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Of all things, there's a Peanuts cartoon that's pretty freaky, despite it being All Just a Dream. Basically, Charlie Brown decides to fly Snoopy like a kite. It all starts funnily enough, as the wind under Snoopy's flapping ears lifts him higher and higher. To Charlie's initial delight, until he suddenly reacts with a horrified "NO! Oh, NO!!!!" And Snoopy plummets from the sky, impacts with the ground, and smashes (albeit bloodlessly) into fragments like a dropped vase. Cue a terrified Snoopy waking up in a cold sweat: "Man! I've GOT to stop eating those 30-inch pizzas before bedtime!"
- Date of the strip, please. I tried looking for "Kite" and "Dream" in the back of every The Complete Peanuts book the bookstore had, and found nothing.
  - Sorry, but I can't help with the date. It was in one of the Coronet reprint volumes issued in the UK: I think that it must have been quite early on, as the Snoopy depicted was partway between his original quadripedal self and the present-day version.
The entire "Mary Kay Commandos" storyline from Bloom County. Especially the bit where Opus meets rabbits with their eyelids stapled open!
- The really scary part? Every single one of the inhumane tests described really was going on at Mary kay at the time.
What a Nightmare Charlie Brown!: Snoopy is abused and starved, becomes evil, and then dies getting pulled into a frozen lake, screaming and clawing for his life. One could argue that this was inappropriate for the Peanuts specials' target audience.

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+* Of all things, there's a ''[[Peanuts]]'' cartoon that's pretty freaky, despite it being [[All Just a Dream]]. Basically, Charlie Brown decides to fly Snoopy like a kite. It all starts funnily enough, as the wind under Snoopy's flapping ears lifts him higher and higher. To Charlie's initial delight, until he suddenly reacts with a horrified "NO! Oh, NO!!!!" And Snoopy plummets from the sky, impacts with the ground, and smashes (albeit bloodlessly) into fragments like a dropped vase. Cue a terrified Snoopy waking up in a cold sweat: "Man! I've GOT to stop eating those 30-inch pizzas before bedtime!"
+** Date of the strip, please. I tried looking for "Kite" and "Dream" in the back of every ''The Complete Peanuts'' book the bookstore had, and found nothing.
+*** Sorry, but I can't help with the date. It was in one of the Coronet reprint volumes issued in the UK: I think that it must have been quite early on, as the Snoopy depicted was partway between his original quadripedal self and the present-day version.
+* The entire "Mary Kay Commandos" storyline from ''[[Bloom County]].'' Especially the bit where Opus meets rabbits with their [[Eye Scream|eyelids stapled open]]!
+** The ''really'' scary part?  {{spoiler|''Every single one'' of the inhumane tests described really was going on at Mary kay at the time.}}
 * ''[[What a Nightmare Charlie Brown]]!'': Snoopy is abused and starved, becomes ''evil,'' and then dies getting pulled into a frozen lake, screaming and clawing for his life. One could argue that this was inappropriate for the Peanuts specials' target audience.
-* One Sunday strip from the 1960's really disturbed this troper as a young boy. Charlie Brown, not having a kite to fly, attaches some string to Snoopy's collar and uses ''him'' as a kite, who uses his ears to create the lift needed to fly. But it doesn't work for long, and Snoopy plummets to the ground and ''SHATTERS into a hundred pieces!!'' Luckily it was just Snoopy having a nightmare from eating too much before sleeping, but still, that image of him shattering in front of his master must've upset a LOT of kids at the time!
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