YMMV / Santa Inc.

• Anvilicious: One of the main complaints leveled at the show is that it tackles issues like sexism and representation without any subtlety or nuance.
• Awesome Art: The show's Stop Motion animation is quite nice and does a good job emulating the charm of the old Rankin/Bass Christmas specials. In fact, even the people that roasted this show can't help but admit the Stop Motion animation being extremely well done.
• Designated Hero: The series is clearly trying to get viewers to sympathise with Candy’s situation and see her in the right but she constantly comes across as arrogant, egotistical and unreasonable. A prime example is when Santa offers her a compromise giving her a position with all the power and responsibility she desires with the sole proviso that someone else with better people skills (particularly with children) acts as the figurehead of the company, she turns this down using a Precision F-Strike purely because she doesn't get to be the face of Santa Inc.
• Funny Moments:
  • According to Candy, more kids in America believe in Santa Claus than vaccines or the Holocaust. Santa approves, though hastily adds not so for what that says about America.
  • Candy insults Santa and his friends by saying the women of the North Pole make fun of one of their dicks and leaves them to figure out which one.
  • "IIII'M gonna melt ya down, drink ya like a shot of vodka, AND PISS YOU INTO A GUTTEEEEERRRRR!!!"
• Informed Wrongness: The most famous, and considered by many people the only good scene from Santa Inc. has Santa explaining using good detail and facts why he didn't pick Candy to be the next Santa (that her personality wouldn't work well with kids) and offering a reasonable compromise, only for Candy to tell him to go fuck himself without any actual counterarguments that she or the show present as to why Santa is being unreasonable, the problem being that you're supposed to see Candy as entirely in the right. This scene could have actually worked out better if Candy went through an arc having to apologize or at least it was shown as a more two-sided conflict. She makes a very fleeting offer to "learn" to be less of a Child Hater, but that's as far as she takes her humility.
• Rooting for the Empire: Despite Santa being a character the audience is unambiguously meant to hate, some people consider him to be the only likable character in the entire series thanks to having more depth to his character than just a few traits and his decision to pass on Candy as his successor being based on sound logic.
• Signature Scene: Santa's explanation to Candy in the sixth episode that she doesn't enjoy being with children—which is why he selected Devin to be his successor instead of her—while offering her a position as Devin's manager because she is a great businesswoman, is generally agreed to be the best scene in the entire show. However, it's also infamous for ending with Candy callously telling Santa to "Go fuck yourself" and being treated as in the right despite Santa's explanation being perfectly reasonable to most viewers.
• Special Effect Failure: The show's post-production effects aren't great.
  • Many of the lip movements were quite obviously added in post-production. With Candy, it's quite noticeable in some shots that her mouth is much smoother and flatter than the rest of her face.
  • The green-screening is somewhat crudely done. Parts of the green-screen are still visible from when the models were chroma keyed onto the background in some shots and there are visible artifacts from when they were cropped in.
• Strawman Has a Point: Santa's reasoning for not letting Candy be the next Santa is revealed to not be because of her gender, but simply because she isn't good with children like Devin is, and points out that she's still a competent businesswoman who can work behind the scenes in training Devin to be a good Santa. Even though he did turn out to be a drug peddling kingpin that took bribes, Santa never once was shown to dislike children, so he wasn't even being a hypocrite and was completely genuine in that regard. He actually decides to grant her a position as a behind-the-scenes manager, in an attempt to make a compromise. Despite this logical reasoning, Santa is still portrayed as wrong for passing on Candy as his successor, and Candy refusing his offer with a blunt "Go fuck yourself" — which the scene treats as a Crowning Moment of Awesome for defying the Behind Every Great Man trope — instead comes off as an Ignored Epiphany despite being portrayed as right for doing so.
• Tainted by the Preview: The series quickly became infamous on YouTube just a few days after the first trailer dropped for its extremely crude humor and anvilicious nature. Being made by the crew behind Sausage Party (itself an incredibly polarizing film due to its crude humor and very Troubled Production) added to the controversy.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot:
  • Many viewers agree the best scene to be Santa telling Candy why he made Devin the next Santa instead of her, as his reasoning is extremely logical (Candy simply isn't good with children), and he allows her to still have an important role making business decisions. This would have made for great character development for Candy, and a good deconstruction of hiring for diversity reasons alone, if the scene hadn't ended with Candy telling Santa to go fuck himself and Santa hadn't ended up becoming an antagonist afterward.
  • Hell, some people argue that her telling Santa to go fuck himself could have still worked, if the show had the scene played as if she was making a mistake and letting her resentment get the best of her. Instead the show plays it up as a Crowning Moment of Awesome, and even resorts to derailing Santa's character in the next episodes just to try and make the audience side with her decision.
• Uncertain Audience: The show wants to be a crude humor Sadist Show and a Feminist Fantasy, but it fails to do so because the blending of the two means its main character (and pretty much everyone else) is impossible to care about, coupled with how stop-motion animation featuring swearing and adult humor has become overplayed for years, making the show feel dead on arrival. It wants to depict old ways of thinking as wrong and call out blatant sexism, despite that the main character is given solid reasons why she was passed over. By contrast, there is also an attempted character arc with Candy distancing herself from her friends and family and apologising, despite the lampshaded unlikability of all factions. As such it is unclear whether the show is a satire of victimhood or playing it by-the-numbers.
• Unintentionally Sympathetic: The series goes out of its way to try and portray Santa as the bad guy, making him crass, corrupt and egotistical, however, many reviewers of the series have stated that, out of the entire cast, he is the only character they actually sympathise with. He genuinely seems to want the best for Santa Inc. and is more than willing to give Candy a shot at his job. When he finally decides to give the job to Devin his reasoning for doing so is fairly sound and he’s even willing to offer a compromise. It has been noted by a number of viewers that Santa seems to have the most character depth out of anyone in the series.
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic: Candy is the main character, and all she wants to do is become the next Santa. However, she is continuously shown to be rude, conceited, bad with children (which is a major factor for New Santas), selfish, obnoxious, and entitled to the position of Santa, even after her predecessor gave her solid reasoning for his choice. She clearly wants the job not because she wants the responsibility of the job, but because she wanted to prove that she could get it despite past successors and break the glass ceiling. The biggest part of the job (being an icon for children) she didn't care about. It's also difficult to root for someone who commits vehicular manslaughter on Rudolph Jr. and leave him for dead because he was rude and sexist.
• What Do You Mean, It's Not for Kids?: It's an animated Christmas show done in the style of classic holiday specials like the Rankin/Bass presentations of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and The Little Drummer Boy. It's also got a whole sleigh full of political themes that would fly like reindeer over most kids' heads, adult content such as references to drugs and sex, lots of nudity, and a lot of very crude jokes. Some confusion from parents is to be expected.

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