History NightmareFuel / LooneyTunes

* "Porky's Bear Facts" is a ''Looney Tunes'' version of ''The Ant and The Grasshopper''. Porky and his dog work all Autumn to get some food in the house but his neighbor, the bear, is lazy and doesn't work at all. When Winter comes, Porky has plenty of food, but his neighbor has none. When the bear and his dog try to eat the last bean, a mouse ate it, causing the bear to burst into tears. The bear's dog tells the viewers that he wouldn't be surprised if his owner would [[EatTheDog try to eat him, then sees the bear looking at him with an evil scary look with a knife and fork in his paws]], advancing towards as the dog backs away in fear and pleads for him not to eat him! Luckily, they pass by Porky's house and Porky's willing to share his food.

* In the cartoon "His bitter half", the female duck that Daffy marries is downright abusive! Her bratty sociopathic son is much worse, Wentworth almost tries to kill Daffy with fireworks and his mother who is just as bad turns the other way and doesn't seem to care that her son is sociopathic.

* In "WesternAnimation/Hisbitterhalf" the female duck is downright abusive once Daffy marries this huge shrew of a duck! Her bratty sociopathic son is much worse, Wentworth almost tries to kill Daffy with fireworks and his mother who is just as bad turns the other way and doesn't seem to care that her son is sociopathic.

* ''Awful Orphan'': When Porky Pig finally gives in and lets Charlie the Dog stay, Charlie changes his mind and decides to leave because of Porky always fighting with his neighbors, but then Porky begins laughing evilly and ominously tells Charlie, "You're gonna stay alright! I'm gettin' to like you!" and walks towards Charlie with a Slasher Smile showing that he hasn't given in only to Charlie [[SanitySlippage but to insanity as well]].

* When Porky Pig finally gives in and lets Charlie the Dog stay, Charlie changes his mind and decides to leave because of Porky always fighting with his neighbors, but then Porky begins laughing evilly and ominously tells Charlie, "You're gonna stay alright! I'm gettin' to like you!" and walks towards Charlie with a Slasher Smile showing that he hasn't given in only to Charlie but to insanity as well.

* A scene from ''"Greedy for Tweety"'', in which Sylvester is given sleeping pills and as he opens his eyes as he goes to sleep, Hector the bulldog is [[LightFlickerTeleportation coming closer and closer]] wielding a baseball bat, and Sylvester not being able to move or react because he's doped up on pills. The final shot has him raising the bat and '''''THWACK!'''''

* The obscure Porky Pig short ''"Fish Tales"'' (1936, Jack King) is pretty unsettling when you're a kid. For those who haven't seen it, it involves fisherman Porky having a dream about getting caught by a family of talking fish who try to cook him alive in an oven.

* A third Dr. Jekyll influenced episode, ''Hyde and Go Tweet'' has Dr. Jekyll drinking the potion and then turning into Mr. Hyde, and Tweety (who is in the room with Sylvester) ends up getting exposed to the potion as well, (he hid in the bottle) turning him into this gigantic, frightening, and grotesque figure, which scares the daylights out of Sylvester. At random intervals, however, Tweety reverts back to normal and Sylvester chases after him again. Like Bugs, Sylvester fails to realize that Tweety and the monster he turns into are one and the same, and every time Tweety turns monstrous, Sylvester turns tail and flees. At one point, Sylvester decides to escape from the Tweety monster by ''jumping off the building to his death!'' Then, when Tweety is normal-sized, Sylvester grabs him and locks him in the room with him so he won't escape and the monster won't get in, making sure to throw away the key before making plans to finally eat his prey -- [[FromBadToWorse with disastrous results]]. It all turns out to be a DreamWithinADream, though, but Sylvester thinks it might actually happen at the end and comedically goes berserkers, in which two cats and Tweety himself consider acting strange.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBlowOut'' in and of itself is one of Creator/TexAvery's most unnerving and frightening cartoons. In it, a MadBomber who cackles like [[Film/{{TheWizardOfOz}} The Wicked Witch of the West]] has just gotten away with bombing a bank, and plots to detonate the whole city through something as inconspicuous as an alarm clock. Yes, the short does have a lot of gags that would later be used in Avery's other works like [[WesternAnimation/{{Droopy}} Northwest Hounded Police]] but the thing is, the bomber is far scarier than the wolf character from those cartoons could ever HOPE to be. Heck, he may be the scariest Looney Tunes villain ever.

%%* ''"WesternAnimation/PorkyInWackyland"'' can be a little ''too'' bizarre for some.

%%* The nightmare sequence from ''Fresh Airedale''. [[MadnessMantra "Number one dog. Number one dog. Number one dog."]]

* In ''Holiday for Drumsticks'', Daffy steals a [[ThanksgivingTurkey Thanksgiving turkey]]'s free food while serving as his weight-loss coach to ostensibly save him from the dinner table. On Thanksgiving Day the hillbilly farmer (Kurt Martin) who bought the turkey comes out with the axe, only to discover he's now skinny as a rail, while a rather naive Daffy shows off his new girth and says "[[TemptingFate Boy, it's a shame you can't eat duck for Thanksgiving]]!" To which the hillbilly flashes a gap-toothed SlasherSmile (while his eyes, which throughout most of the cartoon are just dots, suddenly go as wide as saucers) that straddles the thin line between Nightmare Fuel and SugarWiki/CrowningMomentOfFunny. Daffy replies, "[[OhCrap Or can ya]]?"

** Most of the cartoon straddles the line between NF and hilarity, especially when the [[DerangedAnimation deranged animator]] [[CosmicPlaything alters Daffy's body and surroundings on the fly]]. It's like a somewhat family-friendly version of ''Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream'' (and indeed, the animator cuts out the sound at one point!). Daffy shouting "[[RageAgainstTheHeavens WHO]] [[RageAgainstTheAuthor ARE YOU?!?]]" in anguish at the end may be the most existential moment in Looney Tunes history.

** A big offender is ''The Solid Tin Coyote'', about Wile E. constructing [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever a gigantic]] [[HumongousMecha mechanical coyote]]. Even the PerpetualSmiler Road Runner is actually scared! To make matters worse, with his giant robot, Wile E. actually succeeds in ''capturing the Road Runner!'' Unsurprisingly, however, Wile E.'s success is short-lived; when he commands the robot to eat the Road Runner, it eats ''Wile E.'' instead.

* ''WesternAnimation/ScaredyCat'' isn't particularly scary, as most of the stuff [[TheWoobie Sylvester]] goes through falls into the {{Amusing Injuries}} category ("And just ''what'' were you planning to do with that anvil?"). But there were two genuinely frightening parts: the first cat being led on the death march, which - of course - Porky doesn't notice (until he's on the receiving end, that is). Especially since [[KilledOffForReal we never see the cat again after the first scene]]. Then, Sylvester gets pulled downstairs and emerges [[ColorFailure white as a sheet]] [[NothingIsScarier and visibly shaken.]] [[FridgeHorror What the hell did the mice do to him?!]]

* In ''Holiday for Drumsticks'', Daffy steals a [[ThanksgivingTurkey Thanksgiving turkey]]'s free food while serving as his weight-loss coach to ostensibly save him from the dinner table. On Thanksgiving Day the hillbilly farmer (Kurt Martin) who bought the turkey comes out with the axe, only to discover he's now skinny as a rail, while a rather naive Daffy shows off his new girth and says "[[TemptingFate Boy, it's a shame you can't eat duck for Thanksgiving]]!" To which the hillbilly flashes a gap-toothed SlasherSmile (while his eyes, which throughout most of the cartoon are just dots, suddenly go as wide as saucers) that straddles the thin line between Nightmare Fuel and CrowningMomentOfFunny. Daffy replies, "[[OhCrap Or can ya]]?"

** The end of ''"Leghorn Swoggled"'' istead, has Foghorn Leghorn knocked unconscious (to the sound of a sputtering engine!) and dragged on a toy train into (presumably) Henery Hawk's oven.

* The end of ''"Leghorn Swoggled"'', where Foghorn Leghorn is knocked unconscious (to the sound of a sputtering engine!) and dragged on a toy train into (presumably) Henery Hawk's oven.

* In ''Holiday for Drumsticks'', Daffy steals a [[ThanksgivingTurkey Thanksgiving turkey]]'s free food while serving as his weight-loss coach to ostensibly save him from the dinner table. On Thanksgiving Day the hillbilly farmer who bought the turkey comes out with the axe, only to discover he's now skinny as a rail, while a rather naive Daffy shows off his new girth and says "[[TemptingFate Boy, it's a shame you can't eat duck for Thanksgiving]]!" To which the hillbilly flashes a gap-toothed SlasherSmile (while his eyes, which throughout most of the cartoon are just dots, suddenly go as wide as saucers) that straddles the thin line between Nightmare Fuel and CrowningMomentOfFunny. Daffy replies, "[[OhCrap Or can ya]]?"

* The climax of ''The Scarlet Pumpernickel'' is legitimately terrifying. The way the Grand Duke (Sylvester) creeps upon Melissa in the tower, intentions clearly vile with his EvilLaugh increasing in volume every step he takes. The poor duck scared out of her mind calling for the Scarlet Pumpernickel.

* ''Box Office Bunny'' ends with Daffy and Elmer getting trapped in a ''Film/FridayThe13th'' parody. It’s played as karmic justice, but seeing the pair banging on the screen and screaming to be let out is horrifying. Bugs watching them in the auditorium and cracking a joke at their expense doesn’t help.

** As if that wasn't bad enough, one Website/YouTube user named Dyron Williams made a now private video where he took the clip of the variant and made it worse, editing it to make the shield actually [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEF86hQ5tog zoom so close to the screen that it covers up the background]]! (Even worse, when the video has privated [[https://youtu.be/bUpMR-Hyhlw someone made a recreation of the video with a smoother animation]])
*** On a positive note, the renditions on the 2003-2004 shorts, the CGI [[Creator/ReelFXCreativeStudios Reel FX]] shorts and ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow'' are much tamer in comparison to the original.

* The ending of ''Dr. Devil and Mr. Hare'' was the most disturbing for any WesternAnimation/BugsBunny cartoon as his FrankensteinsMonster-like robot he created to beat up Taz then turns on him as Bugs wails with genuine terror, "No, no, no, not me, Frankie! Not me, Frankie! No, Frankie, No! No!" After getting [[BattleDiscretionShot a savage off-screen beating]], Bugs hobbles back on camera to ask [[IsThereADoctorInTheHouse if there's a doctor in the house]], which normally would've added some levity, but thanks to Bill Lava's horror movie-esque music (more on that later), it only makes it ''worse''. Compare to the ending in "Half-Fare Hare", which also ends with Bugs taking a beating (he accidentally hits his head and gets a series of [[CranialEruption head bumps]]), but thanks to the goofy music it's funny rather than off-putting.
* Sylvester's insomnia and ensuing nervous breakdown in ''WesternAnimation/BirdsAnonymous'' demonstrates a little too well the toll that withdrawal from an addiction can have on an addict's psyche and can border on psychological horror. Just look at the image used for this cartoon on this site!
* ''Hyde and Hare'' has Bugs Bunny brought home by Dr. Jekyll, who periodically transforms into a nightmarish green-skinned, messy-haired, [[RedEyesTakeWarning red-eyed]], AxCrazy monster. Bugs doesn't put two and two together that the kindly doctor and insane maniac are one and the same and, thus, constantly tries to save both himself and the doctor by barricading them in a room or arming Jekyll, [[FromBadToWorse to disastrous results.]] Then, to top it all off, Dr. Jekyll notices the container the transformation formula was in is empty and asks if Bugs drank it. Bugs, taken aback by the comment, decides to abandon Jekyll and go back to the park where he came from. Unbeknownst to himself, however, as he does so, Bugs turns into a hairy, green, red-eyed monster himself -- and ''still'' doesn't put two and two together that everyone is running away because of him!
-->'''Bugs:''' You'd think they never saw a rabbit before!

* A third Dr. Jekyll influenced episode, ''Hyde and Go Tweet'' has Dr. Jekyll drinking the potion and then turning into Mr. Hyde, and Tweety (who is in the room with Sylvester) ends up getting exposed to the potion as well, (he hid in the bottle) turning him into this gigantic, frightening, and grotesque figure, which scares the daylights out of Sylvester. At one point, Sylvester decides to escape from the Tweety monster by ''jumping off the building to his death!'' It all turns out to be a DreamWithinADream, though, but Sylvester thinks it might actually happen at the end and comedically goes berserkers, in which two cats and Tweety himself consider acting strange.

** The director's cut ending is arguably worse - instead of the dog shooting himself, Bugs ''shoots him at point-blank range!'' This ending was so disturbing that it was banned from theaters and television.