The Cutest Nightmare You’ll Ever Have

by Not That Mike The Other Mike on July 6, 2009

Hewwo.  We’re cweepy cwawwy cattewpewwers…

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… and we’re watching you…

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… and we’ll turn your hair white with fright.  BOO!!

IT'S THE LOVE CHILD OF PHYLLIS DILLER AND RIP TAYLOR!!!

From top: Cute Tiger Moth Caterpillar by Vanessa Pike-Russell,
What the….? by OntCopper,
Check out the eyes! by Mean and Pinchy

{ 62 comments }

1 thorn 07.06.09 at 3:20 pm

This. is. adorable.

2 boaks 07.06.09 at 3:25 pm

Monsters, Inc. reference FTW!

3 Katrina 07.06.09 at 3:25 pm

Caterpillars!Caterpillars!Caterpillars!Caterpillars!Caterpillars!Caterpillars!
Love ‘em, love to say eet! Caterpillars!

4 kittyadventures 07.06.09 at 3:27 pm

LOLOL The orange one… TOoo cute and yep you know I am gonna say it

The orange ones are poison!

5 Lerrinus 07.06.09 at 3:27 pm

Aw!
Argh!
Eek!
In that order!

6 Stephiedactyl 07.06.09 at 3:27 pm

I have a friend with the most intense phobia of caterpillars…he nearly wrecked his car upon discovering a hitchhiker on his leg. But I think these cute little guys might just turn him around!

7 5^^now8ing 07.06.09 at 3:28 pm

Def cute, for caterpillars. Admiring from a distance. Can’t… actually… bring… self… to touch… But def cute.

8 Amy 07.06.09 at 3:37 pm

:) Fuzzy!

9 Blondie 07.06.09 at 3:39 pm

Gah! BUGS!!!

Ok, they’d be silly cute if they weren’t BUGS!!!

10 chanpon 07.06.09 at 4:05 pm

Gah!!! *runs around the room screaming* One thing I have an extreme phobia of are bugs, and particularly wormy things (I’ll take your rats, snakes, snails and lizards over this stuff any day — unless you’re a lady bug, because then you’d be ok and kind of cute), but I have to admit that these aren’t as gross looking as they can be. I suppose this a very mild way of saying they’re inching towards cuteness? Not that I would ever want one within a foot of me, mind you.

11 Von Zeppelin 07.06.09 at 4:15 pm

That purple guy looks like a very small relative of Barney the Annoyingly Cheerful Dinosaur.

12 Walking E 07.06.09 at 4:20 pm

Great hovertext on the white one

13 Camille 07.06.09 at 4:29 pm

@Von Zeppelin – I was thinking the same thing.

14 Theo 07.06.09 at 4:45 pm

OK, that’s two “Nightmares” posts now, and so far the internets not a splode… [knocking waferboard]

15 Ant 07.06.09 at 4:53 pm

No Wolly Bears? :(

16 Raidell 07.06.09 at 4:57 pm

I normally hate all bugs (even the fuzzy ones – heck, especially the fuzzy ones!) but these aren’t too bad. I just need to focus on the crazy hair and not the slimy legs and faces. ^_^

Oh, and like Boaks said, Monsers Inc. reverence FTW!!

17 debg 07.06.09 at 4:59 pm

Gotta love the Monsters Inc. ref, as others have said. I find these little guys irresistible. And is it wrong that I want to make yarn from their fuzz?

18 tommygirl 07.06.09 at 5:00 pm

that white one looks like it has 4 tiny eyeballs

19 kibblenibble 07.06.09 at 5:07 pm

Orange ‘pillar is smilingk at you!!! :-)

20 Jessie 07.06.09 at 5:13 pm

I just had goosebumps from head to toe. Despite of the good intention, i’m still extremely phobic of bugs and crawlers in general. *shiver* :(

21 Julia (the one in BC) 07.06.09 at 5:23 pm

I think that white one is the Artist Formerly Known As Emo ‘Pillar.

22 Patito Gigante 07.06.09 at 5:24 pm

I wuvs dem! I kisses!

23 the bug man 07.06.09 at 6:13 pm

Hurrah for cute bugs!

(btw, the spots on that purple guy aren’t really eyes. They’re eyespots intended to make the soft lovable ‘pillar look Big And Scary. I’ll admit that the effect is really to cutefy rather than induce fear.)

24 Kivrin 07.06.09 at 6:13 pm

GAH! BUGS! Not cool, CO. NOT COOL.

(Just kidding. I know many people think bugs can be cute, but I have declared a private war on the entire phylum Arthropoda. Even ladybugs.)

25 Jen8 07.06.09 at 6:20 pm

Cuterpillars! Fuzzy, smiling cuterpillars.

26 Noelegy 07.06.09 at 6:30 pm

I think that “FTW” must mean, in this context, “For The Win.” [Yeps! - Ed.]

However, I can’t seem to separate it from its earlier meaning, something that ended in, “…the world.” [Feed? ;) - Ed.]

I’m fairly sure that’s not what’s intended here.

Fuzzybugs! Squeeeeee!

27 Patito Gigante 07.06.09 at 6:49 pm

And then Steve said
“Qte is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake.”

28 Von Zeppelin 07.06.09 at 6:54 pm

When Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic caterpillar.

29 260Oakley 07.06.09 at 7:22 pm

Ah Von Zep, you’re the cream in my Kafka!

30 Theo 07.06.09 at 7:26 pm

That top one is no caterpillar. It’s a bookworm.

31 Kathleen in Canada 07.06.09 at 8:05 pm

I went onto Google Image with my son to show him a photo of Phyllis Diller and to see what Rip Taylor looked like and, oh my goodness, that white caterpillar really is their love child! Her hair… his face… actually it takes anthropomorphism to a bizarre new level LOL.

And I love the little Mona Lisa smile the orange caterpillar has.

32 MoonCatty 07.06.09 at 8:37 pm

These fabulously exotic creatures are obviously aliens from another world!

They look friendly though! :-)

33 Kar 07.06.09 at 8:58 pm

“and I don’t want to see any paperwork!”

34 Samantha 07.06.09 at 9:02 pm

Awwww or Ahhhhh!?
Both, maybe.

35 sadimtouch 07.06.09 at 9:24 pm

I think awwww! Buggies are cute. I have never been afraid of bugs…I have been grossed out by greasy cockroaches, but not driven squealing out of the room. I think people place the stigma of bugs=pestilence and/or filthy conditions. And there’s just some spooky horror, that tiny bees can (en masse) kill a human, or one brown recluse bite could rot your arm off. But then again, I’m kind of creepy so I can dig it.

36 fish eye no miko 07.06.09 at 10:19 pm

the bug man said: “(btw, the spots on that purple guy aren’t really eyes. They’re eyespots intended to make the soft lovable ‘pillar look Big And Scary.)”

Also, predators will see the “eyes” and attack its “head”, which is actually probably on its butt.

37 Earwig 07.07.09 at 12:13 am

Aaaargh! I have a head-ferk. They are fluffy, but creepy… cannot process….

38 hon glad 07.07.09 at 1:20 am

To a bird they’re a three course gourmet meal.

39 doomchild 07.07.09 at 2:54 am

Oooh, the orange one is so prosh and shiny.. and the second fellow looks so out of it :D Kawaii ^^

40 Leslie (not the author!!) 07.07.09 at 4:49 am

(“yeeks.”)

41 darkshines 07.07.09 at 5:55 am

The “watching you” one makes for a hell of a scroll down! I saw an awsome caterpiller yesterday, he was orange and black stripes!

42 Homer & Maggie's Mom 07.07.09 at 7:09 am

I can appreciate the cute fuzz, but I’d run 40 miles in the opposite direction to avoid the critters UNDER the fuzz!

43 Felicityanne 07.07.09 at 7:17 am

The orange one looks like a little smiley porcupine…

44 Argyle Donkeypants 07.07.09 at 7:53 am

See, whatcha got here is a top-of-the-line 124-horsepower Caterpillar backhoe with a 17-foot dig depth. Her load-sensing hydraulics’ll save ya energy on smaller jobs an’ lighter loads. Her 4.4-liter diesel engine meets EPA efficiency requirements and her automatic transmission’s real smooth.

Plus her spiky little hair feeler-thingies make her able to do Tina Turner impressions real good. Ayuh — she’s a beaut.

45 pyrit 07.07.09 at 9:11 am

Yeah, I have nightmares about hairy carrots, purple peckers and Phyllis Diller, all the time! How’d ya know?

46 derz 07.07.09 at 9:12 am

Any bug being that ornate is probably quite poisonous.

Still cute but in a “gah! they have poison. Stay away!” Cute.

47 Mary (the first) 07.07.09 at 10:12 am

Mike, I love you for posting something besides cute kittehs and puppehs which, make no mistake, I love to see but it’s fun to have something different once in awhile! Although I must question your hovertext re: Phyllis and Rip’s love child because if Rip Taylor is who I think he is, I don’t think he would be making love to Phyllis (not that there’s anything wrong with that, if you know what I mean, and I think you do ). Anyway they are all adorabuhls!!

48 LS 07.07.09 at 10:41 am

Just the thought of Rip Taylor is poisonous to me. Cringe! Cringe. Cringe. ACK! Running from the room screaming!

49 Failboat9000 07.07.09 at 11:35 am

I love that last lil d00d. He’s got the whole Doc Brown Back To The Future hair poof thing goin’ on.
“88 MILES PER HOUUUUURRRRR!!!”
(Or… um…. inches, in this lil guy’s case…)
≥(o_o)≤) ) ) )≤

50 brinnann 07.07.09 at 2:22 pm

:lol: Failboat9000, I ♥ your little cattewpewwer signature!

51 Noelegy 07.07.09 at 2:54 pm

Um, yes. Feed the world. That’s what I was thinking of! ;)

[Let them know it's Christmas time! ♪ - Ed.]

52 stevie ray 07.07.09 at 6:22 pm

ugggh! bugs are disgusting! Bugs are never cute!

53 Pachiz 07.07.09 at 6:49 pm

Bug are wrong… mmmm K?

54 Ew 07.07.09 at 9:45 pm

Do not want… =[

55 Bailey 07.08.09 at 8:13 am

I have a friend with the most intense phobia of caterpillars…he nearly wrecked his car upon discovering a hitchhiker on his leg. But I think these cute little guys might just turn him around!

“I have the same phobia” trust me – these don’t turn me around. Still getting the heebie-jeebies just from the sight of them.

56 Noelegy 07.08.09 at 10:15 am

That last photo…man, eyes don’t get much beadier than that.

57 pookie 07.08.09 at 5:40 pm

To those with bug phobia, just imagine these as the giant sandworms in “Dune.”

heh heh heh

58 mollie millions 07.08.09 at 10:30 pm

“Come inside and meet the missus!”

59 hadrosaur 07.09.09 at 1:37 am

ahh.
not.
cute.

60 Kat 07.09.09 at 6:44 pm

mollie millions nice reference from labyrinth lol
great now im thinking of how freaky david bowie was in that movie..even freakier than these caterpillers but at least they r not singing those songs *shudders*
no offence to david bowie fans

61 hjf in okc 07.09.09 at 9:41 pm

a) I think the orange one was in “Labyrinth” saying “‘ello!’

2) purple one says “Baroo…?”

62 Monica 07.20.09 at 4:19 pm

Creepy… really creepy ;s
my pulse fasten alot.. ;p (spelling?)

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