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Though sometimes they may come off as Narm, KikoRiki has plenty of chilling moments.

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  • "The Iron Nanny" is the episode that introduces the titular character - a disturbing four-armed robot with a perpetual Slasher Smile that takes babysitting way too seriously. It is also The Determinator that continuously pursues Krash, Chiko and Pin, so it's a good thing it ran out of batteries by the end of the episode. It reappears in many later episodes and is much friendlier than it was in its debut episode, but the design alone is enough to keep its presence unsettling.
  • In the episode "The Game" Dokko plays a video game for a long time, causing him to have a nightmare about the player character transporting him into the level that he played. He suddenly falls in the lava and the character DOESN'T EVEN FREAKING NOTICE!!!. The nightmare ends as Dokko continues screaming.
  • In "Fear Room", Krash and Chiko were responsible for creating a titular room for the amusement park, and they succeed at scaring Barry with a costume. When Carlin tells him it was just a trick made for amusement purposes, Barry points at two huge nightmarish monsters coming their way. Thinking it's Krash and Chiko's new idea, Carlin calls for them, only to find out the two were behind them and had no involvement in making these. Then they get chased by the two creatures, only to find out that they were the machines built by Dokko and Pin hoping to assist with the Fear Room. The four got so scared they were left speechless.
    Dokko: Well, huh, what do you think? We used all of the latest technology in these. Do you approve?
    Carlin: N-N-N-N-N-No! N-No and no. I-It's not approved. It's scary... A-And not funny.
  • "Krash's New Teeth" is one of the few early episodes that wasn't dubbed by either 4Kids or Studio 100, and the titular new teeth might have been the reason for that. Krash lost his baby tooth but is too scared to go to Olga for help. Pin suggests an alternate: Give him a false teeth. It wouldn't have been so bad, if they weren't a spiky choppers. While wearing them, Krash inadvertently scares Chiko, Pin and Rosa (The latter is especially disturbing, since they met at night in the forest). Fortunately, he decides to ditch them and visit Olga.
    • The episode is also notable for its background music — this was one of the few episodes where it was composed by a rock musician Sergey Kiselyov. His tracks heavily stick out from those of the show's two mainstays, Marina Landa and Sergey Vasilyev, and succeed at making the episode feel even creepier.
  • "All Alone": Chiko is dared to go into the dark forest at night - all alone. When he does just that, he gets scared by the shadows dropped by the trees, a butterfly whose coloring looked like a skull and a spider. Paniking, he falls into the well and loses his glasses here. His friends went to find him, but have no luck. Fortunately, he climbs out and returns home later.
  • "Too Close To Heart": Pin suffering a stroke is shown in an uncomfortably realistic way and certainly not Played for Laughs. He starts audibly gasping for air and clutching his chest, his eyes turn into spirals while a tense music plays... right before he collapses, only surviving by sheer miracle. This happens to him again by the end of the episode, when his attempt to bounce back to his old self goes wrong.
  • "The Sandwich": After arriving into an abandoned hotel, things certainly go off the rails. Dokko's hunger-induced Sanity Slippage grows more unstable as the episode goes, which culminates in a talking sandwich persuading him into thinking his friends are hoarding the food from him in spite of announcing to not eat much for the sake of sports training. As result, Dokko flat out tries to attack Krash and Chiko before being restrained and carried away by the two next morning.
  • "Runaway Rocket": The first part already had Pin drop an unnerving possibility of Krash and Chico suffocating in a rocket once the oxygen runs out, but the second part only further empathizes the horror of the situation. Krash starts having nightmares of being trapped in a cramped space (with the frames reused from "Space Odyssey", where Pin himself was at risk of dying in space), before Chiko draws a smiley face on the rocket window... before losing consiousness himself. Had Bibi not arrived in time, the two would have perished miles away from their home planet.

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