The show Courage the Cowardly Dog is famous for its "flat," 2D aesthetic. The characters look like exaggerated cartoons, and the backgrounds are often stylized and colorful.

Courage discovers a mysterious slab while digging in the yard. Muriel, thinking it’s a decorative stone, brings it inside. Soon, the ghost of appears, demanding: “Return the slab.” The spirit unleashes a series of increasingly bizarre and terrifying plagues (floating locusts, a creepy song, a giant ostrich-like monster) until Courage—after a failed attempt by Eustace to profit off the slab—finally returns it to the mausoleum, lifting the curse.