History NightmareFuel / TheSimpsons

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->'''Homer:''' BARTYOUWANNASEEMYNEWCHAINSAWANDHOCKEYMASK!?!\\

You wouldn't think that ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', a animated sitcom starring a realistic and relatable middle-class nuclear family, could be anywhere near thought-posioningly horrifying enough to have a page of this caliber, right? ''Think thrice''.

You wouldn't think that ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', a show starring a realistic and relatable animated nuclear family, could be anywhere near thought-posioningly horrifying enough to have a page of this caliber, right? ''Think thrice''.

You wouldn't think that ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', a show starring a realistic and relatable animated nuclear family, could be anywhere near thought-posioningly horrifying enough to have a page of this caliber, right? ''Wrong''.

You wouldn't think that ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', a show starring a realistic and relatable animated nuclear family, could be through-posioningly scary enough for a mere page of this caliber, right? ''Wrong''.

You wouldn't think that ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', a show starring a realistic and relatable animated nuclear family, could be scary enough for its own page, right? ''Wrong''.

* The couch gag in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS26E22MathletesFeat Mathlete's Feat]]" crosses over with ''Franchise/RickAndMorty''...where Morty accidentally crashes Rick's spaceship into the Simpsons, splattering them into yellow goop. Rick then collects some goop in a vial and sends Morty to some kind of alien Kinkos to get them cloned. However, [[CloningBlues the cloning turns out to be a failure]] and the Simpsons are cloned [[BodyHorror as hideous mutants]] because Rick kept the vial clean with his own spit. And to top it all off, Rick shoots Flanders with a freeze gun when he walks into the wreckage, and the Frozen Ned falls over and shatters when the two leave.

* "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS13E18IAmFuriousYellow I Am Furious (Yellow)]]": Homer HulkingOut. Becomes NightmareRetardant when Bart says, "Thank God his pants stayed on."

* [[NightmareFuel/TheSimpsonsMovie The Movie]]
* [[NightmareFuel/TreehouseOfHorror Treehouse Of Horror]]

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* The appearance of Thanos from ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' in the couch gag for "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS30E12TheGirlOnTheBus The Girl on the Bus]]". With a snap of his fingers, Homer, Marge, Bart and Lisa suffer the same fate as [[spoiler: Nick Fury, Bucky Barnes, Maria Hill, Falcon, Scarlet Witch, Star-Lord, Drax, Groot, Spider-Man, Black Panther, Doctor Strange and Mantis]], which is fading away into dust.

* The appearance of Thanos from ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' in the couch gag for "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS30E12TheGirlOnTheBus The Girl on the Bus]]". With a snap of his fingers, Homer, Marge, Bart and Lisa suffer the same fate as Nick Fury, Bucky Barnes, Maria Hill, Falcon, Scarlet Witch, Star-Lord, Drax, Groot, Spider-Man, Black Panther, Doctor Strange and Mantis, which is fading away into dust.

* "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E1LardOfTheDance Lard of the Dance]]": Homer's eye popping after his face is sucked in
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side the hose and during his fight with Willie. Doubles as NauseaFuel.

* "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E5HomerVsDignity]]": The infamous scene where Homer gets [[BlackComedyRape gets raped by a panda]] at the zoo. We (thankfully) don't get to see it but the implications are still disturbing.

* "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS10E1LardOfTheDance Lard of the Dance]]": Homer's eye popping after his face is sucked inside the hose and during his fight with Willie. Doubles as NauseaFuel.

* At the beginning of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E18BurnsHeir Burns' Heir]]", Smithers places a wet sponge on Mr. Burns' head. Burns, being extremely frail, nearly drowns to death in his bathtub. The disturbing part comes when Smithers returns to the room, finds Mr. Burns apparently dead, mourns for him... and Mr. Burns wakes up and, experiencing a massive burst of [[SurpriseCreepy anger-induced adrenaline]] and strength, '''[[https://frinkiac.com/img/S05E18/162945.jpg nearly strangles Smithers to death with his bare hands]]''', with an enraged look on his face he doesn't normally exhibit. As he's being choked, Smithers is clearly scared and in pain. Then we see Burns, who's usually depicted as being weak and thin, with [[https://frinkiac.com/img/S05E18/163445.jpg all of the muscles in his chest tensed up]], glowering at Smithers with a look of pure hatred, and he looks absolutely ''feral''.

** Although it's almost instantly softened by the fact that he can't go through with it ([[EvilIsHammy and sings a song about it]]), Sideshow Bob catches a ''very'' [[SurpriseCreepy quick wave]] of VillainDecay reversal and [[ForgotFlandersCouldDoThat reminds us why he was scary in the first place]] when he hides in Bart's bedroom until Homer leaves, then tapes up his mouth and attempts a quick disposal by stabbing. For once, Bart doesn't cheat death by either [[BigDamnHeroes being rescued]] or [[GuileHero pulling a clever eleventh-hour trick]]: he gets to live simply because [[OnlyTheAuthorCanSaveThemNow Bob himself suddenly decides not to kill him]]. In other words, Bart's PlotArmor is the ''only'' reason that his family doesn't go to sleep suspecting nothing and wake up to find him dead and bleeding in his own bed.

** The SurpriseCreepy NightmareSequence where Ned [[DissonantSerenity walks calmly up the spiral staircase of a clock tower whistling "Bringing in the Sheaves" before opening a carrying case, assembling it, and opening fire at a crowd of men, women, and children on the ground]].

* "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E21LadyBouviersLover Lady Bouvier's Lover]]": When the family celebrating Maggie's birthday, there's a [[SurpriseCreepy surprisingly unnerving shot]] of Homer, Lisa, and Patty gleefully taking pictures of her, where they appear as [[https://i.imgur.com/4QJpsSt.jpg ghostly cyclops with their mouths agape]]. No wonder poor Maggie looked so terrified of them!

-->-- "Cape Feare"

* "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsWhoShotMrBurns Who Shot Mr Burns Part 1]]": The ending of the episode has a very creepy feeling to it. It depicts triumphant Burns walking down the dark street with action cutting to various characters noticing odd details (Smithers forgetting his jacket, Skinner forgetting his mom at the town hall, Marge not being able to find other family members). One scene depicts a box in which Marge buried Grampa’s gun lying empty near a dug hole and being overturned by a gust of wind. The feeling of something bad forthcoming is almost palpable. And then Burns get shot...

* "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsWhoShotMrBurns Who Shot Mr Burns Part 2]]": When Mr Burns can only say Homer's name after waking from his coma, it makes everyone think he shot him, not helped by the time the mob finds him, where he's practically strangling Mr. Burns whilst ranting at him to tell everyone that he ''didn't'' do it. Further made worse, as Mr. Burns chooses that moment to snap out of his daze and ask [[BerserkButton who the hell he is]], causing Homer to completely snap, grab a nearby gun and hold it to Mr. Burns's head, [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness visibly shaking with rage]].

* "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E10LisasFirstWord Lisa's First Word]]": The clown bed Homer made for Bart when he was a toddler, pictured above.

* "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS29E21FlandersLadder Flanders' Ladder]]" is creepy within itself. The fact the episode is a parody of ''Film/TheSixthSense'' makes this episode more intense. The scene at the end of the episode when Bart tells Lisa when they are going to die is really morbid, especially when Flanders has a wall of pictures of his dead wives Maude and Edna. ''[[https://youtu.be/oSE1itqRoEg Creepy stuff.]]''

You wouldn't think that ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', a show starring a cartoonish family, could be scary enough for its own page, right? ''Wrong''.

-->'''Homer:''' Yes, that's a real pickle. (red fades away) Would you excuse me for a moment? (screams bloody murder inside the radiation suit headgear) Okay, I have thought this through. I will send Bart the money to fly home, then I will murder him.

-->'''Homer:''' Yes, that's a real pickle. (red fades away) Would you excuse me for a moment? (screams bloody murder inside the radiation suit headgear) Okay, I have thought this through. I will send Bart the money to fly home. Then I will murder him.

--> '''Bart''': "I need a soul, Ralph. Any soul. YOURS!"

** Following that, when Homer actually does pick up Bart, Bart is left speechless in anger as Homer attempts to pass off a very shoddy apology about how "they were both wrong". Bart slowly turns to Homer and imagines his eyes and ''the flesh on his face melting off like'' '''''wax''''', until Homer asks "NOW HOW 'BOUT A HUG" in a horrifying voice. While some consider this a BigLippedAlligatorMoment, in context this scene conveys just how angry Bart feels from his own point of view. He loathes Homer so much at that point that he sees him as a disfigured monster.