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I'm really getting mad now, Bradley!
  • In "Send in the Clones", Stacy and Bradley make clones of each other via a clone machine, which culminates with Stacy and Bradley getting sent to and being stranded on Uranus! If it weren't for Stella and Stanley finding the kids, they would've been stuck on Uranus for God knows how long. The episode ends with Lance and Russell (somehow) discovering the clone machine and making multiple clones of each other, with the Lance clones ready to give Bradley a quadruple wedgie.
    • The opening scene of the episode, where Stella blows up in front of Stacy and Bradley. And we mean that literally, as in, she yells "Clean...up...this...mess...NOW!!!!!" and then turns into a bomb and explodes.
  • Stacy's series of nightmares about picture day in "Photo Oops", including one where she wears a sailor suit, her pajamas, and another where she dresses like a hobo. It reaches its climax in the ending, where Frank gives Stacy the class picture, prompting her to scream bloody murder.
  • "Temper Temper" (pictured above) has Stacy and Bradley turning into freaky, Kaiju-like monsters as a result of them being angry. Their own anger causes everyone else to turn into similarly creepy monsters, including Dill having two heads, Melody being a winged dragon on a unicycle, Stella having miniature versions of herself coming out of her mouth when she roars and those mini versions having mini versions when they roar, and Stanley having tiger teeth and his hands being a wrench and hammer. When Stacy and Bradley calm down, even they're shocked at seeing everyone as monsters.
    Bradley: Man, what's their problem?
    Stacy: Yeah, what are they so mad about?
    • The ending, where a giant Polly, who's pissed about being little, crushes everyone in the apartments flat.
    Stacy: Whoa! Temper temper.
    • The short that the episode was based on isn't any better. The crude art style makes Stacy and Bradley's transformations even more monstrous.
  • "Disappearing Act", where Stacy and Bradley get a hold of Stella's vanishing cream and become invisible. Stella and Stanley spend most of the episode worried that their own daughter might have ran away. It reaches a point where, when Stacy and Bradley order ice cream, they can't pay for it because the money is invisible, and the police are sent after them. It takes Frank's saliva for the two to become visible again.
    • The scene where an invisible Bradley pretends to be Stacy and pisses off Lance and Russell. They chase her as elephants, trains and tank missiles, all while Stacy is running for her life and begging Bradley to give her the cream (Bradley only responding with "why?"). He gives her the cream just as the Lance-and-Russell-missiles crash and explode.
    • The scene where Stella apologizes to Stacy for yelling at her and she sees the room clean. We get a close-up of Stella screaming, complete with an unholy screech from hell to boot.
    • At one point, Stacy and Bradley go into Principal Coffin's office and discover that he has an entire stash of weapons, implying that he tortures children as punishment. Stacy and Bradley quickly get rid of it just as they open it.
      Bradley: This is worse than I thought.
  • Stacy and Bradley's imagine spot from "Yams Away", in which the two kids are fleeing from a rocket launched by Stella, telling Stacy that she can't make Thanksgiving dinner. Stanley chimes in and decided to make Thanksgiving dinner himself, and launches his own rocket. The two rockets collide, and the scene ends with Stacy and Bradley drowning in the water, all set to the series' cheery background music.
    Bradley (as he and Stacy drown): Told ya.
  • "This is a HICCUP!" takes the Hiccup Hijinks trope and twists it into The Virus in the creepiest way possible. After Stacy extracts the hiccups from Frank, Lance and Russell then steal it, which results in the hiccup becoming mutant hiccups, leading to everyone but Stacy getting infected by it. At the end, Stella scares the victims and everything seems to be back to normal... until Stella gets the hiccups.
    Bradley: The hiccups are coming! They could be in your neighborhood! You could be next! RUN! RUN FOR YOUR LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIFE!!!!!!
  • "Night of the Living Dumpster" has Stacy and Bradley being chased by a sentient dumpster who wants to eat them.
  • The ending of "L-o-o-o-o-ng Weekend", where Stacy and Bradley are stuck having to run laps for gym class presumably for the rest of the weekend, where it ends in time having not passed at all.
  • The titular Lunchwad from "Beware the Lunchwad", a pink blob from the result of Russell thrashing around the food in his lunch bag. From its reveal, it eats Russell (as in, removes Russell's flesh from his skin to where he's reduced to nothing but a skeleton), and has a terrifying laugh to boot. There's also the fact that it would have also eaten Stacy and Bradley if not for William saving them and defeating it with his farts.
  • "Scared Stupid", where Stacy watches a scary movie despite Stella's objections. While in school, Stacy has a daydream where she imagines Stella as the maniac from the movie wielding a chainsaw to boot.
    Stella: Dear, you know how I hate to be an "I-told-you-so" kind of mother, (pulls out chainsaw) but I did tell you NOT TO WATCH, NOW DIDN'T I?! (revs chainsaw)
    • Stacy then discovers that Bradley didn't watch the movie and forces him (along with Lance and Russell) to watch the movie, only to discover that they took the movie for Miss Mobley's class and that the real movie was left at school. They enter the classroom just as Miss Mobley puts on the horror movie, and the scene cuts outside as sounds of screaming and chainsaws are heard, as Principal Coffin walks by and congratulates Miss Mobley. At the end, Miss Mobley re-enters her classroom and sees all of her students (sans Stacy) literally scared stiff by the movie, the worst of which is Russell lying unconscious on his desk in a pool of his own sweat.
    Stacy: Who'd have thought wiping would be scary for people, huh, Miss Mobley?
  • "The Ghost and Mr. Coffin", where the gang gets invited to Principal Coffin's house on Halloween. The episode isn't scary, at least until the final two minutes, where the gang is outside Coffin's house. The exterior was already creepy enough, but when Stacy and Bradley enter, they get attacked by spiders, skeletons, mummies and bats. Granted, its revealed that this was all special effects, but the entire scene, combined with Stacy and Bradley's screams and the creepy music, is enough to scare kids. There's also Bradley getting scared by Mr. Doddler's Headless Horseman costume to where he faints of shock. And if that wasn't enough, we get a close up of the jack-o-lantern doing the creepiest laugh as the episode ends.

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