History NightmareFuel / TheNewAdventuresOfWinnieThePooh

** The story begins with Christopher Robin and the gang staying up to watch a "slusher" film. We don't see what the film involves, but everything from Tigger's description and the gang's nervous reactions indicates they're watching a '''''slasher''''' film in the vein of ''Film/FridayThe13th''! Granted, [[MoodWhiplash Tigger complains the villain is only using a butter knife]], but it's still unnerving to imagine characters as innocent as Pooh and Piglet being exposed to something like that.

* In "No Rabbit's a Fortress," Rabbit tries to make a giant tower to protect his garden, but accidentally seals himself inside it [[AndIMustScream with no way out]]. The second Rabbit [[OhCrap realizes his mistake]], he immediately begins freaking out, even crying out "I'll starve!"
* From "Tigger Is The Mother Of Invention," the destruction of Tigger's enormous implied-to-be-sentient wooden contraption. After [[HeroicSacrifice it damages itself beyond repair to dig Piglet out of his snow-buried house,]] It expands and contracts violently with [[HellIsThatNoise increasingly high-pitched and pained wheezing noises, before completely smashing itself apart with a loud shriek.]] This isn't helped by Tigger's heartbroken reaction afterward; [[HeroicBSOD staring at the remains in horror]] as if he's just watched someone close to him die.
-->'''Tigger''': M-my invention is... (''chokes up'') g-gone.

** The story begins with Christopher Robin and the gang staying up to watch a "slusher" film. We don't see what the film involves, but everything from Tigger's description and the gang's nervous reactions indicates they're watching a '''''slasher''''' film in the vein of ''Film/FridayThe13th''! Granted, Tigger complains the villain is only using a butter knife, but it's still unnerving to imagine characters as innocent as Pooh and Piglet being exposed to something like that.

* "The Masked Offender" has a pretty terrifying climax where the fake-offender hurls the heroes off a rackety bridge, only for the bridge to capsize as the heroes begin to slowly fall into a gorge with no means of escape. Rabbit's desperate screams sum it up.
---> '''Rabbit''': Help somebody! HELP!!!

* The entirety of the episode titled "Sorry, Wrong Slusher", is one of the most uncomfortably bizarre and darkest in terms of both theme and atmosphere. We all know the titular 'Slusher', like most predators in the cast's worries, is completely imaginary, like the Heffalumps (from the book) or the 'Jagulars' and 'Spookabibbles'. But the slusher is actually based, at least in part, on a medley of very real intimidating things: First, Tigger is watching with Christopher Robin a nice spine tingling slusher (aka '''Slasher''') film. We don't ever see what is on tv, but the eerie noises that play during it, the lack of being able to see them, and Piglet, Pooh and even Christopher Robin's very nervous reactions show that it is enough to make at least 2-10 year olds worry about it...(even if Tigger says the villain is only holding a butter knife, so it's probably an old corny B-movie.) The other stuff that adds fuel to this idea of a 'slusher' coming to get them is the barking of just a 'huge horrible hungry dog', and the yelling neighbor man next door who Tigger prank calls by mistake and threatens to call the police. Like all adults he is entirely faceless, but we ''do'' see him as a menacing silhouette in the window. He's probably the angriest character we've ever see in the whole canon. Finally, we get a nice jump scare shot with the dog's snarling reveal, the whole gang gets arrested, and even after it's all revealed a dream (Or was it?), we get struck with a Gainax Ending. The whole mood of the episode is very tense, beyond surreal, and dark in color, so it feels very much like a very typical bad dream one might have as a kid. Tigger and the other characters are more oblivious or mean-spirited in some ways than usual, including Christopher Robin. At some point Piglet who is being used as bait is so frightened he almost goes catatonic, simply frozen and staring ahead in space and stammering broken syllables in terror. And there is no point where he shakes himself out of it and grows brave for his friends. Instead he is nudged by Eeyore, which startles him so badly he just screams his poor head off and runs crying for Pooh into the darkness.
** Anytime Eeyore yells in fear in this episode, it comes across as quite frightening. In every adaption of Winnie the Pooh, we've really never heard or seen Eeyore experience any emotion other than depression, indifference, or occasionally gratitude, so hearing him yell "SLUSHER!" with genuine fright in his voice is very unexpected and scary.

* The recurring crows that pester Rabbit are usually portrayed as goofy tricksters who just want to steal food and have some occasional PetTheDog moments. No so the crows in "A Very, Very Large Animal". They're bigger and a ''lot'' meaner, essentially being violent bullies who have no qualms about shoving other animals off of food they want, and their actions are framed a lot more seriously and with a considerable air of menace. Even Rabbit, who normally has no qualms about chasing pests off his crops, is shown to be visibly frightened of these birds.

* The large crows from "A Very Very Large Animal" are downright cruel compared to the small crows in other episodes; in fact, they make the small crows look like saints in comparison. At least, the small crows are comical harmless villains and tricksters to only want to steal food but the large crows are such evil bullies that not only they steal food but also they try to hurt Piglet as well. In the beginning, when Piglet tried to get the sausages back from one of them the crow snaps the sausages causing Piglet to fall, and would have been injured if Tigger hadn't gotten that cake out when he did. Near the end, Piglet thinking he's a large animal now (thanks to his friends) sees the crows eating corn from Rabbit's garden, he goes over to them to stop them and takes away the corn from the crows, telling them to leave Rabbit's garden alone. The crows' eyes turned demonic red and they laughed evilly as they attack Piglet. After the big ball of violence clears up the crows were in the pile but then one of the crows, presumably their leader walks toward Piglet ready to pound him, causing Piglet to run away as fast as he could, which looks like it was a smart move. Earlier when Piglet was about to confront the large crows Rabbit yells no to Piglet to not get involved. The crows are so mean that even Rabbit is afraid of them and for Piglet's safety. It's good thing Piglet ran away when he did -- imagine what would've happened if he had stay there.

* The vacuum cleaner/dragon from "Babysitter Blues", along with Kanga's {{adult fear}} of child abduction.

** Tigger and Kessie wind up trapped on a ''very'' tall tree, which then topples off the side of a cliff, leaving them dangling hundreds of feet off the ground with neither of them able to fly (Kessie may be a bird, but she's too young). Kessie's screams reach Rabbit and [[PapaWolf bring him running]] and he crawls out onto the tree despite his outright ''phobia'' of heights, Tigger swings Kessie to him- ''and then she falls anyway'' because they can't hang on to each other. Sure Owl shows up for a timely rescue, but this scene was surprisingly AdultFear-ish for such a cute show.

* "Luck Amok": One of the scariest moments in the series came when Piglet is sealed in a "safety shelter" for 7 years so his bad luck won't hurt him or anyone else. That's already scary enough [[FridgeHorror if you think about it]], but the real fright comes when lightning strikes the shelter almost immediately (thanks to [[WhatAnIdiot a lightning rod Tigger foolishly placed on the top]]) and destroys the entire shelter, leaving only Piglet left, who is so traumatized by the whole experience, he is left catatonic and whimpering with a terrified look on his face until the others assure him there's no problem. The fact that the lightning strike is accompanied by a terrifying ScareChord only makes it more terrifying.

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** The very first scene of the episode opens with Christopher Robin, Pooh, Piglet, and Tigger running for their lives in some sort of dark laboratory from some chasing them while growling the whole time. Yes, that's the very first thing kids tuning into the show for the first time were greeted with: seeing the main characters scared out of their minds and fleeing from some unseen danger. While it turns out to just be an ImagineSpot Christopher is having, [[EstablishingSeriesMoment it perfectly sets the tone for the show]] that it's going to be a bit darker than previous Pooh works by Disney.

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** The one-shot villain Crud (pictured above), a huge blob of slime who lives under Christopher Robin's bed. Jim Cummings uses the exact same voice he would later use for Robotnik in ''WesternAnimation/SonicSatAM''.

* The NightmareDreams had by Piglet and Pooh in "There's No Camp Like Home" and "Balloonatics", respectively.