History NightmareFuel / ToddInTheShadows

* In Todd's review of ''Dangerous Game'', he notes that the parts where Music/{{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 [[HarsherInHindsight Madonna was molested when she was 19, a fact only revealed years after the film was made.]]

* Todd's piano cover of "Whip My Hair", which somehow makes a banal rap song into something out of an old horror movie. Immediately after performing it, [[LampshadeHanging he exclaims, "WHAT THE CRAP?!"]]

* At the end of his "Tonight..." review, after the credits, audio from a WebAnimation/YouTubePoop ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAKL3Og-zGc this one]]) of the ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'' episode he referenced earlier is played over a black screen. It was later cut.

* The ScareChord introducing Nickleback in his "Worst Hits of 2004" video.
* In his "Worst Songs of 1987" list, he combines Music/{{Europe}}'s "Carrie" with, [[Literature/{{Carrie}} well...]]

* His appearance in general is somewhat unsettling, of a shadowed man sitting at a piano.
** Lampshaded in [[http://www.deviantart.com/art/WTF-Todd-204046976 this TGWTG fanart]] which features Todd [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything with a scythe]].
* Todd's piano cover of "Whip My Hair", which somehow makes a banal rap song into something out of an old horror movie.
** The horror in his voice when he follows it up with, "WHAT THE CRAP?!"
* His video where he reviews "Pompeii" by Bastille uses gratuitous shots of the black eyes from the video for said song. At the end when it shows Smith with black eyes over a brief period of silence before Todd says, "wait- he's an alien now?" is very unsettling. In addition the shots of the [[AndIMustScream preserved corpses under lava]]. -shudder-
* The JumpScare from the "Shake it Off" video, with the image of a demonic Music/TaylorSwift.

* [[https://www.deviantart.com/thebutterfly/art/Tonight-Tonight-258732735 The title card for his "Tonight, Tonight" review is pretty unsettling.]]

--> '''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!

** Lampshaded in [[http://www.deviantart.com/art/WTF-Todd-204046976 this TGWTG fanart]] which features Todd [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything with a scythe]]

** The ending title card that replaced it played a line from "Escape" by Igleseas which implied it all the same: "You can run, you can hide, but you can't escape my love".

** 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 they lyric "Muscle and blood and skin and bones" from the song, and decided that [[{{Main/Squick}} it sounded like a recipe]].
-->'''Todd''': No! No, it doesn't remotely! You're weird, man!

--> '''Todd''': These two guys ate there fellow man, presumably of 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!

* 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.