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[[File:chuckiesmonster.png|frame|There's no such things as monsters, there's no such things as monsters...]]

 

* There was one episode where Tommy got lost in the post office, and ended up going through the chute to the dead letter office, on a conveyor belt leading to what is best described as the junk-mail pit of death, complete with the skeleton of a postal worker who had apparently fallen in years before.

** Worse, it has some [[Fridge Horror]] to it. Think about it: Tommy goes through an obstacle course of mail sorting machines, getting weighed, sliding down chutes, trapped on conveyor belts, marked as junk mail and almost ends up stuck in the dead letter office if he didn't pull the right switch. It's no wonder Tommy says "You'll like it at home. It's a lot nicer than here!"

* Then there's the episode where Stu's latest invention is Mr. Friend, an [[Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant|unintentionally creepy-looking]] [[Monster Clown|robotic toy clown]]. Given the toy's erratic and disturbing behavior, the babies' malapropism "Mr. Fiend" may be a more accurate description. It gets worse when Tommy and friends have to fight off a small army of malfunctioning Mr. Friend dolls.

** "RISE AND SHINE YOU SLEEPY HEAD, IT'S NO FUN TO STAY IN BED, IN BED, IN BED, IN BED, IN BE-E-E-E-E-E-".

* The episode "Under Chuckie's Bed" where Chuckie gets a new bed to replace his crib and thinks there is a [[Things That Go Bump in the Night|monster under there]] and imagines that its talking to him. When Chuckie dares to peek under his bed for the monster he actually saw a dark, demonic-looking humanoid WITH AN ARM REACHING TOWARDS HIM.

** Angelica's story that she tells halfway through the episode about a boy who got "eaten by a monster under his bed" is also quite disturbing too. It begins with the boy just laying on his bed and reading comic books, when he hears the monster talking to him. The monster tells the kid that he has cake and ice cream under the bed, and the boy, buying the monster's lie hook-line-and-sinker, drops down to the foot of his bed, only for the monster to '''eat him alive in a scene that looks like it came from a ''[[Nightmare On Elm Street]]'' movie.''' Ending with a horrible belching noise to top it all off as well.

* Chuckie's germ nightmare in the episode "Mr. Clean".

** Chaz's psychotic dependecy on puppets in "Mr. Clean."

* Is it me, or is Angelica's temporary [[Face Heel Turn]] in "Angelica for a Day" creepy? The smile on her face seems so forced and unnatural.

* Worst of all is Angelica's [[Nightmare Sequence|would-be]] [[Enfant Terrible|baby brother]] from the episode, "Angelica's Worst Nightmare". It begins with Angelica hearing a baby crying and finds her parents fawning over the new baby, saying how "precious" and "adorable" it is while not knowing who Angelica is. After the mom and dad leave, Angelica talks to the baby, and, much in the same matter as Tommy and the gang, Angelica's new baby brother can talk. However, he's more like ''[[Family Guy]]'''s Stewie minus the evil humor and with a horrifyingly deep and raspy voice, and tells Angelica that this house isn't big enough for the both of them, and says that Angelica (the "old baby") should be gone permanently. Angelica tries to flee from him, but the baby keeps finding her, and growing every time there's an encounter between them. The dream enters its horrifying climax as Angelica's now Godzilla-sized baby brother catches Angelica in her getaway car, wondering "what a toy car would taste like". It all ends with Angelica screaming, "No! You can't eat me, I'm your sister!" with the baby replying, "WELL NOW YOU'RE NUM-NUMS!" and putting Angelica (car and all) in his dark cave-like mouth.

* On the episode "Dust Bunnies", Chuckie becomes scared of dust bunnies. So scared that he has a nightmare where a giant, evil, slobbering rabbit drags him into the basement with its slimy ears, while he screams the whole time.

** Apparently it was aired as part of a 3D promotion block called 'Nogglevision', using 'Chroma-Depth' technology. The 3D is still in the episode, as Chroma-Depth requires specific colours, but all the '3D on/off' cues are removed. Still, imagine watching this episode when it aired as part of the 3D line-up, in 3D.

** The ending lulls you into a false sense of security with Tommy reassuring Chuckie that being a grown up won't be that bad, and then, for no real reason at all other than scaring the crap out of every kid watching the episode, Angelica appears and says the following in such a creepy and horrifying fashion: "Oh booooyyyyys~... Time to play '''HOUSE!'''" Cue her face morphing back into the adult version, complete with a huge [[Slasher Smile]], her [[Evil Laugh]], Tommy and Chuckie screaming in terror and a ''hard'' cut to black.

* In the aptly named episode "The Shot," Chuckie describes getting a shot to Tommy (who was going to get one that day), with images of a friendly-looking doctor morphing into a Mr. Hyde-like monster and thrusting a hypodermic harpoon at Chuckie.

* The first Halloween episode had some pretty creepy background music, as well as views through the eyes of what the babies thought was a monster in the garage. {{spoiler|Turned out it was actually just a mouse, but it's still Nightmare Fuel.}}

* The episode where Chuckie wants to run away from home because the babies destroyed his dad's CD shows a parody of a famous Christmas story, where he sees what life would be like if he never existed. What was both terrifying and depressing was when his guardian angel showed him Tommy's dark, grey house, with a beaten, dirty and sad Tommy playing in the trash cans. The dialogue is as follows:

Angel: Yep, she took them too. }}

** And if that wasn't enough, it then shows a starved Tommy beside a ''[[Return of the Jedi|Jabba the Hutt]]''-esque Angelica, with his parents rushing around baking her cakes, completely ignoring Tommy, who begs for food, and is rejected.

*** Also in this episode, Phil and Lil destroying breakables in their house as their mother sobs over her ruined home.

* There was one episode where Angelica steals Chuckie's glasses. Without them, his imagination runs wild and he begins seeing ordinary objects as [[Monster Clown|creepy clowns]] and the like.

* In "The First Cut" Tommy gets cut on a rose bush. He later dreams that when he gets cut, endless amounts of stuffing starts pouring out of the wound, as if he's a stuffed doll (This was inspired by a damaged teddy bear earlier in the episode).

* "The Last Babysitter": With only Susie's older sister in charge, the power goes out, and Tommy and Susie think that there's a monster in the dark house. At one point, they sneak upstairs to read Susie's book of monsters, one of which "eats bones."

'''Susie:''' No, Tommy. Not like a dog. }}

* The [[Fantastic Voyage Plot|Fantastic Voyage episode]] where Angelica had Chuckie convinced that, because he swallowed a seed, his stomach would be ripped open from the inside by a rapidly growing watermelon. The others had to go in there to get the watermelon seed out before it took root, but they were too late and it started going out of control. The environment inside was dark and claustrophobic and kinda gross. Tommy, Phil and Lil hardly got out in time, and only then was it revealed that it was [[All Just a Dream]].

* There was an episode where Tommy wished the worst thing ever would happen to Angelica. Angelica goes home, but Tommy finds a statue of her and is racked with guilt, thinking his wish had turned her to stone.

* The episode where Chuckie and Tommy think Stu is a robot, especially the scene where a sleep-walking Stu chases them and the ending exchange:

'''Chuckie''': Yeah. (beat) Wait, what about my dad?! (scary music) }}

* There were many creepy nightmare sequences in this show.

 

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