I remember being a kid pretty well. More than enough to know that this should be the base-line of scariness for a children's movie.

You know what's a good kids' movie? The Birds. That movie blew my mind when I was 6 or 7.

I saw Robocop when i was 8

I saw Chronenberg's The Fly when I was 7.

I was the baby in Eraserhead.

I saw the Zapruder film when I was a fetus.

my dad rented Robocop from the mom and pop video store when I was 8. It was the most violent movie I had seen up until that point and I remember being greatly disturbed.

Actually, the more I think about it, the idea of the "dip" being introduced early-third act does seem a little strange without a reference to turpentine as an anti-"toon" cleaning mechanism. I mean, as a kid, I just assumed it was the same as Nickelodeon Slime, and therefore universally bad. As an adult I realize, PERHAPS TOO LATELY SO, that it was an unreferenced plot device.

*pipe smoke*

The very first time they introduce Doom he shows off the dip by killing off an anthropomorphic cartoon shoe.

Huh? How the hell did you forget THE SHOE??!

Hats were very important in those days

That's how the toon mafia sends a warning.

yeah I remember the pig bonnet being in the trailer and then was confused when it didn't ever happen. There were also some scenes from the Addams Family movie that were in the trailer but ended up on the cutting room floor.