Lost Episodes

About

Lost Episodes are a sub-genre of creepypasta stories that revolve around a disturbing, unreleased episode from a television series, which typically frighten the viewer upon discovery.

Origin

The earliest known creepypasta centered around a lost episode was titled "Suicide Mouse", which was uploaded to YouTube^[1] by user Nec1^[2] on November 25th, 2009. The video features a black-and-white cartoon of the Disney character Mickey Mouse walking along several buildings accompanied by eerie piano music. The video cuts to black for several minutes and returns with distorted video and loud screaming audio at the end. As of July 14th, 2015, the video has reached 1,061,535 views.

Spread

The "Suicide Mouse" creepypasta was posted multiple times on 4chan's /x/ (paranormal) board, inspiring others to create their own lost episode stories. On January 19th, 2010, the Dead Bart creepypasta was posted in a Suicide Mouse thread on the GameFAQs Forums.^[3] On April 6th, the Squidward's Suicide creepypasta was submitted to 7chan's /x/ board by Reddit user SuicideSquidward.^[4]

Notable Examples

• Suicide Mouse features an old 1930s Mickey Mouse cartoon in which the character is shown walking down a poorly drawn street while random piano keys play in the background. After a minute the music turns into static and the video cuts to black. The video comes back on looking corrupted and out of focus accompanied by a woman screaming and Mickey's eyes roll off his head like two marbles in a fishbowl. In the end it displays Russian text.

• Squidward's Suicide tells the story of a man who discovers a disturbing episode of Spongebob Squarepants during his internship at Nickelodeon. In the episode, the character Squidward Tentacles fails a clarinet recital and is booed by the audience. Afterwards, the episode contains several minutes of Squidward looking at the camera, flashes of dead bodies and murmur sounds, followed by the character committing suicide with a shotgun.

• Dead Bart is a story about the The Simpsons character Bart Simpson getting sucked out of an airplane window and dying a horrible death.

• Happy Appy is a story about a children's show in which an apple who helps kids in need but becomes dark and morbid as the show progresses. The narrator is a a man who wants to know more about the show and is being stalked by the show's creator Freddrick Gorgote, whom he dubs "Forenzik".

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