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1	%% ZCE * {{Adorkable}}: Adam
2	* {{Anvilicious}}: Adam's statements that "everything you know about such-and-such is all wrong" come off as this, both in-universe and out.
3	* ArcFatigue: The six "Reanimated History" episodes are seen as this by many, since they slowed the normally fast-paced writing to a crawl, are generally seen as less comedic than the normal series, and had Adam ruin the same narrator throughout the episodes (as opposed to his normal victim-of-the-week style).
4	* BigLippedAlligatorMoment:
5	** In "Adam Ruins Hygiene", when the rat and germs in the sewer perform a song.
6	** Remember when Adam [[https://youtu.be/oA-fc3D09ZY?t=3m25s died in space?]] [[GainaxEnding The]] [[UnexplainedRecovery show]] [[BackFromTheDead didn't.]]
7	* BizarroEpisode: "Adam Ruins Games" mostly sticks to the show's typical formula, but instead of Adam following somebody around and correcting their misconceptions, we get a framing device/subplot where the Devil keeps trying to steal Adam's soul. This is unusual given that, aside from Adam's reality-warping, the show generally sticks to more realistic storylines.
8	* CommonKnowledge: A frequent theme of the show, particularly about how much common knowledge or "rules of thumb" were made up by marketers to sell more of their products.
9	* DiagnosedByTheAudience: Adam has shown to be incredibly book smart in an overarching variety of topics, but he is ''terrible'' at picking social cues, often dropping trivia and doing the "ruin" segment at incredibly bad and inappropriate times. Various episodes have implied that he was like this as a child as well, with his younger sister acting more like his handler than, well, a younger sister.
10	** In "Adam Ruins Housing", Adam's demonstrations have led to him being blacklisted by every renter in the city due to him continuously ruining the plumbing by flushing golf-balls. He ends up doing it without even knowing during the R&B segment, implying that this is compulsive behavior.
11	* HarsherInHindsight:
12	** In "Adam Ruins Going Green", the end-of-episode silver-lining that Adam presents the Paris Agreement as a sign that things are looking up. This episode aired on December 27, 2016, six months before the United States was pulled out of the Paris Agreement (fortunately, the U.S. was able to rejoin the Paris Agreement in 2021).
13	** In "100 Years Ago Today," which aired April 28, 2018, Adam talks about how no one remembers the 1918-20 Spanish flu pandemic, and the world is unprepared for when it inevitably faces another pandemic. Two years later, the world was in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, a global pandemic as widely-spread as Spanish flu.
14	* HilariousInHindsight:
15	** Jake, the kid from Adam Ruins Summer Fun spends a third of the episode learning about Disney’s bad practices throughout the past when it comes to copyright law. His actor went on to have main or supporting roles in [[Series/RavensHome two]] [[WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse shows]] on the Disney Channel.
16	* SugarWiki/HeReallyCanAct:
17	** When Adam breaks down at [[spoiler: Hayley's funeral.]] The scene is heart-wrenching, and not played for laughs.
18	** Also Emily in the scene right before when she thinks she’s about to die and lets Adam know that she doesn't really hate him.
19	* HollywoodHomely: A downplayed example, but it is heavily implied that, aside from Melinda, Adam has no success romantically and extreme difficulty attracting women, despite not being ugly by any conventional standard. This is justified, though, considering that his bizarre personality and various quirks play more of a role than his looks.
20	* MisaimedFandom: The show mentions in-universe that Adam's lecturing and holier-than-thou attitude is not a good way to relate to people, and it is the primary reason as to why Adam is so lonely in the first place, but few people pick up on that.
21	* NightmareFuel:
22	** The solitary confinement segment of "Adam Ruins Prison" showcases the effects on a person's psyche via Emily. Needless to say, it gets disturbing and even the small bits of humor do little to make it better.
23	** In "100 Years Ago Today", Adam explained that during World War 1, the Spanish Flu claimed far more lives than the war did, but because of the war it wasn’t reported on for fears it may lower morale. The Spanish Flu eventually died out, not because of anything man did, but because it claimed all the lives it could at the time. The CDC even theorizes that [[HarsherInHindsight another Spanish Flu-like epidemic may be upon us, and that in the time it takes to make a vaccine, the disease will have already claimed millions of lives.]]
24	** "Adam Ruins Sleep", an episode that mostly takes place in the dream world, is filled with dark and surreal imagery. Of particular note is the way Adam's face [[NightmareFace morphs]] at the end of the segment on mattress shopping; his [[RedEyesTakeWarning eyes glow red]] and his jaw elongates to frightening proportions.
25	-->'''Adam:''' No matter what you do, shopping for a mattress is just a big old '''[[JumpScare nightmaaaaaaare...]]'''
26	** The dark twist of "Adam Ruins Murder". [[spoiler:Brie planned all three murders of her boyfriends and acted sweet and innocent when she lied and manipulated all three of her victims. There’s also her planning to kill Adam because he saw her callously murder Jack. What’s worse is that she immediately puts on the innocent act again and blames Adam for the deaths of her boyfriends when the police show up at the crime scene.]]
27	** Adam's "You are going to die" speech in "Adam Ruins Death", which is paired up with absolute silence ''but'' his voice as he describes TheNothingAfterDeath and CessationOfExistence without any ''hint'' of comedy.
28	* OlderThanTheyThink: According to "The Copernican Ruin-aissance," [[AudienceSurrogate the Narrator]] boasts that [[UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands the Dutch]] were the first to operate under a true modern capitalist economy. Adam then interjects that they were also the first to experience a true modern capitalist economic bubble burst. Specifically, he mentions how tulips were considered a status symbol in Dutch society, and when the tulip traders started speculating on the flowers' future yields, the tulips' values went up, and people who had a contract that they would one day have a couple of tulips became insanely wealthy as they bought and sold tulip futures. Suddenly, the bottom fell out, and the Dutch economy nearly collapsed in an episode now known as "Tulip-mania."
29	* UnpopularPopularCharacter: Adam Conover. The show drives the point home that his lecturing is not a good way to relate to people and the reason why he's so lonely, but few people pick up on that.
30	* SugarWiki/VisualEffectsOfAwesome:
31	** The video game segment in "Adam Ruins Summer Fun" is shown through wonderful sprite animation that varies across multiple games, animated by the team at WebAnimation/DorklyOriginals, [=CollegeHumor's=] parent company.

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