YMMV / Melvins Macabre

• An Aesop: “Nostalgia”. You should work through your traumas instead of just trying to distract yourself with things from the past.
• Crosses the Line Twice: Robbie's fate in GUTTERBALL is truly a horrible one, but after how he treated Melvin the whole video, not only did he deserve it, it ended being funny due to the wild cheering of the crowd and the fact that his strike animation was a nuke detonating and burning him alive.
• Jerkass Woobie: Melvin in Melvins Macabre. Despite being prone to violent outbursts (especially when chewing his ear worm out for all the suffering he was going through regardless of the latter loving the former's music taste), he clearly has issues. While Melvin manages to get rid of the said parasite, he's called out by Angela for his cruelty towards the latter before dumping him as she takes the ear worm with her to the concert. In the end, Melvin calmly puts on his earbuds before curling up in a fetal position as the video ends while the vocalist in the background scold him. You can't help but feel sorry for the poor guy.
  • GUTTERBALL expands further on this by revealing that his Father died sometime before the events of the short, and if what Robby says about him throughout the video is true, it's implied he wasn't the greatest guy out there.