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Some of these might overlap with the previous lists done by Secondlina and Ichiban_Victory. I hope they don’t mind. So, in no particular order, here’s my list:
11. Cartoon All Stars To The Rescue:
I had to watch this in elementary school as part of the DARE program when I was little. And it was intensely freaky to see innocent cartoon characters that I deeply loved at the time (like Bugs Bunny, the Chipmunks, the Muppet Babies, the Ducktales triplets, Garfield, the Ninja Turtles, Winnie the Pooh, etc) talking about how marijuana will ruin my life. It may be hilarious now, but back then it was seriously weird. Especially when the cartoon was followed by my teacher and a police officer standing in front of my second grade class and leading a discussion by saying stuff like, “OK kids. Why was Michael wrong to ignore Papa Smurf’s advice and go smoke dope at the arcade with gang members?”
10. Bambi's mom:
'nuff said
9. The wather levels in Sonic the Hedgehog:
I had trouble getting through the water levels in Sonic the Hedgehog because, for some reason, the drowning music made me panic. I know that's the intention and all; but it made me feel extremely uneasy and I would often turn the game off once I got to the water zone levels just to avoid it.
8. The Shoe dip from Who Framed Rodger Rabbit:
One of my earliest childhood memories is of being scared shi*less by this scene! The sight of that cute, childlike toon being dissolved into nothing is profoundly disturbing to me. To this day, I still close my eyes when it comes on. >_<
7. Charlie's death from All Dogs Go To Heaven:
This whole movie is a massive mindf*ck (what with the big lipped alligator moment and it's bizarre concept of Heaven and Hell). But one thing that got to me as a kid (and still gets to me now) is the fact that Charlie, the main character, dies in the end. It's extremely rare for a lead character in a movie aimed at children to die at the end of a film. So Charlie's death comes as a total shock. And the scene right before he dies in extremely intense (raging waves and a massive fire with a helpless little girl floating precariously in the middle of it). I thought that, like any other animated kid's movie, the hero would find a way to escape his death sentence. And I was surprised when he didn't. But he does get a really beautiful send-off at least.
P.S. This movie becomes 1,000 times more depressing if you know about the tragic fate of 10-year-old Judith Barsi (Ann Marie's voice actress). :-(
6. The Land Before Time. The death of Littlefoot's mother:
I want to say that the 300 sequels were the most traumatic and frightening thing about this movie; but that honor goes to the death of Littlefoot’s mother and the depressing aftermath. Not only is the fight scene terrifying (especially to young children); but the way Littlefoot handles it is very realistic and sad. He just sits on the rocks and shifts from blaming himself for her death, to blaming the Sharptooth, to blaming his mother for being stupid enough to fight the Sharptooth in the first place. It made me sob like a baby when I was a kid and it still chokes me up now.
5. An American Tail:
Dang. Don Bluth made some pretty intense “kids” movies in the 80’s, didn’t he?
This movie isn’t “traumatic” as much as it’s “slit-your-wrist” depressing at certain points. When I watch it now; I realize how ridiculous and frustrating all those scenes where Fievel and his family come within inches of finding each other are. But when you’re a young child, it really taps into the fear of being lost, all alone, and at the mercy of bad people.
Also [Warning! Rant ahoy!] I know this is off-topic, but does it bother anyone else how the song Somewhere Out There is always used as a romantic ballad despite the fact that, in the movie, it's sung by a brother and sister? Every once in a while I see a commercial for some Romance song CD where a couple is making out to this song and it totally makes me gag! >_<
4. The head getting ripped off in Little Monsters:
I know the meme calls for “animated moments”. But I couldn’t leave this movie out. You’ll understand why soon. Besides, Howie Mandel’s makeup and performance are cartoonish enough to count, in my opinion. ^_^
This movie (starring Fred and Ben Savage) was on television a LOT when I was a kid. Seriously, someone at the local affiliates must have really liked it because it was on TV at least once a week for years. Anyway, the movie is about two brothers who find a portal to a world populated by monsters under one of their beds. They’re guided through the fun/creepy monster world by a monster named Maurice (Howie Mandel), but they later learn that the monster world is really a sinister and dangerous place.
The version that aired on TV was edited and, while still kinda scary, wasn’t all that traumatic. However, one day my family rented the Little Monsters video from Blockbuster. And there’s one scene in the uncut version that scared me out of my mind when I was about 7 or 8 years old. It’s the scene where some random kid’s head is RIPPED OFF by one of the monsters and replaced with a doll’s head! O_O
I had practically memorized the edited version of the film at that point; so this scene totally took me by surprise! I found Little Monsters on DVD in a bargain bin a few years ago. And it took me weeks to gather the courage to pop it in and watch it again!
3. Pinocchio in Pleasure Island:
If you’ve seen this movie, you know why it’s on this list. The scene at 0:50 in the video seriously upset me when I was little (and it still does!). And it only gets worse when the donkey transformations start at 1:30.
I could never enjoy the happy ending of this movie because I can’t help thinking about all the poor little boys who were turned into donkeys and doomed to live short, miserable lives just because some fat bastard tricked them. Pinocchio escaped; but the bad guy still got away with his crime (and will likely go on to kidnap more children). That’s fu*&ing depressing!!
2. Batman the animated series: Over The Edge
This episode has, hands down, one of the most brutal on screen deaths I’ve ever seen. Batgirl/Barbara Gordon gets thrown off a skyscraper by Scarecrow, lands on her father’s police car, and then dies in her father’s arms right after revealing her secret identity to him (check 4:00 in the video).
That’s something you don’t often see in Saturday morning children’s cartoons! O_o
After Barbara’s death, the episode proceeds to get even more depressing. Commissioner Gordon figures out that Batman is Bruce Wayne and vows revenge against him. He also puts a bounty on Batman’s head; leading every 2-bit crook and supervillain to relentlessly hunt him down. Gordon finally forgives Batman right before Bane kills them both....and the audience finds out that the whole mess was just Barbara having a fear gas induced nightmare. -_-
Dream or not, that death scene was brutal and it had a major impact on me the first time I saw it.
1. Batman the animated series: Growing Pains
In this episode, Robin/Tim Drake meets a scared girl who is constantly running away from a big, creepy man. When he asks who she is and what she’s running from, she just says he has no memory and doesn’t even know her own name (so Tim names her “Annie” after the doll. AWWWW).
Anyway, it turns out that the man after Annie is Clayface. And he wants her back because she’s actually a piece of him and he needs to “reassimilate” her (eww). And despite Robin’s best efforts to protect her; Clayface gets what he wants (7:35 in the video).
When I saw this episode for the first time, I really dug the puppy love romance between Robin and Annie and I wanted her to become his new love interest (cut me some slack, I was 13 at the time). The Clayface twist was shocking by itself. But the fact that she died a horrific, on-screen death (and it wasn't just a dream) freaked me out and depressed me like you wouldn’t believe. I was literally sad for days after I saw it and I had a hard time watching any Clayface episodes for a while! It’s rare for ANYONE to die in an American Saturday morning cartoon. So seeing a cute, young girl get murdered on screen is extremely shocking even for a show as edgy as Batman:TAS.
And the final line gets me every time.
Cop: “We’ll book him on the robberies and B&E. Anything else?”
Robin: “Yeah. Murder.”
*sniff*
Some of these might overlap with the previous lists done by Secondlina and Ichiban_Victory. I hope they don’t mind. So, in no particular order, here’s my list:
11. Cartoon All Stars To The Rescue:
I had to watch this in elementary school as part of the DARE program when I was little. And it was intensely freaky to see innocent cartoon characters that I deeply loved at the time (like Bugs Bunny, the Chipmunks, the Muppet Babies, the Ducktales triplets, Garfield, the Ninja Turtles, Winnie the Pooh, etc) talking about how marijuana will ruin my life. It may be hilarious now, but back then it was seriously weird. Especially when the cartoon was followed by my teacher and a police officer standing in front of my second grade class and leading a discussion by saying stuff like, “OK kids. Why was Michael wrong to ignore Papa Smurf’s advice and go smoke dope at the arcade with gang members?”
10. Bambi's mom:
'nuff said
9. The wather levels in Sonic the Hedgehog:
I had trouble getting through the water levels in Sonic the Hedgehog because, for some reason, the drowning music made me panic. I know that's the intention and all; but it made me feel extremely uneasy and I would often turn the game off once I got to the water zone levels just to avoid it.
8. The Shoe dip from Who Framed Rodger Rabbit:
One of my earliest childhood memories is of being scared shi*less by this scene! The sight of that cute, childlike toon being dissolved into nothing is profoundly disturbing to me. To this day, I still close my eyes when it comes on. >_<
7. Charlie's death from All Dogs Go To Heaven:
This whole movie is a massive mindf*ck (what with the big lipped alligator moment and it's bizarre concept of Heaven and Hell). But one thing that got to me as a kid (and still gets to me now) is the fact that Charlie, the main character, dies in the end. It's extremely rare for a lead character in a movie aimed at children to die at the end of a film. So Charlie's death comes as a total shock. And the scene right before he dies in extremely intense (raging waves and a massive fire with a helpless little girl floating precariously in the middle of it). I thought that, like any other animated kid's movie, the hero would find a way to escape his death sentence. And I was surprised when he didn't. But he does get a really beautiful send-off at least.
P.S. This movie becomes 1,000 times more depressing if you know about the tragic fate of 10-year-old Judith Barsi (Ann Marie's voice actress). :-(
6. The Land Before Time. The death of Littlefoot's mother:
I want to say that the 300 sequels were the most traumatic and frightening thing about this movie; but that honor goes to the death of Littlefoot’s mother and the depressing aftermath. Not only is the fight scene terrifying (especially to young children); but the way Littlefoot handles it is very realistic and sad. He just sits on the rocks and shifts from blaming himself for her death, to blaming the Sharptooth, to blaming his mother for being stupid enough to fight the Sharptooth in the first place. It made me sob like a baby when I was a kid and it still chokes me up now.
5. An American Tail:
Dang. Don Bluth made some pretty intense “kids” movies in the 80’s, didn’t he?
This movie isn’t “traumatic” as much as it’s “slit-your-wrist” depressing at certain points. When I watch it now; I realize how ridiculous and frustrating all those scenes where Fievel and his family come within inches of finding each other are. But when you’re a young child, it really taps into the fear of being lost, all alone, and at the mercy of bad people.
Also [Warning! Rant ahoy!] I know this is off-topic, but does it bother anyone else how the song Somewhere Out There is always used as a romantic ballad despite the fact that, in the movie, it's sung by a brother and sister? Every once in a while I see a commercial for some Romance song CD where a couple is making out to this song and it totally makes me gag! >_<
4. The head getting ripped off in Little Monsters:
I know the meme calls for “animated moments”. But I couldn’t leave this movie out. You’ll understand why soon. Besides, Howie Mandel’s makeup and performance are cartoonish enough to count, in my opinion. ^_^
This movie (starring Fred and Ben Savage) was on television a LOT when I was a kid. Seriously, someone at the local affiliates must have really liked it because it was on TV at least once a week for years. Anyway, the movie is about two brothers who find a portal to a world populated by monsters under one of their beds. They’re guided through the fun/creepy monster world by a monster named Maurice (Howie Mandel), but they later learn that the monster world is really a sinister and dangerous place.
The version that aired on TV was edited and, while still kinda scary, wasn’t all that traumatic. However, one day my family rented the Little Monsters video from Blockbuster. And there’s one scene in the uncut version that scared me out of my mind when I was about 7 or 8 years old. It’s the scene where some random kid’s head is RIPPED OFF by one of the monsters and replaced with a doll’s head! O_O
I had practically memorized the edited version of the film at that point; so this scene totally took me by surprise! I found Little Monsters on DVD in a bargain bin a few years ago. And it took me weeks to gather the courage to pop it in and watch it again!
3. Pinocchio in Pleasure Island:
If you’ve seen this movie, you know why it’s on this list. The scene at 0:50 in the video seriously upset me when I was little (and it still does!). And it only gets worse when the donkey transformations start at 1:30.
I could never enjoy the happy ending of this movie because I can’t help thinking about all the poor little boys who were turned into donkeys and doomed to live short, miserable lives just because some fat bastard tricked them. Pinocchio escaped; but the bad guy still got away with his crime (and will likely go on to kidnap more children). That’s fu*&ing depressing!!
2. Batman the animated series: Over The Edge
This episode has, hands down, one of the most brutal on screen deaths I’ve ever seen. Batgirl/Barbara Gordon gets thrown off a skyscraper by Scarecrow, lands on her father’s police car, and then dies in her father’s arms right after revealing her secret identity to him (check 4:00 in the video).
That’s something you don’t often see in Saturday morning children’s cartoons! O_o
After Barbara’s death, the episode proceeds to get even more depressing. Commissioner Gordon figures out that Batman is Bruce Wayne and vows revenge against him. He also puts a bounty on Batman’s head; leading every 2-bit crook and supervillain to relentlessly hunt him down. Gordon finally forgives Batman right before Bane kills them both....and the audience finds out that the whole mess was just Barbara having a fear gas induced nightmare. -_-
Dream or not, that death scene was brutal and it had a major impact on me the first time I saw it.
1. Batman the animated series: Growing Pains
In this episode, Robin/Tim Drake meets a scared girl who is constantly running away from a big, creepy man. When he asks who she is and what she’s running from, she just says he has no memory and doesn’t even know her own name (so Tim names her “Annie” after the doll. AWWWW).
Anyway, it turns out that the man after Annie is Clayface. And he wants her back because she’s actually a piece of him and he needs to “reassimilate” her (eww). And despite Robin’s best efforts to protect her; Clayface gets what he wants (7:35 in the video).
When I saw this episode for the first time, I really dug the puppy love romance between Robin and Annie and I wanted her to become his new love interest (cut me some slack, I was 13 at the time). The Clayface twist was shocking by itself. But the fact that she died a horrific, on-screen death (and it wasn't just a dream) freaked me out and depressed me like you wouldn’t believe. I was literally sad for days after I saw it and I had a hard time watching any Clayface episodes for a while! It’s rare for ANYONE to die in an American Saturday morning cartoon. So seeing a cute, young girl get murdered on screen is extremely shocking even for a show as edgy as Batman:TAS.
And the final line gets me every time.
Cop: “We’ll book him on the robberies and B&E. Anything else?”
Robin: “Yeah. Murder.”
*sniff*
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Date: 2010-02-02 08:54 pm (UTC)I do remember Little Monsters being on t.v. a lot, but I never actually saw much of it. How funny to see Fred Savage so young!
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Date: 2010-02-03 04:00 am (UTC)Poor, poor, Barbara gordon. She dies horribly in almost all versions of her (except in the comics where she survives to become Miracle)