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GizmotheMogwai17 wrote: The Top 20 Most Terrifying Muppets:

I'm sure most of you know that Disney can sometimes be utterly terrifying with the content they include in their films. Whether it be Maleficent, Chernabog, The Horned King, or those damn Pink Elephants from Dumbo most of us had at least one Disney character that fucked us up mentally when we were kids. But did you know that Jim Henson is even worse than Disney in regards to including out of place disturbing content is kid's shows? When The Muppets get dark, they get as dark as they possibly can. Jim Henson was infamous for his love of messing around with the censors and trying to see how much crap he could get past the radar which led to some pretty twisted moments. That's why I listed 20 of them instead of merely 10 this time around, there are just so many scary Muppets to count.

20:Silver Beak - This weird alien thing that appeared on The Muppet Show has one noticeable characteristic that makes him horrifying? He looks almost exactly like The Plague Doctor from The SCP Foundation!!!!!

19:The Shadow - This character from Bear In The Big Blue House was a talking shadow that Bear would often communicate with by chanting "Where could Shadow be?". What a bizarre and freaky concept right there.

18:The Yip-Yips - This duo of octopus-esque aliens from Sesame Street would randomly pop up like ghosts into someone's house invited, make weird noises, and float around with uncanny motions. When I was a little boy who couldn't separate fiction from reality, the whole idea of weird looking entities showing up inside the comfort of my own home like that gave me some legit paranoia.

17:Chopped Liver - This Muppet is a monster made entirely out of liver. So let me get this straight, he is a walking, talking, blobby mass of internal organs. If that isn't the textbook definition of nightmare fuel, I don't know what is.

16:Skeksis - Skeksis were one of two races in the cult classic gothic fantasy film movie The Dark Crystal. They looked like the corpses of decaying vultures. Almost as if Jim Henson picked up a rotting bird corpse, stuffed it, and started puppeting it. That is how realistic these creepy ass motherfuckers look.

15:The Thought Lion - When Jim Henson produced a variety show known as The Jim Henson Hour during the late 80s all the way up until his death in May of 1990, the series featured a rather unusual co-host alongside Jim himself. It was a giant white lion puppet who spoke in an unusually deep voice compared to most Muppets who speak in rather cartoonish voices.

14:The Demons - Yes, you read that correctly Jim Henson made Muppets that are supposed to resemble demons. He absolutely did NOT hold back when it came to accuracy for the character designs. Ever been freaked out by those ancient medieval paintings of demons? They looked almost exactly like that when they appeared in one episode of the short-lived fantasy program The Storyteller

13:Snook - While not technically an official Henson character, he was designed by the Bear In The Big Blue House crew so I guess he kinda counts. For those who are unaware, Snook was the main protagonist of the jungle themed puppet show It's a Big, Big World. He was a giant sloth who was a full bodied costume puppet similar to Big Bird or Sweetums. When I was younger, I would constantly have nightmares about Snook that for some strange reason would always involve him harvesting my organs. I sure was a weird kid, huh!?

12:Beautiful Day Monster - A mainly forgotten Sesame Street monster, this creature was nothing short of an asshole. He would bully children for no reason and whenever he'd use the magic words "Snarp gratch crundredge" all sorts of bad things would happen to the poor kids he's tormenting. Who on Earth thought that such a mean spirited jerk would ever be a good idea to include on Sesame Street of all shows?

11:The Brontosaurus - This Muppet appeared in a couple caveman themed sketches on The Muppet Show. I'm not quite sure why but he really used to give me the creeps and admittedly, he still does a little bit to this day.

10:Gorgon Heap - A big purple Muppet Show monster who would devour smaller creatures for no reason. He probably scared some children and others well, let's just say he may have helped kickstart a vore fetish for them lol.

9:Hugga Wugga - Another Muppet Show monster, this little purplish green weirdo would bully characters for no reason and emit smoke from his nostrils whenever he gets angry. He only said "Hugga Wugga" and would often say that abnormal phrase in an otherworldly, bone chilling voice that makes me shiver just thinking about it.

8:The Zizzy Zoomers - Back in the first couple of Sesame Street seasons, the show featured a lot of bizarre experimental sketches. One of them was The Zizzy Zoomers which featured a group of floating aliens that would repeatedly make the "zzzzzzzzzz" sound with their mouths set to music.

7:The Orange Thing - This unnamed beast from The Wubbulous World Of Dr. Seuss was a big tall orange sasquatch that appeared out of nowhere in one episode. His presence made absolutely no sense in context. You couldn't even call it a cutaway gag because there was no build up whatsoever, he just showed up and then left.

6:The Hands - In one of my all-time favorite fantasy movies Labyrinth, there was a scene where Sarah fell down a hole with a bunch of talking green, scaly hands with an almost reptilian appearance to them. The hands would just mock the poor girl as she fell to her potential doom.

5:King Ploobis, Scred, and The Mighty Favog - Back when The Muppets were featured on Saturday Night Live there were a handful of alien creatures on there that sported nightmarish appearances. King Ploobis was a giant snake-like dragon with a crown and bull horns, Scred was a reptilian being with yellow eyes who spoke in an eerie voice reminiscent of Pazuzu from The Exorcist, and The Mighty Favog was a living statue who's loud booming voice never failed to terrify me as a child. Did I just describe a trio of demons I once had a nightmare about? Nope, believe it or not I just described some Muppets.

4:The Fireys - Also from Labyrinth, The Fireys were a group of red bird-like demons who danced around a fire and had the ability to pop their own eyes out. With realistic puppet designs, uncanny dancing motions, and soulless yellow eyes. I think it's safe to say that these guys caused many of 80s kids to run for the hills upon seeing these monstrosities dancing around on their TV screens.

3:The Nightmare - This Muppet is exactly what his name suggests. Debuting on a segment from The Ed Sullivan Show, The Nightmare was basically The Grim Reaper in Muppet form.

2:Fred the Dragon - A green horned dragon with large fangs and yellow eyes who had major anger issues, growled like a lion, and always showed up at the most unexpected times. Can you believe that such a thing was ever allowed on Sesame Street?

Before I get to number one, I can't even begin to emphasize how much this thing scared the living hell out of me growing up. Even right now while I'm typing this, I can feel my hands shaking, my body sweating like crazy, and shivers trickling down my spine. Every single night until I was at least 7 years old, I would check my closet for this horrible beast. I could make an entire book out of all the nightmares I had about her. The mere mention of her is enough to make me feel physically ill even now as a 20-year-old man. Whatever show or possibly even movie the creature was from, I saw it two times. The second time around, I knew exactly what would happen and let's just say I've never turned off the TV so quickly in my life. This thing scared me so bad that my mind literally repressed the memory of it for the longest time. It wasn't until a couple days ago when I was singing a song from Eureeka's Castle (cuz unfortunately that's my life nowadays lmao) when suddenly the forgotten memory of her just randomly popped into my brain. No matter how hard I research, I can't find anything about it. It was probably something that got banned due to being too terrifying. This monster is the epitome of everything I fear:

1. Sarah (real name unknown) - I have no idea where this character came from but I'm almost 100 percent sure that she's from a Jim Henson production. I remember seeing an episode of some show when I was a child where a character looks under his bed and sees a HUGE pink anthropomorphic rabbit with yellow eyes, fangs, talons (?), long bony fingers, and an out of place lizard-like tail. She growled and hissed at the boy with a very angry look on her face. If there's ever a way a Muppet could have a look of pure fury in it's eyes, this was it. She then spoke to him in an extremely loud, almost alien-esque voice. It was at the point that I ran from the TV screaming for my mom, bawling my eyes out as though I'd seen a ghost. I know nothing about this creature but I have given her the nickname Sarah after our next door neighbor who likes to raise bunnies for a living. I don't know what the fuck this thing was but it has given me a permanent mental scar that will never go away. Let me put it this way, I'm literally crying at the moment. Holy crap! I finally found where "Sarah" the bunny that scared me so bad when I was a kid came from. She wasn't even a Muppet at all but rather a character from Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey. I can totally see why I thought she was a Muppet however because the character design totally looks like something Jim Henson's Creature Shop would come up with (she'd fit right in with Robbie Sinclair and all the other dinosaurs from Jim Henson's Dinosaurs).

Robot Chicken recently parodied Bill and Ted in one of their episodes and I hadn't seen either of the movies. But the sketch they did certainly made me want to check them out. So I binged both of them one after another and when I came to that rabbit scene in the sequel, I literally had a traumatic flashback like a fucking Vietnam war veteran would. A vivid image of the exact place, room, and time of day that I first saw the clip came to my mind as thought I was reliving the experience all over again. The scene in question is where Ted goes to his own personal Hell which included an evil pink Easter Bunny. I don't know where 4-year-old me would've seen a PG-13 movie but I suspect it was at my babysitter's house (she was the "cool babysitter" who would let me watch some edgier things. She even got in BIG trouble one time for showing me an old Richard Pryor comedy special one time lol).

I'm so relieved to finally be able to set this nightmarish rabbit mystery to rest!