And to think, this just happens to be the one clown Wakko isn't scared of.
While the original show didn't bring much in terms of hardcore scares, this one doesn't hold back in its imagery and stories. "Good night everybody" indeed...
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Season 1
- The Reveal of Chicken Boo in “Good Warner Hunting” is downright disturbing, looking less like a disguise and more like a shapeshifting mutation. Even the Warners are horrified by it.
- Seeing Mindy, a toddler seemingly mounted and murdered by Chicken Boo is horrifying even if you disliked her original shorts with Buttons. Adding to the horror, seeing nearly ALL of the original cast seemingly killed and mounted by Chicken Boo is disturbing as hell. Thankfully it's all subverted and they're still alive, but no matter how you look at it, it’s unnerving seeing their lifeless faces staring at the camera.
- One of these victims Chicken Boo supposedly killed and mounted was Katie Ka-boom, a teenage girl who was once his girlfriend in the original series. Talk about a yandere, Chicken Boo! No wonder she turns into a rage-filled monster at the sight of him!
- Further adding to the horror is the fact that among the hunted, Slappy and Skippy, two of the more iconic members of the cast, have their heads mounted. You can almost picture Slappy trying to protect her nephew, but through one method or another, Chicken Boo got them.
- From "Mousechurian Candidate": Brain forcing Julia to come under his control, turning her into a Stepford Smiler. When she tries to resist she begins to painfully glitch out and go rabid. She starts making Nightmare Faces and snarling threats at the debate audience, and her hair catches on fire.
- And the kicker? Even as Brain mourns her supposed loss of identity...her brain is still intact. And she's already spying on him to plot her revenge. Good luck in season 2, Brain.
- When Nils attempts to grab Wakko by the tail, he responds by literally breaking his own tail off. Wakko then muses that it's a good thing he's "5% salamander", and then proceeds to regenerate his tail in the most Body Horror-ish manner allowable for a kids' cartoon.
- The Couch Gag of episode 11 has the Warners as zombies with visible bones. They end up looking very frightening.The Warners: "Must eat brain-y!"
- While Wakko and Dot manage to handle Nickelwise just fine, Yakko almost gets his soul taken away as he panics over having nobody laughing at his jokes.
- Earlier in the skit we see Nicklewise eating the soul of a little boy.
- And ends with Nicklewise coming into the bathtub of a terrified Ralph.
- Dot making the whole world "cuter" ends horribly when the Warners end up singing non-stop for 28 days!!!
- To make things even more disturbing, Wakko pulls out a gumdrop that has replaced his brain and flicks it and Yakko has sugar pouring out his eyes. They even call it a nightmare in-universe. They also lick a sickly disgusting pigeon to turn things back to normal and turn into pigeon hybrids in the ending.
- Despite having been cuteified, the Warners' facial expressions when cornering the pigeon are terrifying, with all three sporting hungry Slasher Smiles, their eyes changing to sport yellow Hellish Pupils, and their teeth turning into massive fangs.
- The ending of “RalphCam”, when Ralph slips on an IV blood bag, breaking it and the contents burst all over him. The skit ends with the camera feed cutting off as he screams in horror upon realizing what he’s covered in.
- "Babysitter's Flub" ends with Brain and Pinky being sent to a middle school science class to be dissected.
Season 2
- A minor one. "Now Loading" has a moment where Wakko is holding his eyelids open as he focuses on his tablet loading a game, and suddenly, his right eye falls off, prompting him to put it back on.
- The Warners getting killed by spam in "Please, Submit". Even the gory discretion shots are convincing. Fortunately, it was all an act. But still, seeing your favorite characters getting killed off, one by one, is horrifying.
- The side effects of Zobroflex on Wakko are...mildly distressing to say the least, like his "dry mouth" where his tongue crumbles to dust and the "rapid and irreversible aging". But it gets to its worst when Wakko starts hallucinating that the "clocks have faces", and a wall clock suddenly sprouts a monstrous, demonic face and screams at the camera.
- "Plight of Hand" has Pinky getting zapped by an invention that turns the victim aggressive; after Brain turns down the strength and zaps Pinky with it, only his HANDS turn aggressive and as a result he has no control over his own, evil hands throughout the episode. At one point, it is heavily implied that they committed murder - Pinky states that he escaped from police custody in a scenario that was just like the scene in The Silence of the Lambs, only no face stealing was needed. But THEN:Pinky: My hands... just did it for fun...
- "Mouse Madness" has Brain ending up in random timelines due to the instability of his time manipulating device, with rifts opening up that threaten to rip apart all existence. He ends up in a timeline where he actually managed to take over the world, but when he expresses a desire to stay the Pinky of that timeline reveals himself to be an Eldritch Abomination using Brain as a puppet. Brain is saved by a fortunate appearance of another rift, but Eldritch Pinky boasts that not even the void can hold him. True enough, the segment ends with Brain seemingly back in his own timeline, only Pinky briefly morphs into an eldritch horror while he's not looking.
- The season ends with the Warners speculating on a season 3, and what they will do in the meantime. Cut to Wakko saying "This time, I wonder if we'll dream..." while he get a close up at his pallid face, his already black eyes enlarged and more soulless [than usual].
Season 3
- "The Island of Dr. Warneau" has the experiments in Jürgen's Mad Scientist Laboratory, including a melted-looking Wakko, a big-toothed monster wearing a mask of Yakko's face, and a severed cartoon arm that screams as it's suspended over a candle flame.
- On that note, Jürgen himself. If he's not bringing a freaking handsaw to a psychiatric therapy appointment, then he's playing Abusive Parent to rip-offs of the Warners he created.
- "Mad Mouse: Furry Road": Pinky gets so badly sunburned that the flesh peels off his back exposing his spine.
- "All's Fair in Love and Door" makes Season 1's "Mousechurian Candidate" even harsher in hindsight, with the revelation that Brain's feelings for Julia were authentic and he regrets how he treated her. How does Brain cope with that? By creating a replica of Julia in a computer simulation that is his doting wife. This all falls apart when A.I. Julia discovers the meaning & reason for her existence. She responds by building a Killer Robot body for herself, then going on a Roaring Rampage of Revenge against Brain. She probably would have killed him if not for Pinky.
- The episode six segment Murder Pals. Part one, Rough Collie leads its female owner to a well and pushes her down the well. In the second part, Rough Collie leads the male owner to a cliff and trips him, causing the male owner to fall down the cliff. In the final part, Rough Collie takes his child owner on a boat ride on the ocean. To the kid's shock, Rough Collie leaves with a dolphin, and the dog and the dolphin share a dinner while holding up drinks, and the words "Murder Pals" appear in red as the episode ends.
- The ending of the series: an "Everybody Dies" Ending with a meteor striking the earth and killing everyone. Granted, it's Played for Laughs as an End-of-Series Awareness, but this is still extremely dark for the show.
