YMMV / How Did This Get Made?

• Broken Base: Occasionally, the hosts will be extremely split on a given film's merits, or lack thereof. The most notorious example of this is the 2019 Drop Dead Fred episode—June and Jason adored the movie, while Paul and guest host Casey Wilson utterly despised it. The hosts couldn't even agree on the basic premise of the film, with June and Jason (who dubbed themselves "Team Fred") arguing that the titular Fred was the imaginary friend of main character Lizzie and thus represented elements of her psyche, while Paul and Casey ("Team Sanity") thought that he was actually a poltergeist-type figure who hung around Lizzie and spent his time causing trouble. All four later admitted that the loud, argumentative live taping had left them feeling angry and drained, with June and Jason claiming that they were so emotionally raw that it took them multiple days to get over it. This episode has become so infamous in HDTGM lore that you can expect "Team Fred" and "Team Sanity" to get brought up virtually any subsequent time there's been a similar controversy.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Jason in general is the embodiment of this trope. A good example would be during the Road House (1989) episode when, after showing a clip of a sex scene and discussing the nitty gritty of it, the hosts realize someone has brought a baby to the show. Jason then contemplates wanting to hold the baby. His reason:
  Jason: If you brought a tiny baby, please bring it up here, I would like to hold it for the rest of the show. 'Cause I'm only going to say more horrible things, and it's only gonna be funnier if I'm holding a baby.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The Sucker Punch episode has Chelsea Peretti repeatedly expressing her intense attraction to the then-unknown Oscar Isaac, mirroring the intense fandom he garnered after The Force Awakens brought him to international prominence a few years later. Paul Lampshaded this in the 1st Annual Howdies episode, where he pointed out that none of them could've predicted that his career would pick up so drastically within the next few years.
• Retroactive Recognition: They have some fun with this when a recognizable actor appears in a smaller role.
  • While reviewing Rock Star, Jason says an HBO executive must have watched it and decided "I want that guy (Dominic West) for McNulty and that guy (Timothy Olyphant) for Deadwood."
  • They play a clip from The Last Dragon that has a young William H. Macy as "J.J."
• Tear Jerker: The "Second Opinions" segment of Jack Frost (1998) is pretty harrowing, with various reviewers talking about loss, death, and abandonment with their own fathers. Even Dan Harmon is shaken by the end of it.
  Dan Harmon: I'm DIFFERENT after hearing all that.

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