People Break Down Which Children's Shows Are Surprisingly Creepy

Picking and Choosing

"My dad thought Invader Zim was creepy and weird, but we had the episodes on DVD where I would watch them a lot."

"They didn't mind CatDog, but my mom always said it was disturbing that a cat and dog were attached."

-- Lady03

Formative Influences

The Secret of Nimh is one of the darkest and creepiest things ever produced for children. I still love watching it."

"It's stuff like this that I watched as a kid that made me like scary stuff as an adult."

-- Anon-Ymous929

All About Setting

"Courage the cowardly dog" -- misochunky

"I was gonna mention that one. F*** me it's actually horrifying" -- GrigorijRasputin

"First saw Courage when I was a kid living in the rural desert filled with creepy stories and such. As far as I am concerned, that show was a historical account of my childhood." -- softdoorhandle

The Long Game 

"I'm sorry but flapjack and teletubbies are something different" -- oooglybooogly12

"Flapjack was from that weird era of Cartoon Network when they started making shows that would attract some Adult Swim viewers." -- eddmario

"Yes. Teletubbies is just creepy as sh!t. Especially the older ones. I see my nephew happily watching it like it's the best thing ever. And I'm sitting there disturbed." -- Not_A_Bot2020

A New Lens

"The animation on Jay Jay the Jet Plane is much more horrifying than I remember as a child." -- theSuburbanAstronaut

"JAY JAY THE JET PLANE. Just no...." -- psf919

#1 and #2

"Boobah. What the f*** even was that sh**?" -- AdolphDiddler

"Boobahs were created when a TV exec checked what demographics watch TV during a particular slot and discovered that the top two were children and people on drugs." -- SloanWarrior

Early 90s: the Wild West of Grotesque Cartoons

"Ren and Stimpy" -- SymphonyForTheDevil

"My god. When they did the close-ups. I still get nightmares. What even was the age rating for that show?" -- unbearablytolerable

"The one where Ren took off his fur to get in the bath and there was a crowd of people watching through the window messed me up pretty good. Still don't like bathrooms with windows." -- RobinMagic

Discoveries About Cheese

"Cow and Chicken" -- FultonHomes

"Their friend the devil who always had an a** crack and when their neighbouring town was in civil war and they used cheese as ammunition until they were shown that cheese is food. Brilliant show" -- Recessjoe

Yup, Totally Creepy 

"Some of the episodes of Hey Arnold legitimately still give me the creeps YEARS later when I think of them." -- abigiggle_n

"Him and Gerald fighting as old men on the bus, then his dead grandfather decomposing infront of him was f***ed." -- Soulger11

"I mean, Helga has a f***ing stalker shrine of Arnold with his hair and chewed gum that 'makes her girlhood tremble'" -- shewy92