YMMV / The Dollop

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: Right in the middle of the "John Pemberton's Drug Tonics" episode, Dave and Gareth start to ramble about cows and methane and Hillary's electibility while they wait for the noise from a leafblower outside to die down.
• Crosses the Line Twice: A lot of the podcast's humor is like this. Special mention goes to the Alexander Pearce episode, in which the hosts spend several minutes joking about the fact that the last person Pearce killed and ate was named Cox, going on a long series of puns about "eating Cox."
  • The popobawa, introduced during the "Ghosts" episode, became a Running Gag on the podcast, mainly because it is a ghost that anally rapes people and then demands that its victims tell their neighbors about it. For some reason, it mainly does this around elections.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Like a lot of Dave's work, the podcast is more popular in Australia than America, despite the latter being both the series' subject matter and country of origin. The hosts have visited their Aussie fans with several Australian themed live Dollops in recognition of this.
  • Apparently, Iceland as well, to the point that Dave and Gareth made a live show in Reykjavik before they even did a live show in Texas!
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • The Pinto episode, with the uniqueness of also being simultaneously Harsher in Hindsight, becomes funnier or darker, depending on your point of view, regarding the portion about Ford being convinced by penny pinchers that thought it was cheaper to pay settlements than do a recall for an 11 dollar part on every pinto, after the news that Volkswagen recently went through the same thing regarding their diesel cars because they thought a 300 dollar part per car was too expensive and now Volkswagen is looking to lose a whole lot more money than they saved due to fines by several countries, not counting the losses to their stock value.
  • In the Action Park episode, at one point Gareth exclaims that given the insane atmosphere of the park and the hideously unsafe rides they should have called it "Jackass: The Park". In 2018. Jackass alumn Johnny Knoxville released Action Point, a comedy set in an Action Park Expy.
  • In The Piedras Negras Jailbreak episode, Gareth remarks about cops failing to record audio on tape. Queue the day after with the official announcement that the live George HW Bush episode was lost due to the venue not recording their presentation and their backup recording failing.
  Gareth: How are you not able to get a tape of sound!!??
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • "Fedex Flight 705" given the attempted hijacking even if it happened before the 9/11 Attacks, though you will still find yourself laughing thanks to the Mood Whiplash.
  • "The Killing of Maximum John", not the crime itself, but because it touches on the mentality of judges that bought into Nixon's War on Drugs, and one of his aides, John Ehrlichman, admitting that the war on drugs was all a lie to undermine the anti-war left and the black community by giving them excuses to raid political community leaders of those movements, and the effects of such "War on Drugs" can still be felt by society these days.
  • "The Racism of Maryland Route 40" is an examination of the racism African diplomats encountered in the 60s in Washington DC, like the finance minister of Ghana being refused service at a restaurant because they don't serve colored people, or many other diplomats being unable to rent or being charged exorbitant prices in properties near their own embassies. This is made even harsher when Dave and Gareth comment that the same arguments used back then are the ones being used now to deny access to people that fall under the LGBT umbrella.
  • "The Racist Record Keeping of Virginia" examines the deeds of Walter Plecker, who singlehandedly managed to push Virginia to pass the Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which resulted not only in the racial erasure of native americans in the state, but also possibly the strongest miscegenation laws in the United States, which was not struck down until 1967 when the Supreme Court finally ruled on Loving v. Virginia.
  • "Martin Tabert and Convict Leasing" deals with pseudo-slavery under the form of punishment for convicted criminals, many of whom were petty criminals sent to these camps simply for vagrancy or loitering, and as debtor's prison — which is still a very present thing.
  • "Black Panther Fred Hampton" where they detail his life as an activist as he rises among the ranks of the Black Panthers, and later shot to death during a very bad police raid at one of his apartments, the following cover-up by the Illinois State Attorney General, the grand jury failing to pass criminal indictments against the police and judges throwing out the civil lawsuits that resulted from the raid all are very reminiscent of the recent questionable death of several African-American men at the hand of police offers that has led to the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement.
  • "Breaking Glenn Burke", which deals with homosexuality in pro sports and how, despite a promising career, including comparisons to Willie Mays, ended up being pushed out of baseball.
  • In "The Terror of 1741" (which came out shortly after the 2016 election, with Dave and Gareth still audibly reeling from the fact), after being told that one of the people involved was locked up in prison with her baby, the latter claims that he's glad that America doesn't do that anymore. Come 2018...
• Memetic Mutation: "Pickle Dick" or "Pickell Dick". ^note On the facebook fanpage, a former podcast fan by the name of Mike Pickell, complained that the show had a heavy slant against "whites" and as such, couldn't support the show nor the fandom. Cue a deluge of fans pointing out all the stuff whites have done throughout history, which is indeed a recurring theme of the podcast. Eventually, Dave Anthony caught wind of this, and posted fanart of Nicolas Cage as a pickle, while also calling the fan a Pickle Dick. The name stuck, though it's also known as "Pickell Dick" or "The Pickell Incident".
• Squick: A lot of episodes.
  • Notably the ones about Walter Freeman and "John Brinkley" and the one about "The Resurrectionists".
  • "Phineas Gage", "John Wayne Thompson's Armageddon" , "Fedex Flight 705", and "Syphilis in America" also get particularly squicky at times, due largely to the descriptions of the horrendous injuries involved. Special mention goes to Phineas Gage vomiting after swallowing pieces of his own brain dislodged by a doctor digging around in his massive head wound, and also to John Wayne Thompson dialing phone numbers using the exposed bone of one of his severed arms.
  • The Carl Tanzler ep creeped out Gareth and a lot of the fandom.