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Questionably Authentic and Disturbing Cartoons & Cartoon UL's

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I came across this disturbing story from an animation intern at Nickelodeon. The story has turned up in a couple of places online, so I'm not sure what the original source is. Anyway:

WARNING - Some might find the content of this link disturbing

True or not, it freaked the hell out of me.

EDIT: Link text altered by WJ in order to reflect reservations expressed by subsequent posters.
 
I'm going with bluff, however Mickey Mouse did star in his own suicide comic strip after minnie dumped him:

Link
 
There's a whole ton of stories of disturbing cartoons. There was a lengthy thread of it on gamefaqs.com, which may very well have spawned the very story you've linked too. The first was a supposed Mickey Mouse cartoon called Suicide Mouse, which has a bad fake on YouTube; it doesn't even match the original description. Kind of silly when you see it in the context of a whole thread of people trying to make up such stories.

My verdict: probably made up, and recently!
 
True or not, it freaked the hell out of me.
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That'll be because of the references to child murder porn probably, which I have to say I wouldn't have read if I'd known what was coming, because I've got no interest in visiting that authors perverse squalid little imagination, which is all it is, as is revealed by his references to dangling eyes which contrary to popular belief cannot happen, and too be honest I find it offensive.
 
Ummm.

Likewise I don't know if I'd have read that if I knew that there'd be references to child mutilation in there. Just thought it was going to be a creepy Spongebob episode retold.

This is disturbing reading, and whilst I'm not "freaked out" per se, I am sad that, if this is made up, that someone's imagination/fantasies can stoop as low as to describe those "scenes".
Maybe I'm just naive :(
 
Not only is this a highly unlikely tale, it is also deeply unpleasant. It takes a certain kind of imagination to take something as silly and innocent as Spongebob and then twist it it so vilely.
 
I don't know quite why, but I think whoever wrote that piece was telling the truth. I know it's horrible and I wouldn't recommend anyone reading it at any time of day but I don't think it's fiction. There's something so unsensational about the tone. Of course I could be wrong. I hope I am.
 
I don't know quite why, but I think whoever wrote that piece was telling the truth
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If anyone else does read this and wonders if it's real trust me it's crap, from the bit I read there are details there which are anatomically impossible. All your reading is puerile sordid internet schlock, best left alone.
 
I can't comment on whether it's anatomically impossible or not. In a way it doesn't matter in the context of what the narrator is reporting.

It may be that the images were fake as all hell and quite frankly I'd much prefer that to the thought that they are all real. You're right that the content of the film as described by the narrator is schlock horror pure and simple. But that looks past the question of whether the anonymous male 2005 Nickolodeon intern is who he says he is and is reporting something that he experienced.

Unless you know something I don't the answer to that is not known to either of us.
 
Yep, pretty horrid and I wouldn't have read it if I'd known that it was going to feature the descriptions that it did. If you haven't yet clicked on the link: avoid.

Also: don't believe a word of it.
 
Remember, even an animation as simple as Spongebob, needs a small army of highly skilled animators to bring it to the screen. Not easy to do surreptitiously.
 
Meh, it's not that bad! The histrionic ghost story style narration - the too-good-to-be-true super-high-quality silence and hyper-real graphics etc - is nothing short of poorly written drivel, and the schlocky descriptions of the 'real' images very sub horror movie or novel stuff.
Could be vaguely true (I've known animators with pretty sick senses of humour), but I doubt it, it read too much like someone wanting to write a creepy story.
 
Reads very similar to the creepy pasta story about The Simpsons, about a "lost" episode where Bart dies, and his body is portrayed hyper-realistically. In that story, the sinister part is the burial scene. The graves name every celebrity guest star who had appeared on the Simpsons, and many who at the time the episode was alleged to have been made, had not yet appeared. They all had death dates that started to come true, but the majority of them all have the same (unspecified in the near future) date.
 
lawofnations said:
Reads very similar to the creepy pasta story about The Simpsons, about a "lost" episode where Bart dies, and his body is portrayed hyper-realistically. In that story, the sinister part is the burial scene. The graves name every celebrity guest star who had appeared on the Simpsons, and many who at the time the episode was alleged to have been made, had not yet appeared. They all had death dates that started to come true, but the majority of them all have the same (unspecified in the near future) date.
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Heh, that one actually originated in the very thread on gamefaqs (now apparently gone) I mentioned earlier. The thread was ressurected some time later with a lot of discussion on how famous that Simpsons story -- the first attempt at a user creating a version of Suicide Mouse, if I'm not mistaken -- had become in the meantime, and the amazement coming from the guy who had created it.

A lot of the stories created in that thread were pretty bad, but its readers seemed pretty enthusiastic. I bet it's archived somewhere!
 
lawofnations said:
They all had death dates that started to come true, but the majority of them all have the same (unspecified in the near future) date.
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Way off-topic, but that would make a great basis for a creepy tale! Not just predicting people's deaths, but some huge impending disaster...
 
Wow at the Simpsons and SpongeBob examples so far. So is there an 'originating from Hell' secret lost episode in other cartoons?

Is the Pink Panther about to be ruined forever? Pob on a psychotic rampage? Thundercats possessed by demons? :shock:

I'm intrigued.
 
This story - and 'Dead Bart' and 'Suicide Mouse' and most likely all other popular-cartoon-related internet creepiness - can be traced fairly easily back to 4chan and similar websites.
I think the 'sick' details are kind of the point - sort of a satirical comment on what the general public expects something evil or 'satanic' to contain. But then I may be giving the originators more credit than they deserve...
 
We've previously discussed some disturbing Garfield episodes too, which I seem to remember were genuine. One had Garfield waking up in a deserted crumbling house some time in the future, or something.
 
I remember that! It can be viewed here for those interested: http://www.garfield.com/comics/vault.ht ... ddr=891023

It creates a very odd feeling when something which usually makes us laugh genuinely inspires another, often opposite, reaction. I guess that's why stories of cartoons-made-evil are so popular; there's something in the idea that's a lot more disturbing than your average horror movie. I guess it's a way of still affecting today's jaded audience, and it seems to work. I know people who scoff at the idea of crying at 'weepie' films but will be reaching for the tissues when Blackadder & co. go over the top...

On the subject of odd Garfield strips, there's a wonderfully existential take on it here:
http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/
 
suzim said:
I remember that! It can be viewed here for those interested: http://www.garfield.com/comics/vault.ht ... ddr=891023
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I remember reading an extended discussion about this strip, and speculation that it was "real" in the sense that Garfield dies in October 1989, and every strip that has come after has been a product of his imagination as he wastes away, in denial of what has happened, time dilating in his final seconds to stretch out to decades of imagined (and tedious) adventures.

Although Jim Davis denies it, some still believe that Garfield is no more.

Let's be honest, it would explain why Garfield hasn't been funny since 1989....
 
lawofnations said:
I remember reading an extended discussion about this strip, and speculation that it was "real" in the sense that Garfield dies in October 1989, and every strip that has come after has been a product of his imagination as he wastes away, in denial of what has happened, time dilating in his final seconds to stretch out to decades of imagined (and tedious) adventures.

Let's be honest, it would explain why Garfield hasn't been funny since 1989....
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Fire up the Quattro!
 
I remember that! It can be viewed here for those interested: http://www.garfield.com/comics/vault.ht ... ddr=891023

It creates a very odd feeling when something which usually makes us laugh genuinely inspires another, often opposite, reaction.
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That was actually quite creepy....

I remember reading an extended discussion about this strip, and speculation that it was "real" in the sense that Garfield dies in October 1989, and every strip that has come after has been a product of his imagination as he wastes away, in denial of what has happened, time dilating in his final seconds to stretch out to decades of imagined (and tedious) adventures.
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... and having just read it this interpretation seems plausible.
Hey, I'm joining a Garfield conspiracy! Go me!
 
Yep, I'm buying the 'dead' Garfield theory. Surprised at how creepy the Halloween '89 serial is. The final frame where Jon & Odie return seemed a bit of a cop out.
 
I think the name of Maltin is being taken in vain.

If you want a truly nightmarish Mickey Mouse film, you should look for Kenneth Anger's "Mouse Heaven"

It managed to escape control of the Disney empire by using only existing museum exhibits.

It's still available on Daily Motion.

Quite disturbing, without suicides. :eek:
 
I'm reasonably certain it's fictional.

First, it appears on creepypasta sites:

http://creepypasta.wikia.com/wiki/Squidward%27s_Suicide
http://www.creepypasta.com/squidwards-suicide/

It should be noted that Creepypasta.com has a tag for stories that are based on true events- a tag that Squidward's Suicide does not have.*

Both sites have comments that discuss the merits of the stories. The latter is largely positive, while the former is far more negative.

It has a TV Tropes article on the story, in it's fan fiction category:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/FanFic/SquidwardsSuicide

There is a MST3K-style riff:


It points out some of the more unbelievable aspects (would unpaid really get to see unaired episodes?**)

Finally, there is a Reddit user who claims to be the original author:

https://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/185hc9/i_wrote_squidwards_suicide_and_am_kinda_happy/
https://www.reddit.com/r/self/comments/185hc9/i_wrote_squidwards_suicide_and_am_kinda_happy/
They even posted a screenshot to back up there claim:

http://i.imgur.com/G1JjCK9.png
http://i.imgur.com/G1JjCK9.png
Even if the Reddit user is lying about being the author, this does seem to be the earliest post of the story.

The final comment under the picture also points out that the Stephen Hillenberg, the original showrunner, retired from the show after the first movie, further showing the inaccuracies in the story.

In sum, this is a story with inaccurate facts, questionable claims and seems to be largely understood to be a work of fiction.

*For those interested: http://www.creepypasta.com/tag/based-on-a-true-story/
**They are far too eager to call "unnecessary details" for my tastes, however.
 
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