Nightmare Fuel / The Adventures of Pete & Pete

• The Garbageman is probably one of the creepiest villains ever.
• "Endless" Mike Hellstrom in certain episodes, but especially in "Pinned!". All of it. The school's wrestling team goes down one by one in very odd and disturbing ways. For example, one kid gets SUCKED INTO A HAND DRIER, and another gets crushed by a vibrating bed.
  • Mike's obsession with Big Pete. When he didn't qualify to wrestle him because he was a couple of pounds over his weight class, what does he do? He pulls out his own teeth with a pair of pliers to make the grade.
  Mike: They say that the human body has over 191 separate bones. Oh, where do I begin?
• Series co-creator Will McRobb sums up what makes the character terrifying rather succinctly during the LA Pete and Pete reunion in 2012:
  "I was thinking about your character and, y'know, the bully character is such a cliché, and how you found a way to make it someone that really resonates. I was thinking, "what makes Endless Mike so special? Why is he so different from other bullies?" And I was actually thinking of "Pinned!" and I was like "oh yeah, that's right, we had him murder people in the show!" So, yeah — that's a big — you don't usually see bullies murdering people — or extracting their own organs to make weight."

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