History YMMV / RogerAndMe

* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: Despite it's negative depiction of General Motors, many [=GM=] employees and executives actually liked the movie due to their disillusionment with Roger Smith's leadership. By the time the film was released in Christmas 1989 [=GM=] was badly losing money and marketshare while fielding a lineup of "cookie cutter" cars that were struggling on the marketplace. Smith would actually retire less than a year after the film was released - nobody was sad to see him go.

** Knowing about the water crisis that affected the town 25 years later goes to show how things haven't changed.

* MexicansLoveSpeedyGonzales: Despite it's negative depiction of General Motors, many [=GM=] executives actually liked the movie. Largely because Roger Smith was a terrible businessman who brought the company to near ruin in the early 1990s with his bad policies.

** Knowing about the water crisis that affected the town 25 years later really goes to show how things really haven't changed.

* HarsherInHindsight: Knowing about the water crisis that affected the town 25 years later really goes to show how things really haven't changed.

* OvershadowedByControversy: The rabbit killing scene has become a bone of contention, with some schools and teachers refusing to show this movie to students, despite it covering an important aspect of modern history, simply because of this one scene. Michael Moore is bewildered by this because the movie also shows a man being killed by police, but that scene never raised as much controversy. Though to be fair, the man killed by police was filmed at a distance, whereas the rabbit killing is up close and ''doesn't'' cut away after a few seconds.

* OvershadowedByControversy: The rabbit killing scene has become a bone of contention, with some schools and teachers refusing to show this movie to students, despite it covering an important aspect of modern history, simply because of this one scene. Michael Moore is bewildered by this because the movie also shows a man being killed by police, but that scene never raised as much controversy.

* NightmareFuel: The scenes with Rhonda Britton, who is [[DissonantSerenity disturbingly happy and unapologetic]] about the fact that she makes a living by killing animals. The early scenes where she discusses her job and how she does it are eerie enough, but then we actually get to see her slaughter and skin a rabbit. It's [[ViolenceIsDisturbing not glorified in any way]] and is probably the scariest moment in the film.

* GenreTurningPoint: Before ''Roger and Me'', documentaries (of a non-musical nature at least) had been mostly confined to film festivals. ''Roger and Me'' demonstrated that one could make a documentary that the masses would want to see, allowing other documentaries, including Moore's later films, to achieve widespread financial and critical success.

* DudeNotFunny: Bob Eubanks' antisemitic AIDS joke.

* ValuesResonance: Downsizing and outsourcing have only accelerated since the 1980s, as noted in the later film ''Film/CapitalismALoveStory''.

* ValuesResonance: Downsizing and outsourcing have only accelerated since the 1980s.

* DudeNotFunny: Pat Boone's anti-semitic AIDS joke.
* GenreTurningPoint: Before "Roger and Me" documentaries (of a non-musical nature at least) had been mostly confined to film festivals. Roger and Me demonstrated you could make a documentary that the masses would want to see, allowing other documentaries, including Moore's later ones, to achieve widespread box office and critical success.

* GenreTurningPoint: Before "Roger and Me" documentaries (of a non-musical nature at least) had been mostly confined to film festivals. Roger and Me demonstrating you could make a documentary that the masses would want to see.