Top 10 Dark Truths About Your Favorite Cartoons
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We love these cartoons, but each has some dark and disturbing facts surrounding them. For this list, we’ll be looking at grim secrets and not-so-hidden facts about popular animated TV shows and franchises that might make you uncomfortable. Our countdown includes The Orphans from “DuckTales” (1987-90), Creator Chris Savino’s History of Harassment from “The Loud House” (2016-), Consumption Island from “Peppa Pig” (2004-), and more! Do you know any other dark facts about cartoons? Let us know below!
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How did you get footage of the band Pokemon episode
Not at all, my family and I didn't see that coming
Two characters look annoyed at another character for eating all the chocolate.
Watchmojo (desperate for dark kids' cartoon content): This indicates potential cannibalism.
What about the dark truth about dark harvest in invader zim
Benson the gumball machine boss from "Regular Show", an American sitcom about two best friends who work at a park as groundskeepers who don't let work interfere with fun and usually get into more trouble than anticipated, threatens to fire Mordecai the blue jay and Rigby the racoon if they don't finish something or in any case.
I love Stimpy telling Ren about the role of a producer.😂Old school meta humor.
That whole episode is the animators saying what it was like to work for John K.
@@Rashaed Oh.
Fortunately, Della Duck's absence is addressed in the most recent remake of Duck Tales written as an absent mother, but nonetheless caring the initial tension of her dealing with motherhood that she never dealt with is a progression in the series that greatly touches on emotional aspects from all the characters, not just the triplets.
The one about DuckTales wasn't *totally* unnoticed. I mean, the showrunners for the reboot watched the original show as kids and we all know who had a surprise appearance there.
I didn’t get diagnosed with ADHD until I was in my mid-40s, but that doesn’t mean that I can use my undiagnosed ADHD as an excuse for bad behavior. I still knew right and wrong, and it just meant that I had to work harder to regulate my moods when interacting with others.
The fact that John K is using ADHD and undiagnosed bipolar disorder as excuses instead of explanations (you still take responsibility for your actions when you provide an explanation) is insulting to those of us who have struggled for years without diagnosis.
10. Slaying Sales (Transformers movie kills the characters to sell new toys)
9. Stone-Age Smoking (The Flintstones cigarette ad)
8. Consumption Island (Peppa Pig cannibalism suggestion)
7. The House Un-American Activities (Mr. Magoo comic strip delves into the politics of hunting Communists)
6. The Orphans (DuckTales characters Huey, Dewey and Louie have dark past about parents, including potentially accidentally killing their father leading their mother to abandon them)
5. Stuttering Purpose (Looney Tunes franchise character Porky Pig's original fired actor had an actual stuttering problem which was kept for the character by the actors that replaced him)
4. Real-Life Skeletor (He-Man and The Masters of the Universe character Skeletor inspired by actual childhood story of finding a corpse)
3. Creator Chris Savino's History of Harassment (The Loud House creator accused of harassment and for blacklisting women in the animation industry who would not trade sexual favors with him)
2. Causing Seizures (Pokemon episode scene induces seizures in children in Japan)
1. The Tarnished Legacy of John K. (The Ren and Stimpy Show creator was awful to work under as a boss, had claims of harassment levied against him from people that claimed it happened when they were underage and proceeded to blame his issues on undiagnosed mental disorders)
I was surprised when I watch youtube video about black and white tv commercials and The Flintstones were smoking [insert brand] cigarettes. But I also read a comment that said The Flintstones weren't meant to be a childrens cartoon. I still love The Flinstones though
@@charliejoson9145 Yeah, I was weirded out by it too.
I told my mom about the ad and she didn't believe me, even though when she was younger she said that the Sears catalog sold cigarettes laced with cocaine.
Thanks for doing the Lord's work
@@timothyfloogle You're welcome! 😁
Because of that Pokemon episode Porygon never appeared in any of the other anime except for one very small Cameo or two. Now porygon's got a bad rap for causing seizures even though Porygon was actually helping the heroes navigate through cyberspace. Technically it was the missiles and Pikachu thunderbolt that caught the seizures not Porygon
I remember watching the Transformers movie as a child, and being shocked that many of the autobots were abruptly killed off.
Yeah that was totally shocking and unexpected! had to introduce those new toys...
@@WatchMojo seeing as how the original cartoon was created to sell a toy line how was the movie a shocker?
I watched it as a child, too!
And because of the death of Optimus a change was made to G.I. Joe the movie. Hawk was suppose to die in that. But in post production they changed it. When his eyes closed they added this line in: “He’s in a coma”. You never see him again in the movie. Especially at the ending after defeating the enemy another line was added telling the team that Hawk pulled through.
Cartoons have deeper meanings than one might anticipate. Seems like the animators or possibly screenwriters purposely left messages within it to warn us of something that might occur.
Most of them are Freemasons, which is occult satan worship so, yes.
And my family told me it was childish to still watch cartoons growing up 🙄
Kids cartoons dark and disturbing
@@MattCurrieImprov False, they are shapeshifting turtles that drink the blood from the heels of student teachers.
I knew about John K and the seizure incident is mentioned by watchmojo a lot
I demand justice for Porygon! The digital duck was a scapegoat and deserved better. Love that thing and its evolutions, but I hate how it never appeared again in the anime outside of a few stills in movie intros.
I’m surprised that watching Ren and Stimpy didn’t traumatize me as a kid
So am I. But when I got older, the show got bad and gross to watch, especially the Adult Party Cartoon. Should've been more careful on what I watched.
@@dreamguardian8320 I feel like a lot of people can relate to that statement
I was never traumatized watching it either, but watching it now as an adult was pretty dark......and pretty damn good.
@@wturner777 agreed, except Adult Party Cartoon. That one’s just bad
@@BigFella117 Well, the Naked Beach Frenzy episode was ok, with all the sexy girls and moments. The rest of the episodes were just sickening garbage.
Ren and Stimpy was classic. But it was also completely out of control. You won’t find an animated show like that again. It’s a cartoon on acid.
Amen.🥰
#2 about the Flintstone's is due to the fact that they aired during the times when smoking was considered socially acceptable in places we don't allow anymore. Places like hospitals,restaurants and even airports. It's a product of its time is what my point is getting across
And less than a decade later, cigarette ads were banned from television.
@@Akira625
I still remember watching those types of ads when I was a kid. All while watching my cartoons like Yogi Bear or Looney Tunes.
Dentist chairs had ashtrays built in, people would smoke while getting dental work done.....
@@Alcoholic_Nerd Wow.
@@Off-with-a-bang I watched "Yogi Bear" and "Looney Tunes" as a kid and not these ads. I didn't even know there were commercials with the Flinstones back then.
Sadly, Hasbro couldn't see their characters as anything more than advertising mascots, so when their respective toys were discontinued, there was little recourse but to kill them off in the movie. At least some characters avoided this fate, like Blaster, Perceptor, and the Dinobots. Others that managed to cheat death, like Bumblebee, Jazz, and Cliffjumper, simply got fazed out in season 3.
And let's not forget that Duke was originally going to die from his wound in G.I.Joe the Movie.
Jazz’s disappearance is understandable, as Scatman Crothers passed away in 1986.
Considering Hasbro is essentially killing magic the gathering now it doesn’t surprise me
Oh.
@@mojo3318 yup
Genuinely baffles me how they manage to sneak these in and we don't even notice until now
danganronpa / cyberspace edge runners be like
Another fact, while not dark, involves Flintheart Glomgold, from the original DuckTales. In the original comics he was a South African Business Duck. When the series was being developed Apartheid was at its highest. To distance themselves from that Disney turned him Scottish, and moved him to Duckburg. New DuckTales kept his South African roots, but he pretended to be Scottish, just to outdo Scrooge. I also heard that Della worked for NASA, hence why she wasn't around. Though I question this, as I never read any of the Carl Barks stories.
As for Ren and Stimpy, let's face it, Bob Camp made that show great.
John K. made the characters. Bob Camp (and others) really made the show.
Saying john K is a genius is a overstatement. The credit goes to the animators who had to put up with his shit especially Bob camp. Billy West was amazing too by the way. John K may be the creator but the animators did most of the work and the show belongs to Nickelodeon if you wanna get in that rabbit hole since they own the rights to it and allowed him to do it. Without Nickelodeon it wouldn't have happened. And I feel so bad for them and would love a autograph from Bob Camp or one of the amazing animators! They went through hell cause of that man. They really need credit for it. They did so much good for the animation industry and I love them and the show so much.
1960's cartoon character Underdog might've been a wink and nod to 1960's counterculture. The heroic Underdog often would get a strength boost from swallowing / popping a magic pill that helped him beat his opponents. At the time I imagine the population was experimenting with several pills that altered reality. Also Underdog was pretty modest in his civilian life, he Shined Shoes. Other heroes from earlier in the 20th century like Batman, Green Hornet, and The Shadow were millionaires / billionaires. Also Underdog was usually called into action by his reporter girlfriend Polly Purebred singing to him.
The pill was referred to as a vitamin. I doubt it was meant to be seen as dope.
I think you’re seeing what you went to see in it. Lol.
ExoSquad was a cartoon that came out in 1993 when the FCC in the US was going censor crazy. ExoSquad had extremely adult subjects like racism, horrors of slavery, horrors of war, and the killing of main characters. Characters on both sides were well defined giving good reasons why these characters did what they did. And some characters on the good side would turn into the villain, and some characters on the bedside would switch to the good side. The FCC didn't do one thing against the show and got two seasons. And now it's a placeholder on Peacock for free.
Exotic squad was one of the best shows that air during that time I loved it so much I made sure I had owned every single one of the toys
It sounds like Game of Thrones!
@@julianaadams5751 What until you get to the Neo-sapiens genetically engineered tall blue people that we humans didn't give the ability to reproduce, AKA they have no genitals. ExoSquad made in 1993 was Game of Thrones in space before Game of Thrones was Game of Thrones. And it was a Saturday morning cartoon. And NBC/Universal still thinks it's just another Kid's Cartoon. I just want NBC/Universal to move it off the kid's section and into the Sci-fi for adults section on Peacock.
#6 Peppa Pig: Aren't they just looking at him because he ate the chocolate? You can see his mouth covered in chocolate.
Yeah, Mojo swing and a miss on that one.
The one with the three guys on an island wasn't dark as they were looking at him because he ate the chocolate bar they were just talking about saving, the look was like "wtf dude" not "maybe we eat him".
At least in the 2017 rendition of DuckTales sees a happier ending for Della. While she did struggle to live on the moon thanks to its hazards, she did eventually manage to make it back home with her kids. Unfortunately, the fate of Huey, Louie and Dewey's unnamed dad stays the same. I don't think we'll ever know what the dad will be like.
John K's case is so, so much worse than this video goes into detail about.
As a young fan who wrote to him and received a gift of banned episodes and a signed letter, it was horrible realizing that it had been a good thing that we were never in further contact.
I always loved how just about every cartoon has their share of dark truths, because not every cartoon is as innocent as they seem.
I like the creativity behind the alleged theory that Scooby-Doo and Mystery, Inc. exist in a version of America where another big financial depression took place.
Proof that animation is not always for kids like those idiots say.
@@davidcatlett4052 Really?
@@mojo3318 Yeah, a You Tube video brought it up among other theories.
Another one mentioned how the SpongeBob cartoon took place where a country was doing nuclear weapons experiments on the surface.
@@davidcatlett4052 Oh.
As someone with ADHD and ASD, if I ever become a cartoonist, I want to be absolutely nothing like John K!!
I never knew that the creator of Ren and Stimpy had so much Evil inside of him...
I'm surprised you didn't mention the Satanic Panic which was directed at sword and sorcery shows at the time.
Arthur had a episode featuring Lance Armstrong when mrs.mcgrady struggled with cancer and Lance wants help the kids fight well lance got caught using steriods later edited for PBS with a different voiceover and the original episode can be found elsewhere.
the baddest scene in transformers the movie was megatron just merking the autobots.
Did you know that Billy West and John K actually hate each other
Billy knows a villain when he sees one....
I remember the seizure thing. It WAS prickachus fault!
But I also remember being a kid, my teenage brother got an English subtitled back alley copy online, and it didn't give me seizures lol. Don't get me wrong, seizures are no fun, but there's usually an underlying problem when a few "flashing lights" can cause them
And it's a cartoon, so they weren't really flashing lights, just fast changing colors. I only have such an issue with it because I was on the ground floor when Pokémon came to the USA, and parents were straight up not letting there kids get into it cuz of the seizures happening on the other side of the world
I learned about kids having seizures in Japan from watching changing colors in previous videos. I didn't have a seizure when I watched that in part of the episode.
Really neat list.
I knew Chris Savino's very absurd and filthy behavior me realized the inappropriate content of the Loud house and the many dirty scenes I couldn't get out of my head.
Dirty scenes?
@@quartzskull8772 yes dirty scenes
I've seen "He-Man", "Duck Tales", "Loud House", "The Flintsones", some of "Peppa Pig", and of course, "Pokémon"! Only, I watched one Duck Tales episode in German. I was in Europe. I already knew that kids who saw the lights flashing quickly in a Pokémon episode were hospitalized. I learned that from some previous videos. I had no idea about all the other dark truths. It's scary how a child saw a corpse! I did not know there were commercials with the Flintstones back then. Fred and Barney should've helped their wives with chores. By the way, "Pokémon" is anime, not a cartoon, just so you know.
I've Got One Space Ghost Coast To Coast Was created because the late Alex Toth had a disdain for the Hanna Barbera superhero so he was chosen by Mike Lazzo and Cartoon Network for the reboot
I have epilepsy and it’s scary. I feel bad for all of the Japanese kids and adults who suffered the seizures from the Pokémon episode.
I learned that from previous videos.
"There's one character that nailed the maniacal laugh." "Here's a clip, but not of him laughing." Weak.
Re The Flintstones Welches Grape Juice ad, I can still hear Pebbles saying, "Moo-moo gape goo!"
WELL THAT WAS DARK!
The Greeblies used to freak me out on Flintstones. :)
The R&S episode “Reverend Jack” was based on the crew’s experiences with John K. before and after he was fired.
I used to resent Nickelodeon for firing him since the changes between the show’s second and third seasons were noticeable, but I was only 9 or 10 at the time and wasn’t aware of the full story behind the scenes.
A classic example of how hubris destroys careers.
The smoking commercial was so controversial that establishing a new law
of tobacco advertising. In 1965, the Congress made the Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act.
No cartoon characters ever advertising any tobacco products ever since. Thank god for that.
Even though, today's toons that they do anti-smoking campaigns to help kids from smoking like Pinky and the Brain.
Well, Flintstones, no more smoking for you.
I 💯% *FULLY UNDERSTAND* about Statue of Limitations tho the truth about Number 1 Sickens me 🤢🤬 AND to blame { self diagnosed } conditions that have NOTHING to do with the behaviour { IF they're present at all } is *UNFORGIVABLE* ‼️ ♑️✍️🇦🇺🇳🇴
Aaah, The Transformers: The Movie AKA the Great Hasbro Massacre of 1986
Top 10 Kids Cartoons That Would Great As Pg 13 or Rated R Shows.
3:37 piggy: this f***er
Cartoons proved to be more than just whimsical or slapstick these days compared to their heyday of the 1920s to 1950s. Then along came more topical and sensitive subjects that were included in the modern day. Whether animators and cartoonists were trying to add a message in their work or not, it’s proof that they can be all too real like everyone else.
Giving Porky the stutter made him more relatable.
Kind of left out the biggest one, that cartoons are modeled after minstrel performers
Flintstones selling Winstons…. or Winstones?
Lmbo
Ren and stimpy is an all time favorite
Amazing video watch mojo of fun facts of behind the dark truth of the creations of cartoons shows, fantastic job.
well the Ducktales reboot retconned H,D and L's orphan status
Gotta think when Flinstones where made, if you needed money tobacco was the sponsor to go.
Look at all the magazines from that era.
there was also this one episode of Pokemon that never aired in the US because an old man literally has a gun (not a toy a REAL GUN) and threatens to shoot Ash with it.
What can you expect when adults are the ones making the cartoons.🤯 With that said, I still loved many of these as a kid and even now - they are classics!
Missing: Skyler Page creator of Clarence
Top 20 Worst Moments of The Ren and Stimpy Show
@Watchmojo
G.I. Joe The Movie 1986
In the film's original script, Duke dies in battle after receiving a wound from a snake spear hurled by Serpentor. After this was written into the script, it inspired the death of the Autobot leader Optimus Prime in The Transformers: The Movie while both films were in production.
However, Optimus Prime's death sparked a severe backlash among both fans and parents, and Hasbro reversed their decision on allowing Duke's death. While the scene was kept, replacement dialogue was inserted stating that Duke had gone into a coma. In the film's ending, it is stated that he had come out of the coma.
Was the "prop dummy" that was the inspiration for Skeletor, the same one that they found during the taping of the Million Dollar Man in the early 80's?
I love Bob Baku’s. Especially the Christmas.story.😊
I really thought Duckman should be up there. First outrageous, racy, and not PC at all to come along. Very funny. Right around the same period as Ren and Stimpy.
That skeletor story is so scary and Savino is a terrible person
Ren and Stimpy. .I love you guys❤️
Didn’t know that
Chris Savino getting fired for harassment reminds me of the creator of Clarence getting canned for the same.
Why oh why did you show a clip of that trainwreck Space Jam 2? Nobody needs to see Porky Pig doing a freestyle rap...
Why not robot chicken had Bugs Bunny do one
@@jsmith3946 That is a satirical parody show for adults. Huge difference between when they do something like that and when Space Jam makes Porky Pig rap..
Back then we looked past a lot of facts in cartoons dark facts that is
"Science is honest"
OPE !
I heard that Peppa Pig had a indential twin hidden many years and then Peppa got Cancer and died, and they brought on her twin.😍😍😍
The Fairly OddParents and Danny Phantom will never be the same due to their creator: Butch Hartman for being a religious fanatic con man who swindled his fans with the Oaxis scam and discriminated against people with autism.
They looked at the grandpa like that because as they were explaining that was the only food they had he ate it....
Barney is proof that smoking stunts your growth. Lol
We loved Ren & Stimpy when we were kids and knew it was weird. We watched it again in high school and didn't realize how completely f****d up it was. I think we turned out alright? 👀
I don't know why Pokemon never gets number 1 in these types of lists.
John Crisfaluci did only one great show - Ren and Stimpy show. He later fell from Grace by making by making its infamous adult spin-off. And then he was going wrong
Porygon gets blamed for something he didn’t do.
Isn't Ren and Stimpy more for, like, older children like 10 to 12 or something?
Matt Groening is a Freemason, as are the creators of most of the other cartoons.
Isn't that the guy who co-created Rick and Morty?
No Matt is the guy who created the Simpson Rock was created by two guys name dan and Justin
Ops Rick
When they say "real life skeletor" I immediately think of Glenn Close 💀
In the remake of the duck tales, their mother was introduced
Magoo had valid points
replace porygon with a new virtual pokemon altogether.
Hey yo Hasbro .if your watching 😂😂
how dare you kill off the goat just for toy sales
Uh I don't think you ever watch. The cartoon because Transformers are robots and not goats
Donald Duck and his nephews wore no pants. No way that's appropriate.
10:24 This needs a photosensitivity warning…
Great thanks to this I'm turned off of both He man and Loud house.
You mean to tell me those shows use to turn you on man you got some problems
@@jsmith3946 thats not what I meant and you know that. Knowing that a man made an iconic villain by traumatic event and a kids show that gotten worse because it's creator was let go due to controversy, we're things I was better off not knowing.
Thought it was gonna mention how Ren and Stimpy are lovers….
Is there any more Dark Truths about our favorite cartoons, yes or no?
Oh god!
When l watched Reboot l wondered what happened to Dot and Enzo 's parents.
weren’t there mum lost in space in the reboot for ducktales? and yep I knew about the Pokemon one and that even though it was Pikachu attack another Pokemon had to take the blame if that episode was around don’t watch it in the dark
we just going to skip over Rocco's Modern Life and Courage? lol
The design for the live action Skeletor was a mistake, whoever made the movie should’ve waited a decade or two later before actually making it.
🎤 Gotta trigger em all..... POKEMON!!
really an ad every 2nd pic like this is getting bad eventhough they want everyone to get premium but ads every 1half mins not frigging cool
Looney Tunes Classic Shorts Don’t Get me Traumatized
What is pokemon doing there ?
So the same spokes characters who are behind vitamins, ice cream, cereal, and gummies are the same for smokes. 10pacs a day and dieing.
Wow
I used to hate ren and Stimpy as a kid. It both grossed and creeper me out