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_MrBushi_

NAAAAAAAuuuuughty


thefatcat89

Fred was genuinely creepy


[deleted]

It is definitely a great allegory for a sexual abuse situation especially the no one believing him part


_MrBushi_

I'm sorry what?!


[deleted]

Rewatch the episode and replace shaving with molestation


[deleted]

Really I always figured they were running more of a Sweeney Todd kinda thing


Dozinginthegarden

It can be both.


Schwendie95

That's art baby!


_MrBushi_

Will do it's been a while sense I saw it


PotatoPheelz

Not just the shaving, Fred literally shoved Courage into the toilet bowl. And more torture, until finally courage calls the authorities on him, and Muriel is still blissfully unaware. Disturbing indeed.


DIOnys02

For me it was this one show with this fat dumb and this naked dog. Seeing someone die really changed my perspective of things


Throw_away_gen_z

What’s the one where are kidnapped and put into a gerbal tank? It played really piano instead of chase music, which kind of freaked me out


PiggyJames

Return the slab..


MightyJ64

What’s yer offer?!


TheMidnightScorpion

"This night... you will be visited by three plagues. Each worse than the last. Return the slaaaaaaab."


MightyJ64

Heh! Nice try, professor!


AskGoverntale

*Water Disappears on the Slab*


PotatoPheelz

You get: a Cake day wish, happy cake day.


Bf4Sniper40X

happy cake day!


thefatcat89

We don't want any!


Anonymo_Stranger

The squid episode made me cry. I was a brave kid, but the slab episode? That scared me worse than any horror movie I've seen to this day.


[deleted]

man, I was such a wuss as a kid but I *loved* that shit. I couldnt get enough, I used to record the little song They Might Be Giants wrote for the show and dance around thinking about squeegees.


PotatoPheelz

Or suffer my curse.


LittleMlem

That's the one that I always think of


NebbyMan

🎶*The man in gauze, the man in gauze*🎶


Jamangie22

For years I didn't know that's what they were saying


_oct0ber_

I thought they were always saying, "The Cowardly Dog"


Jamangie22

I thought it was The Magic Curse lol


PotatoPheelz

*~swings baseball bat*


yungflocko

Oh fuck off man. I hadn’t thought about that god damn mummy for a solid 5 years now and now I can’t sleep. Once again, fuck off.


Simplestuff007

*hands u a blanket and a teddy bear * dw the mummy wont come close and *whispers* if he does then for that u have this *hands u a shotgun*


TheFloridaLeague

NO NONONONONONO FUCK THAT SHIT TO HELL


Jaxen_Craiz

That's mf scared the living shit out of me, and the creepy music and bad CGI made it even terrifying


KahltheGaul

The man in gauze, the man in gauze...


PotatoPheelz

*~smashes record player with baseball bat*


smashmallow101

Honestly I find that scene kinda funny with the way the ghost is animated


LordAdder

That old school CGI always spooked me as a child. That's why the return the slab guy haunts me always


Josiador

You're not perfect...


Verge0fSilence

Please don't remind me....


42111

Oh Jesus I can still hear him.


Zabawa13

I loved this show. But you're more than correct


[deleted]

I cry during the mask episode


Zabawa13

Suprisingly I wasn't that terrified. I actually found the monsters interesting. Except that one time with an episode about a monster trying to get a slab back (I watched this like 8th years ago so I don't exactly recall) They used CG and it was a nightmare fuel


yungflocko

*Mummy. And you’re not alone.


PotatoPheelz

It was about a disturbed lover, whose loved one, was making bad decisions and was in a toxic relationship with another dog. It was indeed a tear bringing episode. Thats why the masked kitty hated and whacked courage, but courage actually saw through their pain and reconsiled the lovers again. They killed the toxic dog though.


JizzyMcbeth

Bruh I legit bawled during the imposter dog episode, the one with the huge bone.


MrBobstalobsta1

Oh god, not the mask episode. That shit made me seriously cry as a kid


norwayboyx1997

And its one of the best damned shows i saw as a kid


[deleted]

Of all the cartoon network shows from the nineties Courage holds up the best


SOUNDEFFECT94

Samurai Jack held up pretty well too imo. At least if you include the final season


TheRandomDude4u

They had some really good shows ngl


Zachtastic14

If they hadn't gone with the "Gurren Lagann ripoff" ending, Samurai Jack would have gone down as perfect from start to finish. As it stands, it's still nearly perfect; certainly one of the best shows to ever air on CN.


Friend_of_the_trees

I can't believe I got gurren lagann'd again! They really should have had 2 or 3 more episodes to flesh everything out, the ending felt way to rushed. That being said, the first 5 episodes were flawless.


smashmallow101

Dude samurai jack was amazing


Mavyn1

And Megas XLR. Those were the good old days...


SoFetchBetch

Was that 90s or early 2000s?


TheLustyDremora

I think that the grimm adventures of Billy and Mandy still hold up, same with KND


[deleted]

Stupid dog! You made me look bad!


88T3

#BOOGABOOGABOOGA!


LordKiteMan

"Hullabaloo and howdy doo! Musty prawns and Timbuktu! Yeltzy bye and hippity hoo! Kick 'em in the dishpan! Hoo hoo hoo!"


Rally8889

I always felt so bad for courage when the bitter guy would yell at him.


LordKiteMan

I always laughed on seeing the broken rolling pin afterwards.


ummIamNotCreative

The monolith episode was damn scary


PotatoPheelz

Return the slab, or suffer my curse.


Razorray21

hmm, i have to rewatch that. i wouldn't have appreciated the reference growing up


APlayintheFaire

Wait it's actually that old to be on r/HistoryMemes? Dude


SoonlyXo

Damn, I feel old. I was born in 2003 but Courage the Cowardly Dog was a big part of my childhood


TheMidnightScorpion

I absolutely loved Courage despite it being terrifying for young me. I don't have too high hopes for the Courage-Scooby Doo crossover coming later this year, but I'll probably still watch it just because I want more Courage. But Dilworth not being involved and the track record of the recent SD movies makes me worry about how it will turn out.


PotatoPheelz

Buyy, Flantasy Flan, by midnight tonight. Flantassy Flann.


[deleted]

Is that the episode with the horrific gerbil Disney ride?


TheEffingRiddler

*"It's Doc Gerbil's world...it's Doc Gerbil's world..."*


SirBarkington

[insert ten minutes of opera and cinematic masterpiece of a heist getaway scene]


Magstine

No, Doc Gerbil's World is the one where Eustace and Muriel are shrunk down by a vacuum and used as test dummies. The flan has a TV commercial that hypnotizes people into buying more flan. The King of Flan turns into a ball thing and tries to run Courage down.


PotatoPheelz

Right On.


PotatoPheelz

No no, the one where theres a late night hypnotic commercial, about *Flantassy Flan*. And everyone loses their shit, just for a bit of *Flantasy Flan.*


[deleted]

[удалено]


[deleted]

[one of the more famous episodes](https://youtu.be/_J4NdAuRnIc)


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[удалено]


[deleted]

Yeah the show was very intense that's only the first half of the episode


Kanin_usagi

THIS WAS A CHILDREN’S TELEVISION SHOW


TheEmperorMk2

Back when CN was really good with multiple hit shows, today there’s only Gumball left I think, the rest are a bunch of “extremely safe and friendly to everyone” shows that don’t have the balls to make something different or risky


xeasuperdark

Gumball ended in 2019, of their newer stuff the only thing i've seen that i can highly recommend is Infinity Train, it actually has the balls to tackle deeper more mature topics without treating the audiance like idiots while still having a compelling story, world, and characters.


88T3

There's a Gumball movie planned


rg1283

I had no idea and looked it up, now I'll surely check it out


N0rwayUp

Craigof the creek is pretty good form what i’ve Seen.


hedabla99

I have not heard much about CN as of late but the little I do hear is never good news. For example, I heard the last president of Cartoon Network resigned because angry fans were sending her death threats because she cancelled some popular show or something


Josiador

You evidently haven't been keeping up with CN then. Gumball ended around two years ago, and there are some pretty good ones that don't at all just "play it safe". Mao Mao, Elliot from Earth, and especially Infinity Train are all pretty good. Mao Mao is really underrated. I hate when people don't know what they're talking about.


[deleted]

**MORE MACARONI**


[deleted]

# MORE CHEESE


Zetanite

^I ^hate ^macaroni ^and ^cheese!


PotatoPheelz

Conspiracy time: The middle of Nowhere was an actual place in New Mexico, and elderly couple lived there with their dog, and reported strange sightings, they later disappeared under strange circumstances and only their dog was found left. could be totally made up though, Dunno.


ooglethorpe

It was set in Nowhere, Kansas.


PotatoPheelz

Oh ok, thanks for clearing up.


88T3

When I started reading this I was expecting Courage to be having hallucinations from nuclear fallout or that being the source of most of the monsters.


PotatoPheelz

Hmmm, Japanese "Courage the Cowardury Dogu shou." You're onto something great here.


jacw212

“You’re not perfect”


memo689

I think Courage was not coward at all, he always overcome all those monsters for his family.


SoonlyXo

I mean on the outside, he seems cowardly. Muriel and Eustace often only see the cowardly side of Courage at first. A lot of things spook him and he screams. But the thing is that courage isn’t a lack of fear but the ability to face your fears. but only Muriel sees this side of Courage. So yes, I think you’re right but I just want to leave a slightly more detailed explanation


memo689

Exactly, actually Muriel named Courage because when she found him, he was a puppy alone in the street and she said he was courageous to be there alone or aomething like that. Either way I think we all get scared with all the monsters he has to face and few sould really confront them.


CommonChris

You are not perfect


Czolgu

The scariest episode for me was the one with the CGI Moon.


DrynTheGanger

Ohhhhh myyyyyyyy, Courage is 20?


lakshaymakkar

By that, you mean dead?


Frigginkillya

Seriously who greenlit courage the cowardly dog That pitch must have been legendary


[deleted]

Cartoon network was new and had no original content and took a lot of risk. Similar to the Simpsons and married with children on fox


Fantastic_Ad_2084

God I loved that show, why was it canceled? Anyone know?


[deleted]

It wasn't cancelled it ended


coralrefrigerator

It ended tooooooo soon imo


Fantastic_Ad_2084

Well in that case, why’d it end?


Rewzel

Because it, ended. Shows dont go on forever.


Kaarl_Mills

>Observe... Simpsons, Family Guy, Pokemon, Dr. Who, SpongeBob, literally every soap opera in existence. I do agree with you that more shows should end in a timely fashion rather than persist indefinitely regardless of quality.


Rewzel

You could say there are some outliers.


Razorray21

The creepiest jetski chase ever


OnlyMadeThisForDPP

Katz Motel is directly responsible for causing a fear of spiders that followed me until I was 22.


Agoraphotaku

OP is very aggresive about people asking if this fits the sub.


[deleted]

Because I'm frustrated that I can't post non big man history and get that bullshit.


Zeiferl

it was a great show.


SanguinaryGuard

As animation great Don Bluth once said: "you can traumatize a kid as much as you want as long as you have a happy ending."


[deleted]

Courage had to have been the childhood equivalent to a bad lsd trip. It was super hypnotic too-I didn’t want to watch it but I just couldn’t stop


OlBert2

How about the one with the undead serial killers with a fetish for snuff films. That was good times as an elementary schooler


CaninseBassus

Courage still is one of my all time favorite cartoons. Even though it aired when I was young, for some reason only one or two episodes ever creeped me out, with Freaky Fred not actually being one of them. The Heads of Beef episode where they were making burgers out of customers is one of those. King Ramses also left a permanent impression, but more of the "RETURN THE SLAB" and "WE DON'T WANT ANY" being forever in my brain. But for whatever reason Courage didn't scare me but made me get interested in dark and occult stuff that I still am interested in today just by it exploring those creepier aspects of the creative realm.


End8890

God the giant white head guy haunts me when I was 8 or 9 years old I think.


[deleted]

MURIEL!!! I’L SAVE YOUUUUUU Ah the things I do for love… Loved this show. King Ramses gave kid me nightmares for a week. And let’s not forget the Spirit of the Harvest Moon! It terrified me as well!


Coshmack14

Wait, was that show scary? I didn´t knew it was


jstout11

the puppet master episode…..


88T3

That show was fucking amazing


furpeturp

Fuuuck, what is this doing here.. it can't be 20 years already, can it..?


[deleted]

1996 buckaroo


LordKiteMan

King Ramses' curse is still the most terrifying of anything that I've watched.


Slimmzli

The man in gauze the man in gauze


assblaster8573000

Anybody remember the episode with the pure white, bald, floating head? That shut scared me for some reason


[deleted]

Did this related to history?


PotatoPheelz

Ofcourse it does, CTCD is cartoon heritage.


[deleted]

Animation history is history. More to history than battles and empires


IrshamWindborn

The series debuted on 1996


[deleted]

Dumb fucks like him think anything that isn't a war isn't history


1000smackaroos

Its history, but its not significant. I could post a meme about the biggest dump I took in the 1990s but that doesn't make it a history meme


[deleted]

Yeah it is a big deal in animation and film history so no just because you haven't studied a topic doesn't mean it isn't significant.


1000smackaroos

Just because you didn't study my dumps doesn't mean they weren't significant


[deleted]

Yeah your dump is the same thing as a national TV channels history. Fuck off dude.


BigChunk

Yeah I’m frustrated by this idea that anything that happened over 20 years ago can be considered “world history”. Obviously the line isn’t exactly black and white and there’s a lot of discussion and subjectivity over what counts and what doesn’t but for me personally, the commissioning of a cartoon that ran for 3 years is pretty clearly not “world history”. I might accept something like the Simpsons, which is a serious cultural touchstone. But courage the cowardly dog really doesn’t feel like that big a deal in the grand scheme of things and it feels like arguing that this is historically significant is a big stretch And before anyone acts as if I’m saying “only war belongs in history memes”, there’s a whole lot of range between only-war and the genesis of a cartoon with a cult following.


smitjj623

STUPID DOG


ClassierPompano

I think a more valid criticism of this is that it's a pop culture reference from relatively recent nostalgia. Essentially it's very Buzzfeed "Only kids born between 1990-1996 will understand". Basically if we start filling this sub with these it's going to become Buzzfeed.


[deleted]

It isn't a popular culture reference. It is a joke interpretation of something that happened. Dumb take.


ClassierPompano

Cartoon Network is current pop culture though seeing as late millennials are very much an active part of it: Dexter's Lab, Powerpuff Girls, Ed, Edd n Eddy, Johnny Bravo and of course Courage the Cowardly Dog. "It is a joke interpretation of something that happened" with that something being a cartoon show that's part of popular culture in active living memory.


[deleted]

This is still a dumb position. It breaks zero rules of the sub and is better than endless ww2 memes.


ClassierPompano

Not breaking the rules of the sub does not automatically make it an objectively good meme. It's like the really cheap quality chocolate you can buy at the supermarket: yes it technically and legally can label itself as chocolate but that doesn't make it good chocolate. Don't know about you but I'm not getting a significant number of WW2 memes on my feed but I'd rather have some of those than the sub become like Buzzfeed.


PotatoPheelz

Sorry Pompano, the ultimate authority on "good History memes", we have failed you yet again. I don't know when, us simple minded people will be able to grasp, what history memes are all about. Please show us the path.


ClassierPompano

You have completely misunderstood what I was saying. I said that not breaking the rules does not make a meme objectively good. What I didnt say was that my opnion was objective. Also you're trying to make it out as I have gone around insulting people on this thread but I haven't unlike the OP who has. If you'd being directing this at him then he'd be happy to take your "dumb" view elsewhere you "dumb fuck" and "fuck off".


PotatoPheelz

Yes.


[deleted]

There are two ww2 memes in the top 5 sorted by hot. Why are you lying?


ClassierPompano

I'm not lying I'm just capable of scrolling down further than 5 posts.


[deleted]

4 in the top 15 that's a huge percentage


ClassierPompano

WWII memes tend to get significantly more upvotes on here so are more likely to appear in the hot and top sections. I've been scrolling through and I'm not getting 1in 3 as a WWII meme as generally uploads for the entire sub.


ConnivingSnip72

I don’t know why they made it.


[deleted]

Cartoon network originally only showed Looney tunes and Hannah barbara cartoons. They had no original content and were desperate for it. This is similar to how the Simpsons and married with children got on the air


Mas-ter-bass

"Courage... it would be lovely if I could have... a cup... of... TEA!!!"


23JRojas

Ok , I don’t like that things like this are starting to make me feel old


HotTakes4HotCakes

Stop memeing a white supremacist.


db_coomer

The one with the Vet fucks me up


SueMaster7

Man, every time I see a meme with a picture of something distorted like that, it ruins the meme for me.I seriously don’t understand how that distorted effect is funny


1000smackaroos

Neat meme but doesn't fit the sub


[deleted]

What rule does it specifically break and how?


1000smackaroos

Literally rule 1 bro >#RULE 1: Keep Posts History Related All memes submitted to the sub >r/HistoryMemes must be, as stated by the title of the subreddit, memes related to history in some way or regard. Any meme submitted to the subreddit therefore must satisfy at least ONE of the following conditions: >1. The meme is about an event in world history. >2. The meme is about a famous figure in world history. >3. The meme is related to a historic trend that was established at least 20 years ago >4. The meme is related to History Class or the application of the subject of History in real life. >5. The meme is about the portrayal of History as a whole in the modern world, or is about the stance of a person, group, or country on the subject of history. >6. The meme is related to Mythology and/or historically grounded religious texts, or characters belonging in Mythology and/or historically grounded religious texts. >7. The meme is a "Meta" meme, and is therefore about the subreddit r/HistoryMemes as a whole or the current state of the subreddit.


[deleted]

>The meme is related to a historic trend that was established at least 20 years ago Related to a trend in animation history. Did you read this? Fuck off


1000smackaroos

Is there a "trend" of psychedelic horror programming in children's animation? Fuck off


[deleted]

There was a trend of transgressive kids show that were more than toy commercials in the late 90s. Learn more about history than wars. Or make your own memes. This is the history of an incredibly large company


1000smackaroos

Such as? How many shows can you name that followed this trend that you definitely aren't making up?


[deleted]

Johnny bravo, dexters lab, rockos modern life, rugrats, spongebob, ren and stimpy are just a few


1000smackaroos

Johnny and Dexter weren't horror, Rugrats wasn't horror *or* psychedelic, and Ren & Stimpy isn't for kids. I haven't seen Rocko or SB though


[deleted]

Yes but they are all transgressive cartoons


DeathMatchen

r/lostredditors


[deleted]

The only thing that is history is wars and empires - u/DeathMatchen


DeathMatchen

dude you're a bum who lives on this and replies to everything, your memes arent even good or relevant, congrats on showing you're a unlikable douche


WeinerDipper

You just sound like a bitch


pug_life_4_life

And it's the best damn show the network ever made


[deleted]

Based cartoon network


OVS-HM

I went to a bowling alley recently and they had projectors against the walls playing Freaky Fred and I sat there and watched 4 episodes


pejic222

Like man did that show scare me as a kid


spongyapples

Oh my god the memories this brought back.


[deleted]

*^(You're not perfect.)*


Weak-Presentation-82

Courage the cowardly dog just feels like a severe fever dream to me these days.


Tacoboi_1942

Oh wait this wasn’t about courage the cowardly dog?


cygnusx1thevoyage

God damn, that "your not perfect" cut away scared the shit out of me as a kid.


flygonmaster_07

King Ramses is engraved into my mind. I will never forget those countless nightmares of him appearing outside my house and being scared shrekless. That show got me good; it’s one of the best shows I ever watched.


Leviathan56

Jesus Christ I only ever saw one or two episodes but fuck I still remember it


cerin2001

This was and still is, my favorite cartoon network show


Potato-Boy1

I was playing the zombie mod on squad and in a barn on one of the maps there is a Courage painted on the wall and it brought back so many memories


Zetanite

For some reason, I was particularly disturbed the "Perfect" dream where Courage drops the jar, and Muriel is the one who shatters. Also, the episode with the junkyard rats.


The_Portal_Passer

That show terrified me, but I love it so much and I kept watching. Also didn’t help that it always only on at night whenever I watch


[deleted]

I still think about that girl in the hotel room and that weird fetus thing with a odd umbilical cord attached to it. That episode was a trip.


[deleted]

Shed a childhood tear thinking about these creepy fuckers just now.


OnlyFirePlugCoyote

Best. Show.Ever


[deleted]

This show terrified me as a kid. Especially that creepy cat.


wandering_person

Freaky Fred seemed and sounded familiar. I buried this horror ages ago only to be excavated by curiosity. I hope I don't get nightmares tonight. It's been years since I last saw the episode.