YMMV / Evelyn Evelyn

• Alternative Character Interpretation: What happened to Sandy after she got too old? There are two possibilities as to what happened to her, neither of them good. Either: 1. She was murdered, as some fans believe (“What will they do with us, when they are through with us?”), or 2. She was kicked out of the brothel (“Mrs. Bolger said she’d have to leave”), she set off on the ocean, her ship failed, and she drowned (this is what the official music video suggests, and that one shot in the video of her presumably dead body lying face-down and unmoving on the shore isn't a good sign.)
  • Was Doctor Kook a member of F.A.S.T.E.N.? "The Tragic Events of September - Part I" makes a point of noting he has "eccentric religious beliefs" and his attempts to quote the Bible, which seems to suggest they are important. If he was member of F.A.S.T.E.N., this could explain why he was go gung ho about splitting the twins despite the fact it would have killed them.
• Awesome Music: Sandy Fishnets, especially around the four minute mark. Doubles as Tearjerker.
  "Three days later she was gone, the day she turned thirteen."
• Complete Monster: Mrs. Deborah (Devora) Bouldger is the seemingly kindhearted caretaker at Underwood, who takes in Eva and Lynn Deville as young kids. However, in truth she runs a child sex trafficking ring, producing child pornography from the orphaned kids for her company, Budding Flowers Entertainment, while having them pimped out to men, manipulating the kids into accepting this behavior. The Evelyn Twins were frequent victims, as Mrs. Bouldger would use their conjoined appearance to get more clients. Whenever the kids turn 13, they are deemed too old and are either killed by Mrs. Bouldger or kicked out, which ends up happening to the twins' only friend, Sally Fishnets, who is never to be seen again. Manipulative and completely heartless, Mrs. Bouldger and her actions were by far the worst of what the twins had to deal with in their childhood.
• Crosses the Line Twice: The entire album, especially the sisters' childhoods. To wit, their mother died giving birth, their father and the doctor who delivered them got killed shortly afterwards, a sheriff attempted to drive them to the orphanage only to die himself, the sisters spent their first few years living in a crowded chicken coop before being taken in by an orphanage that was secretly a child brothel, joining a circus troupe frequently accused of treating their animals poorly by their adolescent years and having to live in a run-down apartment by the time they're legally adults.
• Esoteric Happy Ending: The ending of the album is supposed to be happy because the twins managed to achieve fame on the internet, meaning they won't be lonely anymore. However given what the internet can be like, this isn't necessarily a good thing. In addition, all the villainous organizations (Budding Flowers Entertainment, F.A.S.T.E.N., S.P.L.I.T., and Dillard and Fullerton's Illusive and Illogical Traveling Show are presumably still around.
• Fandom-Enraging Misconception: Even though one of the twins is performed by Jason Webley, do not assume that this means one of the twins is male because of it. The fact that it's biologically impossible for conjoined twins to be of different sexes in the first place probably adds to the anger.
• Literary Agent Hypothesis: In the comments under live clips of Evelyn Evelyn concerts you'll find plenty of confused people that don't quite realize that these characters are just Jason and Amanda in black wigs and a big one-person dress.
• Memetic Mutation: The song "Evelyn Evelyn" is popular amongst animators on Youtube,
• Moment of Awesome: During the 2010 Evelyn Evelyn tour across Europe, the crew got stuck in a different country because of the Iceland volcano. Instead of using her crew, Amanda (who made it to the gig) pulled two fans onto the stage to stay there throughout the show, manning the Ustreaming computer. Meanwhile, the support band Bitter Ruin were co-opted into occasionally representing the twins and playing the theme from Clue on the keyboard, while Amanda ran around the stage between the songs acting out the theatre parts by herself, "Tim Curry style". Jason Webley (who couldn't make it) joined in over Skype, with his face, accordion and ukulele playing visible on a laptop screen being held up next to Amanda throughout the entire gig. Oh, and the entire thing was broadcast live over the Internet, with Amanda constantly talking to her online fans and tweeting.
  "The only element here that is not part of the actual Evelyn Evelyn show... is me drinking beer. *chugs* "
• Signature Song: "Evelyn Evelyn".
• Squick: Parts of their backstory, especially set to music in "Tragic Events" and "Sandy Fishnets", can be pretty triggering.
• Too Bleak, Stopped Caring: Evelyn Evelyn has some of the most haunting, bleak, and disturbing themes in any music.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: Though most of their songs have peppy sound, Evelyn Evelyn is not remotely for kids. Despite its 1920s-sounding tune and funny retraux animated music video, the song "Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn?" is about a woman complaining about her twin sister who is very promiscuous. The first part of the song is rather SFW but then the second part features profanity. There's similarly nothing child-friendly about "Sandy Fishnets" despite its lyrics or cute music video, which is about how a child prostitute was killed when she turned 13 due to being deemed too old.
• The Woobie: Sandy, the titular girl of "Sandy Fishnets", who was either murdered or drowned on her thirteenth birthday due to getting too old for her “Uncles” (customers) at the brothel.

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