World's Dumbest... / YMMV

Accidental Innuendo:
- In an "Inventions" episode, one invention is essentially a headset with a suction cup on it for any kind of phone:
  Jaime: This thing's got more suction power than Tonya.
  [audience oohing sound effect]
  Jaime: I don't mean that as a dirty joke, I mean because she sucks.
  Tonya: It's the truth.
- In a "Daredevils" episode, an Australian BASE jumps and accidentally lands in a thicket of woods below:
  Roger: There's nothing quite like a face full of bush. [Beat] Let me rephrase that...
Aluminum Christmas Trees: In World's Dumbest Daredevils 4", during a clip involving the Cincinnati Bearcats mascot, Brad states that bearcats don't exist. In reality, bearcats (aka Binturong, aka Arctictis binturong) do exist — they're related to civets and genets and are native to South and Southeast Asia.
Base-Breaking Character:
- Many of the show's regular female commentators - Chelsea Peretti, Jaime Andrews, Daisy Gardner, and Marianne Sierk in particular - fall into this category. While they have their share of fans, other fans feel they don't really add anything to the show other than sex appeal.
- Frank Stallone is either seen as a funny addition to the show with a risque sense of humor or an arrogant bigot who stops the show to go on xenophobic rants about the people in the clips.
- Tonya Harding has her fans who are happy to see her as a regular in this show, she also has a great number of detractors who see her as aggressively unfunny and hindering the enjoyment of the jokes.
Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: In "World's Dumbest Partiers 5", a clip is shown of Rob D'Alessandro, an incredibly drunk New York Giants fan, who blubbers like a baby over the team losing... so much so, the Smoking Gun brings Rob in for an interview, and he's still very emotional about it... until they bring in the Giants' Osi Umenyiora to cheer him up. Finally, TSG just makes it weird by super-imposing the two of them into a scenery of floating clouds, and playing slow, romantic music in the background.
Crazy Is Cool: The guy who did a backflip off the top of a house, landed face down on the ground. He got up and walked away like it was nothing. This is the same show that has seen people hospitalized after falling from heights of seven feet or less. After hitting the ground, he rolled into a ninja-style kneeling pose that almost looked convincing before getting up and walking away.
Crosses the Line Twice:
- The 5th Performers episode starts with a clip of an eccentric German DJ. Mike Trainor comments that he's "Available for weddings, birthdays, and bar mi— ... weddings and birthdays!"
- This is generally the commentators' reaction whenever there are children involved in a crime. One notable segment features a father throwing his baby (in a car seat) out of the car while it's still moving. The commentators were not amused.
- A number of viewers felt this way when the show featured a clip of a man, who may or may not have been mentally ill/disabled, walking into a convenient store in the middle of the night, stealing bags of chips, while wearing nothing but a diaper.
- In-universe, Mike T. was met with boos and jeers in an Inventions episode, when he suggests Chelsea should try out a small contraption that changes the profile shape of a person's nose.
- In a "Daredevils" episode featuring a clip of a pair of bikers playing chicken, and crashing into each other, Michel Bryant remarks they should have been wearing helmets, adding, "Who do you think you are, Gary Busey?" Cut to Gary wearing an unamused look on his face; Michel actually admits, "That was not good."
- This gem from the 17th Performers episode:
  Happy Pete: Hello there, Jill. They call me Happy Pete!
  Gilbert Gottfried: If there's a school nearby, I'm not allowed within 500 feet!
Ensemble Dark Horse: Daisy, even though she's not used often as a commentator, has quite the fanbase.
Germans Love David Hasselhoff: When 1970s stuntman the Human Fly attempted to do a motorcycle stunt in his native Canada, Frank Stallone sympathizes with him. The Human Fly gathered crowds that numbered in the thousands in other countries, his motorcycle stunt in Canada was performed in an almost empty stadium, while Stallone claims that he performs to sold out crowds in Australia, but in the U.S., he fails to fill even the smallest venues he's booked in.
Harsher in Hindsight:
- "World's Smartest Inventions 6" features My Kid's Pack, a bulletproof shield that fits into a backpack; much of the cast have a field day making fun of the dangers kids face at school each day, such as rough lunch tables, among other things. Fast forward to today, however, where mass school shootings are a very serious problem.
- Remember those two teenage girls who robbed that girl scout of the money she earned selling cookies, and then they later returned to the scene of the crime to brag about their petty theft for the local news? Well, one of those girls was actually arrested and charged with even more serious crimes since then, including attempted murder. And even then, she still was totally indifferent about her acts of crime.
- In 2013, an episode of "Motorheads" featured an elderly school bus driver who somehow lost control of her bus, hopped over the median, and crashed into oncoming traffic, without somehow not injuring anybody. A year later in Knoxville, two school buses crash into each other when one of the drivers lost control and collided with the other one coming from the opposite direction. Two kids and a bus monitor were killed.
- In an episode of Pranksters, a guy pulls a prank by spraying someone with a spray bottle in an elevator before holding a tissue up to his face and acting like he just sneezed. Safe to say, such a prank would not go over well nowadays.
- In "World's Smartest Inventions 12", one of the inventions showcased is the Chillow, a pillow that stays cool regardless of how long you have your head on it (the head's body heat typically causes a regular pillow to become warm). At the end, Gilbert Gottfried jokes that "And if you die in your sleep, your corpse will be preserved until morning!" Tragically, Gilbert would pass away in his sleep in 2022, from recurrent ventricular tachycardia.
Hilarious in Hindsight:
- A "Criminals" episode features a teenager filming his grandmother trying to act "gangsta". One of the commentators jokes that she used to do drive-by shootings with a musket. A few years later, Grand Theft Auto V would introduce a musket as a DLC weapon, and while you can't do drive-bys with it, you can still use it in gang shootouts.
- An "Inventions" episode featuring the Hatcam: an adjustable baseball cap with a tripod-compatible screw on the bill for cameras so people can film their activities, which is pretty much what GoPros were invented for.
- A 2011 episode of "World's Dumbest Lovers" has the gang mocking an old "Farmer's Only" dating ad. Apparently, everyone thought the idea of a dating site for country people wouldn't catch on or was too ridiculous. By the late 2010s, the dating company would expand.
- A 2011 "Inventions" episode included the Carstache, a giant mustache that could be attached to the front grill of a car and drew ridicule from the cast — especially the pink one. During the early years of the rideshare company Lyft (2012-2015), its drivers were attaching big pink mustaches to their cars.
Never Live It Down:
- If any member of the cast has any kind of criminal background, it will be dragged out into the open, usually with a dose of Hypocritical Humor if they were getting especially preachy about a certain criminal or crime.
- The controversies surrounding Tonya Harding are constantly brought up by the other cast members.
- Leif Garrett's past issues with drugs are frequently made fun of. In fact, Leif was featured in one of the clips which shows him getting arrested for hiding crack in his shoes. His days as a teenage pop star is also made fun of, with the other cast members comparing his past self to a teenage girl.
- Danny and his punching transvestites are brought up from time to time, mostly whenever a transvestite is in a clip. His "adventure" was even the subject of one (animated) clip, which he himself narrated.
- Whenever an "Inventions" episode features Richard Heene hawking one of his ridiculous products, expect the cast, especially Kevin and Mike T., to start making comments about his infamous Balloon Boy hoax.
Pop-Culture Isolation:
- The cast consists of mostly middle-aged comedians, and whenever the show features clips that take places at a fan convention, they often times don't seem to know, exactly, what the convention is for, and almost always refer to them as, "comic book conventions," even if they're anime/manga conventions or gaming conventions. They also seem to assume that only socially awkward outcasts who don't know how to interact with other people, especially when it comes to the opposite sex, attend the conventions.^note During a clip at a gaming convention, Jared Logan and Mike T. are added to the clip, dressed as Mario and Pac-Man, and in another, Kevin McCaffrey likens one kid's behavior to that of Q-Bert. Chuck Nice, however, seems to be pretty familiar with Comic-Con.
- One clip features a public access televangelist, whom must live under a rock (as John puts it): he gets two separate emails in one telecast, the first comes from someone who basically quotes the theme song from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air:
  Off-screen PA: That's from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
  Televangelist: Okay... Fresh? Okay, I think we have some Mongolians in the system.
  Chris F.: Mongolians? The old rulers of China?
- The next email he reads is from someone who claims that a man named Ben Kenobi taught him all about the force that spirituality has; the televangelist then goes on to explain that the man's claims are not Biblical, and that he needs to re-read his Bible regarding spirituality. Kevin even remarks, "Whoever's writing these emails needs to write for us!"
Nightmare Fuel: Certain injuries can make viewers cringe. Examples include a matador getting impaled through the throat by a bull's horn, LA Beast slipping and breaking his toe on a refrigerator, a motorcyclist getting his fingered severed and an eel eating a diver's thumb.
Replacement Scrappy: Pretty much everyone that took over for nearly the entire original cast in Season 16. It also doesn't help that pretty much all of the new cast members, save for Gilbert Gottfried, are comedians that most people have never even heard of before. Not that anyone on this show is a big A-lister or anything, but many of the comedians who were already on this show are at least obscure celebrities as opposed to being unknowns.
Retroactive Recognition: Chelsea Peretti was a frequent commentator before joining the cast of Brooklyn Nine-Nine.
Seasonal Rot: The second half of season 15 and all of season 16 look like a completely different show thanks to the cast changes (among other things).
So Bad, It's Good: Any ad starring Richard Heene, a.k.a. Balloon Boy's dad, and the cast helps ensure that he'll Never Live It Down. The guy is an obnoxious Large Ham on steroids.
Squick:
- So many examples, but a few that come to mind are a guy getting his finger snapped off and another guy having sex with a backyard table right in front of a school playground.
- "World's Dumbest Daredevils 12" has a matador take a horn through the bottom of his jaw and out his mouth. They show it several times, in slow mo.
- Happens fairly regularly on "World's Dumbest Partiers" episodes. Specific examples include:
  - A guy who drank six hard lemonades and projectile vomited like the devil had a hold of him, drenching the guy who dared him to do it
  - A guy who drunkenly passed out in a pond of what was basically raw sewage
  - A woman arrested for DUI and sitting in the back of a police car, who jumped out the window and hit the ground hard enough to leave her face covered in blood and swollen up like a basketball
- In a "World's Dumbest Thrillseekers" episode, a unicyclist tries to balance on top of a rod iron gate. He fails. The same episode features a clip of a Revolutionary War reenactment, where a man is struck in the face with a real sword; his nose is practically dangling off of his face while blood pours from the wound.
- "World's Dumbest Performers 14" features a clip of a girl, whose claim to fame is sewing things, like her name, into her tongue. Leave it to Danny Bonaduce to give it a try himself.
- "World's Dumbest Dummies" features surveillance footage of a kitchen employee in a taco shack, who stops preparing food to change her dog's diaper. She actually picked up the dog, placed him on the preparation table, and set aside the soiled diaper just inches away from the food she was preparing.
- One clip shows a DJ who is blindfolded while others at a radio station bring him a woman with a nice body for him to grope. It turns out to be a prank, and the woman that he groped was his own mother.
- In "World's Dumbest Thrillseekers 5", Chuck takes joy in announcing the show no longer has to blur out clips of people vomiting, and sure enough, this is followed by a clip of some Brazilian friends on a roller coaster, where one of them does, indeed, throw up on one of her friends. Even Chelsea announces, "I can't watch people vomiting, so I quit."
- In "World's Dumbest Brawlers 3", a clip from the B-grade martial arts movie Undefeatable is shown where one of the brawlers loses both of his eyes, one after being struck against a wall really and his eye somehow sticks to the wall, and other after he gets caught on a giant hook and is lifted into the air.
- One "Motorheads" episode has a guy who sustains a nasty injury when falling off a mattress being pulled by a speeding car: his thigh has such a huge gash in it that the layer of fat under the skin is literally spilling out of the open wound:
  Michael Loftus: That's leg meat! (singing) That's fat-boy leg meat, hangin' off his leg! (fakes vomiting)
- The number one clip on "World's Dumbest TV Shows" is supposed to teach women how to sexually empower themselves. For example, the show tells women to paint themselves with their own menstrual blood.
- Throughout "World's Smartest Inventions 10," the commentators examine a piece of shiny gold cloth with a string attached and wonder how it might be used. The #1 clip reveals that a guy is supposed to hang it on his crotch so he won't make a mess when masturbating. Loni Love laughs herself silly as everyone else gets instantly grossed out.
They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: The general reaction from the fandom after a mass exodus of cast members for Season 16, most notably Danny, Tonya, Todd Bridges, Leif, and Frank.
They Copied It, So It Sucks!: truTV practically made a carbon copy of this show, utilizing the exact same clips seen on this show, and maybe changing up the format slightly:
- 2009 saw It Only Hurts When I Laugh, which was the first truTV show to feature laughing audience members in the background.
- 2012 saw Clipaholics. Instead of celebrity commentary, it featured witty and sometimes sarcastic narrations provided by Jason Alexander.
- 2012 also saw Upload with Shaquille O'Neal where Shaq and his buddies sat around and watched the clips.
- 2013 introduced Top 20 Funniest (later renamed truTV's Top Funniest in its second season) where a low-key announcer gives a play-by-play of each of the clips. His comments, and some of the dumb antics in the clips, are accompanied by a Laugh Track.
- 2016 saw the premiere of Almost Genius, produced by the same company and featured a few comedians previously from World's Dumbest...
- 2021 saw Top Secret Videos, a mixture of a workplace comedy and clip show where comedians hired as NSA interns spend the show trying to find the clip that could save humanity.

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