YMMV / The Jeremy Kyle Show

• Bile Fascination: Many people consider the show to be comedy for how Jeremy takes the most abrasive guests to task, or seeing just how outrageous some of them can get with their behaviour.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Security Steve is loved by many for his interactions with Jeremy and despite looking like your usual intimidating security guard, is actually pretty friendly and soft-spoken. This hadn't gone unnoticed by Jeremy, who was fully aware of Security Steve's popularity within his fanbase. Some guests had admitted that they signed up to appear so they could meet both Jeremy and Steve.
  • Many of the guests can be this, especially those who are genuinely kind, very outlandish and/or hilarious.
• Harsher in Hindsight:
  • All of Jeremy's screaming at guests about what terrible people they are becomes a little harder to watch after one of his guests committed suicide shortly after being featured on the show, leading to its cancellation.
  • Many of the over-the-top guest reactions become this, when you realise that the staff for the show has been accused of deliberately depriving the people they show of basic needs such as food, water and sleep - the latter to the point of deliberately waking up participants to make sure they were sleep deprived, plying them with alcohol to leave them intoxicated and disoriented, no doubt so they also fail the polygraph test so the host and Aftercare department can rip them to shreds over it, and then trying to rile the guests up so they fight.
  • A 2022 Channel 4 documentary alleged that the production staff were not much better treated, being forced to work long hours and deprived of breaks if they failed to book guests.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • One episode was about a teenage couple where the girl admitted for cheating. The boy's reaction? He forgave her on the spot. Jeremy was taken aback of their maturity, noting that they, despite being teens, were considerably more mature than most of his guests.
  • Parrot Man shows off his two parrots.
  • One episode featured a woman who cheated on her boyfriend, got pregnant, and they went to Jeremy to find out if the kid was his. He wasn't, but her partner forgave her and they were able to move forward. Later she got pregnant again, and despite the fact he didn't necessarily think she'd cheated, he was having trouble accepting his new baby, fearful he'd develop an emotional bond and then find out again it wasn't his. They went back to Jeremy to do another test and confirmed this time the baby was his. The man got to hold his new baby, finally clear of uncertainty.
  • Jeremy Kyle always making it a point to focus on the child or children above anything else.
  • Just about anyone who manages to get over their addictions or problems that were ruining their lives beforehand. It's always sweet to see people who had hit rock bottom managed to crawl their way out with the help of Jeremy and the aftercare team.
  • Most of the time, it's also quite nice to see people find the relatives they haven't seen or never even knew they have. And even if they don't, some of them may instead have a guardian or close friend who will still remain close to them and perhaps even still consider them as family.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: This isn't the first talk show where a "Security Steve" becomes an Ensemble Dark Horse.
• Memetic Badass: Betty the Warrior Granny. At a glance she seemed like a sweet, harmless old lady, but she showed that she wasn't going to take any shit from her son in law and got up and threatened him with her cane, which got a big cheer from the crowd. This made her an online sensation.
• Memetic Mutation: This clip of Jeremy slamming his audience for their own use Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male. When the guest describes being locked in an apartment and having to jump out the window to escape, the audience laughs. Jeremy taking them to task for laughing and pointing out the double standard became a popular clip to show whenever a viewer wanted to point out another such double standard.
• Retroactive Recognition: A dark one - one of the earlier episodes featured a man who claimed to have fathered the most children in Britain. That man was Mick Philpott, who would become infamous in the UK a few years later as someone who, along with his wife, and a friend, killed six of his children in an arson attack on his house, and who tried to frame an ex girlfriend for the crime, after a custody dispute. After being arrested, charged, tried, and found guilty, he was given a life sentence.
• The Scrappy: Many of the guests can also be this, especially those who are rude, violent, and abusive. Most notably the more notorious guests. For every Julie King, there's a Glenn. Lampshaded by Jeremy on the latter's return as he announced "Glenn is back, unfortunately, on The Jeremy Kyle Show!"
• Straw Man Has A Point: Several of Jeremy's guests, including a few of his more unpleasant ones, have said to Jeremy that the only reason he's brave enough to yell at and rile up his guests is because he has his security guards to hide behind.

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