Secret of Cartoons: Spongecry.avi

Remember those old Spongebob episodes which some of us used to watch in 1999 from season one? Well, recently a secret episode has been discovered from that time period.

The other day, I was searching through my computer when I came across a Notepad document deep within System 32. Having no idea how it got there, I scanned it for viruses. It had one Trojan in it. I deleted it and opened it up. All that was printed was one website link, followed by the following gibberish: "Akladsjaoao4|f" Having not a single clue what it meant, I continued by putting the site link (which I won't tell you in case anyone out there if fucking stupid enough to try it) into my web browser. It took me to a site, where there was a black background and a huge button. It had the same text on it that was in the Notepad document. I clicked it, and it brought up a download link. The file wanted to be downloaded was called "spongecry.avi". As crazy as I am, I went ahead and downloaded it. Big mistake. The second the download finished (which was 4.6 megabytes) my computer made the weirdest sound ever, and turned off. As I tried to reboot it, nothing happened. The file must have destroyed my computer. As upset as I was, I realized I was on my old PC. I hopped over on my Mac and redownloaded it. This time, there was no problem. What was downloaded was the single .avi file. I played it.

The movie clip was six minutes and four seconds long. It started out as any Spongebob episode would, except the color was distorted, and when he got to playing the flute with his nose, it immediately went to the title screen. All that was on the title screen was the following words: "Spongebob Cry", only there wasn't any jaunty music like there usually was. It lasted about two and a half seconds. It didn't show who the writers and directors were; I just assumed that whoever put it online had edited it for time or something. The episode started out inside Spongebob's house. It showed Spongebob sitting in his red chair. The strange thing was, all of the other furniture was gone. Spongebob was crying. Very hard. But, it didn't sound anything like it does when Spongebob normally cries. It sounded like a real, human cry. But it was still different. It sounded so real and intense. Spongebob was absolutely bawling. He was ripping chunks out of the chair. Then, the camera zoomed really close in on his face, but it is the kind of zoom as if it was being video taped by a real person. Then, the camera zoomed out to show a rotting corpse of Gary laying on the floor in front of him. It was very disturbing.

Gary was absolutely mauled to death. His eyes were laying on the floor, his shell was cracked to reveal a very gross image of the inside of Gary (which looked a whole lot more like what would have really in happened in the episode where Gary loses his shell). The camera was moving around like crazy. Spongebob suddenly got out of his chair and ran. Ran straight forward. Then, the episode stops moving for about one second, then it goes to black for two seconds, then it comes back with Spongebob's face pressed against the camera, with his mouth exploded open and eyes black, and a deafeningly loud scream. I jolt up and turn my volume down. And then, the camera starts moving around like insanity; you can't even tell what is going on. It was worse than anything Pokemon could ever put out. The clip then goes to black for one minute and thirty-eight seconds. It comes back, inside the Krusty Krab, dead silent. All of a sudden, the same face that was pressed against the camera appeared, but this time, the scream was LITERALLY deafeningly loud. But it only lasted for about a fourth of a second. Then, for the rest of the movie, it goes back to Spongebob crying in the chair, but after every ten seconds, Spongebob gets just a little bit more decayed, and the sound gets a little more distorted. By the end, all there is left is static and screaming. Then you can see Spongebob running again in the background of the static.

But for the last four seconds, there is text on the screen that reads "oen timd acshun wil be bdaldly" ("One timed action will be badly"). Exactly that, as if it was written by a preschooler. After the clip finished, my computer shut down.

After seeing this video, I have never been the same. I've been angrier, crueler, and more anxious than ever before. It has haunted my mind all the time. I regret downloading the video in the first place. I wish I could just go back in tiAkladsjaoao4|f.

Credited to TheBurrito

Secret of Cartoons: Our Ruined World

It was a normal Friday night for me. It was January of 2012. The stress from all the tests I had during the week had been lifted, and I just finished my homework, which surprisingly enough, I did not wait until Sunday night to actually complete. I was ready to relax for the weekend. However, what I encountered that night has changed the way I viewed things completely.

It was around midnight, and I knew I was not going to be getting any sleep any time soon, so I popped open a bag of chips and decided to watch TV in my room. For a while I was just watching some shows that didn't really come on until late, like “George Lopez”, “Friends”, etc. Eventually these shows came to an end, but unfortunately my insomnia did not. I was still wide awake with nothing to watch. After surfing through channels on the channel guide for a while I found the show, “The Amazing World of Gumball”. If you're unfamiliar with the show, it is a children's cartoon about a 12-year old blue cat named Gumball that lives with his mother (a blue cat), father (a pink rabbit), little sister (a pink rabbit), and his step-brother, Darwin (an orange goldfish with legs).

It was just like any other weird children's cartoon where all the characters are an animal of some sort. I have only seen a few episodes of this particular show with my younger brother, and the idea of watching it now did not appeal to me. Although I did find it odd that a show like this would come on so late. I shrugged and figured there really is not anything else to watch, so I might as well watch it. I turned to the channel, and to my surprise, the episode had just started. It was supposedly a new episode which added even more to the suspicion of it airing so late. As you will soon realize, this episode was not at all the kind of playful children's show you would imagine.

The normal theme song played and then it cut to the title card which read, “Our Ruined World”. The episode began by panning in on Gumball's house with the sound of Gumball and his step-brother, Darwin, arguing about a paper they had to write for school. When the two bickering brothers actually came into view, it could already be seen that something was not quite right. The animation was very poorly drawn, and the lip syncing would often not match up with what they were saying. In addition, the audio sounded like it had been recorded with a cheap cell phone microphone. I was about to change the channel until I heard the words, “That's the dumbest idea ever! With ideas like that, you'll make our paper go down quicker than the twin towers” emerge from Gumball's mouth. I was shocked by what I had just heard.

“Did they just make a joke about 9/11?” I thought to myself. A joke like that would definitely offend a lot of people in general, let alone making a joke like that in a children's cartoon! Appalled, yet intrigued by this I continued watching.

The next scene cut to Gumball's school, with the crude animation still prevalent. Gumball was walking down the hallway on his way to one of his classes. He walked for an unusually long amount of time. If I had to make a guess, I would say that he was walking down the hallway for about a minute and half. There was absolutely no dialogue, no music, and no sound. Not even the sound of his footsteps. Just him walking for roughly a minute and a half. I'm surprised that I didn't just change the channel after thirty seconds of him walking. When he finally arrived to his classroom there was no one there except for his teacher. The teacher immediately questioned Gumball about his report. Gumball nervously told the teacher that he did not have it finished yet. The teacher said in a disappointed tone, “Gumball, I expected more from you. Penny was able to write an excellent paper about Hurricane Katrina, and Tobias wrote an even better paper about the effects of the Haiti Earthquake. If they could put something that nice together, how come you couldn't?”

Gumball simply apologized and took a seat in the empty classroom. The teacher then began teaching a lesson, as if she were teaching it to a full class. I was obviously confused by this, but didn't really take too much note of it since I was once again shocked that they would mention heavy subjects such as natural disasters. All throughout the episode more things like this happened. More devastating events were mentioned, and each one shocked me just as much. I won't bore you with the details just yet, but the final scene of the show surprised me the most.

The final scene began with Gumball sitting on the couch at his house looking upset. An exhilarated Darwin ran into the room and grabbed the remote. Gumball asked him what he was doing, and Darwin replied with, “I just got the perfect idea for our paper!” He turned on the TV, and what was displayed on the television appeared to be real people walking on the streets of Japan. It took me a minute to notice, but the audio lapsed over it was audio from the news broadcast during the Japan earthquake and tsunami. I found myself almost scared the continue watching. A large wave could be heard approaching in the background, but before we could see it, the show just cut to static. 

Relieved, yet curious I wondered if this was really the end of the show. I sat there for a while just waiting to see if the show would come back on. After about three or four minutes the static came to an end and the next TV show aired. There were no credits to the previous show I had just been watching or anything. It simply just aired the next cartoon. Somewhat unnerved by this I played a video game until I forgot about the episode, and then went to sleep.

Thinking back to this entire event, it really was a traumatizing experience. Ever since it happened I have asked many people if they have ever seen the episode, and none of them have. Everyone I bring it up to just thinks I am lying. I am completely oblivious to how such an episode could have been aired. It is disturbing enough that such events were brought up in a children's cartoon, but there is something even more unnerving about this. 

There was one scene in the episode where Hurricane Sandy was brought up. Keep in mind that I saw this episode in January of 2012. Hurricane Sandy happened in October of 2012, months after I saw this episode. The same can be said for the Sandy Hook incident, and the Boston Bombing. They were both mentioned in this episode, and actually happened later in time. 

But the one thing that really bothers me about this is not the events depicted in the episode that have already happened, but the events depicted that have not happened... Yet.

Secret of Cartoons: Thomas and the Children

Warning: this story is graphic!

Ever hear of Thomas the tank engine? If you have been around little kids between the ages of two and around seven or so, I'm sure you have. My son adored Thomas so much so that he could name every single train, knew what color they were and the number they had painted on them.

I was glad when I heard that he was coming to visit me over the summer but I had a ton of work to do so I bought him a Thomas DVD. The cover looked innocent enough, Thomas was smiling and little wooden children were waving their arms out of the windows in his coaches. The DVD was called Thomas and the Children.

He was so excited to see the DVD that right off the bat, he pleaded with me to pop it into the DVD player. I went to work while he watched it. After a few hours, he came into my office, looking as pale as a sheet. "Daddy," His voice seemed weak.
 
"Are you okay?" I said. I touched his head and noticed that his temperature had gone up.

"Why did Thomas kill the children?" My heart sank like a stone but I soon brushed it off.

"I'm sure Thomas didn't kill the children," I reassured him. "Now you need your rest and some medicine." I gently pushed him toward his room. "Come on now."

After putting him to bed. I got curious as to what he had seen. I popped in the DVD and began to watch the episode play. There was no main menu like most DVDs, it just went straight to the episode. It seemed normal enough, Thomas was told to take a group of children to the seaside by the instructions of Sir Topham Hat. I noticed something odd though there was no narrator in this episode.

The episode then showed Thomas picking up the little wooden children and showed every single one of them climb onboard. Then there was a scene with him zooming down the rails like he always did and the children were cheering, "but then there was trouble," as they say in the show. Bertie the bus was stuck on the railway tracks.

This is when the episode got strange. Bertie stared at Thomas in fear but the little blue wooden train just smiled and sped up. What was even more disheartening is that he started laughing. The children were crying and little tears could be seen painted on their faces.

Thomas crashed into Bertie causing pieces of both of them to go flying everywhere. Usuallly by now the narrator would say, "and luckily no one was hurt," but there was no resurrance for kids. The episode then showed the carnage on the inside of the coaches. Wooden limps were broken off, what looked like actual blood had been splattered everywhere, heads had been ripped from the bodies of the wooden dolls and worse yet the children still had tears upon their faces.

Everything went to static. After that I felt myself boiling over with anger. What sicko would create something that messed up for little kids? Then I paused the static. Messages started to appear on the screen. Disturbing messages like kill, obey, multiply and die. I watched the static for over an hour and noticed at least thirty different messages.

I threw the accursed thing in the trash after breaking it in half. I would not expose my child to anymore of that trash. Before going to bed myself, I checked him. He was happily asleep and snoring, clutching his teddy.

I had a nightmares from this, one where the children came into my room but they were life like and as tall as a normal person. Their twisted forms grabbed my limbs and pulled me apart, while I heard that blasted train laughing. Now I have woken up, covered in blood, knife in hand and I'm afraid to check my son's room.

By Marmadukey August 31, 2013

Secret of Cartoons: Doctor Who: Apocalypse

I want to begin by saying that I am a huge fan of the British series, Doctor Who. The year was 2005, and a pen-pal of mine, Geoff, told me about the series when it was returning to BBC. The show was about a humanoid alien who traveled through time and space in a police box. It was very popular, and I mean immensely. So popular that the show had been on for over forty years, with occasional breaks of course. When I first saw the blue box “bigger on the inside” and the “Daleks,” I was immediately hooked.

Of course, I've been watching the show for eight years since then. You can easily say I'm obsessed. As a matter of fact, I've gotten myself into some otherwise black market trade. I've downloaded hundreds of episodes, but one uploader in particular sticks out to me. Now, I won't give their name for legal reasons, but they had a collection of every single episode since 1963. They even had episodes lost to this date including the final episode of “The Web Planet.” You know, the one where the First Doctor regenerates after collapsing in the TARDIS? I will try not to get off topic.

Having similar interests, we traded and exchanged quite frequently. I uploaded “Confidential” clips from later series, and he sent me rare episodes scattered with junk files. Strange as it was, it worked well seemingly for the both of us. One day, I noticed in his listing an episode I've never heard of before. Now, I've seen every episode, and it was highly unlikely that I missed one. The file was titled: “DR WHO 7x14 – APOCALYPSE.rar.” I thought to myself: “No, this just can't be, but..” Episode 14 of Series 7 could not have been released. It was only February, and the episode was to premier in November. Fairly enough, like any madman with a box, I immediately downloaded the file to my computer. Within 46 minutes, I opened the .rar and noticed three files. The titles were anagrams of names of actors who played the Doctor, which I found quite brilliant.

I opened the first: a .txt file “Math's Mitt.” It read “Hello, this is fantastic. Pass it on. Do it in the name of the Doctor.” I found it wrong to pass on what was currently the rarest episode in the universe to just anyone. So I opened the next file: a .mp3 entitled “Nandin Vatted.” The audio was of a man gasping for air as what sounded to be a heavily distorted strum of piano strings was played in the background. Being that this episode was originally intended to be in honor of the 50th anniversary, thoughts of the classic TARDIS came rushing into my head: In 1963, its break noise was created using house keys scratched along piano string. I imagined a return of the original Mark I TARDIS, with a return of the Doctor's granddaughter; no wait, better yet, a return of all 11 Doctors for one episode! How great would that be?

The final file was a .avi entitled “Clotheshorse Precinct.” It was twenty-seven minutes long. I clicked the video, and it began with the typical WMM cheap title. I wondered: “Where in the fuck is the episode I downloaded?” Even though it wasn't what I previously thought it to be, I sat through anyway. The text of the video, which I assume was written by the uploader, made little to no sense. It brought up an entire planet's worth of propaganda. This lasted for about 5 minutes. It explained how Doctor Who holds its ties to British Wicca in the 1960s. By taking influence from episodes of this time, a whole new evil exists in its writing that was abandoned long ago. Every monster, every galaxy, every companion: all manifestations of Satanic symbolism.

Let's just say I was irate. How could they go against my favorite show, the greatest science fiction show ever created? The longest lasting in history! The video went on to discuss how the 50th anniversary script was leaked. The plot was to be the end of Doctor Who, the final episode that would create pandemonium, the end of time.

The plot was also to involve Clara, the Doctor's latest companion, and how she came to be the impossible girl. As even the latest Whovian would know, she is the girl twice dead. A living, breathing paradox. At one point, she was even a Dalek in an asylum. If you've watched Series 1-4 at least five times each, you'd also remember Rose Tyler and the Tenth Doctor, who were both to return for this particular episode. For now, let's begin with former companion, Rose Tyler.

In the episode “Dalek” of Series 1, Rose accidentally revives the last living Dalek with the touch of her hand in future 2012. For the record, late 2012 is when Clara first made an appearance in Doctor Who. What sickened me was the mention that this genetic transfer impregnated the Dalek. Even worse is that according to the text, this was discovered by the Metacrisis Doctor, a human clone of the Tenth whom was to grow old with Rose in a parallel universe. The script states for his actor, David Tennant, to be in utter shock and disgust. A Time Lord could not handle his love being with the most foul, wretched alien of his world. A human could not handle this, let alone Time Lord knowledge. At this point there is to be no sound, except for him screaming similar to scenes in the Series 2 final “Doomsday” as his head implodes. This, according to liner notes, will use similar CGI to that of some newly animated lost episodes.

I could not stand for one word of what I was reading! Four years ago, I had to watch my favorite Doctor go, but never will I again! Unfortunately, this makes a lot of sense in canon. How else could Clara be a Dalek and a human? Why else do roses appear with her constantly? How could she be spread throughout all of time and space unless her biological parents were a time-traveler and a mutant?

The Eleventh Doctor asks if this is true, and Rose is just emotionless. Clara is now said to be crying, having eyes similar to Rose's in the episode “Bad Wolf.” She then absorbs the energy of the TARDIS. If she already contains DNA traces in the first place, she is thus creating a paradox using all of time and space. She exterminates Rose as her body rapidly falls into a pile of dust. The Eleventh Doctor is absolutely speechless at this point, as no lines of his were added into this portion of the script. The Earth begins collapsing as the paradox is within itself. Every tree and leaf blowing in the wind disappears into the nothingness of a black hole. The entire Earth is set to slowly deteriorate in the background for about six minutes. Clara finally says "And now for you, my Doctor." The Eleventh Doctor explains how no one is meant to have that much power. He yells at her for five grueling minutes in a way uncanny to his usual goofiness. He calls her a "stupid, bloody ape" and brings up how she killed whom he refers to as his best companion.

This culminates in Clara being stabbed eleven times in the back with a sonic screwdriver variant referred to as 'laser dagger.' The Eleventh Doctor whispers in agony: "What.. what have I done?.. I've gone through so, so many of them. And my own people. I am not the Doctor." He realizes he broke the promise he took when he chose the name of the Doctor. He did harm to man, and in no way for the greater good. Meanwhile, Clara's body is releasing the excessive amounts of time energy stored within her. Out of fear of himself and what is to come, the Eleventh Doctor's actor, Matt Smith, is to stab himself in each heart: eight times in the first and four in the second for a total of twelve times. The difference in number of hearts between humans and Time Lords is well-known in canon. This is what he claims will undo the damage he's done to humanity throughout the course of his entire existence. He begins regenerating and screams in bloody murder, "All things must come to death. Everything dies!" This is reminiscent of Rose Tyler's Bad Wolf speech.

His 12th incarnation is to be played by John Hurt. He begins taking in Clara's time energy remainder, with fragments of Rose and the Dalek's DNA. He emits his first and final words: "Makes you just mad, doesn't it?" He escapes the destruction of Earth in his now engorged, dying TARDIS. It is not stated what becomes of him as the full script has yet to be completed.

I could not take this anymore. This entire episode has rewritten my hero: the one who's traveled across time and space, saving lives without gratitude. I can only hope that this will never be made possible. Thank you.

Secret of Cartoons: Satan on the Muppet Show

When I was a child, one of my favorite television programs was The Muppet Show. Every night, before I went to bed, I would tune into the show. I would always get so excited when my favorite character, Kermit, appeared.

Right after dinner one night, I tuned in to see the green frog that always brought a smile to my face. The show started out normal, with Kermit introducing a special guest star. However, things turned a little strange when Kermit introduced the special guest 'Satan', and instead of the normal, happy singing, there was no sound at all. Instead, the camera faded into a black and white doorway. As the camera inched closer and closer, I began to hear small bits of white noise.

It then cut to a scene of Kermit, in front of the standard red theater curtains. There were several things out of place, however, Kermit's head seemed warped and longer than usual. The colors he was composed of were now different, and darker. The bricks were also covered with a very bright substance, which seemed to be carelessly spattered about the wall. Kermit did not say anything. Instead, he just stared blankly at the camera, barely moving. I'm not quite sure how long the scene lasted, but to me it seemed to go on forever.

Finally, the scene transitioned to a very dimly lit room that seemed to be someone's attic. The film was in black and white again, and the only source of light came from behind some boxes in the back. The room was very dirty, and had random objects scattered across the floor. There was a dirty, old projector toppled over in the middle of the room as well. I stared at it for a bit, until something suddenly moved behind it.

What I saw will haunt me for the rest of my life. An overstretched, limbless, and filthy Kermit puppet was being slowly dragged across the floor by an unseen string. It looked lifeless, until the head began to crane towards the camera, even though no one was puppeteering it. It took ages for the poor frog's gaze to finally reach me, but as soon as it did, the program cut to static. I just sat in silence, frozen by fright, and staring at the TV. 

To this day, I still don't have a clue what happened that night. The Muppet Show will always be one of my favorite television shows, but it'll never be quite the same because of that fateful night.

Secret of Cartoons: Plankton Got Served

I am sure many have heard of Lost Episode Creepypastas. They are usually an incredibly graphic episode that conveys such fear for children that it was never aired, though someone managed to sneak a viewing or owns one of the tapes. The most popular example of this is Squidward’s Suicide, in which Squidward commits suicide, hence the title.

Of course all of these Creepypastas are false. Yet, I remember a SpongeBob episode that was altered heavily, but still remains in circulation today. This is One Coarse Meal, from season 7. In the episode Mr. Krabs finds out that Plankton is horrified of whales, and uses it to his advantage. This is one of the least popular episodes of the show due to the dark nature of the episode, even after the episode was heavily altered.

Now how would I have seen this episode before it edited? It’s simple really. This is one of the seven SpongeBob episodes that was revealed on the internet before it aired on TV. Always a big fan of the show I was excited of the idea of having a SpongeBob episode premier on the internet before television. I rapidly reloaded The Nick page, and finally the episode came up. It was known as “Plankton Got Served”, though it was eventually changed.

Most of the episode is identical to the one that is circulated today. Plankton manages to break into the Krusty Krab and ties up Mr. Krabs and SpongeBob. As he is about to finally get the secret formula from SpongeBob, Mr. Krab’s daughter, Pearl walks in. This terrifies Plankton and causes him to run out. Plankton later claims his ancestors were eaten by whales and that is why he fears them so.

Mr. Krabs realizes this fear that Plankton has and decides to use it against him. He dresses up as his daughter and begins to follow Plankton around, frightening him. Plankton decides he can no longer take it and decides to make the ultimate decision. Plankton decides to commit suicide. Yes, this is still in the show today, you are free to watch it.

Plankton waits for the bus, as he lies in the street, waiting to get run over. That is when SpongeBob comes over to try to convince him to continue his existence. This is where the alteration in the two versions begins. Plankton fails to heed SpongeBob’s words, and remains there. In the altered version that was shown, SpongeBob tells Plankton that it was Mr. Krabs as Pearl the entire time, and he gets up.

In the altered version SpongeBob says the same things, but Plankton refuses to believe him. SpongeBob decides the only thing he can do to show him the truth is to drag Mr. Krabs outside. Soon after he leaves the typical red bus comes speeding along. Plankton sits up, and watches it hit him as everything fades to darkness.

Plankton finds himself standing on a single platform, overlooking darkness. In the darkness he sees whales, all looking up at him. There are members of his family he can faintly make out, calling for him to jump down. Plankton looks above and sees a light, a light he can scarcely believe. This would seem to represent Heaven and Hell.

Plankton, resigned to his fate, jumps and plunges down into the darkness. This is when the episode ends, and the traditional credits for the show are shown, parallel to Plankton’s descent into the darkness.

Now some of you may say you saw the show as soon as it came available online. Apparently not fast enough. After seeing the episode online, I reloaded the page to find the altered version shown on the website. I kept reloading, curious of how I had seen the first version. The only answer I can imagine for my viewing of the original episode was that the creators uploaded the wrong file, and moments after uploading it recognized such. I may be the only one who saw this version.

I truly do not know the sick ambitions the creators of SpongeBob had in mind with this episode. Why would a kid’s show portray death? Why would a kid’s show portray Heaven and Hell?

Nonetheless the unaltered version is impossible to find. I’ve searched as hard as I can, and I have failed to find anything legitimate about the episode I had seen. People had told me that I had seen only the altered version, and they too were surprised of the dark themes portrayed in the episode. Nonetheless I know what I saw.

I know people would fail to believe me. People will accuse me of just trying to scare people. People would say I have no evidence. There are no photos. There is no video evidence of this occurrence. I only saw it once, and it never occurred to me to do such.

I know the truth, and I want other people to know as well. Maybe, maybe someone out there saw this episode as well as I and can confirm it. Until then, I hope you enjoy reading about my experience.

Secret of Cartoons: Grim's Boss

Anybody remember The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy? That cartoon about two kids who enslave Death. Well there is 1 episode that was only aired once on Adult Swim. It was written and produced during season 6, but never aired for unknown reasons. If you're expecting this to be about an episode containing blood and murder, or anything else that extremely violent, then you're about to be disappointed. The episode contains no super-deformaties, hyper-realism or gore.

The name of the episode is Grim's Boss. The plot revolved around Grim inviting his boss to dinner to be reviewed. The episode opens at Billy's house with Grim frantically vacuuming and cleaning before Billy walks covered in mud. He is followed by Mandy. Grim becomes extremely agitated with Billy for making a mess. Mandy asks why Grim seems so worried and hyper and Grim explains that his boss is coming over for dinner to review his work and that his job lies depends on how it goes. Mandy, as usual is uncaring and apathetic towards Grim's situation and simply tells Grim to make sure to do her chores when he's finished before leaving.

The scene cuts to Grim sitting at the table with Billy's family and practically begging them not to embarrass him. The door bell rings and Grim goes to answer it. The Devil himself steps in and greets Grim cheerfully, the latter referring to him as Mr. Satan. Satan asks Grim to simply call him Lou. As expected, Billy's stupidity ruins the dinner, causing Grim to start grab him by his neck and start shaking him comedically. Despite Billy's lack of common sense, Grim ends up keeping his job nonetheless.

Lou asks to speak with Grim in private. Grim obliges and Satan reveals that he's looking for a new apprentice and asks Grim to suggest someone evil enough for the job. Grim at first suggests himself, but Satan laughs saying that Grim needs to maintain his job as Death. Reluctantly, Grim takes Lou around Endsville to find a new apprentice, introducing him to General Skarr, Eris, and Nergal Jr., each ending with disastrous, comical results.

Just as Grim and Lou are about to give up, Mandy arrives and begins bossing Grim around. Impressed Satan pulls out a personal profile of Mandy leading to a clip montage of Mandy at her worse. Having "never seen a soul more evil" than Mandy's, Satan offers her the role as his apprentice. Mandy however overthrows Satan and becomes the new ruler of Hell, enslaving both Grim and the Devil. The episode ends with a shot of Mandy ruling over Hell with an iron fist as multiple souls are seen burning in agony.

Secret of Cartoons: Timmy's Wish

When I was an intern at Nickelodeon Studios, I always used to view the cartoon before everybody else did, just to make sure if it was okay and there was no flaws or anything that had happened.

It was a new episode of The Fairly Oddparents, and it was the one called "Power Pals/Emotion Commotion". I had started the episode, and the episode seemed to be pretty good, no flaws whatsoever. So when I took it into the room for everybody to see, I didn't expect anything to happen other than what I had seen. Boy was I wrong.

We went into the room and started the tape. I walked out for a few minutes, because I was expecting a call from the manager (He wasn't there that day because he was at a meeting). He called and we talked about business for about a half hour. When I came back in, everybody looked at me. Some questionably, and some angrily, and I didn't know WHAT was going on. They put in the tape and it took awhile to load, but when it did, the title card came up as "Timmy's Wish" surrounded by missiles, nuclear warheads, military tanks, land mines, and radiation symbols. I know that that was NOT what I had named it, so I was confused just as well.

The show started off with Timmy in the bedroom, once again, being babysat by Vicky for four days as his parents were out of town. She had locked him in his own room. The windows were shut tight, the door was barricaded, and there was nowhere to go. He was bored, so much he was developing cabin fever, so Timmy just sat on his bed, talking to Cosmo and Wanda.

"I wish I had lots of video games, toys, and Crimson Chin comics!" Timmy shouted.

Cosmo and Wanda gave him all that he had asked for.

Wanda replied with, "Timmy, have you ever thought of wishing for world peace? It's worth a try."

Now I was really confused, because I had never written any of this so I thought someone had pulled a prank on me and had changed discs to whatever they had.

Anyway, Timmy replied, "No, but I just thought of something. I wish I had..."

The audio after that was cut out, almost as if it was censored, but Timmy was mouthing the words "something to create chaos" and then there was: the "Poof! Cloud", and Timmy had a bunch of knives, all in various sizes.

"Thanks." he replied gratefully before he quickly fell asleep.

Cosmo and Wanda were confused by what they had just granted and asked themselves, "Why would he need a box of knives?"

Then they fell into the fish bowl as goldfish and went to sleep. I was too confused by now to think at all, but I kept watching.

The next scene showed Timmy suddenly waking up, jumping out the window (which was now open for some reason, but it looked like it was forced open) and fade into the darkness. A two hours later time card came up. He came back with a weird dark red liquid on his body, but it was too dark to see anything, including his face.

The way we knew it was a liquid is because there were drops around him and trickling down his face and his body in tiny red streams. Anyway, he broke open the door, went to the bathroom, cleaned off the liquid, went back to bed, and fell asleep.

The next scene made me gag. It was Francis, drenched in a pool of his own blood and his face cut open. His brains and his eyes were removed with very little precision and his tongue was ripped off. He had multiple bruises on his neck, leading us to the conclusion that he was choked to death first. On his stomach, carved into his bloody skin were the initials "T.T". The picture looked so realistic it was sickening just looking at his carcass. As known, Timmy's initials are T.T, so we can guarantee it was him. A couple interns left while the others stayed.

The second scene, holy shit, was even worse than the last one. The head had been crudely chopped off with the arteries and veins jutting out still, the arms and legs had been slit open with the blood vessels piled on top, hands and feet cut off, and the same initials on the stomach. His ribs, by the looks of it, were broken with a sledgehammer and blood from the newborn holes in his lungs were seeping out. My guess was his ribs were broken first and he suffocated to death because of it. Then he was cut up. This person was without a doubt Mr. Crocker. We know it was Timmy, because it seems these two victims were Timmy's enemies. The pictures were so realistic that much more people ran out, just leaving four others in the room.

Then it was morning, and Timmy woke up. The knives were drenched in blood, and on the news, the murders that Timmy committed were featured. Cosmo and Wanda looked at the news and then looked at Timmy. There had been no suspicion it was him, so he had nothing to worry about.

It went on like a regular day, except of course, without bullying, and instead, there was a substitute, until there was a new teacher. Then when it reached nighttime, the fairies went to bed, and so did Timmy. By now, I was nervous. The entire episode had been like this and was now almost over. Timmy came back with more blood than ever on him (by now you would know it's blood) and a couple of scars. After he cleaned himself, he went to bed.

The next day, Vicky was on the news and the picture was so horrifying, I lost my lunch. She had been brutally tortured with whips and chains and her whole body had been cut up into pieces, with body parts lying around all over the place, and it was so realistic, I couldn't hold it in anymore. Nobody suspected that a ten year old would do this, so nobody expected him.

That night, Timmy was going to go out the window, when he saw a bunch of police cars and helicopters. Behind him, Wanda spoke.

"I know it was you, Timmy. I've watched you and so I called the police."

Timmy then sat down, crying dark red mascara-ruined tears on his bed. He looked up at the screen and his eyes were in detail, the creepiest you'd ever see. They looked like they were animated heavily, not really realistic but not CGI either.

He then whispered in an ominous tone, "Tell no one what I did."

He then took a pistol, dropped a folded note, and shot himself through the mouth. When the police broke in, they opened the folded note.

It said: "You think I was murdering people? That's small talk. If I was murdering people, you all would be gone."

That's when the episode shut off.

I went to go grab the disc to see what it looked like and if it was my disc, but somehow was corrupted and thus was worthless. Still, I was able to see the disc, rather than just seeing the episode again, but I don't know why it didn't corrupt the first time it was shown. The creepiest part was this was my disc. My name, my signature on it, everything. Then around the time, the ACTUAL episode aired. (I, of course, had to redo it.) It ran perfectly, no different than what I had watched originally. That episode will never be out of my mind, and we will never know how it happened to be corrupted or who corrupted it.

Secret of Cartoons: Tom and Jerry VHS

I would like to say that as a kid, enjoyed watching Tom and Jerry; however, the channel it was available on only showed it during the daytime, when I was in school. I kept asking my mother for DVDs of the show, but she refused my request given the violent nature of the show.

Over time, my house has gotten pretty messy. We had too many items of clothing and boxes of stuff that we mostly didn’t need. My mom finally decided to clean out the house, having me help her. We got through a majority of the rooms and had garbage bags full of stuff to donate. We had one room left; the media room. While she cleaned off a desk, I attempted to clear out a closet. Removing most of the clothing revealed a stack of wooden boxes in the back of the closet.

Curious, I opened the box, revealing a collection of VHS tapes. A lot of great movies were in the collection, from classic Disney movies to the Godfather trilogy to Gone With the Wind. I kept searching through the collection until I came across something I would have never expected: a copy of Tom and Jerry’s 50th Birthday Classics on VHS! Surprisingly, the copy was unopened, still in its original case and plastic wrap.

I asked my mom, “Hey, where did this come from? I don’t remember you buying this.” My mom then got a shocked expression on her face and hung her head. She proceeded to explain that it was a gift from my aunt that was supposed to be given to me on my 7th birthday. I asked why I didn’t ever receive this gift.

My mom then explained that shortly before my birthday, my aunt was involved in a robbery. She elaborated that two crackheads entered her home and started taking some of her belongings. My aunt woke up and noticed two men wearing sheets over their heads.

The men ran to her and beat her senseless. Her face was bloody and bruised and she had a really hideous black eye.

There was even a claim that a lock of her hair was ripped out. The men then forced her to lay down on her stomach and proceeded to behead her with a tactical axe. My aunt was discovered by my mother the next day, and she called the police. While she waited, she looked around the house for clues. On the kitchen table was a wrapped present. The tag indicated that the present was for me. Sure enough, the present was the Tom and Jerry VHS. My mom kept it hidden from me until I found it for myself.

I was horrified by the story, but I was just happy that I was able to watch a cartoon I’ve been interested in for so long! We continued cleaning and finally finished. Around 5:30 or so, my mother left to go on a date with the man who is my current stepdad.

I knew she was staying overnight and being an only child, I had some time to myself. I played my Xbox for a while, but I was quickly becoming bored. Then I remembered my brand new VHS of Tom and Jerry. I opened the packaging and took the tape out of the case. The tape was in mint condition with the original label and rewound to the beginning.

I popped the tape in and the FBI warning came up as normal. I watched the first episode on the tape, and the nostalgia rush was intense. I haven’t watched this show very much as a kid and the network quit showing it a while ago.

The video was rolling very smoothly and then in the middle of the second episode, the screen went black. A new title card then appeared. It had a gray background with a shadow of a guillotine and in red writing “Death of the French.” I found this hilarious given my family’s French descent, so I kept watching. It was a normal episode where Tom, Jerry, and Nibbles were musketeers.

In the episode, the King has tasked Tom with keeping the noise down so the King can sleep; the King said if Tom woke him up, he would have Tom sentenced to death. Tom gave a saluting gesture and the King went to sleep. The episode continued as usual, but something didn’t seem right. I rewound the tape and looked closer. What I found was very disturbing.

The violence was more detailed and gory than I could ever remember it. For example, there was a part where Tom used a knife to stop Jerry from running away by holding the knife on Jerry’s tail. Instead of holding Jerry down, the knife completely chopped off Jerry’s tail and blood started dripping out of it.

It wasn’t exactly gushing, but a trail of it was created as Jerry ran away. In the next shot, his tail was back to normal. Events like this kept happening with things like Tom’s tail getting chopped off, Tom’s eye being gouged out with a cork, and even Tom being split in the half, showing photorealistic insides. At the end of the episode, the King is awoken and Tom is taken for execution.

The next shot showed Jerry and Nibbles walking down an old-fashioned French street eating sausages and cheeses when they hear the sound of a crowd chanting. The camera goes to Jerry’s point of view as he looks above at a guillotine. I was told by a friend that normally, you only saw the blade come down and heard the sound of it banging against the wood, then it cut back to the mice.

However, this time, the blade didn’t fall. Instead, the shot went to Tom being brought to the guillotine by two guards and the King. The crowd kept yelling, and I even heard phrases such as “Kill him,” and “We want blood!” I could then see Tom physically becoming enraged and started resisting the guards, kicking one of them in the knee. The crowd went insane yelling even louder, and the King yelled “End it! Do it now!” Two men then appeared dressed as old-fashioned executioners, masks and all.

They ran up to Tom and proceeded to beat him into the ground. Looking closer, you could see Tom’s face bloody and bruised and even a lock of hair was pulled out. After a good beating, Tom was forced to lie down inside of the guillotine and was immediately beheaded. His body was still visible while his head disappeared into a basket.

Blood was realistically spewing from the neck; it started strong then proceeded to just drip from the neck. The next shot was a close-up of Tom’s bloody and beaten face in the basket. Tom’s eyes were blinking for a few seconds as the camera zoomed out, but the blinking stopped. The shot cut to the mice and just like in the episode, Nibbles says “Poor, poor pussycat,” and him and Jerry continue eating and walking.

The shot went back up to the guillotine, which now had blood all over its bottom. From the basket, a spirit of Tom was rising up. The figure was bleach-white and Tom’s eyes were blank and not blinking from what I saw. The spirit rose outside of the frame, then the episode cut into static.

The static lasted for a few seconds and now the portion playing was from another episode in which Tom goes to heaven. Tom was still bleach-white and his eyes were still blank. It cut to the portion where Tom tries to sneak past the ticket collector. The ticket collector catches Tom and calls him out on the horrible things he’s done to Jerry. The ticket collector says that Tom doesn’t receive forgiveness from Jerry, he will go to Hell. When the ticket collector said that Tom would go to Hell, the ticket collector’s voice turned very deep and demonic. The voice gave me chills just listening to it.

The tape then went black, and I could hear the sound of what might’ve been Tom asking Jerry for forgiveness, but sped up. I could then hear the sound of a bell ringing very loudly then the demonic ticker collector say “I’m sorry, Tom.” An image finally showed Tom falling down into a pit.

He was still bleach-white, but this time, his eyes were red with no pupils. Finally, Tom lands in a cauldron and he does a very falsetto, spine-chilling scream. The devil (aka Spike the bulldog with horns) starts laughing, but his original laugh was deepened and slowed down. The devil also used the pronged end of his pitchfork to shove Tom deep into the cauldron.

Instead of pushing Tom in, however, the pitchfork stabbed Tom and all of the holes created by the pitchfork were visible. Tom also appeared to have his skin progressively burned and peeled off, revealing realistic muscle and tissue underneath. I rewound the tape to the beginning and noticed that the episode started at 11:34

At this point, I’ve had to stop the video. I immediately ejected the tape and placed it in the case. I placed the case on top of the desk in the media room. I had trouble sleeping that night, so I stayed up the rest of the night playing League of Legends, hoping it would get my mind off the horrifying, childhood-ruining tape! At about 3 AM, I attempted to sleep again and succeeded. The next day, I decided to find the tape so I could finish the footage just out of curiosity.

I looked on the desk and around the media room, but I couldn’t find it. I found out that my mom donated the tape along with all the others to a Goodwill. I drove to the Goodwill, and it was already sold. It was sad that I lost such a rare tape. Fortunately, I was able to distract myself with my video games and working on projects for school that I was safe from nightmares; however, my sleep cycle was severely disturbed for about 2 months.

I was very tired and my grades dropped from A’s to B’s and C’s. Normally, I wouldn’t find something like this all that disturbing, but it was just very disturbing and creepy how similar Tom’s death was compared to my aunt’s death. The fact that the episode was set in France, my family’s country of origin, didn’t help to suppress the memories. I still picture Tom’s death in my head and get chills from it. My mom doesn’t believe me, but I am still hunting for the tape. When I get it back, my mom will see the horror for herself.

Secret of Cartoons: The Land Before Time: Human's Revenge

My name is Baldwin, and I live in hollywood C.A, and I got a very scary tale to tell about a new movie star's first movie turning into a Creepypasta, this is my story.

Me and my friend Keth went to see The Land before time/The first humans at one of my friends house. He had recently got the DVD at a video store for $5. He invited me and Keth to his house since his parents were going to a party and wouldn't be back until tomorrow morning, they said it was ok for me and my friend to stay for the night.

I spoke to my parents, and Keth spoke to his parents and the both agreed about the sleepover. We arrived at my friends house at 6pm on the dot to see 2 other friends there for the same reason. We had some pizza and some cola before we watched the movie. I explained what the movie was about. It was a movie about 3 teenagers helping the LBT dinosaurs to stop a great evil threat.

We soon got our popcorn and sodas, and we began watching the movie... This is when things got creepy. When the menu screen appeared, Littlefoot and cera wasn't there, just a odd looking Michael The Dino Ranger with a scar. We began watching the movie and things soon got freaky. In the scene that Michael K.O's screech and thud the utahraptors, Michael took out a pistol and shot their heads off in less than 3 seconds with blood gushing out of their necks. And then at another scene when Victor Veloci meets Dil from the 4th LBT movie, Dil attacked Veloci and did a death roll like normal crocodiles do when they see prey.

We were really surprized by these scenes, the movie was regestered PG not PG-13, but we keeped on watching. The rest of the movie continued as it was in the script. But when the movie was over, something changed our lives forever.

After the credits, a scene of the Great Valley was shown burning, trees in flames, Dinosaurs running for their lives, and after a minute or two, the screen changed to Red claw's hideout and it too was in flames. Everyone was running and Victor Veloci fell to the ground screaming "HELP! HELP US! HE'S TOO POWERFUL! HEL..." The rest of the speech was cut off when Michael pulled out Veloci's spine, and Michael managed to crush the spine into bone meal.

Michael then looked at the screen, grining with a evil voice saying, K.E.O.E. He took a gun out of his hand and pulled the trigger. The screen went to black and the DVD was ejected from the DVD player and put back in it's case. We were really freaking out after that, and we went to bed hoping that it will never happen again. But, when I fell asleep, I readed the code Michael said and I understood what it standed for. 

Kill.Everything.On.Earth.

Secret of Cartoons: Angry Sylvester

I'm pretty sure, that a lot of you remember watching Looney Tunes as a kid. So do I! And my favorite character was Sylvester cat. Until one night back in the summer of 1998. I saw an episode that rather frightened me. But since the cartoon played at late night, when I should've already gotten to bed, I was half asleep, so I only remembered parts of it, like a creepy TV in Sylvester's room, that turned on all by itself. I thought, maybe it was just a nightmare. Sadly, it wasnt...

One year later...

The next summer, me and my brother were bored on an afternoon, so we decided to watch some TV. We flicked to Cartoon Network, just in time when Looney Tunes was starting. It played two normal episodes of Sylvester, nothing special, except for one thing...when the second part was coming to it's end, me and my brother felt like something isn't right. We thought, that it might show that certain episode once again. And it happened.

The episode didn't have the same intro, that most of the Looney Tunes cartoons had, neither the catchy title music. It just skipped right to the title screen. It didn't even fade, just switched right there. There was no title written on the screen, it just showed the living room of a house, and it looked like it was drawn entirely with only two colors: blood red and black as emptiness. There wasn't any music here either. The only sound that could be heard during this part was a woman saying "Directed by...". The creepy thing about it was, that it was in our country's native language, Hungarian, and this happened way before CN started broadcasting in our country's native language. And it sounded like if the announcer was strangled by somebody. Then, the episode started.

Once again, it didn't fade to the beginning, just switched right there. It showed Sylvester, standing in front of something, that looked like a military base. There wasn't any music or sound here either, just dead silence. Sylvester also didn't look like he did in the other cartoons. He looked bruised and badly beaten and his eyes had no pupils. He didn't say anything, he just looked really angry. In the next scene he entered the military base. It was empty, no guards or soldiers were there. 

But Sylvester still entered and he wanted to get revenge on the people for what they did to him. So he decided to sabotage the military base by destroying all the lights hanging from the ceiling. This scene also looked very disturbing. While Sylvester was tearing down the lights, his claws grew to a ridiculous size, and they were covered in blood and oil. The only sound that could be heard during this scene was the sound of sparking electricity, which also sounded very loud and frighteningly realistic. The scene also was flashing rapidly, making it look even more scary, and also dangerous to people, who suffer from epilepsy. This same scene also repeated itself 10 times until it cut to the next scene.

In the next scene, Sylvester was at home. However, Granny, Tweety or Hector were nowhere to be found. He was all alone. His room also looked empty and scary. The floor was blood red and the walls looked like if they were on fire. The room contained two tables, a large one that had something, that looked like a toy Dalek and a screwdriver on it, and a smaller one, that had an ancient TV on it. There was also a window in the background. But it's beams were misaligned, so it looked like an inverted crucifix, also outside it was just pitch black, not if it was like night outside, but like if there was literally no existance outside that window. So Sylvester proceeded to repair his toy Dalek with the screwdriver, when suddenly the TV on the smaller table behind him turned on by itself.

The TV showed an extremely creepy cartoon. The background music sounded like somebody was randomly banging an electric guitar, and the recording was reversed and played back that way. It started by showing a forest with a cartoony moon above it with an extremely creepy look on it's face. A few seconds later, it switched to long room. The room was empty, but something can be heard lurking at the end of the room and it made a really creepy metallic thumping sound with every step it made. A few seconds later it switched to the other end of the room. Porky Pig was standing there, also looking angry, and he was holding a pistol in his hand, but he didn't look bruised like Sylvester did. He said something to the monster at the other end of the room, then fired his gun a few times. 

After that, it went static, and a few seconds later, a really loud bang was heard and the screen faded to red. A few seconds later, the red screen faded back to Sylvester in his room, standing next to a wreckage of his TV. He looked even more angry, even more bruised and his eyes were blood red this time. The creepy of image of angry Sylvester stayed on the screen for about ten seconds, then it just went black... About half a minute later, Cartoon Network came back, with a normal "Coming up next..." screen.

Secret of Cartoons: Just a Children Show?

I remember one show from my childhood - only one in fact. This is the only full memory I have of my childhood before I moved. When I was about 4, I lived in a condo. It was average sized and fairly nice. That's about all I know to describe it other than it was two stories. I can't remember what I did there, but I know I was not old enough to attend school.

Instead, I spent all day at home trying to amuse myself. It's funny, I never remember leaving my home other than to play in the yard. Even then I never left the front yard. I do remember one thing very well. I remember a TV show I watched. It played on Noggin at 2:30 AM. I don't remember ever doing anything else at the condo.

I would watch this show. I cannot remember the name, nor can I remember any character name. I can only remember one character name, "The Boogie Man". He was very strange. He'd wear a nice suit and carry a cane. And his head was like like a brain exposed and swollen.

It was green, too. A very bright green, like fresh summer grass. He'd spin around. He'd spin as the only thing my young brain would equate it to, a ballerina. He'd spin around and around while singing in a terribly strange voice, words I cannot recall. I think it was something like "Here comes the Boogie Man. Here comes the Boogie Man".

The other characters looked as if they were high school students. Considering shows from the same time period, they must have been middle school students in the show. There was your stereotypical cast: A black girl and a white girl, a "leader" boy, a cowardly male and a geeky girl. The geeky girl spent all the episodes on a computer, clicking away at keys that monitored their environment; the school.

Yes, this all took place at a school. A red/pink/brown-bricked school. This school had lots of surveillance cameras. The year at this point was 2001. There are no children shows had really adapted to the 9/11 standards of camera everywhere. Hell, even now in shows you almost never see cameras in school like there are in my high school. I found this strange.

At my age, never having been to a school, I remember that I thought schools never had cameras. There were four different areas that were used a lot; a hallway intersection, a classroom for a non-descript class, an outside lunch table, and a dark room. The hallways were always a pink-red color with shiny tiles and the walls an off-white.

These kids would sneak into the school after dark every night to try and catch the "Boogie Man". They didn't seem like they wanted to go and find him as the only time they left the room was when they needed something. Otherwise, they'd stay in the classroom, barring the doors with chairs and having the girl at the computer tell them where he was in the school using the cameras. And there was a gum-despencing-machine by the monitor. It was a replica of the Boogie Man, but with a purple brain head and it was really small, and they all looked like they were out of breath. Like they had just finished running.

One episode had the Boogie Man spinning down the intersection singing. The student all sat there, watching him on the monitor. He kept singing,

"Here comes the Boogie Man."

After a few seconds his song continued, going past what must have been the chorus.

The Boogie Man will always come.
The Boogie Man is scared of none.
Ashes to ashes and dust to dust.
Your rotting bodies will fall to rust.

To my innocent mind at two in the morning, was perfectly fine. I then thought of something; I never actually saw the kids enter the school. I never saw them with equipment to catch this "Boogie Man". It was never dark, the outside table was well lit by the sun.

They never showed any students ever leave the building. And one last thing. The pinkish tiles were a bit darker than pink. It was a rather shiny maroon shade.

This show isn't on anymore. It seemed a lot like "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" This is more than a scary story, more than just another knock-off of "Candle Cove". This is a true, honest-to-god show I remember as a kid and any information you have on it would be very helpful if anyone remembers the name of this show.

Secret of Cartoons: Spongebob: Patrick's Leg

I was online a couple years ago at like around 1:00 AM looking up old SpongeBob episodes as I was a huge fan as a kid and the new episodes they show on TV are complete shit. So after going through bad quality videos on foreign websites and other sites flooded with ads, I came upon an unofficial website that had full episodes ad free. Ok, the quality wasn't great,but better than most of the websites. On the bottom was a link that said "SpongeBob Lost Episode". Being the idiot I am, I clicked on it. I thought it was probably a screamer or something, but I clicked on it anyway. I was bored enough to click on the video and watch it. I totally forgot about looking for old episodes.

The episode video had poor quality and the episode itself was pretty much forgotten by the writers. Like every episode, it started with the theme song. The titlecard read "Patrick's Leg" with the normal fun-filled bubble letters we all know and love. The first thing that didn't seem right was that after the titlecard, the transition, instead of bubbles, it was just a blur into the begining of the episode. It started out like a harmless SpongeBob episode, with SpongeBob and Patrick watching the sunset. But then Patrick decides to go sandboarding, so they do. So far a pretty normal episode. Patrick then tries to do some sort of trick on his sandboard but fails. As a result, Patrick falls and breaks his leg, and SpongeBob goes after him to see if he's okay. During this scene, instead of the usual 'Hawaiian themed' music, more suspenseful, serious music plays. Also, Patrick screams a more painful scream than he usually would. Enough that I could feel it. Well I guess that makes sense, he just BROKE his leg. Nothing that is too far out of the ordinary, right?

Well other than the opening and the music in that one scene, it's going pretty much like any ordinary episode. The next scene takes place at the hospital, where the doctor tells Patrick he needs to be in a wheelchair for a little while. As they walk out, SpongeBob is pushing Patrick in his wheelchair when they run into some girls. The girls start talking to Patrick because of his leg and ask if they can sign his cast as they walk away with Patrick, leaving SpongeBob by himself. So far it's going like a normal episode. I don't remember what happened throughout the episode so I'll skip some scenes.

This is where it gets creepy. Later that night, SpongeBob knocks at Patricks door. In this scene, the backgrounds look more realistic than usual. However, I tried to ignore it. When Patrick opens the door Spongebob tells Patrick that he forbids him to see those girls ever again. Patrick gets furious, not like he does normally. This is a more realistic anger, and he tells Spongebob that he hates him. The girls leave in fear. This is when I started to feel funny about this episode. SpongeBob then screams, in an unusually deep voice, something like"...oh yeah? Well as long as you hate me, I can do this..." and then starts beating Patrick's broken leg violently with a rock. 

After that, the screen goes to static for a fraction of a second, and cuts to a scene where Spongebob and Patrick are apoligizing for something during the daytime, except the lining of the animation and the voices don't match up. The animation in this scene is very poor, as if it was a loop, and it goes on for a good 4 or 5 minutes. I was very creeped out, but I wanted to see how it ended. The screen goes black for a minute or two, and then cuts to a scene from another episode, where Patrick has Jefferey Jellyfish in a wagon, and says "C'mon Jefferey.", and the screen goes black again, this time for only about 30 seconds and cuts to a CG animation of Patrick cutting SpongeBob's stomach open with a piece of broken coral with realistic blood gushing out, while looking at the screen with bloodshot dilated eyes. His mouth doesn't move, but you can faintly hear him say "I knew this day would come!!!" with an echo-ey voice. You can also hear SpongeBob laughing for some reason. The scene goes on for another 3 minutes, but nothing is heard but static which gets louder and louder, until it's unbearably loud. Then the normal credits come on, but with a very faint image of the last scene still showing. My god, that image will be burned in my mind forever. The United Plankton logo isn't shown like usual.

After the video was over, it froze, so I had to reload the page, but it wasn't available. I couldn't even find the website anymore. Even when I looked up "Patrick's Leg", nothing came up. I understand if you don't believe me, but I know what I saw, even if it was at 1:00 in the morning. What the hell was I even doing online at that time? Natethedeurwaerder 20:14, August 3, 2011 (UTC)

Secret of Cartoons: A Really Hidden Powerpuff Tape

I'm a total Powerpuff Girls fan much like everyone else, I like all episodes of this show. I don't think I've ever watched glitchy tapes before, though I don't think I want to watch any glitchy tapes after the experience I had...

It started on a nice summer afternoon back in 2000, I was watching Cartoon Network on cable television until I noticed, out of my peripheral vision, that the mailman had arrived and put something in my mailbox as usual and left. I went to see what I got in the mail... The only thing in the Mailbox was a VHS tape and a note. I took it inside.

I looked at the note first and realized it was from my dear friend Mack (Let's just call him that), whom I hadn't heard from in 3 days. I know that because I recognized his handwriting, though what was weird is how it looked; it looked badly written and scratchy and somewhat difficult to read, as if Mack was having a hard time writing it down and did it in a hurry.

This is what he wrote...

"Luke,

I can't take it anymore, I had to get rid of this thing somehow before it was too late, and I was hoping you'd do it for me. I can't do it, they're after me, and if you don't destroy this videotape, they'll come after you too, they're too powerful for me....

Please Luke, destroy this god-forsaken tape before they come after you too, it's too late for me.

Destroy this tape, and you'll destroy them, but do it quick otherwise they'll catch you. Don't even watch this tape, it's what they want, just destroy it.

Please...

Mack"

Well, that was certainly weird. Even though Mack IS my best friend and I haven't seen him in 3 days, I didn't do what he asked me. I didn't think that a simple VHS tape would do anything bad to him, after all it's just a video tape right? Boy, was I wrong about that...

ANY way, I looked at the tape and it looks like any ordinary VHS tape, except it had black marker on it written "Powerpuff Lost Episode", and it was much unlike Mack's handwriting, meaning that he must've gotten it from someone else, like a pawn shop or eBay. When I saw "Powerpuff Lost Episode" on the writing of the VHS, I was actually excited and wanted to watcg it, since I'm a BIG PPG fan.

I went up to my room, inserted that tape to the VHS, and then the TV screen showed the 1979 Hanna-Barbera Present logo, but the star was red and the music was really creepy, going upwards in pitch. Then, it went to the standard PPG episode ending from "Dream Scheme", no credits, no title screen, no nothing. Then, when the music finished, the "THE END" sign did not appear, causing the girls to stay on screen. The pulsating hearts also moved out completely, leaving nothing but a pink background.

When my father came in with a baked apple pie, the TV screen shot a laser at him, causing him to fall down and die, the apple pie breakind into pieces. I then cried at his death, and the TV screen shot a laser at another TV, causing the TV to break.

Then, the TV screen shot two lasers, one at the bedroom, the other to my mother. The first laser made the bed rotate and damage parts of my bedroom, while the other laser hit my mother, causing her to have a headache and fall down. The Ambulance arrived and carried my mother to the hospital. The TV then shot a laser at my Nintendo 64, causing it to break. I was then scared.

The TV jumped and shot an extremely large laser at the windows, causing the whole house to fall down and collapse, except for the TV at the coffee table. I said "Oh No! My house is gone!". The TV set shooted really, really large orange lasers at my neighborhood's houses, causing their people to move out and their houses to burn.

I then screamed and said "Aww, man! First, my house and now, the neighborhood."

Secret of Cartoons: Buttercup.avi

One night quite a while ago, I was invited to dinner at a friend's house, who happened to be the nephew of Craig McCracken, the creator of Powerpuff Girls. The party was pleasant, and I was in for a surprise when Mr. McCracken himself was one of the guests. As a teenage girl, I was absolutely obsessed with the show. I would hog the TV for the premiere of every episode, and yell at my younger brothers if they so much as said a word before the commercial break. Being a somewhat moody, spunky teen, Buttercup was always my favorite of the three girls. I loved her sarcasm and her edginess. Upon meeting Mr. McCracken, I had told him what a big fan I was, and that I was ecstatic to meet him, but he seemed very uninterested and was speaking in a vague, rushed tone, no matter what we were speaking of. I supposed it was because of all of the show's fans could be quite annoying, so I backed off.

Somewhere a bit later into the night, Mr. McCracken left hurriedly, not noticing that he had left a small envelope with a single disc inside. I looked around quickly before taking the disc, thinking of the possibility of this being another cartoon invented by the genius behind the Powerpuff Girls.

After the party was over, I rushed home to see what this mysterious disc had in store for me. With my hands trembling, I lifted the shiny disc from the envelope, and my heart fluttered with delight when I saw that the DVD had "Buttercup.avi" written on it in purple sharpie. Buttercup, as I said before, had always been my favorite, and I was incredibly anxious to watch this episode, that for one reason or another, had not been released, but left next to a chair at a dinner party. I put the disc into my DVD player, and it started instantly, no title screen, no credits, nothing.

The episode started off oddly. The colors had been dulled down to an almost sepia tone, and the house looked all wrong. The windows were busted out, and the walls looked dirty. There were small, reddish-brown footprints going up the wall to the middle upstairs window. Confused and creeped out, I continued watching. The camera zoomed into the house, which looked even worse than the outside. 

Professor Utonium was sitting on the floor, sobbing. He looked up into the camera, his eyes looking too realistic for even the most advanced animation at the time, and had this horrid, pained expression on his usually smiling face. "Buttercup, what have you done?! What have you done to your sisters?! Why?! WHY?!! WHY?!!!" He sounded genuinely like someone that had lost everything, and my heart hurt for him. Behind him sat the corpses of Blossom and Bubbles, horribly mangled. Blossom was missing one eye, and photorealistic blood dripped from her empty socket. Her limbs were broken and twisted at unnatural angles. Her heart had been cut out and laid beside her, and blood stained her pink dress where her heart had been. Bubbles was killed in a similar fashion, except for the fact that both eyes were missing and shoved down her throat, and her legs torn off. Disturbed more than I had been in my entire life, maybe, I began to feel sick to my stomach, but I knew I had to keep watching.

The camera then cuts to Buttercup, whose eyes were also very realistic, like Professor Utoniums. She had an unusually heartless, bitter look in those all too realistic green eyes, and a twisted smile on her face. She was stained with blood from head to toe. She tilted her head up very slowly, then a maniacal laughter left her mouth, ringing throughout the room and my mind.

"Didn't you see it coming, professor? I'm sure all of our adoring fans did." She spat, sounding disgusted at the words 'adoring fans'. "They were so annoying, with their constant happiness, their love of always being in the spotlight, always being nice and good and perfect. I hated it! For years, it disgusted me, but not anymore, Professor, not anymore!"

Professor Utonium continued sobbing, and the horrid sound got louder and louder until a green streak with a silver glint flew across the screen. The professor's disembodied head then flew at the camera, his eyes staring directly at me for the remainder of the video before cutting to black.

Thinking it was over, I went to turn off the TV, but I stopped when I heard the sounds of screaming and singing.

Blossom and Bubbles' screams were quiet, as Buttercup's voice was loudly singing "Hush little babies, don't say a word, Momma's gonna kill you and make you burn, and if those corpses just don't burn, Momma's gonna bury you beneath the furns." 

Though the words were cheesy, the sound of Buttercup singing and the eyes of her and the Professor still haunt my dreams.

Secret of Cartoons: Recess - An Episode Gone Horribly Wrong

Do not know how the tape came into my possession. All I know is that I found it in one of my drawers while I was clearing them out, in preparation for moving to a new house. It was a VHS tape with a plain white label. "Recess/R1109 New/Return to C" was written on it in a thin black permanent marker. Whoever wrote it had very poor penmanship; it was barely legible. Like anyone who had watched Recess as a child, nostalgia overcame me. I placed the tape in my old VCR and pressed play.

It began with a blue screen. It stayed like that for a few minutes, and then started flashing red. Thirty seconds later, it cut to black.

Thinking that the tape was wrecked, I went over to press eject. Before I reached the button, the Recess opening started, albeit with really poor compression quality. The video was blurry, and the audio was muddy, but I kept watching to see if anything weird would happen.

The episode "The Rules" started, and began playing out like the television broadcast version.

Since the previous owner apparently took poor care of this tape, the vertical hold became progressively worse as it went on. Another thing that was off was the voice acting. The voices seemed to randomly fluctuate in quality, even in the middle of a sentence. For example, in one sentence Gus would sound like himself, in the next he would sound like the voice actor really did not want to be there.

The animation was technically sound, with the exception of some of the facial expressions. In certain scenes, the main characters' faces did not match what the emotions they were trying to convey. In these peculiar scenes, TJ looked angry, Vince looked tired, Spinelli looked anxious, Gretchen looked depressed, Mikey looked high, complete with bloodshot eyes, and Gus looked as if he genuinely hated everyone around him.

A couple of minutes in, the episode completely jumped the tracks and went insane.

At the scene where Vince was ordered to go into the dumpster and find a piece of fruit, it was taking him longer to find it than it should have. Then the sound of a garbage truck pulling up could be heard.

"Um... Guys?" Gus said.

Everyone turned and saw the garbage truck.

Everyone, except TJ, ran. TJ tried to help Vince get out, but eventually failed and ran away. The garbage truck picked up the dumpster and emptied its contents, including Vince, and began to crush them.

Vince's screams in this scene sounded incredibly genuine, like the person doing his voice was actually being crushed to death. This whole time everyone was looking in shock. When the screaming ceased, Randall began crying for a moment, and ran off yelling "MISS FINSTER!" like he always did. Everyone else started crying. The screen faded to black.

Thirty seconds later, the scene abruptly cut to TJ walking home with his hands over his eyes. There was no sound at all for this part. The animation had really dropped in quality, like it was done by someone in their basement as opposed to a professional animation studio. It focused on TJ walking down a long road for a couple of minutes, with the vertical hold getting worse the whole time.

After a while, it cut to TJ lying in bed, crying quietly. It was quite genuine too; I could really hear the pain in his voice. Rather than cutting to black, after this scene ended, it showed the remaining five students walking to school in the rain. None of them cared about the rain.

In addition to some cuts and bruises, Mikey looked even more bloated than usual. Gretchen's glasses were shattered. Spinelli's hair was dirty, and all over the place. Gus was wearing a black sweatshirt, as opposed to his usual getup. TJ's hat was on with the bill facing forwards.

They all were incredibly depressed.

The vertical hold was so bad at this point, that I could barely tell what was going on. It looked like the remaining children were just sitting in class, occasionally cutting to an empty desk. Finally, the vertical hold finally calmed down to the point where I could see.

The depressing mundane atmosphere went on until Gus pulled out a pen. He rammed it through his eye. TJ tried to stop him, but Gus ended up bleeding out until he fell over dead. Blood continuously dripped down his desk and pooled onto the floor. Nobody else seemed to care.

Everyone went to lunch after that class. Mikey engorged himself on whatever he could find, until eventually he grabbed his chest, and rolled around on the floor screaming. Ultimately, his eyes rolled back in his head, he twitched once, and then stopped moving. TJ barely tried to help this time; nevertheless, he still became more depressed after Mikey died.

The scene cut to the playground again.

TJ and Spinelli were kicking a can back and forth, both expressing minimal interest in what they were doing. They looked as if they were on the verge of killing themselves. Gretchen silently walked past them, and began climbing up Old Rusty. When she was at the top, she got ready to jump off.

What was especially strange was that instead of looking depressed, the kids at the playground, with the exception of TJ and Spinelli, were shouting angrily at Gretchen. Most of them were chanting "Do it!", "Jump!", or something similar. Randall called Miss Finster, and even she came over and joined in the chanting.

"We've gotta stop her!" yelled TJ, and he and Spinelli ran over and climbed to the top.

TJ tried to get Spinelli to help pull Gretchen to safety, inside of the platform at the top of Old Rusty. Instead however, Spinelli simply glanced at him with a pained facial expression. She then stood up next to Gretchen, pulled a rope out of her pocket, and tied their ankles together.

TJ begged and pleaded to them.

"Don't do it! Come back inside!"

Gretchen and Spinelli looked at each other, closed their eyes, and jumped off.

They splattered into bloody bits when they hit the asphalt. TJ leaned onto a bar and began loudly sobbing. The crowd below was becoming angrier still, despite being covered in the blood of Gretchen and Spinelli.

The crowd began screaming "Jump, fucker!", "Do it, faggot!", "Come on, you little bitch!", and other phrases to that effect. TJ just curled up and covered his face. When the bell rang, everyone but TJ went inside.

The screen was black for several minutes. After a few moments of fast-forwarding to see if there was anything else, the scene faded in to TJ sitting on the edge of his bed, crying. There was an ambient sound of what I recognized as a tornado off in the distance, though outside the window, everything appeared normal.

Throughout this scene, the tornado sound got louder, and TJ's crying got more pained. Eventually, the tornado sound stopped. TJ lifted up a handgun from under his pillow, aimed it at his temple, and closed his eyes.

After one more tear slipped out, he pulled the trigger.

Photorealistic blood and brains splattered all over the bed and wall behind him. The scene held on TJ's corpse for a few more seconds, until the tape abruptly cut to black. I heard what sounded like a telephone dialing, then the tape stopped completely.

I sold that damn thing on eBay. I never wanted to see it again. Maybe the guy who bought it will upload it to YouTube or something, but I did not even want to watch it a second time to capture the footage. One time was all I needed to get every detail.

I do not know if the Recess production crew made this as some sort of sick joke, or if it was just made by some guy with too much time on his hands, but I do not give a damn anymore. I just do not want to see it again.

I will never be able to watch Recess the same way again.