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- Let's face it, ''Destination Imagination'' got pretty creepy at times. Especially whenever World got mad...
- Destination Imagination was horrifying! Think about it — the goo that makes copies of you which come to life as zombies, the faceless beings that are completely unresponsive, not to mention the face that can take on whatever image it pleases!
- The dollhouse made to look like Foster's is super creepy too, with the plastic furniture and stickers on the wall for doors.
- World's Villainous Breakdown and the junk monster form he takes on at the climax is the stuff of nightmares.
- And this is the only Foster's episode/movie to be rated TV-PG!
- Going into more detail, World wanted Frankie to stay with him in the world of the toy chest because he was alone for so long. His breakdown comes when the characters seemingly reconcile with him and start again as friends. It seems like he's warming up only for Mr. Harriman to barge in and chew out World for distracting Frankie from her chores and tells him to stay in the world of the toy chest and think about what he's done. Big mistake... World can't take it and absolutely snaps. The gang runs back to the exit. What follows is a barrage of surreal nightmarish imagery and unsettling music as the entire toy world falls apart to the point where all that is left is an infinite white void with random toys scattered everywhere!World: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NONONONONONONONONONONONO!!!! YOU'RE NOT THE BOSS TO ME!!!! YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!!!! GIVE HER TO ME!!!! GIVE HER TO ME!!!! NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW NOOOOOW!!!! FRANKIE IS MINE!!!! MINE MINE MINE MINE MIIIIINNNNE!!!!Mr. Herriman: What's happening?!Bloo: You peeved him off, that's what's happening!!
- Also Wilt's Backstory. Y'know how he's missing an arm and has a wonky eye and in the first episode, he explains he used to play basketball but now can't? It is because one of his basketball opponents slammed down on his arm into the ground, crushing his arm beyond repair and (although not actually shown but fairly obviously implied) causing it to be amputated. And the wonky eye? The basketball landed on it, permanently damaging it.
- A By the Lights of Their Eyes gag in "Blooooo" shows that the crushed eyestalk doesn't see, so Wilt only has one working arm and one working eye.
- It's done again in Destination: Imagination. But both his eyes are seen in the gag.
- Coco's backstory is even sadder. The creator of the show confirmed on his DeviantArt page that Coco was born by a girl whose plane crashed on a deserted island. Her body is what the girl was exposed to on the island (the palm tree, the deflated life raft, the mangled plane, and her sunburnt feet). She also gets her name from the fact that the girl survived on coconuts every day. The reason Coco is so goofy is that her creator's mental health was deteriorating from being stuck on the island for an extended period of time. Even worse, in "Good Wilt Hunting", it's revealed that the two nerdy scientists who found her didn't find her creator. Where did she go and what happened to her?
- "Berry Scary" is right, but Berry's facial expressions coupled with her insanity...
- We all know that Berry is a Yandere to the highest order, but then there's "Affair Weather Friends". She kidnaps a family, hijacks their large house and disguises herself as a rich kid to lure Bloo away from Mac and keep him to herself. Oh and she has a Stalker Shrine. She also attempted to run Mac over with a toy train and almost succeeded.
- In the episode, "Bloooo", where Bloo catches a cold and turns white. There's an extended Shout-Out to I Know What You Did Last Summer and until the end of the episode where we see that the guy is just a friend looking for the house, it is really creepy.
- In "Nightmare on Wilson Way" Bloo accidentally gives Mr. Herriman a heart attack from his Halloween prank and he comes back as a zombie, thus making a Zombie Apocalypse. Sure it was a prank to get back at Bloo, but it was still damn creepy!
- The creepiest parts were probably the slow shots of a mostly empty Foster's. The place is so huge it would be really creepy to move through it at night. On top of that, the show makes some good use of Nothing Is Scarier when Bloo goes back to get the snake-in-a-can gag.
- And in the same episode, Wilt wears a fake arm on his amputated nub that pops off to spook kids. When you learn his backstory, it becomes a Harsher in Hindsight moment.
- What's worse is this episode premiered in 3D when it first aired. So a lot of the stuff like the zombies and such had that extra creep factor.
- Mac going sugar crazy in "Partying Is Such Sweet Soiree" and "Nightmare on Wilson Way" (the former case of which provides the page image).
- Terrence himself can get a bit scary at times. On the outside, he looks like a normal teenage boy but on the inside, he's a cruel Jerkass who bullies Mac simply for his own amusement.
- Tara Strong's voice for Terrence qualifies as well, making him sound just as terrifying as he already is.
- In "Sight For Sore Eyes", Mac and Bloo find a lost imaginary friend named Ivan who keeps worrying about his creator named Stevie. They ask him if his creator can find him only to be told he can't. Bloo sarcastically asks, "What is he, blind?" And to their shock, Ivan says yes. Ivan is essentially an all-seeing dog version of an imaginary friend, so he knows he could be in trouble if left by himself.
- Goo in general. She herself isn't scary, but the fact that she has no control over creating imaginary friends, to the point that her parents stop by often (they actually give a measurement of time in the show, every few weeks or something like that) to drop off bumper crops of friends she's created by accident. At one point she thinks that she's got it under control, only to wake up one morning with her room full of friends that she described earlier in the episode but thought she had suppressed. It turns out that if she falls asleep while still thinking of imaginary friends, they become real. It ends up getting played for laughs in the group picture episode, where Herriman asks her to make a few friends that are similar to ones that just got adopted so that he doesn't have to rearrange everyone. She spends most of the episode refusing to do it (as she's fully aware of how much of a problem her power is), but they eventually slip out when she's a little distracted; she's pretty shocked by it, but Herriman takes it all in stride because now the picture is back on track.
- This face
◊.... This face that Frankie makes... *shudders* - It's a more subtle one, but it puts what Charlie said about food imaginary friends ending up as, well, food in "Dinner is Swerved" into perspective. In "Seeing Red", before imagining the title character, Terrence unwittingly imagines a pizza slice friend that says "Howdy Do! I love you!". Then he EATS IT! You can even hear it scream in terror as it gets eaten! This episode without a doubt PROVES that while imaginary friends may not die of old age, they're just as mortal as we are!
- Not to mention how insane Bloo becomes from hunger, attempting to eat a piece of chicken that he thinks is his best friend.Bloo: "Bloo want chickee tonight!"
- Not to mention how insane Bloo becomes from hunger, attempting to eat a piece of chicken that he thinks is his best friend.
- In "Squeeze the Day" the rest of the people at Foster's leave Bloo alone so they can enjoy a day at the beach peacefully. He and Mac end up trying to make the most fun out of having the house alone. They go into an elevator and experience an Elevator Failure but survive right before it hits the ground. If they hadn't had the rope... Not to forget the legal issues this would probably cause Foster's, especially since Mac's mom wasn't even aware of this. Many, if not, all of the friends would probably need to leave if worst case happened.
- "Mac Daddy" has a scene where Bloo, after having been annoyed with Cheese all day starts looking for him after he gets lost. Mac tells him Cheese could get into trouble if left by himself. Hearing that, Bloo starts to imagine Cheese getting hurt by random objects he finds. As he gets increasingly worried, the imagine spots gradually come at a faster pace and start getting more and more intense. Sure, a lot of it is funny, but Bloo's worry and the realization that, yes, someone as stupid as Cheese IS very likely to get hurt if left on his own starts getting to you after a bit. The crudely-drawn imagine spots and the out-of-tune music playing both complement the distressing imagery to the point that it becomes disturbing. However, the worst part is when Bloo sees the large knife on the kitchen counter. We then cut back to Mac who jumps in shock when he hears Bloo scream. It doesn't take a genius to figure out what Bloo was thinking if Cheese got his hands on something as lethal as a knife.
- "Jackie Khones & The Case Of The Overdue Library Crook" While Mac's entire conflict with the librarians was amusing, the entire scene where he returns to the library in disguise, and EVERY single person he passes angrily glares at him, could be pretty eerie.
- Bloo's horrific daydream about the "New Guy" in "Beat with a Schtick." "And now, YOU'RE IT!!!!!"
- Bloo's daydreams about being trapped in the store in "Say it isn't Sew". The first involves him staying there 'til he's old and wrinkled and Madame Foster is a skeleton saying he'll never leave. The music certainly does not help.
- The very idea behind the Extremeasauruses. These are imaginary friends cooked up by jerky teenage boys... and they act less sentient and more like wild vicious animals. The very first episode had one that was BASICALLY a very large Chain Chomp and nearly ate Bloo! Oh, and one episode featured new Extrameasauruses. What are they you ask? DRAGONS.
- Kip Snip the producer's horrible treatment of Bloo in "Sweet Stench of Success". He makes Bloo sleep in a pet cage, feeds him little to nothing and sees him as a piece of property rather than a sentient creature. Finally, when Bloo has had enough and tells him he quits and just wants to eat something and go back to Foster's, Kip drops his nice guy act and tells Bloo he can't go back. Why? Because Bloo actually signed adoption papers, not an acting contract, meaning he's his manager's legal property.
- And keep in mind that Bloo is basically a child and a grown man put him through all that — just imagine this happening to a human child.
- Frankie's addiction to Madame Foster's cookies in "Cookie Dough". At first, it's Played for Laughs and a bit understandable why she's stocking up on them, as Madame Foster only makes them once a year. But then Bloo gets a hold of the recipe and starts selling more. As the episode goes on, her behavior gets pretty disturbing. She starts sleeping outside next to the cookie stand, and gets incredibly irritable when Mac arrives 2 and a half minutes late. It then later cuts to her holed up in her room gorging herself on cookies. It all comes to a head when Mac goes to ask her for help in talking sense into Bloo, and he finds that she has gone completely off the deep end, shoveling cookie after cookie into her mouth and surrounded by dozens, maybe hundreds, of empty boxes. Mac is so freaked out by this, that all he can do is slowly back out of the room and shut the door behind him.Frankie: (with a deranged look on her face) Must stop eating cookies… such delicious sugary goodness… NEVER! (shoves another cookie in her mouth) Cookies are your friend! You shall give in to the power of the triple chocolate! I've loved them since I was a baby, and she never gave me enough. (eats a bunch more cookies) So you need to eat MORE! As many as you can! LET NO ONE STOP YOU! But how?
- The end credits reveal that after eating so many cookies, she winds up fat, but she still keeps eating them, acting like a deranged slob with crumbs all over her engorged stomach and chugging milk so fast it pours out of her mouth. Maybe Madame Foster only bakes them once a year for a reason, so that Frankie doesn't wind up becoming fatter.
