I imagine we're gonna live happily ever after...
Moments Pages are Spoilers Off. You Have Been Warned.
Shorts
- The special Halloween animated short "Pregnancy"
is just plain freaky, even compared to the others which usually ended in Black Comedy. In it a doctor tells an expecting mother than she is not going to have a baby and is merely suffering from a set of psychosomatic symptoms called phantom pregnancy. While the doctor tries to reassure the disbelieving woman that there is no baby coming, she starts going into labor and the baffled doctor ends up helping her give birth after all. Baffled, yet happy, the doctor announces to the now-mother that the baby is a healthy, bouncing baby boy, only to find that the mother had completely vanished from the operating table. The lights in the room start to flicker, cutting between the ordinary hospital ward and a dilapidated, seemingly long-abandoned room that's completely empty. Horrified, the doctor looks at the baby in his hands, which stares back at him, slowly blinking each eye while ghostly wails can be heard in the background. Then it ends. A Fridge Horror-filled explanation is given by a commenter on YouTube:VarsityBeats Gabe Farrell: This video is a flashback to a time in a doctor's life where he serviced the birth of his wife's child, only to be reminded at the end that he had lost everything and was psychotic.
I'll elaborate. The woman in this video is the doctor's ex-wife. The doctor called this a "phantom pregnancy," which is when a woman thinks she is pregnant but really isn't. But, his wife did feel the baby, because it really was there. The doctor, however, was delusional in the way that he was stuck in the shadows of his past. He used to be a successful doctor and handled lots of pregnancies, as evident in the video. But something happened that changed his life. Drugs, depression, being fired from his job, his wife leaving him, whatever it may be. After his wife gives birth, the empty hospital is now the environment of his life, a run-down building that used to be successful. He becomes aware once again that everything he had is gone. The flashback of his wife giving birth was due to the fact that it was all an imagination, and present day, he is holding his child. We don't know what happened to the wife, but his child is there. But something mentally traumatized the doctor to have a vision like this, because everything about his wife has been erased from his mind. This is why he calls her Miss McCloud during the video. He doesn't refer to her by her first name because he doesn't really know her, and she is "Miss" because she hasn't been married yet. But she left him the baby, a memory of his past and a reminder of his sad present. - Book Report. It has nothing to do with a book report, but rather with the spider that shows up, which the guy writing a book report tries to kill. Before he can, the spider manages to type "Don't hurt me. I was once a man." on the computer. And right after that, the newspaper he was trying to kill the spider with whispers "A man...", and the spider crawls into the guy's mouth. What's even more horrifying is the implication that the newspaper was the one to type it, not the spider...
- The Beard: When a second beard splits off from the possessed man's main beard and takes over the face of the walker, a sickening crack is heard. Either the aliens beards kill their host before taking over, or keep them alive while they're possessed. Either way, none are appealing.
- Salt. Starts out innocently enough, with two guys pranking their friend with the "loosen the top of the salt shaker to make all the salt dump onto the food" prank. What makes it terrifying is when the prank victim begins to eat the food (read: salt) anyway, and starts to rather graphically shrivel up. Sure the ending has a bit of Mood Whiplash, as is to be expected with Cyanide and Happiness, but still rather terrifying.
- Yummy Pie starts out relatively tame, until the very ending.
- Carousel. It goes from 0 to 100 real fast when the carousel horses come to life and freak out.
- Put Em Down. Mrs. Livingston hated her son Fire Dash enough to drown him in a river.
- Do NOT get caught making fun of Stevie McShortstuff's height.
- And don't lie to him, either.
- And don't lie to him
- Stay away from paramedics, graveyard workers, and firefighters on Opposite Day. Do visit the local stores or strip clubs, though.
- Some may find the Harry the Handsome Butcher saga to be disturbing, considering he walks around with his face missing and skeleton exposed (in later episodes, just a hole) for most of the saga. It's no wonder the man and woman at his counter are disturbed and the latter leaves a bad review.
- That's It. A boy's bothering his sister, and their bickering prompts their dad to warn them that he'll turn the car around. The boy bothers her again, and their yelling leads to their dad turning the car around and driving backgrounds through traffic at high speeds, with the boy and the girl screaming in horror as the car goes faster and his face gets angrier. A literal dark twist to an otherwise empty threat.
- Ribs. Doubles as Tearjerker and Black Comedy. A terminally ill man with his ribs bulging through his skin is subjected to the doctor playing his ribs like a xylophone until he flatlines, and continuing to do so afterward. Cue the patient's wife looking on in shock and horror.
- Birthday Boy, in which the titular character brutally murders a pony thinking he and his friends will die otherwise.
- In an ironic twist to the Titanic disaster, all of the women and children in this short are left to die on the sinking ship.
- Poor Pinocchio...He just wanted to be a real boy.
- Junk mail can give you money, enlarge your penis, get you hot singles, and get you murdered by the spirit of a 13-year-old girl!
- Be careful what you wishfor.
- The 10 Million Subscriber special "Tram Sam's Revenge" centers around the titular character mowing down all 10 Million Subscribers for 3 hours straight.
- The titular character from “Winston the Worm” looks innocent enough, if a little unnerving. At first glance, he looks like a well-meaning character straight out of a kids’ edutainment show, giving the family a chance to use their imaginations while reading. For Greg and Chelsea, they are having the time of their lives in the books they read. For Bill, however, he immediately teleports into the Obituary section of his newspaper right into his own grave. Then, Winston makes his intentions known.
- His face when he reveals his true intentions. His humanlike teeth turn into sharp fangs as the camera zooms into him. There is a reason why he is the page image.
- Brandon's transformation in "The Hat", which is Body Horror at it's finest.
- "The Funeral" has multiple people mourn over the death of a senior in a church, and a woman tries to take the senior's bouquet of flowers, but ends up ripping off his arm which she later throws onto a young boy's lap. Then everyone else acts like classroom bullies and tells him "you're gonna die next" repeatedly.
- Any of the "Silly the Clown" shorts qualify as nightmare-inducing. The shorts revolve around a Monster Clown disguised as a doctor, chef, astronaut, policeman, and even Jesus Christ, and luring unsuspecting people with his unsettling looks and mundane ways, bringing a Hope Spot when his victims become satisfied, then sending them flying into the sky via red balloons. And if The Stinger of Lights Out 5 is to take in...looks like The Council Of Dads are his main targets.
- Silly makes a surprise appearance in the fifth part of the "Harry the Handsome Butcher" saga, ending things off with the normal title card and jingle... and an abrupt Jump Scare by Silly himself.
- Doubles as a Tear Jerker when we find out in Planet Silly: Part Two that Silly brings his victims to his planet just because he wanted to have his birthday party with them, as his family died and no one is around in the planet to celebrate his birthday. When Silly sacrifices himself along with the planet, the video ends like normal, but not before another abrupt Jump Scare by Silly himself for a mere split second.
- Silly makes a surprise appearance in the fifth part
- "World War Too" has some pretty graphic depictions of War Is Hell, including a soldier who gets blasted in half by a missile, and a soldier who gets run over by a tank, causing his head to explode.
- "Now That's What I Call Spooky" has a man showing his girlfriend a scary wallpaper in his iPad while a piercing scream is heard offscreen.
- At the finale of Season 3, Pain Tech, the company that almost eradicated humanity, becomes replaced with Paint Tech, which gets humanity addicted to drinking paint to the point that mankind ends up killing itself from it, bodies laying across the streets, bleeding paint from their mouth and eyes.
- Pain Tech itself is Nightmare Fuel. First, it seems it is selling machines whose only purpose is to feel pain. Later, however, a scientist shows that it's all a lie - all Pain Tech sells are metal boxes with buzzers, blinking lights and batteries - the real product is the illusion that there is such a thing as machines intended to feel pain for absolutely no reason other than the sadistic delight of their owner.
