History YMMV / MyFriendlyNeighborhood

* FriendlyFandoms: With ARG/WelcomeHomeClownIllustrations that both involve horror takes on ''Series/SesameStreet''-esque puppet shows whose characters have similar design cues that launched in the same year.

* FridgeBrilliance:
** Gordon never questions the fact that the puppets are sentient and doesn't even seem that phased by their attempts at violence, instead treating it all with a weary gruffness. Because he's a human character on a muppet production. Even if that role is as a horror survivor instead of a friend or villain, the humans in muppet productions never treat it as strange to interact with puppets the way they do. Of course Gordon treats it as normal.
** The five puppets involved in obtaining the GoldenEnding all represent one of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_stages_of_grief five stages of grief]]: [[spoiler:Pearl is blind and literally can't see how things have degraded in the studio (denial). The Pups have gone feral due to hunger and attack whoever they see (anger). Ray constantly tries to "fix" the plumbing without being able to ever address the underlying problem (bargaining, described as "the hope that the individual can avoid a cause of grief"). Goblette is depressed and apparently trying to feel better by eating food... and Ricky is fully aware of the situation and is trying to improve it for everyone (acceptance). To get the best ending, Gordon must help the puppets overcome their issues, but Ricky has already overcome his own; instead, ''he'' is the one trying to help Gordon, offering him a place in the Neighborhood as a way to deal with his own trauma]].

* GeniusBonus: At one point, an uninteractable note features upside-down text which, upon rotation, is revealed to be a section of ''[[{{Literature/Confessions}} the Confessions of Saint Augustine]]'' regarding the presence of good even in evil things or people. [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory Topical!]]

* AntiClimaxBoss: [[spoiler: The Amalgamuppet, the FinalBoss of the game, is a very simplistic fight. It's fairly slow, the few melee attacks it has are easily avoided and it doesn't have much health either. You don't even need to defeat it, since all that's required to win is to flip the emergency lockdown switch and run around until the exit gate opens. It doesn't help that while the Unfriendly Neighbors are explained, the Amalgamuppet has [[GiantSpaceFleaOutOfNowhere just seems to exist to give the game a final boss.]]]]

** The five puppets involved in obtaining the GoldenEnding all represent one of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_stages_of_grief five stages of grief]]: [[spoiler:Pearl is blind (denial), the Pups have gone feral due to hunger (anger), Ray constantly tries to "fix" the plumbing (bargaining, described as "the hope that the individual can avoid a cause of grief"), Goblette is depressed, and Ricky is fully aware of the situation (acceptance). To get the best ending, Gordon must help the puppets overcome their issues, but Ricky has already overcome his own; instead, ''he'' is the one trying to help Gordon, offering him a place in the Neighborhood as a way to deal with his own trauma]].
* FriendlyFandoms: With ARG/WelcomeHomeClownIllustrations that both involve horror takes on Series/SesameStreet -esque puppet shows whose characters have similar design cues that launched in the same year.

* InformedWrongness: A lot of notes and newspaper clippings are clearly meant to paint the cynical, selfish adults as in the wrong, but [[JerkassHasAPoint a lot of them make genuine good points]]. One note from a concerned mother notes that morals from the show like "Always put others before yourself" might be a bad moral to teach as it lacks nuance and opens the impressionable young audience up for being taken advantage of, while a newspaper article reflecting on the war points out that the noble, selfless purposes that said war was fought for turned out to be nothing but lies used to justify the horrors being committed. It's hard to fault the people of the city for abandoning "friendliness" in favor of living for themselves after such an event.

* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: The curtains creature that you fight while trying to exit the offices after getting the front door key. It has absolutely ZERO build-up or foreshadowing, looks like a wall of bubblegum with multiple eyes and big lips, attacks you by spitting out puppet carcasses, and after you defeat it, it flies out the window, never to be seen again.

** The five puppets involved in obtaining the GoldenEnding all represent one of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_stages_of_grief]]: [[spoiler:Pearl is blind (denial), the Pups have gone feral due to hunger (anger), Ray constantly tries to "fix" the plumbing (bargaining, described as "the hope that the individual can avoid a cause of grief"), Goblette is depressed, and Ricky is fully aware of the situation (acceptance). To get the best ending, Gordon must help the puppets overcome their issues, but Ricky has already overcome his own; instead, ''he'' is the one trying to help Gordon, offering him a place in the Neighborhood as a way to deal with his own trauma]].

* FridgeBrilliance: Gordon never questions the fact that the puppets are sentient and doesn't even seem that phased by their attempts at violence, instead treating it all with a weary gruffness. Because he's a human character on a muppet production. Even if that role is as a horror survivor instead of a friend or villain, the humans in muppet productions never treat it as strange to interact with puppets the way they do. Of course Gordon treats it as normal.

* InformedWrongness: A lot of notes and newspaper clippings are clearly meant to paint the cynical, selfish adults as in the wrong, but a lot of them make genuine good points. One note from a concerned mother notes that morals from the show like "Always put others before yourself" might be a bad moral to teach as it lacks nuance and opens the impressionable young audience up for being taken advantage of, while a newspaper article reflecting on the war points out that the noble, selfless purposes that said war was fought for turned out to be nothing but lies used to justify the horrors being committed. It's hard to fault the people of the city for abandoning "friendliness" in favor of living for themselves after such an event.

* WoobieSpecies: The sentient puppets that once starred in the titular show have had it rough since the studio was abandoned. A combination of isolation and [[spoiler:witnessing the worst of humanity via television]] has driven practically all of them insane, leaving them constantly babbling incoherent nonsense to themselves and unknowingly attacking Gordon when he approaches. A few of them even talk about wishing they had friends other than the other puppets they're stuck with.

* AccidentalAesop: While the main lesson of the game is about being nice and respecting one another, an equally valid lesson could be to never leave any minor or childish character without adult supervision. This is what led to the puppets in the current behaving as they do, [[spoiler: they were left alone to watch TV and they were mentally broken by how "mean" the outside world was during wartime, and it eventually led to the creation of the Unfriendly Neighborhood]].
** Materialism is not the ideal way to happiness. It's telling in the "Bad" Ending which happens if Gordon does not take the time to help the puppets with their issues and just beelines towards his main goal of disabling the antenna. Sure, Gordon saves his job and even receives a promotion along with all the benefits but his PTSD and issues are still lingering beneath the surface.

* CrossesTheLineTwice: Practically ''everything'' the puppets say in their rambling crosses it several times over. They'll do such things as explaining how to eat your own hands, describing a time where they beat up a friend before randomly making up, and commanding kids to smash open their [=TVs=], all in an incredibly dopey voice while waving their arms around like a madman.

* GeniusBonus: At one point, an uninteractable note features upside down text which, upon rotation, is revealed to be a section of ''[[{{Literature/Confessions}} the Confessions of Saint Augustine]]'' regarding the presence of good even in evil things or people. [[EveryoneIsJesusInPurgatory Topical!]]

* AccidentalAesop: While the main lesson of the game is about being nice and respecting one another, an equally valid lesson could be to never leave any minor or childish character without adult supervision, which is what lead to the puppets in the current behaving as they do and [[spoiler:caused some of them to watch TV, be broken by how "mean" the outside world was, and eventually lead to the creation of the Unfriendly Neighborhood]].

* AccidentalAesop: While the main lesson of the game is about being nice and respecting one another, there is another lesson to the game. The events of the games happened because the puppets were left unsupervised to watch something they were too young to watch, so that scenario presents the lesson "Respect the age rating of media products, kids aren't able to handle or understand such adult topics maturely and it might affect their outlook on life or affect their behavior. Parental guidance means there are some subjects and themes that require adult supervision, it shouldn't be depended on as a babysitting tool".

* FriendlyFandoms: With ARG/WelcomeHomeClownIllustrations that both involve horror takes on Series/SesameStreet -esque puppet shows whose characters have similar designs cues that launched in the same year.

* BigLippedAligatorMoment: The curtains creature that you fight while trying to exit the offices after getting the front door key. It has absolutely ZERO build-up or foreshadowing, looks like a wall of bubblegum with multiple eyes and big lips, attacks you by spitting out puppet carcasses, and after you defeat it, it flies out the window, never to be seen again.

* UglyCute: Pearl the giant bird, [[spoiler: especially during the cutscene where Gordon gives her eyes and glasses back to her.]]

* FriendlyFandoms: With ARG/WelcomeHome that both involve horror takes on Series/SesameStreet -esque puppet shows whose characters have similar designs cues that launched in the same year.

* FriendlyFandoms: With WebOriginal/WelcomeHome with horror takes on Series/SesameStreet -esque puppet shows that launched in the same year.