Good old fashion nightmare fuel.

[comicfan]

The subject line is from Mystery Science Theater 3000, and the question is:

What classic cartoons freaked you out? Either as a little kid or more recently?

For me, two 'toons that really bothered me as a kid were Sylvester's Satan's Waitin' and Donald Duck's Duck Pimples. I haven't seen Pimples since, but have seen Waitin' several times, and am no longer freaked out by it. But what about you all?

[Larry T]

I remember "Hare Ribbin" scaring the living bejeebers out of me. The whole thing looking kind of nauseating through the ripple glass, then the final suicide joke, was just beyond being funny for a little kid. I can watch it millions of times now, though!! ;)

Another one was "The Big Snooze". Bugs Bunny was so relentless in this one, I kind of felt sorry for Elmer a little.

Another one was "Self Service " by Bruno Bozetto. I was horrified by that cartoon, and it gave me nightmares for years!!

"Betty Boop, M.D." also freaked me out. When all those characters started radically transforming after drinking the exilir, I started fearing if anything I ever drank would do the same for me!!

"Hyde and Go Tweet" was another WB to frighten me a lot. Maybe it was just the fact that Sylvester was the only one getting pursued by the Monster Tweey Bird- that scene where The Hyde Tweety bites Sylvester and there's this lenghty pause with the cat's tail sticking out of his mouth used to creep me out (and kind of still does, for some reason......!!)

Lastly, "Heavenly Puss ". I liked Tom, even as a kid, and didn't like seeing him get tormented into the afterlife....

[rodney]

Satan's Waitin'

Chow Hound (still makes my stomach ache)

and not a cartoon, but....

The Wizard of Oz scared the hell out of me.

[lislebartman]

When I was younger, "An Itch In Time" really used to bother me...

Thinking that a flea could carry off a human being (Elmer in this case) and a dog just for the sake of eating them really disturbed me...

[Jack]

Scaredy Cat freaked me out a little, mostly because of my own imagination. I used to wonder what the mice did to Sylvester in the basement to make him go white like that. I thought maybe they tied him down and forced him to watch the bloody execution of the first cat in a sick cult-like ritual.

I never had such thoughts when watching the two follow-ups, though.

I thought "Fifth Column Mouse" was sort of creepy, for reasons I can't really put my finger on.


Jack:eek:

[Cartman]

One scene that used to freak me out was the scene in the movie Pinocchio where Lampwick (the boy who Pinocchio makes friends with on Pleasure Island) transforms into a donkey.

I also found parts of the cartoon Devils Feud Cake to be a little creepy.

[Matt Yorston]

Count me in as someone else who was totally unnerved by "Scaredy Cat". It scared me so much as a kid, I had to wait a whole year before having the nerve to watch it again.

I was also a little disturbed by the Disney cartoon "Pluto's Judgement Day" and some of Disney's "Legend of Sleepy Hollow" sequence is not really disturbing but, at time, genuinely chilling.

And, yes, "An Itch in Time" really disturbed me too. The whole cartoon with its "canniballistic" flea character just nauseates me.

[Matthew Hunter]

Originally posted by rodney


and not a cartoon, but....

The Wizard of Oz scared the hell out of me.


Yeah, same here. The witchs' winged monkey creatures freaked me out...that movie is, to a kid, SCARY. It's STILL a little scary to me now.

Disney's "Lady and the Tramp" is hands-down one of my favorite animated films, but when I first saw it those creepy rats gave me nightmares. (I was 3, okay, so don't laugh.)

For ages the only version of "Rovers' Rival" that I saw was the redrawn one. It really disturbed me...the scene where the firecracker explodes really made the dog look like he was blown to bits....eeeewww...

-Matthew

[cabe624]

For some reason, "The Timid Toreador" freaked me out as a kid, maybe it was because of the weird stereotypes. If I watched the hand colorized version, that factor alone would scare me:eek:

[Patrick McCart]

Night on Bald Mountain and The Pastoral Symphony segments of Fantasia used to scare me!

Now, the Pastorale is kind of boring (Clair De Lune would have been a much better segment, IMO) and Night on Bald Mountain is my favorite segment (next to La Giaconda, Toccato and Fugue, and... :D )

[Boy Wonder]

Originally posted by Larry T
I remember "Hare Ribbin" scaring the living bejeebers out of me. The whole thing looking kind of nauseating through the ripple glass, then the final suicide joke, was just beyond being funny for a little kid. I can watch it millions of times now, though!! ;)

Another one was "The Big Snooze". Bugs Bunny was so relentless in this one, I kind of felt sorry for Elmer a little.

Another one was "Self Service " by Bruno Bozetto. I was horrified by that cartoon, and it gave me nightmares for years!!

"Betty Boop, M.D." also freaked me out. When all those characters started radically transforming after drinking the exilir, I started fearing if anything I ever drank would do the same for me!!

"Hyde and Go Tweet" was another WB to frighten me a lot. Maybe it was just the fact that Sylvester was the only one getting pursued by the Monster Tweey Bird- that scene where The Hyde Tweety bites Sylvester and there's this lenghty pause with the cat's tail sticking out of his mouth used to creep me out (and kind of still does, for some reason......!!)

Lastly, "Heavenly Puss ". I liked Tom, even as a kid, and didn't like seeing him get tormented into the afterlife....

I remember when I was younger, the MGM lion scared the bejezzus out of me.

[Sogturtle]

I've mentioned it before in passing, but the only really great cartoon that ever terrified me as a child, in fact clear up till a freshman in high school was Art Davis's wonderful "Bye Bye Bluebeard". Whenever I saw it start I remember horror washing over me even as I made a mad dash to change channels with my heart beating frantically !!! A pyschotic, murderous escaped killer was just TOOOOO much for my tender little brain!!

(Such was life for a child who lived only 5 miles from the state hospital where the dangerously, criminally insane lived...)

[Steve Carras]

Used to be LUMBERJACK RABBIT (IMHO one of Chuck Jones's last GREAT cartoons)..and can you guess WHY??!!

(Hint: It's at the beginning, in your face,in 3-d)>See Davemacker.com, Animation:Warner Bros.cartoon filmography, 1954

[Argus Sventon]

Originally posted by Boy Wonder
I remember when I was younger, the MGM lion scared the bejezzus out of me.

Same here. I didn't watch Tom and Jerry until the mid 80's.

[J. J. Hunsecker]

When I was around four or five years old I was frightened by a scene from "What's Cookin' Doc?" It was the scene where Bugs Bunny imitates the Frankenstein monster to impress the academy with his acting range.

There was something about Bugs being able to transform himself into a monster that sort of unsettled me. Yet, even though I was scared by that cartoon, it was one of my favorites at that age (I also loved the movie "Frankenstein" even though it gave me nightmares.)

[Daniel P]

"Heavenly Puss" scared me. As a little kid, I always thought, why is the guy who lets people on "The Heavenly Express" such a jerk?

Also, this cartoon scared me more than anything else: "The Two Mousketeers."

[Daffyfan2003]

I've mentioned it before in passing, but the only really great cartoon that ever terrified me as a child, in fact clear up till a freshman in high school was Art Davis's wonderful "Bye Bye Bluebeard".

I have to agree with you on that one. The first time I saw that, I was pretty surprised that they put some kind of serial killer in an animated cartoon.

[Boy Wonder]

Originally posted by Argus Sventon
Same here. I didn't watch Tom and Jerry until the mid 80's.

Pus, on some animated features, you know when mickey in that sorcerer thing has his hand up and either the blue screen, or the Walt Disney picture thing in red letters popped up, the red letter one scared me. Also the LT ending theme from 1941-1945 scared me too.