The episode based on “The Little Match Girl” shows Hello Kitty trying to sell matches in a snowy village populated almost entirely by people who have zero interest in this technology (to be fair, this is set in the 17th century, when matches were probably still seen as witchcraft). Despite being cold as hell, Kitty has to stay outside because she has been instructed not to come home until she has sold all the matches. At one point, she comes up with the idea of lighting some of them to warm herself and starts seeing wonderful visions, including one where she sees her beloved grandma. Her beloved dead grandma. You see where this is going.
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The visions keep fading away when the matches are blown off, so Kitty eventually lights all of her remaining ones and begs her grandma to take her to that warm, magical place. And she does: we see her spirit fly out of her body to join the old woman …
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… and the next morning, Kitty’s corpse is found in the snow. Yep, we just watched Hello Kitty slowly go insane and freeze to death.
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At least she’s not suffering anymore in heaven. Because that’s where she went, right? That famously warm place with all the … flames, and … uh-oh. Whelp, that’s what she gets for dealing with witchcraft.
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Courage the Cowardly Dog –– “You’re Not Perfect” (And Other Terrifying Cutaways)
Courage the Cowardly Dog was about a dog with intense but, as it turned out, completely justified anxiety issues. Nothing exemplifies that better than the final episode, “Perfect,” which is about Courage being haunted by a strange woman who somehow expects a tiny dog to perform a series of tasks to perfection. Courage is so stressed out by the situation that, when he tries to go to sleep, he sees this: