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The Bad Side of Cartoons

Cartoons are wonderful things, making people laugh, be inspired and feel nostalgia. Not all cartoons are like this

however, some have quite some dark themes and are quite scary. Here are some that I've seen or heard about.

So first off is SpongeBob. Even though this show is very bright and happy, this show can still have its dark moments. The

most popular one of these being the part in "One Course Meal" where it seems that Plankton obviously wanted to kill

himself, but I'll be talking about the Chum Bucket itself.

So if you didn't know already, chum is made of fish meat. This would make sense why no one really likes to eat there. The

only problem being that if the people know about the Chum Bucket serving fish meat, why isn't it shut down yet? I guess we

will never know.

The next cartoon is called Doug, a show where a sixth grade boy moves into a new town, trying to fit in with everyone

else. Another thing about Doug is that he sometimes escapes the world by going into his imagination, which is weird once

you think about it, but have you ever thought that something might be wrong with Doug?

There's a possibility that Doug may be a schizophrenic. He may be having vivid hallucinations and delusions. He also acts

out his fantasies. Examples are: Doug thinks he is dancing with his favorite band, but really he is dancing with himself.

Once he thought he was in prison however, he was actually next to a bike rack.

You may think that "Hey, he is just day dreaming. We have all done it at least once"! One time he was day dreaming, he was

in the middle of traffic. In another episode, he blanks out while racing down a hill and smashes into another car. In yet

another episode, Doug convinced himself that he was an expert horseman. He chooses to ride an untamed colt and nearly dies

after smashing into a tree.

The thing about it is that no one seems to care. Doug hallucinates in front of his friends and family all the time and all

they do is laugh it off. Yet another example of this is in the episode "Doug`s Secret Admirer", Doug's sister finds him

talking to his alter ego in the mirror. Thinking nothing of it, she kicks him out of the bathroom so she can talk a

shower.

Finally there is Invader Zim, the popular cancelled show about a tiny Irken alien trying to take over the world, but fails

miserably in the process. There's not much to say about this but I'll say what I can.

So if you haven't noticed, a lot of the buildings in their town are very dirty, such as the school or should I say

"Skool". Also, even the smallest things set a character off. If you don't know what I'm talking about, there's a scene

where a man's car explodes and after that, he slowly hangs up the phone he was on and flails his arms and screams like a

maniac.

Speaking of maniacs, there are lots of easter eggs in the comic book story with "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac" or JTHM(a

comic that Jhonen Vasquez made). Examples being Tak wearing clothes similar to Johnny`s, or having the dog that chased

Johnny in Invader Zim. But that's not all, Ms. Bitters wasn't just in invader Zim, she was also the teacher of Squee in

the Squee comic( also, a comic that Jhonen Vasquez made). There's so many other easter eggs, so many in fact that it would

be impossible to count them all.

So there you have it, some creepy things about some classic cartoons. How do you feel about them all now?