It's just the sheer lunacy of the idea that this horrorshow would appeal to children. The permanent bug-eyed leering grin, and washed out features...it's like something out of 'The Wicker Man'. For a long time I thought it was possibly a false memory or dream, but no it's real, and as horrible as I remember.

Thanks Youtube!

electric monk

14:40 / 23.06.06

Words fail me.

Ninjas make great pets

14:58 / 23.06.06

yup. agree about the youtube thing.
Now when I go on about the scarey shit from kidhood I can prove it was real!

thanks for posting that.... umm.. I think.

Triplets

15:25 / 23.06.06

Barbeparents, we would all like to know what your kids think about Mr. Noseybonk

Chiropteran

16:10 / 23.06.06

My child doesn't think about Mr. Noseybonk.

Next!

Jawsus-son Starship

16:24 / 23.06.06

Mummy, what's a nosegay?

electric monk

16:41 / 23.06.06

I think lil' monk's mental scarification has already reached capacity, thanks in no small part to Oobie, Ooma and the rest of that god-forsaken crew.

I present to you Exhibit A:

A fall of geckos

16:46 / 23.06.06

Oh god I'd tried to repress that.

Jigsaw - purvayer of nightmares and pre-Doctor Who home of Sylvester McCoy.

Haus of Mystery

17:02 / 23.06.06

Whilst the sepia-tinted photographs of Emily at the start of Bagpuss, and the creeping undefinable sadness that they gave me, introduced me to the concept of mortality, Noseybonk I think introduced me to existential terror. All a bit much before teatime.

Evil Scientist

18:05 / 23.06.06

If I wake up with that thing at the end of my bed I'm blaming you MacReady.

In the five seconds before I die of terror.

GogMickGog

20:32 / 23.06.06

You think you had it bad? I was raised on the sheer Beckettian horror of this vicious little fucker

enrieb

21:00 / 23.06.06

That noseybonk thing is disturbing on so many different levels, but for pure fear nothing compares to the Groke.

The Trial of the Groke

Groke chasing Moomin

Haus of Mystery

01:10 / 24.06.06

The Groke! The fucking Groke! Jesus wept tears of tiny thunder! That scared me for weeks.

Jesus. the Groke....

(1st clip by the way. That's the real deal)

Spyder Todd 2008

04:26 / 24.06.06

.... Wow. I'm glad I didn't grow up on any of this stuff. I'll stick to my TMNT and Animaniacs, thank you very much.

All Acting Regiment

04:54 / 24.06.06

Fucking...gnarr...just opened this thread...shit...gonna call it NO!tube from now on...

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

14:26 / 24.06.06

Ah, the Groke. Now THERE was a proper monster. That's why I always loved the Moomin books- they were every bit as scary as they were wondrous.

Mike Modular

02:34 / 25.06.06

It seems I'd managed to bury Noseybonk very deep into my childhood memories, but since seeing that video he's been haunting my mind for days as it's all come back to me. This is not good.

Today I saw this, and I'm scared again...

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

17:29 / 25.06.06

What have you done, MacReady???

BY CHRIST, MAN, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE???

Spaniel

18:18 / 25.06.06

But seriously, with Noseybonk, what were those evil fuckers thinking?

He was never okay. EVER.

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

18:26 / 25.06.06

I blame Janet Ellis, really. She seems to be a magnet for all things scary. Does anyone else remember that episode of The Ronson Mission about fans, when Jon Ronson did an interview with Ms Ellis while being given questions through headphones by a crazed obsessive stalker-type? It must have seemed such a good idea at the time, but after a while Ronson just had to start ignoring the ever-creepier questions ("ooh, ask her what she wears in bed!"- in the middle of an interview about her career as a children's TV presenter!) and try to wrap up the interview.

Liger Null

18:49 / 25.06.06

Ah, the Groke. Now THERE was a proper monster. That's why I always loved the Moomin books- they were every bit as scary as they were wondrous.

As scary as she is, I always feel sorry for the Groke. I think her menacing attitude towards the Moomins was more of a result of loneliness rather than any real desire to do harm. Of course, if I had discovered the Moomins as a child, my feelings would probably have been different...

You know who scared me as a kid? Mr M from The Letter People. God, I miss that show. Unfortunately, the only letter people action I could find anywhere was the opening theme

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

18:54 / 25.06.06

As scary as she is, I always feel sorry for the Groke.

Oh, totally... that was why she was so scary, really.

Spaniel

21:18 / 25.06.06

He still makes me want to run behind the sofa

Olulabelle

22:08 / 25.06.06

Noseybonk had totally gone from my head until this moment.

I think there should be some serious concern about the number of people who have wiped Noseybonk from their childhood memories. I mean, how bad was it that we needed to do that? What did it do to us?

Perhaps we should sue.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

23:01 / 25.06.06

I can't believe no-one's mentioned Barbapapa yet. That was just disturbing.

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