YMMV / The Man Show

• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • The "Adam Dates his Mom" sketch.
  • The Porky's parody takes the Gag Penis trope to new lengths. Literally.
  • Adam telling various strangers at normally manly places that his uncle molested him when he was a kid.
  • In one sketch, a hidden camera is set up in a clothes store. Juggy Vanessa comes out of the dressing room wearing a very skimpy bikini, flirts with male customers, and then asks them if they'll buy the bikini for her. The point of this sketch was to show that guys will do pretty much anything a beautiful woman asks them to. One customer, after talking to Vanessa, begins stroking his own genitals through his clothes, unaware that he's on camera. The studio audience roars with amusement and disbelief.
• First Installment Wins: Everyone remembers the Fox running the music in the first season, no one remembers the Good Time Party Boys (an oompah band) running the music in the third and fourth seasons.
• Funny Moments:
  • A (staged) wedding was interrupted by a ventriloquist dummy who thrust up his hand and shouted: "The bride's a man! She's a man! She's got a wiener!" (In the stereotypical squeaky "dummy" voice, too.) What made it even funnier was that the gag kept running until the bride (who was unmistakably a woman) was really pissed off. ("The bride has big fuzzy testes! Big fuzzy testes! Big fuzzy testes!")
  • The time Adam and Jimmy celebrated Hanukkah at Goldberg's house, and he strong-armed them into doing various Hanukkah activites.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Considering the sexual humor of this show, it can be a bit cringeworthy in hindsight after the lid was blown open on the sexual predators that ran all kinds of big companies in Hollywood, the most infamous of them being movie studio mogul Harvey Weinstein. Honest Trailers mined a joke out of the fact that Kimmel was hosting the 2018 Oscars while bringing up his stint on this.
• Heartwarming Moments: Adam and Jimmy's last show featured a final montage of a lot of memorable moments, but the final clip in the batch was of the late Bill "The Fox" Foster, the emcee in Season 1. At the beginning of that episode, for their opening talk, Adam and Jimmy spent the segment talking about how they met when they were kids and how they have been best friends to each other, and it sounded so sincere. More of a Hilarious in Hindsight for anyone who knows a lot about Adam and Jimmy, because they actually met only five or six years before The Man Show started when Jimmy was the sports guy on Kevin and Beane and Adam was his boxing instructor (Jimmy convinced the show to bring Adam on, recognizing his talent). Still, they were and still are real life BFFs.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • When trying their hand at Professional Wrestling, we were treated to a montage of Adam and Jimmy trying out a variety of gimmicks, one of which was "The Pope".
  • The "Hanukkah with Goldberg" skit ends with Goldberg beating the crap out of Santa Claus. A few years later, Goldberg himself would play an evil Santa in the movie Santa's Slay.
• Older Than They Think: Remember the scene in The 40-Year-Old Virgin where Steve Carell gets a chest wax? The Man Show did it first.
• Replacement Scrappy: Rogan and Stanhope, no doubt.
• Seasonal Rot: The Stanhope/Rogan episodes.
• Tear Jerker: Shortly after the premiere episode of the second season, it was announced that the Fox had died of prostate cancer. The episode ended with this text.
  "Shortly after taping this episode, our good friend 'The Fox' died from prostate cancer. His family asks that we honor his memory by urging our male viewers to get their prostates checked regularly. With early detection his death could have been prevented. We will miss him a lot..."
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!:
  • The fifth season. What happened?
    • The opening theme was redone from polka to alternative rock.
    • Adam and Jimmy had left the show, handing off to new hosts Joe Rogan and Doug Stanhope, who seemed to forget that the show was supposed to parody hyper-manly, chauvinistic things, and instead took it perhaps a little too seriously.
    • The set was completely redone. Perhaps one of the biggest offenders was a TV screen in the back of the set that had the title screen to Final Fantasy X-2 on constant display.
    • Practically all older skits were abandoned in favor of new sketches. Going by the theme of seemingly forgetting what the show was about, one such sketch, "Magical Negro" was practically racist as it had a self-identified literal magical negro who would show up to encourage Doug to cheat on his wife. Perhaps it was no coincidence that season 5 was airing after Chappelle's Show had already been airing on the same network that such a skit came about? Come to think of it, the redesigned show did feel more like a "white" version of Chappelle's Show rather than what it had been before.
• Unintentional Period Piece: "6 Rules of Effective Porn Rental" is horribly obsolete now, thanks to the death of video rental stores and better/easier availability of porn on the internet.
• Values Dissonance: A lot of the show's "humor" tends to come off as celebrating sexism more than parodying it.

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