"Well, I don't know about you two, but I'm working up a thirst!"
Despite the lack of gore, the show (at least the ABC seasons) did manage to be extremely unsettling, especially for a children's show.
Warning: Here there be unmarked spoilers.
- The episode "Dead Men Don't Jump." The antagonist tricks protagonist Nathan into a basketball game, where if he loses, he becomes a zombie. Before that, we see a few of said antagonist's benched zombie victims, and it's not a pleasant sight. Thankfully, Nathan wins the game...
- One particularly creepy moment happens after the game is won. The two brothers and the manager celebrate, only for them to hear this persistent moaning. What makes it so unsettling is that all the shots of the stands and benches don't show anyone sitting there, but the moaning still occurs. The building starts to collapse soon afterwards.
- The episode "All The Gory Details," where the protagonists find a bunch of Frankensteins Monsters...who aren't that bad and just want to be left alone. However, it turns out that all the people of the small town are also the late Dr. Cromwell's creations... and at the end, it appears the sexist news reporter protagonist is forcibly made into one after he goes back to the hotel planning to reveal the existence of Cromwell’s creations to the world.
- "The Brothers Gruff" has a young boy named Eddie, who gets followed home by a troll. Not that scary when you're an adult, but absolutely terrifying when you watch it as a kid. At one point, the troll abducts Eddie's older brother, and forces Eddie to give him his hamster in exchange for said brother...only to reveal that he had no intention of keeping said deal. Sure, they manage to save Eddie's brother, but it's all kinds of fears in and of itself.
- The Reveal that Eugene the limo driver was the real vampire in “Fare Tonight”, punctuated by lots of nightmare inducing faces (like the one above).
- There's also how he pursues Camille and Mildred. It's not about keeping his secret; he's clearly enjoying hunting them, even passing up the incapacitated hunter to go after the girls instead.
- The existential horror of the episode, "Game Over." A pair of truant teenagers spend their days at the arcade. Then are hounded by game monsters. They wonder if this is some kinda Silent Hill karma or something, but brush it off, and think it must have something to do with the ozone layer or something. Then they fall into a room with no exits in the sewer, and are attacked by a grim reaper game monster, who deletes one of them. The last teen realizes with horror in his last moments that if the reaper is a game character... then so is he, just as he's deleted. Cut to some alien teens also playing hooky to play said video game, bragging about getting the video game humans. With the cycle repeating with a game monster reaching for the alien teens from behind.
- Many of the villains were out to murder the heroes, or had killed others before.
