User blog comment:Umbrello/Childhood Nightmares: TV/@comment-4849011-20150126004332

Umbrello, I'm glad you created this blog because I too have been disturbed by things from childhood cartoons/TV shows, and this gives us all a chance to get it out there. Here are the ones that come to mind right off.


 * I saw part of an episode of Captain Planet and the Planeteers in which the villains had captured, and I think poisoned, Captain Planet, and I found the sight of a suffering Captain Planet so unsettling that I couldn't watch the show for years.
 * There was an episode of Doug in which he was nervous about the upcoming School Picture Day because Skeeter's little brother had told him, "Hiya, Big Nose!" At one point he had a nightmare in which he showed Patty his picture and the nose in the picture was so big it jutted from the picture and poked her in the eye.  She held her eye and shouted, "OH!  YOUR NOSE POKED MY EYE OUT!"  I had trouble sleeping that night.
 * There were some things in Ren & Stimpy that were unsettling.
 * There was an episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark? which involved a vampire movie (the vampire in question resembled Nosferatu). At one point the guy playing the movie fell asleep.  On the screen the vampire stopped, looked directly at the viewer, and then broke the fourth wall by stepping out of the screen and into the real world.  Let me tell you, that was another night I had trouble sleeping!  There was also an episode in which, at the end, this boy's adopted sister was revealed to be a space alien with no face.

Let the healing begin!