Plankton built Karen to be a ball buster on purpose, he's into femdom

if they made a Gordon Ramsay parody in Spongebob, the clever thing to do would be making him a dolphin.

I just can't get over how, despite what you'd expect, "House Fancy" was written by OLDER writers and "Krabby Road" was written by NEWER writers. It kinda shatters the classic narrative of new blood destroying the franchise. If anything, it seems the new writers were more cautious about living up to network expectations and the old writers are like "Whatever. We've been here for years. Everything we write is gold, and if it's not, who's gonna stop us?" Incidentally, "Squid Baby" was co-written by Mr. Lawrence.

I love how dramatically Henry describes Squid Baby. Really sells how fucking cursed that episode is

Spongebob Boyz is God’s punishment for our sinful ways

I do actually like how patricks fear of mascot costumes has been really consistent throughout the whole show. He was terrified to be near the glove world mascot in a s5 episode I believe

AC = Aqua Conditioning

“Nicholas Withers” isn’t a name, it’s just a description of what he does to his victims.

I love how the intro is getting more and more unhinged

Gene Shallot actuallyy voiced himself in "The Krusty Sponge".

God remember when patrick was actually a fun character and not a torture device whose stupidity causes pain to spongebob and somehow suffers no concequences for any actions

Confession: I skipped over Henry’s first episode because I wanted to go see it myself, but I accidentally let it play a bit in the middle while skipping, and let me tell you, I just lost it hearing “the Krabby Patties have begun to revolt” with no context

I never thought I'd hear someone use Elfen Lied to describe a SpongeBob episode

Something about Henry saying “Prove it Bitch!” Just gave me life, I replayed it like three times XD

The thing that fucks me up the most about the krusty sponge is that I basically unknowingly predicted it in 2003 with a crudely drawn krusty krab covered in stickers of sponebob's face (specifically one of said stickers replacing the sign and me writing the actual words "the krusty sponge" above it). Creating plots a 6-year-old could make up is probably sign your series is starting to go downhill, but that's just me.

The first half of this episode of SPONGEBON BOOOOOYZ: Patrick carrying the entire fucking ocean on his back with the comedy The second half: _get ze flammenwerfer_

I legit rolled over and woke my elf up with “baaaabe new spongebob boys...” she rolled back over but IM FUCKIN READY

Cartoon-induced trauma: I couldn't watch Spongebob's "I Had An Accident" for YEARS because I was terrified of the gorilla.

Dread it, Run from it. Sponge bob boys comes all the same

The thing that always creeped me out was the “Cheap Walk Cycles” scene from the Lost Episode episode. I dunno why, that, plus the angry face Patchy made close up to the camera after, _to this day_ , *terrifies me* . I legitimately cannot watch it, I have to turn away. I have no clue why.

You know, this actually autoplayed from my recommended, and I decided to give it a chance, and I'm very glad I didn't change the video

My biggest cartoon-induced trauma came from Spongebob itself, from the episode “The Inside Job” If you haven’t seen it, in the episode involved Plankton going into Spongebob’s body to try and steal the formula, and throughout the episode, Plankton unplug’s Spongebob’s organs to tap into them, making Spongebob go blind and deaf temporarily. At another point in the episode, Plankton went inside of Spongebob’s brain and saw a brain version of Spongebob’s house. The brain house had a brain Gary that made a dry-heaving meowing sound that scared the shit out of me. It’s not the *worst* thing that’s happened on the show, but it creeped me out so much as a kid, and ended up getting burned into my memory, to the point where I still remember exactly what I was wearing when I first watched it. I was in fifth grade when I saw it.

There was an episode of Arthur with a fucked up opening. Arthur is on a bus and he asks the driver when the bus stops. The drivers says it never stops, and Arthur responds “Thats Illegal!” The drivers says “oh really?” And turns around revealing a fucking Cthulhu mouth. The rest of the passengers close in on a screaming Arthur as it’s revealed the bus is a space ship. Who else remembers this?!

Hold the fuck up, I went back to Sing A Song of Patrick and Squidward's house was 100% on the left of Spongebob's. I double checked!

For episodes that creeped me out as a kid, they're honestly both Spongebob episodes. Them being Spongehenge and Gone, both of which terrifying me in different ways. Gone just had this horribly uncomfortable atmosphere, which persisted throughout the episode, even in just the title card. Like, the fact that the opening card is just so fucking creepy and ominous to look at, with that inappropriately cheery music playing over it felt like something only my most dark and twisted nightmares could've come up with. And, because of that, even today I feel myself recoil at literally any *frame* of the episode it just messed me up that badly. Spongehenge, meanwhile, was the first episode of a cartoon to fill me with actual existential dread as a child. The episode somehow invited the idea in my mind that life is truly meaningless, death is inevitable, and ultimately your life struggles will have little consequence on the world after death. So while it didn't "scare" me per se, it may have been the catalyst to the depressive/suicidal/nihilistic phase I had in my teen years... which is definitely worth something I guess.

I was not ready to hear Henry say "krussy" or "Steven Hindenburg"

The weirdest cartoon I remember was the Veggie Tales episode "The Wonderful World of Autotainment." It was an episode from the classic era of the show, but I never actually knew it existed until I was an adult. I've always been a fan of the show, and I was surprised there was one that I had completely missed, so I put it on and... it was a hell of a ride. The episode starts with Larry refusing to sing the theme song, and then quickly devolves into him shoving the entire Veggietales cast into a machine and hiring the ventriloquist robot from 3, 2, 1, Penguins in order to host randomized comedy shorts. It was a bizarre, meta fever dream and I left it with a weird questioning of what was real and what was fake.

This series will be the closest I'll be to watching this show. Every episode so far has left me thinking "What. The. Fuck.", without fail.

After Squid Baby I just had to sit here in silence and just breathe for a bit. I've aged 50 years in the last 3 hours.

Patrick's got that sigma male grindset. 'Why work on your own financial interests when you could do unpaid marketing work for a company that you aren't even employed by'

Baby Squidward... Why do we share the same timeline, as baby Squidward.

My entry for: “Cartoon Scene That Gives Me Chills” was the finale of The Amazing World of Gumball. Basically, the whole episode is about the show’s main villain turning all the cartoon characters human for an unknown reason. The final scene of the episode has the villain, alone, talking to himself about how he needed everyone to turn human in orders to escape this world before it was destroyed. Suddenly, the ground beneath him collapses and he falls into a void of static. The episode freezes on the image of the guy screaming as he falls, and then it just plays a few creepy notes and cuts to black. It still makes me uncomfortable to this day.

Patrick: I'll take a page, and EAT IT!

I think plankton is into humiliation

This is at least my second time watching this episode and I gotta say that Gus's Patrick impression is really good

The worst thing is when I clicked on one of the images when googling squid baby, The similar pictures tab had an image labeled "suicidal SpongeBob episode" and on the picture was a withered squidward and what appeared to be a 10ft acid jar.

Diregentleman are the only people I know who can have fun with taking apart spongebob episodes... for 12 hours!

It’s MY sleepover and I get to choose the movie.

For me the episode of SpongeBob that just felt "off" was Gone from season six.

I remember a weird scene from Ben Ten where an alien villain ate another species of alien's child whole. The creepiest thing about it was that after he did it the heroes stared at him for like five whole seconds just completely shocked. And even when they asked him WTF that was about he just replied to them casually with a big grin on his face. I had nightmares about that to be honest.

There's used to be this show called mighty bee and there was an episode where the main character gets her diary stolen, and there's this sort of dream sequence where she's imagining a nightmare scenario in which these bullies are reading her diary and they're just regular humans but they're fucking pulling out their eyeballs out of their head with the nerves still atached and they're holding them and looking through diary, that fucked me up as a kid.

I wonder how much the character of Patrick influenced into becoming the himbo I am today

Are we blessed or are we cursed to have so much Spongebob boys? Who can say

I looked it up but apparently Gene Voiced Gene personally.

“You want me in your band” *REALIZATION* I’ve seen this before

I don't really have much to say for childhood traumas in cartoons and stuff. 'Cept the "You're Not Perfect" scene in Courage gave me the heebie jeebies but that's the basic answer honestly. Everyone has 'that one scene' that spooked 'em. I think I remember being kinda spooked by the one goosebumps episode, the one with the Halloween masks. Somewhat related but not cartoons, I remember for some god forsaken reason the one infamous screamer video of the car driving through the forest airing on my TV. I recognized it because my sister just casually traumatized me with those online screamer shit because it was funny to her, and I recognized it immediately. I stood there frozen in fear knowing exactly what was gonna happen. When that screamer did happen I remember running to my Mom (Who had just came out from the bathroom) bawling my eyes out because of it, and wanting so badly for the channel to be changed but we couldn't because it was recording a football game for my Dad. Kinda wish we still had that recording but it is loooong gone. Just would like to make sure I am not crazy. Because I now know that that screamer was for a German commercial for some German energy drink/ coffee (Forgot which).. so.. why was it on air on American television?

Ho man...that was a trip and a half. It's crazy to hear you guys go from so bubbly and excited when talking about earlier episodes to just...utterly defeated when presented with "Squid Baby." Agh

Horribly good news! Snails typically *do* have teeth in the form of radula! This being the case, Gary could feasibly have thousands of teeth!

"Brain don't function but must do work" wow I think you managed to sum up my experience of any time I have to write something I hate.

Oh god.. I remember this one episode of Billy and Mandy where Mandy goes into this creepy old house after Billy and Irwin throw a baseball(?) past its fence. Grim tells the kids the house is haunted by an old lady's spirit. She goes in and everything is super clean and cozy-looking; she meets this woman who's really nice to her and helps her get the ball back, but when Mandy leaves and comes back everything is covered in cobwebs and dusty and the old woman is gone. What made it so unsettling was that everything was played completely straight instead of goofy like all the other darker moments. That episode scared the fuck out of me when I was a kid and thinking about it STILL creeps me out...

The “Return the Slab” episode from Courage frightened me as a child. Fucked me bad, it did.

My moment like that was in the speed racer anime. The girlfriend character has a nightmare where she sees speed racer and comes up to him and he turns around and has a blue demon face. Terrifying for me at 8 years old

Adventure time. Theres an episode where Finn has multiple recurring nightmares. They like go inside his subconscious mind to see what it is and they figure out he was this girl from a previous reincarnation and she fell into the toxic waste waters and slowly crawled out as her bones turned to mush as she moved closer to where the treehouse was. Then its revealed that like directly under Finn's bed is her fucking dessicated skelenton kept there all these years just out of sight.

I distinctly remember watching this one episode of a cartoon which I had never seen before or since called Tak and the Power of Juju. The episode was in this old vaguely uncanny 3D style and focused on some character enchanting his tooth to pull itself out, but then all his teeth started pulling themselves out in his sleep, and I think they became evil and tried to kill him? As far as I can remember it happened to the rest of the village’s teeth too. I just distinctly remember how nauseous and terrified the whole episode made me feel. The teeth were unpleasantly realistic and I think in some scenes still had nerves attached. I remember having nightmares about my own teeth trying to kill me for a while after that.

One of the things that freaked me out as a kid from a cartoon was a hey Arnold episode. I forget the name and a bit of the plot but it was about the kids going to the cemetery to see the ghost of a bride who was left at the alter because her ex fiancé wanted to be with her sister. So she decapitated them and then killed herself by jumping out the window and throughout the episode it was a double prank before ending with the ghost bride being real. That shit scared me a lot that even to this day, I don’t think it was real.

That bit where you said “have you seen Elfen Lied” I super got my hopes up.

Also the moment you uttered "Squid Baby" I had a *fight or flight* response. I wanted to *forget* about that episode's existence, and I hate that it's been brought back into my memory.

Childhood Cartoon Trauma for me was the Candy Wife from Flapjack. I don't know why exactly, but I remember an episode where it cuts back to her in like a different angle sitting at a roundtable. She just gave me Cadaver vibes and I don't know why.

The meatballs episode from super robot monkey team hyper force go fucked me up as a kid, "Wonderland Meatballs a surprise in every bite."

I don’t believe Lexie, or any comment has said this, but I just watched the episode, and the the ball strait up whistles nonchalantly while Gary tries leaving. The Ball IS ALIVE!!

It is 2:30 AM and I have heard things I cannot unhear. The depths of the fanart hellholes have been dredged to the surface by the writers of spongebob, and now no one is safe. "There is no god; I want a refund on life" indeed

Morgan Moonscar reanimating infront of shaggy and scooby. I had zombie nightmares on and off for 10 years after that scene also, my mother once told me i'd hide behind the couch whenever a scene from Pete's Dragon was on. i don't have the foggiest which one tho

Nothing like getting home after a long day and realizing there’s a 3 hr episode of spongebob boyz awaiting me.

Scary episode of a cartoon? Maybe that episode of 16 or 6teen or whatever its called where all the characters die in a zombie outbreak

If Patrick’s hair isn’t on his head in the other episodes does that mean he has a majestic bush? Canonically? Asking for a friend...

the forbidden spongebob boys episode

Hearing that henry wrote scp 4335 is so fucking hilarious

I got reccomended this by random. Is this actually a podcast? Like, there are more of these I can just sit around and listen to? Sign me up!!

Squid baby has caused me deep physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual pain aaaAAAAAA

I got nightmares from an episode of Rugrats: All Grown Up. It's a two-parter where they go to an acting camp telling the story of settlers that disappeared in the area, and long story short, one of the kids at the camp was the ghost of one of the settlers and they literally find their skeletons. When they get home and watch the tape Tommy made of their time, it does a weird The Ring parody with the ghost kid, and that moment stuck with me.

You know, the fact that the formula in krabby Road is just nonsense implies an interesting theroy: What if the formula housed in the krusty krab is just a Decoy? When you think about it it makes more sense for Mr. Krabs to store it in his house or better yet just have it memorised. Imagine plankton finally obtaining the formula only to find a page of complete jibberish. He may even think it's some kind of cipher and waste hours trying to decode it.

This isn't nessesarily a horror moment from a cartoon ,but more an existential moment . The amazing world of gumball was generally a light hearted show with some pretty wacky humour ,but there was one episode I watched when I was like 8 or 10 years old ,and I don't know if anyone else remembers this episode ,but it's the one where gumball and Darwin think the world is going to end by sunset ,and the entire episode sets up the entire idea of this happening ,and it terrified me , 11 minutes worth of me coming to terms with the idea that the entire world of a cartoon I loved watching was going to end ,and it genuinely made me panicky because I'd never watched anything that made me think of "the end of the world " before and obviously the end of the episode reveals that gumball was wrong about the whole thing and it ends comedically ,but before that I felt a genuine existential fear of what was about to happen

2:14:00 also Gary’s shell IS a spiral, holy shit this goes deeper than I thought

the Spongebob episode doing time was positively kafkaesque

MR MEATY’S TAPEWORM EPISODE

The horrific childhood memory for me was from the Brave Little Toaster in the junkyard. That giant magnet TERRIFIED me. I rewatched the movie recently and didn't feel the terror from it, but the song they sing super depressing and clearly had undertones a child wouldn't understand that just hit the existential dread hard.

chaos

This is one of my favorite series on this channel lol

A nightmarish scene I remember messing with me for a long time was from when I was extremely young, which was from this 3d animated carebears movie? I have absolutely no recollection of what its name was, but I remember there was like a palace or something and the bear with a sun symbol laid on this super plush bed, and it was apparently so plush that he literally sank all the way through it with a tired sigh. Scared me a lot when I was super young, I thought he literally died right then, like the bed was quicksand but more insidious because beds aren't supposed to be dangerous. I became too afraid to sleep in my bed alone because I thought it'd absorb me or something, and it took a couple years for me to get over it The rest of the horrifying cartoon scenes I got spooked by was stuff I'd seen from the internet, so I'm not sure that counts :P the last part of this episode made my soul leave my body to wither, I will never watch spongebob again, thank you for your sacrifice

hearing Squid Baby dealt 14d6 psychic damage to me

mid way through this i was about to comment "squid baby would be perfect for this show" and then

Honestly, the only cartoon episode that really scared me was the spongebob episode with the butterfly. Like, the one where theres a few closeups of a real butterfly face and a loud buzzing noise? I was so rooting for everyone to destroy it. And still, years later, butterflies still scare the shit out of me.

I was scared by the foot fungus episode of Courage because I dislike the idea that something could grow on me and process me. Similarity "I was a Teenage Gary" also scared me as a kid.

God when you guys started talking about cartoon shit that messed you up as a kid all I could think about is catching a scene in an invader zim episode (a show that I had no context for at the time because I was really young) where a kid fucking full on dies and he had to get resuscitated with a defibrillator and his lifeless body got flailed around with the force of the shocks.

The weird childhood cartoon ep that spooked me was that episode of SpongeBob where squidward and SpongeBob had to share a locker. Also that one part of the time travel squidward episode where he ends up in white abstract space

the spongebob episode that fucked me up was "dumped", i was a really emotional kid and that episode felt utterly devastating to me. the music, the atmosphere, it ruined my mood every time i saw it but i felt the need to watch it to get the closure of the ending at least also, i love how much of this show so far is "i really really wish i were making this episode up" lmao. i'm still reeling from two krabses being real

I got a pampers ad at the end of the episode and I think I'm gonna cry

2:25:23 the tickle me mandy episode was part of the Scaretoon Scaretoon Fright-Days halloween event in 2002 that featured new courage and grim & evil episodes after a scooby doo movie each week. While I don't remember that one, I do remember the Invaded crossover event in 2007. I had a pretty intense fear of aliens at the time so seeing my favorite characters from 5 different shows all be attacked and abducted was both cool and upsetting (fun fact: apparently the event was sponsored by kraft cheese but they backed out at the last minute lol). Edit: also not specifically a cartoon, but my dad made the Very Wise decision to let me read his old Duckman comics when I was 10. Aside from seeing a ceo duck get his brains blown out within the first 5 pages, there was one story where Duckman was trying to forget something traumatic, which was visualized as a running showerhead. It climaxed with him confronting it again in a Psycho-esque series of visuals before revealing the gag that it was just walking in on someone he knew in the shower. While it seems dumb in hindsight, just the tone and presentation of it all still makes me feel a bit uneasy and sick.

2:26:05 okay so a weird episode of a cartoon that i recall is this one Johnny Test episode where he somehow is transported into the finale of his favorite action movie series without knowing how it ends, i think just because he thought it would be cool or something? so he is in the car with the two main action hero characters and they are in some kind of a car chase scene, but then its revealed that the series ends with the two characters committing double suicide by driving off of a cliff. so the climax is them having to figure out how to get him out before the mains off themselves. wild. i don't remember how it ended i just remember having an out of body experience when that was revealed.

the cartoon that scarred me as a kid was this one episode of Arthur where DW thinks everyone who eats spinach turns into a zombie. Even though at the end of the episode it was just a dream, I was so terrified that I couldn’t bring myself to eat spinach again until collebe

I know this is old but I can't help but be the person to tell you that snails do in fact have teeth irl, they are microscopic and on a thing called a radula.

I have two main childhood trauma cartoons. One was an episode of courage the cowardly dog, the Return the Slab one. Made me cry in front of my younger siblings didn't make them think i was very cool. The second one was this like, old alvin and the chipmunks i think holiday special? It may have been on cartoon network when they needed to just license something for an afternoon time slot. The thing that fucked me up, was that The chipmunks encountered this Jet Black Boar with red eyes, bloodstained tusks and tatters of fabric hanging from its hooves and tusks, and they were directly attacked by it, like it tries to kill them. They then meet their mom who lives in this forest, and following them all going outside, she seems to get murdered by the boar after shoving the boys into the river to save them. Shes fine but theyre grieving, and theres this 20 minute segment where you genuinely think that their mom just got gored and eaten by a giant terrifying boar. You see dave interact with it way later its like up to his chest its not just chipmunk big. And THAT always fucked me up

Why did I get more dread hearing Henry say the title "Squid Baby" than I did hearing him say any title on the Disturbing Movie Iceberg?

For cartoons that scared the shit outa me as a kid, I think of Aladdin the series on the Disney afternoon. There were several episodes where the characters would transform into animals. The two that stick out in my mind were the one's where Jasmine turned into a snake, and the one where Aladdin turned into a shark and they freaked me the hell out because they weren't just "poof! Now you've transformed!" They were slow body horror transformations, where they changed a little bit over time, and it was against their will, they had no idea why it was happening or what it even was, and there was screaming involved.

Im now calling chekovs guns that dont go off Lexi’s guns. They dont want to waste the bullet.

Childhood trauma? If Courage is cheating then... There was this episode of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack that kinda still bothers me. I don't remember the name of the episode but when I mention "The cat" I'm hoping there are people who know what I'm referring to. Hyper realistic, pitch-black voids for eyes, razor sharp teeth. Solidified my fear of pitch black holes being where they shouldn't (like where eyes or a mouth should be). That and "into the body" episodes. Something just felt so wrong about those.

Here is my childhood horror story, the Disney adaptation of the Black Cauldron. The main antagonist was terrifying with his presence and when he rose an army of the dead i spent several nights watching my wardrobe as my cloths that were hung up looked like the outlines of the skeletal warriors.

The haunted house episode of magic school bus hit me really weird as a kid. Something about how they animated the sound waves and how they bounced off things… that and a cartoon that I’m not sure ever existed where there was an entire attic full of baked beans and all the characters went insane inside the been world.

So this isn't a cartoon episode, but I remember as a kid watching the episode of Suite Life of Zack and Cody called "Ghost of 613" and the premise of the episode is that zack dares cody to stay a night in this supposed haunted room of the hotel. there's this one shot where they shine a flashlight on a portrait of the woman who is supposed to haunt the room and it turns from a regular picture to being an actress who moves to look towards the characters, and that small bit of the episode gave me that same feeling that y'all described with other shows.

MAN BUTTER!!!