This was one of the saddest moments in my childhood. Poor Casper spends the first half sad because he can't find a friend and when he finds one, it was so heart-breaking to see him getting chased and then killed. I was glad that they got a happy ending when he became a ghost as well but it still made me sad as a kid. It still does to this day. Such a underrated moment in a children's show
@@nitevibe9886 laying in bed at 3:00am, thinking about how it’s gross to let cats lick you because they lick their bum. Then I remembered the scene where the fox licks Casper. And now that’s why I’m here, prob saw this 15 years ago
Natalie Miranda I have this episode on one of the old cartoon DVDs that I've got. And I never thought Casper was a scary ghost. I always thought he was kinda cute.
I used to have this episode on a really old VHS that had over 50 cartoons and was over 6 hours long. I think Casper himself is pretty adorable and sweet; they only make him seem scary because of the whole "ghosts are bad" thing, which even as a kid, I never understood.
True, as a child. I thought to myself, can spirits can also be good even if they look bad? Because its not about a monster's appearance, its how they impervise.
I've always kind of identified with his loneliness and how he felt alienated. I get choked up too from the moment he cries after his bath all the way to the end when he reunites w the little fox.
He genuinely tried. He introduced himself to everyone but he gets rejected. He even tries copying the skunk but the skunk gets scared. Ferdie was the only one who empathizes with him.
In nearly every Casper cartoon Casper is an outcast by his fellow ghosts because he wants to be friends with the living while the other ghosts want to scare the daylights out of the living. Whenever Casper goes out to try to make friends usually about two to three living creatures get frightened by him and runs away. And then when Casper is at his lowest a lonely creature feels empathy and befriend Casper. The thing that bothers me the most is that even though the cartoons usually have a happy ending we don't see the friend in the next episode. What happened to them afterwards?
Kaycee Chesnut MEE TOOO I have a bunch of memories from these old 1900 cartoons and I’ve been getting flashes of them for weeks now and I’m just now finding them!
h193013 what a coincidence I have autism too. I have really good friends who accepted me. Sorry you had to go through that i can relate a girl had bullied me in 3rd grade cause of my anxiety of PSSAs but it’s in the past and her parents are drug addicts and I’m sure they still are. I’m an artist trying to get word out. I do pet painting portraits. So my life is better than hers.
Actually it is still sad cause Ferdie never appeared again in any Casper shorts or spins off. I always wanted and wished that Ferdie is Casper pet forever and the whole series.
I have the original tape for this, so when I originally saw it as a kid, it was touching, as I got older into my teens, I legit cried about it cause its a touching story
I had a tape as a kid too and I remember their was another part of the tape that wasn't casper. I recall there was a car who had eyes and I believe it was trying to win a race or it broke down...Id like to find that.
Like a lot of people, this episode really disturbed me as a kid. I remember thinking it was the saddest thing I'd ever seen when I was eleven. I've been wanting to view it again through the eyes of an adult. It's still sad as heck, but there is something really sweet about it as well: even death didn't end the love the two had for each other, or their friendship. They get to be together forever.
I cry at the scene when Casper discovers Ferdie has been killed. I can relate to losing a best friend. I was devastated when my cat Luna died of old age. Unlike Ferdie Luna didn't come back as a ghost. She just crossed over as it were. I still miss her everyday.
He really should have at least tried to scare him away. In the next movie A Haunting We Will Go he legitimately intentionally frightens the hunter who shoots at his friend. Casper had no guts in this one. That’s why I liked the next cartoon better because he actually did something. I like Ferdie as his friend better than Dudley Duck whom he befriends in the next movie but Casper was a stronger character in the next movie. Here he’s just basically asking the hunter to kill his friend.
This is one of my favorites growing up. And I can relate to this because I have lost several loved ones and not one day goes to where I don't forget them and wish they were still here.
I remember seeing this when I was in daycare. Even at 4 years old, I felt really sad for Casper. I was going through the same feelings of rejection and just seemed to alienate everyone I tried to be friends with. Seeing the fox get killed tore me up nearly 30 years later, but was happy to see he stayed a ghost to be with Casper. Even though foxes are more related to dogs, I feel like they are more feline in their nature. And Ferdie reminds me of my kitty, who right now is with my Mom for a couple days. I miss him so much!! 😭😭😭
I watched this Casper UA-cam video eight years ago. I was about 20-years-old. I used to dress up like Fievel Mousekewitz from An American Tail and Mrs. Brisby from The Secret of NIMH. I also listened to two Rugrats songs "I Want a Mom That Will Last Forever" and "When You Love". In October, I watched the Rugrats episode "Changes for Chuckie".
Even 20 something years later, I feel bit of vindication knowing that everyone here felt the same sadness after watching this episode. Life is short. don’t forget to exercise the type of compassion and innocence you had as a kid in your current lives from time to time. The world is full of Ferdie foxes waiting for you to show up.
I wish all foxes were like Ferdie because I want to hold one like a dog. They have sanctuaries where you can do that but it’s a a lot of money and time to do. In the wild no fox will ever be like Ferdie which is sad. Ferdie really is more of a puppy in spirit then a fox. I wish some foxes were really like that.
Gale Phorse I am sorry to hear about your dog. He or she did live a full long life. I would like to know is do you ever wish that your dog would come back as a ghost like Ferdie? Or are you content that he is no longer suffering and has moved on?
this made me burst into tears. I lost my dog suddenly last year and the pain is still fresh and torturous. I miss him every single day and night and feel empty without him. he was my only friend and I loved him with all my heart. I’m so lonely without him and have no one to turn to for love and comfort when life has gotten hard and depression has gotten worse. the loneliness is excruciating and killing me. I don’t know how I’m gonna get through this life. I’m 22 and have no friends or love because of bad mental health all these years and feel so alone. I cry every day. I just want my best friend back. wish I could hold my baby in my arms one more time 💔
+ThePootie64 I totally forgot about this episode and then he reminded me and I thought "Oh, I'm sure it's not as bead as I thought it was when I was a kid? My brain is probably exaggerating it right?" I was wrong!
I remember seeing this on my TV when I was around 6-7 or something but something about it touched me, I couldn’t forget about it even after all these years, even though I only saw it once
I think the writers were doing a commentary on nature with this one. Casper befriending Ferdie resulted in his death because it led Ferdie to the hunter. I think the writers were trying to teach children not to befriend wild animals because while we may show them love there will always be someone who doesn’t. Casper loved Ferdie but naturally the hunter would come around to prevent that.
we say that this episode, is a mixture of emotions, sadness for on once hand, and happiness on the other, although it is a bit controversial, since casper loses his new friend, who died, but then recovers him in a ghostly way, that seems much for a series intended for children (despite the good humor of this cartoon).
"And so Casper and Freddie lived happily ever after." Until the next episode when Casper looks for another friend and does t again, and again, and again. Man, this show was so redundant.
Of all the random things to suddenly remember I had this old Casper VHS tape as a kid and this was one of the segments on it. I loved that tape and this episode always made me tear up 28 years old now and this segment still tugs at the heart. You don't get these feelings with cartoons now a days
I remember watching this on tv as a kid and it being the first time I saw a cartoon character actually die. Damn, all this time the feels are still there 😭😭😭
This was one of the saddest moments in my childhood. Poor Casper spends the first half sad because he can't find a friend and when he finds one, it was so heart-breaking to see him getting chased and then killed. I was glad that they got a happy ending when he became a ghost as well but it still made me sad as a kid. It still does to this day. Such a underrated moment in a children's show
Thank God it's underrated cuz I don't wanna remember this
@@nitevibe9886 laying in bed at 3:00am, thinking about how it’s gross to let cats lick you because they lick their bum. Then I remembered the scene where the fox licks Casper. And now that’s why I’m here, prob saw this 15 years ago
This core memory appeared in my head today. Glad I found it
@@chippi3878 I'm 32 now and I watched this when I was like 5 and could never forget it. Between the fox death and the narrator.
Yeh iam feel same
God this still makes me cry
Would it make you feel better if DANNY PHANTOM was there?
Me too, but I would cry for my Dying Father, somehow.
Me neither
I am cry 😭😭😭
Me too
This messed me up so bad when I was a kid...and 20+ years later it still gets to me.
same here, and they say cartoons can't have a dark side
Same....I feel the same way about my cat, that casper does about this fox.
Same here. My dog just died today and this cartoon comforts me yet still saddens me at the same time.
Natalie Miranda I have this episode on one of the old cartoon DVDs that I've got. And I never thought Casper was a scary ghost. I always thought he was kinda cute.
I used to have this episode on a really old VHS that had over 50 cartoons and was over 6 hours long. I think Casper himself is pretty adorable and sweet; they only make him seem scary because of the whole "ghosts are bad" thing, which even as a kid, I never understood.
When Casper cries after losing ferdie, even after 30 years, still tears my heart up.
You never realize how dark these old retro cartoon can be till you watch them 20 years later...
fruitsnackia2012 you said it pal
Yeah no fucking shit like ummm this is not ok
Fucked to the max
True, as a child. I thought to myself, can spirits can also be good even if they look bad?
Because its not about a monster's appearance, its how they impervise.
How can it be dark? It's showing how existence continues after body death.
Even though they're reunited at the end, it's still sad. Really hits home, whether you've lost a pet or a loved one.
You can say that again. This really hits home for me because I lost my cat Luna three years ago.
I've always kind of identified with his loneliness and how he felt alienated. I get choked up too from the moment he cries after his bath all the way to the end when he reunites w the little fox.
He genuinely tried. He introduced himself to everyone but he gets rejected. He even tries copying the skunk but the skunk gets scared. Ferdie was the only one who empathizes with him.
In nearly every Casper cartoon Casper is an outcast by his fellow ghosts because he wants to be friends with the living while the other ghosts want to scare the daylights out of the living. Whenever Casper goes out to try to make friends usually about two to three living creatures get frightened by him and runs away. And then when Casper is at his lowest a lonely creature feels empathy and befriend Casper. The thing that bothers me the most is that even though the cartoons usually have a happy ending we don't see the friend in the next episode. What happened to them afterwards?
@@melissacooper4482 good point
@@melissacooper4482I don’t think they wanted to bring Ferdie back because kids probably had too much traumatizing memories of the cartoon.
This. this is the episode I've been looking for all these years
Kaycee Chesnut MEE TOOO I have a bunch of memories from these old 1900 cartoons and I’ve been getting flashes of them for weeks now and I’m just now finding them!
Kaycee Chesnut same
MEEE TOOOOOO
One of the saddest episodes
I’m still looking for a spider episode, it bring me back so much I just can’t find it 😿
That’s sad but I’m happy Ferdie became a ghost and stayed with Casper. I would also love to be Casper’s friend.
Nick Allen-Friel I never realized Casper could relate to those with autism. I’m on the spectrum myself.
Nick Allen-Friel I have friends but no I’ve never dated anyone
h193013 what a coincidence I have autism too. I have really good friends who accepted me. Sorry you had to go through that i can relate a girl had bullied me in 3rd grade cause of my anxiety of PSSAs but it’s in the past and her parents are drug addicts and I’m sure they still are. I’m an artist trying to get word out. I do pet painting portraits. So my life is better than hers.
Actually it is still sad cause Ferdie never appeared again in any Casper shorts or spins off.
I always wanted and wished that Ferdie is Casper pet forever and the whole series.
@@h193013 I'm autistic as well. And I'm very glad I've made a lot of friends who have accepted me for who I am as well.
TBH watching Ferdie get chased was more traumatizing to my childhood than him actually dying. Seeing him so scared 😭
Narrator: And so Casper and Ferdie lived happily ever after
Me: They're ghosts
Narrator: Well, they still ended up being happy together.
Giggity King I mean, you can’t get any more “ever after” than death, so... Applicable.
🤦🏻♂️ Gotta talk about logic and ruin it
Not really cause Ferdie never appeared again in any Casper shorts and spin off😢
Narrator: And so Casper and Ferdie lived happily ever after...In the afterlife.
@@Alluponit31 you can't get any less "lived" then being shot and turned into a ghost.
Not Applicable dumb dumb.
Fucks me up every time...
+Didka true, me too
Maybe Danny Phantom should come by
I have the original tape for this, so when I originally saw it as a kid, it was touching, as I got older into my teens, I legit cried about it cause its a touching story
I had a tape as a kid too and I remember their was another part of the tape that wasn't casper. I recall there was a car who had eyes and I believe it was trying to win a race or it broke down...Id like to find that.
Even the flower on Ferdie's grave is sad 😭
At last Casper has his true friend ever after.This episode made me cry.Love you Casper👍
I saw this as a 6 yr old....and thanks to UA-cam, I just seen this and I'm now 33. Made me cry all over again. ♡♡♡ My fav cartoon of all♡
Richie Purrez I’m not sure how old I was when I first saw it, but I’m 30 now and yes still very sad 😖
This cartoon holds a lot of emotion for people, they way they respond to this 60 plus years old short story…..
There’s nothing more beautiful than The bond between a ghost and his ❤pet Fox 🦊
Like a lot of people, this episode really disturbed me as a kid. I remember thinking it was the saddest thing I'd ever seen when I was eleven. I've been wanting to view it again through the eyes of an adult. It's still sad as heck, but there is something really sweet about it as well: even death didn't end the love the two had for each other, or their friendship. They get to be together forever.
Noto.
Dude, I was seven when I first watched this and you can imagine how much this traumatized me back then. SEVEN.
This made me cry as a kid... Still does ;~;
You remember?
This make me cry every time
Iv spent so long looking for this. I remember this clear as day.
Oh how I loved this, choked me up every time when ferdie died
Same here, absolutely destroyed me as a kid.. fuck.
At: 7:13 Ferdie got hit by these bullets that been going through Casper 💔💔😭😭😭
I'm glad I am not the only one who cries while watching this
I watched this when I was 4 y/o, so 26 years ago, and it amazes me how I remembered the essence of the story.
I cry every single time..
Poor Casper it makes me cry 😭
I want to cry out of sadness and happiness combined, this is just so emotional this episode!!!!
This made me cry as a kid, and it still freaking does I swear to god hundred percent...
You remember?
Me too I really hate Fox Hunters after seeing this Casper Short as a youngster.
As long as they live on in spirit and are never forgotten, no one ever truly dies
This one episode is deeply embedded into my mind till this day.
Awww 🥺 that was one of the most upsetting yet beautiful things I have seen
I cry at the scene when Casper discovers Ferdie has been killed. I can relate to losing a best friend. I was devastated when my cat Luna died of old age. Unlike Ferdie Luna didn't come back as a ghost. She just crossed over as it were. I still miss her everyday.
I'm so sorry about Luna. I lost my cat Joy this past summer. I miss her so much. I wish she came back as a ghost like Ferdie did.
liek this if you cry everytiem 😢
I hated that hunter so much when I was a kid... if Casper wasn't a friendly ghost, I'd have encouraged him to get revenge
He really should have at least tried to scare him away. In the next movie A Haunting We Will Go he legitimately intentionally frightens the hunter who shoots at his friend. Casper had no guts in this one. That’s why I liked the next cartoon better because he actually did something. I like Ferdie as his friend better than Dudley Duck whom he befriends in the next movie but Casper was a stronger character in the next movie. Here he’s just basically asking the hunter to kill his friend.
I remember seeing this as a kid and this still makes me cry a lot.
You remember?
This is one of my favorites growing up. And I can relate to this because I have lost several loved ones and not one day goes to where I don't forget them and wish they were still here.
May god bless casper. He's so friendly.
This will always be LEGENDARY AND ICONIC ASF!
I’m an Old Soul PERIODT 💖💖💯💯
And this episode is so sad. I will always cry and cry so much.
Childhood memories I'm 29 years old and still makes me cry 😭😭😭
33 here. Ill always remember Ferdie fox!
40 here
I remember seeing this when I was in daycare. Even at 4 years old, I felt really sad for Casper. I was going through the same feelings of rejection and just seemed to alienate everyone I tried to be friends with. Seeing the fox get killed tore me up nearly 30 years later, but was happy to see he stayed a ghost to be with Casper. Even though foxes are more related to dogs, I feel like they are more feline in their nature. And Ferdie reminds me of my kitty, who right now is with my Mom for a couple days. I miss him so much!! 😭😭😭
I watched this Casper UA-cam video eight years ago. I was about 20-years-old. I used to dress up like Fievel Mousekewitz from An American Tail and Mrs. Brisby from The Secret of NIMH. I also listened to two Rugrats songs "I Want a Mom That Will Last Forever" and "When You Love". In October, I watched the Rugrats episode "Changes for Chuckie".
Even 20 something years later, I feel bit of vindication knowing that everyone here felt the same sadness after watching this episode.
Life is short. don’t forget to exercise the type of compassion and innocence you had as a kid in your current lives from time to time. The world is full of Ferdie foxes waiting for you to show up.
I wish all foxes were like Ferdie because I want to hold one like a dog. They have sanctuaries where you can do that but it’s a a lot of money and time to do. In the wild no fox will ever be like Ferdie which is sad. Ferdie really is more of a puppy in spirit then a fox. I wish some foxes were really like that.
I lost my jack Russell dog earlier this week; she was 18 years old and always reminded me of the fox from this cartoon.
That was saddest cartoon moment in my childhood I was 3 when I watched .I still remember this episode and I am 18.
I still remember watching this when I was a kid... oh the memories.
John Jerry Same here.
The way this embedded itself into my mind as a core memory, even well into 2022…
Maybe I shouldn't of watched this again. What with putting our dog of 17.5 years down not to long ago.
Gale Phorse yeah i stupidly watched this a couple years ago shortly after we put our dog down and I just teared up...
Gale Phorse I am sorry to hear about your dog. He or she did live a full long life. I would like to know is do you ever wish that your dog would come back as a ghost like Ferdie? Or are you content that he is no longer suffering and has moved on?
Haven't watched this since i was little and it still gets me.
Did you cry too as a kid?
this made me burst into tears. I lost my dog suddenly last year and the pain is still fresh and torturous. I miss him every single day and night and feel empty without him. he was my only friend and I loved him with all my heart. I’m so lonely without him and have no one to turn to for love and comfort when life has gotten hard and depression has gotten worse. the loneliness is excruciating and killing me. I don’t know how I’m gonna get through this life. I’m 22 and have no friends or love because of bad mental health all these years and feel so alone. I cry every day. I just want my best friend back. wish I could hold my baby in my arms one more time 💔
So sorry you feel this way! I hope things get better ❤
I’m so sorry! I hope you’re healing.
I’m so sorry. I’ll be your friend if you need one! Nobody should have to feel alone like that ❤❤❤
Damn this episode hits waaay harder after you have felt the pain of losing someone.
It’s on par with littlefoot’s mom eh?
Frank Iero brought me here and I'm not disappointed
Same
Same 😂😂
+ThePootie64 I totally forgot about this episode and then he reminded me and I thought "Oh, I'm sure it's not as bead as I thought it was when I was a kid? My brain is probably exaggerating it right?" I was wrong!
Same here XD
same lmao
Time passes by so fast. I used to watch this so many time as a little girl 😢 on my portable cd player
I was 8 when I first watched it.
22 fucking years passed and I still cry watching this......
I first read "cannibal friends" on the book Casper was hilding in the begining.. xD
It said "Animal Friends " .
I'm still crying OMG :,(
I felt sad about this when I was a kid but now I'm 18 and sobbing
when I was a kid I cried when Casper cried
We all did
This used to make me so freaking sad oh my gosh I would cry every single time
I cried both tears of sadness and joy
Nice avatar
i remember this cartoon. Even then it struck me as too serious for a CARTOON. messed me up when ferdie died!
olu hamilton I know this comment was three years ago,and you probability already know this,but it’s because cartoons were first introduced to adults.
Bambi and this episode of Casper are the saddest cartoons I've ever seen.
What about littlefoot’s mom?
@@Johnlindsey289 I completely forgot about that.
This was worse than Bambi because Casper actually holds Ferdie’s dead body in his arms crying.
I remember seeing this on my TV when I was around 6-7 or something but something about it touched me, I couldn’t forget about it even after all these years, even though I only saw it once
I always cried at the end as a kid. Good times.
Me too
Casper is so cute like if you agree.
*sobbing softly*
Hey, who left this bowl of onions here?!?
Kumaboi 615 I have not the slightest idea. People are constantly leaving random bowls of onions lying about.
Awww, the feels in these comments! We are the Caspers & Ferdies of the world
Why am I crying???
I'll take "Cartoons that emotionally kicked me in the nads as a kid" for 800 Alex.
WHO THOUGHT IT WAS OKAY TO MAKE A CARTOON THIS HEARTBREAKING ?!
interesting question
Bambi or barefoot gen
I think the writers were doing a commentary on nature with this one. Casper befriending Ferdie resulted in his death because it led Ferdie to the hunter. I think the writers were trying to teach children not to befriend wild animals because while we may show them love there will always be someone who doesn’t. Casper loved Ferdie but naturally the hunter would come around to prevent that.
30 years old, still crying.....
Poor Casper!! He just wants to be friends with people and animals!! How come no one knows that!?! It's so sad!!
we say that this episode, is a mixture of emotions, sadness for on once hand, and happiness on the other, although it is a bit controversial, since casper loses his new friend, who died, but then recovers him in a ghostly way, that seems much for a series intended for children (despite the good humor of this cartoon).
who says it was meant for kids, anyway?
Whoe I remember this when I was a kid always made me cry it was on a baby Huey vhs that I still have somewhere around here
Nick Allen-Friel I’m sorry bro
This makes me sad I would be Casper’s friend
Aw I would always cry at this episode
🐮Baby cow said Mama Mama Mama!! 3:03
I remember this cartoon when i was a kid in the late 80s on video and it made me cry
Literally still makes me bawl 🥺
i thought this episode was a fever dream
Oh I remember this cartoon
It's so good .., my childhood memories awakened 💓💓
This Cartoon and the 1995 Film made me Cry the Most 😭
"And so Casper and Freddie lived happily ever after." Until the next episode when Casper looks for another friend and does t again, and again, and again. Man, this show was so redundant.
"Lived happily ever after?"
omggg i used to cry at this every time back when i was just a little kid lmao but im glad it had a happy ending!!
Of all the random things to suddenly remember
I had this old Casper VHS tape as a kid and this was one of the segments on it. I loved that tape and this episode always made me tear up
28 years old now and this segment still tugs at the heart. You don't get these feelings with cartoons now a days
I remember when I used to watch this I would cry all the time. I still do
You remember?
Holy crap this cartoon makes me cry EVERY TIME....
It still makes me cry so hard 😢🥺
It must have been 15 years since I first saw this yet i remember this clear as day.
I can say with absolute certainty that this cartoon has changed me 20 years ago
I miss my childhood 😥
Yeah me too
Who the fuck is Frank Lero?
Crying 😓😖😭😭
I grew up watching this all the time when was real little it still makes me cry 🥺🥰👻🦊📺💯
This was so long ago I miss my childhood this brings me back great job love it 😁😁😁😁😁
This is such a beautiful cartoon :’)
I remember watching this on tv as a kid and it being the first time I saw a cartoon character actually die. Damn, all this time the feels are still there 😭😭😭
First time I saw death in animation was transformers the movie in theaters at age four in St. Louis then secret of nimh.
Born in 1992.. and i remember watching this growing up..
I remember seeing this as a kid. That was well probably 18 years ago
7:50 This would make Smile PreCure cry so much
*shows a picture of my emotional state after watching this*
NOW THAT'S A LOT OF DAMAGE!