History YMMV / ThemeHospital

* ScrappyMechanic: The fact that a room can't be used once a machine inside explodes is a ''very'' unpopular mechanic among fans of the game.

** Combined with UnwinnableByMistake, as epidemics are so annoying because of a particular bug: The idea is that you need to cure all the disease-carriers before they leave the hospital. Unfortunately, "leaving the hospital" includes "walking out any door", and in most levels your wings are arranged in a way that travel between them requires going briefly outside. Unless you block most of the exits (with potentially terrible consequences for pathfinding, not to mention hospital efficiency) and make sure outlying buildings are never used for diagnosis or treatment (which can be impossible on some maps), prepare to get hit with thousands of dollars in fines every few months...

** ScrappyMechanic: The fact that a room can't be used once a machine inside explodes is a ''very'' unpopular mechanic among fans of the original.

** There's also the matter of the auto-autopsy machine, which speeds up research on a particular ailment, by feeding a patient through it ''while they're still alive''. And they don't seem to be aware of anything until its too late. Predictably, your reputation drops like a rock if the machine is found out.

* MostAnnoyingSound: "Two surgeons required in Operating Theatre!" She'll even say it twice if you need two.

* HarsherInHindsight: One of the [=VIPs=] that can visit your hospital is called "Billy Savile OBE", a [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed parody of British TV star Jimmy Savile]]. A lot harsher now that Savile has been posthumously accused of sexual abuse - for crimes which were mostly committed against helpless patients in hospitals.

* NightmareFuel: The game can get particularly unpleasant at times. The player will get used to cheering whenever a patient is cured. It is incredibly jarring to the point of a JumpScare when a patient is treated incorrectly, as there is booing before the patient leaves the room. Only after they pay and leave the room do they die (and that is usually humourous), but the warning that you've killed them is rather frightening.

* GoddamnedBats: Diseases that can't be diagnosed in the "standard" diagnosis rooms (General Diagnosis, Ward, Psychiatry), requiring you to research and buy more advanced diagnosis equipment. Ironically, the more visually obvious the disease, the harder it seems to be to diagnose (Invisibility and Slack Tongue require the X-Ray, Transparency and King Complex the Scanner). One way to combat this is to put your best possible doctors in the GP's office, so they can diagnose as many patients as possible without requiring extra equipment.

** Some of the treatments for ailments like Bloaty Head and Slack Tongue look very painful. Not to mention imagining what would happen if the doctor popped the head and then the Inflation machine didn't work...

** Another suspect VIP is King Bernhard of the Netherlands. While there has been a Prince-Consort Bernhard, he would have been ineligible unless the rest of the Dutch royal family died out, and possibly even others suchs as the Windsors. Bernhard did live long enough to see his wife and former Queen Juliana die, along with his son-in-law Claus. In the years after, one of his grandsons relinquished his right to the throne to marry and was later buried in an avalanche, dying some years later while in a coma. This is not helped by his 'controversial' history, one urban legend claiming he wrote to [[Adolf Hitler]] offering to rule the Netherlands as a German protectorate.

* MostAnnoyingSound: "Two surgeons required in Operating Theatre!" She'll even say it twice if you need two.

* FridgeHorror: Some of these cures for these diseases: you get your tongue ''sliced off'', your head ''popped'', your jelly body ''poured'' into a new skeleton, and your own self ''electrified'' just to get rid of excess hair... and you '''pay''' for these whack-o treatments. Are these even real doctors?

** Combined with UnwinnableByMistake, as Epidemics are so annoying because of a particular bug: The idea is that you need to cure all the disease-carriers before they leave the hospital. Unfortunately, "leaving the hospital" includes "walking out any door", and in most levels your wings are arranged in a way that travel between them requires going briefly outside. Unless you block most of the exits (with potentially terrible consequences for pathfinding, not to mention hospital efficiency) and make sure outlying buildings are never used for diagnosis or treatment (which can be impossible on some maps), prepare to get hit with thousands of dollars in fines every few months...
* FridgeHorror: Curing Bloated Head, or slack tongue: You get your tongue ''sliced off'', or your head ''popped'', and you ''pay'' for this whack-o treatment. Are these even real doctors?

* MostAnnoyingSound: "Two surgeons required in Operating Theatre!"

* FridgeHorror: Curing Bloated Head, or slack tongue: You get your tongue ''sliced off'', or your head ''popped'', and you ''pay'' for this whack-o treatment. Are these even real doctors?