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* The Sinister Snowman. This special can genuinely scare kids.
** It's like if Clayface and Snow Miser had a child! And then it got taken over by Film/{{the Thing|1982}}.
* A more minor instance, but the elves in their frozen form on the Christmas glockenspiel are pretty creepy-looking.