Angela Anaconda

About

Angela Anaconda is a Canadian cut-out animated series. The series ran for 65 episodes across three seasons. Angela Anaconda has also been a topic of interest and criticism online due to a short episode that ran before Digimon: The Movie.

History

Angela Anaconda began as a short-form animated series on the first season of the cartoon anthology series KaBlam!, which aired on Nickelodeon between 1996 and 2000. The series remained on KaBlam! until 2000 when Angela Anaconda was given its own spinoff series.

On October 4th, 1999, the official Angela Anaconda series premiered on the Fox Family channel (episode below). The series for 65 episodes, concluding on December 10th, 2001 after three seasons.^[1]

Reception

The series received both high ratings and was nominated for two daytime Emmy awards. In 2000, it won an Annecy Award and a Gemini Award for Best TV Animation Program Best Animated and Best Animated Program or Series, respectively.

Digimon: The Movie Short

On October 6th, 2000, the film Digimon: The Movie was released in the United States. An Angela Anaconda short cartoon precedes the film, featuring Anaconda and her friends attempting to go see Digimon before realizing that they are in the wrong theater.

On November 11th, 2011, YouTuber RobertsRollerCoaster posted the cartoon. The video received more than 170,000 views in less than a decade (shown below).

The cartoon became the source of much criticism online. On January 18th, 2014, the website TheOtaku.com^[2] entitled "Urban Legends: How Angela Anaconda Ruined Digimon." In the post, they wrote, "This is pretty much how Anime haters pictured Digimon and that's a sad thing to comment on; it certainly didn't set us up well for the film, if anything we all felt put off by it. Not that the film is any better, it was a huge mess of a story anyway but that's for another review."

Greentext Story

On June 3rd, 2018, an anonymous 4chan ^[3] user in the /co/ message board posted a Greentext Story about how the Angela Anaconda short ruined his parents marriage. It reads:

>Didn't know at the time that parents relationship was rocky
>I beg to go see Digimon movie
>Parents agree but I don't realize it's for them to spend some time together as well
>Get to theater and excited about Digimon flick
>Can even afford popcorn and drinks
>Parents look happy
>Angela Anaconda short comes on
>Parents also dont speak very good English
>My lil boy mind can't comprehend all the fuck going on
>Parents are utterly confused by this Canadian fuck running around in a Digimon suit
>I start crying and they pull me out of the theater
>Mom and Dad start blaming each other for going to the wrong film
>Dad throws away the popcorn Mom wanted
>Lots of arguing and I'm stll crying
>Get out to parking lot and drive off in a rush
>Get into an accident in parking lot
>Dad moves out a month later

Fucking bitch of a whore Angela Anaconda ruined my life

The following year, on July 3rd, 2019, Tumblr ^[4] user official-mugi shared the greentext story as part of an example of why people dislike Angela Anaconda. The post received more than 44,000 notes in less than two months (shown below).

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