Life After People/YMMV


 * Adaptation Displacement - Inspired by the book The World Without Us which, due to its success and also to perhaps because it was named one of Time Magazine's Books of the Year for 2007, suddenly made this subject very popular. The National Geographic Channel also had a very similar show at the same time called Aftermath: Population Zero.
 * Idiot Plot: The show essentially makes it clear that humanity literally disappears overnight, instantaneously without any actual method or cause beyond A Wizard Did It. Many of the show's points (accurate or not) are because of this otherwise impossible scenario, especially the Tear Jerker mentioned below. Especially important is the problem of ALL of humanity dying without anything else on the planet being affected, despite the fact that humanity would be one of the most resiliant species on the planet in the face of catastrophes and disasters, including biological ones. Humanity's relative "immortality" is not our constructions, but our ability to survive and adapt, which is why we came to dominate the planet in the first place. Thus, anything that wipes out humanity would also wipe out a vast majority of life on Earth as well.
 * The idea that most human achievment, with the exception of very sturdy and already long lasting buildings like the pyramids, will have disintergrated or be unregonizable within a couple of thousand years, if not just a few hundred years.
 * Nightmare Fuel: Abandoned supermarkets. Especially the meat and deli departments.
 * The thought that our precious friends will become vicious hunters. The notion that animals will forget you and humanity in due time. The fact that the smaller and weaker pets, such as toy breeds, will survive along with some of the more poorly designed breeds.
 * The ones that don't starve to death in our homes and zoos since we aren't around to either feed or free them, anyway.
 * How about the fact that eventually, given millions of years, there will be no trace of evidence that we humans were ever here, save for perhaps some fossils if we get so lucky. All of our achievements, all of our buildings, all of our records now lost and buried with time. Like we never existed in the first place.
 * Tear Jerker: For pet lovers, at least. The pilot episode of the first month or so takes extra care to mention the millions of cats, dogs, hamsters, and fish all locked inside their houses, waiting for humans that will never show up. And then they had to show cats pawing at the doorknob and dogs scratching at loaves of bread, desperate for food.
 * Also the Real Life fate of the animals in the New Orleans aquarium, nearly all of which died after Katrina because the facility was evacuated and nobody was there to keep their tanks' water from turning foul with wastes.