History NightmareFuel / Futurama

* While it's played for DarkHumor, there's something undeniable uncomfortable about "The Winnowing" in "Children of a Lesser Bog". Kif and Amy essentially have to watch all but three of their hundreds of children be devoured by swamp creatures as they emerge twenty years later. While not commented upon in the episode, Amy has to look away in horror.

* While it's played for DarkHumor, there's something undeniable uncomfortable about "The Winnowing" in "Children of a Lesser Bog". Kif and Amy essetnially have to watch all but three of their hundreds of children be devoured by swamp creatures as they emerge twenty years later. While not commented upon in the episode, Amy is clearly traumatized by the ordeal.

** There's also the nature of the ending, where we learn this entire episode was actually a bedtime story told by Pazuzu to his son in France to explain how he was given his freedom. This would, in any other situation be a straight SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoment, [[UnnervinglyHeartwarming if it weren't for his delivery of those last words]]:

** There's also the SurpriseCreepy nature of the ending, where we learn this entire episode was actually a bedtime story told by Pazuzu to his son in France to explain how he was given his freedom. This would, in any other situation be a straight SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoment, [[UnnervinglyHeartwarming if it weren't for his delivery of those last words]]:

* "The Sting" may make you cringe forevermore at the sight of furry bumblebee bodies. Fry's death, Leela's hallucinations, followed by her descending into madness, her attempting suicide just so she can be with Fry, and Leela getting attacked by bees after she throws the honey against the wall. The only consoling thing is that none of this happened, Fry was alive, and that the whole thing was [[AllJustADream Leela's coma fantasy]].

** There's also the SurpriseCreepy nature of the ending, where we learn this entire episode was told by Pazuzu to his son in France to explain how he was given his freedom:

%%** "'''ME WANT ENGULF BENDER!'''"

* For the love of god, [[DoNotTauntCthulhu do not piss off]] TheHypnotoad. The teleprompter who interrupted ''Everybody Loves Hypnotoad'' with breaking news [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6TaaagJmZs found it out the hard way]].

* For the love of god, do not piss off TheHypnotoad. The teleprompter who interrupted ''Everybody Loves Hypnotoad'' with breaking news [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6TaaagJmZs found it out the hard way]].
''' Teleprompter ([[OhCrap Starts to audibly panic]]):''' ''Please, Hypnotoad! It's beyond my control! No! [[PsychicAssistedSuicide Don't make me kill myself - (Choking sounds)!]]".

* What happens when you dare interrupt ''Everybody Loves Hypnotoad'' with breaking news. ''No, Hypnotoad! It's beyond my control! No! [[PsychicAssistedSuicide Don't make me kill myself - (Choking sounds)!]]".

* From [[CharlieAndTheChocolateParody "Fry and the Slurm Factory"]], the secret ingredient of Slurm, actually the ''only'' ingredient: concentrated slime [[{{Squick}} from a giant alien slug's ass]].
** PlayedForLaughs, but said alien slug queen also states that the true ingredients of toothpaste is so disgusting even ''she'' doesn't like to talk about it!

** It's revealed that Leela was in real danger of dying from her coma. It's hinted at when she tries to attempt suicide by eating the honey, knowing that three spoonfuls will kill her. That may have been a sign of her organs crashing and why Fry was begging her to stay.

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** Taken UpToEleven in "The Beast With A Billion Backs", where he destroys everyone's chance for endless universal bliss and harmony ''because he was pissed off at being left out.''

* In "Teenage Mutant Leela's Hurdles", the crew all begin to [[MerlinSickness age backwards]] and get younger and younger as time progresses. By the end of the episode, they're simply fetuses, and would suffer a FateWorseThanDeath... pre-life! Then death. They find a fountain of aging to get them back to their right ages, but Zoidberg unfortunately slips in, and he ages at such a rapid pace that he is dead by the time he reaches the center. Luckily, [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments it turns out it wasn't Zoidberg, though.]] It was just one of his brothers that budded off, while there are miniature Zoidberg heads on a coral reef that they're all attached to. Seeing them all bicker does lighten the mood a little.

* Kif [[MisterSeahorse giving birth]] to dozens of tadpole babies in the episode "Kif Gets Knocked Up A Notch." We're treated to several seconds of Kif [[ScreamingBirth screaming in absolute agony]] as his skin inexplicably flashes from its usual pale green to a glowing, neon green, and we see ''the entire thing''. And there was a ''lot'' of (albeit green) blood. The last part of the episode carries some AdultFear undertones when Kif wearily asks Amy if their (actually it's Kif and Leela's) babies have made it safely to the pond.... only for the scene to cut to the babies getting attacked by giant, terrifying creatures like bugs and snakes, which are trying to eat them. Luckily, Amy manages to fend them all off and save all the babies.

* The Neptunian slug from "My Three Suns". It looks harmless and [[UglyCute kind of cute]] at first. But when Elzar takes it out of its cage afterward it starts growing rapidly in size with its teeth becoming sharp and menacing until it almost fills up the entire kitchen and looks as though its about to eat Elzar...
--> '''Elzar''' ''(arming himself with a big frying pan):'' See, this is why you always wanna use ''cast iron'' cookware...

** Arguably, the ''only'' original characters left from the beginning of the series since then are the Professor and Bender since Fry has technically been a clone ever since "Rebirth", and everyone else is ''long'' dead and gone. While it's PlayedForLaughs and not meant to be taken seriously, it's chilling that the characters we're watching in the majority of the second run are CloseEnoughTimeline versions and not the "real" ones.

** Though it's a throwaway line, [[BodyHorror the effects of the bee venom if you're allergic to it.]] According to Professor Farnsworth, the allergic reaction would cause the victim's insides to ''boil out of [their] eyesockets'', science fair volcano-style.

* What happens when you dare break into ''Everybody Loves Hypnotoad'' with breaking news. ''No Hypnotoad! It's beyond my control! Don't make me kill myself!"

* Zoidberg going on a hormone-fueled rampage through the gym in the first act of "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?". There's something just ''disturbing'' about seeing the usually [[NiceGuy friendly and good-natured]] Zoidberg going insane like that because that day marked the start of his kind's mating season. MatingSeasonMayhem has never looked so scary.

** The tentacles' invasion, though partially PlayedForLaughs, is still rather unsettling. It takes up a lot of the movie, and the resistants are slowly dwindling, until only Leela is left. And even after Yivo is revealed to be a rather good, well, creature, you have to remember that skhler tentacles are actually, as Leela puts it, "gentacles". Everyone was horrified when they learned about it, which basically means that ''skhlee raped every living creature in the entire universe at once''.

* In "I Dated a Robot", Kidnappster has been stealing celebrity heads for centuries and offering them for illegal downloads. The heads' reactions as they're being downloaded highly suggests that the process is quite painful.

* Zoidberg going on a hormone-fueled rampage through the gym in "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?". There's something just ''disturbing'' about seeing the usually [[NiceGuy friendly and good-natured]] Zoidberg going insane like that.

* The DeliberateValuesDissonance in the existence of suicide booths, for those who are suicidally depressed or know those who are. Suicide went from a serious subject into something treated as normal as making a phone call, and worse, it was stated that within the ''Futurama'' timeline it's been a thing since '''2008'''.

* Almost ''anything'' in this ''entire show'' if you take it seriously: Zapp Brannigan's position and activities, the compulsive television watching, the completely unnecessary economic inequality, an insane PresidentEvil, a MegaCorp-owning CorruptCorporateExecutive, the constant police brutality no one cares about, an unstoppable BadSanta, eldritch aliens and amoral robots around every corner, and even the resident mad scientist is apparently capable of ''universal omnicide'', and he ''just hasn’t gotten around to it''. In an anything goes-style future, all life everywhere seems to have very little value, regardless of whatever species you may be. Not to mention all the horrible aliens and creatures running around that have no problem killing any human they come across. Best demonstrated by Michelle, Fry's more normal ex-girlfriend from his time in the 90s, in 'The Cryonic Woman' who does not adjust quickly and well to the future and instantly denounces it as a horrific nightmare from a past person's perspective.

* Universe 25 from "The Farnsworth Parabox". The universe's versions of Leela, Hermes, and Fry look normal from behind, then [[FaceRevealingTurn turn around]] and are revealed to have {{EyelessFace}}s.

* Universe 25 from "The Farnsworth Parabox" especially this line. "We didn't see anything... Ever!"

* Fry's predicament in "Insane in the Mainframe" is pretty horrific. He's accused of a crime he didn't commit, is unable to identify the real criminal for fear of his life, and then is sent with Bender to an insane asylum for robots just because the human asylums are full. He's subjected to a humiliating physical examination and then ignored when he tries to tell people he's a human (the doctor insists that he ''must'' be a robot, since he's at the robot asylum to begin with). He's forced to share a closet-sized room first with Malfunctioning Eddie, a robot who blows up at the drop of a hat and then Roberto, who committed the crime he was arrested for. He practically starves because the only food he's given is oil (he's surviving on misplaced candy of all things), his coworkers only seem mildly concerned about getting him out (and their attempts to get his sentence overruled are being ignored) and Bender is completely unconcerned with Fry's rapidly deteriorating mental state. His pleas for the Planet Express crew to get him out some way are possibly the most panicked and desperate he's ever sounded throughout the series, and in the end, he isn't released until he's "cured" of the belief that he's human and is mentally broken into thinking he's a robot.