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     This one unsettled me as a kid, and still does....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNxQcIZ6ji4

This one from Liquid Television
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=heU71tsOZ6Y

And then there was this one from Sesame Street.  It's the beady eyes and unnatural look to the bird creatures mouth. Creeped me out as a kid.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJAfCydkjJ0&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PLBD56BE4614CBB4D2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D66jjm7uQwY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-JlevnccDk

Oh man.  I remember that episode.  It was apart of that animated movie Daffy Duck's Quackbusters.  A lot fun, but freaky.  This part sort of stays with me though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBzpYQTO2lg

Though the creepiest animated cartoon from the Looney Tunes was one that was sort of a take on Body Snatchers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLvttWXLLWk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfGPEr6d1Sc
What were the producers on when they approved this?

The Boogieman on "The Real Ghostbusters" was pretty durn creepy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1UcOJWZ9AM

Oh man, I hate that story in general. Little girl has these wonderful visions as she freezes to death. I know Andersen had a good point to make, but I don't know why people persist in thinking it's a nice children's story. It's tragic and disturbing.

The Rankin-Bass Hobbit film freaked me out as a kid. Aside from the trolls and goblins and such, there's something in that late-70s style of drawing and animation that I've always found dark and vaguely unsettling.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5sFN6EXGyc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCcZsdlfatY

Similarly, I found some of the earlier stuff from Nelvana to be a little creepy for much the same reason. The content might be cute, but that distinctive 1970s Nelvana style was disturbing to me at that age.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwkjwQyo6Lc

Adults think kids' love stories about death, despair, tragedy, and other uplifters like that.  Why else would most Newberry Award winners be so depressing (Island of the Blue Dolphins, Bridge to Terabithia, On My Honor, The Giver)?  Frankly, I think these people hate kids and just like making them upset.

I know they're not intended to be creepy, but for some reason I find most of the very early Merrie Melodies cartoons from the 30s (pre-cursors to what became Looney Tunes) which were in Black & White and featured a lot of singing/dancing, creepy as hell. I love vintage 'toons from the 40s and 50s but those really early 'toons have aged so badly that they look like transmissions from some bizarre netherworld nowadays.

My kids have a DVD of old public-domain "Christmas Classics" cartoons and this one just bugs the hell outta me every time it comes on. Must be that damn "The Shanty Where Santy Claus Lives" song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yz4lnOngVlY

     The 1960's version of THE LONE RANGER was kinda creepy....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX06T79OjZw&feature=related

Both Spider Man and Rocket Robin Hood visited Dementia 5 in the 1960s. Very cool episodes, but creepy and very surreal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMEb4ebMXew

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OHDOQx6k-H0

Clutch Cargo - a cartoon with real people's mouths on the characters' faces.  Check it out beginning around the 0:35 second mark . . .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFnLirXjjto

It's claymation, but this classic has been scarring childhoods for years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q29CmMHSQ3M

I just noticed that "Satan" has Hellboy's Right Hand of Doom! Fantastic.

Ah, those are the best kind of creepy cartoons!

Do a web search for Van Bueren studios, a 30's animation stuio which spun off of Aesop's Fable's Studios.  Weird, Weird stuff, their worst cartoons are probably their "Milton and Rita mouse" cartoons.  Milton and Rita look exactly like some other, more famous mice, but with worse animation, and adult situations.  They also have a "Tom and Jerry." No, these weren't a rip-off of Hanna Barbera's characters, Van Bueren was gone long before the famous cat and mouse team came about.  Just look them up.  It's strange, strange stuff.

Ozzymandias speaks: Van Bueren cartoons are some of the worst. They feature animals that all look like Mickey Mouse. Most of them don't make any sense or go nowhere. I've only seen two I really like. One was the Snowman, in which a snowman comes to life and starts terrorizing little animals. It was supposed to cash in on the trend of horror movies at the time. Another is a cartoon about cupid's army and an old batchelor that looks like W.C. Fields and an old spinster. It was banned from TV because the cupid's don't have pants (or genitalia either).

Ozzymandias has spoken!!!

The cupid cartoon came out later, after they had hired some of Disney's ex-animators, after their animation had improved.  Disney  eventually got RKO to distribute his cartoons.  Since Van Bueren was with RKO, Van Bueren found themselves with out a distributor.  They decided to give up, sell off their cartoons, and ask Paul Terry for a job.

Around the same time they made 3 Felix the cat cartoons , which are a staple of arguably-public-domain-cartoon-collections.  I liked these cartoons when I was younger.

Their earliest cartoons, however, are far too weird.

Here's a test for a new animation technique from the early sixties called 'Colormation'.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVUfV0oNKqc&feature=relmfu

I'm guessing it wasn't too successful due to the horrific nightmare it gave the kiddies.

"A woman?!? What in blazes is she doin' on a spaceship?"

Oh, right. She's a dirty Russkie.

It's not much worse than regular rotoscopy:
http://www.publicdomaintorrents.net/nshowmovie.html?movieid=106 (http://www.publicdomaintorrents.net/nshowmovie.html?movieid=106)

I think Disney's "Fantasia" is like a bad acid trip. Disney cartoons in general tend to be weird and depressing.

Rotoscoped animation does look weird to me, also, but there is something a bit extra freaky with that colormation stuff. I think it was the odd lack of details - except for those vivid toothy mouths - in the faces.

Mocked and ridiculed, a lonely pathetic death, forgotten in the freezing cold alone... I can't think of anything more Christmasy than this cartoon.  And I'm serious. 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXCUBVS4kfQ

I recently found out about this one thanks to cracked.com. It's a cartoon from Finland called The Moomins  Its stop motion about a happy couple of hippos, some funny little creatures and THE LIVING EMBODIMENT OF ETERNAL SORROW!!! The creature is called the groke. Anything it touches dies. It moves and looks like some horrible phantom.  On the other hand-it would have made for an awesome villain for some Rankin-Bass Halloween special.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H8RqiV_l-2s

This maybe be one of the only examples of a G rated horror film.

More Nelvana:
The Devil And Daniel Mouse (1978)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXZ827XTdMU
And WWII propaganda:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8bCuNiJ-NI&feature=related

Oh yeah, I've seen some of their stuff -- we have several of those "100 Classic Cartoons" public-domain DVD compilations and there are a few of their toons in it. They are vaguely creepy.

This is one of theirs, I find it particularly interesting cuz it was apparently sponsored by Borden Dairies. So it's essentially an 8-minute milk commercial. :D
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loF0xd8yGpI

This one's on at least two of those compilation DVDs I have. It's awful.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwWqeINZO0c&feature=fvst

Sadly those are some of their better cartoons.

This one makes Van Bueren look good:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfvhnUU5lKA

I agree about the pre-Looney Tunes cartoons, they are nowhere near as good as the ones from the 40's-60's. Bugs Bunny with that tiny little head and an obese Elmer Fudd. What about early Daffy Duck, he acted like he was on crack. I get that same creepy feeling when I watch those early Simpsons shorts from The Tracy Ullman show.

The original 50's Gumby Cartoons are a bit creepy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWYYkF6DOnk
Creepy Pilot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y09hVzHmSus&feature=related
After watchinhg this one you will never ever want to cook again!
Edit: There's a longer version of this cartoon which is creepier.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5itZW6ln4eU&feature=related
Gumby in a messed-up, copyrighted friendly take off of The Little Prince.  If I'm not mistaken, one of the characters from Davey and Goliath makes a guest appearance.
Edit: This one is actually from the 60's.

Shirt Tales kind of freaks me out.

E-yoww! :thumbdown:
COLORMATION. What gives Andy Sirkis nightmares.

I remeber seeing bambi meets godzillia short cartoon. When I was a kid watching a monster movie marathon on godzila.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=et1DAWDvYNA

 The Wizard of Oz by Ted Eshbauch.  30's cartoon.  Filmed in Technicolor, but released in Black-and-White due to licensing issues. It has everything.  Weird rubbery animation? Check.  A creepy wizard? Check.  Strange plot and imagery? Check, Check. A very Creepy Cartoon.

These cartoons are like...

 :question:

 :buggedout:

You who them to kids?

 :bouncegiggle:

 :twirl:

My friend showed me this random youtube video that made laugh very loudly in the middle off a restruant, after I was all like "No Vanessa that sounds stupid to watch..." Then I was like  :bouncegiggle:

The youtube video I am talking about is called video Art - Small Potatoes - Disney Junior Official which is a bunch of patotes in paintings singing for whatever reason. 

 :tongueout:
:drink:

I was going to show you the acctuall video but youtube is being racist saying I can not watch it cause off the country I am in. I hate when youtube disscriminates like that.

 :cheers: :hot: :cheers:

I hope the emotions made up for lack off video.

Although they weren't in the same league as some of the others mentioned here, I always thought Ren & Stimpy were disturbing as hell. Once I was trying to calm down a friend of mine who showed up at my house around midnight in the summer of '96 saying he'd taken LSD and he wanted to watch Ren & Stimpy because he said it'd mellow him out. (He kept asking for sofa cushions to be stacked up behind his head so it wouldn't fall off, and also wanted ice water by the pitcher, and I was just trying to get him to talk quietly and not wake my dad upstairs.) So Ren & Stimpy calmed him on drugs but made me creeped out stone cold sober. Such a gross cartoon. Ye gods I still hate that show...

Peace on Earth (1939)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8stkqssLYc

Apparently, this is one of the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time.

That doesn't mean it's not creepy.

In the 50's Hanna-Banerra remade it as Good Will to Men:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBRkJBHpQ-I&feature=related

Bonus: Here's another cartoon from the 50 Greatest Cartoons of all time, and yes it's creepy.
Bimbo's Initiation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4fXllxQa1Y&feature=related

Here's another wonderfully weird cartoon:http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/mendelssohns-spring-song-1931/ (http://cartoonresearch.com/index.php/mendelssohns-spring-song-1931/)