Well since you all opened this up, time I get to open up with fangushing about another show I loved.
So, maybe most of you have never heard of a show called The Animals of Farthing Wood. I'll just let Cracked.com truncate it for ya:
Now, this show was my all time favourite as a kid. I LOVED this show to pieces and I still do. The animation isn't amazing, the soundtrack is not varied, but it has a great script...
and terrifyingly dark moments. So one particular example that I, Cracked, and any fan of this show will first tell you about, is the Butcher Bird.
So there's an episode where the field mice of the group have a darling group of little babies, all cute and everything. They decide to leave the journey because, well, baybehs.
One episode later, this happens to them.
Yeah...that's all the baby field mice.
I'd like to point out this bird is REAL and yes this is exactly what it does in nature. This isn't even the end of the terror!
In the entire first season of Animals of Farthing Wood, 10 of the original party are killed.
Five of them were children.
Now I may love this show, and it may have been the biggest influence of my life next to videogames, and it may have taught me everything about nature, love, hatred, jealousy, bigotry, mankind and road safety...this show was dark.
/Fangush.