YMMV / The Day Today

• Funny Moments: Many, but Sukie Bapswent introducing Nirvana and their rendition of Panty Smile has to be a high point.
  • It's war!
  • "Peter, you've lost the news!"
  • "It's bigger than that, Chris, it's large."
• Ho Yay: For the most part, Chris has a great deal of unwarranted respect for Alan and is perfectly happy to gloss over his mistakes and incompetence, so much so that he plants a big, wet kiss on Alan's lips in the final episode.
  • On other occasions, however, he seems to take sadistic pleasure in bullying and psychologically tormenting him, thus making it unclear whether this is just him playing mind-games.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: As mentioned on the main page, the series appears to have somehow inspired the television news program openings of today, complete with computer-designed graphics and overly pretentious music. Compare and contrast, if you will, The Day Today's opening with that of the current BBC News, or Channel 4's.
  • The notion of a ruthless news station deliberately instigating a war is reminiscent of Tomorrow Never Dies.
  • A subtle one is the programme's graphics using the Gil Sans font, three years before the BBC adopted it as its corporate typeface.
• Memetic Mutation: Some of the names of the racehorses at the delayed 6:30 from Marple: Two Headed Sex Beast, Zeinab Badawi's Twenty Hotels. The Bobby Davro Snooker Experience from On The Hour is the name of at least one band.
• Moment of Awesome: In the pilot, later reworked into episode 5, Morris single-handedly tricks Australia and Hong Kong into going to war simply so he could cover it, then offers a series of gritty reports on the horrors of war. ('As I was eating my cornflakes this morning, a soldier's head flew past the window, shouting "Victory!"')
  • Also, the Queen finally delivering her long-awaited punch to John Major.
• The Woobie: As incompetent as he is, you have to feel sorry for Peter O'Hanra-Hanrahan because he comes across as such a Nice Guy and seems so forlorn whenever he fucks up.
  • Janet Breen as well. She just wants to organise a jam festival where celebrities donate homemade jam to raise money for the poor but Chris Morris reduces her to a teary-eyed wreck for not aiming to raise enough money in his opinion.

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