YMMV / Mr. Show

• Awesome Music: All of Jeepers Creepers Semi-star. Also the remix of the theme song from the third episode. The theme song itself could count.
• Cult Classic: Although never a mainstream success, the show launched a number of notable comedic careers and enjoys a dedicated following from audiences and comics alike. Its long-term popularity even warranted a short-run revival series almost two decades afterwards called With Bob And David, which runs in Netflix.
• Harsher in Hindsight: This AV Club article notes that "Pre-Natal Pageant" is a lot less effective when certain shows have portrayed even more cringing sights than anything in that sketch.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Several sketches became this. Particularly "Blow Up the Moon" when you consider that NASA later bombed the Moon.
  • Bob Odenkirk appears in a sketch mocking cheesy lawyer commercials. Twelve years later, he appeared in Breaking Bad as Saul Goodman (who has his own spin-off called Better Call Saul), a lawyer who litters Albuquerque with similar cheesy commercials.
  • After Better Call Saul, the Law School sketch is funnier because the professor is played by Michael McKean, who plays Saul's older brother Chuck McGill in that show.
  • Speaking of Breaking Bad, does this sketch remind you of Badger getting stung by undercover cops?
  • David Cross in cut-offs during the "confused heterosexual" sketch in episode two. Never-Nudes, anyone?
  • The disclaimer at the beginning of "The Altered State of Druggachusettes" ("The following children's program is not suitable for younger or more sensitive viewers") is similar to the notorious disclaimer that ended up getting used on the Sesame Street Old School DVD sets ("These early Sesame Street episodes are intended for grownups and may not suit the needs of today's preschool child").
  • The Mayostard / Mustardayonnaise / Mustmayostardayonnaise sketch which showed adds for products that sell Mayonnaise and mustard combinations (And Mayostard and Mustardayonnaise combination) would become a reality when Heinz released Mayomust in 2019.
  • A company mentioned under "video facilities" in the credits of some of the episodes is named "Wexler Video."
• Ho Yay: Enough to warrant its own page.
• Nausea Fuel: This is Titannica's reaction to the body of their fan Adam Jimmy.
• Nightmare Fuel: The Superpan sketch especially, combining this with Surreal Humor and Mood Whiplash.
  • Adam from the Titannica sketch. He has occasionally been compared to Hisashi Ouchi (Google him at your own risk).
• Refrain from Assuming: It's called "How High the Mountain," not "Y'all are Brutalizing Me".
• Retroactive Recognition: Sarah Silverman, Jack Black, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Tom Kenny^note even though Tom Kenny was already in a sketch series: the short-lived FOX series "The Edge" and was just starting his career in voice work in kids' cartoons, Jill Talley, Paul F. Tompkins, Brian Posehn, Scott Aukerman, Scott Adsit, and Dino Stamatopoulos all got their start here. Also somewhat applicable to David Cross and Bob Odenkirk, if one first came across them in Arrested Development (or Alvin and the Chipmunks) and Breaking Bad, respectively. The show also features the first use of "Puscifer," the name that Maynard James Keenan's would eventually give his avant garde side projects.
• Play-Along Meme: Better Call Saul fans loves to pretend that some sketches of Bob (usually the jokes about giving blowjobs or being a hooker) are actually details of what "Slippin' Jimmy" got up to.
• Unintentional Period Piece: The show occasionally lets slip its mid-to-late 1990s origins. One sketch involves the bootleg VHS tape trade. The "Jeepers Creepers" and associated sketches lampoon "slackers," a big topic in 1990s. One sketch has the Pope on a low-speed chase that parodies the OJ Simpson saga. The micronation sketch references a concept that was in the news a lot more in the 1990s due to then-current events like Ruby Ridge.
• The Woobie:
  • Oddly enough, the first character Odenkirk plays in the show.
  Ernie: Wow, he's really changed. He used to be a nice guy, but now he's kinda mean . . .
  • Len Gibbons, owner of Gibbons' Market the old timey store that was owned by his grandfather. Constantly gets his grocery store attacked by Megachain store, Fairsley. Throughout the sketch, Gibbons loses less locations and eventually ends up selling produce in a pickup truck.
  • The poor Hated Milk Machine from "The Joke: The Musical", who was just "doing what [he was] told" and wasn't to blame for the salesman being killed, but still feels heartbroken and runs away from the farm at the end.