The Ugly Barnacle/YMMV
- Alas, Poor Scrappy: Yes, the barnacle is really ugly, but you have to feel sorry for him when you get to his implied death.
- Alternative Character Interpretation: Is the barnacle a pitiful woobie, or pure evil?
- Does "Everyone" refer to everybody in the world, or a single person named Everyone?
- Awesome Music: "A Day At The Sea", the music that plays during Bill Fagerbakke's narration.
- Also, this fan remix.
- And this one.
- Complete Monster: One interpretation of the barnacle.
- Esoteric Happy Ending: Implied by Patrick's cheery expression at the end.
- Family-Unfriendly Aesop: If you are ugly, everyone you know - and billions of people you don't - will die. Sweet dreams!
- Funny Moments: The barnacle was so ugly that everyone died.
- It Was His Sled: Good luck finding someone who knows about this story without knowing its ending.
- Jerkass Woobie: One interpretation of the titular barnacle.
- Moment of Awesome: The barnacle single-handedly killing everyone.
- Even more awesome when you consider that barnacles don't have hands.
- Barnacles have prehensile penises several times the length of the rest of the barnacle. He may have used that instead.
- Even more awesome when you consider that barnacles don't have hands.
- Moral Event Horizon: One interpretation of the death of everyone is that the barnacle killed them.
- Nightmare Fuel: Yes, you too could be so disgustingly ugly that your loved ones all die.
- Not just your loved ones - everyone.
- Shaggy Dog Story: Averted completely. It really was that ugly.
- Tear Jerker: Everyone dying due to the barnacle's ugliness.
- True Art Is Angsty
- Ugly Cute: Fan Art depicting the barnacle as The Woobie will often depict it as this.
- What Do You Mean It's for Kids?: Everyone died. But it is a children's story.
- The Woobie: The aforementioned ugly barnacle.
- Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: A combination of the two most popular interpretations.