User blog comment:Umbrello/Childhood Nightmares: TV/@comment-25052433-20150125222855

Disturbing cartoons were a part of most kids lives I think. When we're kids, our minds are still forming, so things that we see on television seem to affect us on a much deeper level. (Disney alone probably caused tons of childhood depressions with their cute animal death scenes.)

There was a Care Bears movie or something that I remember seeing as a kid. I was maybe around 4 years old. In it, the main villain was having kids drink some sort of potion that turned them into black, featureless creatures. I remember that disturbed me for a couple of days.

Then there was a Garfield television special where Odie drove a car into an active volcano, with Odie himself going in. I remember being in a state of shock, thinking that they just killed him. Sure, the episode ends with Odie crawling out of the volcano unharmed, but I still remember being pretty disturbed for the rest of the night.

Then of course there's this. I saw this when I was maybe around 8 years old. I've hated claymation ever since.

Other than that, I am sure we all stumbled over some sort of strange animator's attempt at being artistic, but instead found ourselves feeling just a little weird for the rest of the day.