Monster Clown: Difference between revisions

== Live Action TV ==

* ''[[Are You Afraid of the Dark?]]'' had two: Zeebo the Clown, the ghost of a criminal who haunted a haunted house (go figure); and the Crimson Clown, something of a cross between a Monster Clown and a [[Demonic Dummy]].

* The Clown in the ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' episode "The Thaw" was created as [[Lotus Eater Machine|virtual-reality entertainment for a race in suspended animation]]. The Clown [[Instant AI, Just Add Water|became self-aware]] and [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot|sadistically scared to death anyone who opposed it]].

* ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' episode "Look (Stop Me if You've Heard This One) But There Were These Two Fellas..." has a pair of killer clowns whose boss is a Punch and Judy puppet.

{{quote|''[[Paedo Hunt|But that was in Indianapolis]], and thanks to the liberal reciprocity laws, Kinko can be with you [[Depraved Bisexual|boys and girls]] today or anytime.''}}

* The label of some of Capitol and Wonderland Records' childrens' albums had two very odd looking jester heads blowing horns on top.

* [[Oingo Boingo]] recorded a song called "Clowns of Death" and performed under that name on a few occasions. Auxiliary band members would sometimes dress in clown costumes, billed as the Sad Klown Orkestra.

* [[Esham]], as "Homey The Clown" on ''Homey Don't Play'' and ''I Ain't Cha Homey''.

* In ''[[Nodwick]]'', after re-lived her fifth birthday several times:

{{quote|'''Piffany''': I had to watch the ''clown'' they hired for my party. I'm going to need a few more ''teddy bears'' to get to sleep tonight!}}

* {{spoiler|Gamzee Makara}} from ''[[Homestuck]]'' first appeared to be a comedic subversion. [[Beware the Silly Ones|Not]] [[Chaotic Evil|any]] [[From Nobody to Nightmare|more,]] [[Ax Crazy|to]] [[No Medication for Me|say]] [[Omnicidal Maniac|the]] [[Lethal Joke Character|least.]] {{spoiler|Luckily, Karkat manages to calm his ass down through [[The Power of Friendship|The Power of Moirallegiance]].}}

** Monster Clowndom appears to be the [[Gang of Hats|hat]] of the Subjugglators, judging by The Grand Highblood's facepaint and colorful paintings. [[Nightmare Fuel|Facepaint and colorful paintings made of the blood of slaughtered trolls.]]

* ''[[Wapsi Square]]'' demonstrated that there are few things scarier than a [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/11282003/ dog in a clown mask.]

* ''[[Girl Genius]]'' has a [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110209 Jack-in-the-box] in Heterodynes nursery combining the charm of Monster Clown with steel-clad brutality of an overengineered murder-bot. "It explains... ''so much''..." We don't know yet who made this toy, though—it may well be local "young masters" [[Mad Scientist|themselves]].

* In ''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]'', Black Mage gains a clownlike outfit after becoming a blue mage.

* In ''[[The Word Weary]]'', Yorick's elf rogue character is disguised as a jester- and he's just as [http://wordwearycomic.blogspot.com/2011/04/28-april-2011.html acerbic and mean] as he is the in regular story.

== Web Original ==

* "Clowns: Satan's idea of what's funny" [http://verydemotivational.com/2008/06/05/funny-demotivational-posters-clowns/ poster]

* Just a fair warning: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-SamlxVgnc&feature=related This may keep you up tonight.]

* There's a viral comment being spread on [[YouTube]] warning, "a clown will kill u at 3:00 A.M. tomorrow morning if u dont pass this 2 10 vids ''[sic]''."

* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MItzvEjNURA Behold Baby Ronald McDonald].

* Tom Foolery of the ''[[Global Guardians PBEM Universe]]''. Scary makeup, spine-chilling laugh, weaponized toys, and an urge to see the whole world go down in flames. He is basically the setting's [[Captain Ersatz]] of [[The Joker]].

* [http://www.cracked.com/blog/exploring-the-mysteries-of-the-mind-with-the-sims-3/ Subject Beef] certainly fits. Seanbaby speculates on the cause-effect relationship of wearing clown makeup and killing people. All we can say for sure is that it's there, one way or another.

* [[The Grotesque|The Jester]], ringmaster of [[Circus of Fear|Le Cirque d'Abberations]] in ''[[The Tale of the Exile]]'', is one of these. He has a magically-induced deformity that gives him a permanent [[Slasher Smile]] and a tendency to mutilate others as a form of art.

* [[SCP Foundation|SCP-993]], the "Bobble the Clown" show. Once the program starts, everyone in the room over the age of ten passes out; children under the age of ten report that an animated clown gives how-tos on cannibalism, arson, and a number of other horrifying things. Worse, whoever is creating the show (and there's a certain amount of evidence that the show itself is a sapient entity that creates and broadcasts itself) appears to be aware that the SCP Foundation has found a way to intercept and block its transmission, as the two most recent episodes are <ref>Bobble the Clown, sitting in a chair and glaring silently at the viewer for the entire episode.</ref> and <ref>Bobble the Clown breaches classification on Foundation researchers, administrators, and SCPs, including detailed instructions on how to breach containment of a number of incredibly dangerous SCPs, with a special guest appearance by the animated version of an SCP researcher who happened to be passing by the room where the Foundation keeps the recordings they make of the show at the time shown on a clock in the episode.</ref>

== Other ==

* Urban legend: A teenage girl (of course) is babysitting, and the parents call home to check in. "Everything's fine," she says, "oh, but I covered up that clown statue in the back hall with my jacket, it was creeping me out." "Clown statue? [[Oh Crap|We don't own a clown statue]]..."

* In his book ''Mysterious America'' and [http://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2008/10/phantom-clowns-on-coast-to-coast.html elsewhere], Fortean Loren Coleman has documented numerous cases, beginning in May 1981 but intermittently continuing up to the present day, of malevolent activity by persons unknown, dressed in clown attire, toward targets such as elementary school children. However, given that no such perpetrators have ever been apprehended, the "phantom clown" reports continue to remain unexplained.

* Lon Chaney, Sr., "The Man of a Thousand Faces", and perhaps the single most iconic (as well as genuinely frightening) horror actor from the silent film era, once made the observation that "There is nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight."

* You can now [http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/821591-evil-clown-hired-for-stalking-threats-and-a-pie-in-the-face hire a monster clown] to stalk small children a week before their birthday. He'll leave phone calls, post notes about how he's watching them and how he'll attack them and on their birthday, he'll smash a cake in their face.

** Jesus, what kind of parents would do ''that'' to their kid?