History NightmareFuel / HeyArnold

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[[caption-width-right:250:'''Who knew that Arnold’s cousin could be so secretly frightening!?''']]

* There is a brief one in "Helga and the Nanny," in Helga's guilt-laden dream where she meets the recently fired nanny in the park. Towards the end, Inge is reduced to fighting for scraps with pigeons because she can't find a job.

*** That bear gets even more disturbing when you remember Helga implied to do animal sacrifices for Arnold...
** This is more of a Nausea Fuel than Nightmare Fuel, but since her dreamy sighs sound a lot like TheModestOrgasm and her poem in "Helga's Parrot" could pretty much be titled "Arnold Makes Me Horny", it makes you wonder just how innocent Helga's intentions are, especially disturbing since she's only nine.

* "Part Time Friends". Arnold and Gerald work together at a flower shop with Gerald being the boss since the owner injured her leg and appointed him as the temporary manager. After Arnold gets into a fight with Gerald and says that he doesn't want to be friends with him any more, he returns home and his Grandpa tells him over a game of checkers about a similar incident that happened to him when he was Arnold's age, as well as the dangers of holding grudges. Arnold then falls asleep mid-game and has a dream where he and Gerald are old and still fighting, and they can't even remember what they were fighting about in the first place. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRGogGbYaLU The dream takes a turn for the disturbing]] when Arnold's grandpa speaks up, now immensely old, withering and almost zombie-like. He says "Well, what did I tell ya, Shortman?" with a layering effect to his voice while ominous strings music plays. He then laughs ''hysterically'', only for his ''jaw to crack and fall off his skull, leaving the top of his head floating in midair''.

** It's rather unnerving when Helga is reciting her poem at night, and the camera zooms in on the parrots eye while it dilates.

* While Curly's character can come off more as AffablyEvil at times, He really goes off the deep end at times and has cemented himself in the eyes of many viewers as a seriously disturbed, troubled, and possibly insane individual. Remember the episode where he snapped simply because Mr. Simmons made an honest mistake in not picking him as the ball monitor and he locked himself in Principal Wartz's office while throwing balls at people? Hmm, doesn't that instance come off as a little too close to a school shooter?
** There was also the episode "Principal Simmons", where Mr. Simmons becomes principal of the school but fails at it because he refuses to punish students and every student in the school save Arnold disregards authority and totally trashes the school. Mr Simmons enters his office to find Curly strapped to a fire extinguisher which he promptly ignites and goes flying out the window as if it were a jetpack. How the hell did he survive a flight out a five story window at that velocity without any injury?!
** Curly casually mentions in one episode to Rhonda that he hadn't changed his underwear in five weeks. He promptly then asks her for a kiss.....yeah, nothing strange about that at all.
** And of course in the episode where everyone, but Arnold is invited to Rhonda's "cool kids" party and they decide what to do to get even with Rhonda. Curly's response? Paint themselves with tiger stripes and go free all the animals at the zoo. His peers....react to this as any sane person would. Funny thing is at the end of the episode, Curly is seen painted in tiger stripes and riding a giraffe with a legion of animals on streets....
*** And earlier in the episode when Eugene says that [[LiteralMinded none of them qualify as "geeks" because they don't bite the heads off of chickens]]...except for Curly. And Curly replies it was "just the one time". Curly ''bit off'' a chicken's head!
** Despite much of the sympathy in the episode Curly's Girl being directed at Curly himself, he still blackmailed Rhonda into being his girlfriend for a week. Add that to the disturbing infatuation he has about her and one has to wonder what it would have like had they been just a little older.
** Considering that leaking nudes, whether it be carelessly sharing them after gaining someone's trust without really knowing the consequences or purposeful sextortion, is a hot topic nowadays, this will probably hit a nerve with some people who have been blackmailed with "pictures" in order to do ''more'' for someone (and in Curly's case, it's definitely a metaphor for sextortion).

* In the episode "Mugged", Arnold was robbed by a local hoodlum in the opening of the episode. There was nothing cartoony about the scene, it was a terrifyingly accurate portrayal of a person being put in that situation. Also counts as AdultFear and RealismInducedHorror, as this could happen to ''anyone'' like it did Arnold.

* In "Arnold's Halloween", the kids dress like aliens...and [[GoneHorriblyRight end up being mistaken for actual aliens]], leading to an angry mob chasing them. They try to remove the alien makeup to quell the mob, but the makeup won't come off. When the mob accidentally succeeds in removing their makeup (by destroying a water tower believed to be an alien saucer and raining water down on the "aliens"; turns out the makeup is water-soluble), Bob, who tried to crush Helga's head, is [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone horrified]] that [[AdultFear he nearly killed his own daughter]].

*** And earlier in the episode when Eugene said something in the lines of nobody biting the heads off chickens, except for Curly. And Curly replied it was the one time. Curly ''bit off'' a chicken's head!

** Even worse, Helga was preparing herself to kill the parrot with a chainsaw in the beginning. The only reason she didn't was because it escaped.

* "Part Time Friends". Arnold and Gerald work together at a flower shop with Gerald being the boss since the owner injured her leg and appointed him as the temporary manager. After Arnold gets into a fight with Gerald and says that he doesn't want to be friends with him, Arnold's Grandpa tells him about a similar incident that happened to him when he was Arnold's age. Arnold then begins to have a dream where he and Gerald are old, still former friends, and can't remember what they were fighting about. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRGogGbYaLU The dream takes a turn for the disturbing]] when it cuts to ''the old, withered, zombie corpse of Arnold's Grandpa'' where he says "Well, what did I tell ya, Shortman?" while some ominous music plays. He then proceeds to laugh in a ''really, '''creepy''' way'', only for his ''jaw to crack and fall off his skull''.

* In the episode "Mugged", Arnold was robbed by a local hoodlum in the opening of the episode. There was nothing cartoony about the scene, it was a terrifyingly accurate portrayal of a person being put in that situation.

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[[caption-width-right:313: Well, it wasn't like Cousin Arnie was creepy enough already. [[spoiler:Good thing it was AllJustADream.]]]]

* Arnold starting a RIOT in the middle of a heat wave! That's right, cool as a cucumber Arnold, aggravated by heat and unable to get ice cream starts chanting "No ice cream! No peace!" things escalate until an angry mob has the Jolly Olly Man's ice cream truck surrounded and one of them screams to flip it! The fact that this is a reference to ''Film/DoTheRightThing''doesn't help matters.