Secret of Cartoons: Family Guys Lost Episode

In 2005, they brought back Family Guy after it was cancelled. Seth wanted to bring the show back right, and he felt like he needed a darker storyline that the fans would understand.

So for season 4 he wanted to make a fresh start, as if to start the series over again, but for this to work he had to make a episode that could start the series back over again.

For years he never aired it because of time. He later forgot about it and the original tape went missing.

I was quite a Family Guy fan myself, so when an unknown Family Guy tape was for sale online, I ordered it, and I got it in the mail six days later. It was 7 minutes and 53 seconds long. It began with a darker version of the intro. It was a bit more high-pitched, and when it went on the logo, there were flashes of unknown colors.

It began with a closeup of the house. It was silent, and inside the house, Brian was yelling at the family about something odd. From what I saw of it, Peter made a cutaway gag, but you could only see a little bit of it. It took place in a store, but for the last couple of seconds, the screen was just red, and the audio was very messed up. It sounded like someone speaking.

The camera then focused on Stewie, who was saying something, but the audio quality was too messed up to hear. It cut to a crudley drawn knife on the table with a white hand reaching for it. The scene cut to a black screen, where the knife was falling in slow motion with Brian catching it.

A very odd blood explosion was seen, with screaming in the background. Peter was coming out of a broken wall, but something pulled him back in through. It cut back to the house with a red sky, halfway through, the sky turned black and there as a explosion from some parts of the house.

It cut to another second of Peter with a slight explosion behind him, then to Stewie with red eyes and a slight wound on his forehead, as the camera was going out of focus for a second.

It then cut to some low pitched singing with a dark background, and for a few seconds you could see some woman dancing; it had an odd tune. It cut to a inverted background with Peter still alive...something behind him attacked him. There were waves making it hard to see who attacked him in the first place, and it then shown a swirling picture. It was hard to tell what, though.

The house had some odd colors thrown on it, and there was a bit of static that could be seen, after a couple of second the colors started to get truly messed up and it stayed that way for a while. I would have expected something scary, but a hand came out, and Brian just stabbed through it. There was a blood mark on the arm.

It unexpectedly came back to the family on the couch, when there was a doorbell ring. Brian opened it, but it was unknown who it was because of the mirror. Brian welcomed whoever it was, and the family stood up. It cut back to Stewie for a couple of seconds, and then the house again for a couple of seconds. It then showed a gun; I had no idea why the gun was there.

Then it cut to the house moving around. It seemed that behind the background was footage of Nazi soldiers. It went on for a while, and for the last couple of seconds you could barely see that it was a house. The picture moved out the the screen for a second, then came back.

For the last seconds of the episode, you could see someone moving curtains around during some peaceful music. There were no credits, it just cut to black.

I was upset. I looked for the man who sold me the tape...he had several accounts, and he refused to take it back for any amount of money. I met Seth later at a fan convention and asked him about it. He told me there was no way the tape was his. He yelled at me a while until I just quit talking about it.

Later I showed the episode to my friends because I kept the tape. We finished watching it and I went to get some beer and when I came back they were all gone. I found them all lying in the bathtub, dead, with the words spelled out in blood, "WE DON'T NEED THIS".

I was truly upset, and I need to get to the bottom of this.

Secret of Cartoons: Catdog Lost Episode

Hello everyone. When I was a little girl, one of my favorite Nicktoons was CatDog. I'm sure you 90s kids remember it: a fairly comical show about a pair of Siamese twin brothers, one cat and one dog. They lived in a house with wise-mouth blue mouse named Winslow, and they were constantly bullied by a group of dogs known as The Greasers. According to records, this show first aired on April 4, 1998, it and ended with an unaired episode on September 22, 2004. The series was created by Peter Hannan.

Being a loyal follower of the show, I was rather disappointed when I found out that the series was cut in 2004. Like most other people, I hadn't seen the unaired episode, which I have found out was titled "Vexed of Kin / Meat, Dog's Friends".

One day, while browsing a local yard sale, I came across a DVD in a plain clear case. It was obviously a burned DVD, as it was the Memorex brand. Anyway, it had "CatDog: For the Birds" messily scrawled on it in black Sharpie marker. I've never heard of this episode! It must have been some kind of mysterious lost episode! I had to have it. I asked the woman (about in her 40's) in charge how much she wanted for it. She didn't know, it belonged to her son, she said. So she sprinted into her house and brought out a young man, probably in his mid 20's, who was apparently her son. He was very thin, pale, and had deep dark circles around his eyes. He looked malnourished and like he hadn't slept in weeks. I showed him the DVD, smiled politely at him, and asked, "How much?" He gave me a look like someone who was in shock and terribly nauseous at the same time. "What?! How did that get there? Nevermind. Just take it." I felt kind of bad for him. Maybe he reacted like this because he was feeling ill and he was trying to sleep when his mom brought him outside. I gave him a kind smile and told him I hoped he would be feeling better soon, then said farewell.

I dashed home, eager to view my new DVD. I sat down in front of my TV and popped the disk into my DVD player and pressed play on my remote. At first, there was a minute of pure static. I thought this was very strange, considering this was a DVD, not a VHS tape (I've experienced static on VHS tapes in the past, so that would have made sense). I could swear that for about a millisecond I saw a face in the static, and it felt like I was being watched.. After the static, it cut to the opening theme. I smiled, enjoying the feeling of joyful nostalgia that comes with watching one of my old favorites. When the opening theme was over, it showed the title card. It was plain white lettering on a red background, with what looked like crows in the background. The title said "For the Birds."

The episode started out with Dog stretching and yawning before cheerfully proclaiming, "It's a bea-u-tiful day!" Then he hears a familiar sound. "GARBAGE TRUCK!" He yells gleefully and jumps out of bed, dragging a drowsy and more-than-annoyed Cat with him. "Dog, I need my sleep!" Cat growled. Dog didn't hear him. "Garbage truck, garbage truck, garbage truck!!" He ran down the street and sped past the Greasers. The chase went on for about 5 minutes, with the usual goofiness of Cat bumping himself off objects, yelling "My body! My body! My body!" Dog kept running as the garbage truck safely drove over train tracks. Dog followed after, but suddenly he heard a train whistle and a loud screech. Cat and Dog couldn't get out of the way in time. The Greasers watched with a look of terror and disgust. Cliff and Lube doubled over and vomited. Shriek began sobbing uncontrollably. Out of the blue, a huge flock of crows dove down and began feasting on CatDog's recently deceased corpse. The screen started showing graphic snapshots of the birds ripping apart CatDog's remains while "Freebird" by Lynrd Skynrd plays. This continues for the rest of the episode, the images getting more and more detailed and gruesome. Then the ending credits rolled, just plain white letters scrolling down a black background.

I tried ejecting the DVD, but the player didn't seem to want to open. When it finally came out, the disk was partially melted and it had deep scratches on the bottom of the disk. I tried to pick up the disk, but it was burning hot. I freaked out and threw it in the trash.

I still have nightmares about this episode, sometimes I dream about the face from the static. Sometimes I see it at night when I'm trying to sleep, just out of the corner of my eye. It's always brief, but I can always feel it watching me.

Secret of Cartoons: Fairly Odd Parents Lost Episode- Sweet Revenge

Okay, so I am a HUGE Fairly Odd Parents fan. I watch it whenever I can. Lately, I've been busy with real life, so I missed a lot of the new episodes in Season 5. Once the box set came out, I tried to buy it, but I did not have enough money to buy it. One of my friends was also a huge fan of the show as well and he had let me borrow his copy of the set so I could see the episodes that I missed. When I first picked up the copy, I faintly noticed that the Nickelodeon logo was missing off the front cover. I didn't let it process into my mind as I picked up the set. Over the coming weeks, i slowly watched the episodes whenever I could. When I was about to finish it, I noticed something odd. There was an episode #21. All of the seasons, including this one, ended in 20 episodes. The 21st episode was entitled "Sweet Revenge". I googled the episode up, with no avail. So, as you can guess, I put the episode on. And this is when stuff gets freaky.

The episode begins in near crystal quality, almost better than the others. It's mostly the same as the others. He wakes up, his fairies greet him, etc., etc. About 1 minute into it, when he gets out of his room, he walks downstairs about 5 seconds before his dad walks through the front door with a blood-stained machete in his hand. Timmy, about as terrified as I am at this point, whine-screams "Dad, what have you done?!?"

His dad mumbles something, but you can barely hear him make out anything except for the consonant "berg". My mind was too freaked out to process that. His dad walks normally, but with that evilly successful feeling, down the living room to the kitchen, where he wipes off the knife and stores it as if nothing ever happened. My mind wanted to stop, but I kept going (right about here I totally blacked out)

The next scene was Timmy playing in his room, with the expression like he just saw a ghost kill his father. The camera shot switches to an angled shot where you can see out the door, and you can vaguely see the form of his dad walking up the hallway with the machete in hand. Cosmo instantly warns Timmy and they try to poof away but Timmy's dad frantically tries to get him and throws the knife at Timmy, horribly missing and gouging out Cosmo's eye. Cosmo lets out a throat-shredding scream and blood pours out everywhere. Wanda, thinking Cosmo would teleport himself, teleports away, not knowing what just happened to Cosmo. Timmy, being teleported at a metro area, tries to go to a telephone and call the police. When he picks up the pay-phone, he instantly hears a voice. It's his dad's voice, except being undercasted by a more demonic voice. Scared, he closes his eyes and tries to wake himself up as if he was in a dream. Before he knows it, he can't open his eyes back and it seems as if his eyes are melting and the blood from them is making a devil's pentagram inside his eyelids.

After that, he wakes up in his bed as if nothing ever happened. His fairy godparents aren't there to greet him, but he can hear the sounds of Wanda's crying. When Timmy looks over to Wanda, he can see what she's crying about. The machete was still in Cosmo's skull with his eye gouged out, blood oozing out still, on the other side of the floor. Timmy looks outside to see some of the neighbors impaled on the streets on a giant spike. Timmy's eyes turn bloodshot red and binary code flashes across the screen, and the ending credits show. I hastily looked up the binary code, and it translated to "He was first, you are next. When you see the red light, your life will be over."

I was scared out of my mind. Later that day, I had read that a lunatic impaled 3 people. I was so scared my brain almost stopped. The next day, my parents literally forced me to go to school. When I was there, I was closing my eyes, almost in the fetal position, when I see this BRIGHT flash of red light. I was so scared that I almost shat myself. When I open my eyes, I see the friend that sold me the tape, almost killing himself in laughter.

Secret of Cartoons: Bob's Burgers: Human Flesh Deleted Script Idea

Have you ever noticed the puppet like apperance to the characters? 

Every character looks like this. the truth was going to be revealed in the episode,"Human Flesh". 

A CD, containing the full episode plus the missing scene, found under a dumpster outside a Burger King in Wyoming. The episode ran completely normal, until the credits rolled by.

In the middle of the credits, there was a short scene involving a blood-red blank puppet, and a real-looking human, CGI maybe. 

The scene takes place in a cellur under Bob's house/restaraunt. The puppet says "Now, I don't enjoy the blank canvas that I am. I think that can and will change. From now on, I will be you, and you will be that." The puppet points to a pile of intestines on the floor.

Then comes the good part. The puppet cuts the human open in the back with a machette. He rips out the organs and bones, a few by a few. 

Once the human's dead, thepuppet places the skin on his body. The new Bob sews the backing so that the skin stays on. He uses the organs to create a fast food place, so he can get better weapons, to make more human puppets. 

Then the credits continue afterwards.

Secret of Cartoons: Sesame Street Lost Episode

My sister's name is Mary. She is five years old. She is the reason. It was her fault, you hear me? I didn't put it on. She made me watch it. It was Thursday night, around five o'clock. She told me to turn the TV on for her. My mom was in the kitchen two rooms down. 

Mom. Mother. Mother didn't know. 

I put on PBS kids and watched Between the Lions for about an hour. Then came the commercial break. The first sign. First. A commercial for Chick Fil A flicked on. A cow stood in a white room in front of a chalkboard. The announcer spurted out robotically: "Chick Fil A is a proud sponsor of PBS kids. Why? Maybe because Chick Fil A promotes high quality programming here on PBS.

The cows have no beef with that. (Moo!)" But that was not the problem. The chalkboard. Scratched into it with what seemed to be fingernails was a single word. ZErO. And something was wrong with the cow. It's eyes expressed mild panic. 

I was horrified. I didn't remember the commercial being so creepy. I turned to my sister. She was smiling, looking at the screen. I had forgotten she couldn't read. But as I was looking at her, I heard a noise coming from the TV. It was someone loudly whispering "IT." 

I looked back at the TV and quickly saw something flash. But then it was just a Juicy Juice commercial, untampered with. That was when I saw a red light on the VCR. I was recording. I didn't remember turning it on.

The regular PBS Kids bumper started with Dash the green person. But when he moved his mouth, no words came out. And a single drip slowly crept down from the "B" in "PBS". The Sesame Street theme song came on. 

At the scene where Big Bird slid down the playground slide, the show paused. For about five seconds I sat there, staring, but then I saw it. In the background a man stood in the sandbox. 

He wore all white, but his eyes were like blackholes, sucking the light out of the surrounding air. But then he slowly started to turn his head towards Big Bird. 

Keep in mind that the rest of the screen was still.

Secret of Cartoons: Goosebumps Lost Episode

Goosebumps was one of the highlights of my childhood. I must’ve read nearly every book and watched a great deal of the episodes. The best thing was why the stories were scary. Most of the stories had monsters, ghosts, and demons. But I loved they ones that really fucked with your brain, like Shock on Shock Street. Goosebumps was my favourite series of books, even if they kept me up during the night.

Last week I was clearing up my spare bedroom. It was packed full of boxes, books and old clothes, which was strange, seeing as I’ve only been living in my house three months now. I found and old Tupperware box with the word, “GOOSEBUMPS” written across it. All my old Goosebumps books were in it. A wave of nostalgia washed over me. I was near tears as I looked at the covers that had scared me shitless as a kid. A lot of the pages were dog-eared and I found two bookmarks and six business cards.

At the bottom of the box was a VHS tape with, “Goosebumps: Hide n’ Seek” written in blue marker on it. I honestly can’t remember owning any of the episodes from the TV show, so it was odd that it was there. I didn’t think too much of it at the time, and decided it would bring back a few memories if I watched it.

It took a while to find my video player through all the clutter, but after about twenty minutes, I found it. It started off with R.L. Stine emerging from under a chair. He started talking about the game Hide n’ Seek. “Isn’t it great when you find such a good hiding spot that they can’t find you till the very end,” he said, sitting on the chair. “ But sometimes the best hiding spots, can be the worst,” he continued. Then the episode began.

Three girls where sitting in a circle. One of them was telling a scary story. “Stop it Amy! You’re scaring me!” shouted one of the girls.

“Grow up Rachel! It’s not real!” mocked Amy.

“Maybe we should do something else Amy,” said another girl.

“It’s a sleepover Emily. That’s what you do. Tell scary stories. But seeing as you’re too much of a scaredy cat, we’ll do something else,” said Amy.

“Let’s play Hide n’ Seek!” exclaimed Rachel.

“Alright. Not it!” shouted Emily.

“Not it,” shouted Rachel. “Okay, I’ll count to sixty,” said Amy, “One, two, three,”. Emily ran down the hall and hid in a cupboard.

After waiting for awhile she checked her watch and called out, “Guys! Have you given up yet?” She opened the doors and looked out.

She was in a dark room. There was a small dude with a fucked up blurry face standing in front of her.

“Welcome,” he said in a deep voice.

“Who are you?” asked Emily in a panicky voice. “Wait’ll my parents get home, they’ll find me.”

The man chuckled. “You humans humour me. Your parents hate you. You hate your parents.”

“No I don’t! I love them and they love me!” cried Emily.

“Love is just a chemical reaction. Made up to make us feel like living is worth something. We all hate each other. Feeling are made up to comfort us.”

Emily crawled back into the cupboard crying. You could hear her banging on the back of the door.

The man looked at the camera. “Your parents hate you too. Love is fake. You hate all of your so-called “friends”. No one cares about you. You don’t care about anyone. There’s no point in living, we just like to pretend there is. You might as well just end it now. It’s not as painful as you think. ”

It cut to Emily inside the cupboard. She opened the doors again. The man was still there. He was about to say something but I stopped it before he did.

I sat there for half an hour, staring at the static. I went and had a shower. Probably drove the neighbours crazy seeing as it was midnight but I didn’t give a shit. I tried distracting myself by reading, but I couldn’t make sense of the words. All I could hear was his words. “Nobody cares about me, I care about no one,” I said to myself over and over.

I tried going online. I browsed around some boards on 4chan, tried reading a few fanfics, but I couldn’t get those words outta my head. I went on Facebook. All these “friends” messaging me, inviting to parties, posting pictures of me. They don’t care about me. Feelings are made up to comfort us. Love is only a chemical reaction. I might as well end it now.

Secret of Cartoons: Toy Story Deleted Scene

A while back, I was on holiday in Alabama. I was at this gas station store just getting some more food, drinks and supplies for the drive to the hotel. I noticed there was a box with videos in it. The guy at the cashier explained to me that those videos were found outside the store and that I could take the entire box for free. Seeing as they were all labeled, and that the man was being friendly,I picked up the cardboard box and paid for my snacks.

When I arrived at the hotel, I noticed they had a VHS player. I looked through the videos, and I was astonished what I found. They were tapes of various Pixar films. The eerie fact is that about five of the tapes had a stamp that said "DECLINED PLEASE DESTROY - JL". I then realized JL stood for John Lasseter, and that I was in possesion of deiscarded property of Pixar. I put on the first tape, which was a collection of old Pixar shorts. I haven't seen all of the shorts, so I coudn't tell if they were legit. The odd fact about the first tape is that whenever one short transitioned into another short, it was just static. After about five shorts, I could start to see something in the static. Before I could clearly see what was in the static, the tape ended. Go figure.

I put on the second tape, which had a more familiar name. It was labeled "Toy Story animation test 01". I was excited at watching the evolution of what at the time was my fvourite Disney movie. All was about to change with one button on the remote called PLAY. It appeared that it was actually a full movie rather than a few tests. 

The movie began with a white title card that read "A TOY'S STORY © 1992 Pixar Productions". It then cut to what looked like a commercial advertising a Woody doll. It zoomed out to reveal a boy (I assumed it was Andy) watching TV in the living room. The living room looked entirely different and so did the boy. He had freckles, and orange hair, and didn't look or sound at all like Andy. Besides that, his name was Max. I assumed that this must be an early version of Andy, and that the character had not yet been developed yet. "Come on Woody, let's go to school", said Max as he belted out the door. Max kept talking to Woody about how he was going to show Woody for show and tell. 

Suddenly, a shadow fell upon him. It was at this point, when I discovered about ten sheets of paper in the box. I was shocked to realize that this was the script of this early version of Toy Story. The script read that in this scene, Max is tormented and attacked by the bully Sid. I found this interesting as Sid and Andy (a.k.a. Max) had never met in the finished movie. Much to my surprise, Sid was gigantic. He looked nothing like the 1995 version of Sid, and he was Hulk size. He began to punch Max in the face and he put his hands around Max's neck. The sky turned darker, and there were sounds of people screaming and saying "NO". It was like a nightmare, it just kept going on. Yoy could also hear Max crying for his mom. Eventually, you bcould hear an ambulance arrive. But in the background you could see fire, and you could see gigantic horses chasing people. The doctors were carrying Max's small body onto a stretcher. 

 The nightmare moved onto a gravesite where it was a cloudy day and there was a church bell ringing and there were gravestones. Remember that this was all computer animated. A faint organ could be heard. The scary part is that there were pages missing from the script that were lying on my bed seconds ago. It cut to static and then it resumed to an early version of the scene where Woody is calling a meeting for all the toys about Max's birthday party. It was all in Russian and the sky was dark outside. None of this movie made any sense, and nothing fit together. It cut back to static where it showed Max getting molested by two very big men in a toolshed. I vomited when I saw this and I kept seeing Sid's creepy face fade in and out. Finally, one of the men stopped and bellowed "you're too old for toys!" I looked back at the script to find some information on the early Toy Story. 

The cast sheet was missing most of the characters, and had characters that either were deleted from the film or appeared in the sequels. For example, the Prospector and Bullseye were in the castlist (no sign of Jessie though). It mentioned other characters like Scooter the Walrus, Mr. Wiggly, ScarBear, and a character called Dino-ray (wich I presume was an early version of Rex). Near the top of the list was the scariest name of all, it read "Death". I looked back at the TV and it was now browsing through a dark Al's Toy Barn. The store was closed and the camera was moving back and forth at all the aisles. Some of the toys didn't even exist yet, such as Tickle Me Elmo. There was a line of toys called "Satan & Friends", and a sale for Toy Story 3 on Blu-Ray. I froze in shock at the latter, because Blu-Ray wasn't even invented yet, nor was Toy Story 3 in development (or so I thought). 

It then cut to the Al's Toy Barn commercial that appeared in the final film, except the Buzz Lightyear toy was called Lunar Lenny, and he was a green alien astronaut. It zoomed to Woody who was complaining about Lunar Lenny. It then for some reason cut back to the scary scene where Sid is ripping Max's stomach open by using Woody and his foot. Sid then stops, and looks towards the camera. He begans to walk over until his face ic voering the entire screen. He gives this creepy smile.

Suddenly, the TV caught fire. The entire hotel was on fire, and everyone had to get out fast. I forgot the tapes, so they were burnt. I tried to reach Pixar, but all the calls are computer automated and they ask you bullshit questions. Even though I still have nightmares about the early Toy Story, I only wish I could of watched the rest of the tapes. Toy Story, or any computer animated movie at that, has never been the same for me.

Secret of Cartoons: Filbert's Funeral

In 1995, I was a newly hired intern at Nickelodeon Animation Studios. I got the chance to work very closely with Joe Murray, who was the creator of one of my favorite cartoons, Rocko’s Modern Life. When I found out that I would be viewing the new episodes before they were aired, of course I was ecstatic. He had told me of the plans for the upcoming episodes of the show, and showed me some early sketches of the characters that the children of that era, along with myself, and surely some parents,had all come to know and love.

The first few episodes I had screened were great, and I always bragged to my friends, who were also fans of the show. But then one day, things seemed a bit off. Joe looked exhausted and hurriedly handed me the tape before going home, claiming to feel sick. I shrugged it off, and put the tape into the VCR, wondering what shenanigans Rocko and his friends would get into this time. But when the title card came up, I was shocked to say the least. The card read “Filbert’s Funeral” and had Rocko and Heifer were huddled over the shell of the lovably awkward turtle. His shell had several scratches, and was stained with blood.

The episode itself started with Rocko sitting on the couch in his living room, which was unusually messy and swarming with flies. Spunky was slowly walking across the living room, looking unusually thin, weakly barking at Rocko. There was no sound but a soft static noise, and instead of the usual perky, pastel colors, the overly vivid hues bled into each other, giving everything a morbid, chaotic look. The silence continued until the episode was about a minute in, but was broken when the phone rang in a distorted tone.

“Hello?” Rocko asked in an unnervingly monotonous voice.

The soft sound of another voice could be heard on the other line, and for a single frame, an image appeared, but was gone before I could get a good look.

“Yes, I understand. Tuesday at 3, right,” he said in the same tone before hanging up. The camera zoomed in to show his face in disturbing detail, and he silently mouthed the word “Filbert” before starting to cry.

The image flashed again, and my already heavy heart skipped a beat when I saw what it was. Filbert was drawn in a hyper-realistic manner, his eyes gone and blood oozing from the deep scratches on his fly-and-maggot ridden face.

Rocko started screaming Filbert’s name, the word getting louder and louder with each cry. Heifer then entered, in his normal happy manner.

“Hey, Rock. What-” His sentence ended abruptly, and he looked at Rocko for maybe 30 seconds in silence, then directly at the camera for the next 30.

Rocko then coldly said “Filbert’s dead.”

Heifer then went into hysterics, but not in the normal, cartoonish way of his. He sounded genuinely pained, and it was hurting me to see this, to hear the beloved characters in this horrible state.

The screen then faded to black, and soon cut to the inside of a funeral home. The characters were all inside, sobbing, the sounds of them all filling the screening room. It zoomed in on the same shot of Filbert, and stayed there for the remainder of the video.

After seeing this, I sat in shock for a moment before getting violently sick. This episode was fortunately never aired, but it still haunts my dreams till this day.

Secret of Cartoons: AAAHH!!! Real Monsters - The Final Scare

One day last year, I was out with a friend shopping at garage sales, trying to find furniture for his new apartment. The day was bright and sunny, ordinary for Florida. When we had found all of the furniture he needed and people started to end their sales, we started driving home, when he pulled over into the yard of an elderly couple, who were still sitting by their table of things to be sold.

There were mostly ceramic statues and old books, things you would expect from people of that age, but one thing really caught my eye. On the table was a box of maybe twelve movies. I started digging through them, seeing mostly uninteresting titles starring Tom Hanks, my least favorite actor. I was about to walk back to the truck when I noticed that one tape said “AAAH!!! Real Monsters - The Final Scare.” My heart started racing with excitement, seeing as how I had never seen this episode, and the fact that I had assumed this show had completely disappeared. I asked the price of the tape, and the old man said he’d take ten cents for it. He had no use for it since his grandkids were all grown and never watched the tape. At the time, I didn’t notice his odd tone of voice.

When my friend and I had returned to his new apartment, I insisted that we procrastinate on unloading the new furniture so we could watch the tape. He agreed, and put the tape into the built-in VCR on his small television.

The episode started with ten seconds of static, then cut to the dump. In place of the normal dark colors of the beloved cartoon were almost painfully vivid hues, the most prominent of which was a disturbingly realistic blood red, splattered over the trash and soaking into the dirt, the texture of which was more carefully drawn than normal. The soft sound of static continued in the background while the camera slowly zoomed in toward the washing machine, which was now dented, scratched, and splattered with small bits of brain matter. I cringed at the appearance of the familiar dump that had been warped to look so horrific.

When inside the monster academy, most seats were empty, except the spots where Krumm, Ickis, and Oblina were sitting. Zimbo, the obnoxious monster from the episode “Ickis and the Red Zimbo” was flying around in a clumsy circle around a malicious-looking, angry Gromble, looking as though someone had stabbed him in his left wing. The Gromble looked up at the trio with hyper-realistic eyes, his red lips twisting into a horrid grin. He held up a single finger, as if to indicate that he wanted the monsters around him to stop talking, which was quite unnecessary considering the fact that no one was making a sound.

“Tonight”, he hissed, ” the four of you will team up, and perform ONE FINAL SCARE. A scare so horrifying that it will be your last. You must complete it soon, like our fallen brethren have already done.” He looked at the ceiling, and paused for maybe thirty seconds. “Go. Now. Now. NOW!” He screamed, causing Ickis to cringe, the first sign of movement from the trio of monsters. Oblina uttered something under her breath, sounding like “Iam est vicis ut had advenio.” Krumm nodded and added “Iam est vicis ut quondam porro in abyssus.” Ickis then shakily whispered “Iam est vicis nos must intereo.” Zimbo laughed sadistically, “Iam nos ero terminus of plures ago!”

My friend, who had taken Latin courses in high school, whispered those phrases in English, making the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.

The scene then cut to black for about a minute, then slowly brightened to reveal the four monsters hiding in an alley, malice in their eyes. Oblina picked up Krumm, throwing him out of the alley, under a bus, a look of genuine shock on his face. Photorealistic blood splattered over the front of the bus and the streets as I watched my favorite character die, his eyes rolling to the feet of a small child, who began to sob. The blood on the windshield caused the bus to swerve, hitting a young family and smashing them against the side of a large building as the remaining three monsters remained hidden in the alley, chuckling in an unnerving, demonic manner. “Ickis, you next!” Oblina screeched enthusiastically. The camera zoomed into the face of the small red monster, who was shaking and stuttering helplessly in fear. A single tear dropped from his eye as he hesitantly nodded. Ickis put on his normal scary face, but the context was all wrong, making the lovable monster an unnerving beast too aware of his own fate.

Ickis then walked slowly to the center of a group of people watching an obese street mime intently. He creeped up behind the man in black and white stripes, climbing up his clothes and in a flash, digging his small claws through the back of the man’s skull, tearing audibly through bone and brain tissue until his now even redder hands emerged from the mime’s eyes. The mime fell backwards onto Ickis, and the monster’s bones could be heard crunching under the weight of the mime as the photorealistic gore splattered the crowd.

The camera cut back to Oblina and Zimbo, whose laughter echoed throughout the small alley. “Shall we do the final honors together?” Zimbo asked. Oblina nodded.

The two walked over to a young boy who was frantically attempting to help an old woman across the street, away from this terrible scene. Oblina grabbed on to Zimbo and the obnoxious monster flew upwards, lifting them quickly across the street and in front of their targets. Zimbo swiftly flew down the old woman’s throat, leaving a grotesquely large lump, as the sound of small wings beating against flesh could be heard from inside. The lump that was Zimbo jerked around uncontrollably for a moment before the sound of Zimbo’s wings silenced and the lump in the old woman’s throat stopped moving. The woman, now blue in the face, fell to the ground. “Grandma? GRANDMA?! NO! NO! NO, NO, NO!!!!” the boy was screaming violently. He then began to smash his head onto the pavement, the wounds getting worse and worse until the screen faded to black.

The camera cut back into the Monster Academy, where a blood-splattered Oblina stood in front of the Gromble, who had an evil grin on his face. “Oblina, how marvellous!” He said as the scare played on the screen. “You managed to kill all of these humans, AND trick the others into a sure suicide? This is the best scare I’ve seen in decades!” The Gromble stared at Oblina for maybe a minute, his grin only growing wider and more grotesque, before saying the words “Congratulations, valedictorian.”

When the episode ended, my friend and I stared at each other in total shock. He was shaking violently, as if having a seizure, before going still. I took this tape to the Goodwill nearest to my house. Thinking back, it was a horrible idea, since I would never wish this episode on anyone. So if you’re the unfortunately nostalgic person to find this tape, burn it. I wouldn’t want you to suffer from these horrid nightmares I’ve been having lately…

Secret of Cartoons: Bananas in Pajamas: Stop!

It was a pretty regular day, I was just channel surfing and came across a Bananas in Pajamas episode, it was just begining, I remebered watching it when I was a toddler so I decided to watch a bit.
The episode was called, Stop!

When it began there was just a bathroom with the taps left on and the water was flooding onto the floor, to the left was a rocking chair, with one of the bananas in it, he was reading a story called, Stop!

There was nothing telling you which banana it was, and he just kept saying, STOP, STOP, STOP!

At this point I was slightly creeped out, but I kept watching, he then said, "Tell the others to Stop!"

"Stop what?" I kept asking myself.

And suddenly he replied which almost gave me a heart attack, "Stop stealing."

I was too stunned to speak when it said, "Stealing my soul, your soul, our souls."

Suddenly a second banana came out with a violin, and started playing this creepy tune, the taps mysteriously turned off.

You couldnt tell which banana he was either.

He pointed at me, and said "Why?"

Suddenly the TV, practically exploded like a firework, nothing got burned luckily but the doors were now locked, in my living room, I tried to open them but they wouldn't.

Then suddenly, I blacked out, when I woke the windows of the living room were boarded up with wooden planks. I tried to remove them but it was impossible, when I turned around in the corner of my living room was two bottles of water, a gun and a note, the note read, 'You are being punished, marooned, if you want to survive use the water, and if you dont use the gun.'

I eventually managed to escape and when I did there was another note, 'Tell no one if you value your life.'

I expect they are coming soon, but I had to tell my story.

Secret of Cartoons: Ed Edd n Eddy - YoU fOrGoT

In my younger days, I was always a fan of cartoons. I still watch them to an extent nowadays, I admit. My favorite genre was varied, but I always had a soft spot for the slapstick humor found on networks like Nick and Cartoon Network. One of the best ones I've seen and enjoyed was a little show by the name of Ed Edd n' Eddy. I loved almost everything about it. The premise, the characters both major and minor, the art style, and the humor of everyone being smacked around like nothing happened at all. I don't think I've missed a single episode of it. When I was around 13 or 14, my younger brother and I had always watched the show every time it aired. After a while, we came up with the idea of recording some of the episodes on a blank VHS tape. Now when we needed something to watch when nothing was on, we'd put in the tape and let the Eds entertain our short attention spans. We'd keep recording episodes for as long as the tape could hold, and you can bet it had gotten its fair share of use by us. We even wrote (in crayon) the show's name and our own names on the labels of the tape.

Now several years have flown over us, we've grown a bit and the tape has been lost for lord knows how long. We'd still catch an episode or two if we were bored and channel surfing. These days I'm either doing something online or just playing games, minding a house and grandparents, it's an interesting life. One fateful day I had gone for a visit to the old family house to see the peanut gang. My brother and I were busy trying to kill each other in the video game Scott Pilgrim when he had taken a bathroom break. Bored half to death, I had opted to wander the house and look through old cabinets and drawers. As luck would have it, after digging through old Pokemon and Power Ranger VHS tapes, there was our old makeshift Ed tape. To say I was happy was an understatement. I had just found something of my childhood that one could call our first project for stupidity. At the end of the day, I took it back home and set it aside. Unfortunately we had no VHS player with us at the time, since DVD and Blu-Ray have abducted them all back to the big tape player in the sky. So instead I had just left it alone on the dresser for another year. Sometime in the new year, as I was setting boxes from the recent Christmas in the back room, I found a bundle of old technology just gathering dust. An old Nintendo, a CPU that I'm sure was running below Windows 98 if such a thing existed, and lo and behold an old VHS cassette player. Now right off the bat, I completely forgot about why I wanted this in the first place and left it alone, but after seeing the tape still dusting on my dresser, I dashed right back to pick it up. So you can guess what happened next. Episode after episode I smirked and watched the memories flood.

The quality was a bit horrid, but I just ignored it. It was pretty normal as far as old recorded VHS could go I guessed. I just sat back and enjoyed the shows. I was happy with myself, I could name each episode before the title card swung by. However one episode started a bit differently, as the title card didn't play after the opening sequence. It just dove into the episode without a word, which from the start I could recognize as "A Twist of Ed". The episode played as usual, Edd was his normal happy somewhat self as he cleaned the table and continued to name off the things he 're-whatevered'. Right after he finished, the screen flickered and the color was in black and white for a second or two. It was back to normal again soon and Edd was running off to pick up the lipstick as the episode was meant to do. But he didn't. Instead he did his usual run over to it and lifted up nothing. The lipstick was gone. Edd's animation still played as if he was holding it, yet his dialogue conveniently omitted the words 'lipstick dispenser, in my back yard'. His animation clearly had him speaking the lines, but instead a low droning sound played as he spoke. This continued up until he was looking around nervously. 

At this point, I was waiting for the scene to play out. Marie Kanker was supposed to launch out and attack Edd, but instead the screen dimmed and returned to black and white. Edd wasn't moving anymore, and instead was frozen still. Not even the usual movement of the outlines. The brightness was flickering as the droning and crackling of the audio somehow got louder. And louder it remained as Edd's next line nearly broke my eardrums. "NO PLEASE YOU WOULDN'T DARE" I tried to lower the volume with the remote, but it didn't operate at all. Which considering the remote was working just fine to turn it on and fast forward a little while ago, was more than unusual. I tried to fast forward, rewind, stop, everything I tried had no effect on the remote. Finally the scene began to play again, I saw lovable Ed overfilling his cereal bowl as was meant to be. At this point the remote seemed to be functioning well again, I could change the volume as well as stop it if I wanted to. I let my heartbeat settle down as I hit play and let it continue on. The episode played without a hitch as Edd was running to hide in the van in the junkyard with the other two. They exchanged their issues and Edd shouted at Eddy's stench.

Oddly enough, although it was correctly used, Edd's dialogue always sounded.. off.. It wasn't as loud nor as energetic as he should've sounded, and strangely enough his colors were washing out and faded. Other than that, everything looked and worked well enough. The scene slowly stuttered and flickered again however as Edd got into the back of the van to lay and ponder. He was again motionless and the screen seemed to dim as he folded his arms and laid still. Eddy and Ed were still going on as usual, repeatedly chanting 'THINK THINK THINK THINK'. The volume again peaked and cracked over the speakers, as their chanting started to really get skewered. The sound was hard to describe, but at best it sounded like the words were being screamed by someone who was in severe pain. Edd himself was silent, only the low droning from before playing out as the scene had focused on him struggling to think. Ed slammed on the horn as the scene originally did, but the horn did not sound at all. The only sound it gave out was a strange and sickening crunch. The incredible volume was unbearable now, the remote again rendered useless. I had enough and stood to just shut it off myself.

However before I could, the screen fell into pitch black as yet another scream from Edd echoed out painfully loud. "HELP ME" I stood frozen, my hand already extended to shut it off and everything. The episode continued on and seemed to skip ahead as now I was watching the Kankers walk around a goofy smiling Ed. I just stayed up and watched.I was curious now, and it was obvious something was off. For one thing, it was strange how these errors are completely gone from the rest of the tape since the episodes prior to this one was completely clean. No bugs or volume changes, no different brightness problems, nothing at all. As the scene panned to focus on Edd and Eddy in the tree, concerned about Edd's plan to use reverse psychology, there was a serious issue. Namely, the lack of Edd.

He wasn't in the shot. At all. The spot where he was supposed to be was just a shade of purple as was the rest of the tree. The rope that held him there was gone as well. Eddy was looking over and was talking as if he was still there, but yet no audio again. Now his dialogue was low and sounded like a low drone, save for one clear as day part in his words. "Edd's a goner" Now, the line was obviously used to reference big Ed down below, but it was still pretty chilling to hear since Edd and Ed don't really have any difference in pronunciation. The scene continued on, Ed really giving those Kankers a run for their money. Now the screen really fucked up. At the point where Edd was supposed to run by with his quip of 'We're not done yet Eddy', the screen went black and white yet again with an even louder static explosion. I couldn't hear myself as I know I was cursing up a storm. I went to reach again for the power on the TV, but again was cut off by something else. The screen was still in fuck up mode, with the static breaking my ears and the brightness dimmed to 'can't see shit'. However it brightened a bit and showed the scene was different. I was looking at what looked like the wooden plank wall that the Eds usually either break or sit on. In very drippy black paint, the words 'YoU ForGot' were slapped on. The screen stayed frozen here as I could hear something else coming through the speaker.

It was Edd again. He was repeating a line from what I thought was a different episode, and he was droning it on and extending it like someone was deathly moaning out. The static took a stop and was instantly silent as the line was finished. "REMEMBER" The screen then slowly brightened. What was there was disturbing, as now we were obviously at the scene where Edd was calling the Kankers 'dainty do-something darlings' and welcoming them home, as was supposed to be. But he wasn't speaking, and was frozen in his position as his mouth was wide open in his goofy smile. The black and white coloring was still in full force, the white looking clearer through the static and the black as dark as could be. Then Edd's voice began repeating the word from before. "REMEMBER. REMEMBER. REMEMBER." It continued on, Edd's animation still frozen as his eyes slowly sank into a dark black, nothing in sight as if he lost them. His teeth and tongue were also drowned in black and burn marks started to appear on the screen. "REMEMBER REMEMBER" I had to hold my ears, I didn't understand what was going on and the volume was fucking killing me. He was screaming it now. I swear his voice was fucking screaming right at me from the TV, and the quality was way too good for a VHS at this point. He was pissed off. He was yelling at me to remember. I finally gave up and dove for the power button, shutting off the TV with a sweet silence following.

I hit eject and took the tape out. I thought carefully as the words repeated again and again in my head. Now, as I held the tape in my hand, taking a seat on the couch, I really gave it some thought. I know it's just a tape, and I know it wasn't real. I was probably having one hell of a daydream. But that haunting image of his face, that screaming. Just the tone of voice in which he was screaming, was he angry? He was mad. 

And the only conclusion I had at that moment, he was angry I forgot about me forgetting him and, or the tape. I forgot him, and I left him alone. I tossed the tape back inside the VCR and resumed from where I left it. The episode played out perfectly with the usual subpar quality of the VHS tape. Ed and Edd were still chasing the Kankers and Eddy was still a pussy. I rewound the tape and played it again. The screen was okay, and the sound stayed the same. Edd was normally speaking and was in the scenes as he was supposed to be. As I opted to stay and watch the rest of the tape again and again, the scene with Edd saying 'love knows no bounds turtledoves' or something like that, his eyes and mouth was always black. Only here it happened. 

He won't forgive me.

How Life Changes After Pregnancy

 

 

Do you know how life changes when a young couple decides to become young parents? Do they think it boils down to adding more commitments and costs? Or do you already know about the emotional toll and everything it entails? Here’s a story that elucidates it all.

"We are sitting at lunch one day when my daughter casually mentions that she and her husband are thinking of "starting a family." "We're taking a survey," she says half-joking. "Do you think I should have a baby?"

"It will change your life," I say, carefully keeping my tone neutral.

"I know," she says, "no more sleeping in on weekends, no more spontaneous vacations."

But that is not what I meant at all. I look at my daughter, trying to decide what to tell her. I want her to know what she will never learn in childbirth classes.

I want to tell her that the physical wounds of child bearing will heal, but becoming a mother will leave her with an emotional wound so raw that she will forever be vulnerable.

I consider warning her that she will never again read a newspaper without asking, "What if that had been MY child?" That every plane crash, every house fire will haunt her.

That when she sees pictures of starving children, she will wonder if anything could be worse than watching your child die.

I look at her carefully manicured nails and stylish suit and think that no matter how sophisticated she is, becoming a mother will reduce her to the primitive level of a bear protecting her cub. That an urgent call of "Mom!" will cause her to drop a soufflé or her best crystal without a moments hesitation.

I feel that I should warn her that no matter how many years she has invested in her career, she will be professionally derailed by motherhood. She might arrange for childcare, but one day she will be going into an important business meeting and she will think of her baby's sweet smell. She will have to use every ounce of discipline to keep from running home, just to make sure her baby is all right.

I want my daughter to know that every day decisions will no longer be routine. That a five year old boy's desire to go to the men's room rather than the women's at McDonald's will become a major dilemma. That right there, in the midst of clattering trays and screaming children, issues of independence and gender identity will be weighed against the prospect that a child molester may be lurking in that restroom.

However decisive she may be at the office, she will second-guess herself constantly as a mother.

Looking at my attractive daughter, I want to assure her that eventually she will shed the pounds of pregnancy, but she will never feel the same about herself.

That her life, now so important, will be of less value to her once she has a child. That she would give herself up in a moment to save her offspring, but will also begin to hope for more years, not to accomplish her own dreams, but to watch her child accomplish theirs.

I want her to know that a cesarean scar or shiny stretch marks will become badges of honor.

My daughter's relationship with her husband will change, but not in the way she thinks.

I wish she could understand how much more you can love a man who is careful to powder the baby or who never hesitates to play with his child.

I think she should know that she will fall in love with him again for reasons she would now find very unromantic.

I wish my daughter could sense the bond she will feel with women throughout history who have tried to stop war, prejudice and drunk driving.

I want to describe to my daughter the exhilaration of seeing your child learn to ride a bike.

I want to capture for her the belly laugh of a baby who is touching the soft fur of a dog or cat for the first time.

I want her to taste the joy that is so real it actually hurts.

My daughter's quizzical look makes me realize that tears have formed in my eyes. "You'll never regret it," I finally say. Then I reached across the table, squeezed my daughter's hand and offered a silent prayer for her, and for me, and for all the mere mortal women who stumble their way into this most wonderful of callings.

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Secret of Cartoons: Tom and Jerry Lost Cartoon

NOTE: This was made by KI Simpson, the same guy that wrote Dead Bart


The thirteen Tom and Jerry shorts made by the Czechoslovakian director Gene Deitch are infamous for their poor quality and rather disturbing nature, featuring badly done sound effects and animation and having a more realistic feel to the violence. Some have speculated that Deitch didn't like the concept behind Tom and Jerry and was pressured into making them, and wanted to make the people who watched his take on it feel bad for liking the concept. What many people don't know is that Deitch was originally signed on to make more than the thirteen episodes the public has access to. Desperate to get out of his contract, Deitch made one more Tom and Jerry short that few have ever seen.

The short was called "Tom's Basement." It opened with Tom in a typical Tom and Jerry house. His owner was the fat, angry guy from other Deitch shorts. Tom's owner seemed even angrier than in his other appearances; the first scene is him stomping on Tom's tail in a very realistic and painful looking way because Tom is sleeping by the basement door.

The owner yells at Tom to never go down there. Tom is clearly terrified and runs away to another room. Our view stays in the room by the basement door and we see Jerry come out of a mouse hole. He looks truly grotesque, far more off-model than in the other Deitch shorts. He gets an evil look on his face and follows Tom into the next room.

The next few minutes are fairly formulaic. Jerry repeatedly manages to trick Tom into chasing him to the basement door a few times, but each time the owner catches Tom he inflicts a painful looking injury on him, which stay with Tom even after the scene ends. After three beatings, Tom is bruised all over, bleeding in a few places, and limping on a broken leg.

After this, Tom starts to literally beg Jerry not to bother him any more; he's not really talking, but he's crying and mumbling, and you can tell what he's doing by his body language. Jerry just laughs at him and pushes him back to the basement door.

The owner catches Tom again and goes ballistic. The camera zooms in on his face - it changes color and distorts as he yells at Tom in a much louder voice than any other sound in the cartoon. I can't post most of what he said on here, but it's definitely vicious and furious. It seems like Jerry has finally decided to take pity on Tom, though. Jerry picks up a knife that was lying around and stabs the owner in the leg, quite graphically.

Tom opens the basement door and they carry the owner's body down the stairs. There are dozens of other bodies down there, decaying and showing signs of their violent deaths. Tom and Jerry shake hands and it seems like they've triumphed over the serial killer...but Jerry gets an evil look in his face again and Tom says, in that ghostly, deep voice...

"DON'T YOU BELIEVE IT!"

Jerry stabs Tom, killing him, and throws his body into the pile. The last shot is Jerry putting up a 'For Sale' sign on the yard of the house, laughing, clearly planning to do it all again.

Secret of Cartoons: Adventure Time: "Catherine! Catherine!"

So, me and my brother fight over the stupidest things. When I was little my brother scared me with Invader Zim. He'd say the scariest things, "Zim's in your closet, Annie. He's going to take all your dolls." Stuff like that.

So, my brother and I were watching TV. I turned on Spongebob and then he changed it to Cartoon Network. I saw that Adventure Time was on. I watched it and I fell in love with it. A day after my 13th birthday, I turned it back on and he watched it with me. It's all regular at first and then my brother jolted up to get something to eat. It starts off where Finn is packing his book bag, and then he starts crying. He cleans his face and he grabbed a picture of some girl who isn't in the series. I look over and it looks like my fan art. I began jumping and screaming with joy and it pans off.

My brother runs in and hears me and he watched some. I fast forward it and it starts again. Jake is mad about something and Finn is crying again. As Finn was crying and pinned up to the wall, his tears looked like blood. I was mentally messed up instantly. I scream at the top of my lungs "Holy shit! Something's going down!" and my brother just stares at me. It panned off to Princess Bubblegum and she's laying down with cuts and bruises. She starts screaming and going insane. Finn rushes in and slaps her. She falls off and passes out. My TV was being an ass and it turned off. Me, not wanting to turn it back on, watched my brother in fear as he turned it back on. It stayed on one picture. I closed my eyes and all I heard was Finn and Jake talking about where to hide her body. I grabbed my phone and tried to call my friends. No answer.

I held onto my pillow and I start gasping, wishing I could shoot the TV. I listen. It sounds like they are calling my name, "Catherine.. Catherine.." My brother picks me up and walks me outside to take a breath. We walk back in and unmute it. It still plays and I swallow my words. I sit down and watch the rest. My brother walks me upstairs to my room and he tucks me in and hugs me. He told it to my mom and my mom looked it up and found nothing. No trace of it. Not on our records. I'm not sure what it was called, It played in the middle of the day.

And for some reason, It was just me and my brother. Nobody else heard of it. I still watch it and love it. I love it. Even what happened. I know there's not many details about it but it was too tragic. It was pulling me into reality. The dreams I were having were so bad. My brother feels bad about how my dreams are. Every night, I have a dream of it. Mainly about me and Finn tied up and being sunk in water, as if someone were drowning me.

I have nightmares every night, but it doesn't bother me. My friends laugh at me. I kick their asses over it. You may ask, "Why did my brother put me to bed in the middle of the day?" I had a tumor removed a week before and it's hard to move. My brother walked me upstairs and let me lay down. 

I still watch it. Even if it would kill me.

Secret of Cartoons: The Frightful Fables of Fickle Faye

When I was younger, around the year 1987, there was a show called The Frightful Fables of Fickle Faye. The show was aired on a local channel in Central Florida, channel 17 if I remember correctly. The show was meant to be a miniseries around Halloween time for children.

My uncle, Markus Buskirk, was a producer in the early stages of creating the show. He told me that the show would use puppets to portray scary stories for children, and that the first episode would air on October 3rd, and the season finale would air on Halloween afternoon, the end of the episode marking the time the children would go outside to trick-or-treat. Being a seven-year-old girl at the time, the show seemed interesting enough, so I waited as patiently as I could for October 3rd to come around.

On the afternoon the show would air, I sat on the floor of the living room in front of the television, watching commercials for toys, sidewalk chalk, restaurants, and hotels as I waited for the show to start. The theme began, the words “The Frightful Fables of Fickle Faye” appearing on the screen in dripping green letters as a loud, ominous piano music played in the background. The music cut off as a small puppet with black and white stockings covering the yellowish skin on her legs. She wore Mary Jane shoes, a dark blue skirt, and a fuzzy purple sweater walked into a dusty room with puppets resembling spiders and black cats with glowing eyes lurking in the background. The puppet, who must have been Faye, was trembling, her bright pink pigtails bobbing slightly.

“H-Hello, everyone,” she stuttered in a high-pitched voice, “m-my name is F-Faye, and I’m v-very f-f-frightened! T-tonight, I’d like to t-tell you a st-story. One v-very dark n-night, I was w-walking with my b-brother and three of our f-friends…”

The episode chronicled Faye, her twin brother Fabian, and three of their friends, Amy, Myla, and Damien walking into a dark, haunted forest. The group encountered things like ghosts, witches, and monsters as they attempted to make their way through the forest and back home.

The episode ended with Faye and Fabian in their shared bedroom, Fabian looking down at Faye from the top bunk saying “Now that wasn’t so bad, was it, Faye?”Faye, who was under her covers shaking, squeaked “N-no, not at all F-Fabian!”

The episode was enough for me to want to watch the next one, so the next few weeks, I watched, loyal to the new show. The show grew darker and darker with every new episode, Faye’s attitudes toward her brother, friends, and the situations they were presented with fluctuating wildly.

But the last episode was truly horrid, and no doubt the reason for the cancellation of the show.

The theme started playing, but something was off. The piano music was playing backwards, now more ominous than before, and the usually green letters were now blood red. Faye walked onscreen, her head turned away. Her clothes were torn and bloodstained, her skin in the same condition. She was trembling, but not in her usual, comical way. It was more like a seizure. When she turned toward the camera, I noticed a major difference. Her usual painted-on eyes had been hollowed out and replaced with glass taxidermy eyes, looking freakishly realistic on the small, beaten puppet.

“Hello, everybody. My name is Faye, and I’m not frightened anymore. This time, it’s your turn to be the frightened one,” she said, glaring at the camera, her usual comical stutter gone. “So now, I’m here to tell you the most frightening fable yet.”

The screen cut to black for about ten seconds, then back to the room from the opening of every episode. Amy, Myla, Damian, and Fabian had now joined Faye. Faye looked around at the other four puppets, then said “I’ll be back in a minute.” The camera followed Faye to a poorly lit kitchen where she dug through the drawers as if looking for something specific. “Ah!” She exclaimed as she opened a drawer, pulling out a long butcher’s knife. My eyes widened in shock at the item Faye now held in her hands. The puppet ran back to the main room, where she sat abnormally close to Amy. Faye smiled for a moment before taking the knife and cutting off the arm of her friend, laughing maliciously as Amy screamed in terror. The other puppets started running, but to no avail. Faye had caught up with them and one by one, began to dismember her friends, saving Fabian for last. The body parts of the other puppets that I had come to know and love lay strewn about the floor,stuffing hanging out of the detached limbs. Even a small felted heart lay on the floor, the camera zooming in on it for a moment before Faye stomped on it, making blood squeeze through the material onto the floor of the dusty room. Fabian was huddled under a large piano, begging Faye to spare his life.

“Not a chance, Fabian. You’ve always been the one to hurt me, the one to scare me all the time. The tables have turned, brother,” She said coldly as she proceeded to cut his arms and legs off. “Now that wasn’t so bad, was it, Fabian?”

“N-not at all, F-Faye,” Fabian stuttered, fearing for his life, as Faye took the knife, lodging it into Fabian’s skull.

“Trick-or-treat, kids!” Faye yelled happily as the end credits started to roll.

I did love that show as a kid, up until that last episode. My uncle Markus never was the same after this. If you find any information on this show, please, tell me.

Secret of Cartoons: Rugrats Lost Episode.avi

Hi there, this is my first time being here and my friends recommended me to tell you guys what I witnessed because well...this is very strange.

A week or two ago, I was surfing on the internet, searching up some Rugrats stuff out of curiousity since it was on late at night and I had nothing better to do. I deeply searched out of boredom and found this website that was titled, "RUGRATS, LOST EPISODE - FREE DOWNLOAD" I immediately clicked on this out of excitement and downloaded. It didn't take long at all and my Media played suddenly popped up.

It wasn't a lost episode, I recognized it the first few minutes it began. It was the episode where the babies and Angelica were preparing for it to rain for 40 days and 40 nights. Anyway, I watched through it and after that, the credits rolled. During the credits, I was shaking my head, thinking, "Well, that was a waste of time."

After that, I was startled by a booming scream on my laptop. To my surprise, the Klasky Csupo logo popped up, but it was entirely different.

I took a screen shot of it because it was out of the ordinary. The style wasn't recognized at all; it was slightly terrifying. It wasn't the same animation either, it was rather choppy, though the pupils were dilating and returning back to normal quickly.

It ended, but that was so incredibly weird, so I thought that I should share this to you guys, even if it sounds corny or not.

Secret of Cartoons: Mickey and the Flip Mirror (Lost Episode)

I was searching the attic on Saturday while my parents went shopping for groceries when I came across a box labeled ‘old tapes’. Curiously, I opened the box to find a variety of old VHS tapes of different TV shows. The one on the top of the pile caught my eye because of the familiar face. It was called “Mickey and the Flip Mirror”. On the cover was Mickey Mouse with Donald, Goofy and Pete. There was something different though about the way there faces were. Donald look very depressed and sat on the ground holding his legs, Goofy was on the Top of Pete’s boat looking very angry with his fist in the air and one of his shoes were missing, and Pete was hanging off the side of the boat with both hands on the rail trying to pull himself up and his face was a very depressed look.

Mickey was the one that caught my eye. He was sitting on a pile of hay with an evil grin on his face. A foot came from the hay at the back, and Mickey was holding a pitch fork with something dripping off it. (Remember I was younger when this happened and it was all black and white the cover and movie so I didn’t take to mind what it could be.) I really wanted to watch it so I closed the box and ran downstairs to the basement and put in the VHS tape and waited for it to start.

For about two minutes it was a black screen with fade sounds of waves, then a picture of Mickey came onto the screen and he was leaning from the middle of a skull and crossbones and then it faded to the title screen. It started as a nice day showing Pete’s boat pulling into the harbor and he is very edgy. Goofy comes from the barn in a hurry and starts yelling at Pete and Pete just pushes him out of the way dropping Goofy in the water. The video distorts for a couple of seconds and shows Goofy coming out of the barn again. This time when he runs to Pete Goofy grabs him and whips him to the wall of the barn making a pile of hay from the top trapping Pete underneath. Goofy walks up to him and you get a close up of Goofy's face that shows complete anger once he gets to the hay the screen turns black for a couple a seconds.

Words appear saying “10 minutes before” and show Mickey on a hill with Goofy and Donald looking at a mirror. All three on them have scared expressions on their faces. Mickey reaches for the mirror and Lightning strikes the glass shattering it at all three of them. Mickey and Goofy are fine but Donald stumbled back too much falling off the hill. The video distorts again and you hear a laugh. It shows the broken mirror again and you see the shards of glass that still remain on the mirror glow a dark red and repair itself.

Mickey looks around and Goofy is seen running down the mountain. Once Mickey looks back at the mirror a hand grabs him and pulls him in and coming out a darker and wrecked up version of Mickey. His clothing is more ripped and he is almost more beast like. The screen fades to Goofy who is still running down the hill and trips on a rock tumbling to the town. Now you see him all cut up and bleeding. You see him being dragged but you can’t tell who it is at the moment. It shows the inside of the barn and Evil Mickey and the mirror there and Mickey put the body into the mirror and a bright light reveals the hooded figure. It’s a darker version of Donald and out of the mirror comes out Evil Goofy. All three of them start to walk in a circle and the screen starts to get static like and then all you can here for five minutes is low humming and footsteps.

Then it shows the words “after Pete” it shows goofy covered in a dark liquid dripping from him and the hay all over the place. Mickey and Donald burn the boat down and all three of them walk to the middle of the area. They all look at the screen like they can see me and start walking towards the screen. As they walked they were growing larger and sharper teeth and claws and Donald's beak fell off showing just teeth and foam. The humming started again but so loud and you could see the town in the background burning and you see Pete’s grave at the corner of the screen burst into flames and a hand coming out.

I jumped right out of my seat and pushed the TV over slamming it and stopping the video just before they got to the screen but the humming was ringing in my head for the rest of the time. I took the video and the others in the box and burned them all so I wouldn’t be tempted to finish the video or watch anymore in that box that could be worse. The only thing remembering before I burned the video was the cover of the video of Mickey Mouse again. It was different this time. It showed what I last saw.

Their evil grins and faces coming towards me, but one thing I will never forget is just when I put the movie into the box to be burned, I saw at the back of the cover. The mirror from the movie showing the original Mickey, Goofy and Donald all depressed and red eyes glowing behind them grabbing them and holding them in the mirror.

Secret of Cartoons: Happy Tree Friends: False Alarm Dark Secrets

I have always loved this show called Happy Tree Friends, because of the characters. My favorite one is Petunia.

"False Alarm" is a controversial real-life bootleg tape featuring an unaired HTF episode. Like the long lost but recently discovered "Remains to be Seen", False Alarm was created by a now imprisoned American animator who intended to pass the tape off as an unaired episode and featured the death of Nutty.

I decided to go watch it. Unfortunately, it was corrupted, and I could not get any further than the introduction; and when I did, all I saw was a mess of colors and heard a strange loud-ass fuzzy sound, like radio static. I tried watching it multiple times; different sites for each one. Unfortunately, it was still the same; Color mess, static sound.

What the fuck is this shit, I thought. I almost got pissed, but I decided to just shut it off and go to bed (because it was getting late). The dream I had was unpleasant. I could see Undead Petunia in my room. I was acting like a coward 10 year old curled up in my blankets as I could hear her moaning around my room. Thank Eris it wasn't long before I woke up.

I watched it again, and it wasn't the mess of colors and fuzzy sound like before.

In this episode, Nutty happily walks down the road and eats a large lollipop in one bite. He giggles as the sugar courses through his system, but he is soon saddened that his sugary treat is gone. He is beckoned into an alley by Lifty and Shifty, both wearing trench coats and their trademark grins. The greedy duo offer Nutty an entire dump truck full of candy, which Nutty eagerly accepts, tossing them a wad of cash to seal the deal. Nutty opens his arms wide as the dump truck opens and the mountain of candy begins tilting towards him.

The view suddenly cuts to an emergency room where Sniffles, a doctor, looks at an x-ray of Nutty's stomach, which has been pierced by candy canes and other various candies. Later, a bandaged Nutty sighs happily as he has made a full physical recovery. He becomes confused, however, as a door closes on him and he finds himself locked in a padded room. From a security monitor, we see Nutty go through various episodes of sugar withdrawal including laughing maniacally, crying uncontrollably, screaming in distress, and making an ice sculpture of a candy cane with a chainsaw. Eventually, Nutty kicks the door down and emerges a changed squirrel, now sporting a full head of hair, a tie, and no longer wearing candy as a wardrobe or sporting a lazy eye. He and Sniffles shake hands, happy at the progress Nutty has made.

Nutty walks down the street again, and is once more beckoned by Lifty and Shifty who stand in an alley. Once more they offer Nutty candy, but this time he refuses, having been rehabilitated. Undeterred, they show Nutty some video games and some controllers, which seem to capture Nutty's interest. Later, at Nutty's house, we seem him playing video games with the same interest he had in the candy he once loved.

Time goes by and Nutty remains in his house playing video games, not even going outside to collect his mail. After about a year of playing, Nutty now looks more like his former self (minus the lazy eye), with gaming controllers, rather than candy, decorating his body. One day, one of his video game consoles breaks down and Nutty grows agitated. He exits his house and is blinded by the sunlight. He sees Lifty and Shifty's van, filled with video game equipment, which were stolen, as he rushes over to get all the equipment, they deceive him and drive off.

Then it cuts to black. Slowly fading in, is a picture of Nutty looking very upset, inverted colors and looking very wavy. Then it went to bars and tones. Then it cut to another part I never heard of.

Petunia was turned away from the camera, so I couldn't see her face. She turns to look at the camera, and what I saw... well... I didn't see that one coming.

Her tail was fuzzy, and half of her face was gone. Not like it was torn off or anything, but just not there. Just blood where it should have been.

She wore an expression similar to that of a zombie. She even looked like a blue zombie skunk. The other half of her head was splashed with some disgusting green slime. Think of Remains to be Seen. You get the idea. Her eyes were some light shade of blue, which scared me.

Oh god, I almost wanted to turn my PC off so I wouldn't have to see this again!

It then cut to a picture of Nutty, but he freaked me out.

He wore an expression of unspeakable malice and insanity. His mischievous grin went all the way up to his eyes, and his hair went all the way down to his shoulders. He had claws, long enough, and they looked sharp enough to cut one's head clean off.

Then it cut to the credits, but with no music.

The moral was nothing.

I was relieved. I told Ken Navarro about this, and he told me that he doubts that such an episode was ever produced.