History YMMV / WouldILieToYou

* GrowingTheBeard: The show became much livelier when Rob Brydon took over as host and took a more active role in the game and egging the players on, as opposed to how Angus Deayton focused mainly on keeping things moving. David Mitchell and Lee Mack's rapport also began settling in at this time and the two started pressing each other's buttons more often to comedic effect. The third series is generally deemed to have not yet fully grown the beard due to some poor guest bookings spoiling some episodes, and the familiar format not being down pat, but it's definitely there by the fourth series. It also helps that they got rid of Ring of Truth and Telly Tales, rounds that slowed the momentum of the show and were not as true to its nature.
* HilariousInHindsight: In one episode of Series 1, Angus Deayton read out a joke referring to Carol Vorderman as "mutton dressed as lamb". When the panel and audience reacted, he said "She's not here, she'll never be invited on, so it doesn't matter". She ''did'' eventually appear as a guest...in the first episode shown after Deayton had left.
** Angus Deayton closed out one episode with the remark "I leave you with news that according to scientists, you should never trust somebody who speaks in a dull, flat monotone, which begs the question - just what is Ken Livingstone trying to hide?" Made much funnier when Livingstone was actually a guest on the show the following series.
** During Sanjeev Bhaskar's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR-33NeqPXE story]] about crashing into Creator/MichaelWinner's car and telling him to "Calm down", David immediately questions if this was before Winner's advertisements for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esure esure]], and his catchphrase, "Calm down, dear, it's just a commercial." It was, and it's true.

** In S5E7 David Mitchell mocks Lee's claim that Ouija boards were once seen as a mundane parlour game, not an occult item. It's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouija absolutely true]], though Lee says it's a trademark of Waddington's and David makes a joke about advertisements for an MB Ouija board. It's actually a trademark of Hasbro.

** In s5e7 David Mitchell mocks Lee's claim that Ouija boards were once seen as a mundane parlour game, not an occult item. It's [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouija absolutely true]], though Lee says it's a trademark of Waddington's and David makes a joke about advertisements for an MB Ouija board. It's actually a trademark of Hasbro.

* WhatDoYouMeanItWasntMadeOnDrugs: The set design for series 3 onwards.
* [[WTHCastingAgency WTH Booking Agency]]: There were some... ''questionable'' choices of guests (Kelvin [=MacKenzie=] and Janet Street-Porter amongst them) in the third series.
** The appointment of Paul Henry as host of the New Zealand version of the show.

** To a lesser extent, Henning Wehn, for his equally bizarre stories and deadpan sense of humour.

--> '''Creator/DavidMitchellActor''': If there's a nuclear war, ''I don't want to live''...I have no skills. Okay, society is destroyed by a nuclear war, we're basically - we're back to the bronze age...how long is it gonna be before people start pitching panel shows again? It's gonna be at least 2000 years!

--> '''Creator/DavidMitchell''': If there's a nuclear war, ''I don't want to live''...I have no skills. Okay, society is destroyed by a nuclear war, we're basically - we're back to the bronze age...how long is it gonna be before people start pitching panel shows again? It's gonna be at least 2000 years!

* AcceptableTargets:
** Rob Brydon's accent, height, and impressions are all fair game for mockery.
** When Creator/RonnieCorbett appeared on the show, there were plenty of cracks about his short stature. [[SelfDeprecatingHumor Several of them made by Corbett himself]].
** Cockney accents, especially if the speakers draw out their vowels, are ripe for mocking especially by Lee.

** Sharon Osbourne, who appeared in the 2019 Christmas episode, quickly became this due to her story [[note]] involving her firing an employee for "showing no sense of humour" about a fire she accidentally started [[/note]] portraying her in a bad light, and her apparent obliviousness to this fact. It says something that the YouTube video of her story is by far the most disliked WILTY clip on the site. While most WILTY clips have a 5% dislike percentage at most, Sharon Osbourne's story is sitting at a comfortable '''''89%''''' dislike percentage.

* GrowingTheBeard: The show became much livelier when Rob Brydon took over as host and took a more active role in the game and egging the players on, as opposed to how Angus Deayton focused mainly on keeping things moving. David Mitchell and Lee Mack's rapport also began settling in at this time and the two started pressing each other's buttons more often to comedic effect. The third series is generally deemed to have not yet fully grown the beard due to some poor guest bookings spoiling some episodes, and the familiar format not being down pat, but it's definitely there by the fourth series.

** During Sanjeev Bhaskar's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HR-33NeqPXE story]] about crashing into Creator/MichaelWinner's car and telling him to "Calm down", David immediately questions if this was before Winner's advertisements for [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esure esure]], and his catchphrase, "Calm down, dear, it's just a commercial." It was, [[spoiler:and it's true.]]

** After this, the third series of ''Series/ThatMitchellAndWebbLook'' had "The Quiz Broadcast", a series of sketches in which David's character hosted a [[AfterTheEnd post-apocalyptic]] GameShow in a world that had been destroyed by [[NoodleIncident the Event]].

** Sharon Osbourne, who appeared in the 2019 Christmas episode, quickly became this due to her story [[note]] involving her firing an employee for "showing no sense of humour" about a fire she accidentally started [[/note]] portraying her in a bad light, and her apparent obliviousness to this fact.

* MagnificentBastard: EnsembleDarkhorse Nick Hewer was very effective in his appearance, eviscerating the other pannelists and lying very effectively.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkXxmMUIx8k Kevin Bridges]] spun one of the most masterful deceptions on the show.
-->'''Rob''':...Unbelievable.

** Antiques expert and auctioneer Raj Bisram, whilst not sounding like a hilarious booking on paper, was responsible for one of the funniest moments in the show's history when he attempted to demonstrate the magic trick he used to perform with the mystery guest... and didn't manage to pull it off.

*** To a lesser extent, Henning Wehn, for his equally bizarre stories and deadpan sense of humour.

** The "This Is My" guest will almost ''never'' belong to the team captain; four of them have belonged to David and seven to Lee, out of well over 100 episodes. The show tends to actively parody this by giving the captains the most ridiculous stories imaginable for this round, to the point that on the very rare occasions that when they are actually telling the truth it'll be notable because of how unusually reasonable the claim sounds. (Although this was eventually subverted in a Series 12 episode, where David had a claim about the guest recruiting him for an "underground ping-pong club" which sounded ''so'' like one of his usual ludicrous made-up stories that the opposing team barely even bothered to take it seriously... only for it to turn out to be true.)

** Lee is generally dressed more casually than David or Rob (who are invariably wearing suits), which occasionally leads to some bizarre clothing (in series 5 he appears to be wearing pyjamas and a biker jacket in different episodes).

* GrowingTheBeard: The show became much livelier when Rob Brydon took over as host and took a more active role in the game and egging the players on, as opposed to how Angus Deayton focused mainly on keeping things moving. David Mitchell and Lee Mack's rapport also began settling in at this time and the two started pressing each other's buttons more often to comedic effect.

* TheScrappy: Janet Street-Porter, as she didn't seem to understand the concept of the show -- namely, that people are ''expected'' to lie and bluff and that if a story is true it is not going to be one the other team can accept at face value -- and became very aggressive whenever they weren't taking her at her every word, to the point that when David Mitchell pointed out a problem with her story in the "This Is My" round she walked over to his desk and shouted at him for not believing her until he said there wasn't any problem with it.
** Watching the other panellists ''react'' to her bizarre behaviour is pretty hilarious, though.

* TheScrappy: Janet Street-Porter, as she didn't seem to understand the concept of the show and became very aggressive whenever she was being questioned, to the point that when David Mitchell pointed out a problem with her story in the "This Is My" round she walked over to his desk and shouted at him until he said there wasn't any problem with it.