YMMV / Jim Gaffigan

• Aluminum Christmas Trees: Gaffigan once made a joke about how there will one day be a bacon hamburger with two doughnuts instead of buns, and that someone in the audience will probably think it's a brilliant idea and make one. Meet the Luther Burger
• Growing the Beard: Doing My Time marked a major step forward for Jim. Though most of the material was originally featured on previous albums, the presentation and performance have been sharpened and honed to a significant degree.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • Jim makes a few jokes about Jared Fogle during his Subway bit in Mr. Universe, but he adds that Jared "seems like a nice guy." In 2015 Jared was arrested and found guilty for possessing child pornography and having sex with minors. Funny enough, he called Ronald McDonald a "pedophile clown" in the same show yet he's the relatively innocent one of the two fast food spokesmen.
  • Cinco has a few jokes about tumors. Shortly before the album version was released, his wife Jeannie was discovered to have a large brain tumor, which was luckily benign and able to be completely removed.
  • Possibly lampshaded in advance in Obsessed. He jokes that his wife told him donuts aren't appropriate for use in a trail mix and says that he's just on a different trail...one that leads to the emergency room.
  Jim: That joke'll be even funnier when I die of cardiac arrest.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • His routine about McDonalds has two.
    • At one point, Jim mocks the mascot Ronald McDonald, referring to him as a "pedophile clown from the '70s." Jim would later go on to play Colonel Sanders in Kentucky Fried Chicken commercials.
    • When listing off things that McDonald's has taught people, he says that McDonald's taught people that breakfast ends at 10:30. However, in 2015, McDonald's launched an all-day breakfast menu, meaning breakfast no longer stops at 10:30.
  • In Obsessed, he makes a jab at Whole Foods for their food being too expensive. After he hypothetically runs out of money, he says he'll put the rest of his groceries on his Amazon wish list. Amazon would later purchase Whole Foods in June of 2017, possibly making Jim's joke a reality in the future.
  • Throughout his specials, Jim will comment on how crazy having kids is. In Beyond the Pale and King Baby, he mentions having two and three kids respectively. It gets funnier when you listen to Mr. Universe where he says having a fourth child is like "you're drowning and someone hands you a baby" and finally in Obsessed he announces he and his wife had a fifth child.
    "I don't know what happened! Ten years ago I couldn't even get a date and now my apartment is literally crawling with babies!"
• Memetic Mutation: HO~T POCKET!
• Nightmare Fuel: He does a good voice for Satan, complete with a Voice of the Legion when he calls his wife.
  "I'll just call her up, she'll say 'Who is this?' and I'll just go 'THE DEVIL'"
  "She'll always be like 'Why do you do that?' and I go 'BECAUSE I'M GONNA KILL YOU.'"
• Signature Song: If you only know one Jim Gaffigan routine, it's probably "Hot Pockets".
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!:
  • Unlike the previous four specials, Cinco was not released on DVD, Blu-ray, or digital; it was only streaming on Netflix (along with being able to purchase it on CD). Thankfully, Noble Ape reverted to the usual release methods.
  • Quality Time, Jim's 2019 special, is not appearing on Netflix as usual, instead going to Amazon Prime. Needless to say, Netflix-only subscribers were not pleased. The trend has continued with the mini-series The Pale Tourist.