The Lorax/YMMV

• Anvilicious: The book is constantly telling you the importance of nature. Although, that is very much the point. To many, this is part of its charm.
• Downer Ending: Though one that ends on a hopeful note ("UNLESS").
• Straw Man Has a Point: In the TV special, the Once-Ler says that he can't just shut down the plant and lay off ten thousand workers because its bad for the country.
• Strawman Political: The "nature" depicted has no bugs, parasites, diseases, dangerous animals or anything "icky" about it like any real wilderness, it's completely an unrealistically ideal portrait of nature. Also, it fails to account for the fact that businesses have a bona fide profit motivation to protect the wilderness, at least the part of it they're using (if the Once-ler had been smart with his business plans they would have included replanting trees, it's just common sense).
  • He's the Once-ler because his strategy is good if you're amoral and only care about making money ONCE (rather than continuously).
• Tear Jerker
  • Any of the reprises played during the exoduses of the Barbaloots, Swamy-swams, Hummingfish and Once-Lers. Also the song Once-Ler sings when he's analyzing himself, guilty of what he's done and personally ashamed to be a Once-Ler.