10 Upsetting Children's TV Show Episodes That Gave You Nightmares

If you remember one thing about the Nickelodeon TV show Salute Your Shorts from the 90s, it's probably the image of Zeke the Plumber, which has undoubtedly been seared onto your brain.

After all, it's hard to forget a man who visits you in your nightmares on like a biweekly basis. Zeke the Plumber was the main attraction in the show's second ever episode of the same name, and he was terrifying. For a character who was only mentioned in one episode, we know a surprising amount of information about him.

For one thing, his nose was bitten off by a parrot, which caused him a lot of trouble when he was working at the camp -- he was digging a hole, hit a gas pipe, and then died in an explosion because he couldn't smell the gas and lit a match.

Basically, he's a ghost whose main haunting exploits involve humiliating Michael by broadcasting his secrets to the rest of the camp. But god, when you see that face of his, you never forget it. Childhood-defining terror.