Nightmare Fuel / Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers

How could a show about crime-solving rodents be creepy? You'd be surprised.

Animated Series

• In "Pound of the Baskervilles", when Lord Howie gets wise to the Rangers and McDuff running around, he grabs a shotgun and tries to shoot them! He gets pretty close a few times as well.
• The Rangers getting sewed inside of the carpet in "The Carpetsnaggers".
• Sparky's eyes when he's brainwashed in "Does Pavlov Ring a Bell?" are extremely creepy. Made worse when he is trying to electrocute Chip and Dale.
  • The episode's Cold Opening. It shows a bank after hours. Then the phone rings, but when the night guard on duty answers, a whistle blows. Just as the guard writes it off as a prank call, the alarm goes off, but the guard doesn't see anyone in the bank. Then, a robot with glowing eyes burst out of the ground. The whole thing has very little light, making the robot look even creepier.
  • When Nimnul comes back into the lab, Chip, Dale, and Monty are all trapped in his maze that's a model of the sewer system. If it hadn't been for Gadget's quick thinking to get them out, who knows what would have happened if Nimnul had spotted them?
• On the topic of Cold Openings from this show, "A Creep in the Deep" starts with a truck driver driving a truck full of fish down a dark highway. Suddenly, he sees something coming towards him at rapid speeds and when he swerves, the other thing rams into the truck, bursting it open and then disappearing. It's little surprise everyone thought it was a monster.
  • Captain Finn's plan. Ram into the city dam and flood the town. Even worse, the show implies what the results would have been. And Finn wants all those people to die!
• "Chocolate Chips" is easily the creepiest episode in the series. Highlights include:
  • The first time we see the mosquitoes attack. They rapidly swarm everyone, including the hapless human tourists and even most of Rangers.
    • Zipper is one of the ones bitten by the mosquitoes despite them being bigger than he is which should mean a painful injury at that size instead of just an annoying bite like the others.
  • Seeing the humans and animals working together with no fanfare. An unspoken rule of the series was that humans didn't know that the animals were intelligent outside of the villains. Here? We see them all, while brainwashed by the Villain of the Week, working together like nothing is wrong. It just feels...wrong.
  • The fact that, while under mind control, the Rangers were willing to potentially let themselves get burned alive through being dipped in molten chocolate like chocolate covered confectionaries! They were also perfectly fine trying to murder Dale.
  • All of the Rangers having an empty stare in that state.
• Gadget nearly getting crushed to death in "Mind Your Cheese and Q’s"
  • Monterey's cheese addiction, while usually more comical than anything, is played in more serious matter in this episode. You can see him visually struggling when he tries to control himself and just in last second he is able to snap out of it. At one point, he even hallucinates that Zipper is a piece of cheese!
  • There is something really off-putting in Monty's eyes◊ when he finds Rat Capone's cheese lair.
• Tom when under Fat Cat's control in "Robocat". Gone is the sweet, mild mannered cat that just wanted fur and a home. In his place is a literal war machine.
• "The Pied Piper Power Play": The fact that Nimnul gets all those mice under his control so easily. And this includes Monty and Gadget!
  • If it hadn't been for the quick thinking of both Monty and Gadget, the Rangers and all the other mice would have died in the explosion of Nimnul's lair.
  • That creepy high-pitched sound that Nimnul's machine makes.
• What makes Dale finally realize that he is no longer playing the spy game the other Rangers set up for him in "Double O Chipmunk"? The three bad guys threatening to murder his friends with a mind controlled laser if he doesn't take pictures of the plans for it that he ruined.
• In "Out to Launch" Chip and Dale get ejected into space and would have been left behind for two weeks had Monty, Gadget and Zipper not come after them.
  • When the asteroid hits the ship, it ends up knocking the astronauts out and leaving everyone at risk of running out of oxygen.
• "A Lad in a Lamp": Monty turning into the Genie and just the fact alone that if you wish for the Genie's freedom, it's you who will be the next one.
  • The deathtrap that the Rangers end into when Mole wishes their doom.
• "Love Is A Many Splintered Thing": Erol, Desiree's lover, is last seen getting locked in the cage of a vicious dog and then attacked. It is implied the dog killed him!
  • If it wasn't enough that Desiree manipulated Monterey for her criminal deeds, she outright tries to murder him when she doesn't need him anymore.
• "Le Purrfect Crime" sees Dale get amnesia, causing Maltese de Sade to convince him he is his minion, Ramdale, and that the Rangers are his enemies. Since it's Dale, he should be a Laughably Evil, Harmless Villain, right? Nope. Ramdale is serious about taking the Rangers down and chases them all over the city. Imagine what would happen if he hadn't been turned back.
  • Later in the episode, Maltese de Sade kills a beatnik mouse by throwing him off the Eiffel Tower.
• El Emenopio from "When Mice Were Men" was The Dreaded and boy does he live up to it. He tramples over the mice village in hopes of luring Monty out and comes dangerously close to killing him and all of the other Rangers. And unlike the other bulls who look friendly, he is pure black, has red eyes and very sharp horns.
• The mouse tribe in "Gadget Goes Hawaiian" have never had a queen because no one has ever survived the tests.
• "A Lean on the Property" shows how merciless Fat Cat is when comes to destroying the Rescue Rangers; he kidnaps Monty's mom, Camembert Kate, and ties her on the top of the tallest building. When his moles dig out underground, the building collapses on her and the Rangers, who have come to rescue her.
• Ribbit, the giant frog from "Zipper Come Home" is introduced eating one of the helpless water beetles, who it's implied he's already enslaved. He then breaks the Never Say "Die" rule of the show, demanding that the beetles bring him a fly, or he'll kill all of them.
  • From the same episode, after capturing Chip, Dale and Gadget, the beetles lock them in a cage and, due to the rain starting again, are trapped in a Drowning Pit, putting Monty on a second Race Against the Clock to save both them and Zipper.
• Dale during "Dale Beside Himself" is so overcome with joy at having encounter a real alien. He so willingly accepts and allows himself to be taken over by his shapeshifting doppelganger and sent into space that even when he is among the other aliens, he is still excited to be with them. If Dale had not realized the situation later on, he could have been never seen again had the aliens continued on to Fleeblebrox. Even more so had both Bric and Brak freeze Dale before he was able to escape. All this while none of the Rescue Rangers would have realized that their original Dale is gone and all they have is the fake alien Dale.

Comics

• The A.R.S signal on full effect; it brainwashes the target, turns their eyes red and makes them incredibly strong.

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