Reddit, you job is to do a dark gritty remake of any children's show. What do you do?

1. Any of the Disney cartoons but stay truer to the source material. For instance, Bambi. Forget Bambi's mom dying. What happened to Gobo is far more disturbing. Bambi has a friend Gobo, who ends up being raised by humans, domesticated, and released back into the woods when he's old enough. He eventually ends up approaching some hunters thinking he'll get some dinner, when, bam. The hunters get dinner instead. Peter Pan was pretty creepy too. He "thins out" the Lost Boys whenever they seemed to be growing up. No explanation as to how. He just gets rid of them when they get too old. Later on in the book, it explains Peter breathes as rapidly as possible, because it's said that whenever a child breathes, a grown up dies, and he wants to speed things up a bit.
   — Mel4242


2. An Animorphs TV show which is accurate to the books. (I would say they should do an anime/adult cartoon but I think live action would better communicate the concepts and themes. There's a point where the kind of violence Animorphs has just seems like dull overkill in animation.). I'm honestly not sure you can get much more dark/gritty than the books are already. To quote Wikipedia: *"Horror, war, dehumanization, sanity, morality, innocence, leadership, freedom, and growing up are the core themes of the series."* Over the course of the books, the characters slowly transition from a bunch of random teens to battle-hardened, traumatized soldiers (as an intense and dark deconstruction of the "wake up, go to school, save the world" trope, like what you get in Power Rangers.). The books contain scenes such as one where one character has her arm ripped off and beats the alien that ripped it off to death with her severed arm. In another, scene, a character slashes an enemy's throat while desperately trying to hold in his intestines. The intended audience was ten year old boys. HBO needs to make it and market it to older teens and adults. Because *fuck yeah.*
   — Audacious531


3. The Teletubbies. Almost everything would be taken the same, except it's now in low quality black and white film, with deep distorted noises
   — violentwalking






4. An alternate timeline of Thomas the Tank Engine, in which Sodor has turned into an industrial dystopia. Henry is let out of the tunnel that the Fat Controller had entombed him in... and he's *really pissed off*.
   — ViridianKumquat


5. Blue's Clues, but there's been a murder. You need to find 3 clues to find the murder before it's too late.
   — mikelae18


6. The Smurfs. But the Smurfs are some weird cult led by Papa Smurf, using Smurfberries to control the colony, as a drug. Gargamel is actually just trying to help free Smurfs from their oppression. As Papa gets close to capture, he poisons the Smurfberry crop and the whole village dies. Gargamel comes to find a village with bodies strewn everywhere, Jonestown style. He breaks down and cries and the movie ends.
   — karma_dumpster






7. Dora explores a way into America.
   — Bucket_O_Beef


8. Caillou actually dies of cancer, and the show depicts him dying of cancer so when the parents of the kids watching actually die of cancer (that the kids probably caused), they're prepared.
   — DesertRebel


9. Sesame Street. It's all about gangs.
   — Max_Fenig






10. Make Gravity Falls into a full on horror series with actual horrifying, possibly lovecraftian like, monsters.
    — BearDrivingACar