YMMV / SCP Animated - Tales from the Foundation

• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The depressing prologue to the Cragglewood Park (SCP-2571) episode is immediately juxtaposed by Gustav shilling ''Raid: Shadow Legends'' during the video's ill-timed and implemented "paid promotion" segment.
• Broken Base:
  • Fans were divided in their reactions to Dr. Buck's emotional breakdown courtesy of SCP-3887-B, with some expressing sympathy for her and viewing the moment as a Tear Jerker while others think of it as Dr. Buck getting comeuppance for her Jerkass behavior.
  • The change in animation style starting with "the Origin of Gorefield" has been met with conflicting reactions. Some find the new style cheap looking and too cartoony for the tone of the series, while others have pointed out the characters have far more movement and range of emotions compared to the more wooden/monotone faces of the old style, and also accept this as a better solution to the series' budget and deadline troubles compared to returning to the time when the series just did animated info-videos on the SCPs (see below).
  • Recently the series' almost exclusive focus on the more name brand SCPs like Garfield, McDonald's, Minecraft, Legos and the like. This can come off as "chasing the algorithm" to some, which anyone who's aware of the uphill battle of dealing with Youtube's nonsense as small/midling content creators can sympathize with, but others still wish they'd focus on more original SCPs.
• Diagnosed by the Audience: The fact that SCP-321 has poor learning skills (taking months or even years to learn how to use eating utensils) and that she finds it difficult to perform the most basic tasks imply that she's essentially mentally ill.
• Fridge Brilliance:
  • Agent Lawrence surviving SCP-106 gives a good bit of irony if we go by "The Young Man" story of SCP-106, where SCP-106 was also a military man named Lawrence.
  • Gustav is usually the guy shilling RAID: Shadow Legends. He was also secretly raiding the Foundation from within the shadows, thanks to being the Chaos Insurgency Mole.
• Heartwarming Moments:
  • The Ship Tease between Dr. Collingwood and Agent Lawrence is adorable. These two clearly care about each other, from him complimenting her SCP-2030 presentation, to them getting meals, to her saving him from drowning after interacting with SCP-1836.
  • On a similar note, Dr Collingwood offering to get coffee with Dr. Buck. Basically, Dr. Collingwood is this trope most of the time.
• It's the Same, Now It Sucks!: During the period of time when the series was running low on funds it reverted to a more typical set-up for SCP videos where the article was repeated verbatim. This didn't please fans as the primary draw of the videos was the interactions between their original characters.
• Jerkass Woobie: Joe Schmo. He is, by his own admission, a terrible person who does whatever he wants with no sense of consequences, or empathy for anyone else. However, he only became this way after being unable to interact with anyone his whole life. Causing him to Go Mad from the Isolation and become a Death Seeker who just wants to be put out of his misery. Not that anyone can tell, of course.
• Like You Would Really Do It: Agent Lawrence gets sent down the carnivorous slide SCP-1562, which had claimed all its victims thus far. Those who have watched other episodes would know that his Plot Armor is too strong for him to die. Sure enough, he manages to escape back to his own dimension in one piece.
• Narm: The end of "Find Him..." has Director Jones reveal to Buck that there's a Chaos Insurgency mole somewhere at the site. What makes this narmy is Buck's hilariously slow and monotone looking expression of shock.
• Nightmare Fuel: Par for the course in an SCP-Foundation related thing.
  • SCP-1337's video ends with her killing Dr. Lawson and preparing to kill again.
• Nightmare Retardant: The first interviewee in the SCP-2571 episode describes the last thing he remembers in the "dream" being a tree with his face. The tone and ominous music indicates it's scary...except the tree very obviously does not have his face, or even remotely resembles him.
• Spiritual Successor: Being the animated series adaptation of SCP-Foundation, it can also worked as the Animated Adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's The Southern Reach Trilogy - especially its second installment Authority.
• Tear Jerker:
  • While she can be best described as a callous prick on a good day, SCP-3887's complete emotional shredding of Dr. Buck is this, as the normally unflappable woman is completely torn down and left as a sobbing mess on the floor. Not that she didn't deserve it for how she treated 3887-A.
  • Agent Green's encounter with SCP-023, which lead to the death of his son.
  • Dr. Collingwood rather bluntly informing the woman who was exposed to the Slow-Burn Sloth that, if she really is infected, then she will have to be euthanized and that no, she won't be able to say goodbye to her family or given any other such accomodations — as far as the outside world is concerned, it'll be like she simply vanished into thin air. Hits harder when we learn at the end that she was infected and ends up in the sloth's control.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: The incident with SCP-3887-B has given the viewers a glimpse of Dr. Buck’s past. Unfortunately, it was never expanded upon in later episodes.