YMMV / Nickelodeon Shorts and Interstitials

• Accidental Nightmare Fuel: Not everyone has fond memories of Face, considering that he's a large disembodied face sitting there on the screen making weird noises.
• Base-Breaking Character: Face. Was he a lovable and funny guy who defined Nick Jr. in the 90s, or was he an annoying and/or somewhat creepy guy who was one of the worst parts of Nick Jr.?
• Captain Obvious Aesop: Part of the point of the Winky Love shorts was to show kids what it would be like living in a big city. This ended up being redundant for the kids who had already lived in big cities.
• Nightmare Fuel: Attack of the Giant Vulture, a Short People short. Everything about the short is somewhat unsettling, first with how the vulture chases the kids all over town with the intent of eating them, then the ending where the kids defeat him by plucking out all his feathers and cooking and eating him instead. Heck, you can just look at the comments of the linked video and you can see just how many people were terrified of the vulture.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: The reaction to Face's revamp in his later years was generally negative, and Face was retired shortly afterward. Nick seems to be aware of this reaction, as in any of Face's later appearances, (such as on NickRewind) he is always the more fondly remembered, Chris Phillips-voiced, and less in-your-face version from the 90s with his revamp ignored.
• Unintentional Uncanny Valley: The Clip-Art Animation for Attack of the Hideous Pimple. Their large realistic eyes, CGI mouths, and crude flash animation make the human characters look absolutely bizarre. It's especially egregious that a talking pimple (portrayed in live-action puppetry) is less scary-looking than the schoolkids.

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