Line #15 NightmareFuel/RobotChicken


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11	[[caption-width-right:350:"'''''AARRRRRGHHH- FUCK YOU, DORK KNIGHT!!!'''"'']]
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13	It's just a stop-motion adult animated show from comedy legend Seth Green that dares to parody just about nearly everything. Surely, nothing about it can be [[NightmareFuel the stuff that nightmares originate]], right?
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15	'''''WRONG!!!'''''
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18	* ''Duck Duck Party''. Who knew that a sketch about a man who mistakenly orders a duck hooker could end with that duck hooker being literally shot to pieces and falling off a building? Better yet, who knew that the duck hooker was also a mother of three, with the children being completely unaware and being taken care of by their uncle Donald Duck?
19	* The mad scientist in the theme song is ''so'' scary-looking, it's hard to sleep at night.
20	* Rubik gets turned back into a cube, and Carlos, who has become blind, tries to fix him, except the ominous chanting in background along with a title card show that he never succeeded (although the card could be a reference to the end of ''Series/QuantumLeap'').
21	* The Squirrel Wizard brutally murdering the Shlorps (an obvious parody of the Smurfs) after Bitch Pudding mistakenly murders his life partner in the Bitch Pudding special. Especially Basketball Schlorp, who has his ''head swell horrifically, leaving him with his brain in his mouth''.
22	* ComicBook/TheJoker's execution (pictured above), which parodies [[NightmareFuel/TheGreenMile the infamous botched execution]] from ''Film/TheGreenMile''. First, he starts getting violently electrocuted while his hair gets messed up. Then, [[FacialHorror blisters start to show up in Joker's face]] [[EyeScream as his eyeballs burst]]. Next, his face melts due to third-degree burns. And finally, Joker yells [[YourHeadAsplode before his head explodes]] as the bystanders (except Batman) scream in terror while covered in blood and traumatized by his CruelAndUnusualDeath. Good luck getting ''that'' out of your head.
23	** Making it even more shocking is that this is ''exactly'' how the execution is described and depicted in [[Literature/TheGreenMile the original source material]] this parodies.
24	* In the skit ''Calvin's Therapy Adventures'', [[ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Calvin]] believes his parents got him a real tiger which is actually just a stuffed animal. Things turn dark as Calvin's parents get him electroshock therapy to make him stop believing that Hobbes is real, then Hobbes convinces Calvin to brutally murder his parents and ends with Calvin in an '''asylum'''.
25	-->'''Calvin:''' ''(landing on Mars with Hobbes)'' Wow! Mars is amazing!
26	-->''(outside cut to the real world where Calvin is wrapped in a straitjacket and locked in a padded cell)''
27	-->'''Calvin:''' [[MadnessMantra Mars is amazing.]] ''Maaaars iiiis amaaaaziiiing.''
28	* "Bert's New Roommate". Ernie leaves due to the harmless general audiences' [[CommonKnowledge misconception]] about their [[MistakenForGay relationship]] as [[HeterosexualLifePartners friends]], so Bert ends up finding a new roommate on Craigslist, an unhinged drug addict named Sam. As it goes on, it gets [[FromBadToWorse worse and worse]], until the near end of the skit where, in response to Ernie's famous "remove the nose" trick, Sam responds by taking a knife and ''[[BodyHorror cutting his nose off]]'' to the shock and horror of Bert and Ernie.
29	* The ''WesternAnimation/BobTheBuilder'' sketch has the mob union boss get run over by Roley and he [[YourHeadAsplode crushes his head like a melon]]. The worst part? ''It all happens on-screen.''
30	* A lot of scenes from [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo "A Scooby]] [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Friday"]].
31	** Shaggy getting stabbed with the machete by Jason from inside a barrel as we hear his garbled screams as it fills up with blood, followed by poor Scooby getting stabbed ''up the ass''.
32	** Fred [[{{Jerkass}} leaving poor Daphne to Jason's mercy, by ''literally'' pushing her into his path to slow him down]] (with Jason himself shrugging confusedly at [[WhatTheHellHero Fred offering Daphne so easily]]), and she is seen cowering and whimpering before getting hacked to death.
33	** While Velma and Old Man Phillips have sex by the lake, the camera pans over to Scooby's ''bloodied'' decapitated head on a pike, and we hear his familiar chuckle as the scene fades out.
34	** The ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo''/''Literature/MillenniumSeries'' crossover isn't scary for the most part, but it has an incredibly gruesome part early on where Velma falls off an unfinished skyscraper and breaks her back landing on a stop sign. Even the villain they're fighting is horrified. She doesn't die, but Fred mentions that she's facing well over a year of intense physical therapy and she has no health insurance to cover treatment.
35	* The ''Muppets Murder Mystery'' skit, in its entirety. There's a hooded murderer on the loose killing the [[Series/TheMuppetShow Muppets]] in very gruesome ways. First, Gonzo gets [[OffWithHisHead head blown off by a cannonball,]] Fozzie Bear gets [[DeathOfAThousandCuts stabbed to death,]] and the twist that Scooter was the killer trying to avenge Skeeter's death. Also, the childhood flashback showing the [[WesternAnimation/MuppetBabies1984 Muppets]] murdering Skeeter by drowning her in a backyard pool and then claiming it was self-defense.
36	* The demented take on ''WesternAnimation/TurboTeen'' ([[QuirkyWork which is already bizarre and somewhat demented]] without having ''Robot Chicken'' parody it) where, when Brett turns into a car (having passed out next to a heat lamp), his friends have sex in him, he gets taken for a joyride and crashes, then he gets shat on by a bum, battered by two punks, has his doors and tires stolen, gets towed and is sent to the junkyard to be crushed. He ends up turning back into a human (or, more specifically, [[BodyHorror a limbless, bloody mess]]) just before he gets crushed to death.
37	* The ''Unsolved Case Files Christmas'' skit's opening. We see two elves ice skating on a frozen lake as a narrator says, "December 24, 4:30 PM. Christmas Eve. A time for joyous celebration. A time for gift giving, for peace and love." And then we see something in a block of ice floating under the ice. "A time for murder." Cue ScareChord as we get a close-up of a dead Santa Claus in the ice block.
38	** Turns out Santa Claus (the Santa Claus from the Rankin/Bass specials, mind you) is not only a toy maker, he's also an international ''cocaine cartel leader''. He hid his products in the toys he delivered to his clients. He tried using different ways to sneak the product in, like using the Abominable Snow Monster as a drug mule. It didn't end well when he and Yukon Cornelius go to the airport...
39	-->'''Hermey''': You ever see a Yeti when a dozen condoms of coke burst in his belly?
40	-->''(Bumble goes on a rampage, hurting and/or killing the people waiting to board the plane, including Yukon Cornelius)''
41	-->'''Hermey''': It's a bad scene, man.
42	** Then there's the scene where Frosty tries to steal some of Santa's products only to be "caught being naughty at the North Pole" and ending up having his bottom half ''shoved into a wood chipper''!
43	* The ''Film/HomeAlone'' parody that takes Adult Fear to the max can be very disturbing.
44	* "''Smurf Burger''" features [[FanDisservice Gargamel in a bikini doing suggestive moves]] (all while he has an incredibly wrinkly and thin body) and eating a burger filled with ''really gooey Smurf jelly''. Depending on who you are, this can either be hilarious or ''[[SickAndWrong downright sick and wrong]]'' (and if the comments on the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IhdSA7AFONw Youtube upload]] are anything to go by).
45	* This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6h2ToE1iZRU sketch]] involving [[WesternAnimation/DoraTheExplorer Dora]] eating the frozen Fiesta Trio. Also, Swiper [[FrightDeathtrap being scared]] [[JumpScare to death]] by TheGrimReaper.
46	* If you thought [[Film/RevengeOfTheSith Anakin murdering the Jedi younglings]] was dark in the original, ''Robot Chicken'' makes it even ''worse''. Unable to bring himself to do the deed, Anakin retreats to his HappyPlace--a field of sunflowers on Naboo (where he and Padmé fell in love). It soon becomes apparent that the "sunflowers" are actually the younglings, as he cuts through them with his lightsaber, picks off their petals, snaps them in half, and ''bites'' them even as they try to run away. One of them even [[HeroicSacrifice tries to shield a smaller youngling]], only for Anakin to effortlessly bisect both of them. At least the real movie had the mercy to [[GoryDiscretionShot not show the carnage...]] Though, it ends up becoming [[CrossesTheLineTwice darkly hilarious]] when Anakin leaves Padmé some freshly-cut "sunflowers" as a gift.
47	-->'''Padme:''' Oh, Ani, that is so sweet of you to... [''drops the groceries and screams in absolute horror off-screen'']
48	* The third ''Franchise/StarWars'' special revelation that Jar-Jar was a Sith all along. His comedic character and ridiculous personality was all just a cover so no one would suspect that he deliberately put Palpatine in power and destroyed the Republic. Jar-Jar had been manipulating everybody the whole time, tricking Palpatine and Vader into eliminating the Jedi, dismantling the Republic and finally killing each other off. Cue scene where Jar-Jar dons the traditional Sith cloak and laughs maniacally.
49	* One Gary the Stormtrooper skit had him accidentally hit a Ewok with his scout bike. The Ewok screaming in pain is bad enough already. Gary then decides to to put the Ewok down with a blaster shot, only to ([[ImperialStormtrooperMarksmanshipAcademy what else?]]) accidentally shoot its leg off. He ''finally'' puts the Ewok down after repeatedly bashing it, with blood spilling everywhere. The skit ends with him surrounded by a bunch of angry Ewoks who saw the whole affair.
50	* Sally going full {{Yandere}} and kidnapping Linus in "''{{Literature/Misery}}, [[{{ComicStrip/Peanuts}} My Sweet Babboo]]''", forcing him to write her the love letter she always wanted. Also in said segment, Sally ''breaks his legs and kills Snoopy'' when the latter (dressed as Batman) gets hired by Charlie Brown to try and investigate Linus' disappearance, only for the poor brave beagle to ''get bludgeoned to death by Sally's shovel'' and his body tossed into the basement.
51	* "''[[{{ComicStrip/Peanuts}} The Time of the Great Pumpkin]]''". The horrible thing Linus summons is kept as a silhouette for most of the short, but the reveal of it is horrible. A massive pumpkin with sharp teeth atop a tangle of vines that vaguely resembles a skeleton. It devours almost the entire ''Peanuts cast'' off-screen [[note]]save for Marcie, who was lucky enough to somehow not get caught in the chaos, though Peppermint Patty wasn't so lucky[[/note]] until Charlie Brown lures it to the Kite-Eating Tree, which bites its head off. And as the short closes, we're treated to a shot of the dead kids doing their iconic signature dance...in ''Hell'' with ''Schroeder'' conducting the music.
52	* The sight of the Mad Scientist's bloody empty eye socket in the 'Robot Chicken and Mad Scientist to the Rescue!' skit as well as the unnerving thought of a man gouging his father's eye out and finding amusement out of it. For those curious there's a picture, but if you are squeamish towards [[EyeScream eye scream or eye horror,]] do NOT click the link: http://imgur.com/PfR0ahc
53	* "Franchise/{{LEGO}} My Pieces" ends with TheReveal that Earl built a wall out of minifigure heads, which looks pretty gruesome from the other minifigs' perspective.
54	* A parody of ''Literature/IfYouGiveAMouseACookie'' (narrated by Creator/KristinChenoweth) has the mouse and the boy get turned into vampires, on whose growing clan the US government declares a nuclear war, which becomes widespread enough to cause TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt. Even when the sketch reveals itself as just a bedtime story from the boy's mother, she sweetly explains it as the reason she killed her husband for "giving a mouse a cookie."
55	* The WesternAnimation/LaffALympics massacre. Even if you find it funny to see your favorite ([[TheScrappy or not]]) Creator/HannaBarbera characters getting [[{{Gorn}} brutally murdered]], you may find it a ''lot'' more difficult to laugh at it once you read about [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_massacre the event]] that inspired the skit, if at all.
56	* Season 3's "Raiders of the Magic Garden" sketch is this combined with NauseaFuel.[[note]]While many people are familiar with ''Film/RaidersOfTheLostArk'', people probably aren't familiar with ''The Magic Garden.'' The latter show was a children's program that aired on New York's WPIX channel in the 1970s and 80s.[[/note]]
57	* The ''Sunny Muffins'' skit, which is animal cruelty at its finest. A little girl finds a Pegasus caught in a bear trap, but instead of rescuing him, she cuts off his wings, drugs him, then he wakes up trapped in a barn and painted like a ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'' and the girl whips him until [[Series/Roots1977 he agrees his name is Sunny Muffins]], but not before leaving him viciously lashed and reduced to tears. She did the same thing to a gryfon she named Honey Flake. Not helping matters is the fact that she's voiced by Creator/CreeSummer and has [[EvilRedhead red hair]], which will remind viewers of an even more depraved version of the well-respected voice actress' [[WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures most infamous]] [[AndCallHimGeorge role.]]
58	** Not only that, the way the little girl tortures the Pegasus into accepting his new name is similar to what Southern plantation owners did to African slaves when it was legal.
59	* The ''WesternAnimation/WonderPets'' sketch. Linny, Tuck, and Ming-Ming set out to rescue a baby cow from a wooden box near a "comedy club" called the Laughter House. When they free the cow (called "Veal"), she can't walk because her legs are atrophied from a life spent in the crate. Under the impression that "laughter is the best medicine", the Pets take the cow inside the House... we [[NothingIsScarier don't see the inside, but we hear troubled mooing, gunshots, and a ''buzzsaw'' before the pets emerge without "Veal".]] They're all initially horrified. It becomes NightmareRetardant at the end, but until the last ten seconds it seems like something PETA would produce.
60	-->'''Linny''': OH GOD IT'S NOT A COMEDY CLUB!
61	-->(Tuck throws up)
62	-->(Farmer nails a missing letter to the sign:)
63	-->'''Linny''': Slaughterhouse...
64	** And, just like the original show, [[MusicalEpisode almost all of the dialogue is sung]].
65	* Even by RC's standards, the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXmTu0t3f3k Honey Nut Cheerios]] parody is '''dark'''. Particularlly the [[GrossUpCloseUp close-up]] of Buzz's distended organs.
66	* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKX2TrVebGw Helga's Secret sketch]] is all sorts of wrong. She murdered Arnold and put his head on her shrine with his [[EyeScream eyes gouged out,]] and she even ''wears it on her head''.
67	* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_69wvG7Bqa8 Ani's Dead Mom]]" isn't scary, it's just Owen Lars making a joke too soon. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZ8Na04Bh9Q The eventual payback]], however...
68	* Season 6's episode titles can be considered this, since most of them (sans the final one, "Immortal") describe ''ways to die.'' Some range from frightening ("Eaten by Cats") to ''downright horrific'' ("Crushed by a Steamroller on My 53rd Birthday").
69	* The "Fumbles" sketch has a brand new recruit, Calvin, to ''WesternAnimation/GIJoe'' getting fed up with a dumb nickname that the Joes gave him in his first day, then defecting to Cobra after being ruthlessly humiliated by them, having become so numb that he barely even reacts when he gets a dumb nickname ''there'' too, and ends up ''single-handedly killing all of the Joes in a mass shooting'' (except for Duke, who he leaves alive [[CruelMercy just so he can wallow all of his comrades' deaths]]).
70	-->'''Cobra Commander''': [[EvenEvilHasStandards (Clearly taken aback by the massacre)]] Wow, uh..good job, uh...Trouser Snake...!
71	-->'''Calvin''': [[TranquilFury (In a cold, distant, and bitter tone)]] ...It's Fumbles. ''It was always Fumbles.''
72	* In a Season 9 episode, a kid eats a Pizza Tot straight out of the oven..... and it’s so hot, it eats through his head, melts his tongue, and makes his brain explode. The last scene of the sketch shows [[BloodFromEveryOrifice blood spurting from all orifices on his head]] as his eyes go white.
73	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDzmRA2_MtI The crossover between]] ''Film/TheFly1986'' and ''WesternAnimation/TheWuzzles'' has Seth Brundle's attempt to use his stomach acid to digest result in Bumblelion and Eleroo being melted, quite graphically for the latter.
74	* Some of the Monkey's injuries in the various "Stoopid Monkey" logos qualify. A game of darts ends up with [[EyeScream a dart sticking out of his eye]], another has him winding up being impaled in the eye through the back of his head with a pool stick and possibly worst of all, one ends with just the remains of his arms and legs after being blown up.
75	* In the ''Apocalypse Pony'' skit, two children are misbehaving and four ponies enter the house to punish the misbehaving children and set the house on fire, among other things. Pestilence Pony causes the young girl to cough violently from its fumes. Famine Pony interrupts the young boy eating chips by turning him into an emaciated version of himself and causing his bag of chips to disappear. Then War Pony proceeds to set the house on fire. [[SoundtrackDissonance All while "My Little Pony, Apocalypse Pony!" plays on in the background]]. By the time the family realizes what is happening, Death Pony ''incinerates the whole family down to the bone''. [[CrossesTheLineTwice Cue cute childish My Little Pony Apocalypse Pony theme playing]].
76	-->'''Death Pony''': ''(switches from cute to [[VoiceOfTheLegion demonic deep voice]], RedEyesTakeWarning)'' And I am '''DEATH PONY!!!'''
77	* The [[Literature/EmmetOttersJugBandChristmas Emmet Otter]] [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KL2hpZsIzdQ&t=9s sketch]], one of the few (only?) skits done in full-on puppetry. The ArtShift adds another layer of horrifying to a fox predating on his new bandmates.
78	* In the ''Series/MrBill'' [[https://youtu.be/hyR5GXTssD8 sketch]], as [[CatharsisFactor cathartic as it can be]] to see Mr. Bill [[AdaptationalKarma finally get revenge on Sluggo and Mr. Hands]] by having the latter unknowingly set off a C-4 within Mr. Bill, it can be unnerving to see the aftermath, as it's surprisingly on the graphic side, as the explosion is revealed to have [[AnArmAndALeg obliterated Mr. Hands', well, hands,]] leaving behind bloody, mangled stumps with one of them spurting out blood. The brief, yet dark musical cue adds to it, and it would avert BloodyHilarious if not for Mr. Hands' [[MajorInjuryUnderreaction mildly horrified]] [[IronicEcho "Oh no!!"]]. Makes Sluggo [[LudicrousGibs getting blown to bits]] look like he got off easy (as noted by his head splatted on the wall).

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