With Extreme Sports Comes Extreme Danger!
Extreme Sports for Kids can be pretty dangerous. Especially when they get hurt and or put in the middle of danger with no adult supervision!- You have a quartet of unsupervised children performing dangerous extreme stunts and sports which can and does get them injured or crippled. Especially when they go surfing without supervision and all of the kids have nearly drowned from a surfing wipe out at least once!
- "It Was a Dark and Stormy Night" is Played for Laughs, but it does have a few genuinely creepy moments, especially since the very premise of the episode is Sam believing (due to one Contrived Coincidence after another) that Tito has murdered Raymundo and is hiding his mangled corpse in the Shore Shack. It leads to an eerie atmosphere and some very spooky imagery. Even knowing it's all a misunderstanding, it's still pretty scary.
- Otto's nightmare of being chased by the trophy he cheated his way to receive in a luge race against Twister in Total Luger. The icing on the cake is easily the moment where Otto runs into multiple heads of Reggie saying "You can take a shortcut!" (referring to the illegal shortcut that Otto took in his desperation to beat Twister) right before Otto is crushed by the trophy. It's even eerier when Otto wakes up from his nightmare and you can still hear Reggie's final sentence echoing as it gradually fades away.
- "Kayaks Amok" has two very suspenseful moments:
- Once the fog of the open sea begins to wind around them and the four realize they're lost, they begin trying to find their way back to shore. However, they keep turning in circles and can't figure out where they are. If this wasn't bad enough, Twister sees the fin of a shark begin to circle them. It turns out to be dolphins, but just imagine if it hadn't been...
- As the kids begin to follow a ship they think is going back to shore, they soon realize they have no way of knowing if it's going to shore or out to sea, meaning they're back at square one. Suddenly, the waves begin to shuffle a bit, then a loud sound echoes around them, and from right in front of them a gigantic vessel is speeding its way towards them. By the grace of God they manage to escape being ran over, but the idea of your kids being trapped in the open sea where large ships are blissfully unaware they're right beneath them must be truly horrifying.
- Bruised Man's Curve has a couple.
- First is Otto's nightmare, in which he dreams of himself skating down a mountain during night time and the mountain becomes steeper and steeper until it turns completely upside down, causing Otto to fall into the darkness of oblivion down below.
- The other is his Imagine Spot before he prepares to skate down the mountain, where he sees the bottom of the mountain morph into Lars' face, with Lars mocking him in a powerful, booming, gruff voice: "Is the wittle kiddie scared... ABOUT THE WHOMPING HE'S GONNA GET DOWN BRUISED MAN'S CURVE?!!"
- The episode Hurricane Maurice has Otto and Twister being faced with the high possibility of drowning or being crushed underneath the destroyed pier. Their audible screams of terror at nearly dying are unsettling. It was a good thing they apparently didn't stray far from the shelter or they might not have been rescued in time. It only goes to show that how dangerous it is to leave a shelter during a hurricane. Both kids' parents are frighteningly pissed at them for being borderline Too Dumb to Live (as they had ventured out to retrieve a camcorder — remember, no expensive piece of technology is worth your goddamn life) when they're rescued.
- Sam's fear of the "Sky Torpedo" is presented as irrational, but his fear is completely plausible considering he is riding in a poorly maintained theme park ride and real life amusement park rides have gone wild and killed parkgoers. He even envisions himself going on the ride and dying when it goes haywire
. - Lars thinking Twister had died from falling into a gorge and drowning. Despite all his bullying he admits he loves and cherishes his younger brother, reacting in despair and horror at the thought of him being harmed. The thought of one's sibling dying in a playful adventure gone wrong is pretty bad.
- During a snorkeling adventure with sea turtles in Island of Menehune, Otto gets pulled deeper underwater while on a turtle during a storm and nearly drowns. Reggie swims down and saves Otto from drowning, but a large wave sinks Otto and Reggie to the bottom! If not for their father appearing to save them, the two would have died!
- Later, the Rocket family visits the Pipeline and Raymundo declares a well-informed refusal to let his kids surf near it. Otto and Reggie rebelliously decide to surf the Pipeline on their own and the siblings get washed into a shoreside cave in a scenario eerily reminiscent of a well-publicized January 1993 incident. Raymundo goes in after them, but is trapped as well, with the family only surviving being drowned in a cave with the help of Twister. Becomes even more nightmarish when you realize that Otto and Reggie's mother and Raymundo's wife died in a surfing accident, and all three remaining Rockets nearly died the same way.
- Later, the Rocket family visits the Pipeline and Raymundo declares a well-informed refusal to let his kids surf near it. Otto and Reggie rebelliously decide to surf the Pipeline on their own and the siblings get washed into a shoreside cave in a scenario eerily reminiscent of a well-publicized January 1993 incident.
- The climax of "Otto's Big Air Dare" acts as a proper payoff to all of the inherent worries that comes with having kids who engage in extreme sports. After being told several times to stay away from the big air jump intended for adults, the kids disobey and try to ride it anyway. While Twister and Sam skip out entirely and Reggie has the sense to bail before anything bad happens, Otto actually goes through with it and experiences one of the single most brutally depicted wipeouts in the entire series. While Ray was able to catch wind of what the kids were up to, he's too late to stop them and arrives to the sight of his youngest kid writhing and groaning in pain with a broken leg, unable to do anything but drape his coat over him and wait for help to arrive.
