Line #38 NightmareFuel/TheMarvelousMisadventuresOfFlapjack


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5	We bet you weren't surprised upon clicking/tapping on this. This show is well known for its memorably scary moments and its humor which is intermingled with lots of bizarre, unnerving elements. As Thurop said it best in the main page quote, his favorite types of comedy are the types "that make you feel a bit uncomfortable [[MoodWhiplash and then hit you with a great joke]]" -- but let's not forget that [[NightmareFuel they make you uncomfortable first]].
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8	* In general, Thalassophobia. You fear sea monsters? Fear being far away from home? Fear how big and empty the ocean feels? Hell, maybe you just fear water itself. Then this cartoon [[NightmareFetishist may]] or may not be for you!
9	* This show is pretty much "make the audience laugh and then terrify them" and Candy Wife stood out as a particularly creepy case.
10	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TuPQHxA0TVI The cat]] which provides our [[SarcasmMode lovely]] page image. ''"Eeeeeeuuuuhhhhh..."''
11	* The character Dr. Barber. Here's an explanation: being in a show that has horror trappings not unlike ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' combined with the surreal humor of ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'' and the disgusting imagery of ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow,'' he's one of the scariest characters there. Plus, he's involved in most of the scary scenes of the show-- like the freak-out scene from "K'nuckles and His Hilarious Problem", "Fish Heads", and "K'nuckles is a Dirty Rat".
12	** There is the time when Flapjack barges into Doctor Barber's place, while he is treating a patient in a darkly-lit room. Doctor Barber turns around and his face is covered in a red, thick, gross-looking substance that makes viewers think of one thing. [[NightmareRetardant And then he reveals that this thing is actually strawberry-jam and even politely offers Flapjack some.]]
13	** The episode "Fish Heads" has the K'nuckles and Flapjack selling hundreds of fishheads [[NauseaFuel for various purposes such as toothpaste]]. Then, when Doctor Barber gets a hold of the two's fish heads, he creates 3 giant hair...fish...things with ungodly BodyHorror and inhuman screams which were supposed to give everyone perfect haircuts, but instead gave them horrible haircuts. That's not all. They're a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjR6MCtEjag lot scarier in action.]]
14	** Almost all of " K'nuckles Is a Dirty Rat" is nightmare fuel. What with all [[GrotesqueGallery the extremely detailed, extremely grotesque, plague-infested citizens]] (not to mention [[ShownTheirWork the unbelievably accurate portrayal of the disease]] and the extremely graphic BodyHorror that looks like something from a Creator/HPLovecraft story, any of the works of Creator/JunjiIto or even any of the monsters of ''Franchise/SilentHill''), Dr. Barber, and the random song about giving someone the plague just because they won't be friends with you.
15	** The acid trip-like sequence K'nuckles has in "K'nuckles and His Hilarious Problem". K'nuckles has also pulled plenty of [[NightmareFace nightmare faces]] in the episode.
16	--->'''Candy Wife:''' "I'm delicioussssssss." shudders
17	* In the episode "Skooled", from the very start, you get to see a bunch of leftover limbs inside Eight-Armed Willy's mouth. While not bloody, these limbs are still fresh and only got their outer bones visible.
18	** It gets worse, K'nuckles gets into [[PunnyName Ms. Leading]]'s school during night to steal some candy. When he sees her, he thinks she just uses silent treatment, but then realizes that she's a puppet (Ironically saying "I feel mis... lead!") as well as her students. Then, tentacles appear from the ground and grab hold of Ms. Leading and her students, which start to talk to him in a creepy innocent voice.
19	** [[FromBadToWorse It STILL gets worse]], when Flapjack arrives to school, the teacher says that today she will teach them about '''FEAR''' with a [[NightmareFace slightly nightmarish face]] and creepy deep voice. K'nuckles, full of fear, writes to Flapjack but the teacher intervenes and reads it, in which case '''IT''' goes in a total rage full of twitchy movement and environmental colour change. '''Then a tentacle breaks her whole face and body.''' Good thing it was just a puppet.
20	** [[NightmareRetardant Oh, don't worry!]] It was not Eight-Armed Willy, it was Ms. Leading herself dressed as Eight-Armed Willy! K'nuckles and Flapjack get candy after learning which is right and which is left.
21	* Bubbie's GrossUpCloseUp of her face with the barnacles in "Snarked".
22	* In "Foot Burn" an old hag shouts at Knuckles causing his face to rip off. The results are very detailed.
23	** Some of Knuckles faces are no better.
24	** The hag herself is also pretty disturbing.
25	** We don't even want to talk about Willy ripping Knuckles' feet off.
26	* "WESSSSSSSTTTTTT..."
27	** The creepy imagery of "How The West Was Fun". Vast, endless ocean, sea monsters, and finally, the disturbing segment at the end where Flapjack and K'nuckles plummet off the ends of the earth. The animation switches to black and red, and becomes distinctly surreal as the two scream in terror as they're swept away into the dark, unknown country. Thankfully, its only a hallucination brought on by drinking sea water. They're really just freaking out on a raft, and are saved by Bubbie.
28	* The sight of Flapjack cheerily ''tying knots in Bubbie's intestines'' in preparation for the Knot Tying Festival in they appropriately named ''Knot Funny'' story. The fact that everyone treats it so lightly just adds to the MindScrew factor.
29	** The same episode has K'nuckles telling a story about a sailor he knew once who cursed at the sea for drenching him with a surprise wave, and as punishment, the ocean filled his mouth with jellyfish which ended up ''fusing his mouth together''.
30	* "Pun Times with Punsy [=McHale=]" has a scene where he scares Flapjack by telling him puns [[NightmareFace as his head enlarges and turns to all the colors of the rainbow]], complete with him shouting louder and louder, his eyes bulging out madly, his [[ScaryTeeth teeth becoming razor-sharp]] in addition to his SlasherSmile, and of course, his voice becoming increasingly more demonic to the very point it sounds like ''Satan himself'', and all of this shown with an ExtremeCloseUp of his face! That's right, this show made ''puns'' scary.
31	-->'''Punsy:''' You think you're RED-y for my rhymes? You'll soon be GREEN as envious limes!\
32	'''Flapjack:''' Uh...\
33	'''Punsy:''' I see you're not YELLOW, fellow, ''but I don't want to make you BLUE, SO GET A CLUE, AND '''PURPLE THE PLUG BEFORE YOU'RE PLAID, OR I'LL ORANGE A RAINBOW ON YOUR PARADE!'''''\
34	'''Flapjack:''' ''(understandably horrified)'' You've got colourful language, but... I'm a sandwich. ''(faints)''
35	* That mechanical genie... He both looks and behaves rather disturbing, especially with his bright red eyes and human-level sapience despite not even being an actual living person. And then it turns out he is just a toy, controlled by a giant, disturbing, and scarily intelligent baby that proceeds to [[AndIMustScream subject Flapjack and K'nuckles to an eternity of playing games with him]], even showing the skeleton of the last person to wind up like that.
36	* In the episode "Oh Brother", [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHyU0craHKg there is a scene]] where Flapjack tells a presumably young boy to grow up. After the boy tells Flapjack he is 38 years old, we get a close-up of his wrinkled face. His expression immediately cuts from a somewhat-happy face to an expression of desolation as a disturbing instrumental plays in the background. The same scene is also shown at the end of the same episode.
37	* In "Panfake" Peppermint Larry uses DEAD RATS as puppets! While Flapjack and K'nuckles are helping Peppermint Larry by cleaning out the Candy Barrel, Flapajck stumbles upon an old box, Larry remembers that the box has his old puppets in them so he pulls them out to show him. When he pulls them out, Flapjack just flops to the floor screaming in terror. From a distance they look like rubber cartoon rat puppets, then Larry has to use them to point out they're puppets and we clearly see they're dead rats tied to strings! "shudders" [[JerkassHasAPoint No WONDER the Dock hag shut him down!]]
38	** A subtle but terrifying detail is that at first Larry voices each puppet one at a time. Then he somehow voices both puppets ''simultaneously''. Either he is the greatest ventriloquist of all time or the puppets can really speak.
39	* The "Blood Gnats" from the "Love Bugs" are very repulsive.
40	* The episode "No Syrup for old Flapjacks" where they go to Syrup Island, which they discover to be dark, covered in a strange green mist, and completely deserted, aside from a withered old man named Lord Hotcake who they find in a decrepit old cabin. He claims that all his workers mysteriously disappeared when the mist rolled in (though the scariness subsides when he states that the mist is actually the noxious cologne of an unpleasant German). However, the episode quickly becomes scary again when K'nuckles and Flapjack helps the old man recover his strength by making him some syrup, and he suddenly turns on them and reveals that the reason all his workers left was because he wouldn't pay them, and he's just been waiting for people to show up looking for syrup so he can ''enslave'' them.
41	* Gone Wishin' has the mermaid that decays over time from K'nuckles wishing, and then her horrifying transformation sequence.
42	** Though also funny there's also the Sky Maid's parting speech to Flapjack.
43	-->'''Sky Maid:''' So never stop wishing Flapjack, and ''all'' your dreams will come true!\
44	'''Flapjack:''' ...Even the scary ones?\
45	'''Sky Maid:''' giggles '''[[VoiceOfTheLegion YES]].'''
46	* The episode "Fancy Pants". In order to get into Peppermint Larry's VIP section of the Candy Barrel, Captain K'nuckles has to get a pair of fancy pants. But since K'nuckles is... well, K'nuckles (i.e., dirt poor), he can't buy a pair. However, there is a free pair, but you have to be incredibly obese to wear them. While trying to figure out a way to gain enough weight, Flapjack suggests to K'nuckles that he should eat a ton instantly fattening "candy-coated hot dogs". Seeing K'nuckles eat the food is bad enough, but what comes at the end of episode is even more horrible and [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment completely out of left field]]. K'nuckles finally gets into the V.I.P. section, but all of a sudden, ''[[PopGoesTheHuman he explodes,]] filling the place with a billion hotdogs and [[{{Gorn}} a sea of BLOOD.]]''
47	* "Unhappy Endings" has a scene where Flapjack and K'nuckles decide to hear a story from Dr. Barber. Dr. Barber tells the story of how they actually want surgery, where he gives them his tea and they go to sleep. And when they wake up...'''[[BodyHorror SURGERY]]'''.
48	* The grown men pretending to still be children at the Stormalong Orphanage.
49	** [[ShoutOut She's heeeeeeeeere]]... To elaborate the orphanage manager gets scared out of her wits knowing that Bubbie is coming to take Flap back and through her point of view even his enthusiastic exclamation makes him look deformed and threatening.
50	* When Colonel the dog from "Rye Ruv Roo" after much effort manages to impress K'nuckles, he in turn displays one of his trademark deformed faces that manage to be both hilariously over-the-top and just plain overkill.
51	* "Tee Hee Tummy Tums":
52	** There's an old basin in Stormalong where people leave pieces of candy as offerings, and the next day, combs will have mysteriously appeared inside. No one knows who or what leaves them there, despite the basin having been there as long as anyone can remember. Flapjack is of course completely enthralled by the idea of this mysterious "Comb Stranger" (who he imagines as a benevolent, Santa Claus-like figure) and decides to hide by the basin all night to see him.
53	** First, his sleep deprivation makes him imagine a disturbing, live-action moon invite him for "moon tea", and when he falls asleep, he dreams of the Comb Stranger giving him a comb, only for it to take a horrific turn when the Stranger tells him [[SurprisinglyCreepyMoment he'll need it to comb all the bugs out of his hair]], with Flapjacks hair suddenly teeming with insects. What makes it worse is his utterly demonic NightmareFace while watching this and especially, the truly chilling EvilLaugh he makes during the whole scenario!
54	** Flapjack wakes up from his nightmare, only to notice a strange, gangly figure appear from the shadows and leave combs in the basin, taking the candy in return. On closer inspection, the figure is wearing a sack-cloth mask with a bizarre face drawn on it but thankfully, he turns out to be harmless, as he is the titular Tee Hee, who exchanges combs for candy at night to feed his family. The mask is to hide his face which turns out to be supernaturally beautiful.
55	* The moon-face reappears for a moment in "Lost at Land" and remains super creepy.
56	-->'''The Moon:''' (laughs) That's not an island...
57	* The [[GiantCrab giant crab]] that tries to eat K'nuckles in "My Guardian Angel Is Killing Me". In all but one scene, it is drawn pretty realistically and is genuinely intimidating as a result, and in the one other scene, it suddenly displays on the screen as a very horrifying claymation-like figure [[ScareChord with music to match]], several times.

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