History NightmareFuel / Doug

** All of the imagine spots from "Doug's Nightmare on Jumbo Street". To wit, Doug and friends had recently viewed a monster movie, ''The Abnormal'', and while all of his friends were freaked out by the movie and the havoc that the monster itself wreaked, Doug never viewed it, closing his eyes at the last moment, which gave him recurring nightmares. Among the moments including one where his and Skeeter's bikes became sentient and the latter's bike ''[[HarmfulToMinors threw him off a cliff and to his death]]'' [[HarmfulToMinors while Doug helplessly watched]], the garage itself came alive and ate Doug and one where Porkchop was [[Literature/TheShining Jack]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext Torrance]] and transformed into the monster, taunting him with "You don’t even know what I look like! Look at me! ''LOOK AT MEEEE!!!"'' Granted, it all was soon NightmareRetardant when we finally saw the monster, who was so cheap looking [[SpecialEffectFailure you could see the zipper for the costume he was in from the back]] (and which is comparable to the actual image on the Nightmare Retardant page), but still...

** One episode had Doug finding a lost purse full of money and he wrestling with if he should return it or not. Upon seeing the news report about the purse's owner being distressed over losing it, he has a bad dream where the woman was now so poor that she not only was wearing a barrel for clothing, but the "bolts" holding her head on were also repossessed and it proceeded to fall off while she flailed her arms uncontrollably and wailed out "Oh-''NOOOO!!"''

** So is his fantasy of a live fish being served to him begging for its life in tears in "Doug on the Wild Side".

** In "Doug's Fan Club", Doug gets a call from the mother of Todd Bentley, a boy who greatly admired Doug and attempted to mimic him. She called to inform Doug she lost him at the Honker Burger after he told the kid and his Baby brother to leave him alone after they wouldn't stop annoying him. This has him imagine that he told Todd to get away from him during a dark and stormy night. Todd runs out of the Honker Burger wailing and crying during a horrible storm into the woods right before a semi-truck almost hits him!

Although ''Doug'' is one of the more light-hearted of the Nicktoons/One Saturday Morning cartoons, it still had plenty of examples of some pretty scary stuff.

Although ''Doug'' is one of the more light-hearted of the Nicktoons/Disney Afternoon cartoons, it still had plenty of examples of some pretty scary stuff.

** Doug's fantasy of Mrs. Wingo, drawn as a doodle, appearing at his door step in "Doug's Doodle" (as pictured above) is pretty disturbing to say the least.

** Also of note, this is probably the only episode where Doug doesn't have a single ImagineSpot or fantasy. The concerning and fearful atmosphere of it was so palpably real that even ''[[MrImagination Doug]]'' couldn't escape it.

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** In "Doug's Fan Club", Doug gets a call from the mother of Todd Bentley, a boy who greatly admired Doug and attempted to mimic him. She called to inform Doug she lost him at the Honker Burger after he told the kid and his Baby brother to leave him alone after they wouldn't stop annoying him. This has him imagine that he told Todd to get away from him during a dark and stormy night. Todd runs away screaming and crying during a horrible storm into the woods right before a semi truck almost hits him!

** "Doug's Fan Club" Doug gets a call from the mother of Todd Bentley, a boy who greatly admired Doug and attempted to mimic him. She called to inform Doug she lost him at the Honker Burger after he told the kid and his Baby brother to leave him alone after they wouldn't stop annoying him. This has him imagine that he told Todd to get away from him during a dark and stormy night. Todd runs away screaming and crying during a horrible storm into the woods right before a semi truck almost hits him!

** "Doug's Fan Club" Doug gets a call from the mother of Todd Bentley, a boy who greatly admired dog and attempted to mimic him. She called to inform Doug she lost him at the Honker Burger after he told the kid and his Baby brother to leave him alone after they wouldn’t stop annoying him. This has him imagine that he told Todd to get away from him during a dark and stormy night. Todd runs awar screaming and crying during a horrible storm into the woods right before a semi truck almost hits him!

** "Doug's Fan Club" has him reflect on when he reached his breaking point with Todd Bentley and his baby brother, all because they admired him and attempted to be like him. He imagines telling the boy to get away from him a during a dark and stormy night. Todd runs awar screaming and crying during a horrible storm into the woods right before a semi truck almost hits him!

* The title sequence for "Doug's a Genius" quickly takes an unexpected turn: on the white intro screen, the animate pencil line which Doug usually employs to various uses suddenly draws glasses on his face. He rubs them off, and backs into an area of the screen which is smeared with alarmingly messy lines. The one by which Doug stands turns out to be a ledge, from which he suddenly falls through several abstract paintings, and into a sea of violently smeared streaks of green, brown and black paint. Trapped in the lurid mire, he cries out in despair...

** Also of note, this is probably the only episode where Doug doesn't have a single ImagineSpot or fantasy. The concerning and fearful atmosphere of it was so palpably real that even ''[[MrImaginatiom Doug]]'' couldn't escape it.

** All of the imagine spots from "Doug's Nightmare on Jumbo Street". To wit, Doug and friends had recently viewed a monster movie, ''The Abnormal'', and while all of his friends were freaked out by the movie and the havoc that the monster itself wreaked, Doug never viewed it, closing his eyes at the last moment, which gave him recurring nightmares. Among the moments including one where his and Skeeter's bikes became sentient and the latter's bike ''[[HarmfulToMinors threw him off a cliff and to his death]]'' [[HarmfulToMinors while Doug helplessly watched]], the garage itself came alive and ate Doug and one where Porkchop was [[Literature/TheShining Jack]] [[ItMakesSenseInContext Torrance]] and transformed into the monster, taunting him with "You don’t even know what I look like! Look at me! ''LOOK AT MEEEE!!!"'' [[spoiler: Granted, it all was soon NightmareRetardant when we finally saw the monster, who was so cheap looking [[SpecialEffectsFailure you could see the zipper for the costume he was in from the back]] (and which is comparable to the actual image on the Nightmare Retardant page), but still...]]

** The time Doug had a fantasy about what Mr. Bone, who was in the hospital, was in for: [[spoiler: he actually believed that he was there to literally [[EyesDoNotBelongThere get eyes in the back of his head.]]]]

** The episode where Doug and Skeeter are going to an out-of-town Beets concert has them accidentally missing their bus and leaving them stranded at a truck stop diner. Then the former gets an idea of them ''stealing'' one of the many big rig trucks at the diner and driving to the concert, which leads to an fantasy of what will happen once behind the wheel. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome Problem is, they're only in junior high and have no idea how to drive a truck, let alone any vehicle,]] which leads to them losing control of the vehicle and plunging off of the highway[[note]]And never mind the fact that they probably don't even have directions to the concert venue in the first place.[[/note]].

* [[TheBully Percy]] [[KnightOfCerebus Femur]], Mr. Bone's nephew from "Doug Saves Roger". His cruelty and HairTriggerTemper is shown early on by beginning to bully Roger (and his style of bullying involved physical harm instead of just annoying pranks and obnoxiousness like with the latter), who spent the majority of the episode [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness terrified for his life]] and even the opening sequence showed him desperate to escape/hide from the offscreen presence that was threatening him. Plus, the guy is shown to be a wolf in sheep's clothing whenever his Uncle is around, pretending to be the "innocent" student. As if Percy wasn't bad enough, he then decides to beat up ''Doug'' after school [[DisproportionateRetribution simply because he asked him (and rather politely) to back off of the former.]] Fortunately, this also doubles as a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome as right before Percy even manages to take a swing, [[spoiler: Mr. Bone stops him, has him expelled and even calls him "the bad seed". [[EveryoneHasStandards Roger had told him what was happening and not only did the vice principal believe him, but he put a stop to everything instead of looking the other way because that was a family member.]]]]