Stories that are collected from the depths of the unknown or spawned from the deep recesses of my mind...
Sunday, September 13, 2015
Secret of Cartoons: Fear of Victory
I have to admit I've always been a big fan of Jonathan Crane aka the Scarecrow in Batman's universe. It's a fascinating character with a twisted personnality and he always was my favorite rogue in BTAS. So when my best friend told me that there was a lost episode in which Jonathan was changed back into a kid I was like "hell yeah just give me the DVD!"
And she did.
Thinking about it I guess I should have be wary : my best friend never was fond of Batman. Indeed she had always thought that my "sick-passion" for this cartoon was kind of weird. But at the moment I was just too happy to be suspicious and when she gave me the DVD I could only think about a thing : watching it as soon as I could.
I got home earlier than usual that day. One of my teachers was sick and I left school in a hurry, eager to watch that lost episode !
I put the DVD in the drive and I sat on the couch with a bowl of soda crackers.
Everything started normally : Batman was chasing the Scarecrow down Gotham's streets - with Robin of course. Jonathan ran into a dark alley and hide besides a dumpster, looking tired and sick. He was paler and skinnier than usual with cold sweat all over his face and I immediately thought that he might have been drugged or something like that. The camera got back to Batman who was still looking for the vilain, looking very worried.
"Have you found him yet ? - asked Robin - He can't have gone too far ! Dr Bartholomew said he was weaker than a kitten when he escaped !
-That's what I'm afraid of Robin : a weak and scared Scarecrow is a very dangerous Scarecrow.
-But we're here to help him ! For goodness' sake Batman, it's not like we're gonna HURT him !
-I'm fully aware of that but the man isn't : remember he is SICK."
I don't know why but I began to feel very uncomfortable here. Batman was usually very calm, very confident and at this moment... Well, let's say it clear : he seemed scared. Very scared. Of what I didn't knew but I wasn't so sure I wanted to know.
A part of me wanted to turn of the TV. But the other part of my brain was like "No don't ! Jonathan is in trouble, that'll be nice to see the Batman helping him for once !"
So I just sat there, unable to get my eyes of the screen. The camera got back to Jonathan who was now sitting on the floor. His heartbeats were litteraly deafening and he seemed in a great pain.
That's when things started to go wrong.
The Scarecrow screamed. A scream so shrill and so loud that I litteraly jumped down from the couch out of pure fright. He spat blood, a lot of blood and his body started to convulse. His eyes were no bloody red and his face... Oh god his face was paler than a ghost !!
I swear to god I wanted to turn of the TV, I never wanted so much to turn of that damn TV but it was like I was paralysed by fear ! I could just look at that damn screen, wondering what was going on and I was just thinking "What the hell is this ?!".
Then it all ended. Jonathan stopped to move. It was like he had just died there, in this dark alley.
His screams alerted the dynamic duo. Batman and Robin arrived on the scene within seconds and the look they had on their faces was pure terror.
The camera slowly turned back to Jonathan... Or at least what was left of him. There was a pile of bloody clothes and sitting under the rags you could see a red-haired kid who looked very frightened. He looked at Batman and Robin with tear-filled eyes.
"Professor Crane ? - Robin asked carefully - Do you... Do you recognize us ?"
The kid remained silent for a while as he got up on his feet. His face was all covered in blood but that didn't seem to bother him.
"Dimwits" He said, smiling.
Batman and Robin looked at each other with relief and I have to say that I was quite happy to see that Jonathan Crane was still himself. I sat back on the couch. Now I knew why that episode was never aired : it would have been far too scary for kids.
Batman caught the kid in his arms and wrapped him up in his cape. Jonathan didn't even fight back. He seemed pretty sleepy and I thought that he was maybe very happy to be safe.
They brought him back to Arkham, explaining the situation to Dr Bartholomew. At this point of the episode I was like a kid in front of a Christmas Tree : now that everything was back to normal I knew that I was going to enjoy this ep !
The five following minutes were rather annoying to my opinion. It was all about Poison Ivy and Harley Quinn and their damn maternal instinct. And I want to cuddle you and I want to read you a goodnight story and so on... Booooring ! But after the horrifying scenes I had seen I wasn't going to complain, nope sir !
The time passed by rather quickly and Jonathan was still stuck in a kid's body. Things weren't so fun for him anymore. The other inmates where tired of having to take care of him and the doctors were treating him like a toddler.
One night Batman came to the asylum to see if everything was okay. He found Jonathan sitting on his bed, looking very depressed and lonely.
"How do you feel Professor ? - the caped crusader asked - Dr Bartholomew told me that you were quite... morose ?
-Who wouldn't be ? I hate being a child... I shouldn't have experimented this new toxin on myself. Look at me : I'm a freak."
I was waiting for a comforting speech from Batman. But he wasn't there anymore. Instead there was a note on Jonathan's door.
"Hang yourself."
I felt a shiver run down my spine. Who could have written such a horrible note ? Batman ? No that was insane...
Jonathan looked at the piece of paper for a moment. He didn't seem sad, no. Just tired. Exhausted.
The screen got black.
The next morning a nurse came in all the inmate's cells to see if everything was okay. She entered Jonathan's cell, there was a moment of silent and she ran away, screaming as if she had seen the most horrible thing ever. The camera entered the cell, very slowly. No music, just the sound of a loud, very loud heartbeat.
And there he was. Grown up again, his face twisted in a horrifying expression of pain, a noose around his neck.
Jonathan.
I screamed.
And I think I'll never stop to scream.
Saturday, September 12, 2015
Tribute to 9/11
The head of a company survived 9/11 because
His son started kindergarten.
Another fellow was alive because it was
His turn to bring donuts.
One woman was late because her
Alarm clock didn’t go off in time.
One was late because of being stuck on the NJ Turnpike
Because of an auto accident.
One of them
Missed his bus.
One spilled food on her clothes and had to take
Time to change.
One’s
Car wouldn’t start.
One couldn’t
Get a taxi.
The one that struck me was the man
Who put on a new pair of shoes that morning,
Took the various means to get to work but before.
He got there, he developed a blister on his foot.
He stopped at a drugstore to buy a Band-Aid.
That is why he is alive today..
Now when I am
Stuck in traffic,
Miss an elevator,
Turn back to answer a ringing telephone…
All the little things that annoy me,
I think to myself,
This is exactly where
I’m meant to be
At this very moment
- (via theoutsiders)
Secret of Cartoons: Nightmare Ned
One day I was bored and had nothing to do, so I turned on the TV and Nightmare Ned was on. It was dark and greenish looking, poor quality, poor sound, and poor everything. It opened with Ned eating breakfast. He walked outside and was playing on his bike.
I thought it was just some random commercial, but after I saw the intro I realized it was an episode. Ned was playing with Conrad, and Vernon appeared. It was hard to understand what they said, because they sounded like they were babbling.
They apparently began to suck the brain out of a child and he turned into a zombie. the children at his class thought it was a prank but they were wrong. Ned raped the zombified child, while Conrad and Vernon decapitated the teacher, and then melted. I couldn't believe what I was seeing.
Ned's parents reported him to the officer and the officer tried to find any evidence. As he was looking, Ned began to die. Ned said, "Mom, Dad, Amy. remember me from when I am in the up above". They cried for 30 seconds as the episode came to a close.
I turned off the TV, and after 5 seconds I turned it back on and it froze on the ending frame. I unplugged the TV, but it was still frozen. Finally, I gave it a good kick and it turned off. Nervously, I plugged the set back in and, to my relief, it was no longer frozen; it was playing a cereal commercial. I checked my TV Guide to see if there were any Disney films playing that could help ease my mind of the horror I had just seen, and then it suddenly dawned on me.
Nightmare Ned had been cancelled 3 months ago.
Friday, September 11, 2015
Secret of Cartoons: Cow and Chicken, the Cursed Episode
It was a chance for a fresh start, with the old director leaving with the events of the Boston Bomb scare, he'd been replaced. He never really like me so I was hoping that it'd be different this time. Around two days after we got the new director, he had requested me and 3 other cartoon designers to meet in a room on the 7th floor of the building. This was the first time I'd been in one of these as they were normally used for business, so I knew it was important.
Now within entry, I noticed it was different then I expected. It had a large TV with a VHS underneath it. Their was a long, colorless table, and on top of it was a box full of old VHS tapes, some bags of potato chips and energy drinks. On further inspection their was a note on top of the pile and a sheet of paper. The note read this
"Dear cartoon designers,
I have requested you here as I have began considering re-making and re-vamping the series of "cow and chicken" Now if this idea goes through, I need the designers to be familiar with the series so I would like you to watch through these tapes and familiarize with the story and series.
Signed- Stuart Snyder"
Now on reading this we were all very excited, as we loved the classic series of cartoons. The sheet of paper was a list of all the episodes realised. In total their were 39 episodes in total.
Now it had been 7 hours since we first entered the room, we had watched almost all of season 1 and 2, but as my co-workers rummaged through the box he handed me a tape, saying, "Never heard of this one, is it on the list?"
As he handed it me I noticed some key features on it, first of all it didn't have a neat little stickers. Just a white piece of paper cello taped on, and the name was written in what appeared to be a black marker, the name of the episode was:
"The devils fall"
As I checked through the list, I noticed it wasn't on here, so I asked one of the 3 other designers to search a list of episodes (He had his laptop with him because he was making notes so we didn't forget any key aspects of it). So he searched and checked 4 lists and none of them listed it, so we shrugged it off and were about to move on when we suggested watching it for the sake of it, so we did.
Now within starting it up, nothing was different, but that wouldn't stay that way for long. At the start it played the same old jolly theme song and introduction, now as it displayed the logo, it showed cow with dark red eyes and a smug face, while chicken was normal other then he's whited out eyes. As we continued watching we noticed some strange things, first of all it had no color, and the audio was mostly silent, but when it wasn't it sounded like a little girl, saying phrases such as:
"He hurt me." and "Help me, he's after me."
As the episode started playing, the view was switching between cows view of the street and the street looking up at cow. As she stepped away from the window it showed her hands, covered in hyper-realistic blood, which was the only color on the episode.
As it zoomed out further it showed.. what appeared to be chicken, with blood dripping down from his throat.. with a blooded dagger nearby. Cow bent down and picked it up, and slowly began walking down the corridor of her upstairs floor, as she walked past her parents room, on the floor lied her mother, well what was shown in the show, with a pool of blood surrounding her.
As she went down the stairs she went into the kitchen , were her dad was their, suffering the same fate of his wife and son, she excited the house, walking down the street, as this was happening the screen began flickering with pictures of what appeared to be hyper-realistic bodies.
As cow came to a stop the screen stopped flickering and the bodies shown appeared around cow, as she plunged the knife through her throat, making most of us feel sick. The noises switched to static and the camera panned up, zooming further out and showing what appeared to be a goat, this image became real and sounds of laughing could be heard, the screen cut to static and stayed for the rest of duration.
We all just sat their,not knowing what to do and refusing to carry on the rest, finally and got my head around it and stood up, removing the tape, and taking it to the director.
The day after all of my co-workers left, leaving me, and making the director choose the decision of not continuing with the re vamp..
As two months had passed, word had reached me of all my co-workers suffering the same fate the characters had.
Thursday, September 10, 2015
Secret of Cartoons: Courage the Cowardly Dog: Massacre Matt
You are probably all familiar with the animated television series on Cartoon Network, "Courage the Cowardly Dog", created by John Dilworth. It was about a pink dog named Courage, who lived with his two owners Muriel and Eustace. They lived in "the middle of nowhere", in a small cottage. The show's plot usually consisted of monsters or other creepy things kidnapping or disturbing the small family, and it was up to Courage to save everyone.
I absolutely LOVED that show when I was younger. It made up a huge chunk of my childhood. Although the show was funny and clever, there were many moments that actually deeply scared me. I can name at least three episodes that have given me nightmares. It ran for four seasons, and each season contained 13 episodes. It had been cancelled, for reasons you will conclude while reading. However, it still airs in re-runs. Nevertheless, Courage the Cowardly Dog was my favorite show, and it stayed that way. Well, up until about a month ago.
I was at a local thrift store up in Traverse City, Michigan, about thirty minutes away from my house. My little cousin was going to visit in a few days, so I was looking through their VCR tapes. I was hoping to find the old Disney movie "Aladdin", so we could watch it together. While nosing through the tape collection, struggling to find the movie I desired, I came across an old, dusty VCR tape without a case. On the front, it had a piece of tape and the words "CtCD S4 E14" scribbled on it rather hastily with black sharpie marker.
I immediately presumed that "CTCD" meant "Courage the Cowardly Dog", having heard it being abbreviated like that various times. Of what I knew, there were only 13 episodes in each season, so I thought that I might have missed this episode. Eager to watch it, I bought the tape for $2.99 and quickly left, forgetting to purchase the Disney movie that I had came there for.
Once I arrived at my small apartment, I quickly popped the tape into my VCR and sat in front of the television, just like I had when I was a kid. The screen jumped around for a second, then cut to the familiar intro like always. You know, with the nagging voice of the news reporter on the old-fashioned wooden television, and so forth.
Nostalgia hit me like a brick to the face, and I smiled. Memories of the old show flooded into my brain. Even so, something seemed... wrong. The tape's tint appeared to be darker than usual, the visual was choppy and bulky, and the sound was a little disoriented. I assumed that it was from the poor condition the tape was kept in, and shrugged it off. Once the intro ended, the title card appeared. Only, it seemed strange...disturbing... morbid. Even more than usual.
There was a poor quality oil-painting of what seemed to be Jason Voorhees, with his hockey-mask and chainsaw. On the chainsaw and his dark plaid shirt were spashes of blood. In what seemed to be in scarlet red handwritten crayon, were the words "Massacre Matt". This dumbfounded me. I knew that the show had a dark setting, but not this dark or gruesome. I wondered why I had not seen this episodes before, when I recalled factually that I had watched every episode in the series. I continued on watching, even though the back of my mind told me not to.
The scene hastily cut to the inside of Courage's home. Static interrupted the screen for a few moments, but it quickly returned. It was very poor quality and darker than the usual episode... as if it was meant to be like that. Muriel had visible wrinkles and looked very depressed, slowly rocking back in forth in her wooden rocking chair. Eustice had his traditional scowl sewn onto his face, reading the newspaper. Courage was on the floor of the house, looking very sad. He was shaking with red eyes, as if he was crying earlier. He seemed thinner than usual; his ribs were easily seen through his pink fur, as if he had not been fed in a while. An eerie silence laid upon the scene for about thirty seconds. The only sound heard was Muriel's chair rocking.
To break the stillness, Courage let out a small moan. Eustice rolled up his newspaper and smacked the dog, shouting "Stupid Dog!" His voice sounded concerningly different and disorientated, like his voice actor was upset, or not trying to pull off the character's voice. He violently smacked Courage continuously, and smacked him hard. Muriel just watched in silence, not jumping in as she would have done. Courage let out small yelps of pain, but appeared as if he was unable to move. Tears began to form around his eyes. Eustice eventually stopped and began to read the paper again.
I began to question this cartoon's legitimacy, as it was getting darker and darker in personality. Suddenly, there was a very loud knock on the door. It was almost hyper-realistic; for a moment I had thought that it came from my own apartment door. Muriel got up from her chair and opened the door, a lingering creak escaping the rusty hinges. Standing on the old wooden porch was a low-budget CGI of a tall man with a hockey mask, holding a large red chainsaw. He had red, bloodshot eyes, and wore an olive-green plaid shirt with torn up jeans. He was slowly swaying back and forth. The screen went out of focus and blurred, then cut to static for about ten seconds.
My nerves were creeping up my spine, telling me to turn off the television. However, my dumb curiosity kept me sitting there. The screen jumped around, and when it returned, it was in worse quality then before. It was fuzzy and difficult to make out the character's faces, or tell what they were doing. With some effort, I was able to decipher the strange man entering the family's house. Muriel stepped aside to allow him to do so. Courage sat up, shaking.
The screen jumped again, and it returned to the better quality. The screen closed in on the man, presumably Massacre Matt. He stared at the screen intensely. The camera eerily zoomed in on his face, and you could see his crazed blood-shot eyes. What disturbed me the most was that they were hyper-realistic eyes. He stayed there for about three minutes, just staring at the screen. Absolute silence hovered in the air.
My heart began to pound, but I stood my ground. Finally, it cut back to Courage. He screamed his traditional scream, although it was much louder than normal. Matt pulled the string of his chainsaw and it started up with a roar. He lifted it up into the air, ready to slice the little pink dog. The screen cut to a Scooby-Doo style chase scene. I think this part was supposed to be funny. I did not find it the least bit humorous. It was done in dead silence, as if there was supposed to be some sort of music or screaming, or any noise whatsoever, but the animators forgot to put it in.
This scene on for about thirty seconds, until they ran back into the living room. Matt kicked Courage into the wall, holding him down with his boot. Slowly, almost tortuously, Matt lowered the chainsaw to the dog's flesh. Courage hysterically cried for help, struggling to flee from being pinned to the floor. Eustice just stood there, his arms crossed, as he smiled a very creepy grin. Muriel was nowhere to be seen.
I began to inch away from the television, my eyes opened wide. What the hell was going on? Finally, the sharp, silver blades of the chainsaw reached the poor, sobbing dog's flesh, gruesomely cutting into his skin. Blood splattered everywhere. Courage let out a blood-curdling scream; however, it was cut short to static as the sound quality decreased. Even so, the visual still stayed. The chainsaw eventually cut the dog in half. The two parts of his blood-stained body fell to the floor. My mind raced, my breathing became heavier, and tears began to form in my eyes. How was this real? This had to be fake, right? But how would someone be able to exactly copy the animator's style? It was so skillfully and realistically drawn, with the blood and gore scattered everywhere.
I could make out Courage's internal organs, as they slowly seeped out of his decapitated lower body. His eyes were rolled back into his head; a small stream of blood trickled out of his mouth. The camera stayed focused on the dead dog for nearly two minutes. All of my instincts told me to turn it off, to look away from the disgusting image, but my eyes were glued to the television. The camera switched to Matt, now splattered with blood. He stood up and turned to Eustice.
Eustice grinned, and handed Matt a wad of cash. Matt took the money and left the house. Eustice chuckled silently as he looked out of the open door, saying something that I could not make out due to static. It then cut silently to the credits, something that would not normally happen. It had jumped shortly after beginning, and cut to static about seven seconds into the credits.
I sat there on the carpet in my apartment, tears streaming down my eyes. What the fuck did I just watch? Why would the animators make something like this? I stayed there, deeply shocked, for maybe ten minutes after it had ended, lost in thought. Shaking my head, I ejected the tape from the VCR, hastily chucking it at the wall in a sudden burst of anger and fear. Surprisingly it did not break, or appear to have any scratches on it whatsoever. I left it there on the floor and went to my laptop, very frightened of what I just saw. Was that even real?
I searched everywhere on the Internet for someone with a similar experience with this episode, but to no avail. After a couple of days, I recuperated from what I had seen. I decided to set up my camera in front of the television, and pop the tape in again. I wanted proof of this demented monstrosity. I closed my eyes and awaited the massacre to begin. But... there was nothing.
It was just static.
I have tried everything, from re-winding, re-taping, cleaning the tape, replacing the VCR, and even replacing the television, but it will not play. I do not know how, or why, it will not. I plan on keeping the tape with me, in case I ever find a procedure that will make it play again, so I can show the public.
I cannot even look at the tape anymore though; I keep it in a shoebox in my basement. I have tried contacting Cartoon Network, previous animators and crew members on the show, and even John Dilworth himself, yet none of them will give me an answer. John and the crew members sounded nervous on the phone however, but they insisted that they did not know what I was talking about.
To this day, this unaired episode haunts my dreams. I can never watch the show again, let alone look or think about any of its characters, without becoming deeply terrified again.
Please, if any of you have ever seen this episode, if you have heard of it, if you know about the thrift store or how the tape ended up there, or if you have a working copy of it, PLEASE contact me. This is real, and I need to find out more about this.
Thank you, and best regards.
I absolutely LOVED that show when I was younger. It made up a huge chunk of my childhood. Although the show was funny and clever, there were many moments that actually deeply scared me. I can name at least three episodes that have given me nightmares. It ran for four seasons, and each season contained 13 episodes. It had been cancelled, for reasons you will conclude while reading. However, it still airs in re-runs. Nevertheless, Courage the Cowardly Dog was my favorite show, and it stayed that way. Well, up until about a month ago.
I was at a local thrift store up in Traverse City, Michigan, about thirty minutes away from my house. My little cousin was going to visit in a few days, so I was looking through their VCR tapes. I was hoping to find the old Disney movie "Aladdin", so we could watch it together. While nosing through the tape collection, struggling to find the movie I desired, I came across an old, dusty VCR tape without a case. On the front, it had a piece of tape and the words "CtCD S4 E14" scribbled on it rather hastily with black sharpie marker.
I immediately presumed that "CTCD" meant "Courage the Cowardly Dog", having heard it being abbreviated like that various times. Of what I knew, there were only 13 episodes in each season, so I thought that I might have missed this episode. Eager to watch it, I bought the tape for $2.99 and quickly left, forgetting to purchase the Disney movie that I had came there for.
Once I arrived at my small apartment, I quickly popped the tape into my VCR and sat in front of the television, just like I had when I was a kid. The screen jumped around for a second, then cut to the familiar intro like always. You know, with the nagging voice of the news reporter on the old-fashioned wooden television, and so forth.
Nostalgia hit me like a brick to the face, and I smiled. Memories of the old show flooded into my brain. Even so, something seemed... wrong. The tape's tint appeared to be darker than usual, the visual was choppy and bulky, and the sound was a little disoriented. I assumed that it was from the poor condition the tape was kept in, and shrugged it off. Once the intro ended, the title card appeared. Only, it seemed strange...disturbing... morbid. Even more than usual.
There was a poor quality oil-painting of what seemed to be Jason Voorhees, with his hockey-mask and chainsaw. On the chainsaw and his dark plaid shirt were spashes of blood. In what seemed to be in scarlet red handwritten crayon, were the words "Massacre Matt". This dumbfounded me. I knew that the show had a dark setting, but not this dark or gruesome. I wondered why I had not seen this episodes before, when I recalled factually that I had watched every episode in the series. I continued on watching, even though the back of my mind told me not to.
The scene hastily cut to the inside of Courage's home. Static interrupted the screen for a few moments, but it quickly returned. It was very poor quality and darker than the usual episode... as if it was meant to be like that. Muriel had visible wrinkles and looked very depressed, slowly rocking back in forth in her wooden rocking chair. Eustice had his traditional scowl sewn onto his face, reading the newspaper. Courage was on the floor of the house, looking very sad. He was shaking with red eyes, as if he was crying earlier. He seemed thinner than usual; his ribs were easily seen through his pink fur, as if he had not been fed in a while. An eerie silence laid upon the scene for about thirty seconds. The only sound heard was Muriel's chair rocking.
To break the stillness, Courage let out a small moan. Eustice rolled up his newspaper and smacked the dog, shouting "Stupid Dog!" His voice sounded concerningly different and disorientated, like his voice actor was upset, or not trying to pull off the character's voice. He violently smacked Courage continuously, and smacked him hard. Muriel just watched in silence, not jumping in as she would have done. Courage let out small yelps of pain, but appeared as if he was unable to move. Tears began to form around his eyes. Eustice eventually stopped and began to read the paper again.
I began to question this cartoon's legitimacy, as it was getting darker and darker in personality. Suddenly, there was a very loud knock on the door. It was almost hyper-realistic; for a moment I had thought that it came from my own apartment door. Muriel got up from her chair and opened the door, a lingering creak escaping the rusty hinges. Standing on the old wooden porch was a low-budget CGI of a tall man with a hockey mask, holding a large red chainsaw. He had red, bloodshot eyes, and wore an olive-green plaid shirt with torn up jeans. He was slowly swaying back and forth. The screen went out of focus and blurred, then cut to static for about ten seconds.
My nerves were creeping up my spine, telling me to turn off the television. However, my dumb curiosity kept me sitting there. The screen jumped around, and when it returned, it was in worse quality then before. It was fuzzy and difficult to make out the character's faces, or tell what they were doing. With some effort, I was able to decipher the strange man entering the family's house. Muriel stepped aside to allow him to do so. Courage sat up, shaking.
The screen jumped again, and it returned to the better quality. The screen closed in on the man, presumably Massacre Matt. He stared at the screen intensely. The camera eerily zoomed in on his face, and you could see his crazed blood-shot eyes. What disturbed me the most was that they were hyper-realistic eyes. He stayed there for about three minutes, just staring at the screen. Absolute silence hovered in the air.
My heart began to pound, but I stood my ground. Finally, it cut back to Courage. He screamed his traditional scream, although it was much louder than normal. Matt pulled the string of his chainsaw and it started up with a roar. He lifted it up into the air, ready to slice the little pink dog. The screen cut to a Scooby-Doo style chase scene. I think this part was supposed to be funny. I did not find it the least bit humorous. It was done in dead silence, as if there was supposed to be some sort of music or screaming, or any noise whatsoever, but the animators forgot to put it in.
This scene on for about thirty seconds, until they ran back into the living room. Matt kicked Courage into the wall, holding him down with his boot. Slowly, almost tortuously, Matt lowered the chainsaw to the dog's flesh. Courage hysterically cried for help, struggling to flee from being pinned to the floor. Eustice just stood there, his arms crossed, as he smiled a very creepy grin. Muriel was nowhere to be seen.
I began to inch away from the television, my eyes opened wide. What the hell was going on? Finally, the sharp, silver blades of the chainsaw reached the poor, sobbing dog's flesh, gruesomely cutting into his skin. Blood splattered everywhere. Courage let out a blood-curdling scream; however, it was cut short to static as the sound quality decreased. Even so, the visual still stayed. The chainsaw eventually cut the dog in half. The two parts of his blood-stained body fell to the floor. My mind raced, my breathing became heavier, and tears began to form in my eyes. How was this real? This had to be fake, right? But how would someone be able to exactly copy the animator's style? It was so skillfully and realistically drawn, with the blood and gore scattered everywhere.
I could make out Courage's internal organs, as they slowly seeped out of his decapitated lower body. His eyes were rolled back into his head; a small stream of blood trickled out of his mouth. The camera stayed focused on the dead dog for nearly two minutes. All of my instincts told me to turn it off, to look away from the disgusting image, but my eyes were glued to the television. The camera switched to Matt, now splattered with blood. He stood up and turned to Eustice.
Eustice grinned, and handed Matt a wad of cash. Matt took the money and left the house. Eustice chuckled silently as he looked out of the open door, saying something that I could not make out due to static. It then cut silently to the credits, something that would not normally happen. It had jumped shortly after beginning, and cut to static about seven seconds into the credits.
I sat there on the carpet in my apartment, tears streaming down my eyes. What the fuck did I just watch? Why would the animators make something like this? I stayed there, deeply shocked, for maybe ten minutes after it had ended, lost in thought. Shaking my head, I ejected the tape from the VCR, hastily chucking it at the wall in a sudden burst of anger and fear. Surprisingly it did not break, or appear to have any scratches on it whatsoever. I left it there on the floor and went to my laptop, very frightened of what I just saw. Was that even real?
I searched everywhere on the Internet for someone with a similar experience with this episode, but to no avail. After a couple of days, I recuperated from what I had seen. I decided to set up my camera in front of the television, and pop the tape in again. I wanted proof of this demented monstrosity. I closed my eyes and awaited the massacre to begin. But... there was nothing.
It was just static.
I have tried everything, from re-winding, re-taping, cleaning the tape, replacing the VCR, and even replacing the television, but it will not play. I do not know how, or why, it will not. I plan on keeping the tape with me, in case I ever find a procedure that will make it play again, so I can show the public.
I cannot even look at the tape anymore though; I keep it in a shoebox in my basement. I have tried contacting Cartoon Network, previous animators and crew members on the show, and even John Dilworth himself, yet none of them will give me an answer. John and the crew members sounded nervous on the phone however, but they insisted that they did not know what I was talking about.
To this day, this unaired episode haunts my dreams. I can never watch the show again, let alone look or think about any of its characters, without becoming deeply terrified again.
Please, if any of you have ever seen this episode, if you have heard of it, if you know about the thrift store or how the tape ended up there, or if you have a working copy of it, PLEASE contact me. This is real, and I need to find out more about this.
Thank you, and best regards.
Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Secret of Cartoons: Phineas and Ferb Lost Episode
Phineas and Ferb is an original cartoon on Disney Channel, created by Dan Povenmire (you know, that guy who used to work on Family Guy) and Jeff Marsh. What isn't known about the series is that both creators widely hate Disney's monopoly and the show's real concept goes beyond just a children's cartoon; an episode about Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz's real concept was produced secretly by good part of the staff who ran the risk of being fired without thinking twice, even the original voice actors.
The episode leaked of where they kept it by an anonymous who uploaded it on a little trendy cartoon forum.
That day my computer was doing an annoying noise like if it were a whisk. My big brother insisted to check it up or the CPU was going to literally burn up. Anyway, I got into that forum where the thread posted by a relatively new user posted the lost episode, I had some time to download it before having to go to my grandparents' house. We got back at 1:00 AM. My dad was drunk, my mom forced him to sleep in the sofa and my brother was "having some fun" with the hooker he has for a girlfriend, saying that he had something important to do to avoid having to go with my grandparents. Whatever. As soon as I got home, I started the episode and as expected my computer kept making that noise.
The episode was called "The Praying Soul of Phineas" and according to the summary, this is an alternative episode to the one where they're caught and sent to the Smile-Away summer camp.
In this episode, it is shown as a common Phineas and Ferb episode, cheerful, nice, cute and begins with Phineas and Ferb having Isabella's troop to help them pimp-up the car to make it fly and to build the airport tower. This time, a huge crowd is present to witness this masterpiece.
Meanwhile, Perry the Platypus is called by Major Monogram to fight Doofenshmirtz. But Major Monogram didn't talk. He just looked at Perry with a creepy smile (this lasts for 10 or 15 seconds..?). I got creeped out and checked to see if it froze...it was still playing. So I continued watching. Finally, he spoke and tells Perry that he must stop him, but he doesn't explain why. I was confused but that didn't bother me, so I continued watching. Once he goes to stop Doofenshmirtz to his headquarters, the doctor explains that he's truly fed up of the OWCA, that all his plans go wrong, and that he is planning to kill everyone using a real atomic bomb. I was weirded out by the fact Doofenshmirtz wanted to kill people, he wasn't THAT evil. Doofenshmirtz draws a gun and opens fire against Perry, who is forced to run away, because he can't fight him while he has a gun. I was shocked because it was a REAL gun! His escape follows with a totally complete demented and cruel, red-eyed Doofenshmirtz, who had an angry expression, which was rather terrifying and scary. He had gone mad! I couldn't watch anymore. I paused for 30 minutes. I needed some fresh air. I walked outside and thought about it but then I fell asleep. I woke up, walked to my computer and sat down. I said, "Alright..here goes nothing."
He chased Perry during a short but sadistic sequece and Perry is almost killed, but luckily manages to dodge the shots. When they get to Phineas' backyard, Candace drags Linda to see Phineas and Ferb's invention as in every episode, then Phineas walks towards his mother to show her the flying car, but in that exact moment Doofenshmirtz opens fire and Perry dodges the bullet, and a slow motion sequence is shown how he accidentally shoots Phineas and when it hits him, everything turns black and white and "Hide and Seek" by Imogen Heap plays. Phineas is lying in the lawn, but with a puddle of his own blood drawn in the habitual Phineas and Ferb style. I cried and closed my eyes...then opened again. The video goes back to the colors when Phineas is in the lawn and it is noticeable: a bright red puddle of blood. The crowd glares, horrified at Doofenshmirtz, and the scene cuts abruptly after showing Phineas lying over a puddle of his own blood, staring at the sky. It's there act one ends. I ran to the bathroom to wash my face and dry my tears but I kept crying. I got back to the cursed movie.
Act two starts with a funeral, and now everything seems extremely depressing. The mortuary is mostly black and the stained glass windows, which enlighten the room, are a depressing monochrome tone. Candace, Linda, Baljeet, Buford, Lawrence and Ferb look very forlorn, the explorer troop laments as well, and the camera focuses during two insufferable minutes on Isabella crying inconsolably. It sounded real, as if the voice actress was actually crying to make this scene. Candace, in extreme grief, regrets about this while furiously hitting Phineas' coffin, crying that this wouldn't have happened if she didn't try to catch them. Act two cuts abruptly to black. I cried extremely hard and tried to close it down. I clicked the exit button rapidly but it just kept going. I also realized that my light was flickering. I got even more scared than before.
Act three beings with a label "Two Days Later..." on which Phineas' house is seen from the outside, but it's cloudy and gloomy. With a demonic Candace in her room, extremely stresses the humming of the Beatles' song "Yellow Submarine." Jeremy happily enters to the house through the backyard, goes to the kitchen and after offering condolences to Linda, he asks for Candace. Linda happily tells him that she's in her room.
But when Jeremy enters to her room, He takes Candace's lamp and breaks it. He cuts her stomach open with it and then he starts eating her organs.He hangs her and leaves a note saying, "It's better this way." with blood splattered on it. Jeremy walks to the corpse and passionately kisses it, but then Linda enters to see if everything is alright. Jeremey turns around with bloody eyes and Linda screams. "Jeremy...how could you?" thinking that Jeremy cut her to death.
After that, we cut to a scene where both Phineas' parents, Ferb, Isabella, Baljeet, Buford, Doofenshmirtz's ex- wife Charlene, his daughter Vanessa, Major Monogram, Carl and Perry are in a prison's electric chair room with Doofenshmirtz in it. All of them have twisted and sick smiles with the purest, unhealthiest, sadistic joy. He begs for mercy but then Major Monogram orders to proceed with the execution. Perry, smiling in a sick and morbid way, switches on the chair. Right before his death, a sequence of real photos can be seen, showing a man wearing a lab coat with a little girl playing and walking in a park, although those actors don't look like Doofenshmirtz and Vanessa, but they clearly represent them. After that, the last thing he sees is Vanessa kissing passionately with her mother. The movie was so horrible that I puked on my keyboard. I ran to the bathroom to puke even MORE!
Doofenshmirtz finally dies brutally: electrocuted on a slow, lethal voltage to lengthen his suffering. At the end, Ferb says something like "Irony is cruel, but not as much as hell."
The episode ends with Doofenshmirtz's lifeless body being thrown on a pile of decaying corpses, among which Jeremy's is still fresh.
The next morning, I looked again for the episode, Google shown among other undesired results the same forum, but the user was banned and the file possibly no longer exists.
Well I'm glad because I never want to see something as gross as this AGAIN!
Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Secret of Cartoons: Adventure Time: Socrates' Wish (The Lost Episode)
You all probably know about the hit show "Adventure Time" on Cartoon Network. And you all probably saw the premiere... Or you think you did.
I was awake in my living room, it was about 3:30 AM and I was watching TBS. I was surfing through the TV guide when I came across a new episode of Adventure Time called "Socrates' Wish". I thought this was odd since Adult Swim was usually on at that time. I wondered why, so I changed the channel to Cartoon Network and the intro of the show was just finishing. I laid back in my seat, waiting for the newest episode to play.
What I saw was exceedingly unpleasant. It started out in the Candy Kingdom, with Finn and Jake racing up to the doors. They burst through them, and I saw that the Peppermint Butler's head had been bitten off by some sort of dragon. Blood squirted out from PB's neck and the dragon saw Finn and Jake. The dragon, in question, then flew off.
The pair walked through the castle seeing all sorts of Candy Kingdom citizens either dead or just sitting up, smiling ominously. They walked past Cinnamon Bun, a sit-upper, when suddenly he grabbed onto Jake. Finn tried to throw him off, but he was unsuccessful. Jake suddenly turned brown, and squelching noises could be heard as he fell out of view, as well as his screams. Finn, cautious, continued on.
He made it to the main part of the palace. Princess Bubblegum could be seen sitting in her throne.
"Oh, Finn, thank you for coming! All of my citizens have been turned into zombies!"
I could barely make this out due to the fact that the audio was distorted.
"Any time, Princess. I lost Jake on the way here...any way you could help him?" Audio was distorted again.
"Finn, we can't help the people in Japan, can we?" Finn stepped closer.
"Japan? What's--" Suddenly, the throne jolted around to display a green Princess Bubblegum with half of her body missing. All that was left was bones. She leaped at Finn, biting his head off gruesomely. Blood spatters out as Finn falls down, dead.
"Down With The Sickness" started to play as some candy zombies carried Jake and Finn's lifeless bodies outside. They threw them off of cliffs, then celebrated. Suddenly, they turned back to normal. All of a sudden, the ground turns into a pack of leeches. In fact, everything turned into leeches. The candy citizens were sucked into the pits of leeches, slowly dying. The scene faded to black, then white text came into view:
"THE ENCLOSED EPISODE OF ADVENTURE TIME HAS BEEN REMOVED FOR INAPPROPRIATE CONTENT BY THE US GOVERNMENT. PLEASE CONTINUE WATCHING YOUR REGULAR PROGRAMS ON CARTOON NETWORK."
It was a traumatic experience, for sure. I slowly went back to sleep, only to be woken up by my mother.. it was time for the first day back at elementary school.
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