Kids Shouldn't Watch Horror Films: Difference between revisions

[[Alice and Bob]] are two mischievous little kids aged around 8-14. One day, they decide they'll go to the movies. Their parents are fine with this, but warn the two of them not to see that new horror film that just came out. Alice and Bob swear they'll see an age appropriate kid film and go off to the movies innocently. Of course, they'll go see the horror film anyway, either getting in easily or sneaking in if the guy at the ticket booth won't let a pair of kids in. This backfires when they find out how terrifying and gruesome the horror movie is, and nearly end up half-traumatized. The rest of the episode will usually consist of them having nightmares and eventually being outed to the parents at seeing the film. Another common version is the kids watching it at home when the parents are out. Sometimes, though less common, the parents will be there as well.

* In the ''[[Diary of a Wimpy Kid]]'' book ''Dog Days'', Greg and Rowley watch a B-Movie called ''Hello, You're Dead'' that they found in Rodrick's room, featuring a muddy hand. Rowley has his eyes covered the whole movie. Greg doesn't find the movie all that scary... until the end, when the "muddy hand" crawls straight to the screen, [[The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You|meaning the "hand" is coming for the viewer next.]]

* ''[[The Suite Life of Zack and Cody]]'' has the twins take their dates not to see the kiddie film "Doggie Came Home", but the horror film "Zombie Mom". Zack ends up having nightmares and sleepwalking in the hotel, stacking the lobby furniture against the door to stop the zombies.

* A variation happens in an episode of ''[[Lizzie McGuire]]'' where Matt gets scared watching a horror film, though it happens with his parents present. He ends up trying to Feng Sheui the house to get rid of evil spirits.

* Not a horror film, but in ''Raising Dad'', Sarah takes Emily with her and her friends to see an R-rated movie called "Love To Love". Emily ends up trying to practice making out with a boy from school. At the end of the episode, Sarah reveals that she's been lying to her dad about what movies she sees for years.

* One episode of ''Hope & Faith'' has the family try to convince Hope to quit her chef job by showing themselves pretending to be completely lost without her. Justin's part?

* Possibly referenced in the opening to the Moxy Fruvous song "Splatter Splatter":

* ''[[Calvin and Hobbes]]'': [[Bratty Half-Pint|Calvin]], allowed to stay up one night without a babysitter, decides to rent a VCR <ref>[[What Are Records?|kids, ask your parents]]</ref> and a bunch of scary movies. The aftermath:

* In ''[[Zits]]'', Jeremy watches ''[[The Blair Witch Project]]'' when he's home alone, and every little sound in the house starts terrifying him.

** His famous "Chicken Heart" routine is this with a horror radio show (Arch Oboler's ''Lights Out''). It culminates in him smearing Jell-O on the floor to trap the giant heart and ''setting the couch on fire.''

** [[Bumbling Dad|Homer]] takes Bart and Lisa to see a horror film about a possessed doll. All three end up terrified that there's a monster in their attic, which leads into the episode's real plot about Artie Ziff living in their attic.

** "Wild Barts Can't Be Broken" has the neighborhood kids sneak out after curfew to a drive-in to watch ''The Bloodening'' (a parody of ''Village of the Damned'').

* The ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'' episode "Duck in the Dark," where Plucky watches a marathon of "Eddie Cougar" horror movies, including one that has him attacking a screaming [[Bambi]]. It ends up giving Plucky horrible nightmares.

* The ''[[Veggie Tales]]'' episode "Where's God When I'm S-scared" starts with Junior Asparagus watching "Frankencelery," and becoming frightened by everything in the house after that.

* Subverted on ''[[Arthur (animation)|Arthur]]''. Muffie's parents try to ban the "Scare Your Pants Off Club" books (an [[Expy]] of ''[[Goosebumps]]'') after she has nightmares from reading one. {{spoiler|It turns out that she reads them all the time and that the nightmares were caused by her [[Acid Reflux Nightmare|sneaking ice cream]].}}

* In an episode of ''[[The Buzz on Maggie]]'', Maggie and Rayna sneak into a scary R-rated movie. Rayna ends up so traumatized she'd rather watch the baby movie that's playing on another screen. Maggie plays it cool at first, but eventually starts hallucinating the movie's monster everywhere until she confesses to her parents. They decide her trauma from watching the movie was punishment enough.