Shows with their own pages
- Animalia
- Arthur
- The Berenstain Bears
- Between the Lions
- Cyberchase
- Ghost Writer
- The Magic School Bus
- Odd Squad
- Rabbit Ears Productions
- Redwall
- Sesame Street
- Theodore Tugboat
- Thomas & Friends
- WordGirl
- Wild Kratts
- Wishbone
Idents and bumpers
- This variant of the "P-Pals" logo
which begins with the P-Pals moving about in a dark room. Then we go through an open door and then the P-Pals scream "SURPRISE!" in the voices of characters from PBS Kids' shows (like Big Bird and Ms. Frizzle) with all sorts of loud party horns and other noises going about. "Surprise", indeed.- There's also a shorter version of that variant, which starts with the zoom into the open door.
- There is also another less-scarier version which has kids calling out "The P-Pals are coming!" which ends with a kid saying "Watch for them!". Still unsettling nonetheless, for those not expecting the "Surprise!" bit at the end.
Shows
- “Barney & Friends”:
- Barney, BJ, Baby Bop and Riff's mouths are completely black, they have no tongues, Baby Bop's mouth never moved in the first two seasons, and Barney has human-like eyes and teeth.
- The end of the Backyard Gang video "Waiting For Santa", with Santa looking at the camera and whispering almost menacingly "Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!"
- Many children were scared by the bear in "Barney's Campfire Singalong" due to the sheer Unintentional Uncanny Valley factor of his appearance and because he appears out of the darkness of the woods.
- The donkey statue from Rock with Barney has only a small amount of screen time, but it has managed to traumatize a generation of children watching the video. As everyone exits the studio, the donkey can be heard braying offscreen, but when Adam's mother turns around to look for the source of the noise, she sees nothing but the inanimate donkey statue, so she merely shrugs it off and leaves. However, the scene cuts back to the donkey as the camera zooms up close to its face, after which it gives the audience a creepy-looking, almost lifelike wink.
- And just when you think it couldn't get any worse, the donkey appears once more at the end of the credits and winks at us a second time!
- Caillou:
- In "Caillou is Getting Older", we get a shot of a dead bird who died of old age, onscreen. note It doesn't help that the rest of the episode features Caillou being afraid of getting old and dying.
- Dragon Tales: For just how saccharine and otherwise pleasant this show is, Cyrus looks really creepy. Sure, he is supposed to be a bad guy, and he does have a few silly moments, but he's still... unsettling, to say the least.
- Reading Rainbow would occasionally feature books about subjects that children might find disturbing - such as a home fire, or death.
- In the Shining Time Station episode: Mr. Conductor Gets Left Out, the kids have terrifying zombie eyes from watching too much TV, which horrifies Stacy Jones. Once she unplugs the TV set, they return to normal.Stacy Jones: (gasps when she sees the kids with zombie eyes) HOLY COUCH POTATOES! That's it, no more TV for you! (unplugs the TV set)
- Square One TV:
- Mr. Glitch was an anthropomorphic tornado who would eat Mathman if he got a question wrong and even once, when Mathman got it right.
- And once for absolutely no reason at all. That time, he filled the whole damn screen.
- There was also one time when the roles were reversed and Mr. Glitch got to run the maze. In the end, after his (inevitable) failure, Mathman ate him ''one bite at a time.''
- The "Ghost of a Chance" video. The whole concept of a pizza delivery boy getting trapped in a haunted house forever, unless he gets very lucky making a series of random guesses (to teach probability), is nightmarish enough, but then you have real footage of thousands of worms crawling over each other and an endless hallway with "EXIT?" signs over an endless number of doors. He picks the wrong one.
