History YMMV / EthelAndErnest

* HarsherInHindsight: Strange example occurred in both meta and book. As the book was set in the 1970s, Ethel and Ernest's comparison of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plan IRA's bombings]] to other groups included Serbs and Croats. While this was meant to be a reference to the conflict between ethnic groups in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, it ended up as foreshadowing to UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars twenty years later.

* HarsherInHindsight: Strange example occurred in both meta and book. As the book was published in the 1970s, Ethel and Ernest's comparison of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plan IRA's bombings]] to other groups that included Serbs and Croats. While this was meant to be a reference to the conflict between ethnic groups in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, it ended up as foreshadowing to UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars twenty years after publication.

* SugarWiki/AwesomeArt: Everything from the backgrounds to the characters is a faithful translation of Briggs's colorful pencil drawings and thanks to advancements in technology, the animation retains a familiar hand-drawn touch without it looking stiff despite the entire movie being drawn digitally. The character models are also very consistent despite many animators working on them.

* AwesomeArt: Everything from the backgrounds to the characters is a faithful translation of Briggs's colorful pencil drawings and thanks to advancements in technology, the animation retains a familiar hand-drawn touch without it looking stiff despite the entire movie being drawn digitally. The character models are also very consistent despite many animators working on them.

* HarsherInHindsight: Strange example occurred in both meta and book. As the book was published in the 1970s, Ethel and Ernest's comparison of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plan IRA's bombings]] to other groups that included Serbs and Croats. While this was meant to be a reference to the conflict between ethnic groups in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, it ended up as foreshadowing to UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars twenty years after publication.

* HarsherInHindsight: Strange example occurred in both meta and book. As the book was published in the 1970s, Ethel and Ernest's comparison of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plan IRA's bombings]] to other groups that included Serbs and Croats. While this was meant to be a reference to the conflict between ethnic groups in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia, it ended up as foreshadowing to UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars twenty years after publication.
* TearJerker: Both the book and the movie has somber moments.
** Ethel's weakening after giving birth to Raymond Briggs, which he remained the only child due to concerns for her health.
** Ernest and Ethel's struggle during World War II, where they had to send their son to the countryside for safety. Among other things are the couple's house ruined by the bombs, worrying over the fate of their son who is evacuated to the countryside, Ernest's trauma from seeing dead children when he was assigned as a rescue worker in the bombed-out area.
** Raymond Brigg's wife, Jean, suffered from Schizophrenia, which meant that her mental illness became the main obstacle for starting a family. Even worse since Jean herself died from leukemia two years after his parents' death.
** [[spoiler: Ethel forgetting her Christmas party, her husband, and even her entire marriage. This wasn't helped by her death later on.]]
*** [[spoiler: Ernest's miserable life as he still continues the daily routine as if Ethel was alive just to cope with her passing. It didn't last long as his heart attack proved to be fatal.]]

* HarsherInHindsight: Strange example occurred in both meta and book. As the book was published in the 1970s, Ethel and Ernest's comparison between Germans' persecution Jews to other groups that included Serbs and Croats. This was meant to be a reference to the conflict between ethnic groups in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia but ended up as foreshadowing to UsefulNotes/TheYugoslavWars twenty years after publication.

** Ernest and Ethel's struggle during World War II, where they had to send their son to the countryside for safety. Among other things are Ernest's trauma from seeing dead children when he was assigned as a rescue worker in the bombed-out area.

** Ernest and Ethel's struggle during WorldWarII, where they had to send their son to the countryside for safety. Among other things are Ernest's trauma from seeing dead children when he was assigned as rescue workers in bombed-out area.