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  • The ad for Oxymoron Batteries, which obtain power by draining the user's life force and leaving them withered and decrepit husks.
    Victor: They last as long as you do!
  • The ending of the season one finale "To Sheep, Perchance to Dream" can come off as very unsettling to some, given that out of the blue it is revealed that Sheep was Evil All Along and that he plans to use the narrator Ben Plotz in his narrator-powered ray gun. The icing on top this cake of terror is when Ben Plotz assumes this was just a dream only to be proven wrong and the episode closes with the insistence that all of this has actually happened. Were it not for the show being renewed for a second season and choosing to ignore the events of this episode, the show would've concluded with children traumatized by the cartoon's main character they've come to sympathize with turning out to be a depraved villain and succeeding in his goals.
    • Really, the entire episode is unsettling even before The Reveal in the third act. It starts off like any other episode, except things seem a little... off, somehow. For example, the Angry Scientist isn't his usual irritable self, decides that "angry" and "mad" are basically synonomous so there's no reason to be annoyed over being misnamed, and laughs when General Specific misunderstands what his new machine does.
    • It gets worse during the climax. Lady Richington somehow appears in Ben's studio and attacks him for narrating the dream she had about Sheep and Swanky getting married. After he flees into the street and hides from her in an alley, the Angry Scientist appears again, hiding in a trashcan.
    Scientist: I was looking at the sheep-powered ray gun, and be noticing that it has TWO settings; Sheep and Narrator!
    Ben: WHAT?!

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