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* [[Nightmare Fuel]]: The [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] gives the film rather disturbing implications.
** Also if you put some scenes to scary music, they could easily be from a horror movie.
** It's normal for a small child to have loud, screeching [[Squick|gore and scat]] fantasies about her mother, right?
{{quote| '''Fred:''' I'm not afraid of the Megabeast! <br />
'''Young Lizzie:''' I'm not either, when she comes in here we'll make her eat up all this mud! <br />
'''Fred:''' Yeah... and then we'll [[Off Withwith His Head|cut her head off]]... <br />
'''Young Lizzie:''' ...with [[Cherry Tapping|scissors]]... <br />
'''Fred:''' Yeah... [[Insane Troll Logic|and then we'll make her eat it.]]<br />
'''Young Lizzie:''' ...make her eat her own head... with what? <br />
'''Fred:''' Oh yeah, well I'll eat her head then. <br />
'''Young Lizzie:''' And I'll [[I'm a Humanitarian|eat the rest of her]]! <br />
'''Fred:''' Yeah! And then we'll get up and [[Nausea Fuel|poo her all over the table]] cause we're not afraid of anything!<br />
'''Young Lizzie:''' Yeah, yeah, YEAH! }}
* [[Alternate Character Interpretation]]/[[Fridge Horror]]: It isn't much of a stretch to imagine Lizzie as severely schizophrenic (especially when her interactions with Fred cause her to act in extremely erratic and destructive ways).
** When you look at Lizzie's childhood, she lives with a mean mother and rebels against her - except with Fred doing the rebelling for her. When she takes drugs as an adult to make her stop imagining Fred, Fred becomes lethargic. If you think of Fred as Lizzie's subconscious, it becomes a very depressing and disturbing film.
* [[Angst? What Angst?]]: Janie loses her home and every single possession she has. Her response: A mildly irritated sigh and then moving on.
** Actually Janie tried to kill Fred. It doesn't really make much more sense in context.
*** Unless she was lashing out at Fred in order to not lash out at her friend, who was clearly having serious problems.