it's ok to want things to be great and to want yourself to be great in making or doing something similar (which is all criticism is really about, anyway)
Chowder and Flapjack are the most "you had to be there" cartoons in existence. I believe every human who grew up with them emerged a different person. Your brain shaping itself around it the surrealism in front of you. Your parents asking you what the hell you're watching
Even as a kid I knew "she's gonna live with the diamonds now" was a weird thing to portray as a happy ending... and then the next time we see her she's just high ๐