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  • At the end of his "Tonight..." review, after the credits, audio from a YouTube Poop (this one) of the Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode he referenced earlier is played over a black screen. It was later cut.
    "...And rape." *screaming* "...And rape. *more screaming* "...And rape."
    • The ending title card that replaced it played a line from "Escape" by Iglesias which implied it all the same: "You can run, you can hide, but you can't escape my love".
  • Near the end of his OHW video of Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me" wondering what happened to him.
    Todd: "No interviews, no 'where are they now's, no public appearances. Apparently he's trying to make sure, once and for all, nobody's watching him, or maybe.... they got him."
    • What makes this even more jarring is that the music subtly cuts out while he's talking about Rockwell's apparent disappearance.
  • Todd reaches the conclusion of his "Pop Song Chords" running gag in the "Counting Stars/Demons" review by screaming "AAAAAH!" with no warning.
  • His appearance in general is somewhat unsettling, of a shadowed man sitting at a piano. Some fans have taken to making fanart depicting Todd with a scythe.
  • Todd's piano cover of "Whip My Hair", which somehow turns a banal rap song into something out of an old horror movie. Immediately after performing it, he exclaims, "WHAT THE CRAP WAS THAT?!"
  • His review of "Pompeii" by Bastille uses gratuitous shots of the black-eyed people from said song's video. At the end, when it shows Bastille's frontman with black eyes, there's a brief period of silence before Todd says, "wait- he's an alien now?", which is a bit unsettling. In addition, there are images of real preserved corpses under lava when Todd talks about the city the song's name comes from.
  • When Todd points out how sad it is that "#RAPEY" had become a running joke on his show, it does actually point out something quite horrible and worrying about our culture and media.
  • Todd's "acid trip" caused by Beyonce's "Single Ladies" in the "Worst of 2009" video. His scared screaming sounds completely real.
  • In Todd's review of Dangerous Game, he notes that the parts where Madonna's character acts as a rape victim and discusses a harrowing experience with a rapist are Madonna's most eerily convincing performances in the movie. He then informs us that Madonna was molested when she was 19, a fact only revealed years after the film was made.
  • The title card for his "Tonight, Tonight" review, in which Todd is a giant Monster Clown threatening Hot Chelle Rae.
  • He listened to The Buoys' "Timothy" for the first time to make its One Hit Wonderland episode, and admits that even after all the hardcore shock rock he's heard in his life, this song made him physically nauseous with its frank depiction of cannibalism. And then he goes through the entirely understandable motivations of the singer and Joe:
    Todd: These two guys ate their fellow man, presumably a friend of theirs, and not because they were evil monsters, but they were in a desperate situation; they were starving; they had no choice! This could happen to you! You could have eaten Timothy. You could have been Timothy! This is really dark. He is in agony!
    • Once complaints about the song began pouring in, the band's record company tried to claim that Timothy was actually a mule, not a human. Todd points out that even if this was true (which, according to the song's writer, it isn't), this doesn't really make the song any better since Timothy still has a name, and the singer is still clearly distraught over what he and Joe may have done, especially since the singer can't remember what happened.
    • He also brings up the eerie parallels between the story of the song and the Sheppton Mine disaster (which, to be fair, the band and songwriter claim were coincidental.)
    • There's also something a little unsettling about the footage of Rupert Holmes explaining how he came up with the song: he was deliberately trying to invoke No Such Thing as Bad Publicity, and at the time he was working on an arrangement of a song called "Sixteen Tons" (which is about coal miners) while an episode of a cooking show called The Galloping Gourmet played in the other room. Because of this, Holmes took note of the lyric "Muscle and blood and skin and bones" from the song, and decided that it sounded like a recipe.
      Todd: No! No, it doesn't remotely! You're weird, man!

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