History NightmareFuel / TheSimpsons

* ''Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass'': the episode where Flanders starts making Bible films. Mostly because they were horrifyingly violent, as a TakeThat to ''ThePassionOfTheChrist''. In an earlier episode in which Flanders made a Biblical film for that film festival headed by Jay Sherman from ''TheCritic'', it was way tamer.

** "Homerward", cashing in on the "Squidward" meme by doing it with Homer's partially melted face from "Brother From The Same Planet".

--> '''Alan Wrench:''' ''"You put it together yourself! All you need is me, Alan Wrench!"''
--> '''Homer:''' ''"He's named after what he is."''
--> '''Bart:''' ''"Hey, cool costume!"''
--> '''Alan Wrench:''' [Robotic voice] ''"It's not a costume. They found me in a meteor!"''
--> '''Marge:''' Where do you keep your sparkplugs?

* ''Last Exit to Springfield'': Lisa needs braces and Homer protests against the power plant, especially after being shown computer images of what Lisa would look like in the future without braces. At age 18, one of her malformed teeth forms a huge spike coming out of her top jaw through her head. After she gets the crude horrific braces installed, her [[GoMadFromTheRevelation reaction]] is a ShoutOut to JackNicholson's [[TheJoker Joker]] in TimBurton's ''{{Film/Batman}}''.

* ''[[TheSimpsonsMovie Simpsons Movie, The]]'': it starts with {{Music/GreenDay}} (as themselves, even) on a barge sinking into the toxic Lake Springfield; later, an angry mob wants to get Homer after his stupidity led to the whole city being put under a glass dome, but despite a claim that they only wanted Homer, there actully five nooses on the tree out back, showing that everyone is after the whole family. And the BigBad wants to nuke Springfield by the end.

** The ''NineteenEightyFour''-esque Treehouse short where Flanders is a supreme overlord as a result of Homer messing with his toaster (he accidentally turns the toaster into a time machine and changes the future by stepping on prehistoric bugs), specifically [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Obrh-gTsU7w/Tpsro3X8f5I/AAAAAAAAADA/hN4iby66EgY/s1600/Moe_lobotomy.jpg the part where a lobotomized Moe shows Homer "you get to keep the little piece they cut out",]] or even worse, where a lobotomized Marge says "It's bliiiiiiiiiissssss..." shortly afterwards. More generally, the nicest guy in Springfield playing the Big Brother role is [[BewareTheNiceOnes unsettingly ironic]].

** Also, the title card and the opening credits, where they are made out of characters from various Fox shows, with ''{{House}}'' and ''AmericanIdol'' among others.

* ''Krusty Gets Kancelled": While Gabbo the dummy isn't that scary by himself (just obnoxious), there's the rather disturbing implication that he's sentient and can move and talk on his own without his owner.

* Some Simpsons fan videos, such as Snospis Eht and Hommer Simpson.

* ''Boys of Bummer, The'': The worst part being Bart jumping off a building at Chief Wiggum's request after going insane after Springfield as a whole was mad at him [[DisproportionateRetribution for losing a baseball game,]] including [[OutOfCharacterMoment normally nice characters]] like Apu, Lenny and Moe are in the mob. And they even continued their torment even AFTER he survived that fall! Thankfully, [[MamaBear Marge]] chewed out the entire town afterwards.

* ''Deep Space Homer'': another in-universe example is the TheItchyAndScratchyShow episode, which is a parody of ''StarTrek''. Scratchy is trapped out in space, cut in half, and undergoes ExplosiveDecompression. Bart and Lisa find it hilarious, but Homer, who is about to go out into space himself, is sweating profusely.

* ''Treehouse of Horror XI'': Goldilocks' fate in the fairy-tale halloween clip has her [[EverythingsWorseWithBears eaten by the three bears]]. She struggles to get out of the house (was locked in by Bart and Lisa, [[{{Irony}} who fled just a moment before]]). The scene then shoots from the outside of the house and all we can hear are her screams until she dies, and we [[NothingIsScarier only see]] [[GoryDiscretionShot blood coming outside]].

--> '''Marge:''' ''"This place ain't so bad [[FridgeHorror once you get used to being drugged.]]"''

** Burns' describing his death as he watched it was unsettling as well, becoming more and more unnerved by it. Burns' changes in his facial expression act as a clever, if somewhat cruel, inversion of AudienceSurrogate: [[NothingIsScarier allowing the audience to imagine it happening.

** Bob in this episode was acting like a KnightOfCerebus: deliberate, calculating, and predatory.

** In the same episode, the "There's no business like Moe business" segment, Moe serves Marge Homer's blood after being impaled on his beer-culturing machine; however, this segment stands out as it tries to give a canonical explanation for the non-canonical body count of the halloween episode, namely [[spoiler: the segment's nature as a theatrical play]].

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* Springfield's status as a CrapsackWorld presumably escapable only by Lisa, the character who's a [[{{Anvilicious}} preachy]] GranolaGirl on her good days and a CreatorsPet on her bad days.
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* ''Treehouse of Horror XVIII'': Ned turns into the devil and teaches the children a lesson using his [[ScareDare "heck house" ride]]. Some citizens of Springfield are seen suffering fates appropriately suitable for the sin they're committing: Groundskeeper Willy being attacked by his own tractor for wrath, Homer turning into spaghetti for gluttony, Moe taking a stripper's money and then getting kicked in the crotch for lust, greed, and envy, and Homer again [[LampshadeHanging ("Didn't I die already?")]] getting ground through into huge square chunks of meat for sloth.

* ''Boys of Bummer, The'': The worst part being Bart jumping off a building at Chief Wiggum's request after going insane after Springfield as a whole was mad at him [[DisproportionateRetribution for losing a baseball game,]] including [[OutOfCharacterMoment normally nice characters]] like Apu, Lenny and Moe are in the mob. Thankfully, [[MamaBear Marge]] chewed out the entire town afterwards.

[[caption-width-right:317: "[[MajorInjuryUnderreaction ...How did it rip through your stomach without ripping your shirt?]]"]]

[[caption-width-right:317: "[[MajorInjuryUnderreaction I think we should call a doctor about this]]".]]

** While the episode itself ended with the [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome most heartwarming]] [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming rendition of]] [[TearJerker the Simpsons Theme ever]], the beginning of the episode wasn't pleasant: right after a headless horseman-like Krusty throws his head towards the viewers (with the obligatory blood splatter spelling out the title card), the CouchGag was the most HighOctaneNightmareFuel-ish ever seen in the whole show: while in ''TheSimpsonsMovie'' the family was only threatened to be hung, [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/werealldead_7618.jpg this episode did it for real.]]

** In a much later episode, he has a son named [[http://simpsonswiki.net/wiki/Frank_Grimes_Jr Frank Grimes Jr]] who is out to get revenge on Homer.

** In a much later episode, he has a son named [[http://simpsonswiki.net/wiki/Frank_Grimes,_Jr. Frank Grimes Jr]] who is out to get revenge on Homer.

* ''Homer's Enemy'': [[http://simpsonswiki.net/wiki/Frank_Grimes a man]] (specifically, [[WordOfGod "a real-world person"]]) is so appalled by Homer's incompetence that he loses his mind and [[http://simpsonswiki.net/wiki/File:Death_of_Grimes.png accidentally]] [[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide]] ("But I can, because I am Homer Simp[[KilledMidSentenceZZZZOLT]]"). The fact that he's the only one in the entire sector who hates Homer's ways just adds to it; and at the end at the funeral, everyone laughs because Homer is mumbling in his sleep while the coffin lowers itself into the ground.

** The ''NineteenEightyFour''-esque Treehouse short where Flanders is a supreme overlord as a result of Homer messing with his toaster (he accidentally turns the toaster into a time machine and changes the future by stepping on prehistoric bugs), specifically the part where a lobotomized Moe shows Homer "you get to keep the little piece they cut out", or even worse, where a lobotomized Marge saying "It's bliiiiiiiiiissssss..." shortly afterwards. More generally, the nicest guy in Springfield playing the Big Brother role is [[BewareTheNiceOnes unsettingly ironic]].

* ''Treehouse of Horror IV'': "Terror from 5 and 1/2 Feet" was a homage to ''Series/TheTwilightZone's'' own "Nightmare from 20,000 Feet", ending with Skinner taking Bart due to him "misbehaving on the bus" despite Bart [[CassandraTruth trying to warn them all about a goblin he saw through the bus' windows.]] As a final insult to poor Bart and the psychological damage he went through, the gremlin appears in the back window of the ambulance he's in, in while holding Ned's decapitated head which is saying "Hidely ho, Bart!". But it wasn't a clean decapitation, as Ned's very spine was clearly hanging out of his ragged neck.

* ''Worker and Parasite''. The one where, in a parody of Eastern European animation, a badly drawn cat and mouse are fighting in what appears to be the Greek underworld. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8IJ9YOHtKo Or something.]]

** ''ClownWithoutPity'': a DollEpisode where CreepyDoll is played by Krusty [[MonsterClown the Clown]]. The episode's apex is arguably the line following Homer's remark about a doll saying "IllKillYou" supposedly being [[GenreBlind "cute"]]: "I said I'm going to kill you! You, Homer Simpson!".

* ''Treehouse of Horror XI'': Goldilocks' fate in the fairy-tale halloween clip: [[EverythingsWorseWithBears being eaten by the three bears]]. She struggles to get out of the house (was locked in by Bart and Lisa, [[{{Irony}} who fled just a moment before]]). The scene then shoots from the outside of the house and all we can hear are her screams until she dies, and we [[NothingIsScarier only see]] [[GoryDiscretionShot blood coming outside]].

** In addition, when the Simpsons are going to Mr. Burns house for trick-or-treating, and are so freaked out by the "accidental" Halloween decorations that they run through the gate, which slices them in the style of an egg slicer and their pieces run all over the place. That one crossed the line ''three'' times if that were possible.
*** And Mr. Burns did it by having Smithers electrocuted on the power line for a cheap laugh. And he calls it his lucky decoration....
** The ending of "Wiz Kids". Snake Smithers eating Burns Voldemort's corpse.
* ''Treehouse of Horror XIV'': [[SubbingForSanta Homer becomes death]] and must kill Marge, but instead kills Selma. It may not seem that bad, but think about it, Selma is now dead, so she never comes back? No of course not, the Treehouse of Horror Episodes don't continue to anything. But in the next segment, Homer mentions something like "This is the most fun I've had since I was Death".
** "Frinkenstein", where Frink's dad is made into a Frankenstein's monster expy and goes on a rampage.
* ''Treehouse of Horror XV'': The end of the segment "In The Belly Of The Boss", which has a shrunken Homer ''regrowing while still in Mr. Burns''.
** Whats even scarier is when they show them eating a fancy dinner with the family, Homer's face is covered in Burns' flesh which makes it even eerier when he tries to eat and fails, knowing he wont survive for long inside Burns.
* ''Treehouse of Horror XVI'': [[BecomingTheCostume The segment where everyone turned into what they were dressed as for Halloween]], including Homer becoming a headless ghoul.
* ''Treehouse of Horror XVII'': The end of "Married to the Blob". The poor people of Springfield gratefully rush through the door of what appears to be a new homeless shelter....and straight into the jaws of a gigantic, ravenous Homer. This gross-out moment becomes chilling social commentary once you realize that Mayor Quimby ''organized the whole thing'' in order to allow the newly mutated Homer to "benefit society" by cleaning up the streets.
** The alien blob trying to escape from Homer as/after he devours/devoured it. And later Homer repeatedly smacking Snowball II over the head with a frying pan.
** The end of the segment "The Day the Earth Looked Stupid" where all the humans are gone was kind of unsettling. It was the last segment of the episode, so it was also a DownerEnding. And it was based on the Iraq invasions. "We had to invade! They were building weapons of mass disintegration!"
*** [[http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/329/simpsons2lcropbf3.jpg/ Krusty's appearance in HDTV.]]
--->'''Krusty:''' "Yeah, that's right. ''LOOK AT YOUR HERO!!!''"
* ''Treehouse of Horror XVIII'': Ned turns into the devil and teaches the children a lesson using his "heck house" ride. Some citizens of Springfield are seen suffering fates appropriately suitable for the sin they're committing- e.g Groundskeeper Willy being attacked by ''his own tractor'' for wrath, Homer turning into spaghetti for gluttony, Moe taking a stripper's money and then getting kicked in the crotch for lust, greed, and envy, and Homer AGAIN getting ground through into huge square chunks of meat for sloth.
** The Halloween episode with the play on ET. Homer ''asphyxiating the alien and murmuring "Shhshhshh" while doing so''. Like he's putting a child to bed.
** Also, the title card and the opening credits, where they are made out of ''characters from various Fox shows.''
* ''Treehouse of Horror XX'': In "Don't Have a Cow, Mankind" (a "TwentyEightDaysLater"-meets-"ChildrenOfMen" parody), Krusty's burgers had mad-cow disease inserted into them and turned the rest of Springfield into ravenous ZOMBIES, after eating the commercialised product. Just knowing that the enterprising showman would serve his consumers mad-cows and ADVERTISE them. In the same segment, Moe serves Marge Homer's blood after being impaled on his beer-culturing machine.

** Ned Flanders when he did a [[{{Disney/Pinocchio}} Jiminy Cricket Smile]]

* The "Scratchtasia" segment that Bart and Lisa watch in "Itchy & Scratchy Land." Scratchy chops up Itchy to a microscopic, airborne-particle size, only to be literally turned into dust from the inside out by the [[ImplacableMan invincible]], axewielding Itchies after ''breathing them in''.
** The animatronic characters going berserk at the end (''a la'' ''Westworld'') was unsettling as well, but paled in comparison to the above.

* ''Itchy and Scratchy'' has ''way'' more examples. Like the time where Scratchy was showing off his new muscles at the gym, and Itchy assumes they are fake inflatable muscles. So he tries to pop them with a pin, and they do not deflate. Itchy, ''[[ScrewySquirrel for no damned reason]]'', decides to stab Scratchy with the needle a couple hundred more times, until Scratchy ''faints from blood loss''. Itchy then starts ''dissecting Scratchy with a chainsaw'', starting with the skin... and he stops halfway through for an in-episode ProductPlacement commercial break.
* Another ''Itchy and Scratchy'' episode had Scratchy apply to be Itchy's apprentice in a glass blowing shop. Itchy shoves Scratchy into the furnace and starts to blow him out like a piece of glass as he screams. Itchy pulls him out and Scratchy says "i quit" only to get shoved back into the furnace. Later, we see Itchy and his girlfriend drinking in a hot-tub while Scratchy, as a "No Vacancy" sign is in the background flashing. The worst part? Each time Scratchy lights up, he says "No" in a voice that suggests he's continuously in pain... but not dead.
* Itchy & Scratchy are visiting the U.S. Mint. Itchy throws Scratchy onto a press, where he is flattened, stamped, and sliced into individual hundred-dollar bills. He then takes a bundle to a lounge, where millionaire dogs are smoking cigars. One of them uses a Scratchy-bill to light his. Scratchy's eye is atop the pyramid on the seal, panics when he sees the fire, and lets out a ''blood-curdling scream as he's consumed by flames''.
* The short scene when staying with the Flanders': Scratchy is sitting in his cottage, reading ''Nice'' magazine. He hears a knock at the door, and discovers Itchy in an orphan basket. Hugs & Hearts... Itchy then smashes his bottle, let's out a maniacal laugh, and stabs Scratchy repeatedly in the chest. He then steals Scratchy's TV, leaving bloody footprints as he walks over his chest, Scratchy's skin getting sucked upward by Itchy pulling the bottle away. Scratchy can only cry out weakly, ''"Why? Why? My only son... "'' Bart & Lisa think it's hysterical. Rod & Todd are terrified beyond comprehension.
* Another ''Itchy and Scratchy'' episode, where Itchy jumps down a well in a fake suicide attempt. Scratchy dives in to save him, only to be devoured horribly by a crocodile, and to have the water turn blood red. But when he flies up to Heaven, Itchy shoots him in the head, and his wings and halo fall off, which he then plummets again. You know you're cold-blooded when you keep an ''angel'' from ascending to Heaven. [[GodIsEvil And the one where Itchy prays to God to kill Scratchy and cast him down to Hell for no reason is pretty unsettling in itself]].
* "Homer the Father"'s ''Itchy and Scratchy'' cartoon ''"Ain't I a Stinger?"'' The fact that all the bees were turning Scratchy's stomach into a fleshy hive of honeycombs.
* In one of the comics, we have Scratchy's attempt to stop a chandelier from falling on his former girlfriend. He grabs it before it falls.....Except it winds up ''slowly'' and graphically ripping him in half. For the comics, this was a downright shocking moment of {{Gorn}}.
* ''Worker and Parasite''. The one where a [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8IJ9YOHtKo badly drawn cat and mouse are fighting in what appears to be the Greek underworld?]]

* "Planet of the Aches" from "Bart of Darkness". Scratchy is sealed in a chamber for ''3000'' years, and is finally freed by a bunch of evolved, [[MyBrainIsBig big-brained]] Itchys. The freaky part is that these Itchys don't speak but merely pulse their brains to communicate and perform telekinetic actions, and every time they pulse, they emit a sound which is like a miniature choir inside their heads. Anyway, these futuristic Itchys are weird, but what's really freaky is how nice they are to Scratchy; they groom him and give him a nice robe. Of course, this unexplained kindness doesn't last, and they use their telekinetic powers to throw sharp objects at Scratchy in an arena. So to recap: Itchy sealed Scratchy in a room for 3000 years only to apparently ''die'' during that time and have his evolved successors finish the job, but not before pampering him into a false sense of security.

* The fan series ''Bart the General''? '''Not''' the episode, the fan series. ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6HwSq3sp8o here's episode one,]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTMTB52RjmM two,]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIsNqXRBIeI&feature=related three part one,]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhZGKJxOh2o&feature=related three part two,]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtbvzFzGRqs&feature=related three part three,]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwiZCLpNOfw&feature=related four.]])
* Speaking of Simpsons fan works, [[http://sanctuary.prelucid.com/library/index.php?title=Dead_Bart DEAD BART]].
* Some of the earlier Tracey Ullman shorts, as the designs are horribly OffModel and the animations more cartoony and fluid. Just watch the kids' expressions in "Making Faces" and how Marge is animated in "Burping Contest". The extreme close-up of Homer's mouth yelling "BART!!!" in "Bart Of The Jungle".
* The "couch gag" for the episode "[=MoneyBART=]", created by famed British graffiti artist and culturejammer Banksy, showing FOX Studios as an Asian sweatshop creating the animation cels and merchandise for the show.
* The RunningGag of how he always tries to strangle Bart.
* The original Tracey Ullman shorts version of Homer. Sharp teeth? Check. Threatens to ''kill'' Bart? Check. Attacks Lisa and even Maggie as well? Check.

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* ''Treehouse of Horror'': The very first Treehouse of Horror's Bad Dream House segment which had a possessed house.
** Plus the blood dripping down the walls in the kitchen...
** As far as Halloween episodes go, nothing has scared me more than the rendition of The Raven, by Poe. It doesn't exactly help that the poem is narrated by JamesEarlJones, but the scariest part for me comes to when the character Homer is playing opens the chamber door to see who is knocking, and all he finds is 'darkness there, and nothing more', accompanied by a shot of an impossibly long hall just...stretching away into darkness.*
*** OH GOD!!!!! THAT SCENE!!!!! Sorry, but that scene, that one and only transition, it's the only thing in the whole Simpsons saga that gives me the Goosebumps 'till this date!!
* ''Treehouse of Horror II'': The episode where Homer is turned into a robot always creeped this troper out. Especially the part where Mr. Burns slices open Homer's head with a pizza cutter.
** The part that always got me in the snap of Homer's brain stem when Burns pulls his brain out.
*** Keep in mind, Homer wasn't dead when they operated on him.
** It was the ice-cream scoop for me.
*** "Dammit Smithers, this isn't rocket science! It's brain surgery!
** For me the scariest part was when Burns PUT THE BRAIN ON HIS HEAD.
** "Look, Smithers, I'm [[NightmareRetardant Davy Crockett!"]]
*** Homer waking up with Burns's head on his shoulder was worse. Then Burns says "It's all a dream... or is it?" There was a joke teaser for "next week's episode," which would show Homer living with a second head, and for years this troper thought it was a real episode. That made it much worse, because I was stuck wondering how that would turn out forever.
** The ending to "The Bart Zone" got me. Near the end of Bart's nightmare, Bart and Homer share a heartwarming father/son moment. And when Homer kisses Bart on the cheek, it [[SmashCut cuts right back to reality]] where [[FauxHorrific Bart screams]] in an extreme close-up. Then the camera moves ''inside his mouth'' to create a black screen. Cue commercial break.
* ''Treehouse of Horror III'': ZombieApocalypse Halloween segment "Dial 'Z' for Zombies". Their reappearance in [[VideoGame/TheSimpsons the old Simpsons arcade game]] didn't help at all.
** The ending of that segment is pretty freaky too. So, the family has destroyed the zombie plague, they sit nicely in the chair and they watch TV. Marge said that they have to be happy that they didn't change into mindless zombies, but Bart interrupts them for watching TV. A guy falls on screen, and a laugh track plays. The freaky part is that Homer then moans, "Man. Fall down. Funny," the family moans together exactly like the zombies, and a very chilling wolf howl plays over that part.
*** Sure, the zombies in the game had cartoony, stiff animations, but seeing them erupt from the ground, screaming for the first time is quite spooky. Once you get over that, however, you get the mid-level cutscene where the mooks reveal a secret passage under a huge grave because they're running from a swarm of super-creepy ghosts! The Simpson's slip into the passage right before it closes, but one goon got left behind, and it's implied he has a much worse fate in store for him...
** It was the [[MonsterClown psychotic Krusty doll]] in "Clown Without Pity" that did it for this troper...
*** I still jump every time the Krusty doll drops the doll charade with "I said I'm going to kill you! You, Homer Simpson!"
* ''Treehouse of Horror IV'': The Halloween segment "Terror from 5 and 1/2 Feet" was pretty scary too, seeing as it was a homage to ''Series/TheTwilightZone's'' own "Nightmare from 20,000 Feet". The really creepy part was at the end where Bart is being taken to an asylum. Yes, despite that Principal Skinner, Otto, and the school kids see the obvious damage to the bus and that Bart saved their lives from the gremlin, Bart still gets committed simply due to '''"''misbehaving on the bus''"''', as Skinner puts it. As a final insult to poor Bart and the psychological damage he went through, the gremlin appears in the back window of the ambulance he's strapped down to a bed in while holding Ned's decapitated head... which is saying "'''HIDELY HO, BART!'''" Cue screams by both Bart and the audience.
*** The worst part of that was that it obviously wasn't a ''clean'' decapitation. You can clearly see ''NED'S FREAKING SPINAL CORD'' hanging out of his ragged neck.
*** Even though the destruction of the bus was clearly the work of the gremlin, Principal Skinner sentences Bart to live at the New Bedlam Insane Asylum (formerly, the New Bedlam Home for the Emotionally Interesting, as seen in season three's "Stark Raving Dad" {the episode with MichaelJackson as the big, bald white mental patient who helps Bart write a birthday song for Lisa}) for the rest of his life. Yeah, you read that right. He sentences a 10-year-old child to an insane asylum for the rest of his life. Are we to believe that Principal Skinner secretly hates Bart ''that'' much? Even Itchy is nicer to Scratchy.
** "Bart Simpson's Dracula", which parodies {{Dracula}} with Mr. Burns as the vampire. The [[TwistEnding twist at the end]] being that ''Marge is the head vampire''.
*** Lisa is either adopted or born human. Either way its a twist ending.
* ''Treehouse of Horror V'': The Simpson family is infected by a mist that [[PainfulTransformation causes people to turn inside out]]. And ''then'' they break into a song and dance about it. If that's not demented enough, Santa's Little Helper drags Bart away to ''eat him''. So much for man's best friend.
*** Made even more twisted by the preceding verse in the song.
----> "The family dog is eying Bart's intestine..."
*** And it's a parody of ''AChorusLine''.
*** The main story of that episode, which was [[ImAHumanitarian the teachers of Springfield Elementary eating all of the students.]] The worst part might have been when Bart and Lisa tell Marge, and she tells them that they need to fight their own battles, and should march right up and say "don't eat me." Thinking that your own parents wouldn't protect you from cannibals is pretty unsettling for a child. The episode ends with Skinner chasing Bart, Lisa, and Milhouse into a meat grinder, with Skinner saying he'd start by "eating [Bart's] shorts." Holy hell, that was freaky. And then Bart and Lisa wake up and they do the damn fog thing!
*** The view down at the meat grinder, with the blood splatter fanning out from the "collection vat". And the looks on the Skinner's, the teachers', and Lunchlady Doris' faces when they began advancing on them.
***** Lunchlady Doris with the bloody whisk, drops of sprayed blood (and blood-stained clothes) while screaming psychotically at Bart/Lisa.
*** Speaking of which....Homer going utterly insane also counts in that special.
*** Speaking of which, Homer's final line of the "Shinning" segment serves as a nice bit of FridgeHorror.
** The Big Brother-esque Treehouse short where Flanders is a supreme overlord, specifically the part where a lobotomized Moe shows Homer "you get to keep the little piece they cut out".
**** It's the one where Homer accidentally turns the toaster into a time machine and changes the future by stepping on prehistoric bugs. Lobotomized Marge is even more unsettling than lobotomized Moe.
**** "It's ''bliiiiiiiiiissssss''..."
*** There's something unsettling about the nicest guy in Springfield ruling as a [[NineteenEightyFour Big Brother]]-esque dictator. BewareTheNiceOnes indeed.
**** "Let's see some biiiiiiiig smiles!"
*** Also when Maggie whacks Groundskeeper Willie in the back with the axe and says "This is indeed a disturbing universe" in a deep, creepy voice. Not just ANY deep, creepy voice - James Earl m-fin' JONES deep, creepy voice!
* ''Treehouse of Horror VI'': The ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' parody.
** Especially when Willie's tongue snakes out of his mouth and ''strangles'' Martin. And also the dream sequence when Bart thinks he has finally killed Willie, but he's rising out of the quick sand as a giant spider.
** After Martin dies, we hear a familiar HA-HA! and the ultimate that Lunch Lady Doris takes Martin's corpse into the kindergarten part of the school!
*** And Martin doesn't exactly leave a handsome corpse either. His bulging eyes and gagging grimace are permanently affixed onto his face. [[FridgeLogic Those kindergarteners are gonna need major therapy]].
** In that same segment, Willie's initial death in the flashback was unbelievably horrifying.
*** "Willie, please! Mr. van Houten has the floor!" Skinner, as Willie (''screaming for help'') burns to a crisp during a PTA meeting.
** "Homer 3", in which Homer is stuck in another (CGI) dimension and can't get home.
** The moment when the CGI dimension collapses...
** Treehouse of Horror VI. Despite having [[VisualEffectsOfAwesome a VERY memorable third segment]] which ends with the [[CrowningMusicOfAwesome most heartwarming]] [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming rendition of]] [[TearJerker the Simpsons Theme EVER]] (by the way, has that sort-of-lullaby released somewhere?), the episode begins with a couch gag (Headless-Horseman-Krusty) that [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel graphically depicts the WHOLE Simpsons family (Maggie too) HUNG.]] Staring blankly. [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou AT YOU.]] And if that wasn't even enough, Maggie, to top it all, [[RunningGag sucks her pacifier]] twice, despite being dead. [[RuleOfScary For no reason.]]
* ''Treehouse of Horror VII'': "The Thing and I". Due to a discovery of the "evil gene" at Bart and his siamese twin's birth, Dr. Hibbert suggests to take the newly-separated baby who has it and lock them up in the attic. Ten years later, the kids decide to investigate this and it ends up with the other twin trying to ''re-sow'' himself to Bart. Luckily, [[BigDamnHeroes the family and Hibbert arrive and stop this before it happens]]. But then, to make that moment of saving moot, it is revealed that ''Bart'' is the one with the "evil gene", and he is ''forced to switch with his twin's position''.
* ''Treehouse of Horror VIII'': In the short "Fly vs. Fly", when Bart was messing around with Homer's [[TeleportersAndTransporters teleporting machine]] and Santa's Little Helper and Snowball get in the way, that may have been another good example of crossing the line between parody and Nightmare Fuel. On the parody side, Bart inadvertently made the ''Simpsons'' version of CatDog. On the Nightmare Fuel side, he also made a creature that, for the sake of identification, will be called "[=ButtButt=]".
*** "Eww! You can be Lisa's!"
*** Notice later in that segment, it appears to be dragging itself.
**** There were some deleted scenes that were too much even when the episode had Homer watching a David Spade-Chris Farley film among the bodies of nuclear bomb victims.
** What about the giant fly-head on Bart's body, with its insane slobbering gibberish. Not to mention the scene where it [[spoiler: eats Bart.]]
** There's one scene, in the beginning of the episode in question, where the Fox Censor proudly announces that thanks to his editing tonight's ''Simpsons'' episode is rated TV-G. But as he says this, a hand with a knife appears out of the on-screen rating icon and stabs him in the back repeatedly, raising the rating with every stab.
** The segment of the Halloween special with the dolphins in it. Cute little dolphins that Lisa freed deciding to ''kill people brutally'' and take over the Earth.
* ''Treehouse of Horror IX'': Bart and Lisa are transported into an Itchy and Scratchy cartoon via a supercharged remote, especially when a bunch of piranha ''eat most of Bart's flesh''.
** In "Starship Poopers", Maggie was revealed to be an alien and the daughter of Kang and Kodos- even going through stages of alien mutation such as sprouting fangs, developing tentacles, and walking up the wall. The Simpsons go on Jerry Springer to try and solve the crisis- but they end up fighting with Kang and Kodos who zap members of the audience with a ray gun. At the end Marge says that going on Jerry Springer didn't solve anything and Homer adds "Let's go home!" and suddenly Maggie says in a deep menacing voice "Very well. ''I'll'' drive!" and laughs evilly, and before the end credits adds..."I need blood".
** Homer's joyous cry of "Look, Marge, Maggie lost her baby legs!"
** Alien-Maggie attacking Jerry Springer.
** Bart ''finally'' falling off of Homer's car during a Halloween opening sequence and snapping his neck. Then Lisa runs into the car on her bike, and gets launched head-first through the garage wall and getting stuck there. Then Homer running from Marge and Maggie in the car, as they beep the horns and he gets impaled by the hood ornament.
** "Hell Toupee". You can tell a Halloween short is scary when it can make the classic little kids' comeback sound fearsome:
--> '''Apu''' ''(upon realizing that Snake's hair possessed Homer)'' Snake? But you're dead!\\
'''Homer/Snake''': I know ''you'' are, but what am I?
* ''Treehouse of Horror X'': The last episode of the 1999 Treehouse of Horror which had the Y2K end the world and two rocket ships, the good people go to Mars, the bad to the Sun. Bart and Homer of course get stuck on the bad one. The end of the world is already Nightmare Fuel enough, but the end of the short where Bart and Homer escape the rocket ship to die faster and expand eyes all bulged out...........
** Especially the scene where Dick Clark ''melts,'' revealing a Terminator-like robot.
*** Especially the ending: Marge, Lisa, and Maggie get on a spaceship taking Earth's "best and brightest" to start a new colony on Mars. Homer and Bart attempt to follow by boarding a second rocket, only to discover after launch their ship is filled with Earth's most annoying and unpleasant, and is on a direct course for the sun.
**** And then Homer and Bart jump out the airlock and ''their heads explode''.
***** YourMileageMayVary, but I felt them blowing up like balloons and [[GoOutWithASmile silly grins]] [[NightmareRetardant made it seem a bit humorous.]]
** In a spoof of ''Film/IKnowWhatYouDidLastSummer'' aka the very first segment, Homer dangling with the corpse of Flanders. Werewolf Flanders also.
* ''Treehouse of Horror XI'': Goldilocks' fate in the fairy-tale halloween clip: [[EverythingsWorseWithBears being eaten by the three bears]]. She struggles to get out of the house (was locked in by accident). The scene then shoots from the outside of the house and all we can hear are her screams until they die down and you see blood coming outside. Knowing what the bears did to her or not makes horrific all the same.
* ''Treehouse of Horror XII'': "The House Of Whacks". You know the one where they installed the house with Ultrahouse, the one with PierceBrosnan's voice, and it did all the housework for them, but things [[MurderTheHypotenuse took a turn for the worse when it fell in love with Marge?]] Homer in a WHIRLING garbage disposal (and the blood splattered kitchen). Homer's terrified screaming as that was happening didn't help matters much either...
*** One of Ultrahouse's other voices was Dennis Miller, the one that caused all of those murder suicides.

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* The CrapsackWorld entry on Springfield. As we discussed, the one person who can one day escape from the Crapsack World that is Springfield is Lisa, the character who's a [[{{Anvilicious}} preachy]] GranolaGirl on her good days and a CreatorsPet on her bad days. [[FridgeHorror Which also means that even the cute little baby Maggie will be trapped in Springfield forever]].

* ''500 Keys'': From when Lisa finds the ''hamster skeleton'' in the Habitrail ball? Or perhaps when she falls into the lake and finds Bus 23... which is apparently full of [[spoiler:''dead children'']]?! ([[spoiler:Granted, they were mannequins, but STILL.]]) Maybe when Otto reveals he's had to live with the belief that he [[spoiler:killed those 25 kids]], and fled from the scene of the crime, and killed the "hobo with a big mouth". Not to mention when [[AdultFear Maggie is stuck in the car with the windows completely rolled up]]!
** The yokels and the umbilical cord...Bart throws his Key to the City into the woods, where it falls at Cletus' feet. He tells Brandine he can cut her umbilical cord now... while the camera cuts to her sitting on a rocking chair with a maybe 10 year old boy beside her, still connected by the cord! She asks him if he wants some chocolate milk, then drinks some... and it shows the milk passing through the cord to the boy's stomach!)
** And the end in which [[spoiler:Otto actually does drive the bus off the cliff -- this time ''with'' living kids in it]]!
* ''Bart Gets Famous'': Lisa's fantasy in the first scene. The one where she's rich, has cured all diseases, ended all wars, [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking and has reunited the cast of]] ''TheFactsOfLife'', and of course [[BookDumb Bart]] is polishing her awards. The scary part? She kicks him down onto her Nobel Peace Prize and only comments on the {{irony}}. And then we dissolve back to the present day where she is '''sighing happily about it'''. [[FridgeHorror Let's think about this, folks]]: '''''[[CreepyChild an 8-year-old girl is fantasizing about killing her brother]]'''''.
* ''Bart of Darkness'': The bit where the axe-wielding murderer Ned Flanders slowly walks up to the attic where Lisa is, humming, "Mary Had A Little Lamb".
* ''Bart the Daredevil'': The ending where Homer falls off the gorge twice. Once was bad enough, but that he is then put on a stretcher which somehow falls out of the ambulance and he falls down ''again''? It's very chilling to think that even after a horrific injury you just get injured again before getting to the hospital.
* ''Bart the General'': The episode chronicles Bart's first run-ins with [[TheBully school bully]] Nelson Muntz (long before Nelson attained JerkassWoobie status) and includes a ''notorious'' scene wherein Bart imagines that Nelson - who is now a deep-voiced and seemingly immortal giant - is chasing him through a surreal landscape. ''Nothing'' Bart tries can kill Giant Nelson - not knives, which just stick in Nelson without shedding any blood, and not even cannonballs, which just rebound off his chest with loud, scary bangs. When Nelson finally catches Bart, he ''eats'' him....and then the scene shifts to Bart's funeral and an absolutely vile shot of Nelson proving what a CompleteMonster he is in Bart's mind by approaching the casket, muttering "[[BondOneLiner Here's one for the road, dude]]," and ''punching Bart's corpse in the stomach''!
* ''Bart The Lover'': Homer tries his best not to swear and tires to brush everything that gets him mad as a minor offense. One such incident involves Homer stepping on a nail, ''going right through his foot!''
-->"Fiddle-dee-dee. That will require a tetanus shot."
* ''Bart Sells His Soul'': "I need a soul, Ralph. Any soul. YOURS!"
* ''Bart the Murderer'': The nightmare sequence from "Bart The Murderer".
** YOU KILLED ME BART!
* ''Bart vs. Thanksgiving'': IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT.
* ''Blunder Years, The'': Homer was hypnotized to age twelve. In the flashback when he pokes the stick into the drain to figure out where the water went and the decomposing (maggots and everything) corpse washes out and lands on top of him.
** Waylon Smithers Sr. Homer once found his decaying corpse and we get to see a disturbing close-up of Smithers' face as worms come out of his nose. The truly disturbing thing, since we're talking about Waylon Smither ''Senior'', is that Homer found his body ''when he was just'' '''''twelve!''''' It makes everything, like, ten thousand times worse.
*** Burns' describing his death as he watched it.
**** The fact he describes it(and actually gets unnerved by it) just allow you to picture it...
* ''Bob Next Door, The'': Sideshow bob visibly REMOVING HIS CELL MATES FACE and cutting off his own.
** In one of his escape attempts, Bob surgically removes the face of one of his cell mates and then ''switches it with his own'', while still being fully conscious and ''screaming''. The WORST part is when Sideshow Bob stops at a rest stop and a waitress who's takes an interest in him, manages to pull off a loose thread used to keep his face on, causing his entire face to flap down, exposing all of his muscles and tissue. And then moments later, it happens ''again'' with his cell mate he switched faces with.
*** "Ahh, there's a bee under my face!"
**** "*Sigh* All the good ones are either gay, or have no face."
** This line in particular is on the SlidingScaleOfComedyAndHorror
--> '''Bob:''' The hard part was removing my own face. Luckily, as Krusty's sidekick, I'd been hit with so many pies that my face had lost all sensation...
-->''(Bob starts cutting his face open while screaming in agony)''
-->'''Bob:''' ...or so I thought.
* ''Boy Scoutz 'n the Hood'': The ending. The fact that it comes out of nowhere, has no sense of context and is never explained. There's also the fact that [[FridgeHorror none of the other counselors or campers are ever seen again]], ''ever''.
** You do have some idea about what's going to happen. The last bit of music contains the {{Leitmotif}} of [[Film/FridayThe13th a certain enthusiast for hockey masks and sharp objects...]]
** How about the fate of the boy-scout group as a whole? They do take the right fork, but then they end up in some scary dark woods, chased around by Hillbillies, they end up with a Bear, and Ernest Borgnine wants to save the day, but then he finds out that his knife is taken by Homer, and, again, that last part with the supposed 'Cougar'. The fact that Barney is taken as a ship-mate on some kind of boat, doesn't make it all the better. Plus, {{FridgeHorror}} kicks in if you think what would happen if Flanders took the helm, instead of Homer!
** The superimposed shot of Apu's face laughing getting closer and closer during the "squishee-bender" sequence.
* ''Boys of Bummer, The'': The worst part being Bart ''jumping off a building at Chief Wiggum's request'' after going insane. To literally add insult to injury, the town is STILL angry and yelling at Bart in the hospital after his suicide attempt. Seeing them act so viciously towards Bart (in fact, they treated him even worse then all the times when he actually did something where he deserved to be punished, like when Bart stole Jebediah Springfield's head from the town center statue) [[SeriousBusiness over something so minor]] was '''''very disturbing'''''.
** ItGetsWorse when you see that [[OutOfCharacterMoment normally nice characters]] like Apu, Lenny and Moe are in the mob. Plus, what would have happened had [[MamaBear Marge]] [[FridgeHorror not intervened?]]
* ''Brother From Another Planet'': Ooh, and the episode "Brother From Another Planet" - the scene where Bart is finally picked up from soccer practice after being out in the rain. Homer apologizes for his latest blunder, but Bart is so mad, he sees Homer (and everything around him) burn and melt amid Hell's fire with Homer (whose face is now partially melted and his eyes devoid of pupils) moaning, "NOW, HOW 'BOUT A HUG?!" Also, a BigLippedAlligatorMoment (or at least an ImagineSpot) as that scene is never mentioned again nor did it have any plot relevance other than to scare the crap out of viewers. What's really jarring is the MoodWhiplash after that scene, which shows Bart watching an episode of ''[[SaturdayNightLive Tuesday Night Live]]'' hosted by Krusty the Clown.
** Also the dream when Homer realizes he forgot Bart and dreamt that he drove up to where Bart was supposed to be waiting and all there is left is a (spiky-headed) skeleton.
* ''Cape Feare'': Bob's prison tattoo of Bart's severed, bloody head on a skateboard saying, "Ouch, man!"
** Homer with the Chainsaw and hockey mask
*** [[http://grou.ps/newtube/videos/1037023 BART YOU WANNA SEE MY NEW CHAINSAW AND HOCKEY MASK!?!]]
** Bob seemed intent as hell in this one; deliberate, calculating, and predatory. Also note that he plotted out his plan to disembowel Bart (his words) while staying at the ''actual'' Bates Motel from ''{{Psycho}}'', complete with the stuffed birds in the background.
* ''Children of a Lesser Clod'': When Homer shows Milhouse and Ralph his bloody and scabbing knee. Seeing the scab-wound starting to heal over Ralph's hand.
--> '''Homer''': It knows you're afraid.
** That scene where Homer chases Bart down the street with a mace while screaming "I'll mace you good!"
*** I found that gag hilarious, myself...
* ''Computer Wore Menace Shoes, The'': Homer getting dumped on this weird island, whilst at home he's been replaced by a fake....[[spoiler:And then the episode ends with '''''the entire family''''' on the island, seemingly going insane]]. It's really quite disturbing.
** There's a bit of {{Fridge Horror}} when you realize it's never made clear what's become of Maggie, as we never see her on the island...
* ''Crepes of Wrath, The'': The idea of being a slave to psychopaths so far from home that nobody speaks the same language as Bart while nobody knows he's even in trouble.

* ''Deep Space Homer'': Another in-universe example is the TheItchyAndScratchyShow episode, which is a parody of ''StarTrek''. Scratchy is trapped out in space, cut in half, and undergoes ExplosiveDecompression. Bart and Lisa find it hilarious, but Homer, who is about to go out into space himself, is sweating profusely.
* ''E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)'': Just a bunch of nicotine addicted animals attacking the house.
** '''''TOMACCO!!!'''''
* ''Eight Misbehavin'': "[[CreepyMonotone It's not a costume, they found me in a meteorite.]]"
* ''El Viaje de Nuestro Homer'': An equally as freaky hallucination sequence happened in the episode where Homer ate a superpowerful chili.
** Re the Chili episode: The creepiest moment was when Homer sees Marge facing away from him, and walks around and around her ''desperately looking for a face''...
*** "Hey, no fair, I never do this to you! TALK TO ME!!!"
** Also when Homer goes out walking at night looking for his soul mate he looks into a pet shop, sees a pair of kissing fish and smiles, then one fish swallows the other whole and looks at Homer with an evil smile! Homer backs away in horror, and so does this Troper!
* ''Eternal Moonshine Of The Simpson Mind'': Krusty taking a "forget-me-shot".
** Plus at the end, where Patty and Selma, push Homer off the bridge. At first it may seem like that they intended him to land on the boat below the bridge for his suprise party. But then they tell him of an "afterparty at the bottom of the ocean" and telling Homer to carry an anchor.
* ''The Falcon and the D'ohman'': Wayne's continuous violent flashbacks. Also, Homer being snatched by gangsters, and being trapped under a freaking ice rink.
* ''Four Great Women and a Manicure'': Homer killing Dr. Hibbert, and the uber creepy look on Dr. Hibbert's face after he died.
* ''Funeral For a Fiend'': [[spoiler: Bob seemingly dies in court. It turns out it was all an elaborate scheme set up by him and his entire family. Bob isn't really dead, and when Bart comes to pay his respects to Bob as per Cecil's advice, Bob leaps out of the coffin, traps Bart in it, and sets the coffin on a direct route to the crematorium's furnace, with the idea being that most people would assume that it would be ''Bob'' who was cremated, reducing the likelihood of him being implicated for his crime. Fortunately, thanks to Milhouse reporting on where Bart had gone, Lisa figures out the scheme and The Simpsons successfully stop the Terwilligers with the help of the police. Still, the idea of a ten-year old boy being cremated alive and no one suspecting a thing is unbelievably unsettling.]]
*** Just goes to show, evil runs in Bob's family.
* ''Girl Who Slept Too Little, The'': "Don't worry, sweetie. Grandma will protect you... BUT I'M NOT GRANDMA!"
* ''Gone Maggie Gone'': Marge burning her retinas by looking at the solar eclipse. Very hard to watch, especially with the frying/sizzling sounds that accompany her eyes being roasted, even if it's only for a couple seconds.
* ''Good, The Sad, and the Drugly, The'': The smiley faces that Lisa was seeing in "the good, the sad, and the drugly". It was funny at first, but then ItGotWorse. especially when they were ''all over Lisa's room'', and then [[spoiler: she sees a big face and tries to kiss it, but it was a ''freaking fan''. Yes, Lisa would have ''died'' because of those drugs.]]
** When the smiley faces began pouring out of an injured cop.
** Instead of getting Lisa counseling, the child psychologist decides to pump an EIGHT YEAR OLD GIRL full of hallucinogenic drugs!!! In the real world you would never ever do that.
** The smileys were freaky enough when Lisa swallowed her first pill, but then ''{{It|GotWorse}}.'' '''[[ItGotWorse Got.]]''' '''''[[ItGotWorse WORSE.]]''''' A hobo in an alley with a smiley, and then people cutting a tree, with other smileys ''erupting'' from it. Okay. But then, Snake shooting Wiggum and him ''bleeding smileys'' afterwards?
* ''Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass'': The episode where Flanders starts making Bible films. Mostly because they were horrifyingly violent.
** What's worse is that there was an earlier episode in which Flanders made a Biblical film for that film festival headed by Jay Sherman from ''TheCritic'' and it wasn't as violent as the ones he made here (the episode has Homer teaching athletes how to showboat after gaining notoriety from an Internet video and Flanders making Biblical films so violent that ''ThePassionOfTheChrist'' seems G-rated by comparison)...unless you counted the part where Todd is swept away by the current in the river. The kid survived, thanks to Flanders praying to God, but FridgeHorror alert: What if God wasn't there to stop it in time?
* ''Homer Loves Flanders'': 1) Ned has a surprisingly ''creepy'' dream sequence, and 2) The ending contains some of the most ''disturbingly realistic'' screams in cartoon history.
* ''Homer vs. Dignity'': Homer being ''electroshocked into submission and raped by a panda''.
* ''Homer's Enemy'': A man is so appalled by Homer's incompetence that he loses his mind and accidentally commits suicide. The fact that he's the only one in the entire sector who hates Homer's ways just adds to it.
** The end at the funeral, everyone laughs because Homer is mumbling in his sleep, and then the coffin ''lowers itself into the ground''!!!
*** And in a much later episode he has a son named Frank Grimes Jr who is out to get revenge on Homer.
** Also, Frank Grimes' main trait is that he's the OnlySaneMan: someone who, in our world, we would consider normal. Yet he's driven to insanity, and finally suicide. The [[FridgeHorror chilling implication]] is that anyone from/with the mindset of RealLife would be ''driven insane'' by the people in Springfield. "Homer's Enemy" is proof that, beneath [[ComedicSociopathy it's humorous exterior]], is [[CrapsackWorld a dystopia.]] No wonder it's considered America's Worst City...
* ''Homer's Triple Bypass''. If Lisa hadn't been there, Homer would've ''[[FridgeHorror died at the hands of the ultra incompetent Dr. Nick Riviera]]''. Add to this the family's health insurance troubles, and you've got some HighOctaneNightmareFuel there, even if you don't have any heart risks.
* ''Homie the Clown'': The [[McDonaldland Krustyburglar]] sketch was pretty funny, especially when Homer started attacking him...but then it CrossesTheLineTwice when he slammed the guy's head against a rock one too many times, and that kid started crying, "Stop! Stoooop! ''HE'S ALREADY DEAAAAD!!!''"
** Made slightly better by the fact that he isn't. He's not even unconscious (the guy mutters about someone looking at his Medic Alert bracelet).
* ''How Munched Is That Birdie in the Window?'': Pretty much, there's a thunderstorm outside and Homer is telling Bart, Lisa, and Maggie a story about "The Bloody Hangman." Naturally showing Homer's descriptions (i.e., noose dripping with blood and bony legs...).
* ''Hurricane Neddy'': Seeing [[StepfordSmiler Ned]] [[SanitySlippage have a mental breakdown]] and chew out the neighborhood.
* ''Krusty Gets Busted'': The first appearance of Sideshow Bob's maniacal EvilLaugh, complete with rather extreme lighting and [[http://i.imgur.com/Y5I36.jpg horrifyingly mad look in his eyes]].
* ''Krusty Gets Kancelled": While Gabbo the dummy isn't that scary by himself (just obnoxious), there's the rather disturbing implication that he's sentient and can ''move and talk on his own without his owner''.
* ''Last Exit to Springfield'': Lisa needs braces and Homer protests against the power plant. As if the creepy segment where Lisa first sees her horrid set of braces wasn't bad enough, there's the computer images of what Lisa would look like in the future without braces. At age 18, one of her malformed teeth forms a huge spike coming out of her top jaw through her head!!!
*** Or after she gets the crude horrific braces installed, her [[GoMadFromTheRevelation reaction]] is a ShoutOut to JackNicholson[=/=]TheJoker in TimBurton's ''{{Film/Batman}}''.
** Bart: ''"You know that rattle when you shake up a can of spraypaint? That's a kid's tooth."''
* ''Last Tap Dance in Springfield'': Homer gets laser eye surgery, but forgets to use his prescribed eye drops immediately after. Both eyes are [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel instantly engulfed by thick, foot long crusts.]]
* ''Lisa the Drama Queen'': Lisa and her new best friend create a fantasy world and start living in it. Lisa has a tentative grasp on reality, but her friend is completely off the deep end. According to imdb, the episode was based on PeterJackson's ''HeavenlyCreatures''.
* ''Lisa the Skeptic'': The part where the angel makes an announcement that the world is coming to an end and everyone preps for it while Lisa tries to prove that the whole thing is a sham and no one will listen to her, not even her own mother.
* ''Lisa's First Word'': ''The Simpsons'' also has a great moment of in-universe Nightmare Fuel. In ''Lisa's First Word'', Homer is unable to afford a professionally built bed featuring Krusty the Clown's likeness for 2-year-old Bart, so he builds a clown-shaped bed; however, thanks to Homer's inexpert handicraft skills, Krusty's appearance is poorly drawn and takes a ... well, disturbing appearance. Immediately Bart imagines it saying "If you should die before you wake..." and laughing maniacally, before having a nightmare about the bed swallowing him whole! Cut to the next day and a shivering, wide-eyed Bart. All played for laughs, but still...
** You can tell a clown is scary when it makes a little kid ''not'' want to go home:
---> '''Bart''' ''(already homesick)'': I want to go home.\\

*** ...Can't sleep...CLOWN will eat me...
* ''Make Room For Lisa'': Near the end of the episode, [[spoiler: Homer is actually ''buried alive'', by accident. Thankfully, his weight combined with the weight of the sensory deprivation tank causes it to plunge into the sewer system just below his "gravesite"]].

** Another spider related issue is when Bart is teasing Lisa and causes a spider nest to explode near her. Spiders are raining down on Lisa, who attempts to save her doll only to have spiders spill from its mouth, eyes, etc.
** There's also that nightmare Lisa has in that episode with the parody of ''WhereTheWildThingsAre''.
* ''My Sister, My Sitter'': Lisa babysits Bart and he ''dislocates his forearm'', and he waves the arm around in a way that's absolutely disgusting.
** It wasn't just that part that was creepy. A lot of fans agree that "My Sister, My Sitter" was a very dark episode overall, and some viewers even say Bart got a KarmaHoudini.
** Even what is supposed to be the happy ending is actually also very dark, once you think about it. After the entire town is convinced that she was a drug addict that tried to murder Bart, the parents, in the end, still call her to babysit their kids. It's Nightmare Fuel once you realize that the parents were allowing a person who they were convinced had tried to murder her brother to watch their kids...
* ''New Kid on the Block, The'': In the episode where Bart falls for the neighbor's daughter, she tells him "I have something wonderful to tell you! I have a boyfriend!" Bart then imagines her saying [[LoveHurts "You won't be needing this" while she rips his still-beating heart out, and kicks it against a wall, into a trash can]].
* ''Old Man and the Lisa, The'': Lisa tries to help Mr. Burns earn some money by suggesting he give up his evil ways so she introduces him to recycling. Mr. Burns enthusiastically begins grabbing every can he can find, causing Lisa to believe that he has changed. Eventually, Burns earns so much money that he is able to open his own recycling plant. Burns gives Lisa a tour, showing her that its environmentally sound and made of recycled materials. At first, Lisa is impressed, but then Burns shows her "the best part". He has attached millions of six-pack holders together into a net which he uses to catch tons of sea life, in order to make L'il Lisa's Patented Animal Slurry, a multi-purpose edible compound. Lisa is horrified, [[ObliviouslyEvil proclaiming Burns not only still evil, but even more evil when he tries to be good.]]
--> '''Mr. Burns''' (grim, quiet, and calm): You inspired it all, ''Little Lisa...''
* ''Papa Don't Leech'': Homer has a dream were he smothers his father to avoid taking him to the hospital or something. If it was meant to be funny, it wasn't. It really, really wasn't.
** That scene was a parody of a similar scene from an episode of ''TheSopranos''. Naturally, the original wasn't played for laughs.
*** Oh good. But it's still NightmareFuel.
** Considering [[AbusiveParents Abe's treatment of Homer]], [[FridgeHorror it's no wonder he has patricidal dreams.]]
* ''Pranks and Greens'': Bart finds out that Principal Skinner used to be really laid back, and that the school used to have a swimming pool, until a bigger prankster even than Bart did a prank so big it turned Skinner to how he is now. The prank? Filling the pool with worms when Skinner went to dive in it. OK, that's a bit icky, but not too bad. The cover of the pool was then closed, sealing Skinner in for the weekend. ''A dark, enclosed space, full of worms, for more than two days''. And to make it worse, Skinner before this was a really nice guy. He didn't deserve any kind of prank, let alone that! Are we supposed to laugh at this?
** Made even worse by the fact that Skinner was a POW in Vietnam and suffers from PTSD. As hellish as the experience would be for a normal man, it would be much worse for Skinner.
* ''PTA Disbands, The'': "There's something about flying a kite at night that's so unwholesome."
** "[[CreepyMonotone Hello, mother dear]]".
* ''Raging Abe Simpson and His Grumbling Grandson in The Curse of the Flying Hellfish'': This Troper was rather young when she saw the Hellfish episode. She loved it up until [[MoralEventHorizon/WesternAnimation Burns kicked Bart into the crate and kicked the goddamn crate into the ocean, where it started to sink.]] She ran out of the room crying and wouldn't come out till her parents reassured her Bart was ok.
** That part was pretty scary... good thing it led to Grampa's CMOA.
* ''Rosebud'': This troper found the ending of ''Rosebud'' quite disturbing as a kid. First of all, it's pretty unlikely that the Earth will still be around in a million years, so that was weird in and of itself. But then we see [[PlanetOfTheApes men are slaves to apes]], Mr. Burns is still alive in some strange robotic life support machine, and Smithers's head is grafted onto a robo-dog's body? (shudders) The freaky, dissonant music doesn't help.
** ''[[HellIsThatNoise Oh dear god, the music]].'' This troper thought she finally got it out of her head...
** Even when the entire world is ruined, [[BigBad Mr Burns]] [[KarmaHoudini remains alive and well.]] Imagine [[FridgeHorror what might happen to Springfield with Burns running around for centuries...]]
* ''Scorpion's Tale'': After many people, including Abe Simpson, take a new drug that was created from a desert flower and duplicated by a pharmaceutical company, its side effects causes their eyes to [[EyeScream 'literally']] pop out.
** That episode seriously freaked out this troper. I remember sitting there wondering what sort of comical side-effects the drug would have. The answer: ''NONE''! Their eyes just ''fall out of their sockets'' leaving blank holes in their face with their eyes ''hanging out by fleshy cords.'' This is then followed by horrifying scenes of people trying to deal with this. Grampa wears a scuba-diving mask with liquid in it so his eyes can [[BodyHorror just float there]], The Crazy Cat Lady's cats are ''playing with the eyes like balls of yarn'', one person puts some letters in the mailbox and when he closes the lid, it ''closes on his eyes''. I was seriously freaked out.
*** I'm a scorpophobe and thanks to....[[NoodleIncident some unpleasantness]] as a kid, EyeScream affects me to an even more personal degree, I spent the majority of this episode curled up in a ball with my hands over my eyes.
* ''Selma's Choice'': Selma takes Bart and Lisa to Duff Gardens after Homer falls ill from food poisoning. The trio are on this "It's A Small World"-esque ride called, "The Little Land of Duff," with robot kids from all over the world singing, "Duff Beer for me/Duff Beer for you/I'll have a Duff/You have one too..." Bart dares his sister to drink the water. Lisa is then forced to drink it by Selma and Lisa begins tripping -- first, she sees the Little Land of Duff robots fading away (along with Lisa's reality), then Lisa begins rambling, "[[ParanoiaFuel They're all around me! No way out! NO WAY OUT, I TELL YOU]]!", and finally, Lisa sees Selma as a Medusa-like creature with multiple eyes and a snarling mouth for a shoulder.
** This troper thinks the most terrifying thing in the Duff Gardens episode is the mouldering ten-foot hoagie that gives Homer food poisoning.
* ''Simpsons Movie, The'': As much as I loved ''TheSimpsonsMovie'', a few things bugged me. First, we had Music/GreenDay (as themselves, even) on a barge sinking into the toxic Lake Springfield (This troper, a Green Day fan, was not amused). Later, there was an angry mob who wanted to get Homer after his stupidity led to the whole city being put under a glass dome (which is scary enough, if you think about it), but despite a claim that they only wanted Homer, there are not one, but ''five'' nooses on the tree out back, showing that everyone is ''that'' angry as to kill the ''whole family''... and finally, the fact that the bad guy is willing to blow up the town just so no one will find out about what happened there... Yeah, there's some pretty heavy stuff...
** [[Tropers/{{Demetrios}} This troper]] used to joke that an invasion of Springfield by the [[{{Warhammer 40000}} Eldar]] would be the only way Mr. Burns would die. But with fridge horror like this, now I think an aggressive alien invasion would be a mercy kill for the town.
* ''Some Enchanted Evening'': The "Babysitter Bandit" voiced by Penny Marshall who ties the kids up and robs the place on a first season episode of ''TheSimpsons''. While practically every character on the show from large to small was funny there was '''nothing''' funny about her character or performance. She was just scary.
* ''Springfield Files, The'': For a while, this troper refused to watch "The Springfield Files". Somehow, revealing that the alien [[spoiler:was Mr. Burns]] did nothing to make it less creepy.
** "Hello children, I bring you love!"
** "Awww, it brings us love... KILL IT!"
** And in the same episode, there's that (off-screen) bit during his treatment to cheat death, '''a vocal-cord scraping''':
--> '''Dr. Nick:''' Now don't worry. You won't feel a thing... *picks up nightmarish device* till I jam this down your throat!
* ''Tale Of Two Springfields, A:'' A badger mauls Homer and it appears it ''tore open his stomach.''
--> '''Lisa:''' How'd it rip your stomach without ripping through your shirt?
--> '''Homer:''' What do I look like, a tailor?
* ''Team Homer'': Mr. Burns (high on ether), ''drilling Moleman's head'' (offscreen).
-->"Oh no, my brains."
* ''Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part 2'': The ''TwinPeaks'' Red Room sequence in Who Shot Mr Burns is almost as unsettling as what it's parodying.
** How about Homer completely losing it and becoming AxeCrazy? After being briefly rendered unable to say nothing but his name, Burns recovers and angrily proceeds to ask ''[[BerserkButton who Homer is]]''. Homer lets out a primal scream, turns around and ''pulls a gun out of one of the mobs hands and aims it right at Burns' head.''
--> '''Homer''': SAY IT! SAY I NEVER SHOT YOU... *suddenly regains his senses* ''before!''
* ''Yokel Chords'': [[http://www.metacafe.com/watch/525775/the_simpsons_story_of_dark_stanley/ Dark Stanley]]. To make it worse, [[spoiler:the end of the episode implies that within the Simpsons universe... he's real!]]
** The clip's been removed. [[http://vimeo.com/6121900 Click here for an unsettling homage to The Demon Barber of Fleet Street]].
** And then there's the music that plays whenever Dark Stanley is mentioned, it's like something out of ''Sweeney Todd''.
*** As a possible nod to this, Stephen Sondheim makes a cameo in the episode as himself.
* ''Non-specific episode'': Whenever the whole family screams. Bart and Lisa normally scream at Sideshow Bob (AHHH SIDESHOW BOB!) which has been played up and Homer and Bart have their own comical screams, but when they're all joined by Marge suddenly you know things are bad. Many examples on this list are [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel made worse when even the most level headed Simpson freaks out...]]
* Sideshow Bob in general, especially in earlier episodes, is a driven psychopath with an obsession with killing Bart (who is ''10'') and Krusty. Although his [[MenaceDecay menace has decayed]] recently.

[[folder:Proof that "Tree House of Horror" can sometimes live up to its name]]

*** "Dammit Smithers, this isn't rocket science! It's brain surgery!

** "Look, Smithers, I'm [[NightmareRetardant Davy Crockett!"]]
*** Homer waking up with Burns's head on his shoulder was worse. Then Burns says "It's all a dream... or is it?" There was a joke teaser for "next week's episode," which would show Homer living with a second head, and for years this troper thought it was a real episode. That made it much worse, because I was stuck wondering how that would turn out forever.
** The ending to "The Bart Zone" got me. Near the end of Bart's nightmare, Bart and Homer share a heartwarming father/son moment. And when Homer kisses Bart on the cheek, it [[SmashCut cuts right back to reality]] where [[FauxHorrific Bart screams]] in an extreme close-up. Then the camera moves ''inside his mouth'' to create a black screen. Cue commercial break.
* ''Treehouse of Horror III'': ZombieApocalypse Halloween segment "Dial 'Z' for Zombies". Their reappearance in [[VideoGame/TheSimpsons the old Simpsons arcade game]] didn't help at all.
** The ending of that segment is pretty freaky too. So, the family has destroyed the zombie plague, they sit nicely in the chair and they watch TV. Marge said that they have to be happy that they didn't change into mindless zombies, but Bart interrupts them for watching TV. A guy falls on screen, and a laugh track plays. The freaky part is that Homer then moans, "Man. Fall down. Funny," the family moans together exactly like the zombies, and a very chilling wolf howl plays over that part.

** It was the [[MonsterClown psychotic Krusty doll]] in "Clown Without Pity" that did it for this troper...
*** I still jump every time the Krusty doll drops the doll charade with "I said I'm going to kill you! You, Homer Simpson!"
* ''Treehouse of Horror IV'': The Halloween segment "Terror from 5 and 1/2 Feet" was pretty scary too, seeing as it was a homage to ''Series/TheTwilightZone's'' own "Nightmare from 20,000 Feet". The really creepy part was at the end where Bart is being taken to an asylum. Yes, despite that Principal Skinner, Otto, and the school kids see the obvious damage to the bus and that Bart saved their lives from the gremlin, Bart still gets committed simply due to '''"''misbehaving on the bus''"''', as Skinner puts it. As a final insult to poor Bart and the psychological damage he went through, the gremlin appears in the back window of the ambulance he's strapped down to a bed in while holding Ned's decapitated head... which is saying "'''HIDELY HO, BART!'''" Cue screams by both Bart and the audience.

*** Even though the destruction of the bus was clearly the work of the gremlin, Principal Skinner sentences Bart to live at the New Bedlam Insane Asylum (formerly, the New Bedlam Home for the Emotionally Interesting, as seen in season three's "Stark Raving Dad" {the episode with MichaelJackson as the big, bald white mental patient who helps Bart write a birthday song for Lisa}) for the rest of his life. Yeah, you read that right. He sentences a 10-year-old child to an insane asylum for the rest of his life. Are we to believe that Principal Skinner secretly hates Bart ''that'' much? Even Itchy is nicer to Scratchy.
** "Bart Simpson's Dracula", which parodies {{Dracula}} with Mr. Burns as the vampire. The [[TwistEnding twist at the end]] being that ''Marge is the head vampire''.

----> "The family dog is eying Bart's intestine..."

*** The main story of that episode, which was [[ImAHumanitarian the teachers of Springfield Elementary eating all of the students.]] The worst part might have been when Bart and Lisa tell Marge, and she tells them that they need to fight their own battles, and should march right up and say "don't eat me." Thinking that your own parents wouldn't protect you from cannibals is pretty unsettling for a child. The episode ends with Skinner chasing Bart, Lisa, and Milhouse into a meat grinder, with Skinner saying he'd start by "eating [Bart's] shorts." Holy hell, that was freaky. And then Bart and Lisa wake up and they do the damn fog thing!
*** The view down at the meat grinder, with the blood splatter fanning out from the "collection vat". And the looks on the Skinner's, the teachers', and Lunchlady Doris' faces when they began advancing on them.

*** Speaking of which, Homer's final line of the "Shinning" segment serves as a nice bit of FridgeHorror.
** The Big Brother-esque Treehouse short where Flanders is a supreme overlord, specifically the part where a lobotomized Moe shows Homer "you get to keep the little piece they cut out".

**** "It's ''bliiiiiiiiiissssss''..."

**** "Let's see some biiiiiiiig smiles!"
*** Also when Maggie whacks Groundskeeper Willie in the back with the axe and says "This is indeed a disturbing universe" in a deep, creepy voice. Not just ANY deep, creepy voice - James Earl m-fin' JONES deep, creepy voice!

*** "Willie, please! Mr. van Houten has the floor!" Skinner, as Willie (''screaming for help'') burns to a crisp during a PTA meeting.
** "Homer 3", in which Homer is stuck in another (CGI) dimension and can't get home.

* ''Treehouse of Horror VII'': "The Thing and I". Due to a discovery of the "evil gene" at Bart and his siamese twin's birth, Dr. Hibbert suggests to take the newly-separated baby who has it and lock them up in the attic. Ten years later, the kids decide to investigate this and it ends up with the other twin trying to ''re-sow'' himself to Bart. Luckily, [[BigDamnHeroes the family and Hibbert arrive and stop this before it happens]]. But then, to make that moment of saving moot, it is revealed that ''Bart'' is the one with the "evil gene", and he is ''forced to switch with his twin's position''.
* ''Treehouse of Horror VIII'': In the short "Fly vs. Fly", when Bart was messing around with Homer's [[TeleportersAndTransporters teleporting machine]] and Santa's Little Helper and Snowball get in the way, that may have been another good example of crossing the line between parody and Nightmare Fuel. On the parody side, Bart inadvertently made the ''Simpsons'' version of CatDog. On the Nightmare Fuel side, he also made a creature that, for the sake of identification, will be called "[=ButtButt=]".
*** "Eww! You can be Lisa's!"

** In "Starship Poopers", Maggie was revealed to be an alien and the daughter of Kang and Kodos- even going through stages of alien mutation such as sprouting fangs, developing tentacles, and walking up the wall. The Simpsons go on Jerry Springer to try and solve the crisis- but they end up fighting with Kang and Kodos who zap members of the audience with a ray gun. At the end Marge says that going on Jerry Springer didn't solve anything and Homer adds "Let's go home!" and suddenly Maggie says in a deep menacing voice "Very well. ''I'll'' drive!" and laughs evilly, and before the end credits adds..."I need blood".
** Homer's joyous cry of "Look, Marge, Maggie lost her baby legs!"

** "Hell Toupee". You can tell a Halloween short is scary when it can make the classic little kids' comeback sound fearsome:
--> '''Apu''' ''(upon realizing that Snake's hair possessed Homer)'' Snake? But you're dead!\\

*** Especially the ending: Marge, Lisa, and Maggie get on a spaceship taking Earth's "best and brightest" to start a new colony on Mars. Homer and Bart attempt to follow by boarding a second rocket, only to discover after launch their ship is filled with Earth's most annoying and unpleasant, and is on a direct course for the sun.

* ''Treehouse of Horror XII'': "The House Of Whacks". You know the one where they installed the house with Ultrahouse, the one with PierceBrosnan's voice, and it did all the housework for them, but things [[MurderTheHypotenuse took a turn for the worse when it fell in love with Marge?]] Homer in a WHIRLING garbage disposal (and the blood splattered kitchen). Homer's terrified screaming as that was happening didn't help matters much either...

** In addition, when the Simpsons are going to Mr. Burns house for trick-or-treating, and are so freaked out by the "accidental" Halloween decorations that they run through the gate, which slices them in the style of an egg slicer and their pieces run all over the place. That one crossed the line ''three'' times if that were possible.

** The ending of "Wiz Kids". Snake Smithers eating Burns Voldemort's corpse.
* ''Treehouse of Horror XIV'': [[SubbingForSanta Homer becomes death]] and must kill Marge, but instead kills Selma. It may not seem that bad, but think about it, Selma is now dead, so she never comes back? No of course not, the Treehouse of Horror Episodes don't continue to anything. But in the next segment, Homer mentions something like "This is the most fun I've had since I was Death".
** "Frinkenstein", where Frink's dad is made into a Frankenstein's monster expy and goes on a rampage.
* ''Treehouse of Horror XV'': The end of the segment "In The Belly Of The Boss", which has a shrunken Homer ''regrowing while still in Mr. Burns''.

* ''Treehouse of Horror XVII'': The end of "Married to the Blob". The poor people of Springfield gratefully rush through the door of what appears to be a new homeless shelter....and straight into the jaws of a gigantic, ravenous Homer. This gross-out moment becomes chilling social commentary once you realize that Mayor Quimby ''organized the whole thing'' in order to allow the newly mutated Homer to "benefit society" by cleaning up the streets.

** The end of the segment "The Day the Earth Looked Stupid" where all the humans are gone was kind of unsettling. It was the last segment of the episode, so it was also a DownerEnding. And it was based on the Iraq invasions. "We had to invade! They were building weapons of mass disintegration!"

--->'''Krusty:''' "Yeah, that's right. ''LOOK AT YOUR HERO!!!''"
* ''Treehouse of Horror XVIII'': Ned turns into the devil and teaches the children a lesson using his "heck house" ride. Some citizens of Springfield are seen suffering fates appropriately suitable for the sin they're committing- e.g Groundskeeper Willy being attacked by ''his own tractor'' for wrath, Homer turning into spaghetti for gluttony, Moe taking a stripper's money and then getting kicked in the crotch for lust, greed, and envy, and Homer AGAIN getting ground through into huge square chunks of meat for sloth.
** The Halloween episode with the play on ET. Homer ''asphyxiating the alien and murmuring "Shhshhshh" while doing so''. Like he's putting a child to bed.

* ''Treehouse of Horror XX'': In "Don't Have a Cow, Mankind" (a "TwentyEightDaysLater"-meets-"ChildrenOfMen" parody), Krusty's burgers had mad-cow disease inserted into them and turned the rest of Springfield into ravenous ZOMBIES, after eating the commercialised product. Just knowing that the enterprising showman would serve his consumers mad-cows and ADVERTISE them. In the same segment, Moe serves Marge Homer's blood after being impaled on his beer-culturing machine.
* ''Non-specific episode'': The Halloween variant of the Gracie Films logo, in which the "Shh!" is replaced with a woman's blood-curdling shriek, and the normally soothing musical signature is played on a creepy organ in minor key.

* The "Scratchtasia" segment that Bart and Lisa watch in "Itchy & Scratchy Land." Scratchy chops up Itchy to a microscopic, airborne-particle size, only to be literally turned into dust from the inside out by the [[ImplacableMan invincible]], axewielding Itchies after ''breathing them in''.

* The Itchy and Scratchy cartoon, which in addition to sporting a picture-perfect, shot-by-shot parody of ''2001: A Space Odyssey'', is where Itchy breaks any possible barriers by yanking Scratchy's helmet off, causing his head to blow up like a balloon, and then popping his head with a pin, causing blood to splatter on the TV screen in the form of the words "The End".

* Another ''Itchy and Scratchy'' episode had Scratchy apply to be Itchy's apprentice in a glass blowing shop. Itchy shoves Scratchy into the furnace and starts to blow him out like a piece of glass as he screams. Itchy pulls him out and Scratchy says "i quit" only to get shoved back into the furnace. Later, we see Itchy and his girlfriend drinking in a hot-tub while Scratchy, as a "No Vacancy" sign is in the background flashing. The worst part? Each time Scratchy lights up, he says "No" in a voice that suggests he's continuously in pain... but not dead.
* Itchy & Scratchy are visiting the U.S. Mint. Itchy throws Scratchy onto a press, where he is flattened, stamped, and sliced into individual hundred-dollar bills. He then takes a bundle to a lounge, where millionaire dogs are smoking cigars. One of them uses a Scratchy-bill to light his. Scratchy's eye is atop the pyramid on the seal, panics when he sees the fire, and lets out a ''blood-curdling scream as he's consumed by flames''.
* The short scene when staying with the Flanders': Scratchy is sitting in his cottage, reading ''Nice'' magazine. He hears a knock at the door, and discovers Itchy in an orphan basket. Hugs & Hearts... Itchy then smashes his bottle, let's out a maniacal laugh, and stabs Scratchy repeatedly in the chest. He then steals Scratchy's TV, leaving bloody footprints as he walks over his chest, Scratchy's skin getting sucked upward by Itchy pulling the bottle away. Scratchy can only cry out weakly, ''"Why? Why? My only son... "'' Bart & Lisa think it's hysterical. Rod & Todd are terrified beyond comprehension.

* "Homer the Father"'s ''Itchy and Scratchy'' cartoon ''"Ain't I a Stinger?"'' The fact that all the bees were turning Scratchy's stomach into a fleshy hive of honeycombs.

--> ''Krusty:'' What the hell was that?"
* "Planet of the Aches" from "Bart of Darkness". Scratchy is sealed in a chamber for ''3000'' years, and is finally freed by a bunch of evolved, [[MyBrainIsBig big-brained]] Itchys. The freaky part is that these Itchys don't speak but merely pulse their brains to communicate and perform telekinetic actions, and every time they pulse, they emit a sound which is like a miniature choir inside their heads. Anyway, these futuristic Itchys are weird, but what's really freaky is how nice they are to Scratchy; they groom him and give him a nice robe. Of course, this unexplained kindness doesn't last, and they use their telekinetic powers to throw sharp objects at Scratchy in an arena. So to recap: Itchy sealed Scratchy in a room for 3000 years only to apparently ''die'' during that time and have his evolved successors finish the job, but not before pampering him into a false sense of security.

* The fan series ''Bart the General''? '''Not''' the episode, the fan series. ([[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6HwSq3sp8o here's episode one,]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTMTB52RjmM two,]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIsNqXRBIeI&feature=related three part one,]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhZGKJxOh2o&feature=related three part two,]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtbvzFzGRqs&feature=related three part three,]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwiZCLpNOfw&feature=related four.]])

* Some of the earlier Tracey Ullman shorts, as the designs are horribly OffModel and the animations more cartoony and fluid. Just watch the kids' expressions in "Making Faces" and how Marge is animated in "Burping Contest". The extreme close-up of Homer's mouth yelling "BART!!!" in "Bart Of The Jungle".
* The "couch gag" for the episode "[=MoneyBART=]", created by famed British graffiti artist and culturejammer Banksy, showing FOX Studios as an Asian sweatshop creating the animation cels and merchandise for the show.