YMMV / How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days

• Aluminium Christmas Trees: "Bullshit" is an actual card game, though it's known by its cleaner titles "Cheat" and "I Doubt It".
• Broken Base: Fans of the movie love to try and argue as to whether Andie or Ben was 'worse' in their motivations even though the movie quite clearly presents both of them as being in the wrong.
• Critical Dissonance: Critics were lukewarm to the film, considering it mediocre at best, with a 42% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Audiences however loved it, and it has a 77% rating on the latter.
• Designated Hero: We're supposed to root for both the leads even though they have no problem doing something so nasty to another person that could damage their self-esteem and ability to trust.
• Memetic Mutation: In the Latin American countries the line "Bullshit^note Translated as Patrañas in the Mexican dub" from the card game scene has become popular.
• Narm: Pause at 00:01:27 into the movie to read the last paragraph of Andie's column on Tajikistan. Even Thomas Friedman would call it shallow.
• Signature Scene: The most remembered scene is the break-up, in which Andie declares the movie's Signature Line "you can't lose something you never had!", also while wearing her famous yellow dress.
• Wangst: Despite Andie's complaints about the state of her journalism career, it's difficult to feel sorry for someone who has her own monthly column in a popular magazine based in New York City.
• Why Would Anyone Take Him Back?: A double example in which both partners start the relationship under false pretenses. Both halves of the deception are revealed; both parties are hypocritically furious and dump each other, then decide in the end that they're meant to be together after all. Though it could be argued that in that case, they deserve each other.

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