.

* AcceptableTargets: [[CanadaEh Canadians]] (the wacky next-door neighbor. Craig's Scottish, and Scotland is basically England's Canada. [[Creator/RussellBrand And England is Scotland's Mexico.]]), the French (they enjoy fornicating and judging you), the Germans (they like pooping on each other), and West Hollywood.

* ValuesResonance: His [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGLzpt3caHw 2007 monologue]] on the public breakdown of Music/BritneySpears, where he makes plain his refusal to mock someone going through serious addiction issues in public (given Craig's own substance abuse issues). At the time, it seemed like going out of his way to be respectful, but with Britney's ensuing troubles with her conservatorship becoming public knowledge and the subsequent [=#FreeBritney=] movement, it now makes him look like a man ahead of his time.

* CultClassic: In as much as a talk show can achieve this status. Craig's love of smut, nerdy references and improvising was too niche to find mainstream success like Leno did, but he won a devoted following, from internet geeks to fellow comedians to some of the biggest celebrities in Hollywood. [[Series/ThePriceIsRight Bob Barker]] even made it a point to stop by when he retired.

* GrowingTheBeard: Geoff Peterson became much funnier and more interactive with Craig after Josh Robert Thompson began voicing him live in lieu of Geoff's original batch of canned responses. More specifically, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAHSUTB5BJc segment]] where he started the "I've got a place there" {{running gag}} and made Craig totally lose it marked the point where Geoff really began to shine.

** And to wrap up his tenure, Craig pulled out [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RHRC184WqD0 all the stops]], complete with cameos from many good friends. The song itself ("Bang Your Drums" by Dead Man Fall [[note]]Within 24 hours of the episode, the song, by an unknown Scottish band, became the top selling song on iTunes.[[/note]]) starts with the studio version, before cutting to Craig, with two drummers, Steve Jones again, more musicians, belting out an epic live version.

** The monologues on both his mother's and his father's passing.

* EnsembleDarkhorse:

** Ferguson went on a spree with these in his last few weeks as host. Geoff had a copy of UsefulNotes/CarlJung's ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Book_%28Jung%29 Red Book]]'' on his podium, and Craig noted how his new haircut made him look like Creator/SamuelBeckett, quoted [[{{UsefulNotes/Existentialism}} Jean-Paul Sartre]], and delivered [[TakeThat Take Thats]] to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rothko Mark Rothko]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcel_Duchamp Marcel Duchamp]].
* GrowingTheBeard: Geoff Peterson became much funnier and more interactive with Craig after Josh Robert Thompson began voicing him live in lieu of Geoff's original batch of canned responses. More specifically, the segment where [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAHSUTB5BJc Geoff started the "I've got a place there" running gag]] and made Craig totally lose it marked the point where Geoff really began to shine.

-->'''Craig:''' ''[reads tweet]'' "Some of us [[WatchItStoned really do watch the show high]], you know." Oh, I know. ''[whispers]'' Some of us ''do'' the show high.

* WhamLine: "This Sunday, I was fifteen years sober." The change in mood is palpable as the audience realizes that [[SincerityMode he's serious about not mocking Britney Spears]], and he's going to be covering some rough ground in this episode.

* EarWorm:
** ''"...Okay? Hey, hey! Tomorrow's just your future yesterday..."''
** Secretariat's leitmotif. It's probably just production library music, but it sure can get stuck in your head. Admit it, it's stuck in your head now.
** Many of the Check the Tweets intros can apply here.

* DudeNotFunny: Entertainment media took note when Craig said during his monologue that he would not joke about Britney Spears, citing his own struggles with alcohol and drugs. He later made a similar statement about Charlie Sheen. At first, some saw the Britney stance as a ratings ploy, but with the Sheen statement he may be legitimately trying not to go after some obvious AcceptableTargets.

* FanDumb: Some fans are indignant that Craig Ferguson wasn't announced as David Letterman's replacement for ''Series/TheLateShow'', seeming to not realize or forget that Craig was never interested in being Letterman's successor and that he'd said that his style of comedy was better suited for a later time slot.