History NightmareFuel / Rugrats

* In "Chuckie vs. The Potty", Chuckie [[NightmareSequence has a nightmare]] where his potty-training is like death row, complete with screams of ''"Not the chair! NOT THE CHAIR!"'' Just to make it even creepier, the sequence features ''all'' of the babies--Phil and Lil appear as the prison guards that march Chuckie to the chair, and Tommy is an [[DissonantSerenity eerily calm]] priest who tries to console him. The bit ends with Angelica as the "executioner", who pulls off her mask to reveal one of the creepiest SlasherSmile and EvilLaugh combinations EVER, and ]]FunWithFlushing flushes Chuckie down a giant toilet]].

* In "Spike Runs Away", Tommy's parents briefly adopt a pair of gerbils. Soon there are ''hundreds'' of gerbils, covering the entire floor. It's strangely disturbing.

* The original pilot. The [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness animation is much more detailed]] and [[UnintentionalUncannyValley makes the characters look ugly or downright monstrous]], especially their bizarre, undulating necks, and the whole episode has a cold, alien feel compared to later episodes. The girlish voice of Tommy and the fact it is mostly at night do not help. The worst part are ''the two characters who don't appear in the series proper'', possibly being early versions of Betty and Howard, but [[YouDontLookLikeYou very different-looking]]. Chuckie and Angelica don't appear either.
** The [[MouthCam animation of Phil when he says]] "A fish bowl? There's no fish in that thing, Lilian!"
*** The climax of that episode, where [[ItMakesSenseInContext Tommy is in the bathroom]] and he keeps ''almost'' falling... It isn't scary as a kid, but to an adult, that whole scene is terrifying; what with the fear of walking into the bathroom to find your baby dead on the floor, with [[BodyHorror his skull cracked open]]. Oh- also, baby's skulls are very soft.

* Whenever [[MouthCam you can see the inside of a character's mouth]], whether they be crying, eating, or just simply talking, can be somewhat unsettling. As mentioned later this page, thus is actually the way Susie Carmichael is introduced (as she runs into the camera bawling hysterically).
* “Babies In Toyland”: There’s the Imagine Spot where they’re fighting the Mouse King, Angelica threatening Dil that “he’ll never have another Christmas again for the rest of his life”, the ReasonYouSuckSpeech Santa gives Angelica right before he quits, and the mechanical elves in the dimly-lit workshop after Angelica promises to be good.
** Chas accidentally starting a fire. Keep in mind that the adults are inside a small cabin. Made of highly flammable wood. Trapped by six feet of snow. And the way he suddenly yells can startle any viewer.

* In "Chuckie vs. The Potty", Chuckie has a nightmare where his potty-training is like death row, complete with screams of ''"Not the chair! NOT THE CHAIR!"'' Just to make it even creepier, the sequence features ''all'' of the babies--Phil and Lil appear as the prison guards that march Chuckie to the chair, and Tommy is an [[DissonantSerenity eerily calm]] priest who tries to console him. The bit ends with Angelica as the executioner, who pulls off her mask to reveal one of the creepiest SlasherSmile and EvilLaugh combinations EVER, and flushes Chuckie down a giant toilet.

** There's also the group of snarling, thuggish adult men [[FanDisservice wearing only diapers]] leering from their cell at Chuckie.
* Then there's the episode where Stu's latest invention is Mr. Friend, an [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant unintentionally creepy-looking]] [[MonsterClown robotic toy clown]]. Given the toy's erratic and disturbing behavior, the babies' [[{{Malaproper}} malapropism]] "Mr. Fiend" may be a more accurate description. It gets worse when Tommy and friends have to fight off a small army of malfunctioning Mr. Friend dolls.
** "RISE AND SHINE YOU SLEEPY HEAD, IT'S NO FUN TO STAY IN BED, IN BED, IN BED, IN BED, IN BE-E-E-E-E-E-".
** "HERE I AM! DON'T BE BLUE, AND I WILL SING A SONG FOR YOU!" (To the tune of 'London Bridge') "LAAA, LA LA LA LA LA LAAAA, LA LA LAAA, LA LA LAAA, LA LA LA LA LA LA LAAA, LA LAAA LA LA!"

** One of the Mr. Friends seemed almost... sentient. What with how it hid from Tommy’s parents and was able to "conveniently" wander into the other Mr. Friends and activate them as an army that JUST SO HAPPENED to find the Babies... Innocent child's toy that Tommy and his pals were simply too young for? Or something... otherworldly?

* Chuckie's {{nightmare sequence}} in Spike's doghouse at the beginning of ''In The Dreamtime'' where he approached Tommy (who was facing away from the camera) and tapped him on the shoulder, only to have Tommy's head rotate to reveal a [[NightmareFace creepy clown face]] and declare in the most disturbing voice ever, "I'm not Tommy!" before laughing insanely while the BackgroundMusic that plays [[ScareChord lets you know something's wrong]].

** Chuckie's second dream, while not nearly as memorable as the above sequences, still is rather unsettling at some points. It starts off normally, the house gets full of AlienGeometries, at which point the BackgroundMusic becomes distorted, and the babies enter a large hall filled with strange pictures of Tommy on the wall. Some of them are just goofy looking (such as a picture of Tommy with a stretched-out neck), others are just ...bizarrely creepy (among others, there are such things as a bunch of Tommy heads stacked on each other, a Tommy whose body is his head, a Tommy with ''six eyes'', etc.), to say nothing of poor Chuckie falling screaming into a void...
* There are moments of this in the episode ''Real or Robots''. It opens with Tommy and Chuckie watching a movie about a mad scientist plotting world domination with his robots. Stu quickly turns it off.

** In one of Tommy's attempts to prove his dad's a robot, he undoes his father's nightshirt to find "bolts that open his chest (relating this to the robot on TV, which had bolts where a man would have nipples). He then attempts to ''use his plastic pipe wrench to twist them'', which causes Stu to immediately wake up screaming in pain, and in turn scares Tommy and Chuckie into screaming themselves. Yikes!
** The scene where Tommy and Chuckie are convinced a sleep-walking Stu has somehow been converted into a robot, especially the scene where Stu chases them. As they try to use the remote to turn him off, one of the channels shows a man with a ''very'' unnatural grin. Straight out of nowhere.

** Angelica's story that she tells halfway through the episode about a boy who got "eaten by a monster under his bed" is also quite disturbing too. It begins with the boy just laying on his bed and reading comic books, when he hears the monster talking to him. The monster tells the kid that he has cake and ice cream under the bed, and the boy, buying the monster's lie hook-line-and-sinker, [[TooDumbToLive drops down to the foot of his bed]], only for the monster to '''eat him alive in a scene that looks like it came from a ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' movie.''' Ending with a horrible belching noise to top it all off as well.
-->'''Angelica''': And they ''never'' saw little Barnaby Jones again... So remember there's only one place you can hide: Under the covers. And sometimes, the monsters can ''even find you there.'' ''(Flicks Chuckie's teeth and runs around singing)'' Chuckie's gonna get eaten, eaten, eaten! Chuckie's gonna get eaten by the monster under his bed!

* Chas' psychotic dependency on puppets.
** "I love you, Boppo."

* "Pickles Vs. Pickles": Angelica appears to be suing her parents as revenge [[DisproportionateRetribution because they tried to make her eat broccoli and then sent her to her room when she lost her cool and threw the plate of broccoli against the wall]] and Drew almost gets thrown in jail. The scenery suddenly darkens as the judge orders him locked up and then the guards take him away from the court, with him kicking and repeatedly screaming "NO! I'm a good father!" while everyone in the audience/jury ''laughs and cheers for Angelica'' and the camera [[EatTheCamera zooms in on his mouth]]... He wakes up immediately after this back in his bed. It was AllJustADream that Drew was having, but it's still a disturbing scene.
* The vicious bulldog in the episode "Barbecue Story", specifically the part where Tommy and Chuckie are in the bull dog's yard searching for Tommy's ball and the dog growls at them, yanking so hard at its chain that it pulls against the dog house and ''[[SuperStrength pulls the dog house out from the ground nail by nail]]'' with the dog getting closer and closer to Tommy and Chuckie. Thankfully Spike comes along in a creepy voodoo mask of some sort and saves them.

* Worst of all is Angelica's [[NightmareSequence would-be]] [[EnfantTerrible baby brother]] from the episode "Angelica's Worst Nightmare". It begins with Angelica hearing a baby crying. She finds her parents fawning over the new baby, saying how "precious" and "adorable" it is while not remembering who Angelica is. After her parents leave the room, Angelica talks to the baby, and, much in the same matter as Tommy and the gang, Angelica's new baby brother can talk. However, he's more like ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'''s Stewie minus the evil humor and with a horrifyingly deep and raspy voice, and tells Angelica that this house isn't big enough for the both of them, saying that Angelica (the "old baby") should be gone permanently. Angelica tries to flee from him, but the baby keeps finding her, and growing every time there's an encounter between them. The dream enters its horrifying climax as Angelica's now [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever Godzilla-sized]] baby brother catches her in her getaway car, wondering "what a toy car would taste like". It all ends with Angelica screaming, "No! Please, I'm your big sister!" and the baby replying, "WELL NOW YOU'RE NUM-NUMS!" and putting Angelica ([[ExtremeOmnivore car and all]]) in his dark cave-like mouth.

* In "What The Big People Do", Tommy and Chuckie have a dream about being grown up and going to work. All is well and good, until they are called into The Boss's office. They have to first walk down a hallway with giant pictures of past bosses and are thrown into the the boss's room by the carpet in the hallway. The doors slam shut, creepy organ music plays, and the entire room is enshrouded in shadows save for the boss' chair, which makes a [[HellIsThatNoise horrible creaking noise.]] The Boss is the adult version of Angelica, who threatens to have them "[[LargeHam FIREEEED!]]", and then flames shoot at Tommy and Chuckie from these two Reptar statues she has in her office. They flee while the the past bosses climb out of their portraits to stop them. Angelica calls in some creepy robot minions, and all the time insanely creepy music is playing while the angry-faced robots close in on them. Had to be one of the creepiest things in Rugrats ever.
** The ending lulls you into a false sense of security with Tommy reassuring Chuckie that being a grown up won't be that bad, and then, for no real reason at all other than scaring the crap out of every kid watching the episode, Angelica appears and says the following in such a creepy and horrifying fashion: "Oh booooyyyyys~ Time to play '''HOUSE!'''" Cue her face morphing back into the adult version, complete with a huge SlasherSmile, her EvilLaugh, Tommy and Chuckie screaming in terror and a ''hard'' cut to black.
** To a lesser extent, the sight of the Babies (and Angelica's) heads on adult bodies can lead to some SERIOUS UnintentionalUncannyValley.
* Angelica explaining to Tommy that ''parents swap each others' children'' at family reunions, ending with "And you'll never see your mom or your dad or your dumb old dog ever again!" Two takes with Angelica reiterating that line make this even more uncomfortable, with the second reminding ''her'' of her own possible fate.
* In the aptly named episode ''The Shot'', [[AfraidOfNeedles Chuckie]] describes getting a shot to Tommy (who was going to get one that day), with images of a friendly-looking doctor morphing into a Mr. Hyde-like monster and thrusting a hypodermic harpoon at Chuckie.
** The doctor introduces himself by saying "Don't you remember me? ''I'm your friend, [[Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Dr. Lecter!]]''" Can't fault Chuckie for being scared. NOPE.
*** Extra creepy is that we only get Chuckie's side of the story. Sure, he's got a hyperactive imagination, but that terrifying imagery can't have come out of nowhere, could it?
** The whole matter of getting injections in the first place, even without Angelica playing it up to be the most horrible thing ever. Adults can be terrified of needles too, after all. And as the doctor says at the end, some kids can take them, but some kids can't.
* The first Halloween episode had some pretty creepy BackgroundMusic, as well as views through the eyes of what the babies thought was a monster in the garage. [[spoiler: Turned out it was actually just a mouse, but it's still disturbing.]]

* [[ItsAWonderfulPlot ''Chuckie's Wonderful Life'']], where Chuckie wants to run away from home when his dad's CD goes missing, and he sees what life would be like if he never existed. What was both terrifying and depressing was when his guardian angel showed him Tommy's dark, grey house, with a beaten, dirty and sad Tommy playing in the trash cans. The dialogue is as follows:

** If that wasn't enough, it then shows a starved Tommy beside a ''[[Film/ReturnOfTheJedi Jabba the Hutt]]''-esque Angelica who has apparently [[TakeOverTheWorld taken over the world]] since we see fancy blimps with an "A" for Angelica floating over a desolate neighborhood where babies are running around causing trouble while the adults panic. Angelica's throne is located in Tommy's house, where she has Tommy's parents rushing around baking her cakes, completely ignoring Tommy, who begs for food, and is rejected!
*** Also in this episode, Chuckie finds that his father's [[SanitySlippage sanity has been shattered]] by loneliness, and he lives in a squalid house where empty pizza boxes have become furniture, and his only friend is his schizophrenic outlet: [[CompanionCube a sock puppet.]] It even becomes a TearJerker [[HarsherInHindsight if you've seen]] "[[Recap/RugratsS4E2MothersDay Mother's Day]]" and you know that Chas' wife is already dead and Chuckie is their only child.

* Angelica acts surprisingly more sadistic than usual in the episode "Finsterella". Other than the usual obnoxiousness and teasing, she decides to bully Chuckie and mocks him by comparing him to Cinderella just because he has a stepmother and a stepsister (completely ignoring the absolute hell he went through in the previous film before this one), even calling him "Finsterella" (hence the title) while laughing off evilly, not giving a crap in the world that she completely fucked him up mentally by saying that. Later on in the episode, she and Kimi march into Chuckie's room and mindfucks him even more. Even worse? Unlike most episodes where Angelica bullies the gang and gets the short end of the stick, in this one she gets no consequences whatsoever.
* ''The Last Babysitter'': With only Alisa, Susie's 15-year-old sister, in charge, the power goes out, and Tommy and Susie think that there's a monster in the dark house. At one point, they sneak upstairs to read Susie's book of monsters, one of which, known as Numerid, "eats bones."

** How about the fact that [[EnfantTerrible Angelica]] ''wants'' the watermelon inside Chuckie to grow so he'll explode... One can only wonder what was in her mind when she thought up that wicked idea. This is why some fans consider her a "sociopath". Then again, she did realize what would go wrong with her plan if she had succeeded in making the watermelon grow only [[DidNotThinkThisThrough when Tommy pointed out she will be in Chuckie's stomach when it explodes]]. Again, it was a dream...
* "Party Animals", in which the babies walk in on a costume party and become convinced that the world has changed via what they believe is Aladdin's lamp. Throughout the episode, a man dressed as a baby (Didi's cousin Bucky) is chasing the babies and yelling at them to pull his finger. Worse, he continues to do this, even when it is plainly obvious that the babies are dead terrified. Eventually the babies manage to trap him and lock him in the bathroom. A while after the party has ended, Angelica wakes up and has to go to the bathroom, but Tommy and the gang try and stop her, thinking that the world is still "topsy-turvy". Angelica leads them near the stairs and shows them that the world is completely normal (the adults are just vacuuming and relaxing) and that it was probably all in their heads. She then goes to where the bathroom is, opens the door... [[JumpScare and Giant Man-Baby jumps right out]], shouting at her, '''"HEY, PULL MY FINGER!"'''

** Babies are highly sensitive to cold temperatures and a cold wind can KILL them. Didi could have walked in to find that Angelica MURDERED her cousin.

* The episode about the mole people in the basement was horrifying. ''Especially'' the ending, which features the basement door opening ...and two glowing green eyes, belonging to a mole person, appearing in the pitch darkness. Eep.
* A good example of how scary Angelica can be? The episode "Tooth or Dare". Specifically, when she gets the idea to pull out Chuckie's teeth when she learns about the Tooth Fairy from Susie. "I'M GONNA GET THOSE TEETH IF IT'S THE LAST THING I EVER DO!!!!!"

** Also the tarantula in the same episode. Extreme closeups of spiders' faces are scary enough, but you don't have to be a hobbyist to see the aspect of a joke about ''smashing to death'' an animal people keep as pets.

** The fact that the concerningly-young doctor confused Angelica's x-rays for that of a fully-grown, three-hundred-pound football player with his leg bent in the wrong direction.

* "Regarding Stuie", in which Stu falls off the roof and hits his head. He becomes like a baby and plays around with Tommy and the others. Towards the end, Tommy realizes his daddy is never coming back, because "Stuie" ''is'' his daddy, and starts crying for him...
** The whole episode is honestly pretty horrifying. Stu essentially gets brain damage, gets mentally regressed into an infant, and is convinced by babies to climb up the roof ''again'' where he falls ''again'' and gets worse injuries... [[FridgeHorror and Didi is completely unaware of all of this...]]

** After the robotic Angelic is defeated, her head explodes, revealed a skull-like frame for her mechanical headpiece.
* "New Kid in Town", where Tommy and his friends join up with this fat boy named Josh, who decides to play a game called "Pillow". He swings to the highest point he can and then tells the babies he's not trying to jump over them ...but he's going to jump ''on top'' of them. This kid looked heavier than all four babies ''combined'', and he was going at least as high at the swing bar. Had it not been for Angelica intervening when she did, imagine what could have happened.

* One episode where the kids tell scary stories features the monsters from ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'' showing up to ''eat'' the babies.[[note]]Even though it is stated that the monsters from ''Aaahh!!! Real Monsters'' do not eat humans, this is a different show so different rules apply.[[/note]]
* "Weaning Tommy". Tommy more or less goes into [[GRatedDrug withdrawal after a couple of days without his bottle]]. He has a fever dream that cannot be described as anything less than horrifying. At one point, a giant sippy cup with a SlasherSmile chases him around, shouting "DRINK ME!!!"

* "Toy Palace" had an actual working ''time machine'' (the Wee Willie Warp Time Translator) and a life-size toy robot got inside after hijinks ensued. It was transported back to the Revolutionary War in the middle of an ongoing battle with no way to return. Tommy and Chuckie, an ''infant and toddler'', could've ended up lost in the past forever in the middle of a '''''bloody battle!''''' Just imagine the trauma ''that'' would wreak on their innocent minds...
** Worse... with a robot toy from the future in that era, there might be an impact on the future. It showed up ''in plain sight'' during the war. [[FridgeLogic Maybe it caused]] [[EpilepticTrees alien paranoia...?]]

* Chuckie ''unzipping himself'' to reveal that he's an alien in ''The Alien''. Granted it was just a fake story Angelica made up, but ''still''. The alien's chibi dinosaur appearance lessened the scare factor at least.
* "The Santa Experience" has some pretty scary moments but the scariest has to be the nightmare Angelica has. The way Santa's so threatening towards her is unsettling, then Santa '''''buries her alive in coal''''' while she screams and Santa just laughs evilly! Imagine the thousands of toddlers and children that saw this and it was just their first time meeting Santa.

** There's also the scene where Grandpa Lou is explaining to the kids what Santa brings you if you're naughty. There's something eerie and unsettling about the way he says "A big ugly lump of COOOAAAALLL!", complete with the camera [[EatTheCamera zooming into his mouth]].
* The episode "Ruthless Tommy" where Tommy is freakin' kidnapped, and the adults have ''absolutely no idea'' he's gone until ''hours'' later, [[PitytheKidnapper when the crooks can't handle it and decide to return him]].
* "The Sky is Falling". It was not common for a kid's cartoon to tackle the issue of the apocalypse at the time. Though [[NightmareRetardant lessened]] by the image of babies scouring the land for toys, ''Film/MadMax'' style.

* "The Incredible Shrinking Babies" may have been AllJustADream ([[OrWasItADream or was it...?]]) but it's still plenty disturbing. Basically, Chuckie has a nightmare that he, Tommy and the twins have all shrunken to the size of dolls while Dil is still his normal size and thus much bigger than them. He tries repeatedly to "play" with them and they're powerless to stop him ...and it culminates in him ''[[EatenAlive eating Chuckie alive.]]''

* Gracko in "Diapies and Dragons" was kinda creepy, wasn't he? Especially to young kids who don't get the idea of LargeHam. Whatever.

* "The Case of the Missing Rugrat" is loaded to the brim with nightmare fuel. Just the fact that Lou was careless enough to lose Tommy in a strangers car, which is then taken to a strange place is scary enough. Even ignoring the episode is a reference to Film/GreyGardens Tommy basically being kidnapped and nearly adopted by these decrepit and obviously unhinged old women is enough to send a chill down anyone’s spine... the large amount of cats do not help. Lou has to go through absolute hell to even get the info to where Tommy was taken; he could’ve lost his (then) only grandson forever!

* "A Rugrats Vacation" Near the end as Angelica is singing the song "Vacation" we see Tommy walks toward the cage with two large white tigers and Tommy goes to the cage to unlock it and play with them! It's the good thing Didi swung on the rope and save Tommy then and there it's also the good thing that the mothers saw what was going on or otherwise the tigers would've eaten Tommy up or worse probably kill Tommy! Tigers are very dangerous animals if they're provoked but Tommy isn't aware of that but luckily his mom saves him just in time before he became cat food!

** The scene where Tommy and Chuckie are convinced a sleep-walking Stu has somehow been converted into a robot, especially the scene where Stu chases them.

* Angelica explaining to Tommy that ''parents swap each others children'' at family reunions, ending with "And you'll never see your mom or your dad or your dumb old dog ever again!" Two takes with Angelica reiterating that line make this even more uncomfortable, with the second reminding ''her'' of her own possible fate.

** The doctor introduces himself by saying "Don't you remember me? ''I'm your friend, [[Literature/TheSilenceOfTheLambs Dr. Lector!]]''" Can't fault Chuckie for being scared. NOPE.

* In "The First Cut", Tommy gets cut on a rose bush. He later dreams that when he gets cut, endless amounts of stuffing starts pouring out of the wound, as if he's a stuffed doll (this was inspired by a damaged teddy bear earlier in the episode).

** To couple with the above-example in "Tommy Pickles and the Great White Thing", there's Tommy and Chuckie trying to plug up the bathtub drain with Play-Doh, Tommy climbing in and out of the tub and almost falling over! Two babies left unattended in a bathroom is always a terrifying thought.

* A good example of how scary Angelica can be? The episode "Tooth or Dare". Specifically when she gets the idea to pull out Chuckie's teeth when she learns about the Tooth Fairy from Susie. "I'M GONNA GET THOSE TEETH IF IT'S THE LAST THING I EVER DO!!!!!"

* "The Sky is Falling". It was not common for a kid's cartoon to tackle the issue of the apocalypse at the time.

** Honestly, the fact that Chas apologizes is even scarier. Imagine having to face the fact that your toddler son has become a bloodthirsty hybrid of human and canine, and you can't do anything to help but contain him at the very best.

** The backstory of it is a whole 'nother level of terrifying. The document itself was a "storyboard jam" among the production team to blow off steam during downtime. After Steve Russel added his bit of dark humor to the jam, it had snowballed out of control into something ''beyond NSFL,'' much to his horror. During the development of ''The Wild Thornberrys,'' it was then found by an executive producer and promptly confiscated. [[NothingIsScarier It is unknown if the storyboard jam has been destroyed or if it's sitting somewhere in the Klasky-Csupo archives.]]

* Whenever [[MouthCam you can see the inside of a character's mouth]], whether they be crying, eating, or just simply talking, can be somewhat unsettling.

* From the [=PS1=] game ''Rugrats: Search for Reptar'', there is a level called "Let There Be Light" in which there's a power outage, and you need to control Tommy to find the light (i.e., the fridge). Little Tommy is only armed with a flashlight and there's freaking ''ghosts'' around the entire house. Strangely, he isn't afraid of the ghosts.
** In the mini-golf level, there is a hidden entrance in the pyramid on the eighth hole. Inside the pyramid there is a maze of seemingly empty corridors filled with nothing but Reptar bars. You go around exploring and gathering the bars ...until you hear a strange mechanical noise and follow it to find a mummified version of Mr. Friend which immediately starts coming towards you, by which time, you're running out of there (luckily he is harmless in this encounter, but you won't know that when you first see him and could likely experience quite a JumpScare from the sudden encounter). The pyramid is dimly lit, just like one in a horror game would be, and you encounter him in a tiny room after turning a very narrow corner, putting him right in your face. This should not have been in a kids game.
*** With the Mr. Fiend/Friend, once you realize that he is harmless, if you can handle the creepiness and move slowly enough, he will follow you out of the pyramid. Then he reaches sunlight and [[BodyHorror breaks apart]], which actually [[AlasPoorVillain makes you feel sorry for him]] since he is harmless here. JumpScare and BodyHorror aside, it can take up to 3 minutes to get him outside (if you don't get lost), which is a long time in that place...
** Then there's the actual Mr. Friend level, where you have to fight an army of Mr. Friend dolls. The clincher is the first Mr. Friend coming to life: Tommy is on the ground looking up at the machine, but can't make anything out ...until Mr. Friend ''[[JumpScare springs to his feet]]''. If it doesn't freak you the hell out, you're dead inside.
---> '''Mr. Friend:''' Oh boy, a brand new friend to meet! Let's wash our hands before we eat! You can call me Mr. Friend! You'll never, ever be bored again!
** The Toy Palace level is full-on creepy in its dark, closed store feel and with monsters chasing after you, though the original episode was as well. The worst part of the first section is that you can encounter more Mr. Friend dolls at one point that will attack you, and there's no warning either. Oh, and you have to deal with them to get the Reptar bars they're guarding.
*** The last part of the level has you playing as Tommy collecting boxes to get high enough to press the button to activate Reptar so that he can fight Thorg. Trouble is, Thorg is waiting for you every time you go to get a box and you'll always hear his loud, metallic footsteps getting closer before you see him.
** The "Visitors from Outer Space" level in which you play as Angelica and you have to fly, slowly, in an anti-gravity space area is very creepy.
** The level based on "Grandpa's Teeth" was rather scary, set in a large maze with bizarre-looking geese popping out every now and then.
** The level based on the "7 Voyages of Cynthia". You play as Spike, trying to guide him through an AbsurdlySpaciousSewer as creepy music plays. Among the obstacles you encounter are steam blowing from pipes and water that's possibly radioactive, as indicated by cans marked with bio-hazard signs. If Spike runs into a wall or hits an obstacle, he will jump back and bark in shock.
** Just getting a game over was terrifying if you were young enough. If you're playing as a baby they would fall into a sitting position and with a completely pitch black background and start crying. They would always say something, but listening to Tommy was scary and depressing, because he always said something like, "I'm sorry, Reptar..."

* The original pilot. The [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness animation is much more detailed]] and [[UnintentionalUncannyValley makes the characters look ugly or downright monstrous]], especially their bizarre, undulating necks, and the whole episode has a cold, alien, feel compared to later episodes. The girlish voice of Tommy and the fact it is mostly at night do not help. The worst part are ''the two characters who don't appear in the series proper'', possibly being early versions of Betty and Howard, but [[YouDontLookLikeYou very different-looking]]. Chuckie and Angelica don't appear either.

* The Passover special, with Angelica as the Pharaoh. If you’re familiar with the story of Moses, the Pharaoh orders the first-borns to be killed. FridgeHorror sets in when Angelica’s conversation with her father reveals that since she’s an only child, that technically makes her a first-born.

* The original pilot. The [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness animation is much more detailed]] [[UncannyValley and makes the characters look ugly or downright monstrous]], especially their bizarre, undulating necks, and the whole episode has a cold, alien, feel compared to later episodes. The girlish voice of Tommy and the fact it is mostly at night do not help. The worst part are ''the two characters who don't appear in the series proper'', possibly being early versions of Betty and Howard, but [[YouDontLookLikeYou very different-looking]]. Chuckie and Angelica don't appear either.

* “Babies In Toyland”: There’s the Imagine Spot where they’re fighting the Mouse King, Angelica threatening Dil that “he’ll never have another Christmas again for the rest of his life”, the ReasonYouSuckSpeech Santa gives Angelica right before he quits, and the UncannyValley mechanical elves in the dimly-lit workshop after Angelica promises to be good.

* In "Stu-Maker's Elves", Tommy and Chuckie had to go down to the basement to get a fly-away frisbee. The basement was creepy, but the real nightmare fuel was a creepy first-person view of Chuckie's memory of being spanked by the doctors. We see Chuckie being held upside-down with his [[UncannyValley freakishly malformed and tube-like arms]] dangling beneath him, flying around franticly, and the loud "SMACK SMACK SMACK!" coupled with Chuckie bawling. It's probably the most terrifying thing to ever happen in the series.

* Chuckie's germ nightmare in the episode "Mr. Clean". The [[UncannyValley faces]] that the germs wield do ''not'' help.

** To a lesser extent, the sight of the Babies (and Angelica's) heads on adult bodies can lead to some SERIOUS UncannyValley.

* Worst of all is Angelica's [[NightmareSequence would-be]] [[EnfantTerrible baby brother]] from the episode "Angelica's Worst Nightmare". It begins with Angelica hearing a baby crying. She finds her parents fawning over the new baby, saying how "precious" and "adorable" it is while not knowing who Angelica is. After the Drew and Charlotte leave, Angelica talks to the baby, and, much in the same matter as Tommy and the gang, Angelica's new baby brother can talk. However, he's more like ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'''s Stewie minus the evil humor and with a horrifyingly deep and raspy voice, and tells Angelica that this house isn't big enough for the both of them, saying that Angelica (the "old baby") should be gone permanently. Angelica tries to flee from him, but the baby keeps finding her, and growing every time there's an encounter between them. The dream enters its horrifying climax as Angelica's now [[AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever Godzilla-sized]] baby brother catches her in her getaway car, wondering "what a toy car would taste like". It all ends with Angelica screaming, "No! Please, I'm your big sister!" and the baby replying, "WELL NOW YOU'RE NUM-NUMS!" and putting Angelica ([[ExtremeOmnivore car and all]]) in his dark cave-like mouth.

-->'''Angelica:''' Y'see Chuckie there are two kinds of people in this world: people who make thing better; people like me. And people who just seem to... get in the way; people like you...\\

'''Angelica:''' Not really, Chuckie. The bottom line is we'd all be a lot better off without you.

--> '''Mr. Friend:''' Oh boy, a brand new friend to meet! Let's wash our hands before we eat! You can call me Mr. Friend! You'll never, ever be bored again!

*** The climax of that episode, where [[ItMakesSenseInContext Tommy is in the bathroom]] and he keeps ''almost'' falling... It isn't scary as a kid, but to an adult, that whole scene is terrifying; what with the AdultFear of walking into the bathroom to find your baby dead on the floor, with [[BodyHorror his skull cracked open]]. Oh- also, baby's skulls are very soft.

** An AdultFear in that as well. Babies are highly sensitive to cold temperatures and a cold wind can KILL them. Didi could have walked in to find that Angelica MURDERED her cousin.

* The episode "Ruthless Tommy" [[AdultFear where Tommy is freakin' kidnapped]], and the adults have ''absolutely no idea'' he's gone until ''hours'' later, [[PitytheKidnapper when the crooks can't handle it and decide to return him]].

* Tommy's very first bruise in "Touchdown Tommy" is nothing to sneeze at when it comes to AdultFear. Going by the animation, it doesn't even look like he hit it that hard to make such a whopper of a bruise... but babies' heads ARE very soft after all; and had he hit one of the sharp corners getting his balloon... well, Didi's scream when he bumps his head a ''second time'' really does say it all...

* One could argue that the entire show is filled with AdultFear, from the babies repeatedly winding up in dangerous situations, often due to an adult's momentary neglect, to the babies being bullied and routinely abused by Tommy's older cousin, Angelica. What makes the latter even worse is the fact that the babies can't talk, so nobody knows how cruel Angelica is to them. Imagine being a parent and allowing your niece (or your friend's niece) to play with your children, not realizing that she is regularly bullying them. To you, it seems like they get along great. Fortunately the babies don't seem to suffer any long-term consequences as a result of all her abuse...

** Honestly, the fact that Chas apologizes is even scarier. [[AdultFear Imagine having to face the fact that your toddler son has become a bloodthirsty hybrid of human and canine]], and you can't do anything to help but contain him at the very best.

'''Susie:''' No, Tommy. Not like a dog.[[note]]More like a hyena.[[/note]]

* ''The Last Babysitter'': With only Alisa, Susie's 15-year-old sister, in charge, the power goes out, and Tommy and Susie think that there's a monster in the dark house. At one point, they sneak upstairs to read Susie's book of monsters, one of which, known as Numerid, "eats bones."

* The first Halloween episode had some pretty creepy background music, as well as views through the eyes of what the babies thought was a monster in the garage. [[spoiler: Turned out it was actually just a mouse, but it's still disturbing.]]

* Chuckie's {{nightmare sequence}} in Spike's doghouse at the beginning of ''In The Dreamtime'' where he approached Tommy (who was facing away from the camera) and tapped him on the shoulder, only to have Tommy's head rotate to reveal a [[NightmareFace creepy clown face]] and declare in the most disturbing voice ever, "I'm not Tommy!" before laughing insanely while the background music that plays [[ScareChord lets you know something's wrong]].

** Chuckie's second dream, while not nearly as memorable as the above sequences, still is rather unsettling at some points. It starts off normally, the house gets full of AlienGeometries, at which point the background music becomes distorted, and the babies enter a large hall filled with strange pictures of Tommy on the wall. Some of them are just goofy looking (such as a picture of Tommy with a stretched-out neck), others are just ...bizarrely creepy (among others, there are such things as a bunch of Tommy heads stacked on each other, a Tommy whose body is his head, a Tommy with ''six eyes'', etc.), to say nothing of poor Chuckie falling screaming into a void...

* [[UncannyValley The old art style]] can be this for anyone who only saw the later seasons, then returned to watch it from the beginning when they were older. Many of the characters, especially the babies, [[SuperDeformed have weird proportions when it comes to their bodies.]]

*** It might just be that Mr. Friend isn't meant for infants. Angelica, a toddler, gets her own Mr. Friend and loves him, and is completely baffled by the sheer horror the babies feel around him.

* The way Susie is [[EstablishingCharacterMoment introduced into the series]] in "Meet the Carmichaels", [[BodyWipe namely her running into the camera]] while sobbing hysterically.

** The level in which you play as Angelica and you have to fly, slowly, in an anti-gravity space area is very creepy.

* [[http://i.imgur.com/nHNmY.png This]] was done by an official artist of the show. How the characters are drawn are rather unnerving. Especially [[NightmareFace the weird face Angelica makes at the end.]] Then there's how Stu [[AbusiveParents verbally abuses Tommy.]] It's hard to blame Tommy for [[BowelBreakingBricks "dropping malt balls" in fear.]] Tommy looks strange while dropping those malt balls in question, too...

** Not to mention that the Santa here was voiced by ''Judge [[Creator/TonyJay fucking]]'' ''[[WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame Frollo]]'' and [[WesternAnimation/ReBoot Megabyte]]! To be fair, he's also Dr. Lipschitz, but without the goofy accent he puts on like with that character, he just sounds terrifying.

** The worst part is when Stu’s snow machine malfunctions and the adults get snowed inside the cabin. Betty says it could take them “hours or days” to get out, and Chas says they’ll run out of oxygen by then. Howard starts panicking, with Kira telling him to get a grip. Lulu then results in trying to smash the door down with one of the animatronics, with Stu saying that “someone might get hurt”. They did eventually get out in time for Christmas, but YIKES. Didi even starts worrying that she will miss Dil getting his first chance to see Santa.

* "The Inside Story" is scary for a lot of reasons, the fact the babies travel inside Chuckie's body is creepy itself to get the watermelon seed out of him, but the fact Angelica wanted to ''kill'' Chuckie by watering the seed so it will explode inside of Chuckie is nightmare fuel and shows how dangerous Angelica is.

* "The Inside Story" is scary for a lot of reasons, the fact the babies travel inside Chucky's body is creepy itself to get the watermelon seed out of him, but the fact Angelica wanted to kill Chucky by watering the seed so it will explode inside of Chucky is nightmare fuel and shows how dangerous Angelica is.