Line #1 NightmareFuel/CowAndChicken


1	* The fact that Mom and Dad are literally just two pairs of disembodied legs. Funny? Absolutely. Still really disturbing? ''Oh yeah!'' While it's only explicitly shown in the pilot and one ''WesternAnimation/IAmWeasel'' episode, there are occasional hints to it.
2	** In "Who Rubbed Out Cow & Chicken?" The Red Guy is going around erasing people with an eraser, slowly working his way down to Weasel, who is trying to solve the crime; that alone is frightening. But, it all turns out to be a dream of Cow's, and Mom and Dad come in to comfort her. A pull-out shot has you clearly see ''they have nothing above their hips.''
3	** There is a scene in "Cow and Chicken Reclining" where Chicken is looking for something in the closet and he pulls out the top halves of a man and a woman, which Cow says was a past "science project" of hers. A few seconds later, as Cow and Chicken watch dad walk away, [[FreezeFrameBonus pay close attention to the shadow he casts on them]]. You can see the flat top of where his legs end, revealing that he has no upper body.
4	* Another scene in "Cow and Chicken Reclining" is when Mom and Dad put the recliner in the back of their truck and drive away unaware that Cow and Chicken are trapped in it. They try to get out but instead they get their heads trapped inside and we are treated to the scene where they're in the dark and they saw [[WaitingSkeleton a human skeleton sitting there]] with the gears and stuffing. The skeleton says "Oh thank goodness you're just in time!" in the Vincent Price voice. Cow and Chicken freak out at this and they try to get out of the recliner before they end up like that skeleton as well. Either the skeleton wants them to help him out of the recliner or he wants Cow and Chicken to join him in the recliner forever. Either way, it's creepy to think about a skeleton living in the recliner. The skeleton could've been one of Dad's friends trying out the recliner but got stuck inside of it somehow and died there with Dad unaware about what happened to his friend. It's chilling to think about being stuck somewhere forever and dying there!
5	* In the "Halloween With Dead Ghost, Coast To Coast" episode we can see that Mom and Dad have clothing for upper body parts, however in "Which Came First" Mom is clearly seen without an upper half, just as in several other episodes. This makes Cow's science project more of a NightmareFuel than everything else in the show (besides "No Smoking").
6	** Speaking of "No Smoking", isn't that the episode where the Red Guy drags Chicken to the underworld for [[FelonyMisdemeanor smoking underaged]]? That episode shows that he isn't just a [[NakedPeopleAreFunny regularly naked]] jerk, but also an ''extremely'' psychopathic jerk; very well be the darkest on this show.
7	* "Chicken's First Kiss" has Chicken's ImagineSpot about having the symptoms of "cooties", with his beak shriveling up, his tongue swelling 16 times, [[EyeScream his eyeballs falling out]] and losing his butt.
8	* In "Chicken in the Bathroom", Cow ends up peeing herself while Mom and Dad attempt to bathe Chicken and the four drown, which could have been avoided if Chicken simply took a bath.
9	* In "Journey to the Center of Cow", Chicken accidentally gets swallowed by his huge sister. Her internal anatomy is ''[[BiggerOnTheInside even bigger than her]]'', and he cannot escape without outside intervention. Though mercifully spared digestion, Cow's stomachs and [[AnthropomorphizedAnatomy sentient-enzymes]] recognizing he's not food, are still going to marshal him [[FantasticVoyagePlot toward the fourth stomach]], and once in there he's trapped forever. Cow's body becomes determined to force Chicken in for keeps, and it takes the HeroicSacrifice of the family doctor (The Red Guy!) to rescue him.
10	* In "Bad Chicken", Chicken gets slashed by his evil paper clone, ''complete with blood being drawn out''.
11	* The ghost milkman from "Cow's Dream Catcher" was pretty chilling in his attempts to milk Chicken, Flem, and Earl to death.
12	** In the Latin dub, the milkman's voice is Dad's. Somehow, it makes it all even worse.
13	* Another creepy one-shot character was Chachi the gum seal, whose ultimate fate was being stuck under the kitchen table and his mouth falling off after he had hardened.

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