I Was a Teenage Gary - Dark Toons
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- Doug has gotten a lot of requests to look at this episode of SpongeBob. Is it as dark as the fans made out? Let's take a look at "I Was a Teenage Gary".
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"I Was a Teenage Gary" is a SpongeBob SquarePants episode from Season 1. In this episode, SpongeBob transforms into a snail after accidentally being injected with snail plasma.
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Do Ed, Edd n Eddy Season 3, Episode 11, The Day the Ed Stood Still please.
Anything you want, i don’t care.
TALES OF WORM PARANOIA
Hey Doug, do any of these episodes of the Cartoon Network show Victor and Valentino please.
"The Lonely Haunts Club"
"A New Don"
"Love at First Bite"
"Tree Buds"
"El Silbon"
"Starry Night"
"Lonely Haunts Club 3: La Llorona"
Can you one time do the Looney Tunes episode "Birds Anonymous" that episode always scared me as a kid
"Oh, how touching! I'm gonna go home and throw up!"
That's probably one of Squidward's most underrated lines!
As a kid this was genuinely terrifying. Seeing him slowly lose conscience and turning into a monster-ish being. The kid version of The Fly.
so creepy
Also how he abused gary by neglecting him was creepy
@@teleportingpotatoe @7:02 I found it bizarre that Squidward touches SpongeBob's left eyestalk.
I never knew why.
But I'm sure he was testing how snail like SpongeBob become. Although he can see SpongeBob's a snail now.
@7:03 SpongeBob's left eyestalk closes up and drops down. But it pops back up.
That sound after Squidward touches his eye.
7:12 Repeats Squidward touching SpongeBob's left eyestalk.
Best line and funniest part of the episode: “what’s a Gary?”
Not a Gary. Gary!
@@FellowManofAggieland Gary: Hiss!
@@FellowManofAggieland he’s my pet snail! Say hello!
@@gameroftheyear1000 meow
WILL YOU CLAM UP!
I really like how, even though you weren't exactly thrilled to be talking about this episode, you still put a lot of effort into analyzing it. That's dedication.
It scares out his tan., off of all the other hand I.,
As a kid, seeing Patrick throw a shoe at a Squidward Snail and shouting “will you clam up?” was the peak of comedy
"Patrick finally climbs out of a Hole, gets hit with a Bowling Ball"
*Strike*
"Patrick falls into the Hole again, the Ball slowly falls in as well"
*Double Strike*
"Spongebob: You alright Patrick?"
*FINLAND!!!*
@@-libertyprimev1-902 just reading that made me remember it and laugh
@@ArtiVance oh how could I forget the other part...
"Giant Wrench falls on Patrick's Head"
*WhErE's ThE lEaK mA'mA?* 😏
OMG YES
I thought I was the only one lol
Patrick needs some sleep, you know.
For me, it was absolutely the transformation. Having a character like Spongebob go from “I’m fine!” To “you’re right, Gary! Something is wrong with ME-ow!” was legitimately terrifying. The way his body bends during the transformation too, just ugh.
It's terrible...
This really freaked me out as a kid. I felt there was a strong psychological torture element to Squidward being chased by Spongebob, because not only is he dealing with the guilt of both starving Gary and deforming Spongebob, but he also is being stalked by a brain dead Spongebob snail that apparently feels no pain, has no emotional fluctuation, and cannot be barricaded out. And then Squidward turns into a snail and it just ends. I got the impression that neither of them really had any sentience left in them since they were acting like cats/snails meowing on the fence. The two of them are basically dead, and all that’s left are their shells that are content with being snails, and Patrick doesn’t even recognize them.
I guess that's one way to look at it, I like that perspective.
Ya this episode messed me up-
Kinda hit the nail on the head. It's more the implications cause by the end they're snails doing snail things and there's nothing left of their personality and Squidward the whole time is being tormented over the fact he's the reason Spongebob is a snail or at least snail-like.
I mean I assume they got better but the cut to black without telling the audience they turned back to normal really left an impact on me cause it implied they were stuck that way forever and it's a fate worse than death.
@@Webshooters1 Here's some relief then: The Spongebob movie is technically the canonical ending according to Hildenburg. So yes, the transformation was temporary!
Yep, there are certainly a lot of layers to this one, and many of the implications are not easy for adults to properly process and come to grips with, let alone younger children. The ambiguous ending is definitely the worst part for that - as you stated, there's no resolution and the implication is they're stuck that way forever. I think that this episode might not have had such a dark impact on kids if the doctor from earlier had administered an antidote and restored them or the transformation was explicitly shown to be temporary.
When SpongeBob is looking in the window, I always took that as him begging for help and as a kid that scared me.
This is a terrible SpongeBob episode that airs EVERY, Halloween, and it still is.
@@janethmuganyizi3155 what was the point of saying this?
@@lucianonmarazzo436 Because of the transformation, and the ending where they remain as snails.
@@janethmuganyizi3155 its not a big deal beacause spongebob is a very episodic show
@@Eggtrocious True... but still, it's one of the terrible episodes in SpongeBob.
Oh great choice. Not only was this a spooky episode but this was after the Halloween special. Yes!
Omg! What are the odds 🤣
They aired together
Along eith spongebob scaredypants
I was surprised this one showed up before the Halloween special.
@@Jaysoreals I know
The part that scared me the most as a kid was the window part, the fact that SpongeBob was just crying for help but lacking the ability to form words freaked me out.
Me too, When I saw this episode on TV, the music scared me a little
@@IANRogel09 That's right. SpongeBob just wanted help. He couldn't verbalize so Squidward thought he was under attack.
@@IANRogel09 Spongebob never seemed to hold it against Squidward for accidentally being responsible for turning him into a snail.
7:01 Squidward is staring at SpongeBob as a snail. Concerned about his transformation.
7:02 Squidward touches SpongeBob's left eye.
I found it bizarre that Squidward touches SpongeBob's left eye. It's as if he was testing how snail like SpongeBob become.
The part that freaked me out the most was definitely, like he said, that we didn’t we see him change back.
Episodes that didn't have continuity usually rang a bit hollow for me as a kid. Such as an episode of the Flintstones ending with Fred and Barney in jail. We never see them get out yet by the next episode, there they are, back at home as if nothing ever happened.
Even as a kid, I just thought, "Oh, they're just going to turn back to normal in the next episode and NEVER acknowledge what happened." I still absolutely love the show but I always didn't like the fact that there is little to no continuity.
Same with me. Thinking they were stuck like that forever creeped me out as a kid. Even though they were fine next episode
@@glowworm2 To me that only made it creepier, as it felt like there was that one universe of Spongebob where Spongebob and Squidward basically just died by turning into snails.
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People transforming into completely different creatures against their will has always really creeped me out. So seeing spongebob turn into a snail really disturbes me.
The Graveyard Shift is another episode of Spongebob that has creepy atmosphere.
I had that episode on a Video Now lol. The back and white made it creepier.
Nosferatu!
I love that episode especially that ending. Wait! If that was you on the phone, and you on the bus then who was flickering the lights? NOSFERATU!!!
NIGHT NIGHT NIGHT NIGHT NIGHT NIGHT NIGHT NIGHT NI-NI-NI-NI-NI-NI... NIIIIGHT!!!!!
Ah, the Sash Ringing Basher.
The ending to the episode was hilarious to me with Patrick throwing a shoe at snail Squidward XD
As a kid I cracked up.
squidward deserved it
Will you clam up?!? 😂
Ikr. I laughed so hard every time that Patrick did it
Snail Squidward? So ... Snailward?
When I saw this as a kid (when I was like 8) I didn't find it "scary" but it was definitely disturbing and uncomfortable. Way stranger than the rest of the episodes, which is why I think it was so memorable.
Plus when you're a child you can grow true empathy with cartoon characters and seeing such an optimistic character be in so much pain definitely left an impact.
Another Spongebob episode, that's kind of dark, is _Graveyard Shift_ . It's very atmospheric, and a lot of fun.
Plankton Paranoia and Krabby Patty Creature Feature are other good choices from the Post-Sequel era that are dark episodes.
Another good one is _Rock Bottom._
rock bottom was pretty creepy as a kid watching
@@matthewmuir8884 Was that the one where they fall into the giant pit and see all those creepy things?
@@snail2755 I believe so; did the episode you're referring to have them end up in that pit because they got on the wrong bus?
6:18 "That's okay, I'm a lefty anyway."
Hasn't anyone ever noticed that SpongeBob's LEFT arm falls off when he says that?
He has two left hands :0
I think it’s mirrored
No, it is his left hand.
As one who was subjected to this episode when i was young enough for it to leave an impact, it was scary. Not scary in the "scream your face off" sort of way, but psychologically. The idea that spongebob and squidward could be mutated into a different creature without consent mixed with the lack of resolution. There is no magic cure-all for the problem within the episode, you just have to assume it is temporary. The problem with that assumption is the extended transformation sequence and the "suggested" mental changes. It is much harder to accept that they could just magically regrow their limbs for the most part, and the desire to eat snail food and the degradation of language into only "meow"-s makes it much harder to believe they would actively seek treatment or get magically reversed if they did get treatment. The final factor has to do with the ending. MAYBE spongebob could be fixed without issue (we have seen him eat his arms in the late night shift episode for a joke), but look at the final fate of squidward. That is not a deformed squid body, that is a legitimate snail body and shell; that is far harder to explain away without direct conformation of the cure-all via its usage.
It is an episode that just gets darker and scarier the more you think about it. Of course you dont see it: you havent thought about the episode enough for the true weight to sink in. The younger the audience, the more active the imagination, and the process of considering the implications begins during the transformation for younger audiences. Older audiences have to actively think about it. Since the episode is an example of psycological horror, the younger you see it, the longer you have to think about the implications. I also am not a huge fan of the horror genre to begin with (i wont actively seek them out unless it is october and i am in a halloween mood), so it is likely even worse for people who have grown up to learn more about the horrors of the mind though the genre.
It definitely disturbed me as kid with the fact that they don't turn back. There's just this nebulous substance in a needle that can horrifically alter your body and mind. They don't even get injected with it, nobody pulls the plunger, they just pricked and that's it. There's just a timeline that exists in which they turned into snails with no acknowledgement of going back.
It's the body horror thing for me. When Spongebob is meowing at Squidward, my mind always goes to the idea that he's calling for help, but he physically can't speak anymore. That fucks me up...
The scariest part of the episode for me when I was a kid was when Spongebob was looking in the mirror and every time he talked, there was a creepy echo that followed. That creeped me out when I was a kid but the episode that scared me the most was “Graveyard Shift”
Can you actually do a Nostalgia Critic on The Spongebob Squarepants Movie when Terminator Month is over please?
That would be awesome
@@MaverickBoy303. Channel Awesome
Yes!
YESSS PLS
Maybe after he's seen the first three seasons.
The creep factor of this cartoon is very reminiscent of a TWILIGHT ZONE episode, in which Squidward must pay for his cruelty and flawed character with the same punishment as shared with his very own victims.
Check out Graveyard Shift from SpongeBob if you want another dark episode.
Check out One Coarse Meal.
That episode looks like something straight from a creepypasta.
Meh I seen worse earworm is where it really gets creepy!
That one is nowhere near as worse as this one. It’s not even anywhere on the same level of dark. That one is far more bearable then this one. This one is a million times worse. Graveyard shift is one of the best episodes and it’s one I quote quite a bit (probably the episode I’ve quoted the most out of) where as this one I wish I never saw because of how disturbing it actually is.
@@diegodubber2140That must be one of the newer ones cause I don’t remember it. But it’s highly unlikely it’s gonna be worse then this. I was a teenage Gary is just so damn disturbing and I wish I never saw it.
@@magicslave3066Yea graveyard shift is nowhere near as bad as I was a teenage Gary. Graveyard Shift is one of the best episodes and one I quote all the time (and is one that I’ve quoted the most out of all other episodes). It might be the best episode honestly (that or maybe pizza delivery). Graveyard shift is actually pretty mild honestly and I found it far more easier to bear. I was a teenage Gary is just such a super unnatural episode cause it’s involves body transformation where as the graveyard shift is just people getting scared due to doing their first night shift. As for the ear worm episode that one is on the same level as Graveyard Shift (not as quotable tho). I sometimes sing that song ngl and it makes one of my friends mad when I do 😂.
Is no one going to mention how he says "I'm a lefty anyway." WHEN HIS LEFT ARM GALLS OFF!?!?
Spongebob: Actually I have two. (2 left hands)
I suspect he might have flipped the footage to avoid triggering a copywright claim, though I could be wrong.
@@TheOneLichemperor just checked what I believe is original footage and it is his left that falls off
Well, if that really is the case then I don't get it either =P
“Im a lefty anyway.”
But the left arm fell off
Neptune: "Well uhh, . . . The royal fry-cook must be . . . left-handed!"
Spongebob: "Actually I've got two."
Exactly
Yeah, that's what I saw too. So I'm not going crazy that's awesome
...right SpongeBob?
BWF
So THAT'S why Gary hates Squidward so much. He almost died because of Squid's negligence, and Gary wants payback.
“I usually don’t quote Batman Forever, but...that just raises too many questions”
Yes, yes it does
@Macey Mingori Crap, you’re right. One of those days.
"I'm a lefty anyway."
He says as his left arm disappeared.
It must have aired mirrored
@@axelnilsson5124 but thats the miss from animation or script side, since it was (and still) airing like that. Btw many europian and some asian languages during dubbing fixed that line and it was referring to (no pun intended) right hand.
Yeah that’s what got me😂😂
When it comes to Spongebob, I once again suggest "Graveyard Shift", but if you want more animal cruelty, "Pet Sitter Pat".
Pet Sitter Pat is just sadistic. Graveyard Shift is too funny for words.
Nosferatu!
Hey...Can I have some ketchup?
My favorite part about "Graveyard Shift" is Squidward's story getting cut off multiple times, then Spongebob screaming his head off in a loop.
how bout ink lemonade?or some spongebob episode directed by KAZ
You mean the sash ringing flasher?
This was the episode with the controversial wipe transition. (Kinda like the ones you'd see in Star Wars or Rugrats) Many people speculated and made theories about a deleted scene of Squidward turning into a snail. It brought a lot of questions because people wondered why this only scene had a wipe transitions instead of the traditional bubble transtion used in the rest of the other scenes from all Spongebob episodes.
"Snail manipulation? It just raises too many questions."
"You tell 'em Val Kilmer!"
I was ten when this episode first aired, and it found it both hilarious and creepy. Uncontrollable transformations in TV or movies always leave an unsettling feeling in the pit of my stomach.
Ah yes, I was a Teenage Gary: *SPONGEBOB'S ONE OF THE MOST FCKED UP EPISODES IN THE EARLY SEASON*
It's the only one of the first-3-seasons episodes that I almost never rewatch. Not only is it messed up, but I honestly just don't think it's hat well-written or funny compared to the others.
I always get the shakes when I see this cartoon. The transformation into an animal makes me shake. More so since it is something that he can't stop. Like a forced transformation. Brrr....
Kid's first body horror (if they didn't watch Ren & Stimpy first).
Kid's first body horror (if they didn't watch Ren & Stimpy first).
Waittttttttttt takumi how are alive you suspost to be dead nooooooooooooooooo how your reason the war happened you monster punches
I just realised.
When SpongeBob said "I'm a lefty anyway.", that was his left hand.
Interestingly I think Spongebob is also a righty so he's really ambidexterous.
@@zjzr08 Didn't he say in "Neptune's Spatula" that he's actually got two left hands?
@@nathanvaughan1-9 yes
@@zjzr08 Well, in the episode with King Neptune, he says he has two left hands.
Gary: *Meow, Meow, Meow, Meow, Meow, Meow.*
Spongebob: *Meow, Meow, Meow, Meow, Meow.*
Squidward: *Meow, Meow, Meow, Meow, Meow, Meow.*
G R A Y
Patrick, Plankton, and Mr Krabs: *Meow Meow Meow Meow Meow*
patrick: WILL ALL YOU SHUT UP
Patrick: WILL YOU CLAM UP?!
I think the scariest thing about this was the ending since you never see them turn back to normal and that's really horrifying
I would also recommend "Have You Seen This Snail"
there's also the episode "Out of the Picture", where the plot is basically Mr Krabs trying to kill Squidward
@@jeffreywebster4388 Wait what???????
There’s also Squeaky Boots which is inspired by the Tell-Tale Heart.
This episode creeped me out as a kid. Especially the ending. I think it’s cause in these types of toons they usually show the characters going back to normal at the end, but at the end of this episode they don’t go back to normal, it just shows them as snails singing on the fence.
This is a TERRIBLE episode.
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@OMG These chocodiles "Uhh, here he is! 🍌Hey, can I go home now!?" 😃
Hey Doug, I have said this before, the way you talk about cartoons in such detail, it gives me a new found respect for cartoons, like going back and watching them and paying attention to the details like angle shorts, the backgrounds, knowing the back story of the cartoon is amazing, I have you to thank for it, you are an absolute credit to your craft and profession.
this was my first spongebob episode and that kind of explains a lot
The thing about this episode that fucked me up as a kid was primarily the transformation shit. Spongebob does body horror? And they drag it out for several minutes? Nooooo thank you!
I'm kinda surprised the "Windmill Vandals" episode of Courage the Cowardly Dog hasn't been suggested yet.
I was thinking about suggesting Harvest moon. That moon face weirded me out but the cg girl in the hotel in a different episode freaked me out the most when i was a kid. Cant remember that episodes name though.
I hope he does a review of that cause that's a great episode and it's one of my favorites to. Also he should look at the Powerpuff girls episode Knock it Off if I said that right.
@@DisorientedWanderer
If that was the girl playing the violin she was stop motion.
I believe it was the one where Muriel has a citar performance so the family has to go to the city where a dog or rat or something forces Courage to pick up a package from that hotel.
City was in the title I know that much.
@@meganparrish807 Just to clarify, it was a cockroach.
@@meganparrish807 Yeah that's the one. I think it was a cockroach. I remember his eyes weirdly stretching out of holes in his shell.
Such a great Spongebob episode. My favorite part is after Spongebob gets injected, Gary goes to his water bowl, takes a drink and meows clearly and Squidward is like “He just needed WATER?” 😂😂
Do avatar the last airbender episode “the puppet master”
to be fair, it sort of already exists. he did a vlogs series on the show, and therefore his unscripted reactions can be found there. It would be nice to see him revisit the episode for this format, though.
th-cam.com/video/QwMUxkOgAIg/w-d-xo.html
That show is meant for older kids so he probably won't. He tries to go for shows that are meant for younger kids. Avatar's prime demographic is about 8-14.
@@aidanredding8058 Eight is still little kid stuff.
@@adambump5297 He means really young kids. Shows intended for 5 year olds and shows intended for 8 year olds are pretty different.
@@aidanredding8058 he made an episode about Hazbin Hotel...
The music that plays during the Squidward house scene was always the thing that made the scene freakier to me. It kind of had a similar effect on me as the donkey scene in Pinocchio, in the sense that these kids basically have to spend the rest of their lives as donkeys and there are even ones that can still talk.
Watch the Courage the Cowardly Dog episode "Windmill Vandals." It's very good and very dark
"Lucky for us, it's just a story"
When I was little, a friend of mine had a spongebob season 1 dvd that we’d watch together. As soon as the title card for this one came up, he shrieked and turned off the TV. I hadn’t seen it before so I was like “what the hell, dude?”
He said, and I quote:
“It’s the one where Gary gets sick and spongebob turns into a caterpillar.”
I hope you got to watch it! It’s my favorite episode of all time!😂😂
@@SquirtFudge lol his description made me want to watch it even more. By the time I convinced him to watch it and we turned TV back on, the credits were already rolling. Of course, one could just rewind the dvd, but we were 5 and didn’t know how to work the vcr. Still can’t stop picturing spongebob as a caterpillar, though.
For me it was rock bottom I don't know why
"A caterpillar?" 💀
(Legs and Shoes shrivel up inside of body and disappears) (Laughs nervously) Ha! Now I don’t have to buy those new shoes!
I loved this episode. It’s one they didn’t air too often too.
Mostly because it’s sister episode is the Halloween episode.
@@dangurney1042 That's correct. Scaredy Pants is its Halloween sister episode.
"It's A Wishful Life" from the Fairly OddParents
This was my first experience with body horror, which is the reason why it scared me so much.
I'm curious with how kids today would or have reacted to the season 11 episode Krabby Patty Creature Feature.
@@camdencoblentz3245 same
That's exactly how this episode was scary to me. When he slowly goes to the mirror to convince himself he's fine, it's like how most people try to say they're not sick when they really are.
Also, the creaking sounds when he transforms, the ominous music, and Spongebob's painful groaning make the scene all-together unsettling.
The shoe hitting him at the end still kills me the "uhhh" sound 😂
Hey Arnold! - "Ghost Bride"
Yes, the darkest episode in Hey Arnold history
Imo, this is nowhere near as dark as the thought of AN ENTIRE FRICKING TOWN ABANDONING SOMEONE TO GO CELEBRATE DESPISING HIM!!!
You mean Gone right?
That episode, is my least favorite Season 6 episode. It's just ILL-SPIRITED.
Everyone abandons SpongeBob. EVERYONE. Even his closest friends!
And we see SpongeBob slowly descend into madness...
Seriously, not even when they called him idiot boy they were THIS mean.
SpongeBob can be pesky sometimes, but this is a thing I wouldn't do even to my worst enemy!
@@diegodubber2140 Precisely the one. I hate it. It's too reminiscent of the first Twilight Zone episode for a kid show
@@Ringohulk777 I hate it too. It's really ill spirited.
Darkwing Duck “Time and Punishment”
My Little Pony
“28 Pranks Later”
No ponys
All the ponies!
The moment Squidward got hit with the shoe was a lot more hilarious to me than it should've been. I remember in high school, my friend and I were laughing so hard after playing that clip on the phone during lunch. We could not stop laughing.
It's just Squidward was so happy in that moment singing and he suddenly gets a shoe to the face. I'm laughing while typing this.
Yeah haven't eaten in three days and looks dehydrated even though he lives underwater.
goo lagoon. if you want to question the logic of drinking under water, it is because they are drinking the "goo" implied in "goo lagoon".
Sea water dehydrates you.
The part where Sponge bob is peeked through squidwards window going “ Meow Meow Meow “ was creepy to me as a kid. The way he stared at squidward & kept poking his head up everytime he said meow. It was weird lol
A few Rugrats episodes come to mind; a couple Chuckie-centric ones like the "It's a Wonderful life" parody or him getting paranoid about germs, and then there's one where Angelica's parents might be having another baby and her anxiety dream about it is kinda freaky.
I like to hear about "Pickles vs. Pickles"
@@MikeSmith74653 isn't that the one where Angelica refuses to eat broccoli?
@@Resilient_Sage88 yes
Yeah, this episode was really unsettling for me as a kid. Looking back on it now, it's even darker than I remember.
Dark Toon review request:
Gargoyles: Deadly Force
Also please review Glitch Techs and Kid Cosmic on Netflix, Doug!
I don't think he'll review Gargoyles simply because it was aimed (no pun intended) at an older audience and he says in the intro that's not the kind of cartoon this series is reviewing. Don't get me wrong, I'd LOVE to see him review that episode (it left quite an impression on my 6 year old self), I just don't think he will.
Me: Fuck
You: Fuck
They: Fuck
We All: Fuck
'Over the Garden Wall'! (Esp. the part with 'Potter's Town) SUCH a good mini-series!!!
I actually remember this episode. One of the early episodes.
So do I! This episode gave me the creeps when I was a little kid.
Same here. I didn't watch much Spongebob, but this one was memorable-extremely memorable.
This is great! If you wanna react to more dark Spongebob episodes, "Graveyard Shift" and "Rock Bottom" are the ones I'd most highly recommend, especially "Graveyard Shift", which has the iconic "Hash slinging slasher" story! "Spongebob meets the Strangler" is another really good one that as an adult you realize is way more messed up than you thought it was when you were a kid, haha.
Shanghaied is also a good one.
I really lol'ed when Squidward just forced the living hell out of the food to Gary as a kid
even now. S1 and Early Seasons are Gold
There's this episode of samurai Jack where he goes to a haunted house and the people projectile vomit straight up.
Pretty sure it's for much older kids
What made it stick with me was just the implication they never turned back. We never see them turn back to normal, so it freaked me out. That is until I saw the next episode where they were fine and I got over it.
"Why does he still have that?"
That's exactly what I said.
Transformations always freaked me out, and this episodes was definitely one of the first one I saw as a kid
The scariest cartoon episodes I remember as a kid was from Hey Arnold “The Haunted Train”, “The Headless Cabbie”, and “The Ghost Bride”
Omg yes! There was also another episode I think it was called best friends. In it Arnold had a nightmare and grandpa literally was like a zombie and his jaw fell off his body. It still terrifies me to this day. I love how Hey Arnold is like this cool chill show but could be absolutely terrifying when it wanted to.
@@ZanyMei Omg Yes I forgot about the zombie grandpa and another thing that used to freak me out and still slightly does is at the end of the four eyed jack episode and the ghost appears😱
Also love the name Ultimate Swordswoman
What I like about Doug's reviews of dark cartoons is that I'm finding out that a lot of people thought that certain episodes were surprising dark. Like growing up I couldn't watch episodes certain episodes like this without getting uncomfortable, and I didn't know why. It's cool to know other people were affected in the same I was.
I recommend watching “Graveyard Shift”. While Spongebob never really had a scary episode (it’s all about the humor), “Graveyard Shift” implement more horror tropes than any other episode. Also, it has a random Nosferatu cameo that no kid would ever get.
As a kid, I was like, "what the heck is that thing?!"
I was Teenage Gary was rarely re-ran on Nickelodeon when I was a kid, so watching I was always something special, and you should check out the Spongbob episodes Ghost Host and Grave Yard Shift, Ghost Host in particular has some crazy visuals
I didn't see this episode often, being that it was paired with the Halloween episode, but I do remember it being a little strange, but not like "scarred for life" levels of creepy.
Now, "Nightmare in Retroville" from Jimmy Neutron, THAT episode I remember being really creepy!
I would like to see his take on the mickey short "Just the four of us", it cracked the hell up and it was all doing creepy movies tropes.
This was my introduction to the character transforming into something else. I may not seem like much to those who know the trope but to a kid who was 6 at the time of this coming out, this was frightening. Didn't help that we never saw them change back and I remember getting worried and wondering what happened to SpongeBob and Squidward. And then being super confused when the next episode came out and everyone was fine. Really introduced me to the idea that each episode sort of existed in its own cannon outside of the pilot. (At least it did during the first several seasons.)
Oh yeah. This episode had a HUGE impact for me as a kid. I think this was the episode that both challenged my fear and fully made me a hardcore spongebob fan. When I first saw this episode, it TERRIFIED me. so much so that I always tried to avoid watching this scene as a kid. However, short time passes and I realized that if I kept on staying terrified with the episode it would be humiliating to show in front of my friends (yeah, I was starting to begin that "trying to act like a mature adult phase", and I wasn't even close to my preteen time yet.
So I forced myself to watch the tranformation scene over and over again until I began to show enjoyment for the scary yet strangeness of the entire episode itself. And thus, it is my most favorite spongebob episode to this day. Spongebob was also the first fandom I join, except that my fanfiction was....basically for myself, as I didn't that existed at the time. I would just play out the aftermath of that episode in my head and all the adventures Spongebob has to go on in order to change back to his original self. Yeah, that's how unsatisfied I really was about the ending. XD
Im still pretty much waiting for the sequel of that episode.
Hey Arnold! - "The Haunted Train"
Yes
I've been watching this show for 20+ years and only now have I noticed the painting change with the lighting.
I remember this now this made me scared of Garry for a bit. I was a scared little kid.
the creepy eye thing is definitely what has kept this scarred in my brain
Gross.
I love how scared Squidward gets after seeing what Spongebob becomes. Plus that ending is amazing.
Squidward deserved to feel guilty and his karma was turning into a snail himself.
I can tell you why it left an impression. Because when you're a kid, you don't know what the title's referencing and the werewolf-esque transformation come out of nowhere and leaves a mark.
Any possibility of him doing Party For One
This episode never scared me as a kid for some reason and I still don’t feel terrified at it at 20-21 years old.
Please take a look at Tom & Jerry "The Year of the Mouse" 1965
In which Jerry and some unknown rat friend of his get their kicks from psychologically tormenting Tom by making him think he's trying to harm himself in his sleep.
I hated this episode when I was little. It freaked me out seeing spongebob and squidward being disfigured forever
And by forever you mean until the next episode
how about "Courage the cowardly dog: The great Fusilli"? that was a pretty dark episode
Chris Wedge's Bunny (1998):
In regards to Disney closing Blue Sky Studios this year, I felt this to be a worthy candidate for a Dark Toons episode.
Do:The Cat Came Back The Very Next Day!
By: The National film board of Canada
CANADA?!?
@@leewitten4758 yes!
As a kid when I saw this episode I personally loved it and never really was scared or even slightly creeped out by it, this is actually the thing that made me love slow transformations of humans or animals to monsters or something horrifying, glad you reviewed this even with it not being your type of cartoon
Watching this as a kid I think this episode was always just a funny episode that was fun to watch around halloween.
The concept of the whole transformation freaked me out more than the transformation itself, although the screaming and squelching made the scene really unsettling.
“The French voice” is a parody of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, the marine biologist.
For me personally the part that scared me was when spongebob turns into a snail and after watching this video I’ve realized why it scared me so much and still scares me. It’s the fact that spongebob is so chipper even as he’s turning into a snail and the chipper music. Also the fact that I don’t do body horror.
The eye stalk thing creeped me the hell out as a kid. Had to stop watching so I'm only now seeing how it ends 20 years later.
I've seen pretty much every episode of spongebob in my life, and yet, this is the one I could never rewatch. There's just something about watching a childhood idol turn into an animal. It's just not for me