YMMV / Angela Anaconda

• Alternate Character Interpretation:
  • This reviewer theorizes that Nanette Manoir is a sociopath, citing her tendency to treat her friends more like tools, and her seeming willingness to go out of her own way to make Angela's life miserable.
  • The "Gum" episode depicts Johnny Abatti marrying Angela and Nanette in Angela's Imagine Spot - making some ponder polyamory.
• Aluminum Christmas Trees: ''Hot Bob and Chocolate" shows a game that resembles magnetic poetry. Real-life teachers sometimes play games like these to teach about sentence structure.
• Americans Hate Tingle: The Angela Anaconda short attached to Digimon: The Movie. For American viewers (especially among those who never heard of Angela Anaconda), this was a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment that seemed only to exist to pad out the movie before it even began. The Latin American crowd likewise hated it, as the Digimon movie was the only product that used the North American localization script and included Angela Anaconda as a short.
• Base-Breaking Character: Angela herself; a funny and relatable protagonist or a Creepy Child (not of the Goth kind) with an annoying voice that provides an awful theme song?
• Bile Fascination: At least among those who are turned off by either its cast or its bizarre animation.
• Cliché Storm: For those not turned away by the art style and the lead character's voice, the general plots are the same used in many other Slice of Life cartoons, and many character-arcs are based around common stereotypes (such as Johnny's grandparent's Mafia-like feud with a conflicting pizza restauarant, and Nanette being both the blonde Alpha Bitch and Rich Bitch).
• Common Knowledge: Once an Episode, Angela fantasizes about Nanette's torment. This actually is not the case - several times, Angela's Imagine Spot sequences feature someone else... and that includes herself sometimes.
• Critical Backlash: Of a sort. The series was reviled by many thanks to the Digimon: The Movie tie-in, the mundane plots, and the bizarre animation style. But the show still has its fans outside the Bile Fascination, with some even appreciating it - especially when the creator made a video discussing that its intention was to be itself, and it's something that is conveyed very well with the show's overall theme of Be Yourself and accept other people for who they are.
• Crosses the Line Twice:
  • Angela's Imagine Spots, considering the sheer ridiculousness of the cruel and unusual situations she tries putting Nanette or anyone else through, and how impossible it would be for her to actually pull any of them off. Not to mention how low her chances already were in the first place.
  • Angela, Gordy, Gina, and Johnny looking into the Brinks's backyard and being squicked out by their teacher and her husband naked? Quite funny. Nanette walking into their backyard to confront them directly? Freaking HILARIOUS.
• Designated Hero: Some people view Angela in an unfavorable manner, and think her treatment and fantasies about Nanette getting hurt or worse comes across as overly mean. There’s one episode where she imagined ordering her enemies (which includes her older brothers) at a restaurant, which is par the course for something an elementary-aged schoolgirl would imagine, but pretty disturbing nonetheless.
• Ethnic Scrappy: Ms. Yamagotchi is a horrendous Asian stereotype up there with Mr. Yunioshi from Breakfast at Tiffany's.
• Fridge Brilliance: Nanette takes her friends and Mrs. Brinks to a French movie. Doesn't sound too weird... except it's actually in Canada. Wouldn't be too out of left field to assume a cinema would run films in French.
• Germans Love David Hasselhoff: Despite it being a Canadian-American series, it proved noticeably more popular in the UK than Canada or the U.S., with the series being a staple of childrens' channels well into the mid-2000s, and its merchandise being popular for a good few years. This can probably be chalked up to UK audiences generally being more accepting of the brand of offbeat, mean-spirited humor embodied by the series. It also helped that Digimon: The Movie was dumped in UK cinemas in the middle of February 2001 with minimal promotion, meaning that the accompanying Angela Anaconda short didn't generate the same level of backlash that it did in North America.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: The town is named 'Tapwater Springs'. A report years after the show ended revealed that much of what's bottled and marketed as "spring water" is really just ordinary, filtered tap water.
• Les Yay: Nanette and Angela's interactions can sometimes feel like this, especially in the Imagine Spot in "Stuck on You". Even some of the fanbase shares this view.
• Memetic Mutation: The Angela Anaconda short attached to Digimon: The Movie was already regarded as terrible filler on its own, but rose to infamy after a 4chan user shared a greentext story about how the short caused their parents to divorce when they were a child. The user cried so much when they saw the short instead of the film that the parents dragged them out of the theater, blaming each other for bringing them to the wrong movie, and got into a car accident in the parking lot, which ended up being the last straw in an already tumultuous time in their marriage.
  "Fucking bitch of a whore Angela Anaconda ruined my life."
• Memetic Psychopath: The title character has become one in later years. People make her out to be a psychopath who imagines herself killing Nanette, ignoring the fact that she doesn't intend it seriously (and how it shows), and that she's only a child and that a lot of children tend to do that.
• Mis-blamed:
  • For a while, it was very common for people to believe that the show being owned by DHX Media was what prevented Nicktoons from airing the two KaBlam! episodes with the original Angela Anaconda shorts in reruns. This was debunked in the early 2010s when the creator of another KaBlam! short revealed on a (now defunct) fansite that Viacom still owns the two original shorts, just nothing else. The episodes continued to air in reruns on Nickelodeon and on both Nickelodeon and Nicktoons in international markets even after the short was spun-off on Fox Family. It however should be noted that at some point in the 2010s, Nickelodeon did eventually lose the rights to the original two shorts and doesn't include the episodes with the shorts on streaming services.
  • The show itself gets a lot of this for the infamous tie-in with Digimon: The Movie, likely resulting in the beginning of the extensive online backlash against the show. However, the tie-in was a studio decision and not that of the creators and crew, as confirmed by Billiam.
• Never Live It Down: If you didn't watch the show when it was airing, chances are you know Angela Anaconda as the show that caused a divorce (see more in Memetic Mutation) more that for anything related to the show's actual content.
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • You'll either love this show's cutout-style animation for being unique, or be downright horrified by it for its unnatural look and movements.
  • The two original shorts that aired as part of KaBlam! make the series look adorable by comparison.
  • In "The Substitute", Angela has this one Imagine Spot of ordering her enemies at a cannibal restaurant. Has inspired a Creepypasta story.
  Angela: (in her fantasy, to a waiter) I'll have the crepe Nanette with mashed Derek, and some Markaroni and Cheese.
  • The end of "I'm With Stupid", after Angela throws her ventriloquist dummy, Mr Mooey, in the trash; Angela walks away laughing, before we get a final shot of Mr Mooey amongst the garbage as the episode prepares to end with the usual upbeat lead-out music… and then the dummy's eyes bolt open as a Scare Chord replaces the final note.
• Squick: The Brinkses playing badminton or sledding naked.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic:
  • Nanette may be a Rich Bitch, but she can still come across as this, due being a victim of Disproportionate Retribution in Angela's fantasies. The Mysterious Mr. Enter points this out in his review of "The Substitute".
  • Cici Lecreme from "The French Connection". While she is far from a major antagonist, Angela's immediate hostile reaction to her becoming friends with Nanette is very heavy-handed, especially as Cici herself still remains fairly kind to Angela and even admits to still caring about her.
  • Angela herself. In the episode about allowance, we're evidently not supposed to sympathize with Angela because she only takes out the trash for $1.25 a week. But at the same time, Angela has not one but two parents who are implied to work-from-home and two middle to high school aged brothers. Angela takes a bunch of extra chores and is only given $0.50. This makes her parents seem really cheap, even if Angela is at most eight years old.
• Values Dissonance: The recurring minor Ethnic Scrappy character of the aggressive Japanese woman Miss Yamagotchi, who speaks in stereotypical thick-accented broken English, whose face is stereotypically slit-eyed and buck-toothed, and whose domineering attitude evokes the Dragon Lady stereotype (although she isn't sexualized or untrustworthy).
• Values Resonance: The episode about the allowance shows a lot. Angela's brothers are given $5.00 per week allowance, she's only given $1.25 a week, but she only takes out the trash once. When she does extra chores, she's only given a bonus of $0.50. That strikes very hard for people who do extra work but are told it's not really worth much.
• Watch It for the Meme: Many people watch the show due to the reviews by The Mysterious Mr. Enter, PhantomStrider, TV Trash and AmazzonKane if you're a fan, or for the theme song.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: Despite airing on a kid's channel and having kids as the main characters, this show isn't kid-friendly considering that Angela's imagination spots are very sadistic and sociopathic even by kid's show standards and there was even an episode where Angela and her friends try to spy on their teacher when they find out that she and her husband were weekend nudists.
• Woolseyism: In the French dub of the series, which was recorded in Quebec, Nanette's erroneous French is replaced by exaggerated Parisian terms.

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