Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-25360281-20150111053551/@comment-4849011-20150121012940

I don't know if this is worth posting, but recently (shortly after I posted to this thread) I saw an episode that made me think, "That could have been made darker." It was called "Food Truck", and I saw it again just this afternoon. In it Uncle G. had created a delicious new food sensation - the burger dawg (essentially a hamburger with a hot dog stuck through the middle). Pizza Steve wanted to buy a jet plane, so he convinced the gang to start a food truck business. Things went well at first, but then Pizza Steve worked Uncle G. almost to exhaustion. Uncle G. actually collapsed face-first onto the grill due to sheer weariness, and Pizza Steve scolded him by saying something like, "I would give you a break, but you just had a ten-minute lunch break nine hours ago!" Yikes. The burns wiped right off and eventually there was a situation that they had to resolve in a (supposedly) comedic manner, but I thought, "If this were a Creepypasta, Uncle Grandpa's burns would have been worse, they would have been described vividly using terms such as 'hyper-realistic' or 'photorealistic', Pizza Steve could have injected Uncle G. with some unknown poison to bring his energy up so he could work more, etc." Maybe you should start a blog or thread asking, "Does anyone else find Uncle Grandpa unsettling?" in order to gain further inspiration.

Also, I found out that the Uncle Grandpa Babies thing was just a throwaway segment (probably intended as a spoof of shows like Muppet Babies). Still, that's no reason not to use it as an element if you want to. After all, it was still on the show.