YMMV / Donkey Kong Country S 2 E 12 Its A Wonderful Life

• Tear Jerker: The episode takes the premise of "Kong for a Day" and turns up a few notches. The other Kongs act like Ungrateful Bastards towards DK and berate him for accidents he never intended (such as breaking Funky's board, causing the barrels at Bluster and Candy's factory to collapse and throwing Diddy's lucky ball too far). Cranky's case is even more noteworthy, as he is mad at DK for giving the Crystal Coconut an extra layer of protection even though Cranky was aware of how dangerous the Coconut was and how K. Rool could use it for evil! DK then sleeps through the day, only to find all the Kongs angry at him because he slept through a dinner where he was the guest of honor, and they all give up on him and tell him that they'd be better off without him. Poor DK leaves the island, singing about his feelings of rejection until he gets knocked out by a tree branch. He hallucinates Eddie (referred as the "Guardian Angel Yeti") showing him a world in which he never existed, in which Bluster and Candy have been married, Diddy is a tyrant and the new MacGuffin is a papier-mache lilypad guarded by the Kremlings. But even after DK pleads to Eddie to bring him back to existence, things turn out the same way and his klutziness causes everyone to be mad at him once again, with the enemy Kongs and Kremlings forming an Enemy Mine taking their wrath out on DK. Eventually, Donkey Kong wakes up and realizes that it was All Just a Dream, the Kongs apologise to him for being mean earlier and the conflict is resolved and it ends on a happy note.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Some consider Donkey Kong to be this here, at least when compared to "Kong For A Day" another episode where everyone got angry at him. In "Kong For A Day" he was framed for all of the bad things by King K. Rool, the other Kong's rejected his attempts to appologise and refused to even let him explain his side of the story. In "It's A Wonderful Life" on the other hand, he actually did do the things that everyone was mad at him for, and instead of at least trying to apologize, he just made excuses and ran away, so the others had every reason to be angry with him. And when he sees what the world would have been like if he wasn't around, the narrative doesn't explain WHY Donkey Kong's absence turns Diddy into an evil dictator. It also shows that Candy would have been happy to marry Bluster and the Crocs are good without his presence (even Krusha is more intelligent), all implying that the world is in fact better off without him.