Talk:Squidward's Suicide/@comment-17637004-20130903205228

TERRIFYING! I see on the source pages that the similar-in-theme "Dead Bart" is older than this (at least on this site), but I consider this one to be an improvement on the genre. It has a more realistic backstory ("some twisted maniac somehow slipped it into the system and only a few insiders saw it" vs. "It aired a long time ago, before anyone watched, and we don't really know why it was made"). Lots more creepy stuff, like the sound, and none of the weird-but-not-scary stuff like the family crying for a year in "Bart."

But what really works about both of them is the idea of one of our favorite lighthearted cartoon shows going full-on bowels-of-the-Internet level dark. One of our deepest sources of comfort suddenly toying with our deepest fears, and doing it for no apparent reason whatsoever.