YMMV / Blue Mountain State

• Alternative Character Interpretation: Concerning Thad's sexual orientation. Gay Bravado or Armored Closet Gay? Ambiguously Bi could also be an option. Or it may be that Alex is his Closet Key (but inconveniently Alex is straight).
• Crosses the Line Twice: So, so much.
  • Alex receives a handjob from his professor's elderly mother and the rest of the team gets in on the action to blackmail said professor into giving them a passing grade. In that same episode, there's also Sammy's extremely... inconvenient injury.
  • Many of Thad's Ax-Crazy tendencies qualify, such as injecting himself with rabies.
• Designated Hero: Most of the team can qualify, generally in being lazy, perverted, drug-addicted slobs and Jerk Asses. It's Played for Laughs of course.
• Ensemble Dark Horse: Thad is the most popular character in the series due to his Large Ham tendencies and Ax-Crazy hilarity.
• Harsher in Hindsight: The reference to Joe Paterno holding the record for wins by a Division I coach became this very quickly due to the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.^note Sandusky was a former assistant coach on Paterno's Penn State staff who was charged with dozens of counts of child sexual abuse. Paterno was accused of covering up Sandusky's actions, or at the very least, not promptly informing the authorities. A week after Paterno broke the record, he was fired by Penn State as a result of the scandal, and he died of cancer shortly afterward.
• Ho Yay: Alex and Sammy occasionally have their moments, as does Alex with Thad. Thad has a definite fascination with Alex's genitals, becomes extremely upset when Alex will not pat him on the ass and swallows a used condom full of Alex's spunk. Although in the last case, it was to keep a creepy stalker from impregnating his daughter with said spunk and forcing Alex to be his son-in-law. Yeah, definitely some Ho Yay and Homoerotic Subtext going on there!
• Retroactive Recognition:
  • Travis, the starting QB in Season 1, is played by Stephen Amell, better known nowadays as Oliver Queen/Green Arrow.
  • Matt Parker, aka Golden Arm, the player Alex and Thad try to recruit in Season 1, is played by Lucas Till, who would go on to play Alex Summers/Havok.
  • Annie Murphy, who hit fame with the role of Alexis Rose on Schitt's Creek, played a bit character named Jill for two episodes.
• Spiritual Adaptation: The show is considered the closest we've ever gotten to an actual Animal House series. There was in fact a series based on Animal House back when it first premiered (technically three, as back in the day, each of the three major networks at the time did their own version with Delta House on ABC, Brothers and Sisters on NBC, and Co-ed Fever on CBS) but it wasn't until BMS that TV standards relaxed enough to show an Animal House series in all its depraved glory.
• Squick:
  • Thad eating Oreos — the same Oreos that he forced Alex, Sammy and Craig to carry between their buttocks while also having them run from end zone to end zone in nothing but jockstraps and oreos.
  • Thad hiding Alex's used condom in his mouth to keep it from the deranged BMS fan who wanted to use it to impregnate his daughter.
  • Thad's "oil change". The entire team's cringe reactions to the demonstration says it all.