YMMV / The Cyanide & Happiness Show

• Alternative Character Interpretation:
  • One comment on Youtube suggests The Adventures of Lunk skit represents the reaction when you play an RPG for hours on end, die, then realize your save was hours ago and have to replay everything.
  • In the animated short "Mother," is the son a trans man, does his Mother have Alzheimers, or is she just a troll?
  • In "Book Report": was it a man-turned-spider leading the man to hit the keyboard with his rolled up newspaper to deliver the message (Don't hurt me. I was once a man), and the whispering newspaper was purely, creepily coincidental? Or was the spider the coincidence, and was the whispering magazine that hit the keys the one who was once a man?
  • In "Jimmy Three-Balls", does Jimmy really have three testicles and is just trying to stop the theme song from exposing him, or does he only have two and the singer is just screwing with him? Furthermore, does the narrator really know if Jimmy has three balls or not?
  • A commentor on Youtube suggested the following for White Knight in The White Knight skit:
    Now hear me out... what if he actually can see criminals by looking at them, but it only works on minorities?
• Awesome Music: Be it a terrifying riff on circus music like Silly's Leitmotif, a hymn-esque song about God being with us no matter the place in Tiny Style 3, or a hilarious parody of Fortunate Son sung by the sun in Lights Out 5, Cyanide and Happiness knows how to make jams. Special mention goes to the jaunty theme tune that is "I Like Your Hat".
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • "Bunker Blaster" has a bunch of incredibly offensive video games, including Anne Frank Simulator, 9/11 Flight Simulator, Sim Hotel Rwanda, JFK Racing and Hiroshima Nukem.
  • "The Narc Knight" ends with the titular hero blackmailing the snobby commissioner with an image at him at a baby strip club.
  • "Sad Ending" starts off appropriately named, as the masseuse has prosthetic legs, a man plays the violin, footage of Hitler's regime is projected, and a boy in a wheelchair has his pet dog put down, all of which culminates in the masseuse jerking the customer off.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Ted Bear was one of the earliest fan-favorite characters for being a faithful parody of Bear Grylls with voice acting courtesy of Egoraptor, to the point that cameos of him became abundant.
  • Shark Dad, a.k.a. Shark Rad, is a fan-favorite due to how easy it is to feel sorry for him, and his superhero alter-ego being genuinely awesome.
  • Rudy is considered one of the absolute funniest character in the series, due to how well-written his lifelong insults are and the deadpan way they're delivered.
  • Suzy from "Gym Class" is considered by fans to be one of the coolest characters, thanks to her initially garnering sympathy before subverting expectations by being a complete ace at sports in spite of being paraplegic. Fans have often taken to calling Suzy "the boss".
  • Chip Chapley, before he went on to be the star of I Think I've Got This, was a popular character among fans for his accurate pastiche of news anchors and his rivalry with weatherman Sam Persam.
  • The waiter from "Le Telepathé" is one of the most memorable characters amongst fans due to how comedically serious he is and his hilarious pronunciation of the word "dicks".
  • The host of "Which Is Pie?!" garnered a positive response with about half of the comments either quoting him or laughing at his eccentric mannerisms. He's like if someone bestowed Steve Harvey with the sadism of Jigsaw.
• Fridge Horror: Or Brilliance. Considering what Sad Larry's mama said when he was born about giving up alcohol for THREE MONTHS while she was pregnant, Larry might've been born with FASD.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • The Stinger to "Baby Factory", in which an alligator tries to pass himself off as a stork (albeit with a very poor disguise) so he could eat one of the babies, can be a little awkward to watch after an incident in Disney World where a 2-year-old boy was snatched and eventually killed by an alligator several months later.
  • The video "Hello YouTubers" has a girl recording herself for her YouTube channel, only to be interrupted by her sobbing mother coming into to her room and break the news about her fathers' death from a car crash. The girl then proceeds to post the whole recording online and passes it off as a "reaction" video, and later records herself again alongside her father's open casket. This was already pretty pitch black comedy, but can be a lot more cringeworthy after the Logan Paul suicide video controversy in 2018^note The YouTuber filmed and showed himself with the body of a suicide victim he found in a trip to Aokigahara, the "Suicide Forest" of Japan.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: One of Jimmy Williams' many scandals was paying with "dirty money" that was up his butt. In 2020, Brazilian senator Chico Rodriguez did exactly this. This article even uses the "dirty money" pun.
• Magnificent Bastard ("Teleporter"): The unnamed caveman at the other side of the "teleporter" (really a time machine) makes effective use of the tools and items the scientist inadvertently sends through, using them to build a wooden house and car, start a campfire, and presumably use as the basis to progress civilization by decades. When the scientist, believing his device to be a failure, tosses his blueprint into the "teleporter", the caveman appears at the other end, then proceeds to knock out the scientist, send him back to the past, and take his place in the present day.
• The Scrappy:
  • Billy, the son from "Shark Dad", was hated for how he treated his father and getting away with it.
  • The Narc Knight is also widely hated by fans because of how much of a snitch he is. While they didn't like the kid at first in "The Narc Knight", fans despised him in "The Narc Knight: Tattman Begins" because Narc Knight was just an annoying snitch who wouldn't keep his trap shut and got his parents gunned down. The worst part was Narc Knight didn't seem to care about his parents' deaths and was more concerned that they tried to movie-hop. There's also the fact despite being a notorious rat, he ironically didn't narc on the ticketman for murdering his parents.
  • The Hurt Dick Guy from "Ow, My Dick" is by far the most hated character, and caused the video to have such a massive backlash that the creators actively acknowledged it. What makes fans despise him is his whiny voice, which, while Played for Laughs, never stops being whiny in the 3 minutes he's on screen, and drowns out any other voice heard. He's also built around a single Groin Attack joke, and until he meets the Hurt Tit Girl, there's no variety to him whatsoever. He became so hated, that "Ted Bear 3" was explicitly designed to be a Take That, Scrappy! against him.
• Take That, Scrappy!: In "Lights Out 5: The Grateful Dad", Shark Dad uses his "because I said so" on his son Billy to make him play outside.
• Tear Jerker: Has its own page now.
• The Woobie:
  • Shark Dad. He tries to connect with his son, who rudely turns him away and is openly embarrassed by him. When he reveals himself to be Shark Rad (a superhero his son admires), his son promptly disavows the hero, calling him lame. To make matters worse, reporters show up to make fun of him.
  • Sad Larry. A man who's so depressed, that he feels committing suicide is the only thing he'll ever do right. And even then, he fails at suicide three separate times, leaving him even more depressed than before. He also fails repeatedly at finding love, and right before Christmas, he winds up in a car crash that not only leaves him paraplegic, but also ends up killing his father, who uses his final breath to tell Larry that he's responsible for his death.

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