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  • Every single time Shelby and Cyd end up in that strange futuristic laboratory. Complete with them Strapped to an Operating Table, the creepy lighting, the Malevolent Masked Man slowly advancing upon them intending to do who knows what to them. But what really sets it off is just how jarring the transition is, and the fact that both inverse and out no one presently has even the remotest idea what the hell is going on. Made even worse by recent implications that Barry is somehow involved. However, he's nothing more than a fanatic of the company, and even he doesn't know of their inner workings. It gets scarier when its revealed that the company's CEO Janet Smythe owns the lab and commissioned it, and she's just getting started. Made even worse by the apparent fact that Shelby's father apparently got a promotion that has him working with the very lab they end up in.
    • Later averted as it's revealed that Cyd and Shelby had actually agreed to undergo the procedure and have their powers removed, and that Barry was the one who was carrying out the experiment because they asked him to.
  • The events of "Shake Your Booty" are honestly quite scary, the idea that if you travel outside your own time stream and stay there too long, the timeline will consume you. To the point that you will forget even your closest friend and yourself, and be trapped there never to return to your true time. And that all of this will occur without you even noticing (and anything you notice you will quickly forget) is really honestly terrifying.
  • The whole of "Cyd and Shelby Strike Back" really: In an attempt to undo the Future Lab timeline, Cyd and Shelby alter history so that they don't live together anymore. That ends up being the least of their concerns, as not only does the Big Bad Janet Smythe know who Cyd and Shelby are from their break-in, the episode culminates in them, Barry, Naldo, and Marci being captured by her, and Cyd being dragged into a molecular separator and coming far closer than she should to being Killed Off for Real. It's less like a Disney Channel Kid Com and more like a really scary sci-fi movie.
  • The glimpse of the dystopian future ruled by Janet in "Fight The Future: Part 1" is very creepy and scary. She seems to have turned the country into a military dictatorship that worships her image, is brainwashing youth (like Drake), and has very strict rules that, when broken, get the perpetrator thrown into frozen suspended animation, even if it's just not saluting to her at the specified "Salute to Janet" time. She even had the power to throw Barry and Naldo into suspended animation, just to prevent them from recreating time travel and not because they actually broke her rules or did anything wrong. This means that Janet is able to publicly do heinous things to people, and she is not questioned or ever held accountable for it.

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