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Childhood TV Trauma Corner

Regrettable Juvenilia

08:01 / 27.02.02

Boo!

Bear

08:09 / 27.02.02

Fuck sake, back to rehab for me then.....so many years wasted...thanx Flyboy !!

Sax

08:13 / 27.02.02

Okay, not really kids' TV as such, but...

Double boo.

(Edited cos fucked up link first time)

[ 27-02-2002: Message edited by: Sax ]

Bear

08:14 / 27.02.02

Yup I was scared of that little white box and red cross too

Sax

08:44 / 27.02.02

And this is just a reminder:

Because the image of Mr Noseybonk would be just too traumatic for all of us.

(Edited because I'm fucking useless - no smart jokes, bear)

[ 27-02-2002: Message edited by: Sax ]

Saveloy

08:44 / 27.02.02

There's a bit on one of the Thomas the Tank Engine videos (which, being the parent of a toddler, I have to watch 800 hours a day) which I find extremely disturbing.

It's a story within a story, about a very naughty engine who takes no notice of the rules and is rude to his driver and so on. One day, he goes too far and knackers up and derails a load of coaches. As a punishment they permanently remove his wheels, stick him in a dark shed and use him as a generator!

Thomas (who is telling the story) says "...and he never. Moved. Again."

Jesus! What is this, Tetsuo? These things have got faces and personalities! It's like cutting someone's legs off and turning them into a battery! Urghhhhh.... shudder.

Shortfatdyke

08:44 / 27.02.02

been trying to find a picture of the disgusting puppet that played piano on pidgeon street. it would look at the keys for a while and then turn and look right at me! much shrieking would then ensue.

Bear

10:07 / 27.02.02

Weird actually that this thread should pop up, anyone in the UK home about 16:30 during the day, I saw the end on some kids TV on BBC1 last night called "Jeopardy". It was about a bunch of kids trapped in the woods, it was shot like the Blair witch, I joined it as a young Scottish guy had gone insane and was talking to people that weren't there he was with a girl that was completly terrified...

Finished with a guy and girl that had found some kinda "crop circle" the guy went into the circle and started having some kid of fit...very strange ....

STOATIE LIEKS CHOCOLATE MILK

10:47 / 27.02.02

According to my mum, my older sister was terrified of Thunderbirds- she didn't get that they were puppets- she just thought THERE WAS SOMETHING HORRIBLY WRONG WITH THEM!

Whereas in my case, Professor Yaffles off Bagpuss was the scariest motherfucker in the world...
hey! you say Old Wooden Bookend...
I say... Evil. Must Be Stopped.

Shortfatdyke

10:54 / 27.02.02

[excuse slight thread rot but i must exclaim] well, really! yaffle is quite agreeable, a bit stuffy perhaps, and pushes the mice around a bit, but not scary! i had two very young flatmates once who called me yaffle (amongst other things).

theskunkymonkey

11:14 / 27.02.02

Pipkins!!
All the puppets looked lke they'd been constructed from roadkill especially Hartley Hare...
Thanks for bringing back those terrible, terrible memories...

Lazlo Woodbine [some call me Laz]

13:28 / 28.02.02

One name.
"GROT-BAGS"

Fra Dolcino

13:44 / 28.02.02

Oooohhhh, hellooooo zsa-zsa, darling

[ 28-02-2002: Message edited by: Fra Dolcino ]

Seth

15:56 / 28.02.02

The episode of Superted in which he dreams he's a normal teddy. It ends with him backed into a corner having tried to escape the evil psycho baby who rips all its toys apart. Superted has nowhere to run or hide, and is muttering madly, desparately trying to remember his secret magic word, while unzipping layer after layer after layer of skin...

Fra Dolcino

07:09 / 01.03.02

[IMG]www.kasterborus.com/tardis/ 4/tbaker4.jpg[/IMG]

... The scariest man ever to grace my TV screen.

[ 01-03-2002: Message edited by: Fra Dolcino ]

Fra Dolcino

07:20 / 01.03.02

Did that image come up?

Fuck it. The scariest man ever to grace my television screen, Part deux:

Disco is My Class War

08:21 / 01.03.02

Please take that photo away. It scares me. And I am an adult... no wonder I didn't like Doctor Who.

I have no images, but I have an embarrassing story about the first time I went to see 'Flash Gordon'. I think I was about five, and my mum and dad took me to see it. So, I remember the start, but at some point in the movie I ended up tucked up very tightly under my mum's seat, behind her legs. The green-blooded princess scared me the most. In a terribly thrilling way. But I spent the entire movie tucked down there...

suds

10:33 / 01.03.02

when i was little i was really, really scared of the witch in "the wizard of oz". she was so creepy.

[ 01-03-2002: Message edited by: suds ]

suds

10:42 / 01.03.02

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