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  • How about the babysitting episode with Miss Patterson? Most of the episode hinted that she had some brutal revenge plans against Raven, Cory, and Raven's friends, who treated her like a pushover as children (with Raven and Cory even framing her of eating their mom's birthday cake, when they actually ate it themselves). Chelsea and Eddie seemed to meet their ends at Miss Patterson's hands, until the reveal that her real revenge plans involved simply featuring everyone in the spooky reality TV show Revenge of the Babysitter.
  • From the two-part "Country Cousins":
    • The "Baby Cousin". Played by Raven, of course. In a giant baby costume and high chair. Something about her expressions in that getup was... HORRIFYING!
    • Scarecrow Percy, which we've told twice that there are stories of him coming to life and stealing your soul. Then Percy actually comes into the room through the hole in their floor, complete with moans and flashing lights. Of course, this is before we find out it was a prank.
  • The Halloween episode "Don't Have a Cow" where Raven and Chelsea turn into cows. At least it was just a long vision.
    • A particularly creepy shot from said episode was used in the season 2 opening, resulting in the entire opening being replaced with season 3's until Disney+ changed it back.
    • While Raven ultimately prevented her vision from happening, it is still left unknown what would have happened to her and Chelsea after they completely transformed into cows. Since Chelsea ate the page with the reversal spell, they seemingly had no way to become human again. This combined with their increasingly bovine behaviors and appetites would have made for one of the darkest endings in the series had it came true.
  • Clucky the singing Chicken ventures far into the Unintentional Uncanny Valley, thankfully it only looks terrifying.
  • Raven’s allergic reactions to mushrooms. The first time it happens, in “Chef-Man and Raven”, is pretty unnerving because of how swollen she gets, even if it’s mostly played for laughs. Then in a later episode, it starts affecting her brain which is also very unnerving, although it also led to some hilariously bizarre visions like one of Eddie sticking his head through a weird fantasy-world.
  • Cindy smoking, especially since she’s the same age as Cory. Poor Cory had to take the blame until Cindy mentions that the cigarettes are hers. Cindy learned her lesson, but Cory must have been shaken.
  • The Juicer. He’s a grown man (or at least a teenager) who can get juice out of literally everything and even threatens to juice people’s HEADS. Yikes. However, he does have a sensitive side, since he comes to Raven for advice, is a hopeless romantic, and destroys Cindy’s cigarettes for her.
    • Even stranger is that he's apparently a Lightning Bruiser who can appear in front of people when they try to flee from him using speed alone that borders on teleportation.
  • Cory’s security system can be a jumpscare, especially since it's a loud video with extreme close-ups of his face.
  • Every time Raven has the vision can be scary for some because when she has a vision she turns to the camera quickly, stares at the camera with wide eyes and her mouth shaped like an "O" sometimes, then we see the vision, then it reverts to Raven's face as she looks away at the camera. It's not so bad but it can be scary for some because it comes out of nowhere and fast like a jumpscare!
    • The visions themselves can be scary, with the creepy background sound effect and lack of laugh track.
  • Victor and Tanya come down with food poisoning during Cory’s birthday. Afterwards, Reptile Rick is looking for the mother snake, which is in their bed. The couple look absolutely terrified.
  • Raven and her friends skip school to go Christmas shopping. They find out that their teacher is the mall Santa. He spots them and starts chasing after them.
  • Raven skateboards down a flight of stairs and ends up horribly mangled. While she suffers a similar fate on her dad’s exercise machine in another episode, this time she’s covered in bandages and a cast.
  • The Black History Month episode can be a little hard to watch if you’ve been a victim of racism.
  • Donna says that she “doesn’t do fake furs”. Given that thousands of animals die every year for their furs, and that chinchillas are endangered, it’s quite chilling.

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