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* Basically anything that ever happened in ''GarthMarenghisDarkplace'', like in the episode "Scotch Mist".

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* Basically anything that ever happened in ''GarthMarenghisDarkplace'', ''Series/GarthMarenghisDarkplace'', like in the episode "Scotch Mist".
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* In episode 2 of Season 2 of {{K-On}}!!, after cleaning out the closet of the music room, Mio and Asuza find out that Yui left a lot of things still and get mad at her. Yui pouts and claims that Ui would get mad and make a scary face if the latter brought more stuff home. Cue cutscene showing a "scary" Ui giving a thumbs up to Yui, after the latter had dropped other stuff she took home earlier and apologized profusely. Both Mio and Asuza wonder if Ui isn't the older, more responsible sister after all. [[/folder]]
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[[caption-width-right:330:This is the cast of the ''Film/WingCommander'' movie? The horror! The ''horror!'']]

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[[caption-width-right:330:This is the cast [[WTHCastingAgency cast]] of the ''Film/WingCommander'' movie? The horror! The ''horror!'']]
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A comedy trope where something is played up to be terrifying, and it clearly is not. It's not even something that sets off a common phobia. Sometimes the scene is shot like a horror film. Bonus points if the ''{{Psycho}}'' [[PsychoStrings theme]] is playing.

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A comedy trope where something is played up to be terrifying, and it clearly is not. It's not even something that sets off a common phobia. Sometimes the scene is shot like a horror film. Bonus points if the ''{{Psycho}}'' [[PsychoStrings theme]] is PsychoStrings are playing.
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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47YPs-qwNQU This video]] of ''FinalFantasyXIII'' and its linearity.
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* ''ExterminatusNow'' inverts this. An attempted assassin ''expects'' the team to do this and calls them out on it only to find out that they fully intend to start by cutting off his testicles.

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* ''ExterminatusNow'' inverts this. An attempted assassin ''expects'' the team to do this and calls them out on it only to find out that they fully intend to start by cutting off his testicles. Before asking questions.
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* ''HighAnxiety'', especially the shower scene. Being a spoof of AlfredHitchcock films, it's justified.
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* ''HighAnxiety'', especially the shower scene. Being naturally, being a spoof of AlfredHitchcock films, it's justified.
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** Quagmire tells a GhostStory that's clearly only scary to him.

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** Quagmire tells a GhostStory that's clearly only scary to him. The scene can seen be [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yNaHQZrZ90 here]].
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[[caption-width-right:330:This is the cast of the ''WingCommander'' movie? The horror! The ''horror!'']]

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** Interestingly, this shifts to FridgeHorror when you consider ''why'' the ponies are afraid of this...

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* Back when Apple released the first iMac, Jason of ''FoxTrot'' dressed up as one for Halloween. Peter didn't understand how it was supposed to be scary, to which Jason replied "I have ''no floppy drive!''" which quickly reduces Peter to a quivering wreck.
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* {{ExterminatusNow}} inverts this. An attempted assassin ''expects'' the team to do this and calls them out on it only to find out that they fully intend to start by cutting off his testicles.

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* {{ExterminatusNow}} ''ExterminatusNow'' inverts this. An attempted assassin ''expects'' the team to do this and calls them out on it only to find out that they fully intend to start by cutting off his testicles.
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* TheNostalgiaChick has been known to scream or recoil in terror by what she has to review. Such as the time a frog in tits and heels came on the screen in ''{{Thumbelina}}''.
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* [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6349792/1/Harveste_Addams_and_the_Prisoner_of_Azkaban Harveste]] reacts this way when his boggart turns into a scene involving fresh air, happy music, flowers, and kittens. It takes one and a half bottles of Vodka to calm him down.
-->"Harveste-"
-->He stepped forward, curious to see what it would change into. What was an Addams afraid of, after all?
-->The Boggart flickered, and disappeared into a pool of sunshine. Peppy music seemed to bloom through the air on the wings of a pine-scented breeze, lightening the shadows, inducing a spate of foot-tapping with its catchy riffs. There was a yellow, sunflower-patterned boot. It had three wriggly kittens, one green eyed, one blue and one silver. They mewled ingratiatingly and one tumbled out in a furry little heap.
-->There was a pot of flowers in full bloom.
-->Harry took a step back with speed. "Loki's womb…" He breathed with horrified despair. "It's awful."
-->Draco and Blaise watched Harry stumble into the common room, closely followed by an anxious Hermione.
-->"What on earth happened?" She asked them, her eyes on their friend. He was in the closet, throwing out skirt after skirt, blouse after blouse. "He's shaking."
-->"Boggart." They both said together.
-->"Oh no. What did it turn into? Some huge, slavering, scaly, blood-soaked beast?"
-->"Don't tease me so, darling." Harry moaned, desperately burying his hands into black lace and chiffon to try and forget. "It was the most horribly disgusting thing I've ever seen. The fresh air…the music…the flowers…"
-->It took a bottle and a half of strongest vodka before Harry could control himself, but he twitched every time someone even mentioned cats.
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** Stewie sees a picture of a fully nude woman, and seeing her crotch made him scream and shoot the magazine with a machine gun. May be justified, since he ''is'' only a baby.

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** Stewie sees a picture of a fully nude woman, and as he's just a baby, seeing her crotch made him scream and shoot the magazine with a machine gun. May be justified, since he ''is'' only a baby.gun.
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** Stewie sees a picture of a fully nude woman, and seeing her crotch made him scream and shoot the magazine with a machine gun.

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** Stewie sees a picture of a fully nude woman, and seeing her crotch made him scream and shoot the magazine with a machine gun. May be justified, since he ''is'' only a baby.

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Often a CausticCritic will do this with finding out he has to review some works he really hates, as a way to show that SuckinessIsPainful.


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Often a CausticCritic will do this with finding out he has to review some works he really hates, as a way to show that SuckinessIsPainful.

SuckinessIsPainful. Sometimes, even just [[ItBurns holding the work in hand]] is enough to cause emotional scars.
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* ''HighAnxiety'', especially the shower scene. Being a spoof of AlfredHitchcock films, it's justified.
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Compare NightmareRetardant, where the show is trying and failing at actually scaring the audience, and also WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous, LightmareFuel, ScreamingAtSquick.

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Compare NightmareRetardant, where the show is trying and failing at actually scaring the audience, and also WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous, LightmareFuel, ScreamingAtSquick.
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Compare WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous, NightmareRetardant, LightmareFuel, ScreamingAtSquick.

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Compare NightmareRetardant, where the show is trying and failing at actually scaring the audience, and also WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous, NightmareRetardant, LightmareFuel, ScreamingAtSquick.

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* In a ''[[TheSimpsons Simpsons]]'' "Treehouse of Horror" connecting segment parodying ''NightGallery'', Bart directs the viewer's attention to a painting he claims is so horrific that "merely to [[BrownNote gaze at it]] is to [[GoMadFromTheRevelation go mad]]." Cut to Homer looking at one of the ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogs_Playing_Poker Dogs Playing Poker]]'' paintings, freaking out and collapsing in [[LaughingMad hysterical laughter]].

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* In a ''[[TheSimpsons Simpsons]]'' "Treehouse of Horror" connecting segment parodying ''NightGallery'', Bart directs the viewer's attention to a painting he claims is so horrific that "merely to [[BrownNote gaze at it]] is to [[GoMadFromTheRevelation go mad]]." Cut to Homer looking at one of the ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogs_Playing_Poker Dogs Playing Poker]]'' paintings, freaking out and collapsing in [[LaughingMad hysterical laughter]]. Bart follows this by saying, "We had a story to go with this painting, but it was far too intense." So it turns out to be a lead in to an unrelated vampire story.




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* In ''{{Futurama}}'', Professor Farnsworth is rescued from a LotusEaterMachine at the Near Death Star. He describes what it's like as thus: "It was as though I were living in a facility in Florida with hundreds of other old people. All day long we'd play bingo, eat oatmeal and wait for our children to call." Cue gasps of horror from the crew.
-->'''Leela:''' It's a hundred times more horrible than anything I could imagine.
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** The episode Krab-Borg. Everybody remembers what kind of show gives SpongeBob nightmares and delusion in the next day?

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** The episode Krab-Borg. Everybody remembers [[BMovie what kind of show show]] gives SpongeBob nightmares and delusion in the next day?
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We don\'t see what happens. So that could just be Take Our Word For It.


* In ''InvaderZim'', the most unimaginably horrible reality Zim can fathom for Dib is A ROOM. [[spoiler: WITH A MOOSE]].
** The fact that this is all treated dead-seriously as a horribly inhumane act makes it a CrowningMomentOfFunny.
*** You're just ''begging'' to face [[spoiler: THE MOOSE!]]
**** Are those... are those... walnuts? AAAAAA!
** I dont think anyone realises how horrifying it really is, THOSE ARE DANGEROUS CREATURES, oh, and you know how the walnuts are in his mouth, did they appear next to him and he picked it up? NO, the walnuts materialized ''in his mouth'', think about that for a minute.
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** I dont think anyone realises how horrifying it really is, THOSE ARE DANGEROUS CREATURES, oh, and you know how the walnuts are in his mouth, did they appear next to him and he picked it up? NO, the walnuts materialized ''in his mouth'', think about that for a minute.
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Compare WhatDoYouMeanItsNotHeinous, NightmareRetardant, LightmareFuel.

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* In ''InvaderZim'', the most unimaginably horrible reality Zim can fathom for Dib is A ROOM. [[spoiler: WITH A MOOSE]].

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* In ''InvaderZim'', the most unimaginably horrible reality Zim can fathom for Dib is A ROOM. [[spoiler: WITH A MOOSE]].



* In ''FamilyGuy'', Stewie sees a picture of a fully nude woman, and seeing her crotch made him scream and shoot the magazine with a machine gun.

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Stewie sees a picture of a fully nude woman, and seeing her crotch made him scream and shoot the magazine with a machine gun.



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Line cutting, and having reason to fear her makes it not this trope.


* In FindingNemo, when the dentist's niece walks in, we have the PsychoStrings. May not be a straight example: the reason she's feared is because she has a tendency to kill fish.
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* In FindingNemo, when the dentist's niece walks in, we have the PsychoChords. May not be a straight example: the reason she's feared is because she has a tendency to kill fish.

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* In FindingNemo, when the dentist's niece walks in, we have the PsychoChords.PsychoStrings. May not be a straight example: the reason she's feared is because she has a tendency to kill fish.
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* In FindingNemo, when the dentist's niece walks in, we have the PsychoChords.

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* In FindingNemo, when the dentist's niece walks in, we have the PsychoChords. May not be a straight example: the reason she's feared is because she has a tendency to kill fish.
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** Quagmire tells a GhostStory that's clearly only scary to him.

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