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  • During Marvin's first song number, "I'm A Martian", there's two surprisingly creepy scenes. Firstly, there's the sign of his "puppy lab", with disassembled cartoony pups flowing across the screen on a conveyor belt. Then, when he warns the audience not to insult his helmet, there's a brief but incredibly unnerving shot. It's an extreme close-up of Marvin's face, so the entire screen is black save for two huge cartoony eyes... which then turn bloody red as he glares, with feral amber irises and crackling flames dancing along the bottom of each eyeball as they burn a hole into the viewer's soul. It lasts for all of a second but it is ridiculously creepy for that.
  • In "Devil Dog", Taz, in this version, is very monstrous and has a murderous rage. Oh god, the evil red eyes and the entire scene with him nearly eating Sylvester the Cat and Tweety Bird, it can practically make one wet themselves. Sylvester fleeing down that dark hallway with a look of sheer terror on his face (not Played for Laughs terror— REAL terror), might be the scariest part of that sequence.
  • Lola's stalker-centric song, "We Are in Love" was just filled to the brim with Yandere undertones. At one point, there is a shot of her standing outside Bugs' house in the middle of a lightning storm, silhouetted, with an eerie Slasher Smile the only thing seen in between the lightning strikes.
    Bugs: You're the reason I have to keep my shades drawn.
    Lola: I'll watch you through the chimney!
    Bugs: I've installed an alarm system with motion beam detectors.
    Lola: I have the code.
  • "The Muh-Muh-Muh-Murder", where Daffy thinks that Porky is a Serial Killer. It does have a rational explanation, but the leadup is genuinely unsettling, including the ending where Daffy nearly kills Porky, trying to escape.
  • Bugs becoming addicted to Spargle. It's a lot creepier than it sounds. "PUT DOWN THE STAPLER OR I'LL WRITE ALL OVER THE PIG'S FACE!!!!!" Especially since it actually looks like a drug addiction. In fact, it turns out Spargle is made from illegal and highly addictive additives.
  • Yandere!Daffy from the first episode. Especially his unnervingly empty looking smile.
    Daffy: I'm going to be the best best friend that any best friend has ever had! Muahahahahahaha!!!!
    Speedy: ...Uh-oh.
  • That face Tina makes in Daffy's Imagine Spot in "You've Got Hate Mail". It just comes right outta nowhere.
  • In "Itsy Bitsy Gopher", there is a Giant Spider that has a very bad bite. Its appearance may be cartoony, but it has a very frightening appearance for spider haters. It doesn't help that Bugs almost had to have his hand amputated if it wasn't for his luck. It also doesn't help that the spider in the episode, the African sand spider, is a real-life species and the symptoms of its venomous bite mentioned are true to real life.
  • If the trans-dimensional scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey creeps you out, you might want to keep that in mind while watching the Coyote-Road Runner short "Unsafe at Any Speed". It's pretty heavily invoked.
  • All of Cecil Turtle's actions in "The Shell Game". First off, he pulls plenty of Nightmare Faces, even one that is pretty much the Grinch's "idea face". Later on, when Bugs and Porky uncover his scam, he actually threatens them at gunpoint to keep them quiet, and was fully intent on killing them without any humor normally found in a Looney Tunes entry.
    Bugs: C'mon, Porky. We're going to the police.
    Cecil: (pointing handgun) I wouldn't do that if I were you. (cocks gun) Drop the shell.
  • "Bugs & Daffy Get a Job" has Daffy snoring extremely loudly. Bugs wakes him up and says he has the perfect remedy. The two leave and Daffy ends up on the ledge of a very tall building. Bugs is behind him and approaches with his hands outstretched, stopping only when Daffy asks how this would help him stop snoring. Bugs responds "Oh, right. Snoring." and walks away. The whole time he moves like a zombie and his eyes are bloodshot from lack of sleep. It's abundantly clear that Bugs was going to murder Daffy due to his sleep loss and frustration.
  • "Peel of Fortune" has Daffy missing out on Bugs going back in time to undo the events in the episode right when their house is getting demolished, and the last we see of him in this timeline is him getting hit by the wrecking ball and presumably killed. Thankfully, Bugs succeeds in preventing this from ever happening, so Daffy never meets this fate.

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