Line #13 YMMV/AngelaAnaconda


1	* AlternateCharacterInterpretation:
2	** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HF24xtDfWPs This reviewer]] theorizes that Nanette Manoir is [[TheSociopath a sociopath]], citing her tendency to treat her friends more like tools, and her seeming willingness to go out of her own way to make Angela's life miserable.
3	** The "Gum" episode depicts Johnny Abatti marrying Angela ''and'' Nanette in Angela's ImagineSpot - making some ponder polyamory.
4	* AluminumChristmasTrees: ''Hot Bob and Chocolate" shows a game that resembles magnetic poetry. Real-life teachers sometimes play games like these to teach about sentence structure.
5	* AmericansHateTingle: The ''Angela Anaconda'' short attached to ''Anime/DigimonTheMovie''. For American viewers (especially among those who never heard of ''Angela Anaconda''), this was a BigLippedAlligatorMoment that seemed [[{{Filler}} only to exist to pad out the movie before it even began]]. The Latin American crowd likewise hated it, as the ''Digimon'' movie was the only product that used the North American localization script and included ''Angela Anaconda'' as a short.
6	* BaseBreakingCharacter: Angela herself; a funny and relatable protagonist or a CreepyChild (''not'' of the {{Goth}} kind) with an annoying voice that provides an awful theme song?
7	* BileFascination: At least among those who are turned off by either its cast or its bizarre animation.
8	* ClicheStorm: For those not turned away by the art style and the lead character's voice, the general plots are the same used in many other SliceOfLife cartoons, and many character-arcs are based around common stereotypes (such as Johnny's grandparent's Mafia-like feud with a conflicting pizza restauarant, and Nanette being both the blonde AlphaBitch and RichBitch).
9	* CommonKnowledge: OnceAnEpisode, Angela fantasizes about Nanette's torment. This actually is not the case - several times, Angela's ImagineSpot sequences feature someone else... and that includes ''herself'' sometimes.
10	* CriticalBacklash: Of a sort. The series was reviled by many thanks to the ''Anime/DigimonTheMovie'' tie-in, the [[ClicheStorm mundane plots]], and the bizarre animation style. But the show still has its fans outside the BileFascination, with some even appreciating it - especially when the creator made a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPNBEoEVP84 video]] discussing that its intention was to be itself, and it's something that is conveyed very well with the show's overall theme of BeYourself and accept other people for who they are.
11	* CrossesTheLineTwice:
12	** Angela's {{Imagine Spot}}s, considering [[RefugeInAudacity the sheer ridiculousness]] of the cruel and unusual situations she tries putting Nanette or anyone else through, [[ThisIsReality and how impossible it would be for her to actually pull any of them off]]. [[ButtMonkey Not to mention how low her chances already were in the first place.]]
13	** Angela, Gordy, Gina, and Johnny looking into the Brinks's backyard and being squicked out by their teacher and her husband naked? Quite funny. Nanette walking into their backyard to confront them directly? ''Freaking HILARIOUS''.
14	* DesignatedHero: Some people view Angela in an unfavorable manner, and think her treatment and fantasies about Nanette getting hurt or worse comes across as overly mean. There’s one episode where she imagined ordering her enemies (which includes her older brothers) at a restaurant, which is par the course for something an elementary-aged schoolgirl would imagine, but pretty disturbing nonetheless.
15	* EthnicScrappy: Ms. Yamagotchi is a horrendous Asian stereotype up there with [[Creator/MickeyRooney Mr. Yunioshi]] from ''Film/BreakfastAtTiffanys''.
16	* FridgeBrilliance: Nanette takes her friends and Mrs. Brinks to a French movie. Doesn't sound too weird... except it's actually in Canada. Wouldn't be too out of left field to assume a cinema would run films in French.
17	* GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff: Despite it being a Canadian-American series, it proved noticeably more popular in the UK than Canada ''or'' the U.S., with the series being a staple of childrens' channels well into the mid-2000s, and its merchandise being popular for a good few years. This can probably be chalked up to UK audiences generally being more accepting of the brand of offbeat, mean-spirited humor embodied by the series. It also helped that ''Anime/DigimonTheMovie'' was dumped in UK cinemas in the middle of February 2001 with minimal promotion, meaning that the accompanying ''Angela Anaconda'' short didn't generate the same level of backlash that it did in North America.
18	* HilariousInHindsight: The town is named 'Tapwater Springs'. A report years after the show ended revealed that much of what's bottled and marketed as "spring water" is really just ordinary, filtered tap water.
19	* LesYay: Nanette and Angela's interactions can sometimes feel like this, especially in the ImagineSpot in "Stuck on You". Even some of the fanbase shares this view.
20	* MemeticMutation: The ''Angela Anaconda'' short attached to ''Anime/DigimonTheMovie'' was already regarded as terrible {{filler}} on its own, but rose to infamy after a Website/FourChan user [[https://www.reddit.com/r/greentext/comments/da3t34/anon_really_hates_angela_anaconda/ shared a greentext story]] about how the short caused their parents to divorce when they were a child. The user cried so much when they saw the short instead of the film that the parents dragged them out of the theater, blaming each other for bringing them to the wrong movie, and got into a car accident in the parking lot, which ended up being the last straw in an already tumultuous time in their marriage.
21	-->"Fucking bitch of a whore Angela Anaconda ruined my life."
22	* MemeticPsychopath: The title character has become one in later years. People make her out to be a psychopath who imagines herself killing Nanette, ignoring the fact that she doesn't intend it seriously ([[RefugeInAudacity and how]] [[CrossesTheLineTwice it shows]]), and that she's only a child and that a lot of children tend to do that.
23	* MisBlamed:
24	** For a while, it was very common for people to believe that the show being owned by DHX Media was what prevented Nicktoons from airing the two ''WesternAnimation/KaBlam'' episodes with the original ''Angela Anaconda'' shorts in reruns. This was debunked in the early 2010s when the creator of another ''[=KaBlam=]!'' short revealed on a (now defunct) fansite that Creator/{{Viacom}} still owns the two original shorts, just nothing else. The episodes continued to air in reruns on Creator/{{Nickelodeon}} and on both Nickelodeon and Nicktoons in international markets even after the short was spun-off on Fox Family. It however should be noted that at some point in the 2010s, Nickelodeon did eventually lose the rights to the original two shorts and doesn't include the episodes with the shorts on streaming services.
25	** The show itself gets a lot of this for the infamous tie-in with ''Anime/DigimonTheMovie'', likely resulting in the beginning of the extensive online backlash against the show. However, the tie-in was a studio decision and not that of the creators and crew, as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTbBahMd044 confirmed]] by ''WebVideo/{{Billiam}}''.
26	* NeverLiveItDown: If you didn't watch the show when it was airing, chances are you know Angela Anaconda as the show that caused a divorce (see more in MemeticMutation) more that for anything related to the show's actual content.
27	* NightmareFuel:
28	** You'll either love this show's cutout-style animation for being unique, or be downright horrified by it for its unnatural look and movements.
29	** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KppHQow2jVI two]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wENdQNu_NI original]] shorts that aired as part of ''[=KaBlam=]!'' make the series look adorable by comparison.
30	** In "The Substitute", Angela has this one ImagineSpot of ordering her enemies at a ''[[ImAHumanitarian cannibal restaurant]]''. Has inspired a {{Creepypasta}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5WNj-Bi9Es story]].
31	-->'''Angela:''' ''(in her fantasy, to a waiter)'' I'll have the crepe Nanette with mashed Derek, and some Markaroni and Cheese.
32	** The end of "I'm With Stupid", after Angela throws her ventriloquist dummy, Mr Mooey, in the trash; Angela walks away laughing, before we get a final shot of Mr Mooey amongst the garbage as the episode prepares to end with the usual upbeat lead-out music… and then the dummy's eyes bolt open as a ScareChord replaces the final note.
33	* {{Squick}}: The Brinkses [[NakedPeopleAreFunny playing badminton or sledding naked]].
34	* UnintentionallySympathetic:
35	** Nanette may be a RichBitch, but she can still come across as this, due being a victim of DisproportionateRetribution in Angela's fantasies. WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter points this out in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzDNojt7_HA his review of]] "The Substitute".
36	** Cici Lecreme from "The French Connection". While she is far from a major antagonist, Angela's immediate hostile reaction to her becoming friends with Nanette is very heavy-handed, especially as Cici herself still remains fairly kind to Angela and even admits to still caring about her.
37	** Angela ''herself''. In the episode about allowance, we're evidently not supposed to sympathize with Angela because she only takes out the trash for $1.25 a week. But at the same time, Angela has not one but ''two'' parents who are implied to work-from-home ''and'' two middle to high school aged brothers. Angela takes a bunch of extra chores and is only given $0.50. This makes her parents seem really cheap, even if Angela ''is'' at most eight years old.
38	* ValuesDissonance: The recurring minor EthnicScrappy character of the aggressive Japanese woman Miss Yamagotchi, who speaks in stereotypical thick-accented broken English, whose face is stereotypically slit-eyed and buck-toothed, and whose domineering attitude evokes the DragonLady stereotype (although she isn't sexualized or untrustworthy).
39	* ValuesResonance: The episode about the allowance shows a lot. Angela's brothers are given $5.00 per week allowance, she's only given $1.25 a week, but she only takes out the trash once. When she does extra chores, she's only given a bonus of $0.50. That strikes ''very'' hard for people who do extra work but are told it's not really worth much.
40	* WatchItForTheMeme: Many people watch the show due to the reviews by WebVideo/TheMysteriousMrEnter, WebVideo/PhantomStrider, WebVideo/TVTrash and [=AmazzonKane=] if you're a fan, or for the theme song.
41	* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: Despite airing on a kid's channel and having kids as the main characters, this show isn't kid-friendly considering that Angela's imagination spots are very sadistic and sociopathic even by kid's show standards and there was even an episode where Angela and her friends try to spy on their teacher when they find out that she and her husband were weekend nudists.
42	%%* TheWoobie:
43	%%** Josephine can go into this given what she goes through.
44	%%** Karlean in "Kar-lean on Me".
45	* {{Woolseyism}}: In the French dub of the series, which was recorded in Quebec, Nanette's erroneous French is replaced by exaggerated Parisian terms.

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