Courage The Cowardly Dog may be bizarre, but it’s probably one of the best cartoons I’ve seen when I was younger. It kinda sparked my early interest for the dark stuff. Apart from that, the show itself may be inspired by actual events that are just horrific, to say the least.
The 90s was definitely a weird time for kids' cartoons and toys. Creators were able to get away with a lot of stuff as long as it was "all a dream" or some other excuse. Coraline was another kid's cartoon (made in the early 2000s) that a lot of people can vividly remember. Edit: my mistake
Tim burton didn’t make it it was Henry Selick. Tim burton didn’t even really make nightmare before Christmas- it was mostly Henry. Tim just got his name put on it😒
wait Coraline came out in 2009, so that would be late 2000s not early lol and the film was an adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novel Coraline ^^ (only reason I know is cuz I love the comics he's written and was surprised to see that he wrote Coraline)
As a 90’s kid from america, it’s crazy i used to watch some of these shows and not really think twice about it. “Rocko’s modern life” and “ren and stimpy” were so weird and bizarre. But as a kid, it just looked like a normal cartoon to me.
I remember one time my dad got mad at me for watching Ren and Stimpy because I think the scene had like sexual innuendo in it but I didn't realize it bc I was too young lmao
Rocko's Modern Life was my favorite cartoon as a kid! It wasn't until I got older that I understood all the crazy sexual jokes. But it was still funny!
@@xPorsum A scene?, more like most or all episodes. The carpet-eating women, rubber nipple salesman, etc. When the show was resurrected it was overt, and lost something for it.
I grew up watching Courage, Billy and Mandy, Tom and Jerry, Addams Family and more with that kind of creepy vibe/ unsettling scenes. They shaped my love for all things bizarre, but didn't make me violent. I feel like cartoons like that are harmless. Some kids just like dark stuff 🤷♀️
Omg remember the Billy and Mandy scene of the evil Bunny beating up and chasing Pud’n down the highway claiming he was doing it for love??! THAT WAS INSANE!!!!!
One day I was watching ed Edd n eddy n suddenly a weird episode came up. That episode was called creepypasta.. And some character's eyes were white and characters were eating each other it showed on tv.. That was very creepy for me and I think that episode is the only episode that has been removed from the rest of the episode..
I’ve read in an essay book about the importance and symbolism of fairytales for the psyche of children and I’ve learnt something that I’d like to share (in regards of the girl saying at 7:40) : parents are convinced that children should be distracted from their unconscious (where reside negative urges like violence, grotesque, anxiety and egoism but also positive ones, desires and memories)and make them believe that the world is only made of rainbows and flowers (only the good sides), even though the same children know themselves that they aren’t intrinsically ‘good’ which leads to a fracture with what their parents say and makes the child uncomfortable of himself. Children have interior conflicts that come from emotions and primitive instincts but the modern literature/cartoons for children don’t touch upon these (the need to be loved, the fear of not being considerated, love for live and fear of death), so kids don’t know how to react to them ending up feeling lonely, isolated and anxious that are showed in an indirect way (ex fear of dark, of being abandoned,body complexes.. leading to some serious pathologies) cuz they can’t express what they feel in words. They know the existence of good-bad and life-death and fairytales (the original ones and not the Disney ones since they changed most of the endings or change the stories) alongside cartoons help projecting these unconscious urges into ways to deal with these problems and growing up. So yeah, I don’t think that not talking or showing children violence or death helps them since they’re things that are happening in real life.
It depends on the age. I work with 2-4 year olds, and this content "hurries" their development because they repeat and may even act out the content they see. It's not until kids are in elementary school that they start learning how to process and filter the content they consume.
@@Kingdom_Of_Dreams i mean come on, 4 years old will maybe still watch the cartoos for babies, a 2 year old is still to young to understand more complex stories. but when you start school, your old enough and pick what you want to watch on tv. i used to watch many shows like this and till this day i love dark themes. i dont rememer what i did at 2 or 4, but im sure i wasnt watching kida cartoos but some babies ones
@@nadiinesamyy i’ve tried searching the title in English since I’m reading it in my language : “The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales” by Bruno Bettelheim
@@IggyIggyBoBiggy that's also because they were sort of branded as kids cartoons, and people at the time (and even now sadly) had the mindset of "if it's animated, it's always for kids" which we all know isn't true lol
Maybe the people that filter cartoons don't actually watch them. They just see it as a cartoon as you said and automatically make it available for kids. Unless someone says something about it like the Ren and stimpy than the "filterers" will see they were wrong. I mean Ren and stimpy was airing for quite a while until someone finally spoke up
shocking cartoons were so big back in the 90s and early 2000s! god.. i really watched these as a kid and barely bat an eye. i do remember thinking the ones like ren & stimpy and rocko's modern life were gross and creepy, but i never really got the vibe of how... messed up they were. i adored courage the cowardly dog even though it scared me! sometimes i see videos like this that remind me of all those cartoons, and it makes a little more sense why millenials are a little... off, sometimes hahaha.
Lol they definitely included creepy kids shows BUT the one the beats them all is ‘The Marvelous Adventures of Flapjack’.This shows tore me down but I loved it so much.That show and courage is top tier disturbing but addicting to watch!
American tv cartoons in the 90s were marked by a rather daring and "lets break the 4th wall" trend. This stuff was considered pretty cool back then, the grosser the better.
This was interesting; I really loved Courage the Cowardly dog as a kid! I think a lot of this has to do with the fact that kids and adults tend to see things with a different lens. Even for one of the reactors, he said that he doesn't remember it being this dark, just funny. Same thing for all the grotesque stuff (I'll say back then not only was Ren and Stimpy not my thing but I don't think I was even allowed to watch it anyway 😅). For some cartoons and movies that are marketed towards kids, there's also going to be some more adult jokes lurking around. Mainly because the kids won't get it but the parents that have to watch it with them will. That's why when we watch movies and shows from the past, we're shocked by all the jokes that went over our heads as kids lol
Aw, I wish there had been a scene from the 90s Powerpuff Girls. It's a perfect show because there is such a contrast between "cute little girls with magic superpowers fighting evil to save the town" and "what the actual fck am I watching".
Videos like this are so interesting to me. It really highlights differences in culture and thinking. Some of these cartoons definitely ARE NOT for children, but because they're animated, many parents let their kids watch, or children were watching without their parent's permission, like Ren and Stimpy (which did not air during the day, but quite late at night when most young children would be sleeping.) Children are far more aware of what's going on around them than adults seem to think; even with Korea having some of the absolute purest, most innocent cartoons I've ever seen, the kids still experience the same issues that children from the West do. They're still exposed to violence, death, s*x, and a host of other things outside of their households. These cartoons may seem horrifying to some, but a lot of them did teach real life lessons (Courage and Spongebob) and dealt with issues children are aware of. More adult jokes usually aren't understood either- those are for parents that suffer through the endless animated toons their children make them watch.
Ren and Stimpy was one of my absolute favorites! While the violence could be a bit much, I remember as a kid being drawn to the horror content geared towards my age group because adults seemed to think kids couldn't handle it. Like they had to pretend that everything was nice and nothing bad ever happens. As a kid it felt like everyone thought you were stupid, so cartoons and books that let you experience dark themes and fear through a safe medium made kid me feel respected. Things should be adjusted for age, but concepts like horror, unfairness, sadness are human concepts. Kids feel and experience them too
I'm surprised they didn't see Invader Zim, the Dark Harvest episode. The creator Jhonen Vasquez has a talent of making thing uncomfortable and scary from him dark comic, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and I Feel Sick.
There was a scene cut from one of my favorite Spongebob episodes called Just One Bite, Squidward tries to get into the patty vault; he walks into the Krusty Krab and gets a bucket of water thrown on him. He says "this is our security" then a match is thrown at him and you find out it was gasoline. The scene was edited out later so now Squidward just breaks into the vault exhausted a dirty. I loved Courage, I'm the kid to now adult that just loves dark comedy, Courage never bothered me even though I completely understood what was going on.
I will forever remember that mumie figure from the King Ramses Curse episode (Courage The Cowardly Dog). I was disturbed for a while but still I loved and watched the bizarre 90's shows.
I would like to see them react to more Spongebob and Courage the Cowardly Dog. I watched a lot of those shows growing up. The Creepiest spongebob episode was him turning into a snail, the creepiest courage episode...You can't pick just one. Lol
I’d love to see this group react to different American sitcoms through the decades: I love Lucy, married with children, Roseanne, modern family, happy days, mamas family, the addams family, that 70’s show… I’d also love to see Americans react to Korean media through the decades.
I didn’t know the Red and Stimpy creator was fired, I guess that’s why this was surprisingfor me to see. It was casually on Cartoon Network before like I think I automatically buried it in my head bec it was that disturbing and I’ve forgotten that it has existed then. I’ve grown fond of Courage though, I just thought it’s a proper horror animation. Anyhoo, dude in white looked great w his accessories!
@@xnarutoxsakuraxsaske He actually got fired because he was a ridiculous perfectionist who would make people reanimate entire scenes because he didn't like one single drawing, to the point where episodes regularly missed their deadlines, and the episode with the oar was the last straw. Unfortunately a lot of people knew about the kids and didn't even care back then :(
@@spacecadetkaito Ohhh so he did admit to it. I remember watching the ThatCreepyReading video on John K and couldn't remember if the pictures taken outed him or someone else outed him. Either way he's shown to be a creep.
The story of Ren & Stimpy's creator being fired for the violence of Man's Best Friend is his side of the story. It's also likely that he was fired because he would not finish his work on time. Ren & Stimpy's schedule delays were so notorious in the American animation industry that even The Simpsons made a joke about it.
All these shows were my favorites since I was in kindergarten and these shows still are my fav till this day, these shows have sparked my interest for twisted shows I loved how graphic or crazy it looked and I thought it was the best shows ever when I was in kindergarten!
That scene from invader zim when zim tries to become “more human” by ingesting a bunch of extra organs… that’s probably the thing that frightened me the most when I was younger. Still love that show but man it was dark
They could have shown literally any clip from Courage the cowardly dog and have it still be just as messed up and unsettling. 🤣🤣🤣 Remember the tree and the one episode with the puppets? What about the one where Muriel was sewn into a blanket? The cannibalistic puddle mermaids?
As someone that has grown up with these kinds of cartoons (like Courage the Cowardly Dog and The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy), my experience with why most people didn't bat an eye so much during the time period is mostly because a lot of cartoons in the US were way more stigmatized and dismissed as "exclusive for kids" from since the '60s/'70s and onwards into the '80s/'90s, mostly because of a lot of marketing for toys was also integrated with Western cartoons (even though there was animation that was pushing boundaries, like Watership Down and Batman the Animated Series as examples). It's unfortunately still got some stigmatization now (as seen with one of the Oscars skits and what has happened with a lot of cartoons on HBO Max), but these days it's more of a generation gap issue - as soon as current generations start taking over industries, some of the old animation stigmas may fade.
I was terrified of many of those cartoons. The insade/creepy stuff made me gravitate to shows such as digimon, pokemon, dragon ball z, yugioh and other japanese animation. They might have been 'fighting' but I wasnt terrified & scarred for life after
Shout-out to Sonic SATAM, whilst not being entirely creepy most of the scenes with Robotnik were pretty unsettling and moments where a character from a couple of episodes gets turned into a robot to never be seen again was rather disturbing in hindsight
And then there was the PBS Mystery animated intro, which gave me early exposure to Edward Gorey and his delightfully macabre Art Deco flavored sensibility. I credit this for helping me develop a taste for (fictional) murder. It's fair to say I was a very strange child.
These cartoons were my literal Childhood to early adult. I actually watched Ren and Stimpy when it came out. I was 9-10, my brother a year younger. We LOVED that show. My dad even watched it with us! He loved it. lol And Courage was a GREAT show. So under rated.
Ren and Stimpy wasn't really a kids show. It was aimed at teens and adults hence why it usually aired late at night or very early in the morning (12am-3am).
The Cowardly Dog was my favorite, I always watched it at night ~ I honestly didn’t find back then nor now any of these cartoon gross that’s probably why I can stomach more things than usual people don’t.
Yeah we be different in this side of the globe. For a part 2 you guys should include the amazing world of gumball, the regular show, gravity falls, and steven universe!!
i LOVED Ren and Stimpy when i was a kid. I'm 36 now but I don't think kids watch it much anymore. I may be wrong but I haven't heard about it in a long time
I grew up in France. Very popular cartoons/anime were Sophie's Misfortunes (adaptation of Countess of Ségur's book) and Princess Sarah. Both were little girls, orphans, abused constantly by adults and other children too sometimes. And we watched it all. It would freak me out but I still watched it.
I recognized the episode so quickly when Squidward was walking in that weird, empty, white world/room/whatever it was. I don't even remember anymore, but that was a weird episode for sure! Spongebob and Courage were hella weird in general though.
I used to watch Courage. It was not my favourite but I always watched it since there was nothing else. I dont really remember anything in details or any episodes particularly so it didn't really scar me or anything.
The first 3 seasons of Ren and Stimpy are way different than the rest. It also was on Nick at Night at first which was for older kids able to stay up late.
That one about Courage The Cowardly Dog was deep... just think... if Courage failed in saving Muriel and Eustace, all three could have ended up in space.... Courage could have seen his real parents again.
Honestly all these cartoons is probably why so many of us are so desensitized to things later in life. I never thought anything of it as a child, thought it was funny and was unfazed. Ren & Stimpy though was always creepy to me… Billy & Mandy, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Invader Zim (highly recommend reacting to Invader Zim- it’s iconic) we’re my favs
I'm an early 2000s kid with a relatively young mom so I grew up with these- gotta say though, despite how weird and freaky Courage the Cowardly Dog is, its one of my favourite cartoons to this day
the one behind "The Ren & Stimpy Show" was a big fan of Bob Clampett. Bob Clampett worked for Warner Bros. and animated the weirder Looney Tunes cartoons. If you watch some of Clampetts works you see the inspiration.
ren and stimpy, the misadventures of flapjack, billy and mandy, courage the cowardly dog, spongebob, all such weird shows but all so fun lol. i loved the horror, the darkness and the grotesqueness of shows from this era. i was a total horror lover growing up (still do TO THIS DAY!!!), all of the bubblegum disney princess fairytale stuff ever appealed to me. the more cosmic horror the better!!! the weirder the show is, the more you're engaged and interested, even if there isn't a clear storyline. as a kid, i'd rather watch a disturbing and abstract show with interesting visuals and interesting characters, than watch a straightforward and predictable story with no serious conflict and boring visuals. not all kids need a happy ending to something, sometimes we just wanna watch something silly and gross lol.
Courage The Cowardly Dog may be bizarre, but it’s probably one of the best cartoons I’ve seen when I was younger. It kinda sparked my early interest for the dark stuff. Apart from that, the show itself may be inspired by actual events that are just horrific, to say the least.
OMG same like I used to be scared of the grandpa and dog but I was still obsessed with it
Very dark tho. It's only when you grow up that you understand the hidden meanings
The episode that really disturbed me as a kid was the King Ramses Curse that would be outside their house at night
@@Jaykurosakii same! I love it now as an adult.
Same here
The 90s was definitely a weird time for kids' cartoons and toys. Creators were able to get away with a lot of stuff as long as it was "all a dream" or some other excuse. Coraline was another kid's cartoon (made in the early 2000s) that a lot of people can vividly remember. Edit: my mistake
Tim Burton did not help make Coraline.
Tim burton didn’t make it it was Henry Selick. Tim burton didn’t even really make nightmare before Christmas- it was mostly Henry. Tim just got his name put on it😒
@@lulugoodnight2747 Oh, thank you for the information. I actually had no idea
wait Coraline came out in 2009, so that would be late 2000s not early lol and the film was an adaptation of Neil Gaiman's novel Coraline ^^ (only reason I know is cuz I love the comics he's written and was surprised to see that he wrote Coraline)
My 7 year old loves Coraline
As a 90’s kid from america, it’s crazy i used to watch some of these shows and not really think twice about it. “Rocko’s modern life” and “ren and stimpy” were so weird and bizarre. But as a kid, it just looked like a normal cartoon to me.
I remember one time my dad got mad at me for watching Ren and Stimpy because I think the scene had like sexual innuendo in it but I didn't realize it bc I was too young lmao
Rocko's Modern Life was my favorite cartoon as a kid! It wasn't until I got older that I understood all the crazy sexual jokes. But it was still funny!
Oh yeah Rocko’s modern life was wild asl boy, Ms Bighead got off every chance she could in that mf😂😂
@@xPorsum A scene?, more like most or all episodes.
The carpet-eating women, rubber nipple salesman, etc.
When the show was resurrected it was overt, and lost something for it.
@@DoubleMonoLR wasn't the carpet eating women from Cow and Chicken or did both cartoons make the same joke?
I grew up watching Courage, Billy and Mandy, Tom and Jerry, Addams Family and more with that kind of creepy vibe/ unsettling scenes. They shaped my love for all things bizarre, but didn't make me violent. I feel like cartoons like that are harmless. Some kids just like dark stuff 🤷♀️
Omg remember the Billy and Mandy scene of the evil Bunny beating up and chasing Pud’n down the highway claiming he was doing it for love??! THAT WAS INSANE!!!!!
@@mikrokosmos8631 I WISH THEY SHOWED THIS SCENE LMAOOOOO or the ones where the spider calls Billy dad 😭
Eyyy same here
One day I was watching ed Edd n eddy n suddenly a weird episode came up.
That episode was called creepypasta..
And some character's eyes were white and characters were eating each other it showed on tv..
That was very creepy for me and I think that episode is the only episode that has been removed from the rest of the episode..
I can't believe they included Courage The Cowardly Dog without having "return the slab" scene that traumatized all of the kids
Yea they definitely dropped the ball on that. Because King Ramses is really the only image from this show that lives rent free in all 90s kids minds.
I remember the image of the weird creature that tells Courage he's not perfect
Facts
Weirdly that episode didn't freak me out at all.
What’s yer offer?😂😂 killed me every time
Courage may be bizarre, but it's honestly one of those cartoons that actually had lessons at every episode. The original series at least.
I’ve read in an essay book about the importance and symbolism of fairytales for the psyche of children and I’ve learnt something that I’d like to share (in regards of the girl saying at 7:40) : parents are convinced that children should be distracted from their unconscious (where reside negative urges like violence, grotesque, anxiety and egoism but also positive ones, desires and memories)and make them believe that the world is only made of rainbows and flowers (only the good sides), even though the same children know themselves that they aren’t intrinsically ‘good’ which leads to a fracture with what their parents say and makes the child uncomfortable of himself. Children have interior conflicts that come from emotions and primitive instincts but the modern literature/cartoons for children don’t touch upon these (the need to be loved, the fear of not being considerated, love for live and fear of death), so kids don’t know how to react to them ending up feeling lonely, isolated and anxious that are showed in an indirect way (ex fear of dark, of being abandoned,body complexes.. leading to some serious pathologies) cuz they can’t express what they feel in words. They know the existence of good-bad and life-death and fairytales (the original ones and not the Disney ones since they changed most of the endings or change the stories) alongside cartoons help projecting these unconscious urges into ways to deal with these problems and growing up.
So yeah, I don’t think that not talking or showing children violence or death helps them since they’re things that are happening in real life.
It depends on the age. I work with 2-4 year olds, and this content "hurries" their development because they repeat and may even act out the content they see. It's not until kids are in elementary school that they start learning how to process and filter the content they consume.
@@Kingdom_Of_Dreams i mean come on, 4 years old will maybe still watch the cartoos for babies, a 2 year old is still to young to understand more complex stories. but when you start school, your old enough and pick what you want to watch on tv. i used to watch many shows like this and till this day i love dark themes. i dont rememer what i did at 2 or 4, but im sure i wasnt watching kida cartoos but some babies ones
would you mind telling me the name of that essay book? it seems interesting
@@nadiinesamyy i’ve tried searching the title in English since I’m reading it in my language : “The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales” by Bruno Bettelheim
@@rainbows5232 same here lol, and at that age i was also able to understand more complex topics
Cartoons when I was a a kid were GROSS! Lol. Re-watched Billy and Mandy first season and I honestly didn't remember Billy being so disgusting
I do. I got nightmares but wanted to watch it more and then my mom told me I couldn't watch Cartoon Network anymore...
I used to have an intense hate for Billy as a kid lmaoo. Thought he was so disgusting, maybe that's why I'm a clean freak now
Wait... some of these weren't really kid cartoons. Most Americans just did not understand the concept of adult cartoons back then.
Agreed, Ran and Stimpy was definitely an adult cartoon, or at least high school to college age.
@@cntrldfision5746 So was SpongeBob. Both were for older teens and adults, but somehow young people think they were meant for kids.
I watched all of these as a kid so whoever was supposed to filter these did a shit job bc they were easily accessible on kids networks to me lol
@@IggyIggyBoBiggy that's also because they were sort of branded as kids cartoons, and people at the time (and even now sadly) had the mindset of "if it's animated, it's always for kids" which we all know isn't true lol
Maybe the people that filter cartoons don't actually watch them. They just see it as a cartoon as you said and automatically make it available for kids. Unless someone says something about it like the Ren and stimpy than the "filterers" will see they were wrong. I mean Ren and stimpy was airing for quite a while until someone finally spoke up
I was actually scared of Courage the Cowardly Dog as a kid but I couldn’t stop watching for some reason 😂😂
Me too! I think a lot of us definitely got creeped out on certain episodes, but it was so good
Me too 😅
Courage had some really heartfelt messages
Courage The Cowardly Dog was honestly one of the best shows ever of my childhood!
its an amazing show that has some really good messages in it and mostly without dialogue too, the creator is really intelligent
shocking cartoons were so big back in the 90s and early 2000s! god.. i really watched these as a kid and barely bat an eye. i do remember thinking the ones like ren & stimpy and rocko's modern life were gross and creepy, but i never really got the vibe of how... messed up they were. i adored courage the cowardly dog even though it scared me! sometimes i see videos like this that remind me of all those cartoons, and it makes a little more sense why millenials are a little... off, sometimes hahaha.
Lol they definitely included creepy kids shows BUT the one the beats them all is ‘The Marvelous Adventures of Flapjack’.This shows tore me down but I loved it so much.That show and courage is top tier disturbing but addicting to watch!
Damn bro you unlocked some memories for me
Courage the cowardly dog was my show back in the day
Honestly speaking, Courage The Cowardly Dog was so traumatizing but you couldn’t get enough 😭😩
"That dude has a problem." hahahaha I died😂😂
American tv cartoons in the 90s were marked by a rather daring and "lets break the 4th wall" trend. This stuff was considered pretty cool back then, the grosser the better.
There needs to be a full video for courage the cowardly dog because that whole show was a mental trip but I loved it growing up.
This was interesting; I really loved Courage the Cowardly dog as a kid! I think a lot of this has to do with the fact that kids and adults tend to see things with a different lens. Even for one of the reactors, he said that he doesn't remember it being this dark, just funny. Same thing for all the grotesque stuff (I'll say back then not only was Ren and Stimpy not my thing but I don't think I was even allowed to watch it anyway 😅). For some cartoons and movies that are marketed towards kids, there's also going to be some more adult jokes lurking around. Mainly because the kids won't get it but the parents that have to watch it with them will. That's why when we watch movies and shows from the past, we're shocked by all the jokes that went over our heads as kids lol
Aw, I wish there had been a scene from the 90s Powerpuff Girls. It's a perfect show because there is such a contrast between "cute little girls with magic superpowers fighting evil to save the town" and "what the actual fck am I watching".
Also..this is something I thought of recently that's creepy. Why tf a grown man tryna creat little girls in his lab? 🤨
@@I_am16 I agree with that being creepy lol
@@I_am16 because he wanted to be a father. :^((( why u gotta make everything weird
@I_am16 did you not watch the movie. He wanted a family
7:02 “I got an ideaaaa” had me laughing so hard lmao, his English was really good and funny there.
Sometimes our shows don’t need to have a message, we simply seek entertainment.
I read the title, and the first show that came to mind was Ren and Stimpy, fond memories, the episode where Stimpy 'stole' a bike was gold
you can’t tell me that the people who did those weren’t on drugs lmao💀💀
Videos like this are so interesting to me. It really highlights differences in culture and thinking. Some of these cartoons definitely ARE NOT for children, but because they're animated, many parents let their kids watch, or children were watching without their parent's permission, like Ren and Stimpy (which did not air during the day, but quite late at night when most young children would be sleeping.) Children are far more aware of what's going on around them than adults seem to think; even with Korea having some of the absolute purest, most innocent cartoons I've ever seen, the kids still experience the same issues that children from the West do. They're still exposed to violence, death, s*x, and a host of other things outside of their households. These cartoons may seem horrifying to some, but a lot of them did teach real life lessons (Courage and Spongebob) and dealt with issues children are aware of. More adult jokes usually aren't understood either- those are for parents that suffer through the endless animated toons their children make them watch.
That Courage the Cowardly Dog episode BROKE ME when I was young.. It was also part of the last episode of the show .
Ren and Stimpy was one of my absolute favorites! While the violence could be a bit much, I remember as a kid being drawn to the horror content geared towards my age group because adults seemed to think kids couldn't handle it. Like they had to pretend that everything was nice and nothing bad ever happens. As a kid it felt like everyone thought you were stupid, so cartoons and books that let you experience dark themes and fear through a safe medium made kid me feel respected. Things should be adjusted for age, but concepts like horror, unfairness, sadness are human concepts. Kids feel and experience them too
I'm surprised they didn't see Invader Zim, the Dark Harvest episode. The creator Jhonen Vasquez has a talent of making thing uncomfortable and scary from him dark comic, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and I Feel Sick.
i loved that episode! i thought it was so funny along side the opening where zim is playing haha
For what I remember in Canada Ren & Stimpy was rated as an adult cartoon. My brother and I could only watch it when our dad didn't know/wasn't there.
It's funny how some of them think that some of the shows "ruined innocence" I genuinely enjoyed them when I was growing up 😂💀
There was a scene cut from one of my favorite Spongebob episodes called Just One Bite, Squidward tries to get into the patty vault; he walks into the Krusty Krab and gets a bucket of water thrown on him. He says "this is our security" then a match is thrown at him and you find out it was gasoline. The scene was edited out later so now Squidward just breaks into the vault exhausted a dirty. I loved Courage, I'm the kid to now adult that just loves dark comedy, Courage never bothered me even though I completely understood what was going on.
I will forever remember that mumie figure from the King Ramses Curse episode (Courage The Cowardly Dog). I was disturbed for a while but still I loved and watched the bizarre 90's shows.
*COURAGE THE COWARDLY DOG IS THE BEST CHILDREN'S SHOW EVER!!* 👺💀🙌🏾
It's creepy but provides amazing life lessons, i.e. the episode named "Perfect"!
Ren and Stimpy was hilarious as a kid, but now as an adult I can barely watch it. But when I was a kid and even now, I still enjoy Courage.
I would like to see them react to more Spongebob and Courage the Cowardly Dog. I watched a lot of those shows growing up. The Creepiest spongebob episode was him turning into a snail, the creepiest courage episode...You can't pick just one. Lol
courage the cowardly dog was one of my favorites growing up, my dad and i always watched it together 😭
I’d love to see this group react to different American sitcoms through the decades: I love Lucy, married with children, Roseanne, modern family, happy days, mamas family, the addams family, that 70’s show… I’d also love to see Americans react to Korean media through the decades.
I didn’t know the Red and Stimpy creator was fired, I guess that’s why this was surprisingfor me to see. It was casually on Cartoon Network before like I think I automatically buried it in my head bec it was that disturbing and I’ve forgotten that it has existed then. I’ve grown fond of Courage though, I just thought it’s a proper horror animation.
Anyhoo, dude in white looked great w his accessories!
like I thought he got fired ukw bc of the stuff with kids not that either
@@xnarutoxsakuraxsaske He actually got fired because he was a ridiculous perfectionist who would make people reanimate entire scenes because he didn't like one single drawing, to the point where episodes regularly missed their deadlines, and the episode with the oar was the last straw. Unfortunately a lot of people knew about the kids and didn't even care back then :(
He's also been said to be hard to work with and have been accused of being a groomer.
@@Pooky1991 Not just accused, he admitted to it
@@spacecadetkaito Ohhh so he did admit to it. I remember watching the ThatCreepyReading video on John K and couldn't remember if the pictures taken outed him or someone else outed him. Either way he's shown to be a creep.
That last spongebob scene traumatized me as a kid xd
The story of Ren & Stimpy's creator being fired for the violence of Man's Best Friend is his side of the story. It's also likely that he was fired because he would not finish his work on time. Ren & Stimpy's schedule delays were so notorious in the American animation industry that even The Simpsons made a joke about it.
All these shows were my favorites since I was in kindergarten and these shows still are my fav till this day, these shows have sparked my interest for twisted shows I loved how graphic or crazy it looked and I thought it was the best shows ever when I was in kindergarten!
I'm surprised South Park wasn't one of the shows. I grew up watching that show all the time and it definitely pushed the line!
Ren & Stimpy was so grotesque of a kids cartoon, even for its time, that it got its own adult-themed special in 2003.
Them: "do kids like these??!"
Me as a kid watching these: "yes." lol
They brought all my childhood shows I was dying of laughter when the shows were playing 💀
Lol it’s the fact that I’ve watched at least a few episodes from each of those shows as a child, but can’t recall my initial reaction of them
That scene from invader zim when zim tries to become “more human” by ingesting a bunch of extra organs… that’s probably the thing that frightened me the most when I was younger. Still love that show but man it was dark
As a 90's kid, sometimes the things we watched in cartoons were better than what was going on around us.
Courage the cowardly dog was and still one of my best childhood shows next to CatDog
I saw Courage the Cowardly Dog and immediately clicked on the videos. It was one of my favorite shows as a kid.
i love the fact the very first show they watch here is ren and stimpy
that show is such a fever dream fr
Ren and stimpy was fucking wild, we were actually watching that as kids😂😂😂
Cow and Chicken was dark sided lol
That Courage episode! I vividly remember it making me cry as a kid. It made me so sad to see an innocent baby Courage being split from his parents! :(
They could have shown literally any clip from Courage the cowardly dog and have it still be just as messed up and unsettling. 🤣🤣🤣
Remember the tree and the one episode with the puppets? What about the one where Muriel was sewn into a blanket? The cannibalistic puddle mermaids?
As someone that has grown up with these kinds of cartoons (like Courage the Cowardly Dog and The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy), my experience with why most people didn't bat an eye so much during the time period is mostly because a lot of cartoons in the US were way more stigmatized and dismissed as "exclusive for kids" from since the '60s/'70s and onwards into the '80s/'90s, mostly because of a lot of marketing for toys was also integrated with Western cartoons (even though there was animation that was pushing boundaries, like Watership Down and Batman the Animated Series as examples).
It's unfortunately still got some stigmatization now (as seen with one of the Oscars skits and what has happened with a lot of cartoons on HBO Max), but these days it's more of a generation gap issue - as soon as current generations start taking over industries, some of the old animation stigmas may fade.
Let's not forget the old Donald Duck cartoon where he makes his nephews smoke cigars until they drop.
I was terrified of many of those cartoons. The insade/creepy stuff made me gravitate to shows such as digimon, pokemon, dragon ball z, yugioh and other japanese animation. They might have been 'fighting' but I wasnt terrified & scarred for life after
It’s wild that stuff like Ren and Stimpy could exist in the 90’s but two women holding hands couldn’t happen until 2014
Shout-out to Sonic SATAM, whilst not being entirely creepy most of the scenes with Robotnik were pretty unsettling and moments where a character from a couple of episodes gets turned into a robot to never be seen again was rather disturbing in hindsight
I remember reading the comics, there was an arc where sonic actually got captured and turned into a robot like that
Dude it the white hated everything, but was fine with an animal being ripped away from his parents and living on the street💀
And then there was the PBS Mystery animated intro, which gave me early exposure to Edward Gorey and his delightfully macabre Art Deco flavored sensibility. I credit this for helping me develop a taste for (fictional) murder. It's fair to say I was a very strange child.
I grew up watching Mystery with my mother and as soon as I read your words I immediately visualized the intro and Diana Rigg! Loved that show
@@alexmclin I think I missed the Diana Rigg intros, but otherwise yes.
Ren & Stimpy was definitely not for kids - It was for twentysomethings. Most intelligent people knew that. Lol
These cartoons were my literal Childhood to early adult. I actually watched Ren and Stimpy when it came out. I was 9-10, my brother a year younger. We LOVED that show. My dad even watched it with us! He loved it. lol And Courage was a GREAT show. So under rated.
The grim adventures of Billy and Mandy, Courage the cowardly dog and Ed, Edd n Eddy were my childhood
these were the best types for me honestly. i loved them and always will.
Where’s the invader zim ep where zim harvests the kids’ organs?
Ren and Stimpy wasn't really a kids show. It was aimed at teens and adults hence why it usually aired late at night or very early in the morning (12am-3am).
You should react to Happy Tree Friends😅That's the real vicious cartoon
They should of showed the Billy and Mandy scene of the evil Bunny beating up and chasing Pud’n down the highway THAT WAS INSANE!!!!!
The Cowardly Dog was my favorite, I always watched it at night ~
I honestly didn’t find back then nor now any of these cartoon gross that’s probably why I can stomach more things than usual people don’t.
I grew up with these cartoons, and at the time I just found them funny. I didn't understand them until I grew up.
Yeah we be different in this side of the globe. For a part 2 you guys should include the amazing world of gumball, the regular show, gravity falls, and steven universe!!
i LOVED Ren and Stimpy when i was a kid. I'm 36 now but I don't think kids watch it much anymore. I may be wrong but I haven't heard about it in a long time
I grew up in France. Very popular cartoons/anime were Sophie's Misfortunes (adaptation of Countess of Ségur's book) and Princess Sarah. Both were little girls, orphans, abused constantly by adults and other children too sometimes. And we watched it all. It would freak me out but I still watched it.
omg i would love to see them react to the “don’t hug me i’m scared” series
I recognized the episode so quickly when Squidward was walking in that weird, empty, white world/room/whatever it was. I don't even remember anymore, but that was a weird episode for sure! Spongebob and Courage were hella weird in general though.
I used to watch Courage. It was not my favourite but I always watched it since there was nothing else. I dont really remember anything in details or any episodes particularly so it didn't really scar me or anything.
🤣 I grew up watching Ren and Stimpy in elementary. I loved it.
OMG YES IM SO HAPPY RIGHT NOW YOU GUYS REACTED TO CREEPY CARTOONS :)
Please do a part 2
@@4IS44C Yes but this time looney tunes and magical talking animals American cartoons
@@ronaldpagar6513 and courage the cowardly dog your not perfect and return the slab
Tiny toons touched on delicate subjects in ways that taught children not to go that path, only bad things follow
Ren and stimpy was a kids cartoon but now adays it considered a adult cartoon
I never realized how disturbing the scenes are- I grew up watching it and never noticed it😭✌
I grew up with all these shows. Even as an adult now ni still love them. P.s I like creepy shit so it's all good on my end. Lol love ur reactions lol
The first 3 seasons of Ren and Stimpy are way different than the rest. It also was on Nick at Night at first which was for older kids able to stay up late.
Happy Tree Friends absolutely disturbed me as a kid!
Even watching these shows some adults would really find these shows weird but where I grew up these shows were seen as funny
The creators of many of these cartoons were on drugs, especially Ren and Stimpy.
American cartoons are always full of "hidden" adult jokes and themes that children wouldn't understand.
90s kids in America are hard to freak out. We had some werid crap to watch ... idk how my parents didn't find these shows creepyhaha
That one about Courage The Cowardly Dog was deep... just think... if Courage failed in saving Muriel and Eustace, all three could have ended up in space.... Courage could have seen his real parents again.
Honestly all these cartoons is probably why so many of us are so desensitized to things later in life. I never thought anything of it as a child, thought it was funny and was unfazed. Ren & Stimpy though was always creepy to me… Billy & Mandy, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Invader Zim (highly recommend reacting to Invader Zim- it’s iconic) we’re my favs
I used to watch Happy Tree Friends with my older brother on Netflix when I was 7 we just watched it as if it was a regular kids show
6:30 Just a normal german kids
me as a kid watching all of this: "😃👏 haha nice"
Maybe that explains why I like gruesome things ahahahah
Didn’t even show them The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. All the dark cartoons of our childhood are the best ones 😂
I'm an early 2000s kid with a relatively young mom so I grew up with these- gotta say though, despite how weird and freaky Courage the Cowardly Dog is, its one of my favourite cartoons to this day
the one behind "The Ren & Stimpy Show" was a big fan of Bob Clampett. Bob Clampett worked for Warner Bros. and animated the weirder Looney Tunes cartoons. If you watch some of Clampetts works you see the inspiration.
I think I would of lost my mind only watching very happy go lucky cartoons. these shows added some ✨spice✨ to my life
ren and stimpy, the misadventures of flapjack, billy and mandy, courage the cowardly dog, spongebob, all such weird shows but all so fun lol. i loved the horror, the darkness and the grotesqueness of shows from this era. i was a total horror lover growing up (still do TO THIS DAY!!!), all of the bubblegum disney princess fairytale stuff ever appealed to me. the more cosmic horror the better!!! the weirder the show is, the more you're engaged and interested, even if there isn't a clear storyline. as a kid, i'd rather watch a disturbing and abstract show with interesting visuals and interesting characters, than watch a straightforward and predictable story with no serious conflict and boring visuals. not all kids need a happy ending to something, sometimes we just wanna watch something silly and gross lol.