• Which cartoons had dark racist undertones?
Were some based on a real life murder and suicide?
Here are 15 of the creepiest conspiracies we have about cartoons
15 – My Little Pony demons • A school in Poland decided that My Little
Pony wasn’t suitable for any of their students.
The school principal decided it was promoting the occult, Satanism, vampirism and black
magic.
• And although you’d think other schools might tell him to chill out and stay away
from the glue cabinet, they all jumped on the crazy wagon, thanks to a priest named
Sławomir Kostrzewa.
• This guy claimed that My Little Pony was made by its creator, Ikaha Shimizu, as a tribute
to Satan for helping to heal his teenage daughter from cancer.
14 – The Flintstones is post-apocalyptic • The Flintstones was relatively similar
to life in America at the time it was aired.
But why did they have so much technology that seemed like a botched together version of
real, modern equipment?
• One theory suggests that Bedrock had survived a nuclear war and the families are now using
genetically modified animals and material around them to recreate the technology they
had before the war.
• Literally the plot of Horizon: Zero Dawn 13 – Jetsons live on same planet as Flintstones
• And how about we take The Flintstones theory a step further.
If regular people stayed on the ground, then the safest place for the rich would be up
in the skies, living in artificial cities.
• What if the Jetsons are the rich overlords of The Flintstones and they have just decided
to leave them down on the ground to rot and mutate extra limbs?
Both cartoons were made during the height of the cold war so a future apocalypse didn’t
seem that unrealistic.
12 – White Supremacist Smurphs • The Smurphs were happy living out their
little country lives until a French sociologist published a book linking them with the Nazis
and Stalin’s communist dictatorship.
Others have pointed to the white caps they wear as a nod to the KKK.
Papa Smurph’s red hat could either be similar to the Klan’s high wizard or Stalin.
• The Nazi link is thanks to their enemy Gargamel, who could be taken as an antisemitic
caricature.
11 – Donald Duck has PTSD • In most early Disney cartoons, the characters
had pretty similar personalities.
But they realised that would get boring quickly so they made Mickey more skittish and Goofy
dumber.
Donald, however, got angrier.
Like, he got really angry sometimes.
• And much of this happened after stories where he fought the Japanese in WW2.
So, what if Donald is suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder?
It also explains his occasional war flash backs.
10 – The Mushroom War was the Cold War • Adventure Time has a whole host of weird
and wonderful characters.
And in the show, they occasionally reference The Great Mushroom War.
• So, what if the Land of Ooo is an alternative world where the Cold War turned nuclear?
Ice King’s freezing lands are Russia.
Princess Bubblegum occasionally speaks German.
And Finn, young and trying to save everyone, he’s the US.
9 – Snow White is about cocaine • When Disney adapted the classic Snow White
tale, they had added some elements of their own.
If you thought Alice in Wonderland was the only druggy film Disney made, well think again.
• Snow White, White Snow; it’s all about cocaine.
Even the dwarves are names after various symptoms, effects and comedowns; happy, grumpy, sleepy
• The dwarves all work in a diamond mine but, as we all know, this is clearly a cover
so they can wander around with rocks of crack cocaine.
8 – Spongebob and the 7 deadly sins Some observant and paranoid viewers have noticed
that the main characters represent the seven deadly sins; Patrick is sloth, Mr Crab is
greed, Plankton is envy and so on.
• There are a lot of other conspiracies around the show; like it promotes homosexuality,
everyone’s on drugs, and spongebob is a tampon.
Yeah; he’s a sponge, he lives in bikini bottom, his neighbour is a pink starfish…you
get where this is going.
7 – Totoro is the god of death • My Neighbour Totoro is one of the greatest
animated films ever made and is loved for its array of cute and friendly characters.
There were a few little moments in the film that hinted at it’s dark origin.
• First, the sign on the cat bus reads Grave Road; a little ominous for such a sweet cartoon.
It features a scene with Jizo statues, who are supposed to protect those who die young.
And the whole film is set in the Sayama Hills.
• There was a real life murder case called the Sayama Incident, where a young girl was
murdered and then her older sister committed suicide.
• So, it’s thought Totoro is really the god of death and the girls can only see him
because they are dead.
6 – Rugrats are all imagined • The Rugrats was about the lives of talking
babies, led by the ever-bossy Angelica.
But what if most of these children were not real and were just an elaborate coping mechanism
for Angelica to deal with her horrible life?
• The only real baby is Dil, which is why he is the only one who can’t speak.
The others can chat away as much as Angelica’s twisted mind wants them too.
5 – Toy Story 3 holocaust • When the toys in Toy Story 3 realise they
are not wanted anymore, they consider hiding in the attic.
But they are found and sent off to a daycare centre where there is a high concentration
of other toys, also camped out there.
And eventually, their bodies are almost burnt up in the incinerator.
• This sounds familiar, right?
It sounds quite a lot like the holocaust, doesn’t it?
At the end of the film, they even relocate to a place where they are all wanted.
4 – The Fairly Odd Parents are antidepressants • The Fairly Odd Parents; Cosmo and Wanda
• They would help him deal with whatever problems came up but a core idea of the show
was that if he used them too much, things would get real bad.
• So, what if this is a metaphor for rise of antidepressants?
Cosmo is Zoloft, Wanda is Prozac • A show about Timmy just staring at the
wall for hours would have been a hard sell though
3 – Care Bear Voodoo • The Care Bears were easily identifiable
by the image they had on their bellies.
But were these really just random cute thing?
Or maybe there was a message hidden on the bellies of the beasts.
• They actually match up with Voodoo symbology • And when you compare the friendly spirits
of Voodoo with the Care Bears desire to just be friend, well…
it can’t be a coincidence.
2 – Charlie Brown has cancer • Peanuts always had a slightly sombre feel
to it, you felt like there was always a depressing cloud looming overhead.
Perhaps it was meant this way though and the reason Charlie Brown looked like a middle-aged
accountant is he actually had cancer.
• Maybe that squiggle on his forehead wasn’t a patch of hair, it was a horrifying tumour
on his face 1 – Homer Coma
• In a Simpsons episode from 1992, Homer slips into a coma and meets god.
God makes a joke that he’ll die in 6 months, • Then, in an episode 6 months later, Homer
ends up in another coma.
But what if he doesn’t really wake up.
• This would explain why no one ages and why the show got considerably wackier from
this point on.