The Man Show/YMMV

Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.


  • Crosses the Line Twice: In particular, the "Adam Dates his Mom" sketch.
    • The Porky's parody takes the Gag Penis trope to new lengths. Literally.
    • Adam telling various strangers at normally manly places that his uncle molested him when he was a kid.
  • Crowning Moment of Funny: You were pretty much guaranteed at least one per episode. A personal favorite of mine was when a (staged) wedding was interrupted by a ventriloquist dummy who thrust up his hand and shouted: "The bride's a man! She's a man! She's got a wiener!" (In the stereotypical squeaky "dummy" voice, too.) What made it even funnier was that the gag kept running until the bride (who was unmistakably a woman) was really pissed off. ("The bride has big fuzzy testes! Big fuzzy testes! Big fuzzy testes!")
    • The time Adam and Jimmy celebrated Hanukkah at Goldberg's house, and he strong-armed them into doing various Hanukkah activites.
  • Crowning Moment of Heartwarming: Adam and Jimmy's last show featured a final montage of a lot of memorable moments, but the final clip in the batch was of the late Bill "The Fox" Foster, the emcee in Season 1.
  • Discredited Meme: One of the men from their "Museum of Annoying Guys" (faux Latinate name: "Jokus Repeatus Shut the F Up-us") illustrated this trope. "It's the beat a Catch Phrase to death guy."
  • Ear Worm: "Grab a beer and drop your pants, send the wife and kids to France, iiiiiiiit's the Maaaaaaaan Show!"
  • First Installment Wins: Everyone remembers the Fox running the music in the first season, no one remembers the Good Time Party Boys (an oompah band) running the music in the third and fourth seasons.
  • Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: This seems to be the entire point of the show.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: When trying their hand at Professional Wrestling, we were treated to a montage of Adam and Jimmy trying out a variety of gimmicks, one of which was "The Pope".
  • Jumping the Shark: Adam and Jimmy's last episode. The replacement hosts couldn't keep it up as one is a very off-putting dead baby comedian and the other is, well, Joe Rogan. The show ended after their only season on the air.
  • Replacement Scrappy: Rogan and Stanhope, no doubt.
  • Seasonal Rot: The Stanhope/Rogan episodes.
  • Seinfeld Is Unfunny: The show was attacked by some feminists who apparently did not realize that The Man Show is a tongue-in-cheek satire of manly things.
  • Too Cool to Live: The Fox, so very much.
  • They Changed It, Now It Sucks - The fifth season. What happened?
    • The opening theme was redone from polka to alternative rock.
    • Adam and Jimmy had left the show, handing off to new hosts who seemed to be taking it perhaps a little too seriously.
    • The set was completely redone. Perhaps one of the biggest offenders was a TV screen in the back of the set that had the title screen to Final Fantasy X-2 on constant display.
    • Practically all older skits were abandoned in favor of new sketches. One such sketch, "Magical Negro" was practically racist as it had a self-identified literal magical negro who would show up to encourage Doug to cheat on his wife. Perhaps it was no coincidence that season 5 was airing after Chappelle's Show had already been airing on the same network that such a skit came about?
      • Come to think of it, the redesigned show did feel more like a "white" version of Chappelle's Show rather than what it had been before.
  • Unfortunate Implications: The homophobia in the early seasons. When Adam and Jimmy made fun of women, they at least did it by lampooning aspects of female culture. But male homosexuality was always met with hostility. The show toned it down in later seasons, around the same time Adam and Jimmy started acting really gay.