John R. Dilworths horror cartoon Courage The Cowardly Dog features the season one episode “King Ramses Curse” which remains its scariest to date.
John R. Dilworth’s animated children’s horror comedy series Courage The Cowardly Dog details the lives of elderly couple Muriel and Eustace Bagge with their brave, but sheepish dog named Courage; out of all of the fifty-two horrifying episodes, “King Ramses’ Curse” remains the most disturbing of them all. The family lives in the middle of nowhere in an old farmhouse where supernatural and monstrous events take place incessantly. While the Bagges are oblivious to everything happening around them, it is up to Courage to keep them safe.
After two feline grave robbers uncover the Egyptian slab from the tomb of King Ramses, they flee to the outskirts of the middle of nowhere. When courage discovers the ancient slab on the farm’s land, he brings it into the house for Eustace and Muriel to examine. A record player, water, and locusts are carved into the stone. While Eustace initially disregards the object and refers to it as trash, the Nowhere News reporter claims that it is actually a priceless artifact. As a result, he goes out to retrieve it believing the slab will make him rich beyond his wildest dreams.
The three symbols on King Ramses’ stone slab are the three plagues he brings upon Courage and the elderly couple. The ancient pharaoh waits outside of the home and demands for Eustace to “return the slab or suffer my curse.” Due to Eustace’s greed, the end of the episode shows that he has no replaced the King Ramses in his tomb and now holds the slab for all eternity.
The three symbols on King Ramses’ stone slab are the three plagues he brings upon Courage and the elderly couple. The ancient pharaoh waits outside of the home and demands for Eustace to “return the slab or suffer my curse.” Due to Eustace’s greed, the end of the episode shows that he has no replaced the King Ramses in his tomb and now holds the slab for all eternity.
John R. Dilworths horror cartoon Courage The Cowardly Dog features the season one episode “King Ramses Curse” which remains its scariest to date.
After two feline grave robbers uncover the Egyptian slab from the tomb of King Ramses, they flee to the outskirts of the middle of nowhere. When courage discovers the ancient slab on the farm’s land, he brings it into the house for Eustace and Muriel to examine. A record player, water, and locusts are carved into the stone. While Eustace initially disregards the object and refers to it as trash, the Nowhere News reporter claims that it is actually a priceless artifact. As a result, he goes out to retrieve it believing the slab will make him rich beyond his wildest dreams.
In Dilworth’s series, it is extremely rare for any of the main characters to meet their end by any of the monsters they encounter. However, King Ramses is unlike any other being they have experienced. He is an ancient pharaoh whose curse are the three plagues that can actually result in death. Due to the severity of his punishments, “King Ramses’ Curse” remains the most popular and terrifying episode. With his eerie chant and ability to manipulate his victims, King Ramses has the power to end the lives of anyone who does not return the slab.
John R. Dilworth’s animated children’s horror comedy series Courage The Cowardly Dog details the lives of elderly couple Muriel and Eustace Bagge with their brave, but sheepish dog named Courage; out of all of the fifty-two horrifying episodes, “King Ramses’ Curse” remains the most disturbing of them all. The family lives in the middle of nowhere in an old farmhouse where supernatural and monstrous events take place incessantly. While the Bagges are oblivious to everything happening around them, it is up to Courage to keep them safe.
The Slab was an ancient artifact owned by King Ramses that somehow wound up at the Bagge Farmhouse one day in “King Ramses Curse” after it was stolen from the Pharaohs tomb by two Cat Thieves. Eustace, upon finding the slab, concludes keeping the slab will make him rich and thus refuses to give it back to the museum. That night, King Ramses comes to the farmhouse in order to get Eustace to “Return the slab, or suffer my curse.” After the Bagges withstand all three curses intended to get them to return the slab, Eustace still refuses to give it up, so hes imprisoned as an on the slab and it gets returned to the Pharaohs tomb in Egypt.
The next morning, Courage cannot contain his curiosity and unearths the slab. The slab contains symbols of Ramses, water, a record player, and locusts. Courage shows it to his owners, but Eustace dismisses the slab as “garbage” and tosses it out the window. However, Eustaces opinion changes after learning from the Nowhere Newsman that the stolen artifact is worth one million dollars. Courage notices that the first symbol, the Ramses, disappears from the slab and wails in dismay. Eustace contacts the Nowhere Newspaper to place an ad for the slab, despite Muriels condemnation of his behavior. Professor Frith arrives and tries to reclaim the slab, but Eustace refuses to give it up for free.
Courage discovers an Egyptian stone slab near the waterpump of the farmhouse. The stone slab turns out to be a relic, stolen from a Pharaohs tomb, that is worth one million dollars. Eustace refuses to return the stolen slab without payment, and the entire family faces the wrath of its three curses as a result.
That night, the ghost of Ramses returns, and this time threatens the Bagges. He orders Eustace to return the slab or he would be visited by three “plagues”, each worse than the last. Eustace, believing that the ghost is the professor in disguise, gives the ghost his customary response of “Whats your offer?” and then slams the door on the ghost when the ghost repeats himself. The ghost unleashes the first plague. The second representative symbol on the slab, the water, disappears, and the house subsequently begins to fill up with water. While Muriel is drowning, Eustace uses his snorkel gear. Courage swims to the basement and pulls a drain stopper and all the water drains out from the house thus defeating the first plague much to the ghosts annoyance. Unfazed by the ordeal, Eustace again refuses the ghosts request asking for an offer, initiating the second plague. Again, the representative symbol on the stone slab, the record player, disappears. A skipping record that repeatedly blares “King Ramses, the man in gauze,” permeates the air, causing the family audible pain. Eustace alleviates the noise by plugging his ears using cotton, but leaves Muriel suffering. Courage finds the source of the noise behind a boulder, destroying the phonograph with a baseball bat to stop the racket. King Ramses once again demands the return of his slab. Muriel insists that Eustace return the slab, but Eustace still refuses to do so without getting paid.
The ghost then unleashes his third and final plague: the locusts. The final symbol disappears from the slab, and the insects begin to devour the house starting from the roof. As the house is devoured by the locusts, Muriel prepares food as a stress relief tactic. Courage and Eustace wrestle over the slab. Eustace finally gives in once he realizes how close they are to being devoured, allowing Courage to toss the artifact toward Ramses, which ends the curse. However, Eustace reclaims the slab after the locusts had left and taunts Ramses, thinking that he, since he used three different plagues, is now powerless. Annoyed, Ramses simply reuses the third plague by summoning the locusts again, and Eustace is devoured.
Within the carnage in the wake of the locusts, Muriel is rocking Courage as usual, watching TV. On TV, Professor Frith explains that the slab has been returned to the Pharaohs tomb in Egypt and will remain protected for all time. This episode ends by showing the sarcophagus of King Ramses, where Eustace has now apparently replaced Ramses on the slab, as punishment for his greed.