A bit you missed with the Futurama 'Jurassic Bark' episode: The destruction of the cloning-machine wasn't why they didn't revive Seymour (the dog). It was actually Fry's decision. They find out Seymour lived until he was 15, while Fry only knew him till the age of 3. Fry decides he doesn't want to bring Seymour back, as 'He would've forgotten him long ago'. Cue the ending scene of Seymour waiting his whole life for Fry to come back, eventually dying, still waiting.
Several Spongebob episodes made the list, but not “Dying for Pie”? The one where Squidward thinks Spongebob has eaten a pie-shaped bomb so gives him the best last day ever? That was the one that sticks with me from my childhood.
That one is a very strong memory for me that always was incredibly insane. Even the episode about Mr.Cuddly Hugs, which was a giant shared hallucination from eating a dirty Crappy Patty was messed up for me.
The only one I vaguely remember is the one where some robot chases SpongeBob or something. Looking back at it makes it look way less scary, but, as a kid, that really messed me up.
I'm actually really surprised that the Captain Planet drug episode isn't on here. One of the characters has an on-screen death and the episode is now banned for being too distressing.
There’s that other episode that involves a kids getting AIDS and had 2 different episodes involving overpopulation (which is now ironic in some aspects).
Have you ever seen the garfield comic strips that have garfield cut out and its just John talking to himself? It's like he's having an existential breakdown
A funny thing about Marge's Treehouse of Horror warning: In the 2nd TOH, Marge comes onto the stage and starts to warn the audience again but then stops, passive aggressively speaking to the audience and saying that "if you didn't listen the first time, you won't listen this time".
20:57 Static Shock dealt with mature themes, such as racism, and gun violence (Season 2, Episode 1 "Jimmy"). The show also dealt with loss of a family member -- all in a way the target audience could understand without being overtly too dark in nature
37:42 a subtle little detail with monk Gyatso's death is that because the room required an Airbender to open and with all of the firenation soldiers are dead around him as well as his cloths being intact and not burned you can interpret it as Gyatso using the airbending technique Zaheer talks about in legend of Korra where the bender pushes all of the air out of a room to suffocate everyone inside. Gyatso sealed himself in the room with all of the fire nation soldiers and gave his life to stop them.
4:40 Thats a reference to the intro to Frankenstein (1931) which was done in an era where people were extra sensitive to horror and would genuinely faint from something as tame as Frankenstein.
You're Getting Old and Assburgers, the part two episode, are the ones that actually made me sob. Stan's descent into depression and then eventually alcoholism just hit me like nothing else could. They're two really great episodes and I definitely highly recommend it if you're even remotely into the type of humor South Park has.
@@annastanley5954 same, by 10 years old I started to see nothing made sense anymore and life just sucks. Nothing ever warrants a smile, nothing. We only smile when trying to show family members that we are ok, when we really aren’t. (A Mask). It was a great episode, especially with Stan always being my favorite character and my parents were always fighting. People are definitely triggers to depression too.
While this doesn't fit into the catergory of unnecessarily dark, Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids was quite a disturbing show for a kids show. A majority of the episodes pretty much ended in death, children included, but the show was really good. Used to watch it all the time on CITV but in hindsight the show got away with a lot!
OMG I remember being scarred by the episode where the boy gets turned into a doll and his mom walks past the shop but he can't call out to her and the doll just cries in the shop window. As a 24 year old adult that episode still affects me and I haven't watched it since it aired lmfao
My mom grew me up on children's horror anthology series, I never rmemebered that one but I think a couple months ago she was just randomly watching that when I went in her room, she said that was one of the shows we used to watch together Anyways I sat down for a couple episodes and I broke out laughing on a couple episodes but my favorite was the werewolf one, especially how pretty much all the teens died at the end like wtf, that's allot for children's show
The thing about those old Hannah-Barbera/MGM/Looney Tunes cartoons is that they were not actually meant for children. They were shorts shown in movie theaters and nickelodeons. They only started being treated as for children once they started being aired on TV.
I like how you called static shock a "cheesy superhero show with barely any dark moments" yet one of the episodes literally tackle the concept of school shootings
You should’ve included that one Bob’s Burgers episode where Bob starts to lose his mustache so him and his family reimagine him if he never had his mustache, so he would’ve never met his wife, had his kids, etc. and eventually the episode spirals into them imagining if basically the mean health inspector, Hugo, married Linda, had kids, and started a restaurant of his own, ‘Hugo’s Hot Dogs’. This may seem funny, but it’s pretty disturbing, mostly because when I was younger it traumatized me.
Speaking as someone who watched static shock. It was not a light hearted show. It pretended to be. Almost every episode of that show is another show’s very special episode. Not speaking I’ll of the show, but just letting anyone know who’s expecting a fun flashy super hero show.
"Batman's parents die in almost every incarnation" ....Almost..... apart from that one alternate universe where Bruce dies, his father becomes Batman and his mother becomes Joker. Also, on the subject of the racism/abuse tier, I'd like to mention Teen Titans' Season 4/Episode #6 "Troq" where this dude Val-Yor comes down to Earth and is generally nice to all the Titans except Starfire because of his hatred towards her home people of Tamaran, calling both them and Starfire a "Troq", which means "nothing". In the end, Val-Yor leaves Earth still hating Starfire (despite her saving his life) and the rest of the Titans, calling them "Troq" as well. I also find it kinda fascinating that Starfire confided with Cyborg about Val-Yor's racist thoughts since Cyborg himself had to deal with that type of predujice himself. Other shows/episodes I think that should have gotten a mention are: - The one Sesame Street episode where Big Bird tries to look for Mr. Hooper but Mr. Hooper passes away and the episode shows Big Bird trying to understand and cope with the passing of a loved one. - The Fresh Prince episode where Will takes a bullet for Carlton. Carlton gets a gun to protect himself but Will persuades him to not go the route of violence. In the end, Carlton gives the gun to Will before leaving. Will then starts crying after he unloads the gun on his hospital bed. - The Fresh Prince episode about drug abuse where Will accidentally gets Carlton on some pills, causing him to go crazy at a party. The pills were meant for Will since he was struggling at school. In the end, after Carlton is released from the hospital, Will apologises to him and the rest of the family. - Of course, the darkest Courage episode "Masks" where this masked lady hates dogs, so she takes her hatred out on Courage. Courage then finds out about her girlfriend, who is being abused (and possibly prostituted?) by this buff demon dog-looking thing. Courage manages to rescue her and reunite them both on a train with the masked lady reaffirming herself that "not all dogs are evil" and thanking Courage.
jurassic bark makes me cry just to think about, the unconditional love that dogs have for their humans is so beautiful and heartwarming. it makes me miss my dog so much, but honestly it's so well done and they wrote Seymour so well to wait for Fry like that
Also your description of Hama from Avatar The Last Airbender was wrong. 6:43 You said she’s one of the last remaining members of the southern water tribe when that’s not true. The firebenders only killed the waterbenders in the southern tribe, but the tribe itself is still very much alive. She’s the last waterbender from the southern tribe, but the tribe itself is alive. I’m not sure if you worded your script wrong or misunderstood the episode but hope this helps.
I'm old so I know my addition wouldn't be known: In the 90s, there was a teen soap called Swans Crossing (starring Sarah Michelle Geller aka Buffy the vampire slayer) The series finale implied that a serial killer killed all the kids at the pool party they attended.. Look it up and tell me what you think 2: Small wonder was an 80s show about a guy who made a robot daughter. One episode was where her brother befriend a girl who was kidnapped by her father and she didn't know it. The episode where he disappeared and got away with it. #3: Different strokes: episode about the pedophile..enough said #4 Punky Brewster: the episode where her friend almost died of suffocating #4 Save by the bell: "I'm so excited!! I'm so excited!! I'm soooo.... Scared😭😭😭😭" ( those who know...know) Yea
I actually remember seeing a pokemon episode while making breakfest for my little brother who was watching tv on the morning and jeaus christ it was sad. It was about this green haired girl who regretted saying that she hated her mother when she was young and soon after her mother died from some illness and she felt bad that her last talk with her mother was so negative and she eventually meets somesort of ghost/illusion of her mother within the fog and she just cries in her mother's arms and while apologising to her and they eventually part ways and she finds a shaymin. Like as someone who lost his grampa in hospital while leaving the room during his last moments since i could not handle watch him dying i honestly related to that episode and i still regret that my grandpa had to witness his own grandson walking out on him on his last moments and i honestly just wished i could have atleast said thanks for being absolutely great grandpa and thanks for being there when my parents did not have the time.
The best part about that Fresh Prince scene, is it was improved by Will and Uncle Phil. Will actually broke down and started crying because of his own relationship with his real life father, to which James Avery (Uncle Phil) immediately put him in a bear hug of love without a second thought. Genuinely heart warming
Full House would occasionally talk about tough topics such as: death, peer pressure, bullying, smoking, drinking, mental illness, the dangers of reckless driving, anorexic behaviors, and more
42:39 Iirc, it was a 3 part episode, the one before those two being "the lich", where the titular character the lich uses Finn to open a portal to prismo's dimension, where he intent to wish that all live on earth didn't exist. After this, the events of Finn the human and jake the dog happen. The 3 episodes are pretty dark, but adventure time gets even darker after this
I feel like one you missed was the SpongeBob episode "Are You Happy Now?". Basically, Squidward falls into a depression after realizing he has no happy memories. SpongeBob tries to make him a happiest memory, but fails miserably. Then Squidward stays in his house for 2 weeks, acting like some real people with depression. There are two... "Jokes"- one where he sticks his head in the oven, only to pull out cookies, and one where he sets up a rope, only to pull up a bird cage. Iirc, they were removed for how tasteless they were.
Ok, when I was younger me and my parents would watch Seinfeld together. Pretty much there was an episode where one of the characters named George goes to a holistic medicine place. The episode isn't scary but I remember I had a dream where I was watching that episode and it took a dark turn. The holistic medicine makes George hallucinate that the world is ending and he continually vomits and he lays shaking in the dark as you can see a hallucination of the apocalypse outside the apartment window. That's where the dream ended, that was probably the weirdest dream I had.
Static shock was an amazing show I loved as a kid, the whole premise of the show started with a gang fight, a father trying to keep his son away from peer pressure of people who think guns empower you. It had an epsiode dealing with bullying in what lead to a school shooting, issues with racisim, it was a heavy and interesting show and one of my fav super hero shows ever.
Another honestly dark episode of Family Guy is "And Then There Were Fewer" where the whole town is invited to a mansion and it becomes a murder mystery. It honestly had me on the edge of my seat and I don't watch FG all that much. All of the characters who get killed in the episode die for real, they're never shown again, and the murderer isn't someone you'd expect (at least I didn't expect it at all).
Context for the Dratini episode: Dratini was a rare, almost legendary Pokemon, that only existed in the safari zone. The game warden for the safari zone had actually closed it down because people would come to hunt down Dratini and almost drove the Pokemon to extinction. That's why the warden stays strapped at all time because he wants to protect Dratini at all costs. It's also the episode where Satoshi catches all of his Tauros
I'm honestly very surprised that the Family Guy episode "Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q" wasn't included, it's about how the character Quagmire's sister has to deal with physical and mental abuse from her boyfriend. It's a very dark episode and it's a huge change on what Family Guys usually does with their episodes. Though, the episode was done very poorly, it ended up becoming a horrible episode, but I'm surprised it wasn't added on the iceberg.
you left out that in Jurassic Bark, Bender does try to make things right and does get the dog back. It was Fry who decided to leave him be because the Professor said he lived to be 15, 12 years after Fry was frozen, and Fry thought the dog had moved on and forgot him. The end sequence still hits hard because the audience is shown that no the dog did not move on and waited for Fry to come back until the day he died
You bringing up that Arthur episode actually kinda made me cry. My mom use to work in an elementary school kitchen, and her boss was a wonderful and kindhearted woman, and they became very close. Even when my mom moved on to a different job, she remained good friends with her old boss. Unfortunately, while my mom was still working there, her boss had been diagnosed with cancer. She beat it once, but when it came back a couple years later, she wasn't as strong. We lost her to cancer about this time last year. I may not have known her as well as my mom did, but she was a wonderful woman, and she did a lot to help my mom. Seeing my mom having to pull over and break down crying when she passed by the school ahe use to work at was heartbreaking. May her friend rest in peace.
Everyone talks about Jurassic Bark, and it hits hard, sure... But no one talks about Game of Tones especially the ending part where Fry has a chance to speak to his mother in her dream.
The Simpsons was a huge stepping stone in animation in the early 90's. Adult cartoons weren't really a thing, at least in the mainstream (yeah, we had guys like backshi, but that stuff definitely wasn't going on basic cable). Simpsons wanted some edge, but they still had to tread carefully since it was fairly uncharted territory.
The first 3 or 4 treehouse of horrors had warnings at the start. First one was the one shown, second was Marge addressing people who didn't take their first warning seriously and wrote in to complain, then the third and fourth were Homer and Bart making fun of those same people
The thing you missed about Jurassic bark was fry had the chance to bring Seymour back but when he learned Seymour lived another 12 years, fry thinks that Seymour had moved on and forgot about fry. However, Seymour actually waited every day for fry until his death making it much sadder
I've had a DVD of that pingu one my whole life and I remember watching it heaps as a toddler (if you count covering my face and hiding behind a pillow while listening as watching). I think it is one of the reasons I love horror so much now. (Also pretty sure it was banned in some places or something but not sure).
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Not sure if anyone has mentioned this, but a lot of older cartoons like Tom and Jerry and Loony Tunes weren’t actually created for child audiences. Back when these cartoons were shown, they premiered before films, which is why they have pretty short run times to begin with. This was in the 30s-50s before the rating board came around, so nothing was really aimed towards children. This is why a lot of these shorts contained pretty dark and mature themes, because it was adults telling stories for a largely adult audience. The switch started to happen with the popularity of the home television in the late 50s. Animation had to exist on a shoestring budget and restrictive time frame in order to work with syndication. Companies like Hannah-Barbara were worried adults would not be interested in the noticeable downgrade, and instead opted to start marketing to children who were considered to not care about the quality as much. This unfortunately set a bad trend that “animation is for kids”, which many animators and fans have been trying to undo for decades. It’s no surprise that when Cartoon Network was formed to broadcast these older cartoons made for adults in theaters, many kids got exposed to them. I grew up watching some of these darker cartoons, and I never really comprehended how mature they were until I got older and understood their meanings. It’s very interesting to look back on the media you consumed and go “I don’t think I was supposed to watch this”.
As a Canadian I gotta say catching Mr. Meaty on TV at midnight always scared the piss out of me. Went back and checked it out as an adult and I actually loved. It's a very gross and abrasive show so I get why lots of people hate but i think it's the coolest. Fun fact: The town in the show, Scaunchboro, is based on the Canadian city of Scarborough, Ontario which is not far from me. To be honest it's a pretty "scaunchy" town lmao.
I saw that full house episode a year or 2 ago on TV. It's good to see they are still running things like this even though it's sad it's important as well
spongebob turning into a snail sounds like something that junji ito would think up edit: oh man i remember watching that tom and jerry episode as a kid, pretty sure i thought they were both just depressed lol
Is kinda weird that people say Frank Grimes is "the most real Simpsons character" when he has a cartoonishly sad backstory that almost compares with Dr. Doofenshmirtz on how unfair it is. 35:30 There's no moral, is Looney Tunes, I'm not saying they cant have educational value or anything the writers most likely just thought the idea of a cat not wanting to eat a willing bird was funny, specially since the dynamic of "cat vs mouse" was oversued at the time, it was a change in the formula.
To make matters worse, "Gone" ends with all the Bikini Bottom residents returning by bus, and even PATRICK is with them! Turns out even Patrick gets fed up with SpongeBob's antics now and then and simply wants to get away every once in a while, and while it does make Patrick more real, the whole "burning an effigy to the ground and dancing on its ashes" thing is really dark for SpongeBob. On an additional note, I remember a really dark episode of Looney Tunes where Sylvester thinks he's finally eaten Tweety and after that is wrought with guilt and anxiety for days on end, even popping pills at one point if I remember correctly, only to reveal that Sylvester hadn't eaten Tweety but something put in Tweety's place, like a decoy.
u should’ve included the episode of family guy where Quagmire’s sister is getting abused by her boyfriend and the boys (joe,cleavland,peter) all go to try and kill him. it’s a good episode and i think that the imagery is quite graphic. you also should’ve included Are You Happy Now? from spongebob. in the episode,squidward falls into a deep depression and tries to commit suicide (through some unfunny cheap gags) twice. it’s very saddening to see,as squidward ist second favorite episode.
Correction: Static Shock definitely tackled issues like that pretty often. Like yeah it was a superhero show, but the whole idea was that Static had to deal with real problems along with supervillains. Drug addiction, school shootings, and racism were all on the table.
That's fair, as I said I never watched the show and it didn't seem to take itself too seriously, but it's pretty cool that it was able to balance whacky mansized armadillos with serious educational topics
Great video, I wonder if somebody will do an iceberg of creepy apocalypse episodes in TV Episodes where the inevitable has/will happen and our characters are powerless to stop it As well as “Gone”, “Spongehenge” was one that always creeped me out as a kid
Ninjago is a show aimed primary towards kids with very dark moments. There's literally mass genocide, reincarnation, manipulation, slavery and a surprising amount of character deaths
Surprisingly enough, I never actually found "Nasty Patty" to be that dark for a SpongeBob episode, especially because of how hilarious it was due to the slapstick humor that the series is known for and the fact that the health inspector was never dead at all despite how much comical pain he was able to go through. If that's the case, then the episode "Squidward The Unfriendly Ghost" would be considered just as dark because it involves SpongeBob and Patrick thinking that they killed Squidward and he's able to come back as a ghost when, in actuality, they just ruined a life-sized wax sculpture of Squidward while the real Squidward was able to come out of the shower while in his bathrobe and towel.
I'd be down for the B99 season 8 essay. Personally I do agree this season has been pretty lackluster compared to rest aside from maybe season 6. Hopefully the finale is good, I did quite enjoy the two recent episodes since they felt very in line with the older seasons. Oh yeah, also the iceberg was very good.
I understand that they have to walk a very tight line with police issues in a post-George Floyd world, but even having said that the show is betraying everything that used to make it good seasons ago. They shone a light on racism within the police plenty of times, it's intrinsic to Holt's character! Even taking all that out, the characters are making choices that I find out of nowhere, and the stories are just not as exciting. The show seems like it really wants to end, and it's such a shame.
You continue to make quality content after quality content. I don't know man, you're spoiling us way too much. Maybe, you should do an Ice Berg relating too Dinosaurs or Japanese culture? Idk.
Oddly enough, even as a little kid, whenever I saw the I was a teenage Gary episode, I don't recall it ever really terrifying me, especially the transformation scene. And I was a kid who was terrified of so many things (and still am) but when it came to watching that episode, I can only ever recall just feeling meh.
I know this isn't TV, but for the last tier there was a non-canon episode of BFDI where Book, Match, and Donut got stuck in some claw machine and literally remained stuck until the heat death of the universe. For a show like BFDI, that is kind of terrifying when you think about it--not only were they stuck for pretty much eternity, but they outlived pretty much everyone they ever knew.
I don’t know if anyone knows too much about this spongebob episode, it’s kinda new, but there is a spongebob episode called “Ink Lemonade.” Which even by the name sounds gross In my opinion it is quite possibly the most terrifying spongebob episode to ever air. It traumatized me and I don’t know how they even got it to air. I won’t go into detail because it’s terrifying and I suggest people to watch it on their own for their own experience but basically Spongebob and Patrick start selling stuff called “Black Lemonade.” and it is made by, and i kid you not, Squidwards ink, and somehow it is found delicious. Even their teeth turn black from it, they literally squeeze the ink out of squidward. It literally comes out of his nostrils. It is disgusting. But don’t worry, it gets worse. Ontop of that, they show SEVERAL scenes of inside body parts showed, they show spiders crawling out of squidwards mouth AND nose, even giant spiders appear. Ontop of that there is a part where Squidward feels no longer in control of his body and he feels has a puppet which is kinda deep for a kids show. It is honestly so disgusting and traumatizing dude. 😕
ink lemonade is classed as one of the worst episodes of spongebob. it’s very upsetting because spongebob was once a heartfelt show with morals and stuff but after steve hillenburg’s passing the show just got ruined. i wish steve didn’t die,he was an incredible man who cared about spongebob so much.
2:39 the body mechanics by which SpongeBob morphs into a snail reminds me of a really old cartoon, called Turbo Teen, about a teenage boy, who, after some sort of chemical accident that happened when he broke into a laboratory, he could morph himself into a sports car at will.
that Adventure Time episode wasn't even the darkest one. it was kind of tame. and for some context, after Finn wished to the pink guy that "The Lich" would not excist he was transported to this alternate reality where an atom-bomb never exploded. after some unfortunate events he gets the ice crown (which was used to prevent the bomb from exploding) and accidentely explodes the Atom-Bomb which "birthes" the Lich who is the personification of death and Entropy, the end of all things th-cam.com/video/FrlymHW0qU8/w-d-xo.html
Your squidward impression was shockingly spot on
Thanks haha
@@FoxAkimbo yeah I was pretty impressed
I know right? 😆
It really was wow
I must agreee
A bit you missed with the Futurama 'Jurassic Bark' episode:
The destruction of the cloning-machine wasn't why they didn't revive Seymour (the dog). It was actually Fry's decision. They find out Seymour lived until he was 15, while Fry only knew him till the age of 3. Fry decides he doesn't want to bring Seymour back, as 'He would've forgotten him long ago'.
Cue the ending scene of Seymour waiting his whole life for Fry to come back, eventually dying, still waiting.
yah thats the best bit of the episode
That scene legit made me tear up the first time I saw it
That just fucked me up.
I always skip that episode. It just messes me up.
So many Futurama episodes make me cry.
Several Spongebob episodes made the list, but not “Dying for Pie”? The one where Squidward thinks Spongebob has eaten a pie-shaped bomb so gives him the best last day ever? That was the one that sticks with me from my childhood.
My favorite quote from Mr. Krabs is from that episode "...the boy cries you a sweater of tears. And you blow him up."
Spongebob: *Blows up*
Squidward: *Sniff* I am such a good person...
That one is a very strong memory for me that always was incredibly insane. Even the episode about Mr.Cuddly Hugs, which was a giant shared hallucination from eating a dirty Crappy Patty was messed up for me.
@@starrysoleil i completely forgot about that episode. Spongebob is fucked up
The only one I vaguely remember is the one where some robot chases SpongeBob or something. Looking back at it makes it look way less scary, but, as a kid, that really messed me up.
I'm actually really surprised that the Captain Planet drug episode isn't on here. One of the characters has an on-screen death and the episode is now banned for being too distressing.
Your talking about the drug episode right
@@Multifandom_mess12 Yeah, the drug episode from Captain Planet. The episode with drugs, on Captain Planet. It's the Captain Planet drug episode.
Oh, right. The drugs. The drugs for Captain Planet, the drugs chosen especially for Captain Planet, Captain Planet's drugs.
There’s that other episode that involves a kids getting AIDS and had 2 different episodes involving overpopulation (which is now ironic in some aspects).
Not a cartoon but there was this one series of Garfield strips in the 80's that were actual psychological horror
I think I've heard of them before, a horror Garfield sounds mad haha
Wouldn't mind the source, that actually sounds really cool.
Have you ever seen the garfield comic strips that have garfield cut out and its just John talking to himself? It's like he's having an existential breakdown
@@FoxAkimbo there's an scp story about that. He fills you with lasagna
Oh I know those, the Halloween ones. Those opare honestly my favorite for that reason
A funny thing about Marge's Treehouse of Horror warning: In the 2nd TOH, Marge comes onto the stage and starts to warn the audience again but then stops, passive aggressively speaking to the audience and saying that "if you didn't listen the first time, you won't listen this time".
Oddly enough most of them didn't, from what I heard... so Marge was right
20:57 Static Shock dealt with mature themes, such as racism, and gun violence (Season 2, Episode 1 "Jimmy"). The show also dealt with loss of a family member -- all in a way the target audience could understand without being overtly too dark in nature
Yeah, that show was underrated
37:42 a subtle little detail with monk Gyatso's death is that because the room required an Airbender to open and with all of the firenation soldiers are dead around him as well as his cloths being intact and not burned you can interpret it as Gyatso using the airbending technique Zaheer talks about in legend of Korra where the bender pushes all of the air out of a room to suffocate everyone inside.
Gyatso sealed himself in the room with all of the fire nation soldiers and gave his life to stop them.
Oh yeah, I've heard of that interpretation
4:40
Thats a reference to the intro to Frankenstein (1931) which was done in an era where people were extra sensitive to horror and would genuinely faint from something as tame as Frankenstein.
You're Getting Old and Assburgers, the part two episode, are the ones that actually made me sob. Stan's descent into depression and then eventually alcoholism just hit me like nothing else could. They're two really great episodes and I definitely highly recommend it if you're even remotely into the type of humor South Park has.
Legit definitely 2 episodes with perhaps the most visible depth and drama to them, Matt and Trey are geniuses
As someone who's struggled with severe depression, I can say that You're Getting Old is probably the best metaphor for depression I've seen
Same here, I remember crying to it and I was still in middle school 😭 it felt all too familiar again
I’m a huge South Park fan and those are the only two episodes that I’ve never rewatched because of how sad they made me
@@annastanley5954 same, by 10 years old I started to see nothing made sense anymore and life just sucks.
Nothing ever warrants a smile, nothing.
We only smile when trying to show family members that we are ok, when we really aren’t. (A Mask).
It was a great episode, especially with Stan always being my favorite character and my parents were always fighting.
People are definitely triggers to depression too.
While this doesn't fit into the catergory of unnecessarily dark, Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids was quite a disturbing show for a kids show. A majority of the episodes pretty much ended in death, children included, but the show was really good. Used to watch it all the time on CITV but in hindsight the show got away with a lot!
Used to love that show
OMG I remember being scarred by the episode where the boy gets turned into a doll and his mom walks past the shop but he can't call out to her and the doll just cries in the shop window. As a 24 year old adult that episode still affects me and I haven't watched it since it aired lmfao
My mom grew me up on children's horror anthology series, I never rmemebered that one but I think a couple months ago she was just randomly watching that when I went in her room, she said that was one of the shows we used to watch together
Anyways I sat down for a couple episodes and I broke out laughing on a couple episodes but my favorite was the werewolf one, especially how pretty much all the teens died at the end like wtf, that's allot for children's show
Same lol I remember the snot episode
The thing about those old Hannah-Barbera/MGM/Looney Tunes cartoons is that they were not actually meant for children. They were shorts shown in movie theaters and nickelodeons. They only started being treated as for children once they started being aired on TV.
I like how you called static shock a "cheesy superhero show with barely any dark moments" yet one of the episodes literally tackle the concept of school shootings
legit
Hell yeah!!!!
Also, could you do “scariest TV episodes tier list” for Halloween?
Defo could
The entire 15 seasons of supernatural
You should’ve included that one Bob’s Burgers episode where Bob starts to lose his mustache so him and his family reimagine him if he never had his mustache, so he would’ve never met his wife, had his kids, etc. and eventually the episode spirals into them imagining if basically the mean health inspector, Hugo, married Linda, had kids, and started a restaurant of his own, ‘Hugo’s Hot Dogs’. This may seem funny, but it’s pretty disturbing, mostly because when I was younger it traumatized me.
how is that traumatizing
And also Hugo makes the hot dogs out of dog meat
Did they give it to pesto?
is nobody gonna talk about the pingu episode where he literally ran away from home after getting beaten by his dad
Excuse me, what
no that was his mum.
@@itsmefm You heard him. look it up.
That Squidward impression was so unexpectedly accurate
Squidward has to be one of my better impressions
Speaking as someone who watched static shock. It was not a light hearted show. It pretended to be. Almost every episode of that show is another show’s very special episode. Not speaking I’ll of the show, but just letting anyone know who’s expecting a fun flashy super hero show.
"Batman's parents die in almost every incarnation"
....Almost..... apart from that one alternate universe where Bruce dies, his father becomes Batman and his mother becomes Joker.
Also, on the subject of the racism/abuse tier, I'd like to mention Teen Titans' Season 4/Episode #6 "Troq" where this dude Val-Yor comes down to Earth and is generally nice to all the Titans except Starfire because of his hatred towards her home people of Tamaran, calling both them and Starfire a "Troq", which means "nothing". In the end, Val-Yor leaves Earth still hating Starfire (despite her saving his life) and the rest of the Titans, calling them "Troq" as well. I also find it kinda fascinating that Starfire confided with Cyborg about Val-Yor's racist thoughts since Cyborg himself had to deal with that type of predujice himself.
Other shows/episodes I think that should have gotten a mention are:
- The one Sesame Street episode where Big Bird tries to look for Mr. Hooper but Mr. Hooper passes away and the episode shows Big Bird trying to understand and cope with the passing of a loved one.
- The Fresh Prince episode where Will takes a bullet for Carlton. Carlton gets a gun to protect himself but Will persuades him to not go the route of violence. In the end, Carlton gives the gun to Will before leaving. Will then starts crying after he unloads the gun on his hospital bed.
- The Fresh Prince episode about drug abuse where Will accidentally gets Carlton on some pills, causing him to go crazy at a party. The pills were meant for Will since he was struggling at school. In the end, after Carlton is released from the hospital, Will apologises to him and the rest of the family.
- Of course, the darkest Courage episode "Masks" where this masked lady hates dogs, so she takes her hatred out on Courage. Courage then finds out about her girlfriend, who is being abused (and possibly prostituted?) by this buff demon dog-looking thing. Courage manages to rescue her and reunite them both on a train with the masked lady reaffirming herself that "not all dogs are evil" and thanking Courage.
we do got the sesame street on on the iceberg but the rest are not thanks
The last episode is called the mask but that's it.
jurassic bark makes me cry just to think about, the unconditional love that dogs have for their humans is so beautiful and heartwarming. it makes me miss my dog so much, but honestly it's so well done and they wrote Seymour so well to wait for Fry like that
Also your description of Hama from Avatar The Last Airbender was wrong. 6:43 You said she’s one of the last remaining members of the southern water tribe when that’s not true. The firebenders only killed the waterbenders in the southern tribe, but the tribe itself is still very much alive.
She’s the last waterbender from the southern tribe, but the tribe itself is alive. I’m not sure if you worded your script wrong or misunderstood the episode but hope this helps.
1:46 that's the best squidward impression I've ever seen lmao
I'd defo say that squidward is one of the impressions that I do best haha
I'm old so I know my addition wouldn't be known:
In the 90s, there was a teen soap called Swans Crossing (starring Sarah Michelle Geller aka Buffy the vampire slayer)
The series finale implied that a serial killer killed all the kids at the pool party they attended.. Look it up and tell me what you think
2: Small wonder was an 80s show about a guy who made a robot daughter.
One episode was where her brother befriend a girl who was kidnapped by her father and she didn't know it.
The episode where he disappeared and got away with it.
#3: Different strokes: episode about the pedophile..enough said
#4 Punky Brewster: the episode where her friend almost died of suffocating
#4 Save by the bell: "I'm so excited!! I'm so excited!! I'm soooo.... Scared😭😭😭😭" ( those who know...know)
Yea
I actually remember seeing a pokemon episode while making breakfest for my little brother who was watching tv on the morning and jeaus christ it was sad.
It was about this green haired girl who regretted saying that she hated her mother when she was young and soon after her mother died from some illness and she felt bad that her last talk with her mother was so negative and she eventually meets somesort of ghost/illusion of her mother within the fog and she just cries in her mother's arms and while apologising to her and they eventually part ways and she finds a shaymin. Like as someone who lost his grampa in hospital while leaving the room during his last moments since i could not handle watch him dying i honestly related to that episode and i still regret that my grandpa had to witness his own grandson walking out on him on his last moments and i honestly just wished i could have atleast said thanks for being absolutely great grandpa and thanks for being there when my parents did not have the time.
The best part about that Fresh Prince scene, is it was improved by Will and Uncle Phil. Will actually broke down and started crying because of his own relationship with his real life father, to which James Avery (Uncle Phil) immediately put him in a bear hug of love without a second thought. Genuinely heart warming
I tear up every time because of how genuine it is. It also hits hard to home.
That's a myth, it was 100% scripted
@@cumbrap Right. Will had a good relationship with a father IRL. It was just really good acting.
No it was because he thought about how his friends felt when their parents left them look it up
Full House would occasionally talk about tough topics such as: death, peer pressure, bullying, smoking, drinking, mental illness, the dangers of reckless driving, anorexic behaviors, and more
42:39 Iirc, it was a 3 part episode, the one before those two being "the lich", where the titular character the lich uses Finn to open a portal to prismo's dimension, where he intent to wish that all live on earth didn't exist. After this, the events of Finn the human and jake the dog happen. The 3 episodes are pretty dark, but adventure time gets even darker after this
I was scouring for comments that cleared this up 😭
I feel like one you missed was the SpongeBob episode "Are You Happy Now?".
Basically, Squidward falls into a depression after realizing he has no happy memories. SpongeBob tries to make him a happiest memory, but fails miserably. Then Squidward stays in his house for 2 weeks, acting like some real people with depression. There are two... "Jokes"- one where he sticks his head in the oven, only to pull out cookies, and one where he sets up a rope, only to pull up a bird cage. Iirc, they were removed for how tasteless they were.
the jokes are in the UK netflix version!!
Oh damn I gotta see if I can find that episode, that’s dark
Ok, when I was younger me and my parents would watch Seinfeld together. Pretty much there was an episode where one of the characters named George goes to a holistic medicine place. The episode isn't scary but I remember I had a dream where I was watching that episode and it took a dark turn. The holistic medicine makes George hallucinate that the world is ending and he continually vomits and he lays shaking in the dark as you can see a hallucination of the apocalypse outside the apartment window. That's where the dream ended, that was probably the weirdest dream I had.
Static shock was an amazing show I loved as a kid, the whole premise of the show started with a gang fight, a father trying to keep his son away from peer pressure of people who think guns empower you. It had an epsiode dealing with bullying in what lead to a school shooting, issues with racisim, it was a heavy and interesting show and one of my fav super hero shows ever.
Another honestly dark episode of Family Guy is "And Then There Were Fewer" where the whole town is invited to a mansion and it becomes a murder mystery. It honestly had me on the edge of my seat and I don't watch FG all that much.
All of the characters who get killed in the episode die for real, they're never shown again, and the murderer isn't someone you'd expect (at least I didn't expect it at all).
'onto the murder tier next, and this tier is about murder.'
you don't say
Personally I thought it was gonna be about poor fast food service, so I’m glad he clarified it would be about murder /s
@@EvilGayCat be careful when you use '/s' bc some people read it as serious while others read it as sarcastic
Context for the Dratini episode: Dratini was a rare, almost legendary Pokemon, that only existed in the safari zone. The game warden for the safari zone had actually closed it down because people would come to hunt down Dratini and almost drove the Pokemon to extinction. That's why the warden stays strapped at all time because he wants to protect Dratini at all costs. It's also the episode where Satoshi catches all of his Tauros
Amazing video dude, been watching for a while now, the topics are getting better and better each upload :)
That's so much! I try to improve with every video :)
I'm honestly very surprised that the Family Guy episode "Screams of Silence: The Story of Brenda Q" wasn't included, it's about how the character Quagmire's sister has to deal with physical and mental abuse from her boyfriend. It's a very dark episode and it's a huge change on what Family Guys usually does with their episodes. Though, the episode was done very poorly, it ended up becoming a horrible episode, but I'm surprised it wasn't added on the iceberg.
thats on the original iceberg he just skipped it
@@walrus6429 oh alright
It's a terrible episode because it basically tells viewers to acquiesce to their abusers
@@carlycarmine3858 you know what I don't even know why I recommended it, it's a horrible and disgusting episode.
@@parmsnik I know, I don't really like it for that exact reason
you left out that in Jurassic Bark, Bender does try to make things right and does get the dog back. It was Fry who decided to leave him be because the Professor said he lived to be 15, 12 years after Fry was frozen, and Fry thought the dog had moved on and forgot him. The end sequence still hits hard because the audience is shown that no the dog did not move on and waited for Fry to come back until the day he died
You bringing up that Arthur episode actually kinda made me cry. My mom use to work in an elementary school kitchen, and her boss was a wonderful and kindhearted woman, and they became very close. Even when my mom moved on to a different job, she remained good friends with her old boss. Unfortunately, while my mom was still working there, her boss had been diagnosed with cancer. She beat it once, but when it came back a couple years later, she wasn't as strong. We lost her to cancer about this time last year. I may not have known her as well as my mom did, but she was a wonderful woman, and she did a lot to help my mom. Seeing my mom having to pull over and break down crying when she passed by the school ahe use to work at was heartbreaking. May her friend rest in peace.
Great list fox,
I've still not recovered from Jurassic bark,
That got me and when revisiting season 4 I often skip it.
Enjoying and subscribed
Thanks St-Dan :D
yeah i usually skip that one also but are forced to if im showing a friend the series for the first time
Everyone talks about Jurassic Bark, and it hits hard, sure... But no one talks about Game of Tones especially the ending part where Fry has a chance to speak to his mother in her dream.
@@thesun5275 yeah that was tough
@@thesun5275 true but the one that hits be the most is luck of the fryrish
The Simpsons was a huge stepping stone in animation in the early 90's. Adult cartoons weren't really a thing, at least in the mainstream (yeah, we had guys like backshi, but that stuff definitely wasn't going on basic cable). Simpsons wanted some edge, but they still had to tread carefully since it was fairly uncharted territory.
Can't wait to Rewatched it allllll over again after premier :3
Legend!
A great example of an abuse episode is The Mask from Courage The Cowardly Dog.
I am actually surprised that the South Park Episode 'Kenny Dies' didn't make it on the list
That last entry was SHOCKING (and I loved it)
>:)
The Pingu’s dream Seal did scare me as a toddler, I can confirm.
Watching it in the Premiere. It’s amazing!
Hope you enjoy!
This is gonna be a good one!
Oh yeah it is
@@FoxAkimbo love your content btw, I binge watch you for hours
The first 3 or 4 treehouse of horrors had warnings at the start. First one was the one shown, second was Marge addressing people who didn't take their first warning seriously and wrote in to complain, then the third and fourth were Homer and Bart making fun of those same people
The thing you missed about Jurassic bark was fry had the chance to bring Seymour back but when he learned Seymour lived another 12 years, fry thinks that Seymour had moved on and forgot about fry. However, Seymour actually waited every day for fry until his death making it much sadder
**casually pulls out a perfect squidward impression out of his ash**
ik i misspelled it, i had to rewrite the comment censored cause yt deletes them
I like doing impressions lol, not great at all of them but I'd say squirdward has to be one of my best
I've had a DVD of that pingu one my whole life and I remember watching it heaps as a toddler (if you count covering my face and hiding behind a pillow while listening as watching).
I think it is one of the reasons I love horror so much now.
(Also pretty sure it was banned in some places or something but not sure).
Hey Man! great job on your vids! your narration, edition and pace are really great, its been a while since i found a channel that do this curiosity kinda content to greatly, wendigoon kinda stuff! keep it up bro huge hug from brazil
Thank you so much!!! Love the love, big hug back from the UK
Not sure if anyone has mentioned this, but a lot of older cartoons like Tom and Jerry and Loony Tunes weren’t actually created for child audiences. Back when these cartoons were shown, they premiered before films, which is why they have pretty short run times to begin with. This was in the 30s-50s before the rating board came around, so nothing was really aimed towards children. This is why a lot of these shorts contained pretty dark and mature themes, because it was adults telling stories for a largely adult audience.
The switch started to happen with the popularity of the home television in the late 50s. Animation had to exist on a shoestring budget and restrictive time frame in order to work with syndication. Companies like Hannah-Barbara were worried adults would not be interested in the noticeable downgrade, and instead opted to start marketing to children who were considered to not care about the quality as much. This unfortunately set a bad trend that “animation is for kids”, which many animators and fans have been trying to undo for decades. It’s no surprise that when Cartoon Network was formed to broadcast these older cartoons made for adults in theaters, many kids got exposed to them. I grew up watching some of these darker cartoons, and I never really comprehended how mature they were until I got older and understood their meanings. It’s very interesting to look back on the media you consumed and go “I don’t think I was supposed to watch this”.
"These are dark episodes of shows made for kids" *Talks about family guy and south park*
Awesome vid dude! Dang some of these are really dark...
As a Canadian I gotta say catching Mr. Meaty on TV at midnight always scared the piss out of me. Went back and checked it out as an adult and I actually loved. It's a very gross and abrasive show so I get why lots of people hate but i think it's the coolest. Fun fact: The town in the show, Scaunchboro, is based on the Canadian city of Scarborough, Ontario which is not far from me. To be honest it's a pretty "scaunchy" town lmao.
I saw that full house episode a year or 2 ago on TV. It's good to see they are still running things like this even though it's sad it's important as well
spongebob turning into a snail sounds like something that junji ito would think up
edit: oh man i remember watching that tom and jerry episode as a kid, pretty sure i thought they were both just depressed lol
These are my favorite type of videos, great job
Glad you like them! Thanks so much
Thanks For The Video, Fox. Your Voice Is Becoming A Good Tool For Calming Me Down Lol
Thanks Brandon
your Squidward voice is on point 😂
Is kinda weird that people say Frank Grimes is "the most real Simpsons character" when he has a cartoonishly sad backstory that almost compares with Dr. Doofenshmirtz on how unfair it is.
35:30 There's no moral, is Looney Tunes, I'm not saying they cant have educational value or anything the writers most likely just thought the idea of a cat not wanting to eat a willing bird was funny, specially since the dynamic of "cat vs mouse" was oversued at the time, it was a change in the formula.
why is your squidward impression so good
I had food in my mouth when you did that squidward impression and I almost choked and now I’m gonna sue you
>:)
To make matters worse, "Gone" ends with all the Bikini Bottom residents returning by bus, and even PATRICK is with them! Turns out even Patrick gets fed up with SpongeBob's antics now and then and simply wants to get away every once in a while, and while it does make Patrick more real, the whole "burning an effigy to the ground and dancing on its ashes" thing is really dark for SpongeBob.
On an additional note, I remember a really dark episode of Looney Tunes where Sylvester thinks he's finally eaten Tweety and after that is wrought with guilt and anxiety for days on end, even popping pills at one point if I remember correctly, only to reveal that Sylvester hadn't eaten Tweety but something put in Tweety's place, like a decoy.
u should’ve included the episode of family guy where Quagmire’s sister is getting abused by her boyfriend and the boys (joe,cleavland,peter) all go to try and kill him. it’s a good episode and i think that the imagery is quite graphic.
you also should’ve included Are You Happy Now? from spongebob. in the episode,squidward falls into a deep depression and tries to commit suicide (through some unfunny cheap gags) twice. it’s very saddening to see,as squidward ist second favorite episode.
the treehouse of horror was actually a parody of speech at the beginning of the classic Frankenstein
Love watching your videos
Thank you so much!!
Correction: Static Shock definitely tackled issues like that pretty often. Like yeah it was a superhero show, but the whole idea was that Static had to deal with real problems along with supervillains. Drug addiction, school shootings, and racism were all on the table.
That's fair, as I said I never watched the show and it didn't seem to take itself too seriously, but it's pretty cool that it was able to balance whacky mansized armadillos with serious educational topics
One Piece. With Cannibalism, slavery, drugs, genocide by the world government. And that's just the tip. I love it
i really love your icebergs is so astethic and relaxing, this one too
Thank you! Cheers!
@@FoxAkimbo its something that your room and lights makes it +5 more relaxing too
@@JesperBooperDooper The power of faded lights should never be understimated
Arthur also did episodes in relation to PTSD and 9/11 in regards to episodes April 9th and Shelter From The Storm
dang
Hey man remember me just want to say keep up the good work my guy owo
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@@FoxAkimbo uwu
Great video, I wonder if somebody will do an iceberg of creepy apocalypse episodes in TV
Episodes where the inevitable has/will happen and our characters are powerless to stop it
As well as “Gone”,
“Spongehenge” was one that always creeped me out as a kid
That's not a bad Squidward impression you got there!
6:08 kinda reminds me of that one TPB episode (the animated one not the live action Trailer Park Boys)
Ugh that Mr.Meaty ep honestly traumatized me as a kid, I have to skip anything that mentions it, hated that show so much LOL
I was NOT prepared for Rick Ashley of all things
get rickrolled
Glad I subbed to this channel 👍
Glad to have you
I was noticed :O
Ninjago is a show aimed primary towards kids with very dark moments. There's literally mass genocide, reincarnation, manipulation, slavery and a surprising amount of character deaths
Surprisingly enough, I never actually found "Nasty Patty" to be that dark for a SpongeBob episode, especially because of how hilarious it was due to the slapstick humor that the series is known for and the fact that the health inspector was never dead at all despite how much comical pain he was able to go through. If that's the case, then the episode "Squidward The Unfriendly Ghost" would be considered just as dark because it involves SpongeBob and Patrick thinking that they killed Squidward and he's able to come back as a ghost when, in actuality, they just ruined a life-sized wax sculpture of Squidward while the real Squidward was able to come out of the shower while in his bathrobe and towel.
Amazing video!!!
Glad you liked it!!
I knew this was special when the pic of the iceberg was blurred to prevent spoilers
Always do that, never want to show my hand
I'd be down for the B99 season 8 essay. Personally I do agree this season has been pretty lackluster compared to rest aside from maybe season 6. Hopefully the finale is good, I did quite enjoy the two recent episodes since they felt very in line with the older seasons. Oh yeah, also the iceberg was very good.
I understand that they have to walk a very tight line with police issues in a post-George Floyd world, but even having said that the show is betraying everything that used to make it good seasons ago. They shone a light on racism within the police plenty of times, it's intrinsic to Holt's character! Even taking all that out, the characters are making choices that I find out of nowhere, and the stories are just not as exciting. The show seems like it really wants to end, and it's such a shame.
i love your iceberg videos :)
Love your support
i’m surprised “The New Apex” from infinity train wasn’t on here- or like, all of book 3. that entire season was devastating
I don't think the wider audience cares about Infinity Train past S1
Guess I could try and get to sleep till this releases, haven't slept yet and it's 6am 🙃
Yes! My guy!!
I'm surprised you didn't talk about Phineas and Ferb get busted, dark harvest, or party of one
this is so good!!
thx
You continue to make quality content after quality content.
I don't know man, you're spoiling us way too much.
Maybe, you should do an Ice Berg relating too Dinosaurs or Japanese culture? Idk.
Nice suggestions, thanks so much!
welp i did make a prehistoric creatures iceberg a while back i havent seen a japanese culture one tho
@@walrus6429 OOO I'll check yours out than!
not sure how homer's enemy is darker than the episode where bart tries killing himself after the town demonizes him for losing a baseball game
I had to not include a few entries here, but the video is doing quite well, so I might go for a part 2
no bart is lower than homers enemy it is just he skipped that entry
Oddly enough, even as a little kid, whenever I saw the I was a teenage Gary episode, I don't recall it ever really terrifying me, especially the transformation scene. And I was a kid who was terrified of so many things (and still am) but when it came to watching that episode, I can only ever recall just feeling meh.
I know this isn't TV, but for the last tier there was a non-canon episode of BFDI where Book, Match, and Donut got stuck in some claw machine and literally remained stuck until the heat death of the universe. For a show like BFDI, that is kind of terrifying when you think about it--not only were they stuck for pretty much eternity, but they outlived pretty much everyone they ever knew.
I cry every single time I watch the scene from “Papas got no excuse”
Legit the best scene of the show
Watched ur vids since u had under 10k subs
Legend! Thanks so much for sticking with the channel :D
@@FoxAkimbo np man I really enjoy ur content
I see why you got a mic with a stand. Props for holding that for the the entire video
im late but keep up the good work
I'll try!
Static shock was huge on tackling black problems, it’s on hbo max. Y’all should watch
I don’t know if anyone knows too much about this spongebob episode, it’s kinda new, but there is a spongebob episode called “Ink Lemonade.” Which even by the name sounds gross
In my opinion it is quite possibly the most terrifying spongebob episode to ever air. It traumatized me and I don’t know how they even got it to air.
I won’t go into detail because it’s terrifying and I suggest people to watch it on their own for their own experience but basically Spongebob and Patrick start selling stuff called “Black Lemonade.” and it is made by, and i kid you not, Squidwards ink, and somehow it is found delicious. Even their teeth turn black from it, they literally squeeze the ink out of squidward. It literally comes out of his nostrils. It is disgusting. But don’t worry, it gets worse. Ontop of that, they show SEVERAL scenes of inside body parts showed, they show spiders crawling out of squidwards mouth AND nose, even giant spiders appear. Ontop of that there is a part where Squidward feels no longer in control of his body and he feels has a puppet which is kinda deep for a kids show. It is honestly so disgusting and traumatizing dude. 😕
😳
ink lemonade is classed as one of the worst episodes of spongebob. it’s very upsetting because spongebob was once a heartfelt show with morals and stuff but after steve hillenburg’s passing the show just got ruined. i wish steve didn’t die,he was an incredible man who cared about spongebob so much.
2:39 the body mechanics by which SpongeBob morphs into a snail reminds me of a really old cartoon, called Turbo Teen, about a teenage boy, who, after some sort of chemical accident that happened when he broke into a laboratory, he could morph himself into a sports car at will.
that Adventure Time episode wasn't even the darkest one. it was kind of tame. and for some context, after Finn wished to the pink guy that "The Lich" would not excist he was transported to this alternate reality where an atom-bomb never exploded. after some unfortunate events he gets the ice crown (which was used to prevent the bomb from exploding) and accidentely explodes the Atom-Bomb which "birthes" the Lich who is the personification of death and Entropy, the end of all things
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