Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers - Dark Toons
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- The invasion begins with a dark (?) Looney Tunes cartoon. It was highly requested, but does Doug get the chills from it like other viewers? Let's take a look at Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers.
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Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers is a Bugs Bunny short subject directed by Greg Ford and Terry Lennon and released in 1992. The cartoon was intended for theatrical release but eventually aired as part of the television special Bugs Bunny's Creature Features. Its premise is modeled after the 1956 film Invasion of the Body Snatchers.
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This short was one of my favorites as a kid. They used to air it all the time on Nickelodeon. It was awesome! My favorite part? *Fake Bugs Bunny menacingly holding an axe* "What's up, Doc?"
Hilarious me and my best friend Brendan love that cartoon. Channel Awesome.
Can the next one be of that General Grievous from Star Wars Clone Wars? (The Genndy Tartovosky one). General Grievous made his debut there and back then, he was actually intimidating and fucking terrifying. He actually kills Jedi, rarely speaks and for once, doesn’t run away like a coward but rather chases down his prey until he’s either got them or if they escape. Seriously, check it out. I know it’s not an episode, it’s a part of an episode but please count it.
I remember a toon I saw when I was a kid. A cartoon dog was trying to evade a flea. The flea was an unstoppable monster that eventually ate the dog. That was the first time in my life that I felt some sense of inescapable dread as a kid. It left a real impression on me, a disturbed one.
Maybe this is like a case of fridge horror where the cartoon itself isn't scary, but maybe some people put themselves.im that position themselves. Like imagine you were abducted and replaced with a replica. Image 5he damage a replacement would do and the harm it would cause. And when it was done and you were freed.yher would be people who would mistake you for said come and may even have some kind of vendetta against you for something you didn't know you did. Just kinda one of those scary in hindsight kinda deals. ...and yeah it is kinda scary to be replace by someone who would give you a had name or make the people you love hate you.
The "scariest" part I found about the episode was during the Pod-Bugs scene or atleast the implications. The fact that the impostor was trying to outright kill Bugs lead me to believe that the other characters that had been replaced were actually dead. Pretty unnerving when I was a kid.
I saw this in a motel room when I was a little kid, and can confirm it was creepy as hell to me. It's the body-snatcher's eyes: they're so lifeless, and unblinking, and somehow that makes them incredibly menacing. Plus, there's the idea of your replacement murdering you in your sleep with an ax...
THIS
Yea when I saw this I was completely thrown off by how different it was. Even at the end that shit left an impression lol
This was in the 90s when cartoons, like comic books and video games, were ending the notion of being exclusively children's media. I wish parents picked up on this.
I saw this when I was 9 years old and way past my bed time. It actually scared me. It was something different and my little mind wasn’t ready for it lol
@@TheEmanram same this episode freaked me out as a kid
Someone who worked on the short once said that the animators took bets on who could do the worst animation job on the characters. Nancy Beiman's Daffy won hands down!
Yeah, I'd pick her as the winner too.
I would pick her too.
@@amymartin9424 I agree! And this was a literal few shorts after she draws Daffy perfectly (in Blooper Bunny) so that’s also a funny connection
I wish i was there in that bet.
I bet I can do a shittier job than all of them
It's not that it's dark, it's just that the 'bunny snatchers' go pretty far into the uncanny valley.
Well, the short is deliberately creepy. Supposedly it was an allegory for censorship in cartoons.
The alternative Elmer Fud almost looks like he belongs in a Peanuts comic strip or movie.
I have to concur after comparing the two in my mind.
Looks like Hanna barbera
His mouth movement reminds me of Monty Python.
Right?! I immediately thought he looked like he had jumped out of a Sunday newspaper comic
Well Bill Melendez who animated Looney Tunes did work on those peanut specials
The thing I always found so disturbing about this cartoon was the fact that there's no explanation at the end- you keep waiting for Marvin the martian or even Hazel to show up with some sort of 'I'll get you next time, rabbit!' but then /nothing/. It's creepy, and it leaves the viewer with an air of uncertainty.
This, when I was a kid I assumed marvin was behind it.
@@elijahblechman8633
This episode should've gotten a sequel and given an explanation to where those carrot pods and clones came from and why they were sent there.
I'm going to keep suggesting The Powerpuff Girls episode Speed Demon.
Same here. This is an episode that did not sit well with me--and I still find it terrifying to this very day.
That episode was so creepy, I was a teenager during the original run of the show, and it really freaked me out!
I always liked the episodes with "him".
Yes! You don't see a whole lot of kid centered shows where one of the villains is straight up Satan.
Yes
When I was a child it was Daffy’s double scene that creeped me out. Especially that real mouth scene. It was the most unnatural thing to me for a cartoon. Watching that scene again just made me shutter. 😵
Lmao i was searching for this episode since for a long time just for that scene XD
I remember this whole-ass episode because left such an impression on me. I was terrified and intrigued equally. Yosemite Sam glitching out really stood out, and the end where they come out of the pods.
This whole episode is a bad trip.
*cough cough* Natsuki *cough cough*
Same dude
*shudder
This gets a lot darker if you consider the part where fake Bugs picks up the ax. He wasn't trying to take over Bugs's body, he was planning to murder Bugs and take his place. If *that* is what happened to the others...that's pretty dark. And it makes you question the ending where they're all back somehow.
+aprilfrenzy EXACTLY! I always suspected that the other clones had murdered Elmer, Sam, and Daffy which explains Clone Bugs trying to murder him. Also, if you notice the scenes where Bugs leave Sam and Daffy, individually, to go to his next destination, when the strange carrots start twitching, Sam and Daffy have horrified looks on their faces. It’s almost as if they kind of knew that those carrots were dangerous.
11:14 I just love these scenes when a character stops to calmly tell a comment and then continue 😂
One of my favorites was one from a Droopy short called "Outfoxed" When one of the hunting lodge dogs barges in upon a fox's cave, the fox having tea and reading the newspaper in his home, turns to the audience and tells them not to worry about his safety as he just so happens to indeed be as smart as a fox. He then manages to tie up the dog in his own sack.
Yeah I don’t see this as a dark Looney Tunes cartoon. Although the concept of it is pretty dark but the tone is not.
Yeah, this one always made me laugh as a kid. Fake Bugs holding an axe and menacingly asking "What's up, Doc?" should not have been so funny to me, but it honestly was!
Yeah that’s how I exactly feel.
I never thought that this was in any way dark or scary; it was just funny to me.
I reverse predict my kid self would find this in the uncanny valley sector as I love animation and cartoons even today, and cheap stuff just rubbed me the wrong way as if they hate me or don't care. Like comparing an expensive amazingly delicious ice cream sundae with warm chocolate sauce with a caramel aftertaste and daime and cream made vanilla ice cream, to those cheap white packages of wine gum that were hard to chew, lacked flavor and tasted bitter or weird. It was kind of candy but you almost had to force yourself to eat it or try to enjoy it. Hated it.
I agree.
*sees the title*
*immediately remembers the one scene of Daffy talking with a human mouth*
*shivers*
I haven't seen that in years and it still creepy.
Try watching Clutch Cargo... A friend of mine showed me a few episodes and holy crap is it creepy as well as boring/predictable.
The Incredibles had a tie-in cartoon in Synchro-Vox on the DVD. Craig Nelson and Samuel L Jackson even had a commentary for it in character as Mr Incredible and Frozone.
I recommend the Edd Ed n Eddy episode " The Ed's are coming".
What's that one?
Yes that would be awesome!!!
The day the Ed stood still
That's the one where jimmy has a bad dream right
@@AnimationNation2004 oh that is dark That's in the fifth season
The Porky part at the end always scared the shit out of me as a kid. I only saw this short a few times and got the weirdest vibes from it
SAME! literally I would close my eyes when it played because it freaked me out so much.
Bro, I had the same feeling! I could barely sleep in my own bed because of that moment!
Well, I was little as well when I was 3 the scariest moments has to be the big mouth and the porky part
Let’s have him watch that one Courage the Cowardly Dog episode titled “The Mask”
Yes!
It's more sad than scary in my opinion.
You're not perfect....
@@Thespeedrap That's why we keep suggesting it. Dark dosn't always mean scary, and this episode and the one with the space squids are great examples of that. In fact, alot of Courage is more of the dark, depressing motif.
@@Thespeedrap It's scary in that it's so real like something like that topic can happen in real life
I just always thought this cartoon was kind of creepy. There's something about those cheaply animated characters....their dead eyed stare...the fact that they're doppelgängers and we don't exactly know what happened to the real characters...and Daffy's real life mouth..........that always creeped me out....
This
Yeah, this was my first time seeing that real mouth style and it creeped kid me out. Plus the space mouth just seemed scary back then, like space was gonna eat me, lol.
Yeah I'm surprised the daffy mouth didnt give me nightmares as a kid considering it creeped me the hell out. Still kinda sends a chill up my spine. Not sure why though...
Exactly.
I love how Bugs labels his friend as an Absent Minded Sterotype. Lol!
This episode actually scared the shit out of me when I was a kid. Mainly for the part when fake bugs tries to kill the real bugs.
here's why I think people see it as dark:
the set up of the characters beign replaced by copies for seemingly no reason, and we don't even see HOW they get replaced
the way the carrots are drawn at times (especially during the scene where the fake Bugs is created)
The fact that the fake bugs was trying to murder Bugs Bunny
Some of the music and set design can make a creepy mood
and finally, and what I found creepiest about this short, Daffy Duck suddenly getting a clutch cargo mouth and possibly that more detaied mouth he also gets
All true. Plus the way the doppelgangers are so soulless and empty.
Does DC still publish the Looney Tunes comics?
@@chipchopbarbershop8426 I didn't even know they did in the first place
Yeah, the first time I saw this at my grandmothers it was creepy in the same way that Gumby can be creepy. (Though I’ve had silent nightmares for a majority of my life so that might be why.). Other than that I just thought the weirdness was entertaining.
@@chipchopbarbershop8426 Yes.
Dark Toons Suggestions:
Samurai Jack "The Haunted House"
Hey Arnold: "Haunted Train," "Four-Eyed Jack"
Dexter's Laboratory: "Filet of Soul"
CatDog: "Meat, Dog's Friend"
Codename KND: "Operation Pinkeye"
Powerpuff Girls: "Speed Demon"
Two cartoons that would fit perfectly in this Dark Toons series are:
Tales of Worm Paranoia - (What A Cartoon!)
Haunted Train - (Hey Arnold!)
i would say ghost bride for hey anold
Oh yes! I remember Haunted Train! That was a good episode.
@@dustyrose192 @Pasta Master @Mike W Do you all remember that episode where the scientist ghost retrieved his glasses from Gerald...and scared him?
The Worm one was twisted more than scary, but I'd love to see Doug's comment about it. It was a fascinating cartoon.
The Mask- Courage the Cowardly Dog
Operation PINKEYE- Codename Kids Nextdoor.
I think it's dark in implying that the original characters were murdered by their replacements. Thinking that makes the poorly animated versions so much creepier.
LoL
Well at the end you see Sam again, so theyre alive
@@Derinku Yeah
fucking sick
I loved looney tunes but this episode was just scary and confusing as a kid. never forgot and here i am for closure
I swear, this is how the Mandela effect happens, because for years I thought I had made up this cartoon when I was little, only to rediscover it when I caught it by chance on Cartoon Network.
Yeah. I only have seen this once, but I'm not sure where. Maybe it was shown in theaters in front of The Amazing Panda Adventure or Free Willy way back when.
I'm with ya. I saw it once when I was home from school sick and spent the next few years trying to describe it to my siblings until I finally chalked it up to a fever dream. Then low and behold I find it years later!
Thats not Mandela effect.
@@vicentegeonix Yeah, I think that's a reverse-Mandela effect.
@@TylerCharlesFisher The "Mandela effect" is bullshit anyway. People forget, mix up, and misquote things all the damn time.
I laughed so hard when I saw daffy’s real life mouth as a kid. Btw, that mouth thing is called “Synchro Vox.”
My Life as a Teenage Robot's 'Raggedy Android' episode scared me so bad when I was a kid and really took me by surprise. The imagery of the raggedy Ann 'skin' enveloping Jenny while she's making muffled yells made me bolt from the room.
Well, the episode I got scared as a kid was the high fructose of annoying orange, Teddy juicer he’s kind of rip-off of Freddy kregger
Oh gosh, I remember that episode…
And the ending when the doll snatched ole dude
*Return of Raggedy Android
Powerpuff Girls episodes:
Speed Demon
Twisted Sister for the ending
Mime for a change
Tough Love
Boogie Frights
Octi Evil
Insect Inside for kids afraid of bugs
I'd also throw in "Knock it off" which comes very close to being nearly as disturbing as "Speed Demon" and "Powernoia" which is another Him centered episode.
"Abracadaver" with the zombie magician.
"See Me, Feel Me, Gnomey" which was banned for containing cultist references and mentions communism.
Yeah I agree
Speed Demon is the only one that'd qualify honestly.
Oh God, this cartoon, _this cartoon,_ is the only one that has ever made me run from the room the day it first played
Specifically when the fake!Bugs popped up with the ax
i have never seen this one. i gotta try it.
same! this terrified me to tears.
Mine was face freeze from spongebob.
"Ghost Bride" - Hey Arnold
"The Great Fusili" - Courage the Cowardly Dog
Oh man. I remember when I saw Ghost Bride when they were doing reruns on TeenNick. It scared me so much that it took me a while to go to sleep.
I’m 23, Ghost Bride STILL freaks me out!! That ending is MESSED UP
Personally I feel that Headless Cabbie doesn’t get enough love
Erica Sutton Dang I was a big Hey Arnold fan and don’t remember that episode.
If we’re doing suggestions how about the Billy and Mandy episode “the hall of time” where the entire episode is characters slowly turning into babies and it ends with everyone dying
That episode was straight up savage on its ending. Billy, Mandy and Irwin turn into embryos before completely poofing out of existence and Grim does nothing to help them until he suddenly realizes that he's unable to turn over his own hourglass which is quite large and he just helplessly waves goodbye to the audience before being poofed out of existence.
"Attack of the Clowns" from Billy and Mandy while mainly funny, does have the rather disturbing paper mache clown that Grim brought to life that eats them at the end of the episode.
What about Son of Nergal?
glowworm2
That was funny at the end until a Grim knew he was boned and just waved goodbye to us.
@@HeilRay Even better, at one point, Billy accidentally breaks an hour glass at one point and kills an animator. The animator is the creator of the show, Maxwell Atoms.
glowworm2 I wished that hourglass was Richard Rich’s, he was that former Disney animator who made the Swan Princess movies.
OH MY GOSH! I don't remember anything else about this, but when you show the open carrot with the boiling insides and the creepy Bugs limbs I suddenly got chills. I REMEMBER THAT! I didn't remember what it was from but I remembered THAT
The reasons why it creeped me out is because:
1. The cheaper animation style: I found them to be rather unsettling as a kid when I first saw this, I think Elmer Fudd was the one that creeped me out the most when I first saw him because you can tell that it's different, that it's, for lack of a better word, "wrong" in the way that he's made.
2. The soundtrack: This is another reason why I found this to be creepy. The soundtrack used, ranging from the piano score(which the original Invasion of the Body Snatchers also used and was probably a type of homage to said movie, surprised you didn't bring that up) from when Bugs encounters the carrots, to the creepy theramin music when pod-Elmer first appears. One thing I noticed that adds a lot to the atmosphere is music, and I think it was handled pretty well in this short.
3. Pod-Bugs: Not just pod-Bugs himself, but the whole scene where he comes to life and tries to kill Bugs with an ax. I'm surprised you didn't touch on this a whole lot, although you did cover the segment where he's coming to life so I won't repeat it here, but watching it do that Frankenstein-like walk, blank expression and the just-dots-for-eyes, to the fire ax, and to the Bugs's bed just adds another layer of creepy. Like you said, these were made to be a sort of parody of bad animation, and there are bad animated scenes/shows that sometimes delve deep into an almost "uncanny valley" territory where we would be unsettled by it. It also made use of shooting from pod-Bugs's perspective to where he's walking to Bugs's bed and he taps him on the shoulder, and we get this great low-angle shot of pod-Bugs saying Bugs's classic line in his pod-like way while holding a fire ax! You actually talked about low-angle shots in your review of "Claws For Alarm", and I'm surprised you didn't talk about it here, it would have been a good call back in my opinion.
You might not have found it dark or creepy, but the rest of us sure as hell have, ya stinker!
The things that creeped me out as a kid were:
1. We don't know what happened to sam, elmer, or daffy while their duplicates are active. Bugs' duplicate tried immediately to kill him, so what happened to them?
2. It's never explained why nudnik made the fake toons in the first place, or why they were so poorly made.
Basically, it was the "nothing is scarier" trope to me.
@@lightsidesoul The only thing that creeped me out as a kid was Daffys face. I didn't like Daffy AT ALL as a kid like that.
This never creeped me out as a kid.
@@Chaos89P Well good for you. Would you like a cupcake?
This scared the crap out of me as a kid. It was unsettling as fuck with the constantly-changing animation and everything being just off enough that things were Wrong. I still have a visceral reaction today, watching this now.
I recommend "Nasty Patty" from SpongeBob SqaurePants. While that never creeped me out as a kid, it is one of the darker Episodes from the show.
He probably won't be able to get away with reviewing anything owned by Viacom. They're really copyright happy, unfortunately.
@@princessaur Oops. Good point. I guess if he does end up doing it, we just have to hope it's fine.
Oh, yes. Nasty Patty is pretty damn funny.
Nasty Patty is funny but it's really not all that creepy. I guess the subject matter is a tad dark but it's handled in such a funny way that it really doesn't seem that way at all. You know in the back of your mind that nothing is really wrong.
I don't see that as dark at all, more just an accurate reflection of how kids are getting attached to things.
The reason why the fake bugs Bunny was trying to kill the real one, is because he tried to end the big chungus meme before it started.
Was about to cringe until I found out this comment was anti-Big Chungas.
I wish it had ended before it started. Actually, I wish that for all memes.
pod-Bugs is off by a long time
John K. was allowed to do his own Yogi Bear episode in the late 90's, as a one-off for Cartoon Network, called 'Boo Boo Runs Wild'. At the time, I found it incredibly dark and disturbing. One part I remember in particular is Yogi looking for Boo Boo after he's gone insane, and comes across him and Cindy on a log slapping their tongues against one another, groaning as bees sting their tongues. I turned it off after that, and even had nightmares about it.
This horrified me as a kid. It always came on late at night and for a long time i thought I imagined it. This genuinely made me feel weird seeing it again
OMG ME TOO!! I thought I made this up for some reason, and a lot of why it's so creepy is because it's just not like the other episodes. It was just an outlier and it felt so fake, like someone else had made it and not Warner Bros. I had to look it up to see if it was real or not
I have been loving this series, it's so nice to sit down and see your honest take about the little details of these dark and twisted cartoons. Keep it up 👍
Imagine If HIT Entertainment Made A Pingu Episode That's Just Like Invasion of the Bunny Snatchers.
as to why I considered it dark,I would say a combination of what you mentioned at the end. My sister and I were unnerved by it as a kid, mostly the sequence with the fake bugs coming out of the carrot. We WERE very young then and I definitely remember it being creepier than it appears to me now.
Either way, thank you for taking the time to review it for us even if it turns out we have warped memories and it wasn't quite a good fit for the series.
I think what creeped me out the most about this as a kid was that it was so different from the looney toons I watching prior. The story, the animation, it was so different than I was used to.
Powerpuff Girls "Twisted Sister" has some dark moments, mainly the ending.
Also My Life As A Teenage Robot had "The Return of Raggedy Android" which got fairly dark or at least had creepy imagery
Are you talking about the puppet episode?
@@GhazMazMSM This is the episode where Jenny wears an exoskin in order to get into a malt shop so she can pass for human. The exoskin tries to take over.
Twisted sister Is just sad
@@latieraeve I agree. Twisted Sister isn't dark, it's just depressing. A friend once wanted to watch that episode on my PPG DVD collection. I warned her that it was a sad episode.
Don't diss my girl Bunny, her episode was great the real dark part of it was the creators making everyone forget her 😣
I loved this, I really did as I think it's one of the best yet unique Looney Tunes cartoons.
But if I had one particular nitpick of its "What happened to Elmer, Yosemitey Sam, and Daffy during this?"
Like I understand that the characters were replaced with the alien doubles, but what happened to them while Bugs was dealing with the knockoffs? Where they kidnapped, where they knocked out and tied up somewhere, or where they simply taking a mini vacation with their doubles in their place?
Power puff girls. Season 2, episode 12. “Speed demon”. Freaked me and my sister out as kids. We cried and told our mom how much we loved her 😹😹😹
Shaynice Parker Oh, I’m so sorry about that.
Kendra Rasberry Lol its ok. We were little. It’s not enough to scare me now but i still find it creepy lol. Thinking back on it I’m surprised how dark it is if you take the time to think about it. I hope critic takes a look at it though. Lol
I miss that show Mojo Jojo was awesome CURSES😄😄😄
Samurai Jack Haunted House
Yes
Pls
Yes! I suggested this one already and hope it gets it an episode
YES!
Yes
Definitely
Absolutely
I would recommend “The Scariest Story Ever: A Mickey Mouse Halloween Spooktacular!”
I also really like that he has a daily routine of fighting all his enemies
😂😂🤣That axe comment. “It’s a hole, What would he need to break?”
I’m still going at it with Speed Demon from the Powerpuff Girls!
Same here. That one is terrifying.
yes!!!
Powerpuff Girls did have some creepy episodes yes....but not really DARK and TWISTED. Now you want that, I highly recommend watching The Practical Pig and Three Little Wolves by Disney. These two cartoons were originally made for little, little, kids....but ended up being IMO two of the most sadistic, traumatizing, and dark animated shorts....EVER. Don't believe me?? Go watch it now. It's easily available here on the YT
Such a weird cartoon but very imaginative
Even when Warner Bros. tries to be terrible they're still better than Dingo pictures
As a kid, I was always extremely sensitive to the atmosphere a show or a movie would convey (animated or live-action). I found so many "funny scary" moments GENUINELY scary, so I understand why some might see this cartoon as dark, scary or creepy.
When you watch Ren & Stimpy, you get into a state of mind where creepy stuff is welcome and expected. When you watch Looney Tunes, you expect a jolly, funny and warm atmosphere. These weird moments in this short instead give you a sever "uncanny valley" feeling, as if you just entered a parallel dimension and nothing is stable and it never really feels like home. And this cartoon starts being creepy in its atmosphere as soon as you see they are rushing through the usual routine - it's not natural. And then when Daffy does his stuff, that really pushes the envelope. :)
Honestly, I'm a bit happy that I didn't see this as a kid because now i see just how hilarious it is, instead of being traumatized by it. :D
11:35
I remember the spinning "leg wheel" being an animating trick in pop-up books. But I admire how the episode added extra legs so he always appears to have too many.
I’ve always found this episode both hilarious and creepy AF. The reason why a lot of people find it more dark is due to the uncanny valley and uncanny behavior that the clones give off even in animation. Yes, it’s hilarious because of how purposefully badly it’s supposed to look. But at the same time, it gives you an unsettling feeling when the characters don’t look like and behave like themselves. The Daffy Clone especially showcases this. Also, when Bugs comes upon those strange carrots and his clone emerging from one of those carrots, the piano music gives it a weird, eerie vibe. Thank you for making a video about this episode.
Do "As told by Ginger" - "And she was gone"
I think that show was aimed towards older kids.
As Told by Ginger wasn't a show for little kids. Doug said in the intro that he's not looking for shows for older kids or adults.
Yeah, that show was more for kids age 12-16.
That was a good episode
I recommend checking out we're in between where they review every single episode of as told by ginger. In the later reviews they get a lot of the cast and creator in the discussions it's amazing.
Fake Daffy was the creepiest part for me.
The human mouth. Don't clutch cargo anything with a beak.
Agreed.
I remember it creeping me out when I was like 4. Best way I could described it was I got the same feeling you get when you see something in the uncanny valley
Just to mess with us, You should’ve called this one “Dark Tunes”
I'm still waiting for the Minnie the Moocher episode. That's gonna be a fun one to hear Doug's views on.
Since there’s not a Scooby Doo episode, how about any episode of Scooby Doo Mystery Incorperated?
Especially any episode featuring The Freak Of Crystal Cove
Good suggestion
Like the one with the doll factory?
Powerpuff Girls: Speed Demon
Scary as hell
So far, every "popular demand" ones in Dark Toons series are, imo, not really that "dark." It's either hilarious and/or great animation.
Wait til we get him to take a look at the Powerpuff Girls episode "Speed Demon..."
Tbf, they're looking back from nostalgia or what they remember.
i like how daffy has many elements and styles, instead of just one. like one shot, his beak and body are messed up in one shot, then his mouth is real in the next, his body slides before his face, he doesn't talk when he asks for the fellas to duck season him, and then he has that ren and stimpy mouth. i think they did the pod-daffy style switcheroo scene unintentionally, because daffy has different attitudes, like he's daffy in one shot, then silly, then off, then etc.
that's just genius to me.
Watching this series reminded me of two dead pet episodes that were dark and sorta creepy. The Kids Next Door Episode Operation GHOST and Dexter's Lab episode Filet of Soul. Please Review these two episodes if you can. I think you'd like them.
The meta-humor in this episode always made it my favorite.
"For those of you who have not seen _Invasion of the Body Snatchers_ : First of all, SHAME..."
Thank you, Doug
That cutout Porky at the end always gave me nightmares as a kid.
10:26 - omfg, I KNEW I saw this episode before! THIS just awakened all my repressed memories of how horrifying this episode was for 6-year-old me!! DX
The characters looking off in general is what creeped me out, and Daffy being riddled with gunshot holes and talking with that super detailed mouth hanging off his bill legit changed me when I watched this as a kid... People being deformed or acting super off from normal has always freaked me out, so this ep is def considered a scary kid's episode imo.
Still suggesting
*G.I. Joe* : "Skeletons in the Closet" and "There's No Place Like Springfield"
*Bravestarr* : "The Price"
*Static Shock* : "Jimmy"
Also:
*Batman: The Brave and the Bold* : "Chill of the Night!" and "Shadow of the Bat!"
Periclis Dragonballz maybe No action show
Periclis Dragonballz and he Said No batman
Periclis Dragonballz maybe Bravestarr
*“Jimmy nooo!”*
I feel like why people consider this short dark isn't that it's supposed to be dark but more of how it unintentionally came across to children at the time.
To be honest, the humor of the short seems to be lost on children, especially ones not really paying attention to the actual craft of animation. That is something that you end up picking up when you're older and more experienced.
Since that joke is lost, I think the audience gets a different vibe from it. Remembering my experience with this short when I was younger, this short was creepy and unsettling because it was "wrong." It wasn't how Looney Tunes was "supposed" to be. It really felt like the show was hijacked and we were watching something like an alien invasion take place on air. A child's imagination really can make things more fantastical like that.
Course, that can me be talking out of my butt and I was the only one to see it as such.. Yet, I do vividly remember that feeling because I didn't get the comedy behind the short way back when. Probably being raised on X-Files didn't help either.
The Grim adventures of Billy and Mandy "Little Rock of horrors" episode left a lasting memory on me I was about 5 when I watched it and I can still remember it too this day.
That's not dark enough. You want dark?
Powerpuff Girls: Speed Demon.
Knock it Off would be a good dark PPG episode to cover.
I misread the title as "Invasion of the *Body* Snatchers"...
Now I'm disappointed😓
Edit: Bro, I ment the Tom and Jerry version... but I now see the episode was "Invasion of the Body *Slammers* " so yeah, sorry about that lol
It's called Dark TOONS
@@WillCWilson read the edit guys...
@@creedenceandthedyingmornin2285 You too, read the edit...
What a waffle cone 🙃
@@creedenceandthedyingmornin2285 hey man there's no need to be mean
I wouldn't say it's dark. It's mostly just creepy because of the animation shifts.
For me the live action mouth on Daffy scared me when I was little.
We need a review of The Powerpuff Girls “Speed Demon” episode. That was dark!
Also, here are some other suggestions:
Tiny Toon Adventures “Night of the Living Pets”
Nightmare Ned “The Dentist”
Hey Arnold “Ghost Bride” & “Arnold Visits Arnie”
Rugrats “Mr. Friend”
Silly Symphonies “The Goddess of Spring”
I suggest the Ed Edd n Eddy episode "the Day The Ed Stood Still", it's not particularly dark but it is a great episode that satirizes the horror genre and monster movie tropes, and seeing how the kids react to a monster is interesting. That or the special where the kids of the cul-da-sac think they're being invaded by aliens or the Halloween special.
You do realize this is a show about dark toons right?Not saterize horror toons?
@@salaga6574 This episode actually is pretty dark for an Ed Edd N' Eddy short. Ed, who's normally known for being goofy and hilarious acts EXACTLY like a monster from one of his horror movies. The kids of the cul de sac go missing one by one, and we actually see what's going on from Ed's point of view as the monster. We don't actually get a glimpse of what Ed looks like in his monster costume until close to the end of the episode--it's pretty convincing looking.
@@salaga6574 We just saw a Loony Tunes show that satirizes Invasion of the Body Snatchers, its kind've a moot point.
Jeffrey Weber that would be true,but Doug himself even says that he wouldn’t really classify this as a dark toon towards the end of the video
you should do CatDog "Teeth for Two"
it is dark, disturbing & not great if you have sensitive teeth
Just that one part when Cat comes up through their body and brushes Dog's teeth from inside his mouth scared me as a kid.
@@FewerMiles I didn't even realize at first what the heck was going on there. I thought it was some sort of demon brushing Dog's teeth. Then I realized that it was Cat inside out--which was not any less comforting.
That episode was basically the main reason I never cared for CatDog--it could be downright gross at times, and this episode was insanely gross to me.
Forget the teeth thing. What if you don't want to see a cat that's inside out.
Just saying you should do a review on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Season 4 Episode 19 - Insane in the Membrane. it is one of the more darker episodes in the show.
To me the reason why its quite scary is due to how baxter stockman underwent an operation to get his body back but the hope and happiness for him is taken away when he starts deteriating due to the unknown error he made making him into his own frankenstien monster. He had a constant reminder/sees the illusion of his dead mother who cared for him showing him fall into a pit of insanity. He was basically a constant decomposing terminator trying to disect april O'niel of which the turtles triedand eventually succeeds to help out april but in the end baxter falls into the river being swallowed up in the river
Yeah that one is kind of messed up, I think they even intended to kill that character in that episode. But comic books adaptions always find a way to have characters come back.
That's from the 2003 series, right?
Morgil yeah
I’m not a fan of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles franchise, but I love the 2012 version of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles because it reminds me of Teen Titans (probably because Greg Cipes was involved in both shows).
Out of all the ones that Dougs done this short was my favorite as a kid
Mine too! I used to love this one when I was a kid--especially the fake out ending which I found to be very clever.
This one gave me nightmares! And here's why: imagine you're 6-7 years old. Your parents are still asleep. You flip on the tv around 6 in the morning and this comes on. Yikes!
Syncro-Vox (sometimes spelled Synchro-Vox) is a filming method that combines static images with moving images, the most common use of which is to superimpose talking lips on a photograph of a celebrity or a cartoon drawing.
Clutch Cargo, along with fellow Cambria shows Space Angel, and Captain Fathom were the first to use this style of animation.
I'm glad this one was done. I remember being scared by the music when the imitation characters arrived and by the animation of Daffy and Porky and that human lip movement part on Daffy that was mentioned. I also thought the voice and visual of the mouth that's the black hole jarring but a bit funny
I recommend "I was a teenage Gary" from Spongebob Squarepants
I've been enjoying this series a lot. It's an interesting change of style of video. I like it
There was one scene in an episode in rugrats where Tommy gets a cut. He then has this super relatable nightmare where his leg starts leaking stuffing and all his stuffing sort of just rushes out of his body as Angelica laughs at him.
This episode really creeped me out as a kid, especially the scene where the clone limply crawled out of the carrot, it was just so uncannay how it went from almsot boneless to unnaturally stiff
4:33 Ironically, it was also satirized in Looney Tunes: Back In Action.
9:27 "Why's everybody got lady lips? Nothing's moving but their lips!"
Really? They pick *this* as a "dark toon"? There are way darker looney tunes to pick from. Go find that episode of tiny tunes where Elmira kills various animals by suffocation.
If you look around my office, you might realize I kind of have a love for dark twisted cartoons. Maybe that's because I grew up with a lot of dark twisted cartoons.
My favorite part about this series isn't just the dark cartoons, though I do love those. But, all the little tidbits and facts thrown in about the animation itself are so interesting. Especially in this one about common animation errors and how they incorporated those into the designs of the "other" toons. Very good stuff!
Please do either Billy and Mandy’s “Halls of Time” or “Little Rock of Horrors”
Or even “Who Killed Who” which has a genuinely unsettling atmosphere, and the ending is just gold. Most of the Billy and Mandy episodes are the funny sort of scary, but this one episode really stuck out because it actually went out of its way to genuinely creep out the audience and keep the viewer guessing.
Let's not forget about "Wishbones"; where a few of the major characters die.
What about Son of Nergal? That’s the darkest episode of them all.
Brandon Booth No, Son of Nergal would be way more suiting for Doug than Little Rock of Horrors.
"The Mask" from Courage the Cowardly Dog is screaming for a commentary made by you.
"You something folks this is the scariest part of the picture, AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
I remember seeing this as a kid on my 14" Panasonic tube tv, it was kinda terrifying
face it older Loony Tunes are filled with characters trying to kill each other.
You should do the spongebob episode: “Nasty Patty”
He has done it now.
It's just the scene w/ Bugs' double coming after him w/ the ax; though that's more a WTF moment than "dark", lol
when i first saw this i was like eight or nine and i flicked on Teletoon (Cartoon Network's bi-polar Canadian cousin) and this was on pretty late (for a kid) like right before they'd start showing stuff like family guy they'd play the bugs bunny an tweety show all i saw was near the end where the fake bugs tries to kill him with the axe so that kinda freaked me out it seemed like a creepy pasta style thing and it would take years until i found out it was real and not a fever dream i had though once i actually saw it i realized it was a lot more absurd then scary.
Personally for me the creepiest part for this is seeing daffy cover in holes cause well that just makes my skin crawl
I also think this short is also taking a big shot at moral guardians trying to make cartoons as gentle, toothless, and non-challenging as possible, given how the fake Elmer, Daffy, and Sam are all saccharine, happy-go-lucky drips that refuse to antagonize Bugs in any way.