YMMV / Alfred's Playhouse

• Audience-Alienating Premise: As you can guess just from reading the main page, it's very hard to even recommend Alfred's Playhouse to most people, considering it's a series about a sexually abused dog's downward mental spiral produced by a neo-nazi.
• Awesome Music: The soundtracks to both the Alfred's Playhouse series and The Movie feature some hit artists. The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Punk Rock legend GG Allin, Classical Music standards to name a few—plus underground artists such as Lil Ugly Mane and her good friend JakProgresso.
• Crosses the Line Twice: In terms of sexual assault, mental disorders, animal abuse, and Self-Harm. Not in that order.
• Cry for the Devil: Pickles is an evil, Manipulative Bastard but you really feel for him when you learn that he is actually the byproduct of the agony Alfred's subconscious suffered while protecting him from sexual assault. And then you may as find it even more saddening that his Break Them by Talking speech to Alfred is actually him having a mental breakdown (of the Split Personality variety).
• Fandom Rivalry: With Mr. Pickles. The conflict stems mainly from Emily's claims that the [adult swim] created show ripped off her ideas — mainly her character, Dictator Pickles — and that the show has aided in soiled the hardcore genre with drawn out, over-the-top murder sequences and lack of meaningful storylines. Mr. Pickles fans, however, criticize the Alfred's Playhouse series and its hype for being a shameless self-promotion, overrated by its fans and being unnecessarily pornographic. It doesn't help that Emily Youcis is a controversial person on her own.
• Harsher in Hindsight: Alfred, a dog with PTSD and various other mental disorders who mentally retreats into the persona of a fascist dictator, would become considerably worse because Youcis, who produced the series as semi-autobiographical, would become a neo-Nazi later in her life, isolating her from every single individual who had previously worked with her.
• Nightmare Fuel: The whole damn series, especially the story behind it.
• Periphery Demographic: Reportedly, the "Dead Girl Stripclub" segment from the movie became popular with a number of 16-year-old girls, for some reason.
• Squick: The Littles defecating on Alfred, among other violations; the entire "Alfred needs pity" scene; Alfred's "Lucifer of the Graveyard" persona, who reserves his sexuality soley for dead bodies; plus many more grotesque moments.
• Strangled by the Red String: Alfred and Labby. So far, there has been no explanation how they met or why they hooked up.
• Tearjerker: Despite the series's surreal and often horrifying content, it's also incredibly sad and depressing. In particular, the scene of "Alfred needs pity" as well as Dictator Pickle's speech to Alfred in the third episode, which is only made worse given that interviews have confirmed that Youcis based the series heavily off her own life, which eventually lead her spiraling into becoming a neo-nazi.
• Viewer Gender Confusion: Because Emily Youcis does nothing to mask her naturally feminine voice when playing Alfred, it's easy to mistake him for a girl.
• The Woobie:
  • Alfred. Pretty much every bad thing that could happen to one as a child happened to him.
  • The FedEx guy. An Innocent Bystander forced to suffer the horrifying madness that is the Playhouse and becomes Dictator Pickles' first victim.

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