Bizarre urban legends about cartoons

If ever such a disturbing episode like that existed, it would be banned in fear of traumatizing thousands of Americans and Matt Groening would probaby be arrested and taken Area 51. That description may give me nightmares. Really disturbing.
 
The Gargoyles urban legend doesn't seem very believable. I can't see any network canceling a show because someone had a problem with a character's ethnicity.

The Dragon Ball AF urban legend brings me back to my school days. I actually bought into it for a while but then checked it out online.



D&D always got heat back then because people thought that occult things were satanic. Some still do.
 
Under the supervision of seasons 2 and 3 of the 1967-70 Spider-man as well as season 3 of Rocket Robin Hood by Ralph Bakshi, it was rumored then some writers and designers of the backgrounds drinked and smoked some unorthodox things. When we saw a psychedelic episode like "Revolt in the Fifth Dimension", it's not difficult to convince.
 
I read somewhere that the Nation of Islam threatened to kill Matt Stone and Trey Parker if they made an episode of South Park ridiculing Louis Farrakhan.

Also, a private school I went to in the early 2000s spread some crazy religious propaganda about Pokemon "luring children into occultism" and "being inspired by Satan." I don't know if the school really believed that or if it was just an excuse to ban anything Pokemon-related.

And not really an urban legend about animation, but I remember a Canadian cartoon anthology named "Freaky Stories", which was essentially Snopes: The Animated Series.
 
I remember hearing some woman on the radio saying, and I'm pretty sure this is a direct quote, "the kids open the cards, they trade the cards, and the Devil walks right in."

Honestly, I don't know how that Devil/Pokemon thing started. A mother of a kid at the pokemon card league I went to during the turn of the century actually went to a church where the preacher made a sermon about the evil of pokemon. She got really mad and asked him if he had ever watched the show, seen or played the video game or card game. He hadn't :sweat:
 
Back before high speed Internet made it easy to watch the Japanese version of Pocket Monsters, there were rumors that Satoshi (Ash) gives Kasumi (Misty) his hat before she left at the end of the Jouto reason. It was significantly harder to watch the episodes for ourselves back then, so people could pull off BS like that and get away with it.

Of course, once the episode was aired in the U.S., that rumor was dispelled.


I've also come across some doctored images from the DP Battle Dimension season that make it look like Hikari (Dawn) is always flashing her nether regions to the camera. The idea is that in Japan, Hikari is constantly exposing herself and that the dub edits all of that out.
 
Transformers has a few, mainly about graphic content being cut from the movie. There is one famous case of this being generally true (Spike swearing) but the various legends state all kinds of horribly twisted scenes have vanished. Chalk it up to bad memories and fanboys expecting too much.

Gundam Wing carries the rumour that in the next to final episode, you can obscurely see two people having sex. One of the characters is going through an enemy ship opening near every door to find someone and comes across something that leads him to comment "...I never expected to see that". The debate is over if it's the five scientists he's seen with in his very next scene or something more lewd.

I think most every popular show carries the 'kid did something stupid looking for cast' rumour. There used to be one that kids were going into sewers hoping to find the Ninja Turtles.
 
That's actually the truth. See, in 1994, a little girl in Norway was killed by two boys pretending to be Power Rangers (i actually remember hearing about it on the news right after it happend, and you can find information about it on the swedish wikipedia page for Power Rangers). After that, Power Rangers was cancelled in Sweden (untill it was un-cancelled about a decade later, if i remember correctly). And at the same time, certain Swedish television channels decided to cancell other childrens programs which were considered too violent, including Darkwing Duck.
 
And the guy who runs Pok?Sho isn't helping in that regard, either, considering how many American fans mistake the site's fan art as the genuine article.

In fact, Pok?Sho has been indirectly responsible for a few other Pok?mon urban legends. Remember when they did that elaborate fan art for an imaginary spin-off anime starring Haruka and everybody thought it was real?
 
The closest I can find on this subject can be found here. Whether Walt himself held anti-Semitic views is debatable, but it's undeniable that anti-Semitic views did creep into Disney animation, all of which was approved by Walt.

Disney also seems prolific in the number of urban legends it churns out, from the "SEX in the dust" legend in The Lion King to the phallus on the Little Mermaid cover to the "teenagers take off your clothes" line in Aladdin. Of course, some of them did turn out to be true, such as the spliced-in naked woman picture in The Rescuers and the induced lemming suicide leaps in one of their nature documentaries.
 
I remember those rumors got started because of two reasones. The first was due to the banned episodes. Like Beauty and the Beach and Legend of Dratini. The second people find out something gets band and they see two or three screenshots of some big breasts or handguns pointed at Ash's head and people start going crazy thinking that trype of content is in every episode. That and Dragonball Z and Sailor Moon having so much cut from there shows made some people think all anime is like that. People even over exagerated the content cut from those shows as well.



We have a winner on most bizarre that was creepy but towards the end you could tell it was BS. I got a feeling the guy who wrote that wanted people to know it was made up. I mean come on Matt Groening having future death visions goes crazy from them and makes a warped episode come on. I hope nobody bought into that one.
 
Wish I knew any cool urban legend, or at least something creepy like Dead Bart. That one is both the least belieable and the most creepy.



Ah yes I remember that show! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM9iHMDc0iM

It was hosted by a roach and worm duo of puppet! You also had the 'short' version where the individual stories were just aired between shows. It was pretty neat because it had all sorts of animation styles.
 
The story Ive heard is that they'd done a cartoon where Mickey and Minnie went on a date. When Mickey dropped her home, he gave her a good night kiss, either a peck on the lips or a kiss on the cheek. When Walt saw it, he flipped out and said something like, "That doesn't happen in my cartoons!"
 
I remember hearing somewhere that two of the male Digimon trainers in the first season of the show were actually a gay couple in the Japanese version (dont remember which characters though), something i've later realized wasn't true. But of course, since two female characters in Sailor Moon actually were lesbian lovers in the japanese version of that show, i guess the Digimon rumor really isn't far fetched at all...
 
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