YMMV / Get Him to the Greek

• Alternate Character Interpretation: Whether Aaron Green's hesitance to party is because he is attempting to remain professional and watchful of his charge or is he too socially awkward to party?
• Awesome Music: Infant Sorrow's songs alternate between catchy, hilarious, or both.
  "We got The CLAP!"
  • Furry Walls is just fucking awesome.
    Furry Walls, turn out the light!
    Furry Walls, please stay the night.
  • Going Up + Bangers, Beans & Mash are fantastic enough on their own, but they're just amazing when played back-to-back.
    For my Ma who's always honoured me I'm Going Down, Down, Down...
    For my Pa who never wanted me, can you feel what's going on?
  • Don't forget the songs that are downright Tearjerkers. Like Searching for a Father.
  • It makes sense that the music is awesome when you take into account that they had help from the likes of Jarvis Cocker and Carl Barât.
• Casting Gag: The actress who plays Destiny (who pretty much rapes Aaron) is the same actress who plays "Period Blood Girl" in Superbad, who dances with Jonah Hill's character.
• Crosses the Line Twice: African Child, and many other Aldous Snow songs. His ex's songs as well.
  • The music video for "I Am Jesus."
  • The entire Las Vegas party.
  • Sarah Marshall's new show, where she plays a blind doctor. The opening credits are in English and braille.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: P Diddy's turn as deranged record exec Sergio Roma, to the degree that people were clamoring for a spinoff movie focused on him.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Since Jonah Hill, Russell Brand and especially P Diddy all faced increasingly serious allegations of sexual misconduct in 2023, many have joked about how the movie is now essentially radioactive (it doesn't help that supporting actor T.J. Miller had been accused in 2017). Taken to its logical conclusion.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Sergio claims his financial situation is fine, because he owns 21 franchises of Koo Koo Roo. Koo Koo Roo would be completely out of business a mere 4 years after the film's release.
• Ho Yay: In one of the party montage scenes, Aldous is seen briefly snogging a man. In another, he and Aaron are leaving a gay bar. Aldous also seems pretty comfortable with having a threesome with another man, and some lyrics in some of his songs could be interpreted to be about gay sex. Finally, he flirts with Aaron and winks before he goes on stage for the concert. Conversely, he does react with considerable horror and disgust when Aaron kisses him during their threesome with Daphne.
• Jerkass Woobie: Aldous leads a highly self-destructive life and cares little for the consequences his actions will have on others. However, the overwhelmingly negative feedback regarding one of his songs drove him off the wagon, his father has been manipulating him for fame and fortune his whole life and he eventually has to deal with the reality that his son might not be biologically related to him. While his mistakes are entirely on him, they didn't come out of nowhere.
• Moral Event Horizon: Sergio Roma crosses this when he tries to get Aaron Green to give Aldous painkillers for his broken arm, rather than cancelling the concert and getting him proper medical attention.
• One-Scene Wonder: Aziz Ansari as one of Aaron's co-workers, who informs him of the after-party for Jay-Z's new single that he missed.
  "I was doin' lines off some girls' titties! [...] I woke up with glitter on my dick!"
  • Tom Felton in an I Am Not Spock moment.
  • Not quite one scene, but T.J. Miller as the heroin dealing hotel clerk and Neal Brennan as his knife wielding roommate.
  • Pharrell Williams and his (not gangsta) pink polo shirt.
  • Sarah Marshall.
• Retroactive Recognition: The board meeting is a who's-who of this. Featuring early roles from soon to be breakouts Ellie Kemper, Nick Kroll, Jake Johnson and Aziz Ansari.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not Political?: "Funny in'nt? You get rich, and everything comes free."

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