The Wacky World of Tex Avery/Nightmare Fuel

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Despite the show for being notorious among many animation fans, the show can still manage to stumble into creepy territory every now and then.

  • The logo of the show with Tex's face can be Uncanny to look at to some viewers.
  • The Tex Avery short "The Texorcist", where Sid believes that he killed Tex and Tex starts haunting Sid while a zombie and ghost.
  • The infamous scene where Dan fakes an injury by squirting a bottle of ketchup making it look like blood from the Pompeii Pete short "The Dis-Orderly".
    • And the scene where it looks like Pete is going to murder Dan with a chainsaw during operation.
  • Mooch getting blown up into a skeleton by Maurice's battleship bath tub from "Babysitter Jitters".
  • The Freddy the Fly short "Tell-Tale Fly" where Amanda believes that she finally killed Freddy and believes that Freddy is haunting her, but it turns out that Freddy is still alive and is stuck inside Amanda's head.
  • On the first ever Genghis and Khannie short, Genghis gets killed by a giant cannon and his soul descends to Heaven, Genghis reliefs that Cats Have Nine Lives but it turns out that all of his previous lives are up there too, much to his dismay. And we never know how his previous lives got up there, probably due to him trying to destroy the Great Wall of China but keeps getting outwitted and abused by Khannie's antics.
  • Tex Avery setting fire in a bear's stomach and blowing it up with gasoline on "Bottleneck Bear".
  • Pompeii Pete shaving Dan's chest with a tomato dicer on "Stup De Jour".
  • Tex killing himself and Sid during an Imagination Spot as elderly people on "Tex Babies", they even still fought while as skeletons.
  • Dan getting his head mounted on the wall by an albino tiger on "Gunga Dan".
  • Maurice turning Mooch into a Frankenstein like monster in "Yes, We Have No Electricity".
  • Amanda's head turning into a fly's head on "Bored of the Flies".
  • On "Cabin Fever" after Breezy the Snowguy's nose gets eaten by Sagebrush Sid after removing his hat, Tex puts the hat on Breezy and Breezy comes back to life and starts violently attacking Sid for stealing his nose.
  • The ending to the Pompeii Pete short "Count Danula" where it is revealed that Pompeii Pete is a vampire and laughs evilly to the audience during the Iris Out.
  • On the Genghis and Khannie short "Courting Disasters", the episode ends with Genghis getting decapitated and telling the viewers that he's fine and then he removes his head after that.
  • Maurice's parents revealed as skeletons on "Time Flies, Chickens Don’t".
  • Freddy sending Amanda to hell to get turned into a cake on "Cake Me a Bake".
  • A vulture trying to kill Tex just so he can eat him on "Water You Gonna Do?".
  • The Pompeii Pete short "Quiet Please" has Pompeii Pete killing a mouse with a cannon.
  • The Freddy the Fly short "Bug to the Future" where Freddy gets frozen for over 4000 years and gets thawed out in the future.
  • Sagebrush Sid getting split in half by his axe on "Up a Tree Without a Paddle".
  • Dan's facial skin cracking exposing his flesh then bones after getting hit by a coconut on "Plane Trouble".
  • The ending to "The Stepford Chickens" where Mooch gets Eaten Alive by chickens.
  • Tex and Burrito getting chased by a crazy homicidal blacksmith on "Virtual Tex".
  • Genghis getting eaten by an anaconda on "Pain in the Rainforest".
  • The ending to "Mile High Fly" where flies now become the dominant species on Earth while humans are now treated as pests.
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