How to Be a Detective - Dark Toons 

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I also recommend How To Haunt A House because in that one they do spend it all in a pretty mansion but Goofy dies right at the beginning and spends the whole cartoon as a ghost having to figure out how to haunt his new mansion and the ending with him and the quacker he's trying to scare is somewhat dark and really funny.

"Don't come back till you're ready!" That's ICONIC coming from a medical examiner lol

I always thought when Goofy goes to hit the weasel with the blackjack that he’s just so inept that he knocked himself out, not that he knocked out the weasel but ended up in the alley himself. Also, you know the writers toyed with the idea of instead of using goof balls they “slip him a Mickey”.

Glad this series is back. I would recommend The Joy from The Amazing World of Gumball

Nice to see this series is coming back. I recommend Jack and the Haunted House from Samurai Jack. Edit: Another suggestion came to my mind. "It's A Wishful Life" from Fairly Odd Parents. Episode is an It's A Wonderful Life spoof but Timmy learns world is better and everyone is happier without him.

As a fan of '40's and '50's film noir, this looks delightfully dark and funny! So many tropes make an appearance.

I mean, technically they did figure out how to do a woman in the goofy-verse eventually...Peg from Goof Troop

I'm so happy this series is back. I honestly missed the hell out of it

My dad had a collection of these Goofy how-to cartoons on DVD, and I watched all of them CONSTANTLY, including this one. It's actually been a while, I need to watch them all again. Putting Goofy in how-to videos was comedic perfection!

Nice to see this series come back

I definitely want to see any cartoon Disney wouldn’t show. If you haven’t already I’d be interested in your take on Rock and Rule.

I love this series. Just how passionate he is about them and how well he breaks down the details and techniques of the cartoons in the art styles and shadows and humor, he's so good at putting it into words and I'm all here for it

I remember watching his cartoon when I was a little kid and you heard the guy screaming as he's getting thrown off the bridge.

I recommend "The Ed's are Coming" from Ed Edd n Eddy. It was a part of Cartoon Network Invaded Specials but the episode works on its own and is even more creepy on its own.

I remember this Goofy cartoon, haven't seen it in years though but i do remember how dark it really was.

It's not a Dark Toon, but my favorite Goofy cartoon is Motor Mania. You should react to that one sometime. It's a timeless classic, featuring Goofy in a Jekyll and Hyde role as the calm, restrained Mr Walker and the wildly angry and unleashed Mr Wheeler.

Yeah you see this gag on the movie The Mask. Where he's shot dozens of times and he's like miss me and then he drinks some water and water pours out of his numerous bullet holes and he's like I guess not.

I saw this one on television some time in the late eighties, probably alongside a showing of Roger Rabbit. The wild, over-the-top violence stuck with me, I always die laughing at the phone booth that just gets riddled with bullets for no reason XD

Happy to see that Dark Toons is back! I suggest you check out an episode of the DCAU’s Static Shock (based on the Static Comics) titled “Jimmy”, and it gets pretty dark, and in a grounded real life kind of way. That’s all I’m gonna say, but trust me. It’s something dark.

Hey Doug, I got a request: “Operation: F.A.S.T.-F.O.O.D.” from _Codename: Kids Next Door._ It has basically the same premise as “Heads of Beef”, only this episode takes that idea a little bit further.

One of my favorite examples of putting Goofy in adult situations is when he's still allowed to be, well, Goofy! Still absent minded, still dorky, but dealing with more mature themes. There's this, there's Father's Day Off (Goofy's wife cheating on him with the deliverymen is funny enough, but him just assuming they're friendly is hilarious), there's Teachers are People too, even A Goofy Movie can be thrown in the mix. It's like watching SpongeBob, or Homer, or Soos. That contrast between innocence and cynicism is the real thing that makes this fun

I'm so glad we're getting more of these! I'd really like to see you do the "Total Drama Island" episode "Hook, Line & Screamer".

i don't know if this counts but i recommend "and then she was gone..." from as told by ginger. it's a more emotional dark, but touches on how we express ourselves and those effects on others.

To think, people actually think it was "shocking" and "dark" seeing Goofy get hit by a falling rock in Kingdom Hearts 2. Man, hope such people never see this cartoon they might have an existential crisis XD

“Party of one” from mlp and “northwest manor mystery” from gravity falls should be covered

The saying "they just don't make em like they used to" holds So much more meaning when it comes to these old dark cartoons.

I don't know if this would count but I always remembered the goofy cartoon 'Motor Mania' from 1950 and the face he gets after he sits behind the wheel. They actually showed us this cartoon at a class we had to take to get our learners permit and start our lessons.

I recommend the Ben 10 episodes Last Laugh and Ghostfreaked Out as they are connected, the latter episode being a follow up to Last Laugh and they are possibly the scariest and darkest episodes in the entirety of a mostly light-hearted, super hero franchise. And if those episodes get you interested, check out the Ben 10 Omniverse episode, Something Zombozo This Way Comes, it’s not nearly as dark or scary as the previous two episodes but it features the return of the main villain of Last Laugh, the soul eating killer clown, Zombozo!

Nice to see Dark Toons is back! I'm going to recommend The Amazing World of Gumball episodes to you until you cover one. "The Joy" is one people point to a lot and it is a good one, I'd recommend "The Puppets" as well. It's a typical creepy puppet story but they got the people from "Don't Hug Me I'm Scared" on board, which is fun. I'd also recommend looking at some episodes of The Cuphead Show. "Ghosts Ain't Real" is a fun homage to creepy cartoons from back in the day like "The Skeleton Dance", while an actual dark episode would probably be "The I-Scream Man" where Mugman just snaps.

Glad to see this series making a comeback as it was one of my favourites. I would recommend watching 'The Animals of Farthing Wood'. Just the whole thing. Super dark.

Maybe for Nostalgiaween, you could do a quick Dark Toons on Ed, Edd n Eddy's Boo Haw Haw, since it is a Halloween special, and it has Ed's imagination turning the other kids into monsters and it's just, to me, hilarious.

It wouldn’t really fit since it’s not dark as in intimidating or scary. But the episode “Find Her, Keep Her” from The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh (which you spoke about at length in your Disneycember 2019) is known for being one of the most dramatic, mature Pooh stories ever told, right behind Pooh’s Grand Adventure.

Sheesh! And you thought the one with Donald Duck having that nightmare of that detective book he was reading all those years ago was bad enough!

I recall a disturbing episode from an old Claymation show called Gogs. The show is largely just a gross out, fart jokey show so I can't say I recommend it for most people, but this one episode really stuck with me. It involves the grandpa of this caveman family dying from eating a poisonous fruit and getting buried. The grandson is at the grave and watches the grandpa rise from the dirt in a really freaky way. Not sure you'll get into the general humor, but that scene alone was one of the scariest things I ever saw in my whole childhood.

The "how to get fit at home" one with Goofy was the funniest thing I've seen as a kid, next to the one where Donald builds an instant-plane that melts mid-flight. Both had me in tears. The way they use music makes it funnier.

Graveyard Shift from Spongebob. It's even darker than Nasty Patty that you already covered

Doug watch The Powerpuff Girls Season 1, Episode 5, Abracadaver. It have a Zombie Magician in it, it would be Prefect to do for a Dark Toons Episode.

Man I'm so happy that Dark Toons is back :D Some great Dark Toons videos would be the Gravity Falls mansion episode and Halloween episode.

hell yes, dark toons returns! 💕 doug's appreciation for the older goofy shorts is infectious, there's some hilarious content in those old ones

*Shadows of characters being hanged* Doug: "That's Disney!" *Immediately thinks of Clayton's death in Tarzan* Me: "Yep."

Great episode! My suggestion for Dark Toons is the "Hypochondri-cat" (name might be wrong) from Looney Tunes. Basically a hypochondriac cat is tricked by the mice into thinking he's sick and dying.

8:27 Literally giving him the shaft, ha, good one. Thats actually funny

YAY!!! More crazy Disney Shorts!

I didn't expect a Goofy 'How to' cartoon to be this scary.

I like the fact that he changed the intro to mostly cartoons that he’s covered on this series before.

I remember that show that with play music videos and you would have the various Disney cartoons playing in the background. It was called DTV. And the Hall and Oates song Private Eye. Featured this goofy detective cartoon.

I always used to say (albeit talking about video games) the measure of a good background is how disappointed you are when you realize it's just a background and you can't go there.

Glad this series has made a return!

What's the scariest cartoon that Doug watched that scared the pants out of him?

Also nice that this is a film noir parody from when the genre was still somewhat current, especially given how many film noir parodies have been made in the decades since.

Good to see the return of Dark Toons. I'd recommend Tiny Toons: Toons From the Crypt-Night of the Living Pets. Along with One More Drink, its the other Tiny Toon episode that got banned.

This is my favorite Goofy short! A smile popped on my face when I got this notification! I hope you enjoy it!

Yes! I’ve been requesting this one!

I loved this, it was hilarious, wish there was a place to check out older Disney cartoons

I have a Courage The Cowardly Dog suggestion, you should check out the episode "Profiles Of Courage" where an old man makes life size paper cut outs of Muriel and Eustace and those cut outs come to life and steal Muriel and Eustace's lives.

One of my favorite jokes about the Goofy cartoons and how violent they were, there is an episode of House of Mouse (I remember you did a Disneycember of it one time) where Max was trying to convince Goofy to get him a car, and shenanigans ensue convincing Goofy that Max isn’t responsible. In response, Mickey and Friends pull out a compilation of “Goofy’s younger days driving” with the old Goofy shorts where he’s exhibiting road rage and getting into accidents and basically calling out Goofy for not being a responsible driver himself, and I think that’s a funny way to bring in the older stuff as almost a “Kids, here is an example of what NOT to do.”

Alan Reed did a voice similar to that fancy narrator voice in the "Flinstones" episode that was a play on Cinderella. Fred's fairy godmother turns him into Frederick J. [Unintelligible Noise], who speaks very properly, so he can attend a party given by Mr. Slate . Of course, at Midnight, Fred suddenly regains his normal gruff voice and has to flee.

I recommend “The Ringing of the bell” from Over the Garden wall. It’s very dark! And yes I know this series is for shows made for little kids. But Over the garden wall is both. It has a demon that eats the souls of children but it also has a song called “Potatoes and Molasses”

I feel like because Goofy isn’t reacting to the horrible things happening to him, it doesn’t come off as dark as “Donald held at gunpoint” or “Mickey about to be dissected.” Of course, this is still a great short and I feel like I missed it due to the amount of over the top violence that was on display. Still, I know I got a couple laughs watching this and Goofy is usually a great lead when he gets his chance in the spotlight.

Another Suggestion: The Wearin' Of T Green. Our old pal Porky Pig stops by a mysterious mansion on a dark and stormy night seeking shelter. Little that he knows that the mansion is inhabited by leprechauns who are convinced that Porky is there to steal their pot of gold. Porky ends up wearing a pair of enchanted dancing shoes.

An excellent review of a classic cartoon. Keep covering the good stuff!

I loved Looney Tunes “Hyde and Hare” when I was younger

Another toon that shocked me as a kid was "Chicken little" from 1942. The ending was a bit more chocking that the movie was.

Super happy to see this is back! I know this is a quite recent cartoon but I would recommend u checking out the Amazing world of Gumball episode - "The puppets". Apparently the puppets were made and designed by the same guys who made "Don't hug me I'm scared" a psychological, horror series.

I really like these Dark Toons videos. Not only is it cool to learn more about all these dark cartoons, but I like how laid back and relaxed Doug is.

The 1940s-mid 50s was the golden age of film noir. And so many other studios tried to cash in on it! Heck Universal studios even made some noir/horror films; one of which even had Bela Legosi as a crime boss! But I can't remember the title of it...

I remember this one from my childhood. My sister and me used to watch it a lot. I remember being scared at times, especially with the escene where you see all the people murdering each other,specially the guy hanging....fuckin damn dark...also funny as all hell. The sound effects are burned into my brain with some details like the inner pockets in the coat

There was this one Donald Duck cartoon called "Donald's Camera" from 1941. It's mostly standard, although it opens up with Donald window shopping for a camera, where a sign in the window reads "shoot nature with a camera instead of a gun", in a shop right next to a sporting goods shop with a shotgun on display along with stuffed woodland creatures all having terrified faces. Throughout the short, a bird keeps on pestering Donald while threatening to destroy the camera. The ending was later censored (kind of hilariously) with a iris wipe to black just before Donald goes ballistic, turning into a literal electric flash and rushing for the shotgun in the opening then going after the bird. As a kid I hated that ending for that dark turn, despite the cartoon's average mean spiritness for a Donald short. It's up there along with Donald pulling out his gun at the end of "Magician Mickey", or maybe more so even.

OK, now that you've covered a detective-themed cartoon, go for the Daffy Duck short "The Great Piggy Bank Robbery" The payoff of the whole scenario is kinda hohum but the Duck Twacy sequence has a blazingly surreal climax. You'll never see Sylvester the same way again.

The Song of the Birds: Two cartoons of this title, one a 1935 cartoon directed by Max Fleischer, and a 1948 remake featuring the character Little Audrey. Basic premise is a child shoots a baby bird with a toy gun, seemingly killing it. The parents of the bird grieve and hold a funeral. Might be interesting to compare the two versions. Peace on Earth: An elderly squirrel tells his grandchildren the story of how humans went extinct due to their love of war. Also has a remake called "Good Will to Men." The Pincushion Man (also called Balloon Land): a strangely phallic shaped pincushion creature wants to murder living people made of balloons (and he does). Animaniacs 2020 episode "Good Warner Hunting": A hunter hunts down the characters from the old show. Depictions of the characters with their heads mounted on the wall is not only dark but especially disturbing to old fans of the original (even if they are totally fine in the end). Education for Death: Disney WWII propaganda cartoon about how Hitler's rule will lead the children of Germany to their deaths. The Old Army Game: Donald Duck cartoon where Donald ends up in a situation where he is far too enthusiastic to commit suicide.

Kids Next Door is a show that has a surprising amount of Dark moments. PINKEYE is one of them, but there are honestly different episodes that also get really dark.

Disney's Hell's Bells would be fun to see. Not really super DARK, but themed around a topic Disney is rather unwilling to utilize much these days, and probably a short they prefer to keep in their vault.

I'd like to recommend The Silly Symphony 'Who killed Cock Robin'. To put it simply, the short is a musical murder trial. It's funny but also disturbing.

Tex Avery had some dark cartoons especially one called "Who Kill Whom?"

I remember a really dark moment in a Disney cartoon, where Donald Duck is the sheriff of a wild west town that is visited by the bandit Pete. Pete attacking the town is a moment used twice in both Goofy Two Gun and The Lone Chipmonks featuring Chip and Dale. This one is rather unique as it depicts Pete on a murder spree while robbing the bank and ends with Donald getting shot (off screen). It was used an intro to the Goofy Two Gun cartoon if I remember correctly, making me suspect there are two versions of Goofy Two Gun.

It actually reminds me of an italian Goofy comic series (Pippo Reporter), it takes place in the 30s, where Goofy is accidentally hired as a reporter for the Morning Blot when he tried to order some pizza, but his boss is secretly a crime lord, and basically Goofy unknowingly ruins his evil plans by actually doing his job, this was a hilarious series ^^

This one did run here in Germany when I was a kid in the 90s, they actually showed a bunch of cartoons they wouldn't show today anymore, like the ones with Donald in the Army (except for when he joined the you-know-what army, that one obviously never made it here X3) and stuff like that, but this one I saw more than once back then, and I totally loved it. Big Film Noir fan to this day, maybe that came from this cartoon.

You should check out a Cartoon Network mini-series called Over the Garden Wall. It has some exceptionally dark moments and beautiful symbolism. The backgrounds are absolutely stunning.

Goofy tricking the goon with the lighter is so practical and smart... did not expect that from Goofy of all toons.

Good to have you back. And good to see this back.

This series is awesome keep em comin!!!

I highly recommend “The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians: Episode 4: The Fear.” Airing in early October 1985 and written by Alan Burnett (DCAU, anyone?), this episode has the Scarecrow discovering that Batman (voiced by the late great Adam West) is afraid of a certain place called Crime Alley. This episode shows Batman in a way not yet seen at the time: truly vulnerable. It also features the first ever onscreen depiction of Batman’s origins, from his parents to Joe Chill. This is considered the darkest and most controversial Super Friends episode ever. I cannot recommend it enough.

Another great episode Doug. I still recommend checking out the Samurai Jack Episode: "Jack and the Haunted House." Not gonna be annoying about it, but I will try and recommend it whenever these come out. Because I do like this series from you, and I like to see what shows/episodes get covered and hear your thoughts on it. Heck, maybe even see you get introduced to these shows through this series. Keep up the great work doug. :D

I try not to think about a running gag with a WTF payoff, and just enjoy a short for what it is. Incidentally, Disney Channel used footage from this short plus clips from old serials like "The Phantom Creeps" in the DTV music video for "Private Eyes" by Hall and Oates.

I recommend Donald's crime. It's one of my all time favorite Donald duck short.

I always thought the weasel was like that one guy in the episode of I Love Lucy where he did every job in the town

I'd label that cartoon as an epic masterpiece. It would have likely given me nightmares. Certain parts gave me nervous laughter.

Glad dark toons is back loved this series. Though more just enjoy Doug talking about cartoons

Nice to see this series back again; I really love listening to your commentary on them. If I had to suggest a cartoon to look into, “The Cuphead Show” on Netflix has some pretty good episdoes - particularly “Ghosts Ain't Real”. Whole it’s not super dark in tone, it pays a ton of homage to cartoons you’ve already featured in this series, so I figured it would be a fun one to look into.

For a future installment, there are two episodes of 'Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends' that I'd recommend: 1. "BLOOOOOOOOO!" (Gives off kind of a 'Lonesome Ghosts' vibe with the main plot of the main group thinking that there's a "Cannibal ghost" in the House, and a surprisingly quite scary and intense subplot with Frankie being locked out of the House and trying to get back in, all the while a sinister- looking shadowy figure is stalking her and getting steadily closer). 2. "Nightmare on Wilson Way" (Awesome Halloween special, with the "Zombies" looking pretty freaking scary). They both end on cheerful, light- hearted notes, but the path up to that point is pretty freaking scary for a CN show in both cases.

Dang, I had seen everything in this series so far... until now. You got me!

You know what would be a Great Dark Toons review or just a regular Nostalgia Critic review MAD GOD

I've actually got three suggestions here. The first is "Hyde and Hare", a Looney Tunes short that has Bugs get adopted by Dr. Jekyll. He then proceeds to spend the whole episode trying to prevent himself from being done in by Mr. Hyde, to hilarious results. The second is "Dr. Jerkyl's Hide", in which Sylvester the Cat gets ahold of Dr. Jekyll's potion and gets his revenge on a dog that's been tormenting him (I actually found this one while trying to remember the Bugs Bunny one). The last one is the Ed, Edd, and Eddy short "One + One = Ed". The Ed boys break the fabric of reality and realize they're in a cartoon world, does anything else need to be said?

I first saw it in the late 1970s when Disney used their cartoon library to promote whatever movies they were about to release or re-release in theaters. Disney essentially had 3 options in those pre-cable days: WONDERFUL WORLD OF DISNEY (NBC), THE MICKEY MOUSE CLUB (syndicated Gen-X version with Kim Fields and Lisa Whelchel as Mouseketeers), and syndicated hourlong specials. HOW TO BE A DETECTIVE was either part of a syndicated special promoting the release of THE NORTH AVENUE IRREGULARS (1979) or an episode of MMC, since Mouseketeers usually co-hosted the syndicated specials with one of the stars of the upcoming movie. Regarding the Weasel, it seemed obvious to me even as a child, that there were multiple identical weasels and not a single weasel working multiple jobs, much like there were usually multiple Goofys in his cartoons.

It would be awesome if Goofy has his own dark detective series.

That haunted house looks like it was pulled from a Scooby-Doo episode

I recommend "Percy's Ghostly Trick" from Thomas & Friends.

While on the subject of "The Flintstones", one episode you should do is this one called "A Haunted House Is Not a Home". Here, Fred is all set to receive an inheritance from his not-all-there uncle, who is now deceased. The catch, however, is that Fred must spend the night in his uncle's creepy mansion in order to receive the inheritance, and if anything happens to him, the inheritance will be reverted to his uncle's staff, including his butler, his chef and his gardener. As you might expect, the staff tries to get Fred (and by extension, Barney, who agrees to spend the night with his best friend) killed so they can claim the inheritance for themselves. But the kicker is that Fred's uncle never died; he had faked his death as a prank, which his staff was apparently in on all along.

Have you done “Night Of The Headless Horseman”? It was the very first CGI movie ever made, so it’s a museum piece if nothing else. And I love love love love LOVE the ending they came up with for this particular version of “The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow”! If you haven’t seen it--GO SEE IT! It’s available to see for free on RU-vid (as well as the making-of documentary). PLEASE?!?!? The legendary Mark Hamill (Luke Skywalker, The Joker, etc) is one of the characters!