Nightmare Fuel / VeggieTales

Just because it's a show made by Christians specifically to teach kids about Christianity doesn't mean it can't be scary.

• King George and the Ducky: King George sends Thomas to the Pie War over a rubber duck, causing Thomas to become a Shell-Shocked Veteran. Even with knowing they're Animated Actors, seeing Larry of all people do something so awful and callous is unsettling, and Thomas being played by Junior pushes the whole thing uncomfortably into Child Soldiers territory.
  • Even worse if you know what happened in the story this short was based on.
• The Nightmare Sequence at the beginning of The End of Silliness. Poor Larry... To be specific, the video opens with Larry distraught over the events of "the Song of the Cebu" and "His Cheeseburger", wherein "Silly Songs with Larry" is allegedly canceled. We see Larry having bad flashbacks by himself in a diner, represented by versions of the aforementioned songs playing on top of each other with the audio and video heavily distorted. One could say it's a YouTube Poop before it was cool.
• Speaking of "His Cheeseburger", that clown head is really creepy-looking, with many extreme closeups of it and its big blue eyes staring directly at you!
• Even though it's a Bowdlerisation, in Esther: The Girl Who Became Queen, the grim tickler that shows up to bring people to the Island of Perpetual Tickling is pretty disturbing, what with his way of appearing seemingly out of nowhere and the scary organ music playing in the background.
• The climax of Rack Shack And Benny when Mr. Nezzer sends the three to the furnace for being "Bad Bunnies". Imagine what could happen to them if they didn't get saved.
  • It gets saved for a minor Pun Nezzer makes. Though still nightmarish, when out of context, it's pretty dang hilarious.
  "I understand. I understand that YOU'RE BAD BUNNIES!"
  • Worse still, even though it is seconds before he is redeemed after the boys are saved, Mr. Nezzer practically borders on the Moral Event Horizon after witnessing their plunge into the furnace with an Evil Laugh and some Evil Gloating to go with it. Contributing to the entry above on what would happen if Rack, Shack, and Benny didn't get saved from the flames, just imagine what kind of person Mr. Nezzer would have become after that. Definitely NOT the kind of boss you'd want to work for.
• In The Star Of Christmas, the theater burning down.
• The Slap of No Return from Jonah: A VeggieTales Movie. Basically it's a giant club on a lever that smashes its victims like a bug. That they actually give a demonstration of how it works (with a thankfully non-sentient pumpkin) just made it even more disturbing.
  • Fridge Horror: The pumpkin, when it's splattered, gets goop all over Jonah and the arena. Big Idea put extreme gore in a CHRISTIAN kids' movie.
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything DVD includes an extended ending where Mr Lunt's character experiments with a double-reversed-engineered version of the time traveling device used in the movie. Chaos ensues first with events repeating and a rowboat crashing through the brick wall directly above them out of nowhere, and also having each of the veggies undergo several transformations. It gets kinda hard to believe that this is an official scene made by Big Idea and not a YouTube Poop or something. See it here.
• In the Silly Song "Asteroid Cowboys", Larry, Jimmy, and Junior demonstrate what they can do in space... like bugging their eyes out. It's supposed to be a reference to Total Recall (1990), but the way it comes is just so unexpected it's Nightmare Fuel. And they do it twice!
• "Easter Future" in "Easter Carol", a world without hope, is pretty terrifying since not only do we see Edmund/Junior's grave but it's all but stated that cops don't actually do their jobs because dying is too frightening a prospect.
  • Bob's character being trapped in a factory is a pretty frightening turn as well, especially given how panicked Larry's character sounds when he reports this.
• In Daniel and the Lions' Den, the last segment of Where's God When I'm S-Scared?, the Wisemen trick Darius into signing a law declaring Babylonians must pray to Darius or be thrown into the Lions' Den. As one of the wise men declares this, the camera zooms into their eyes, with the lighting changing to a red tint, accompanied by dramatic brass music.

Larry-Boy Series

• In Larry-Boy! And the Fib from Outer Space!, Junior accidentally breaks a plate, and an alien (Fib) convinces him to make up a story to prevent getting blamed for breaking it in the first place. But you know what they say about lies, the more you feed it, the more it grows.
  • Fib himself deserves special mention. Think of his design like a meteor but adhering to the VeggieTales art style. At first, he starts at a small size, but when Junior fibs about Laura breaking the plate, he grows from a pebble to half of Junior's height. Then when he lies about Lenny breaking the plate, he surpasses Junior in height and gains legs. When Junior tells his final fib, Fib gains arms and is the height of a skyscraper. He has become big enough to cause property damage, and the close-ups of his face are pretty intimidating.
  • Then there's the scene where he intends on eating Junior and Larry-Boy. And he even comes close to doing the deed with the latter before Junior confesses.
• Larry-Boy! And the Rumor Weed! is a bit more tense than Larry-Boy's previous episode, so it's to be expected that the creep factor is tapped in here more often.
  • When Larry-Boy knocks a plant off a roof, it gets electrocuted and is right near a gossiping woman. The gossiping woman in the window has visible arms, not to mention a rather uncanny, human-like design. She instantly vanishes after that, but leaves a pretty big impression. Not to mention, the creepy trumpet music playing while the weed gets electrocuted. Oh, and let's not forget the Rumor Weed's Slasher Smile when she faces the audience.
    • Not helping is the fact that if you look closely, the gossiping woman and the Rumor Weed's style are mirrored with the hair, glasses, and lips. It's a nice touch to character design, but it's still creepy.
  • The moment when Larry-Boy enters the sewer system. He can't get directions from Alfred, and the whole sewer is a maze. He's relieved at first when he sees a tiny Rumor Weed, believing it to be the Mother Weed. But his hopes are dashed when the real Mother Weed emerges from the shadows to confront the hero.
  Larry-Boy: Mother...!
• The Bad Apple from Larry-Boy and the Bad Apple has spider legs for the bottom half and is generally creepy.

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