Nightmare Fuel / Best of the Worst

• Wheel of the Worst #11 may be the creepiest episode they've ever done, thanks to the one-two punch of How To Seduce Women Through Hypnosis and How To Get Revenge:
  • How To Seduce Women Using Hypnosis has such strong rape overtones that the crew unanimously voted to burn the tape after voting. Of particular note is the part where the video encourages the would be hypnotist to lock the doors and disconnect the phone, which they interpret as preventing the victim from escaping. The tape turned out to be softcore porn for hypno-fetishists.
  • The main point of How To Get Revenge is to encourage "pranks" that range from dickish to illegal to potentially deadly. The Disproportionate Retribution the video suggests inflicting on people includes sending a fake death certificate for the target to the government with the intention of destroying their lives, framing them for armed robbery, and tampering with their car's gas tank. While these suggestions were apparently meant to be a joke, the video simply doesn't play it with anywhere near enough humor to come across as one, and they point out that even if it was only a joke, these "pranks" really could be used on somebody just to be a dick.
  • How to Get Revenge also features a former private eye who wished to have his face blurred to hide his identity. The pixelating effect blurs his face so it can't be recognized, but not enough to prevent the human brain from registering it as a face, creating an Unintentional Uncanny Valley effect. The crew finds it so horrifying that they devote several minutes to explaining why it's so disturbing.
• Rainbow's Remedy. The combination of Rainbow the Clown's ineptly done clown makeup, the poor quality of the tape, and bad cinematography sometimes makes her face look like it's rotting off her skull.
• While watching Raiders of Atlantis, which is nominally a straight action film, we get a shot of a swaying, hanged corpse draped in a bloody sheet, while a cheerful-sounding tune repeatedly skips on a nearby record player. The crew doesn't have any joke for this, with Jay simply going "That's kinda creepy." Not hard to see why, when you learn that the movie was directed by Ruggero Deodato, the same guy behind Cannibal Holocaust and many other horror films.
• During the screening of Neil Breen's Pass Thru, they come to admit that despite how Giftedly Bad his movies are, they actually are kind of creeped out by the disturbing implications some of his writing raises, which they call "unfocused crazy" and compare to the sort of notes a teacher would report a student for, fearing they might shoot up the school someday. Part of the plot of Pass Thru involves Breen's Messianic Archetype Author Avatar wiping out all people in society with any level of power or influence, killing 300 million people, committing smaller scale domestic terrorism, and in the news segment toward the end, delivering a long, rambling Author Filibuster that appears to be encouraging real life people to rise up against their governments the same way. They even directly compare his rant to a terrorist's manifesto and conclude that there is no way Breen isn't on a watch-list somewhere.
• At the end of episode 89, Mike and Jay decide to destroy "Max Magician and the Legend of the Rings" by smashing it with a sledgehammer, on the grounds that the tape didn't even work. Mike goes to grab the sledgehammer, passing by the Plinketto board in the process... only to discover something on the back of it that genuinely horrifies him. Namely, the Wheel of the Worst.^note At the end of the 20th Wheel of the Worst, Mike and Rich had decided to destroy "Energy & Me" by dropping a safe on it with rope... only to realize after the fact that they had put the tape on the "Wheel of Misfortune".
  Jay: What is it?
  Mike: (terrified) You wanna see?
  Jay: ...what? (Mike steps behind the Plinketto board) ...what?
  Mike: (begins spinning the Plinketto board around...)
  Jay: (realizes what Mike had seen) Oh, no... No, no, NO!
  Mike: (...revealing an amalgamation of all three Wheels now attached to its back)
• Though Fire Safety for Kids markets Hector the Smoke Detector as its lead, the true star and source of horror is Beasel the Easel, an anthropomorphic easel with brushes for hands and a head, along with facepaint and a very unsettling smile. The group spend some time debating whether she's more or less terrifying than the above Rainbow the Clown.
• “Surviving Edged Weapons” is hilarious to watch but becomes pure nightmare fuel when you realize police have watched this video and been trained that anyone could be carrying a weapon and could stab them at any time. As Mike and Rich point out in the video, no wonder so many police end up shooting unarmed people. Even worse? It isn’t hard to find comments from law enforcement officers on RLM’s comment section noting that this isn’t an atypical video, and many police training videos are full of the same level of paranoia.

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