The 10 best worst moments of 'You're the Worst' 

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You’re the Worst is one of the funniest, freshest and most provocative shows on TV right now. But it’s about awful, terrible people doing horrible things to each other. And that’s kind of its charm.

'You're the Worst' premiere recap: The beginning of a disaster

Trying to compile a list of all the bad-human moments of the first season was nearly impossible because this collection of characters is pretty much the worst—which is the total genius of the show. It has a real car-crash appeal to it that you can’t look away from; you’re glad it’s not your life.

Here’s the best of the worst of season one, right in time for tomorrow night’s premiere.

Not only did he get a shot on one camera, but he took the time to get one on every camera on every table. He’s a master heckler that way.

It’s his ex’s wedding, and he’s planning on making a scene anyway. Why shouldn’t he remind the bride of what she’s missing?

His thought’s about the neurotic, overstressed character on the beloved John Hughes classic Ferris Bueller’s Day Off might be latent insecurity about his own self-image. Jimmy and Cameron have more in common than Jimmy might think.

But immediately regrets asking Jimmy for one, as it ignites a lot of feelings and emotions that Jimmy isn’t ready to tackle—including the mediocrity of feeling vulnerable and the blandness of common trust. You know—just the functions of being a human person. 

Jimmy can sit down to pee in front of Gretchen, but the thought of loaning her a key makes him shriek in terror.

Gretchen lives in a filthy, disgusting pigsty and likes it just fine.

Hoarders-style mess. The vibrator plugged into a string of Christmas lights, the porn virus on the computer she calls a “TV,” and the obnoxious neighbor are enough to send Jimmy screaming for the hills. Which is fine with Gretchen, who just wanted to enjoy her filth in peace, anyway.

Of all the days to get sabotaged by a group of too-serious-for-their-own-good hipsters, it had to happen on Edgar’s day to pick. He accidentally drops his list, and the troupe of ridiculous hipsters steal all his fun ideas for the day.

Their ironic sweatshirts and manbuns add insult to injury as they beat the group to every spot on their list.

Jimmy gets the chance to bang the Hollywood It-girl, so obviously, Gretchen gets super-jealous and tries to even the score. Unfortunately, a barista with a mustache that connects to his sideburns doesn’t count as “being even.”

The two keeping trying to one-up each other until they are exhausted at the effort it takes to find new people to sleep with. All this sexing results in a talk about exclusivity, natch.

Sad Jimmy is an insufferable Jimmy. When he gets a package from his dad from a sports team he doesn’t care about, he descends into a pit of self-pity that is a giant boner-killer.

Gretchen tries to cheer him up with a three-way with Dana from work, but the ladies didn’t make it in time. Jimmy took care of the matter himself, starting on the stairs and finishing to a life-size cutout of Sandra Bernhardt.

Because her parents are awful people of a different sort, Gretchen concocts a web of intricate lies to keep Jimmy from meeting them. First she goes through all the trouble of asking Jimmy to drive her to the airport because she claims she’s going to see them. Then, when confronted, she denies that it ever happened and blames it on a dream. When she’s caught in her lie, she hires fake parents to throw Jimmy off.

She goes on to invent an experimental back surgery, but Jimmy catches on. He goes straight to confront her parents at the country club, upending all the lies Gretchen has told her parents over the years.

Told through flashbacks, we get to see that Jimmy, Gretchen, and the gang have always been awful, just to varying degrees. Gretchen was a drunk driver and occasional coke user; Jimmy was an obnoxious, pretentious d-bag novelist; and Edgar was living out his PTSD on the streets. Lindsay was still pretty much the same, just with bigger hair and a taste for rappers.

Flash-forward to now, and everybody is spiraling from Jimmy and Gretchen’s breakup. Jimmy can’t write, Edgar moves out, and Lindsay is day-drinking and banging the delivery driver. Gretchen even buys a food processor. Everything is out of control.

You knew it was going to be the worst when it starts off with the vat of “trash juice” Vernon made for his “boys.” Things only get significantly worse from there.

Lindsay tries to make out with Jimmy, in front of both her husband and Gretchen. Becca tries to make a grand pregnancy announcement, but winds up being upstaged by the Lindsay and Paul sh-tshow.

Gretchen says “yes” to a proposal that Jimmy didn’t even know he made, and Edgar winds up putting Vernon in a headlock when it’s revealed that Becca tried to bang Jimmy, but only after he tried to kiss her.

At this point, everyone is the worst. Just the absolute worst.

Jimmy and Gretchen agree to not get married, but to live together instead. That’s convenient, since Gretchen’s festive masturbation led to an apartment fire. And it seems like Edgar might be catching a few feelings for Lindsay. She’s a real heartbreaker when she does a sad karaoke.

Season two of You’re the Worst premieres on FXX on Wednesday, September 9, at 10:30/11:30C.

Sundi is a freelance writer and critic who blogs about pop culture and how it affects our shared identities. She absolutely loves TV and will watch anything once. She is also an English professor who teaches courses in composition, popular culture and Southern culture. These subjects sometimes intersect, much to her delight.

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