I sometimes think there was a printout of my face tacked up on the writers’ room wall of my favorite childhood shows, and every day the head writer would point at it and ask, “How do we most effectively traumatize this kid?” That’s how tailor-made some of these nightmare fuel cartoon moments feel, so deeply, specifically disturbing that someone must have had it in for me. As I grow older, I realize that other cartoon watchers can relate; many creepy sequences appear to have traumatized an entire generation. Eerie hauntings, gross-out moments, shockingly unexpected deaths, these are the 10 darkest moments in kids’ cartoons. If you still have nightmares, you’re not alone.
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