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* Like Spoony and Critic mentioned above, Yahtzee of ''[[Zero Punctuation]]'' constantly employs this trope as part of his general [[Accentuate the Negative]] tactics, often explaining in detail the excessive and digusting bout of self-mutilation brought on by the latest game.
* [[The Nostalgia Chick]] has been known to scream or recoil in terror by what she has to review. Such as the time a frog in tits and heels came on the screen in ''[[Thumbelina]]''.
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{{quote|"The game's playing itself, Jon. ''The game's playing itself, Jon!''"}}
* [[Uncyclopedia]] parodies an infamous shock video, describing something involving two girls getting off on a [http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/2_Girls_1_Calculus_Equation "horrific, shocking perversion of mathematical law."]
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** In "Suds", SpongeBob reacts in horror of Patrick's description of the terrors of the doctor's office. "They make you read... OLD MAGAZINES!"
** "Hall Monitor": Patrick is so scared of the Maniac that just seeing a police sketch of him sends him into a screaming fit. Said sketch is clearly a stick figure rendering of SpongeBob, and they didn't even drew him scary-looking.
* In a ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|Simpsons]]'' "Treehouse of Horror" connecting segment parodying ''[[Night Gallery]]'', Bart directs the viewer's attention to a painting he claims is so horrific that "merely to [[Brown Note|gaze at it]] is to [[Go Mad
* ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' did a similar gag in their ''[[Night Gallery]]'' spoof. The picture in question was Babs' third-grade school photo.
* ''[[Freakazoid!]]'': The scariest thing in the world would be if they gave [[Take That|Sinbad]] another show.
** The show regularly makes use of [[Stock Footage]] of people screaming, dubbed "Scream-O-Vision", to comically play up the horribleness of something.
* In ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'', the ponies are terrified of [[The Lost Woods|the Everfree Forest]], where plants grow wild, animals care for themselves, and the weather changes '''all on its own'''.<ref>For non-fans, the world of the show runs on [[I Dye Grass]]; the ponies literally do everything from manage the weather to make sure animals hibernate on schedule.</ref>
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