Is there an episode of a children's cartoon more grotesque

My squigglyspootch!

>>93334529
Bad Rubber Piggy is less disgusting, but it's a lot more disturbing and upsetting.

Insane in the Membrain

So fucked up that it got banned in America.

>>93334966
As a kid both episodes left me laying awake at night but Bad Bad Rubber Piggy left me awake at night far more often.

>>93334529
The time travel episode was way worse.

Not to be a SU fag, but I think the episode 'Keeping It Together' is more grotesque as an idea, but isn't as grotesque in visuals as "Dark Harvest' is.

Remember just how horrific gem shards are to begin with- they're literal fragments of the original gem's mind and psyche, desperately trying to reach out and find the rest of themselves. Imagine your computer is a sentient device, then rip it into pieces. Each piece is partially aware that they're not whole, but no part by itself is sentient enough to do anything besides reach out for other computer signals, trying to put itself back together again. At that point, gems are effectively dead and gone.

Now add fusion into the mix. While fusion represents relationships of any kind more so than specifically romantic or sexual ones, they are more often romantic than they are familial.

Thus, forced-fusion of gem shards is a mix of necromancy, rape, and necrophilia, all to a 'being' that is in constant pain and trying to make itself whole.

TL;DR: Cluster gems are a mix between Frankenstein, Necromorphs, and rape, except each part is tortured, unwilling, and screaming for help it can't receive. Charming!

There was a time on Nick when this whole show was rated TV-Y.

I'm with OP. Dark Harvest was bad for a kid. Even as an adult, it gives me the creeps.

>>93334529
I'm pretty sure Invader Zim is the reason I'm so jaded as an Adult.

>>93334529
I'm still not sure what fucking amazing pitch or how best of pals Jhonen had to be to not only get the episode idea past the pitching phase to Nick execs, but to get it fucking made.

Hirsch got notes from Disney telling him he couldn't even have a short where Mabel experienced death for the first time when she saw a cute butterfly die.

It sure gave me a few nightmares as a kid. I can remember one to this day because of how bad it scared me.

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A challenger approaches!

>>93336298
>my tumblr cartoon is so DEEP and COMPLEX just look at my headcanon!

Tooncucks are a true cancer.

>>93336607
>being so retarded you can't understand when things are literally stated in a show
shiggy diggy

>>93334529
Dark Harvest made me laugh as a kid but if I first saw it as an adult, I'd probably be more disturbed.

Bad Bad Rubber Piggy is psychologically disturbing on all levels.

I remember being squeamish during Hobo 13 when Zim used that one guy as a battering ram and when the door opened, you could see all this ooze coming out of his deflated skull. Gross.

>>93336529
That episode where Captain K'nuckles explodes from eating to many hotdogs.

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>>93336529
That show was rife with disturbing imagery. But I think the barber set me off more than anything due to his speech pattern

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Also, credit to Speed Demon for being unabashed nightmare fuel.

>>93336298
they seem pretty gay about being tortured

>>93337271
It's Steven Universe. What else do you expect?

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>>93334529
Keeping it Together got SU banned in my household, can't watch it with my daughter in the room anymore. we still do secretly

which is interesting because SU is usually pretty girly all things considered.

>>93336298
>that scene where Peridot explains gems shards ad just how eldritch horror the entire concept is
>people will still justify shattering Gems

I fucking hate Tumblr.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuAMqHTLlQU

>>93334966
Dark Harvest is so disgusting it sort of circles back around to a crude sense of comedy.

Rubber Piggy actually fucked me up, hard. There's something inherently disturbing behind it.

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>>93336529
Let's not forget about this angel

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>>93338013
For me it was seeing the steady decline in Dib's physical and mental health as he became more crippled and pathetic. Although the reasoning for it happening was crazy sci-fi tech, the effects were all things that could easily happen in reality by other means.

Seeing Dib go from planning an elaborate stealth mission to just struggling to breathe and walk while dealing with crippling PTSD flashbacks is still chilling to me at my current age. Seeing it as a kid was legitimately scarring. Not to mention Dib actually fucking DIES. He's resurrected by his dad of course but it's still shocking.

>>93338220
Yeah, out of everything in the show, this episode was easily the most horrific.
I like to think it was an inspiration for the time amputation scene in Looper.

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>>93336837
Suuuuuuuuuuurgery.

>>93336298
I wouldn't call it grotesque. Disturbing yes. Terrifying, yes, but not grotesque since it doesn't really illicit a feeling of revulsion.

>>93334529
If most of what happened was implied off screen I wouldn't question it but how in the flying fuck did they manage to get away with literal child guys sticking out from Zim's mouth because he's overstuffed with them on screen?

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>>93336529

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>>93334529
Modern Spongebob can get pretty fucking disgusting at times.

>>93337389
You banned steven universe in your household?

>>93335128
None of the episodes were banned in America wtf are you talking about?

Honestly for me the episode with the chicken man (or whatever he is) that Dib hunts down fucked me up but when it aired I was little and my older brother had literally just started scaring me with some fucked up story of an escaped chicken man mutant. We lived in the middle of nowhere so i was kinda fucked up from it. I laugh now though.
>>93338039
This show scares me more in adult hood than it did as a kid watching it desu

>>93334529

TORQUE SMACKEEEEEY

>>93337389
Your wife cheats on you

>>93334529
t was an alien parody
jhonen is an alien fangirl

>>93336529
somehow the episode where he confuses a duck with a baby is the most disturbing fo me
mostly because its entirely in the show style and it doesnt rely on some scare moment or anything

>>93337389
it's not even that bad m8

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>>93337389
Using a passive voice makes it unsettling.

It makes you sound like an observer in your home, not a participant

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The ending to this is unnerving

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>>93337492
>that scene where Peridot explains gems shards ad just how eldritch horror the entire concept is.

And it's one that's been done before in other works, Peridot's description of Cluster Gems can also fit the Heartless from Kingdom Hearts.

>>93343358
Your autism is compelling

>>93334529
cartoons get away with some dark stuff
but I still can't believe they actually let them make Dark Harvest into an episode
I mean it's not subtle, it's not a one-off joke, it's barely even a joke, it's not even like they're hiding what he's doing
Zim literally steals organs for an episode

>>93336874
Invader Zim and Courage the Cowardly Dog never scared me. This episode of the Powerpuff Girls gave me screaming nightmares.

>>93340144
>I like to think it was an inspiration for the time amputation scene in Looper.
Oh fuck why'd you have to remind me of that.

>>93343870
Not to mention the whole Scott Dyleski murder thing too. I know him mentioning it was a joke, but it's still unnerving.

>>93342111
He's talking about 4kids TMNT
http://turtlepedia.wikia.com/wiki/Insane_in_the_Membrane

its probably not that bad compared to anything else mentioned here, but i always thought that the brain episode of billy & mandy was pretty grotesque. just something about everyones brains being sucked out of their bodies and them becoming brainless zombies seemed pretty gross to me. still an awesome episode imo

>>93334529
That, bad rubber piggy and the one where zim makes dib believe his whole life was succesful should have received some real accolades

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Yeah it's pretty disgusting. I'd really have liked to be a fly on the wall when that episode was pitched to Nick.

Who even looked at Vasquez's work and figured 'this guy needs to make a children's cartoon!'

>>93343483
Bad ends for ongoing shows always unnerves me.

>>93344303
The Dib fantasy universe is genuinely compelling on its own.

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>>93344384
well everyone panicking rushing for their lives and turning into fetuses as the slowly disappear from existence all while reversed music plays is a bit more darker than usual for B&M. Hell it's almost creepypasta tier.
Plus, Grims birth form is...

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>>93336874
Yeah this scared me a lot as a kid. I was too old to be spooked by Invader Zim when it came out.

> …waving goodbye…I just stood there waving goodbye…

Do you think that jhonen watched Rashomon before making "misterious mysteries"?

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I think just about anything from Ren and Stimpy could count.

>>93344808
DELETE THIS

>>93344547
of all the religious stuff i'm sure they cut from this show i'm surprised they let that slip through

>>93334529
This episode was the start of darkness for a lot of people fetishwise

The organ episode, bad rubber piggy, the lice episode and the one where they turned into bologna episodes were pretty disturbing to me as a human child.

>>93344528
Oh fuck no that whole episode makes me want to throw up

>>93344528
What the absolute fuck.

>>93345025
Why does he have a cross on his forehead as a fetus anyway

>>93336511
That's because Alex is a pussy my friend. It seems like with cartoons you only get super sanitized stuff or incredibly gross and disturbing. GF wasn't nearly as scary as Zim.

>>93345360
it appears to be a common design trait amongst those who depict the grim reaper but I cant seem to find out the origin either

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>>93345193
>episodes were pretty disturbing to me as a human child.
>human child

The Invader Zim episode with the lice was pretty bad, too. Also, as other posters have said, Bad Bad Rubber Piggy. Just seeing Dib retroactively fall apart.

>>93334529
I think the scariest thing about this show was those questions about the Irken race itself that got brought up in some of the unaired scripts but never answered, namely that the real Irken mind is the computer inside the backpack that's plugged into a disposable cloned meat body. They could never have come about through natural evolution, so they must have been engineered to be that way. Did they do that to themselves, in some desperate means to survive by installing cold, durable machinery? Was it a bid for power? Or did some lunatic cook them up in a laboratory and lose control (or worse, deliberately released them) releasing a tyrannical scourge across the galaxy, gradually sterilizing all other life until they're all that's left?

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>>93345025
That isn't a Christian cross on grim's head, that's what a baby's skull looks like before the fontanels close.

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>>93337389
Hahaha! Holy shit, I will pretend this is the next step of "my wife son" shitposting because if it's real you are pathetic.

>>93345360
>>93345525

>>93345593

>>93345593
even more fucked up
but detailed at least

>>93345593
Oh those things. In my country touching then is said to bring bad luck.

>>93345538
Hey everybody, check out this weirdo freaking out over a normal post!

>>93345663
>>93345665

They're there so the infant's skull can deform to fit through the mother's pelvis more easily. Gotta give it to Maxwell Adams on detail.

>>93345710
A normal HUMAN post, at that.

>>93345711
Yeah I know I grew up with lots of babies since my relatives won't stop making them

>>93345593
Was about to post this. Always assumed it was this anyways.

>>93338220
I think what got me was that Gaz actually started to act NICER to her brother during that alternate timeline. Not a doting sister mind you, but she treated him with patience and a bit of concern. Considering how Gaz usually treats him, it was like her serving him breakfast in bed.

>>93345665
is it Jamaica/Caribbean?
I ask cause Grim is Jamaican.

>>93345815
I won't say it, but it's a small country full of super religious brown people that won't stop complaining about politicians despite keeping the same people in power for 30 years. Also half the houses in my neighborhood are unfinished

Is Zim's age ever stated? I doubt Irkin lifespans are anything like a humans but I'm still curious. Zim himself seems very childish but he's definitely an adult I'm sure. It's just really bizarre when you see his rivalry with Dib and realize he has a fucking rivalry with a human child when they seem to be at the same level. I don't know if Dibs just that intelligent or Zim is just that much of a failure.

>>93345882
Ah, Mexico.

>>93338220
didn't the creator say Dib was supposed to die and be replaced, or was he just joking?
I can never tell with Zim.

Yeah that episode is messed up regardless
Its weird the humor in the episode feels out of place since the story is so macabre.

>>93345947
We're actually really far away from Mexico but I can see why'd you think that

For a given value of animated, there was the episode of Mr. Meaty where Parker, I think, fried his hand so he could feed it to a goth chick with a cannibalism fetish.

>>93345925
Zim is a technological/weaponry genius, but a retard in all other aspects. Irkens have super long lifespans, Vasquez has said Zim is about 200 years old, but he's still young by irken standards.

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Anything from Extreme Ghostbusters could fit in this thread.

>>93346155
I always figured Zim wasn't necessarily stupid, just insane and really short sighted.

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>>93345611
>>93343358
>>93342489

SHUT UP

ME AND MY WIFE ARE HAPPY

>>93345882
Italy.

>>93345882
Greece? Turkey?

>>93345025
What's it supposed to be?

>>93345193
>as a human child
Anything you wanna share anon?

>>93345340
Cat of catdog crawling out of dogs mouth

>>93345665
And also on a probably unrelated note

A dead baby

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The fact that they only showed it as a silhouette almost makes it worse for me.

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>>93345978
Dib was supposed to die but Nick didn't like that

>MY WHOLE LIFE HAS BEEN A MISERABLE PIG FILLED ORDEAL

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>try to rewatch Invader Zim after not seeing for like 10 years
>recognize how cringy and LOLRANDUMBXD a lot of it is
>can't bring myself to hate it though, actually enjoy re watching it, even have a slight fondness for that shit character Gir

is it just the nostalgia goggles?

>>93347355
I found that Invader Zim on rewatch is a lot cringier than I remember but some of the humour is a lot better than I remember

>>93347355
The show's good and funny. It really made its own humor and used it well. But it inspired such a painful wave of kids who tried to parrot and imitate it badly.

>>93347501
But it also spawned a big wave of easy "goth" girls which i very much enjoyed in middle and high school

I'm really shocked Invader Zim was allowed to air on a daytime television children's network to be honest. Like I get that it wasn't SO horrible, it wasn't really gorey or anything but some of the themes and imagery were so disturbing, especially for the time it was airing, I really don't know how a lot of that stuff got an FCC approval unless the initial plots and storyboards were insanely worse before being re-worked or something.

>>93343870
Nick knew what they were getting into when they hired the author of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac to direct a cartoon for them. They definitely wanted to push the limits of what they usually aired and since it was one of the first episodes my guess is that this was Vazquez diving head first into the swimming pool to see how deep he'd be able to get before he reached the bottom.

>>93344407
I always felt bad about the crippled and tortured Zim floating in a tank, though.

>>93346155
Hell, he went to school with Red and Purple.

>>93347355
I watched it for the first time a few months ago and I loved it. Zim was too entertaining for me to be bothered by the random humor and Gir was never that annoying.

>>93347675
I mean old ass Doctor Who survived for decades as a children's show despite being way scarier and more gruesome than any of its contemporary sci-fi rivals (with the exception of Blake's 7). You can in general get away with way more violence and horror then is generally acceptable in science fiction.

>>93336298
>Faux implications of a robot like race being anywhere near as bad as blood and organs
Found the philosophy major.

>>93347295
Can you blame them? What kind of idiot would kill off one of the best characters? And where would the episode even go after that.

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>>93346995
that shit fucked me up good

i stopped watching IZ for months because it

thankfully the second season was funnier, wackier and less completely fucked up

>>93347675
>I really don't know how a lot of that stuff got an FCC approval unless the initial plots and storyboards were insanely worse before being re-worked or something.
Thats exactly what happened, take the eye-gouging/plucking scene with keef
Originally it apparently was full-view and full on, just plucking a kid's eyeballs out, it took a lot to convince the crew to scale it back to just the shadow we got

>>93334966
I agree with this.
Incidentally, Meats of Evil was what fucked me up the hardest, though it wasn't as bad.

It wasn't a kid show but the season two finale of moral Orel made feel really bad, i can't re watch it.

>>93348197
That's how Wes Craven (and plenty of other directors) did it.

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Pretty much this whole fucking show.

>>93336298
fuck off

>>93344384
You must get unnerved by Billy and Mandy a lot then.

>>93348102
>thankfully

People like you are why we can't have nice experimental things that push boundaries and make people feel genuine emotions. You know, art

>>93348825
I honestly don't really like Billy and Mandy in general. I just like Courage and Invader Zim better as dark comedy shows, Billy and Mandy goes too wacky too often to get away with the shit it pulls.

>>93348573
Did this have an episode about a family eating fingers or something? I remember a kids show like that where they would tell little scary animated stories like that and I couldn't for the life of me remember what it was called. They would do some classics like that hook handed killer and stuff like that too.

>>93348968

See, I agree with you, and it has a lot to do with Billy. Billy and Cosmo from FOP are early examples as a kid where I felt like cartoons were beginning to feel a little too childish for me. The "idiot character" is something I kind of hate.

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>>93344984
>not just getting a raging erection from that episode

>>93344984
pretty sure that episode gave me two different fetishes.

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>>93343554

And here I was thinking I was the only one who realized that...

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You are a baby. Watch this.

>>93334529
Some of the stuff Grizzly Tales.

>>93336298
It's true though. The Cluster is pretty much "the sentient rape orgy prison" at worst or "the forced mind melded consciousness that can only lash out at its surroundings in desperation". It's kind of messed up, especially since we get to see Garnet react to it.

All this talk of Bad Bad Rubber Piggy led me to discovering bloody GIR. The wiki is somewhat vague about exactly where all the instances of it are, have any of you personally found one?

>>93349225
kinda freaky, i'll be honest, kinda erotic. but that AT episode with the spiders, the end for some reason was disturbing as fuck to me.

also, the spungebob to nail scene. but i guess thats more like a kick to the balls.

>>93348872
nigga i was a kid, of course nowadays that shit dont bother me, but back then i was relieved

>>93349138
I don't hate stupid characters (early Spongebob and Patrick), I hate characters who are defined by their stupidity. Even Dee Dee is better because we get the sense that she's not an idiot, just capricious and careless of the havoc she wrecks like any good older sister. But when a character shows up on screen and all you can think about is what retarded thing they'll do to move the plot forward, you've gone too far.

But Mandy bothers me as well. The show goes way too far with Mandy as a character, making her out to be this weird unbeatable all powerful terrifying force of nature, except for when the plot deems it necessary that she be knocked down a peg. It's not fun when one of the main characters is untouchable, and when the show actively breaks this characterization whenever it interferes with the story. Grim was probably the only consistently good character on the show, outside of some of the side villains.

>>93345947
>Mexico
>Small

make it Thailand

>>93344528
I wasn't disturbed by this, but this ep made me want Dog to accidentally fall into a trash compactor.

>>93345593
So Grim died during childbirth?

Did you guys find yourselves feeling more sympathetic towards Dib or Zim when you guys were watching as kids? Is it the same now? I feel like Dib is meant to be more relatable and shown more sympathy but as a kid for some reason I always felt really bad for Zim and how much he failed. Maybe it's because it's more focused on him as the main character or whatever. Don't get me wrong I still loved Dib and felt bad for him but I often felt myself feeling bad for Zim's various plights more often.

>>93350290
In resume the whole thing didn't make sense, but when he was elected as the grim reaper it was the stone age, for humans, and the election implied that there was another grim reaper before in a some undetermined time, very Lovecraftesque thing if you think about it, but in the end doesn't matter.

>>93345882
sound exactly like mexico just change 30 for 70

>>93350362
Kinda feel bad for Dib, but just thinking that half of his problems could have been avoided by being indifferent towards Zim. But the show wouldn't have been funny with two Gaz like characters.

>>93344984
I think this episode is what got me into monster girls and femdom

>>93350362
I used to feel bad for Zim sometimes but looking back on it Zim's a pretty fucked up weirdo, even for an alien conqueror. His ineptitude is basically his only saving grace.

Dib was sympathetic as well, but looking back he's a retard as well, whose intense autism is both his greatest strength and his greatest weakness.

>>93345593
I'm glad you knew what that guy meant by "religious stuff", I was staring at that picture and couldn't figure it out.

>>93350290
i'm pretty sure Grim was born as a skeleton

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The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy episode 'Little Rock of Horrors' is quite morbid when you think about it. It’s an episode in which mass murder takes place. Men, women and children are literally killed on screen.

The meteor in Little Rock of Horrors eats brains. Throughout the episode the Billy leads the unfortunate citizens of Endsville to the meteor who then sucks their brains out, digest them and grow larger. The victims of the meteor have their eyes turn green and they become mindless zombies, oblivious to the slaughter around them.

As far as neuroscience in concerned, consciousness is the product of a living brain. ‘You’ as a conscious entity with awareness and sense of self is contained in the fleshy grey matter in your skull. Damaging your brain via physical or chemical means impairs your brain function and greatly affects your consciousness. Destroy your brain and ‘you’ are destroyed as well.

The meteor does not harm the body of its victims, but it does kill them. When it eats the brain of its victim it destroys the brain and thus kills its victim. Everyone who has their brain sucked out in the episode is dead and becomes a marionette copse that dances along to the carnage.

>>93351054
But the song is so catchy

>>93334966
>>93336266
Oh god. I couldn't even bring myself to watch that episode all the way through when I was a kid. If there's anything I can't watch it's kids and disabled people being seriously injured and I think watching that episode might have had something to do with that. Reading the synopsis on the fandom wiki though, the ending does sound sound satisfying.

>>93346642
Yes

>>93344547
Hah! Yes! This episode! This isn't one of those things that scares you immediately as a kid, but makes you think. I remember being mildly unsettled by the idea of this episode. The idea of becoming smaller and weaker and more vulnerable until your literally a fetus.

>>93351054
My dad loved that episode.

>>93352916
It made me think of nonexistence at a young age and it scared me

>>93351054
Well, that episode was based on little shop of horrors. One of the best musicals in the history of humanity.

>>93344984
Someone tell me what's happening in this image.

>>93350362
As a kid I rooted for Zim, but I normally preferred villains in shows. I always wanted Tom to win as well.

>>93353632
Tom wasn't the villain.

>>93353641
I feel this way too. He occasionally attacked for no reason, but 90% of the time Jerry comes after Tom unprovoked, gets his threatened with homelessness, stabs him. Jerry is awful.

>>93336874

I see people say this one so often, but I really never remember being bothered by it as a kid.

>>93353664
Jerry was a piece of shit, he got Tom killed a few times and once he and another mouse tried to kill Tom during his sleep.

>>93353733
And wouldn't sign an apology agreement so tom could go to heaven instead of hell.

>>93336298
Okay, sure, but

Dark Harvest is an episode about Zim stealing peoples organs and stuffing them inside himself. I like Steven Universe but it doesn't get anywhere close to Zim at it's worst.

>>93347675

Nick is cable TV. They don't answer to the FCC.

>>93347675
From what I remember of the DVD commentary, Nickelodeon for whatever reason left the Invader Zim crew alone for the most part. Like they just barely paid attention to them until they finally noticed how weird it was and cancelled the show.

>>93353568
Dee Dee and Dexter become giant monsters.
They fight in a populated city as Dee Dee tries to tell Dexter a long winded stupid story he refuses to listen to
As they fight on they continue to transform, IMO Dee Dee becomes more horrifying with her spider like appearance and morphed voice.
She eventually pins Dexter down and finishes the story.

>>93334529
That one episode of KND where the school nurse gives everyone pink eye and then uses the eye crust to bake pies which are then fed to the kids.

>>93347355
everything else about it is good. it has an appealing design, beautiful colors, fucking ingenious music, and very interesting and creative premises for a kid's show. and towards the end it only got better as its reality expanded, the writing got more complex, and we learned more about Zim and Dib's lives, history, and the worlds they were from.

imo the WAFFLEZ RANDUMB stuff gets a pass because it was just one component of a show that could still tell an enjoyable story without relying exclusively on the stupid humor. I mean, shit, I might have nostalgia goggles on too, but damned if there weren't plenty of other reasons to like the show.

>>93347355
It was real good, even Gir was funny.

>>93349225
Nothing compared to David O'Reilly's usual work
>he put the bathroom from the External World into that AT episode
the madman

>>93349108
Well, they had episodes where they literally ate garbage, organs, even shit.

They also had a P.C. version of the urban legend where a family went to a chinese restaurant and were fed their own dog, only here it was an "alien" restaurant and the dog is actually OK .

>>93349138
I didn't like Johnny Bravo post-season-1 for the same reason (besides fucking up Suzy's design).

>>93334529
Despite the grotesqueness of this episode, I didn't consider it a dark episode. Zim's logic kind of balanced it for me
>the more human organs I have the more normal the nurse will think I am!

>>93349225
This episode gave me so much boners
>all those PB kissing sounds and moans

>>93355286
>IZ was supposed to be satire about society during its time
>main message was people were too stupid to even notice what's happening around them
>largest part of the fanbase only saw GIR and WAFFLES OF DOOM XP
I swear it was the most ironic thing to ever happen to a cartoonist

>>93355731
that's a good point. But I also think it was mostly kids just enjoying its zaniness and the fact that it was so different from everything else on TV, they couldn't help latching onto it.

I do find it interesting that the show is seen nowadays as the origin of the subculture it was designed to appeal to in the first place

>>93340144
>>93344051
The what in the what now?

>>93336511
Jhonen actually got into big arguments with them, then did his best to only follow their mandates by the most technically correct way possible.

>>93355904
Google it my dude
Be prepared
It is some serious shit

>>93351054
Yeah but cmon, Voltaire

>>93355731
Jhonen has a knack for that happening to his works
JTHM shared a similar fate

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>>93334966
>didn't think anything of it as a kid
>rewatched it tonight
>actually disturbed
Holy shit, that was fucked up.

>>93355379
>>93349225
>he put the bathroom from the External World into that AT episode
Explain. I have no idea what I'm looking at

>>93350362
I found them both really sympathetic, I remember liking their team up episodes a lot because it was a rare time they both got to win

>>93356074
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxPyN6IK1tM
David O'Reilly made a guest animated Adventure Time episode and he put the bathroom from this (where someone kills themselves in the tub) into it. Just a cool little reference to his other work. Funny to see because this video is real edgy and part of it was put into an episode of Adventure Time.

>>93334529
No. I still nearly puke every time when he slurps up the intestine.

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>>93340144
>>93344051
>>93355964
JESUS WHAT THE FUCK WHAT DID YOU JUST HAVE ME WATCH

>he's making a break for it anyway
>that first moment of realization with his nose
>the moment when he starts yelling only to realize he no longer has a tongue
>legs just disappear
>more desperate yelling
>starts pounding on the door with his stumps
Fuck you Fuck you Fuck you
I don't have a reaction image terrified enough for this

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>>93338220
This

>>93344528

I had forgotten about this until now

oh my christ

>>93334966
Which episode was that?

>>93356736
https://vimeo.com/34116974

>>93356775
Wasn't so bad, just gaggy

>>93356775
It's kind of amazing how much of this episode is coming back just from watching the first few minutes. I really should rewatch this show.

>>93350362
Earth and its inhabitants were all unlikable retards so I wanted Zim to win every time. The people who would be safe from him were the only people I liked, such as Membrane.

>>93350362
I think it's easier to feel sympathy for Zim because he seems more hopelessly clueless. the whole premise that he believes he's on a secret mission from the Tallest in itself is kinda poignant; Dib on the other hand sometimes places trust in the wrong people, but he usually catches on.

>>93357049
funny you should mention that, I actually remember trying to download this episode in particular from a p2p client on my family's computer in 2002, and it took hours even though it was a low quality (by today's standards) mpg file recorded from TV. I remember impatiently trying repeatedly to play it from the beginning; that whole first segment is burned into my memory. I actually wish I held on to those crappy mpgs and wmvs I had collected. the old Nick.com logos in the corner and the "Slam" bumpers made them special to me.

I remember that one character went to a bathroom at night and i think fell into a bathtub filled with safety pins. Then he was completely bandaged. And it was all about a watch, maybe. Two characters fought each other for a watch. These are the only things i remember. Anyone know what i am talking about?

>>93337389
>Keeping it Together got SU banned in my household,
Ok
>can't watch it with my daughter in the room anymore
I hope you're a girl because otherwise you're a fucking loser

>>93356696
>Zim watches his mortal enemy die.
>Gets a smoothie and walks away with a grin on his face.
Sometimes I forget how Zim is a psychopath amidst all his stupidity and paranoia.

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>>93343483
>when he turns into a baby his skull has a divot just like actual baby skulls
always liked that minor detail

When i was 15, that episode of TMNT:fast foward about the virus that was like a vampire-style infection really fucked me up. I actually had to sleep with all my lights on and stayed in the sun at all times for a week after it.

Yes i know. I lived a very sheltered life.

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>>93334966
>>93356696
>I have created the new MEGA BOY 3000 FUSION POWERED TITANIUM EXOSKELETON!
>It will give him the STRENGTH of TEN THOUSAND LITTLE BOYS!

Seeing the video zoom in so close for that last line and the passion in Membrane's voice was foreboding as fuck. He's usually a neglectful loon this guy's son was just straight up murdered and he brought him back from death as a juggernaut.

>>93334966
It's funny because Jhonen wanted to straight up kill Dib in this episode.

>>93340144
Oh come on, that scene was fucking retarded. When you amputate someones limb in the past, it doesn't just suddenly affect them in the future. They'd live their whole life without that limb.

>>93334529
The clown episode of Mighty Max.

Just a complete tonal change.

>>93341160
toenail.gif

>>93358057
15
the fuck is wrong with you?

>>93359721
Looper's depiction of time travel is flawed. Not because it has different rules than what is usually expected of time travel stories, but because it goes and breaks its own rules throughout it.

>>93359350
Membrane doesn't hate Dib, he's just disappointed in him. You can really see why in that incomplete episode where Dib gives up on chasing Zim and decides to do science instead.

Dib's almost as smart as his dad. Dib and Membrane become super-close and proud of one another for that short time. Membrane probably can't help but see Dib's conspiracy theory stuff as wasted potential

>>93359721
yes it does, i remember that being a point but because they're fucking with the past, it takes a minute to remember shit. so it's altering time in the moment. you remember both lives and then you start to forget the original as a memory. i think that's what closing the loops was about. it's been a while since i watched it. so because it just happened he's going to freak out, he felt the time change while no one else did. and he's starting to remember he's never had a finger or foot or whatever. but he still remembers both timelines and thus it's terrifying.

>>93359928
If he got his limb cut off in the past then the entire course of his life would have changed, he wouldn't have been in the car, EVERYTHING would have changed the moment they cut his leg off in the past. Looper is a good movie but the logic behind its time travel isn't great.

>>93345882
Haiti?

>>93347986
>What kind of idiot

Vasquez, easily

It's a common thing for people to root for the underdog. So which underdog in the show was more undererdog? Dib or Zim?

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>>93336529

>>93334529
The Spongebob episode "Squidbob tentacle pants" - mostly the ending scene which everyone complains about

>>93349304
Yes, if I remember correctly Mortos de Soulstealer is where you can see it the clearest

>>93360689
it's not like he'd die permanently. Episodes are self contained, so it could very well have been Zim kills Dib and Membrane constructs a regular super robot that isn't Dib and finds Zim. Then episode ends the same way, with Zim telling himself in the past to not use the time machine.

>>93361446
Is this the kind of humor that turned off a lot of people from Flapjack?

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>>93336298
>>not an SU fag

>>93336298
>Not to be a SU fag

>>93336298
(you)

>>93336529
the episode with the mermaid becoming a skymaid

>>93355286
I'm not sure LOLSORANDUMB is inherently bad, anyway. It has a place in a kid's show, and like you said they didn't really use it as a crutch.

>>93350362
When I was a kid I thought Dib was the protag and that he was unironically cool. On my rewatch he's actively fucking with Zim.

I still like him more though

Fuck me I forgot how dark that episode was.

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>>93344808
DELET

>>93355624
Yeah, despite the subject it's still pretty over the top and silly.

>>93355624
>>93364751
I think the best part for me is that it actually works. I remember the nurse giving him the OK while saying something like 'and what healthy organs'

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>>93354943
>She eventually pins Dexter down and finishes

>>93336529
The mermaid episode was fucked up. Also that one screenshot with the black and white realistic cat with fucked up eyes.

>>93338039
Fuck you I jumped out of my skin at work

>>93334529
Ren's Tooth Decay

>>93343483
I came here to post this.
Although I have a feeling Grim Adventures did another one that was more fucked up

>>93345025
>religious stuff getting cut from the show

What?

>>93347355
Zim was honestly pretty much a pioneer for the whole "LOL SO RANDUM" humor so I feel like it gets a pass for that.

>>93354943
The whole monster thing was offsetting as fuck, but I had a genuine kek as a kid when she finished that stupid fucking story

>>93355051
This and the end of the "History of families" episode

>>93359350
The rare moments where Membrane shows love for his children are great.

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>>93338039
I think it's cute.

>>93345882
all Latin American?
>>93349225
that's kinda hot.

>>93349225
Is Marceline naked?

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>>93350362
I always rooted for Zim due to how endearing he is to go to a planet where pretty much anything can kill him, yet he keeps rolling with the punches and getting back up to try again for every failure. Plus, he's actually pretty badass when he actually gets seriously about something.

>>93367506
There are bits through the series that are a bit, but I feel The Halls of Time got to me the most
When it first aired on CN it made me very upset as a 9 year old
I always thought I over exaggerated it until I rewatched it not too long ago.

>>93361446
I'm actually laughing out loud right now

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>>93367374
Grow up? I'm 38 years old!

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>>93361711
most likely yeah. shame, because flapjack's wierdness is what made the show

>>93337389
>suMales

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Not a children's cartoon, I know, but the time police episodes got REALLY messed up towards the end

>>93359350
Dib in his MEGA BOY 3000 was unsettling
>All those cords in his skull
>You can't see his lower body

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>>93373286
Forgot the image

>>93347355
It's not fair to call it cringey because it's sort of the patient zero for LOLRANDUMBXD humor in cartoons.

So if it came out now, it'd be cringey and overplayed, but technically speaking it was ahead of it's time.

>>93336298
It is not conscious, though parts of it are. There are structures within it that were once separate organisms; aboriginal, evolved, and complex. It is designed to improvise, to use what is there and then move on. Good enough is good enough, and so the artifacts are ignored or adapted. The conscious parts try to make sense of the reaching out. Try to interpret it.

One imagines an insect’s leg twitching twitching twitching. One hears a spark closing a gap, the ticking so fast it becomes a drone. Another, oblivious, reexperiences her flesh falling from her bones, the nausea and fear, and begs for death as she has for years now. Her name is Maria. It does not let her die. It does not comfort her. It is unaware of her because it is unaware.

But unaware is not inactive. It finds power where it can, nestled in a bath of low radiation. Tiny structures, smaller than atoms, harvest the energy of the fast-moving particles that pass through it. Subatomic windmills. It eats the void and it reaches out it reaches out it reaches out.

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>>93334529
The episode where they turned a planet into a huge parking lot made me cry. I'm really not very good at nihilism. I feel that I could handle that stuff better as a kid.
I used to fantasize a lot about an alien empire which was all good guys, but of course they had unbelievable weapons and needed to use them. Cartoons really made me start questioning the ethics of my imagination. It's all gone wrong. Just got jaded.

>>93344808
Yeah... I was young when I watched Ren and Stimpy. That horse with human like facial expressions was scary too. And the scene where Stimpy is assuring Ren no one is watching as he gives him a bath but everyone was watching was unsettling too. Tho hypocritically I fap to voyeurism independently

>>93353568
It's a Pokemon episode with evolving all the time

>>93353749
It's too marysue for me. Zim gets away with way too many things

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Does popee the preformer count as an anime or cartoon?

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>>93373707
But that was Blorch, home of the Slaughtering Rat People
Nothing of value was lost

>>93373821
it counts as an abomination

>>93347355
>>93347442

I've been re watching it too and it's strange seeing old jokes that used to have me on the verge of tears just have me smiling and jokes that I never found funny as a kid had me laughing super hard.

>>93373824
Just because they were called Slaughtering Rat people doesn't mean thats what they do.

>>93347355
it's you who is the real cringe

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http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4tpwi4
Skip to 7:40

>>93375082
The music in that sequence is GOAT

>>93375524
The soundtrack is completely underrated.

>>93375524
This entire show was a e s t h e t i c. Even the Beavis and Butthead-tier music videos mid-show, however I remember one with some censored naked dude going full psychedelic

>>93334529

The final episode of Ren and Stimpy.

It was so sad how they ended it on such an out-of-character episode.

>>93344528
That scene wasn't even the disturbing part of the episode. It was Dog continuously wearing down Cat's teeth as he desperately tried to get him to stop.

>>93343483
This ending fucked me up really bad as a kid, fuck.

>>93349225
That did weird things to my peepee, try again.

>>93336298
>Not to be a SU fag

>>93336298
>>not to be a SU fag

>>93375602
Explain?

>>93336529
W E S T
E
S
T

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>>93375602
The one where Stimpy had a shit baby?

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>>93344528
jesus fucking christ I forgot about that episode

Watching cat's teeth just rot away was horrible.

>>93373857
A beautiful abomination

>>93377562
Yeah, that episode ensured that even Dog wasn't an exception to their "every character is horrible" writing.

Its why I don't get people using Winslow as an anti-Shadman image. Its taking one of the worst cartoon characters who wasn't in Allan Gregory against an artist because his fetish work and shitty humor bothers you. Its not portrayed in a way to imply even Winslow is better than Shadman, its just a random image presented.

>>93348573
https://youtu.be/R9EZahXQqzc

>>93334529
My favourite episode. I laughted so hard when he slurps up the intestine.

>>93334529
fucking pussy faggots. i saw this episode and thought nothing of it until i saw these fucking threads

>>93346642
kek, what a loser

>>93348102
I really hope faggots like you dont breed and keep away from the genepool