I just can't get over how, despite what you'd expect, "House Fancy" was written by OLDER writers and "Krabby Road" was written by NEWER writers. It kinda shatters the classic narrative of new blood destroying the franchise. If anything, it seems the new writers were more cautious about living up to network expectations and the old writers are like "Whatever. We've been here for years. Everything we write is gold, and if it's not, who's gonna stop us?" Incidentally, "Squid Baby" was co-written by Mr. Lawrence.
It feels less like the old writers don't give a shit, and more like they're just really fucking exhausted by all these absurdly long seasons they have to write for. Whereas the newer writers are coming in fresh, because they haven't been worn down into a shallow husk by Nickelodeon... yet...
@@Dragonage2ftw The way in-universe severe swear words are portrayed in Spongebob are just dolphin noises (e.g. the episode 'Sailor Mouth'). Since Gordon Ramsey is known for his...excessive usage of colourful language, him being a dolphin that makes dolphin sounds would be fitting and very funny.
I do actually like how patricks fear of mascot costumes has been really consistent throughout the whole show. He was terrified to be near the glove world mascot in a s5 episode I believe
Confession: I skipped over Henry’s first episode because I wanted to go see it myself, but I accidentally let it play a bit in the middle while skipping, and let me tell you, I just lost it hearing “the Krabby Patties have begun to revolt” with no context
God remember when patrick was actually a fun character and not a torture device whose stupidity causes pain to spongebob and somehow suffers no concequences for any actions
The thing that fucks me up the most about the krusty sponge is that I basically unknowingly predicted it in 2003 with a crudely drawn krusty krab covered in stickers of sponebob's face (specifically one of said stickers replacing the sign and me writing the actual words "the krusty sponge" above it). Creating plots a 6-year-old could make up is probably sign your series is starting to go downhill, but that's just me.
The first half of this episode of SPONGEBON BOOOOOYZ: Patrick carrying the entire fucking ocean on his back with the comedy The second half: _get ze flammenwerfer_
There was an episode of Arthur with a fucked up opening. Arthur is on a bus and he asks the driver when the bus stops. The drivers says it never stops, and Arthur responds “Thats Illegal!” The drivers says “oh really?” And turns around revealing a fucking Cthulhu mouth. The rest of the passengers close in on a screaming Arthur as it’s revealed the bus is a space ship. Who else remembers this?!
My biggest cartoon-induced trauma came from Spongebob itself, from the episode “The Inside Job” If you haven’t seen it, in the episode involved Plankton going into Spongebob’s body to try and steal the formula, and throughout the episode, Plankton unplug’s Spongebob’s organs to tap into them, making Spongebob go blind and deaf temporarily. At another point in the episode, Plankton went inside of Spongebob’s brain and saw a brain version of Spongebob’s house. The brain house had a brain Gary that made a dry-heaving meowing sound that scared the shit out of me. It’s not the *worst* thing that’s happened on the show, but it creeped me out so much as a kid, and ended up getting burned into my memory, to the point where I still remember exactly what I was wearing when I first watched it. I was in fifth grade when I saw it.
The thing that always creeped me out was the “Cheap Walk Cycles” scene from the Lost Episode episode. I dunno why, that, plus the angry face Patchy made close up to the camera after, _to this day_ , *terrifies me* . I legitimately cannot watch it, I have to turn away. I have no clue why.
I can definitely see that, it's one of my favorite moments of the show because of how absurd it is and I've always found it hilarious, but that absurdity is probably also why it can be confusing and scary for some kids
For episodes that creeped me out as a kid, they're honestly both Spongebob episodes. Them being Spongehenge and Gone, both of which terrifying me in different ways. Gone just had this horribly uncomfortable atmosphere, which persisted throughout the episode, even in just the title card. Like, the fact that the opening card is just so fucking creepy and ominous to look at, with that inappropriately cheery music playing over it felt like something only my most dark and twisted nightmares could've come up with. And, because of that, even today I feel myself recoil at literally any *frame* of the episode it just messed me up that badly. Spongehenge, meanwhile, was the first episode of a cartoon to fill me with actual existential dread as a child. The episode somehow invited the idea in my mind that life is truly meaningless, death is inevitable, and ultimately your life struggles will have little consequence on the world after death. So while it didn't "scare" me per se, it may have been the catalyst to the depressive/suicidal/nihilistic phase I had in my teen years... which is definitely worth something I guess.
@@Howdyasdo right? I remember an episode of fairly odd parents that gave me a weird feeling as a kid, it was the one where Timmy wishes that everyone looked the same and then the whole world was black and white and everyone was a grey blob. Something about it was just so depressing and off-putting but I liked that tbh
Your elf what do you mean your elf? Your wife? Or your husband? Your NB partner? Your lovecraftian lover? Your Ace bestie? Bob of accounting? Sauron the cat? The heck is your elf!
The weirdest cartoon I remember was the Veggie Tales episode "The Wonderful World of Autotainment." It was an episode from the classic era of the show, but I never actually knew it existed until I was an adult. I've always been a fan of the show, and I was surprised there was one that I had completely missed, so I put it on and... it was a hell of a ride. The episode starts with Larry refusing to sing the theme song, and then quickly devolves into him shoving the entire Veggietales cast into a machine and hiring the ventriloquist robot from 3, 2, 1, Penguins in order to host randomized comedy shorts. It was a bizarre, meta fever dream and I left it with a weird questioning of what was real and what was fake.
Patrick's got that sigma male grindset. 'Why work on your own financial interests when you could do unpaid marketing work for a company that you aren't even employed by'
@@baxterjaye3984 This is like me and uncanny valley, if I look at Delgo I’m like: Meh. But as soon as I look at the ATP Engineers from Madness Accelerant I’m like /&;&&4819020(9!32’
My entry for: “Cartoon Scene That Gives Me Chills” was the finale of The Amazing World of Gumball. Basically, the whole episode is about the show’s main villain turning all the cartoon characters human for an unknown reason. The final scene of the episode has the villain, alone, talking to himself about how he needed everyone to turn human in orders to escape this world before it was destroyed. Suddenly, the ground beneath him collapses and he falls into a void of static. The episode freezes on the image of the guy screaming as he falls, and then it just plays a few creepy notes and cuts to black. It still makes me uncomfortable to this day.
There's used to be this show called mighty bee and there was an episode where the main character gets her diary stolen, and there's this sort of dream sequence where she's imagining a nightmare scenario in which these bullies are reading her diary and they're just regular humans but they're fucking pulling out their eyeballs out of their head with the nerves still atached and they're holding them and looking through diary, that fucked me up as a kid.
I remember a weird scene from Ben Ten where an alien villain ate another species of alien's child whole. The creepiest thing about it was that after he did it the heroes stared at him for like five whole seconds just completely shocked. And even when they asked him WTF that was about he just replied to them casually with a big grin on his face. I had nightmares about that to be honest.
@@off-the-grounder568 First time I ever saw him get that angry at somebody and legitimately threaten to kill them, but him actually jumping in and coming out again happened too fast for me to react to.
The worst thing is when I clicked on one of the images when googling squid baby, The similar pictures tab had an image labeled "suicidal SpongeBob episode" and on the picture was a withered squidward and what appeared to be a 10ft acid jar.
You were standing on the edge of the abyss my friend, thank the merciful gods you didn’t take the dive. There are things on the internet that simply must not be seen, lest our already fragile civilization crumble and we return to the blissful ignorance of a new dark age.
Adventure time. Theres an episode where Finn has multiple recurring nightmares. They like go inside his subconscious mind to see what it is and they figure out he was this girl from a previous reincarnation and she fell into the toxic waste waters and slowly crawled out as her bones turned to mush as she moved closer to where the treehouse was. Then its revealed that like directly under Finn's bed is her fucking dessicated skelenton kept there all these years just out of sight.
Ho man...that was a trip and a half. It's crazy to hear you guys go from so bubbly and excited when talking about earlier episodes to just...utterly defeated when presented with "Squid Baby." Agh
I don't really have much to say for childhood traumas in cartoons and stuff. 'Cept the "You're Not Perfect" scene in Courage gave me the heebie jeebies but that's the basic answer honestly. Everyone has 'that one scene' that spooked 'em. I think I remember being kinda spooked by the one goosebumps episode, the one with the Halloween masks. Somewhat related but not cartoons, I remember for some god forsaken reason the one infamous screamer video of the car driving through the forest airing on my TV. I recognized it because my sister just casually traumatized me with those online screamer shit because it was funny to her, and I recognized it immediately. I stood there frozen in fear knowing exactly what was gonna happen. When that screamer did happen I remember running to my Mom (Who had just came out from the bathroom) bawling my eyes out because of it, and wanting so badly for the channel to be changed but we couldn't because it was recording a football game for my Dad. Kinda wish we still had that recording but it is loooong gone. Just would like to make sure I am not crazy. Because I now know that that screamer was for a German commercial for some German energy drink/ coffee (Forgot which).. so.. why was it on air on American television?
Oh god.. I remember this one episode of Billy and Mandy where Mandy goes into this creepy old house after Billy and Irwin throw a baseball(?) past its fence. Grim tells the kids the house is haunted by an old lady's spirit. She goes in and everything is super clean and cozy-looking; she meets this woman who's really nice to her and helps her get the ball back, but when Mandy leaves and comes back everything is covered in cobwebs and dusty and the old woman is gone. What made it so unsettling was that everything was played completely straight instead of goofy like all the other darker moments. That episode scared the fuck out of me when I was a kid and thinking about it STILL creeps me out...
One of the things that freaked me out as a kid from a cartoon was a hey Arnold episode. I forget the name and a bit of the plot but it was about the kids going to the cemetery to see the ghost of a bride who was left at the alter because her ex fiancé wanted to be with her sister. So she decapitated them and then killed herself by jumping out the window and throughout the episode it was a double prank before ending with the ghost bride being real. That shit scared me a lot that even to this day, I don’t think it was real.
I distinctly remember watching this one episode of a cartoon which I had never seen before or since called Tak and the Power of Juju. The episode was in this old vaguely uncanny 3D style and focused on some character enchanting his tooth to pull itself out, but then all his teeth started pulling themselves out in his sleep, and I think they became evil and tried to kill him? As far as I can remember it happened to the rest of the village’s teeth too. I just distinctly remember how nauseous and terrified the whole episode made me feel. The teeth were unpleasantly realistic and I think in some scenes still had nerves attached. I remember having nightmares about my own teeth trying to kill me for a while after that.
My moment like that was in the speed racer anime. The girlfriend character has a nightmare where she sees speed racer and comes up to him and he turns around and has a blue demon face. Terrifying for me at 8 years old
Morgan Moonscar reanimating infront of shaggy and scooby. I had zombie nightmares on and off for 10 years after that scene also, my mother once told me i'd hide behind the couch whenever a scene from Pete's Dragon was on. i don't have the foggiest which one tho
Childhood Cartoon Trauma for me was the Candy Wife from Flapjack. I don't know why exactly, but I remember an episode where it cuts back to her in like a different angle sitting at a roundtable. She just gave me Cadaver vibes and I don't know why.
That moment of a cartoon episode just not being right for me is probably the one from tom and jerry where they're in like a three musketeers type scenario, but at the end, because tom failed to catch the mice, you just see a guillotine drop in the background and it's dead silent, then the smaller mouse says "poor, poor pussycat" or something like that and then the episode ends
@@mikaroni_and_cheez more than one. Spoilers: there are many and become food for the people of the town apocalypse. Also the protag's brother becomes one. But like this supposed to be messed up.
I don’t believe Lexie, or any comment has said this, but I just watched the episode, and the the ball strait up whistles nonchalantly while Gary tries leaving. The Ball IS ALIVE!!
Also the moment you uttered "Squid Baby" I had a *fight or flight* response. I wanted to *forget* about that episode's existence, and I hate that it's been brought back into my memory.
You know, the fact that the formula in krabby Road is just nonsense implies an interesting theroy: What if the formula housed in the krusty krab is just a Decoy? When you think about it it makes more sense for Mr. Krabs to store it in his house or better yet just have it memorised. Imagine plankton finally obtaining the formula only to find a page of complete jibberish. He may even think it's some kind of cipher and waste hours trying to decode it.
A nightmarish scene I remember messing with me for a long time was from when I was extremely young, which was from this 3d animated carebears movie? I have absolutely no recollection of what its name was, but I remember there was like a palace or something and the bear with a sun symbol laid on this super plush bed, and it was apparently so plush that he literally sank all the way through it with a tired sigh. Scared me a lot when I was super young, I thought he literally died right then, like the bed was quicksand but more insidious because beds aren't supposed to be dangerous. I became too afraid to sleep in my bed alone because I thought it'd absorb me or something, and it took a couple years for me to get over it The rest of the horrifying cartoon scenes I got spooked by was stuff I'd seen from the internet, so I'm not sure that counts :P the last part of this episode made my soul leave my body to wither, I will never watch spongebob again, thank you for your sacrifice
I got nightmares from an episode of Rugrats: All Grown Up. It's a two-parter where they go to an acting camp telling the story of settlers that disappeared in the area, and long story short, one of the kids at the camp was the ghost of one of the settlers and they literally find their skeletons. When they get home and watch the tape Tommy made of their time, it does a weird The Ring parody with the ghost kid, and that moment stuck with me.
The weird childhood cartoon ep that spooked me was that episode of SpongeBob where squidward and SpongeBob had to share a locker. Also that one part of the time travel squidward episode where he ends up in white abstract space
Gus: "It went straight to his thighs!!" *beat* Me, pavlovianly: "His thighs?" *beat* Henry: "and *then* he swole up" *[cue my drink spilling over my clothes cause i laughed too hard]*
This isn't nessesarily a horror moment from a cartoon ,but more an existential moment . The amazing world of gumball was generally a light hearted show with some pretty wacky humour ,but there was one episode I watched when I was like 8 or 10 years old ,and I don't know if anyone else remembers this episode ,but it's the one where gumball and Darwin think the world is going to end by sunset ,and the entire episode sets up the entire idea of this happening ,and it terrified me , 11 minutes worth of me coming to terms with the idea that the entire world of a cartoon I loved watching was going to end ,and it genuinely made me panicky because I'd never watched anything that made me think of "the end of the world " before and obviously the end of the episode reveals that gumball was wrong about the whole thing and it ends comedically ,but before that I felt a genuine existential fear of what was about to happen
The funny thing is, the whole time you were supposed to already know that this wasn’t going to happen because bobert, their source, never actually claimed that there was actually going to be an apocalypse, they just thought he did.
2:25:23 the tickle me mandy episode was part of the Scaretoon Scaretoon Fright-Days halloween event in 2002 that featured new courage and grim & evil episodes after a scooby doo movie each week. While I don't remember that one, I do remember the Invaded crossover event in 2007. I had a pretty intense fear of aliens at the time so seeing my favorite characters from 5 different shows all be attacked and abducted was both cool and upsetting (fun fact: apparently the event was sponsored by kraft cheese but they backed out at the last minute lol). Edit: also not specifically a cartoon, but my dad made the Very Wise decision to let me read his old Duckman comics when I was 10. Aside from seeing a ceo duck get his brains blown out within the first 5 pages, there was one story where Duckman was trying to forget something traumatic, which was visualized as a running showerhead. It climaxed with him confronting it again in a Psycho-esque series of visuals before revealing the gag that it was just walking in on someone he knew in the shower. While it seems dumb in hindsight, just the tone and presentation of it all still makes me feel a bit uneasy and sick.
It is 2:30 AM and I have heard things I cannot unhear. The depths of the fanart hellholes have been dredged to the surface by the writers of spongebob, and now no one is safe. "There is no god; I want a refund on life" indeed
The horrific childhood memory for me was from the Brave Little Toaster in the junkyard. That giant magnet TERRIFIED me. I rewatched the movie recently and didn't feel the terror from it, but the song they sing super depressing and clearly had undertones a child wouldn't understand that just hit the existential dread hard.
God when you guys started talking about cartoon shit that messed you up as a kid all I could think about is catching a scene in an invader zim episode (a show that I had no context for at the time because I was really young) where a kid fucking full on dies and he had to get resuscitated with a defibrillator and his lifeless body got flailed around with the force of the shocks.
Childhood trauma? If Courage is cheating then... There was this episode of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack that kinda still bothers me. I don't remember the name of the episode but when I mention "The cat" I'm hoping there are people who know what I'm referring to. Hyper realistic, pitch-black voids for eyes, razor sharp teeth. Solidified my fear of pitch black holes being where they shouldn't (like where eyes or a mouth should be). That and "into the body" episodes. Something just felt so wrong about those.
Honestly, the only cartoon episode that really scared me was the spongebob episode with the butterfly. Like, the one where theres a few closeups of a real butterfly face and a loud buzzing noise? I was so rooting for everyone to destroy it. And still, years later, butterflies still scare the shit out of me.
2:26:05 okay so a weird episode of a cartoon that i recall is this one Johnny Test episode where he somehow is transported into the finale of his favorite action movie series without knowing how it ends, i think just because he thought it would be cool or something? so he is in the car with the two main action hero characters and they are in some kind of a car chase scene, but then its revealed that the series ends with the two characters committing double suicide by driving off of a cliff. so the climax is them having to figure out how to get him out before the mains off themselves. wild. i don't remember how it ended i just remember having an out of body experience when that was revealed.
I have two main childhood trauma cartoons. One was an episode of courage the cowardly dog, the Return the Slab one. Made me cry in front of my younger siblings didn't make them think i was very cool. The second one was this like, old alvin and the chipmunks i think holiday special? It may have been on cartoon network when they needed to just license something for an afternoon time slot. The thing that fucked me up, was that The chipmunks encountered this Jet Black Boar with red eyes, bloodstained tusks and tatters of fabric hanging from its hooves and tusks, and they were directly attacked by it, like it tries to kill them. They then meet their mom who lives in this forest, and following them all going outside, she seems to get murdered by the boar after shoving the boys into the river to save them. Shes fine but theyre grieving, and theres this 20 minute segment where you genuinely think that their mom just got gored and eaten by a giant terrifying boar. You see dave interact with it way later its like up to his chest its not just chipmunk big. And THAT always fucked me up
So this isn't a cartoon episode, but I remember as a kid watching the episode of Suite Life of Zack and Cody called "Ghost of 613" and the premise of the episode is that zack dares cody to stay a night in this supposed haunted room of the hotel. there's this one shot where they shine a flashlight on a portrait of the woman who is supposed to haunt the room and it turns from a regular picture to being an actress who moves to look towards the characters, and that small bit of the episode gave me that same feeling that y'all described with other shows.
I was scared by the foot fungus episode of Courage because I dislike the idea that something could grow on me and process me. Similarity "I was a Teenage Gary" also scared me as a kid.
the cartoon that scarred me as a kid was this one episode of Arthur where DW thinks everyone who eats spinach turns into a zombie. Even though at the end of the episode it was just a dream, I was so terrified that I couldn’t bring myself to eat spinach again until collebe
I had a similar experience with another kids show I don't remember, where in a nightmare of the main character every adult had an evil cabbage for a head. Stuck with me for a few days after that.
For cartoons that scared the shit outa me as a kid, I think of Aladdin the series on the Disney afternoon. There were several episodes where the characters would transform into animals. The two that stick out in my mind were the one's where Jasmine turned into a snake, and the one where Aladdin turned into a shark and they freaked me the hell out because they weren't just "poof! Now you've transformed!" They were slow body horror transformations, where they changed a little bit over time, and it was against their will, they had no idea why it was happening or what it even was, and there was screaming involved.
Cartoon-induced trauma: There was an episode of the Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack that had a scene where our main characters had a saltwater-induced hallucination that the island they were heading to sunk into the ocean and their raft was falling off the edge of the world. There was a whole reveal that the world was just Poseidon's giant bathtub as they were falling, also the sail on their raft turned into a guy just kinda clinging to the mast, and the whole sequence was rendered just in red lineart on a black background. gave me nightmares and i just had to google a clip of it to make sure it wasn't something my kid brain made up.
Here is my childhood horror story, the Disney adaptation of the Black Cauldron. The main antagonist was terrifying with his presence and when he rose an army of the dead i spent several nights watching my wardrobe as my cloths that were hung up looked like the outlines of the skeletal warriors.
there was a show called Oobie that was hand puppets with no cloth, just hands with googly eyes. there was an episode where one of the hands had recurring nightmares, and there wasnt anything visually disturbing about them, but the music and imagery was so surreal and uncanny that it kept me awake the night i saw it and gave 5 year old me nightmares
I always wondered what that show was called. I don't recall that episode but I have a memory of a scene where a hand with googly eyes and a foot with googly eyes learn how to play ball together.
The most disturbing moment in animation for me wasn’t a tv show, but some animated movie. I can’t remember much about it, but this one scene fucked me up. There’s this magic forest girl, and she’s helping the protagonist get into some evil old crazy place to get something, and as she’s opening the path, the forest goes cold in appearance, wind goes crazy, things get ominous. And right before the guy goes into the hole, she looks up and she is ancient and withered and wrinkled and looks on the verge of death. I can’t do the scene justice, it scared me.
the spongebob episode that scarred me was the one where sandy dared them to go up on land and i think its because the live action toys they used to represent squidward and mr krabs scared me, a big part of that probably being that I was scared of crustaceans as a kid, and also the jarring live action footage.
When I was younger, the last logo after the movie on a DVD copy of Happy feet 2 had a slightly frightening puffin where it shouldn't be, followed immediately by warning screens (for piracy and stuff) Chilling
The un skippible piracy warnings are still freaky and I'm old. Just the silence, black and red screen. Also there was an anti piracy ad that featured the happy feet poster slowly burning in a black void. Funny coincidence. You can easily find it on youTube :)
I just can't get over how, despite what you'd expect, "House Fancy" was written by OLDER writers and "Krabby Road" was written by NEWER writers. It kinda shatters the classic narrative of new blood destroying the franchise. If anything, it seems the new writers were more cautious about living up to network expectations and the old writers are like "Whatever. We've been here for years. Everything we write is gold, and if it's not, who's gonna stop us?"
Incidentally, "Squid Baby" was co-written by Mr. Lawrence.
Maybe that's why Plankton's not in that episode...
It feels less like the old writers don't give a shit, and more like they're just really fucking exhausted by all these absurdly long seasons they have to write for. Whereas the newer writers are coming in fresh, because they haven't been worn down into a shallow husk by Nickelodeon... yet...
"Krabby Road" is now forever immortalized in Nickelodeon All Stars Brawl. Patrick's taunt is his Belly Drum.
We are born of the writers
Made men by the writers
Undone by the writers
Our pores are yet to open
Fear the old writers
if they made a Gordon Ramsay parody in Spongebob, the clever thing to do would be making him a dolphin.
I don’t get it.
@@Dragonage2ftw The way in-universe severe swear words are portrayed in Spongebob are just dolphin noises (e.g. the episode 'Sailor Mouth'). Since Gordon Ramsey is known for his...excessive usage of colourful language, him being a dolphin that makes dolphin sounds would be fitting and very funny.
I agree
Imagine if they made him a kookaburra wearing a sandy suit but instead of the normal swear sound effect they use actual dolphin noises
I do actually like how patricks fear of mascot costumes has been really consistent throughout the whole show. He was terrified to be near the glove world mascot in a s5 episode I believe
I think he liked Glovey at Glove World or something but that might be him just being a Glove World simp
"I HATE YOU, HEART MAN!!"
I love how dramatically Henry describes Squid Baby. Really sells how fucking cursed that episode is
“Nicholas Withers” isn’t a name, it’s just a description of what he does to his victims.
Nobody knows his true last name - they dare not speak it aloud
@@envysart797 I think he gets his power from BILL CYPHER FROM GRAVITY FALLS!!!
@@stingerjohnny9951 maybe he's just the fishsona of that hand villain from my hero
@@envysart797 😰😰😰
Spongebob Boyz is God’s punishment for our sinful ways
Was God high today?
@@Siennarchist I mean who isn’t after all the shit that has happened?
@@stingerjohnny9951 I am legally not allowed to
@@anarchomando7707 NEITHER AM I BUT I AM ANYWAY
Plankton built Karen to be a ball buster on purpose, he's into femdom
No that's Vegeta and bulma's relationship
Karen he's humiliation not bull busting
Me and plankton have something in common.
@@jessbian3385 YOU BOTH WANT TO STEAL THE KRABBY PATTY SECRET FORMULA
It just works
@@rubberduckproductions544 I mean who doesnt
Confession: I skipped over Henry’s first episode because I wanted to go see it myself, but I accidentally let it play a bit in the middle while skipping, and let me tell you, I just lost it hearing “the Krabby Patties have begun to revolt” with no context
I love how the intro is getting more and more unhinged
what is infront of the trans flag? Also, happy pride
@@eattherich5409 best guess is a spider from a horror game
Also happy pride month to all
@@eattherich5409 Thank you! Also it's Evillak from the old Conan cartoon
You know, this actually autoplayed from my recommended, and I decided to give it a chance, and I'm very glad I didn't change the video
Welcome to Hell!
@@henrygalley2831 *What're you people doing in my room?!*
AC = Aqua Conditioning
Now wait a minute you can't just...
Something about Henry saying “Prove it Bitch!” Just gave me life, I replayed it like three times XD
“He hit him so hard it replayed three different times”
God remember when patrick was actually a fun character and not a torture device whose stupidity causes pain to spongebob and somehow suffers no concequences for any actions
Pepridge farm remembers.
The thing that fucks me up the most about the krusty sponge is that I basically unknowingly predicted it in 2003 with a crudely drawn krusty krab covered in stickers of sponebob's face (specifically one of said stickers replacing the sign and me writing the actual words "the krusty sponge" above it).
Creating plots a 6-year-old could make up is probably sign your series is starting to go downhill, but that's just me.
Wow
I never thought I'd hear someone use Elfen Lied to describe a SpongeBob episode
The first half of this episode of SPONGEBON BOOOOOYZ: Patrick carrying the entire fucking ocean on his back with the comedy
The second half: _get ze flammenwerfer_
There was an episode of Arthur with a fucked up opening. Arthur is on a bus and he asks the driver when the bus stops. The drivers says it never stops, and Arthur responds “Thats Illegal!”
The drivers says “oh really?” And turns around revealing a fucking Cthulhu mouth. The rest of the passengers close in on a screaming Arthur as it’s revealed the bus is a space ship.
Who else remembers this?!
very lovecraftian
I think that was revealed to be one of Buster's ramblings.
My biggest cartoon-induced trauma came from Spongebob itself, from the episode “The Inside Job”
If you haven’t seen it, in the episode involved Plankton going into Spongebob’s body to try and steal the formula, and throughout the episode, Plankton unplug’s Spongebob’s organs to tap into them, making Spongebob go blind and deaf temporarily. At another point in the episode, Plankton went inside of Spongebob’s brain and saw a brain version of Spongebob’s house. The brain house had a brain Gary that made a dry-heaving meowing sound that scared the shit out of me.
It’s not the *worst* thing that’s happened on the show, but it creeped me out so much as a kid, and ended up getting burned into my memory, to the point where I still remember exactly what I was wearing when I first watched it. I was in fifth grade when I saw it.
I remember that episode! I liked that one as a kid, I think, but I’m pretty sure they showed it in reruns way too often and I got kinda bored of it.
The thing that always creeped me out was the “Cheap Walk Cycles” scene from the Lost Episode episode. I dunno why, that, plus the angry face Patchy made close up to the camera after, _to this day_ , *terrifies me* . I legitimately cannot watch it, I have to turn away. I have no clue why.
I can definitely see that, it's one of my favorite moments of the show because of how absurd it is and I've always found it hilarious, but that absurdity is probably also why it can be confusing and scary for some kids
@@isaiahromero9861I just think it’s because kids are scared of angry adults.
For episodes that creeped me out as a kid, they're honestly both Spongebob episodes. Them being Spongehenge and Gone, both of which terrifying me in different ways.
Gone just had this horribly uncomfortable atmosphere, which persisted throughout the episode, even in just the title card. Like, the fact that the opening card is just so fucking creepy and ominous to look at, with that inappropriately cheery music playing over it felt like something only my most dark and twisted nightmares could've come up with. And, because of that, even today I feel myself recoil at literally any *frame* of the episode it just messed me up that badly.
Spongehenge, meanwhile, was the first episode of a cartoon to fill me with actual existential dread as a child. The episode somehow invited the idea in my mind that life is truly meaningless, death is inevitable, and ultimately your life struggles will have little consequence on the world after death. So while it didn't "scare" me per se, it may have been the catalyst to the depressive/suicidal/nihilistic phase I had in my teen years... which is definitely worth something I guess.
Yep. Agree with Spongehenge entirely. It’s such an off episode, as if it shouldn’t exist but does.
Whoah I forgot Gone. These kind of vibes are my favourite in media
@@Howdyasdo right? I remember an episode of fairly odd parents that gave me a weird feeling as a kid, it was the one where Timmy wishes that everyone looked the same and then the whole world was black and white and everyone was a grey blob. Something about it was just so depressing and off-putting but I liked that tbh
So I just read the synopses of both of those on the wiki and, Jesus Christ, they both sound like horror stories-
I was not ready to hear Henry say "krussy" or "Steven Hindenburg"
Gene Shallot actuallyy voiced himself in "The Krusty Sponge".
So just like Cisco and Ebert in Godzilla
I legit rolled over and woke my elf up with “baaaabe new spongebob boys...” she rolled back over but IM FUCKIN READY
Your elf what do you mean your elf?
Your wife? Or your husband? Your NB partner? Your lovecraftian lover?
Your Ace bestie?
Bob of accounting?
Sauron the cat?
The heck is your elf!
My elf is my elf, a partner who happens to also be an elf. My elf:
I had a stroke reading this.
@@neseipraxosia832 thank you for your answer
The weirdest cartoon I remember was the Veggie Tales episode "The Wonderful World of Autotainment." It was an episode from the classic era of the show, but I never actually knew it existed until I was an adult. I've always been a fan of the show, and I was surprised there was one that I had completely missed, so I put it on and... it was a hell of a ride. The episode starts with Larry refusing to sing the theme song, and then quickly devolves into him shoving the entire Veggietales cast into a machine and hiring the ventriloquist robot from 3, 2, 1, Penguins in order to host randomized comedy shorts. It was a bizarre, meta fever dream and I left it with a weird questioning of what was real and what was fake.
"In the future, entertainment will be randomly generated."
Weed eater.
Fuckin’ weed eater.
Patrick's got that sigma male grindset.
'Why work on your own financial interests when you could do unpaid marketing work for a company that you aren't even employed by'
Cartoon-induced trauma: I couldn't watch Spongebob's "I Had An Accident" for YEARS because I was terrified of the gorilla.
Oh yeah? What about the toenail scene?
@@presidentraiden9203 Didn't mind the tonail scene. Fucking terrified of the gorilla.
@@baxterjaye3984 This is like me and uncanny valley, if I look at Delgo I’m like: Meh. But as soon as I look at the ATP Engineers from Madness Accelerant I’m like /&;&&4819020(9!32’
Maybe it’s because it’s weird how that thing is just a live action object in an animated settings.
I developed insectophobia and arachnophobia from Wormy
Hold the fuck up, I went back to Sing A Song of Patrick and Squidward's house was 100% on the left of Spongebob's. I double checked!
My only guess is that Gus watched on some illegal streaming site that mirrored the video to avoid copyright issues, lol.
And what's this? The text on all the signs is backwards? Clearly an animation error! I hope somebody got fired for that blunder.
Came here to say this too!
Dread it, Run from it. Sponge bob boys comes all the same
My entry for: “Cartoon Scene That Gives Me Chills” was the finale of The Amazing World of Gumball. Basically, the whole episode is about the show’s main villain turning all the cartoon characters human for an unknown reason. The final scene of the episode has the villain, alone, talking to himself about how he needed everyone to turn human in orders to escape this world before it was destroyed. Suddenly, the ground beneath him collapses and he falls into a void of static. The episode freezes on the image of the guy screaming as he falls, and then it just plays a few creepy notes and cuts to black. It still makes me uncomfortable to this day.
This series will be the closest I'll be to watching this show. Every episode so far has left me thinking "What. The. Fuck.", without fail.
After Squid Baby I just had to sit here in silence and just breathe for a bit. I've aged 50 years in the last 3 hours.
There's used to be this show called mighty bee and there was an episode where the main character gets her diary stolen, and there's this sort of dream sequence where she's imagining a nightmare scenario in which these bullies are reading her diary and they're just regular humans but they're fucking pulling out their eyeballs out of their head with the nerves still atached and they're holding them and looking through diary, that fucked me up as a kid.
I remember a weird scene from Ben Ten where an alien villain ate another species of alien's child whole. The creepiest thing about it was that after he did it the heroes stared at him for like five whole seconds just completely shocked. And even when they asked him WTF that was about he just replied to them casually with a big grin on his face. I had nightmares about that to be honest.
What was your reaction to Ben jumping in after the kid?
@@off-the-grounder568 First time I ever saw him get that angry at somebody and legitimately threaten to kill them, but him actually jumping in and coming out again happened too fast for me to react to.
The worst thing is when I clicked on one of the images when googling squid baby,
The similar pictures tab had an image labeled "suicidal SpongeBob episode"
and on the picture was a withered squidward and what appeared to be a 10ft acid jar.
You were standing on the edge of the abyss my friend, thank the merciful gods you didn’t take the dive. There are things on the internet that simply must not be seen, lest our already fragile civilization crumble and we return to the blissful ignorance of a new dark age.
Sounds like it came from this: ruclips.net/video/Tkb40k1_KYY/видео.html
So there is another "lost episode"? Do you have the link? I'm too scared to google it myself.
This is at least my second time watching this episode and I gotta say that Gus's Patrick impression is really good
Diregentleman are the only people I know who can have fun with taking apart spongebob episodes... for 12 hours!
Baby Squidward...
Why do we share the same timeline, as baby Squidward.
Because god hates us but mostly you.
Horribly good news! Snails typically *do* have teeth in the form of radula! This being the case, Gary could feasibly have thousands of teeth!
Patrick: I'll take a page, and EAT IT!
Adventure time. Theres an episode where Finn has multiple recurring nightmares. They like go inside his subconscious mind to see what it is and they figure out he was this girl from a previous reincarnation and she fell into the toxic waste waters and slowly crawled out as her bones turned to mush as she moved closer to where the treehouse was. Then its revealed that like directly under Finn's bed is her fucking dessicated skelenton kept there all these years just out of sight.
For me the episode of SpongeBob that just felt "off" was Gone from season six.
That one, and also Spongehenge from Season 5
Ho man...that was a trip and a half. It's crazy to hear you guys go from so bubbly and excited when talking about earlier episodes to just...utterly defeated when presented with "Squid Baby." Agh
I think plankton is into humiliation
I don't really have much to say for childhood traumas in cartoons and stuff. 'Cept the "You're Not Perfect" scene in Courage gave me the heebie jeebies but that's the basic answer honestly. Everyone has 'that one scene' that spooked 'em. I think I remember being kinda spooked by the one goosebumps episode, the one with the Halloween masks.
Somewhat related but not cartoons, I remember for some god forsaken reason the one infamous screamer video of the car driving through the forest airing on my TV. I recognized it because my sister just casually traumatized me with those online screamer shit because it was funny to her, and I recognized it immediately. I stood there frozen in fear knowing exactly what was gonna happen. When that screamer did happen I remember running to my Mom (Who had just came out from the bathroom) bawling my eyes out because of it, and wanting so badly for the channel to be changed but we couldn't because it was recording a football game for my Dad.
Kinda wish we still had that recording but it is loooong gone. Just would like to make sure I am not crazy. Because I now know that that screamer was for a German commercial for some German energy drink/ coffee (Forgot which).. so.. why was it on air on American television?
Maybe it was a meme back in the day?
I was terrified of the scary maze game and watched many videos of reactions.
Ah the good times
I wonder how much the character of Patrick influenced into becoming the himbo I am today
Oh god.. I remember this one episode of Billy and Mandy where Mandy goes into this creepy old house after Billy and Irwin throw a baseball(?) past its fence. Grim tells the kids the house is haunted by an old lady's spirit. She goes in and everything is super clean and cozy-looking; she meets this woman who's really nice to her and helps her get the ball back, but when Mandy leaves and comes back everything is covered in cobwebs and dusty and the old woman is gone. What made it so unsettling was that everything was played completely straight instead of goofy like all the other darker moments. That episode scared the fuck out of me when I was a kid and thinking about it STILL creeps me out...
"...She beat death..."
It’s MY sleepover and I get to choose the movie.
“You want me in your band” *REALIZATION* I’ve seen this before
Huh? What is it from?
I realized at the Patrick ponytail gag
Are we blessed or are we cursed to have so much Spongebob boys? Who can say
One of the things that freaked me out as a kid from a cartoon was a hey Arnold episode.
I forget the name and a bit of the plot but it was about the kids going to the cemetery to see the ghost of a bride who was left at the alter because her ex fiancé wanted to be with her sister. So she decapitated them and then killed herself by jumping out the window and throughout the episode it was a double prank before ending with the ghost bride being real.
That shit scared me a lot that even to this day, I don’t think it was real.
The meatballs episode from super robot monkey team hyper force go fucked me up as a kid, "Wonderland Meatballs a surprise in every bite."
I looked it up but apparently Gene Voiced Gene personally.
I distinctly remember watching this one episode of a cartoon which I had never seen before or since called Tak and the Power of Juju. The episode was in this old vaguely uncanny 3D style and focused on some character enchanting his tooth to pull itself out, but then all his teeth started pulling themselves out in his sleep, and I think they became evil and tried to kill him? As far as I can remember it happened to the rest of the village’s teeth too. I just distinctly remember how nauseous and terrified the whole episode made me feel. The teeth were unpleasantly realistic and I think in some scenes still had nerves attached. I remember having nightmares about my own teeth trying to kill me for a while after that.
The “Return the Slab” episode from Courage frightened me as a child.
Fucked me bad, it did.
My moment like that was in the speed racer anime. The girlfriend character has a nightmare where she sees speed racer and comes up to him and he turns around and has a blue demon face.
Terrifying for me at 8 years old
Morgan Moonscar reanimating infront of shaggy and scooby. I had zombie nightmares on and off for 10 years after that scene
also, my mother once told me i'd hide behind the couch whenever a scene from Pete's Dragon was on. i don't have the foggiest which one tho
Childhood Cartoon Trauma for me was the Candy Wife from Flapjack. I don't know why exactly, but I remember an episode where it cuts back to her in like a different angle sitting at a roundtable. She just gave me Cadaver vibes and I don't know why.
Scary episode of a cartoon? Maybe that episode of 16 or 6teen or whatever its called where all the characters die in a zombie outbreak
That moment of a cartoon episode just not being right for me is probably the one from tom and jerry where they're in like a three musketeers type scenario, but at the end, because tom failed to catch the mice, you just see a guillotine drop in the background and it's dead silent, then the smaller mouse says "poor, poor pussycat" or something like that and then the episode ends
"Brain don't function but must do work" wow I think you managed to sum up my experience of any time I have to write something I hate.
2:14:00 also Gary’s shell IS a spiral, holy shit this goes deeper than I thought
I think there was a character in Uzumaki that turned into a weird slimy human/snail
@@mikaroni_and_cheez more than one.
Spoilers: there are many and become food for the people of the town apocalypse. Also the protag's brother becomes one. But like this supposed to be messed up.
@@mikaroni_and_cheez God uzumaki literally changed how I view snails...
3:45 The Krusty Sponge
17:57 Krabby road
54:13 The good krabby name
1:18:14 Sing a song of Patrick Star
1:43:16 Gary's new toy
2:43:22 %&@*# !*(^
I don’t believe Lexie, or any comment has said this, but I just watched the episode, and the the ball strait up whistles nonchalantly while Gary tries leaving.
The Ball IS ALIVE!!
It's that messy bubble from Patrick man.
Also the moment you uttered "Squid Baby" I had a *fight or flight* response. I wanted to *forget* about that episode's existence, and I hate that it's been brought back into my memory.
You know, the fact that the formula in krabby Road is just nonsense implies an interesting theroy: What if the formula housed in the krusty krab is just a Decoy? When you think about it it makes more sense for Mr. Krabs to store it in his house or better yet just have it memorised.
Imagine plankton finally obtaining the formula only to find a page of complete jibberish. He may even think it's some kind of cipher and waste hours trying to decode it.
it’s at home under his mattress
That bit where you said “have you seen Elfen Lied” I super got my hopes up.
LILLIUM INTENSIFIES
If Patrick’s hair isn’t on his head in the other episodes does that mean he has a majestic bush?
Canonically?
Asking for a friend...
By Neptune..
its all ass hair
I always assumed it was his armpit hair.
Nothing like getting home after a long day and realizing there’s a 3 hr episode of spongebob boyz awaiting me.
A nightmarish scene I remember messing with me for a long time was from when I was extremely young, which was from this 3d animated carebears movie? I have absolutely no recollection of what its name was, but I remember there was like a palace or something and the bear with a sun symbol laid on this super plush bed, and it was apparently so plush that he literally sank all the way through it with a tired sigh. Scared me a lot when I was super young, I thought he literally died right then, like the bed was quicksand but more insidious because beds aren't supposed to be dangerous. I became too afraid to sleep in my bed alone because I thought it'd absorb me or something, and it took a couple years for me to get over it
The rest of the horrifying cartoon scenes I got spooked by was stuff I'd seen from the internet, so I'm not sure that counts :P
the last part of this episode made my soul leave my body to wither, I will never watch spongebob again, thank you for your sacrifice
Your body left to wither? Nick wither?
@@Howdyasdo oh NOO
I got nightmares from an episode of Rugrats: All Grown Up. It's a two-parter where they go to an acting camp telling the story of settlers that disappeared in the area, and long story short, one of the kids at the camp was the ghost of one of the settlers and they literally find their skeletons. When they get home and watch the tape Tommy made of their time, it does a weird The Ring parody with the ghost kid, and that moment stuck with me.
I got reccomended this by random. Is this actually a podcast? Like, there are more of these I can just sit around and listen to? Sign me up!!
Yup, there's a playlist with four videos on it so far! They make great background noise!
The weird childhood cartoon ep that spooked me was that episode of SpongeBob where squidward and SpongeBob had to share a locker. Also that one part of the time travel squidward episode where he ends up in white abstract space
Gus: "It went straight to his thighs!!"
*beat*
Me, pavlovianly: "His thighs?"
*beat*
Henry: "and *then* he swole up"
*[cue my drink spilling over my clothes cause i laughed too hard]*
This isn't nessesarily a horror moment from a cartoon ,but more an existential moment .
The amazing world of gumball was generally a light hearted show with some pretty wacky humour ,but there was one episode I watched when I was like 8 or 10 years old ,and I don't know if anyone else remembers this episode ,but it's the one where gumball and Darwin think the world is going to end by sunset ,and the entire episode sets up the entire idea of this happening ,and it terrified me , 11 minutes worth of me coming to terms with the idea that the entire world of a cartoon I loved watching was going to end ,and it genuinely made me panicky because I'd never watched anything that made me think of "the end of the world " before and obviously the end of the episode reveals that gumball was wrong about the whole thing and it ends comedically ,but before that I felt a genuine existential fear of what was about to happen
The funny thing is, the whole time you were supposed to already know that this wasn’t going to happen because bobert, their source, never actually claimed that there was actually going to be an apocalypse, they just thought he did.
2:25:23 the tickle me mandy episode was part of the Scaretoon Scaretoon Fright-Days halloween event in 2002 that featured new courage and grim & evil episodes after a scooby doo movie
each week. While I don't remember that one, I do remember the Invaded crossover event in 2007. I had a pretty intense fear of aliens at the time so seeing my favorite characters from 5 different shows all be attacked and abducted was both cool and upsetting (fun fact: apparently the event was sponsored by kraft cheese but they backed out at the last minute lol).
Edit: also not specifically a cartoon, but my dad made the Very Wise decision to let me read his old Duckman comics when I was 10. Aside from seeing a ceo duck get his brains blown out within the first 5 pages, there was one story where Duckman was trying to forget something traumatic, which was visualized as a running showerhead. It climaxed with him confronting it again in a Psycho-esque series of visuals before revealing the gag that it was just walking in on someone he knew in the shower. While it seems dumb in hindsight, just the tone and presentation of it all still makes me feel a bit uneasy and sick.
It is 2:30 AM and I have heard things I cannot unhear. The depths of the fanart hellholes have been dredged to the surface by the writers of spongebob, and now no one is safe. "There is no god; I want a refund on life" indeed
The horrific childhood memory for me was from the Brave Little Toaster in the junkyard. That giant magnet TERRIFIED me. I rewatched the movie recently and didn't feel the terror from it, but the song they sing super depressing and clearly had undertones a child wouldn't understand that just hit the existential dread hard.
God when you guys started talking about cartoon shit that messed you up as a kid all I could think about is catching a scene in an invader zim episode (a show that I had no context for at the time because I was really young) where a kid fucking full on dies and he had to get resuscitated with a defibrillator and his lifeless body got flailed around with the force of the shocks.
dude there were several really fucked up invader zim episodes. invader zim bois could be its own series.
Childhood trauma? If Courage is cheating then...
There was this episode of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack that kinda still bothers me. I don't remember the name of the episode but when I mention "The cat" I'm hoping there are people who know what I'm referring to.
Hyper realistic, pitch-black voids for eyes, razor sharp teeth. Solidified my fear of pitch black holes being where they shouldn't (like where eyes or a mouth should be).
That and "into the body" episodes. Something just felt so wrong about those.
THIS! OH MY GODDDD
Ohhhhhhhhh that is sooo horrible
Honestly, the only cartoon episode that really scared me was the spongebob episode with the butterfly. Like, the one where theres a few closeups of a real butterfly face and a loud buzzing noise? I was so rooting for everyone to destroy it. And still, years later, butterflies still scare the shit out of me.
This is one of my favorite series on this channel lol
chaos
CHAOS REIGNS!
2:26:05 okay so a weird episode of a cartoon that i recall is this one Johnny Test episode where he somehow is transported into the finale of his favorite action movie series without knowing how it ends, i think just because he thought it would be cool or something? so he is in the car with the two main action hero characters and they are in some kind of a car chase scene, but then its revealed that the series ends with the two characters committing double suicide by driving off of a cliff. so the climax is them having to figure out how to get him out before the mains off themselves. wild. i don't remember how it ended i just remember having an out of body experience when that was revealed.
I have two main childhood trauma cartoons. One was an episode of courage the cowardly dog, the Return the Slab one. Made me cry in front of my younger siblings didn't make them think i was very cool.
The second one was this like, old alvin and the chipmunks i think holiday special? It may have been on cartoon network when they needed to just license something for an afternoon time slot. The thing that fucked me up, was that The chipmunks encountered this Jet Black Boar with red eyes, bloodstained tusks and tatters of fabric hanging from its hooves and tusks, and they were directly attacked by it, like it tries to kill them. They then meet their mom who lives in this forest, and following them all going outside, she seems to get murdered by the boar after shoving the boys into the river to save them. Shes fine but theyre grieving, and theres this 20 minute segment where you genuinely think that their mom just got gored and eaten by a giant terrifying boar. You see dave interact with it way later its like up to his chest its not just chipmunk big. And THAT always fucked me up
So this isn't a cartoon episode, but I remember as a kid watching the episode of Suite Life of Zack and Cody called "Ghost of 613" and the premise of the episode is that zack dares cody to stay a night in this supposed haunted room of the hotel. there's this one shot where they shine a flashlight on a portrait of the woman who is supposed to haunt the room and it turns from a regular picture to being an actress who moves to look towards the characters, and that small bit of the episode gave me that same feeling that y'all described with other shows.
I was scared by the foot fungus episode of Courage because I dislike the idea that something could grow on me and process me. Similarity "I was a Teenage Gary" also scared me as a kid.
the forbidden spongebob boys episode
Hearing that henry wrote scp 4335 is so fucking hilarious
he didn’t write it, he has a gig writing summaries of SCP articles and he was assigned that one
MR MEATY’S TAPEWORM EPISODE
the Spongebob episode doing time was positively kafkaesque
the cartoon that scarred me as a kid was this one episode of Arthur where DW thinks everyone who eats spinach turns into a zombie. Even though at the end of the episode it was just a dream, I was so terrified that I couldn’t bring myself to eat spinach again until collebe
I had a similar experience with another kids show I don't remember, where in a nightmare of the main character every adult had an evil cabbage for a head. Stuck with me for a few days after that.
For cartoons that scared the shit outa me as a kid, I think of Aladdin the series on the Disney afternoon. There were several episodes where the characters would transform into animals. The two that stick out in my mind were the one's where Jasmine turned into a snake, and the one where Aladdin turned into a shark and they freaked me the hell out because they weren't just "poof! Now you've transformed!" They were slow body horror transformations, where they changed a little bit over time, and it was against their will, they had no idea why it was happening or what it even was, and there was screaming involved.
hearing Squid Baby dealt 14d6 psychic damage to me
Cartoon-induced trauma: There was an episode of the Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack that had a scene where our main characters had a saltwater-induced hallucination that the island they were heading to sunk into the ocean and their raft was falling off the edge of the world. There was a whole reveal that the world was just Poseidon's giant bathtub as they were falling, also the sail on their raft turned into a guy just kinda clinging to the mast, and the whole sequence was rendered just in red lineart on a black background. gave me nightmares and i just had to google a clip of it to make sure it wasn't something my kid brain made up.
Here is my childhood horror story, the Disney adaptation of the Black Cauldron. The main antagonist was terrifying with his presence and when he rose an army of the dead i spent several nights watching my wardrobe as my cloths that were hung up looked like the outlines of the skeletal warriors.
there was a show called Oobie that was hand puppets with no cloth, just hands with googly eyes. there was an episode where one of the hands had recurring nightmares, and there wasnt anything visually disturbing about them, but the music and imagery was so surreal and uncanny that it kept me awake the night i saw it and gave 5 year old me nightmares
I always wondered what that show was called. I don't recall that episode but I have a memory of a scene where a hand with googly eyes and a foot with googly eyes learn how to play ball together.
mid way through this i was about to comment "squid baby would be perfect for this show" and then
Lol
The most disturbing moment in animation for me wasn’t a tv show, but some animated movie. I can’t remember much about it, but this one scene fucked me up. There’s this magic forest girl, and she’s helping the protagonist get into some evil old crazy place to get something, and as she’s opening the path, the forest goes cold in appearance, wind goes crazy, things get ominous. And right before the guy goes into the hole, she looks up and she is ancient and withered and wrinkled and looks on the verge of death.
I can’t do the scene justice, it scared me.
the spongebob episode that scarred me was the one where sandy dared them to go up on land and i think its because the live action toys they used to represent squidward and mr krabs scared me, a big part of that probably being that I was scared of crustaceans as a kid, and also the jarring live action footage.
When I was younger, the last logo after the movie on a DVD copy of Happy feet 2 had a slightly frightening puffin where it shouldn't be, followed immediately by warning screens (for piracy and stuff)
Chilling
The un skippible piracy warnings are still freaky and I'm old. Just the silence, black and red screen.
Also there was an anti piracy ad that featured the happy feet poster slowly burning in a black void. Funny coincidence.
You can easily find it on youTube :)