What "children's" programming gave you nightmares? - It's ok, show on the doll where you were scarred for life.

Zaragoza said:
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Always a classic! I recall often seeing this film on Disney Channel and being annoyed that they cut out the bit with the severed chicken head.

Sword Fighter Super said:
Holy shit that talking statue from "Legends of the Hidden Temple "...
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It wouldn't surprise me if children were generally scared by this, I thought it was a very clever idea (but then, I was a teen when I saw this).

In the early 80's, there was this one game show I watched where kids were playing video games and having to walk through panels of light on the floor and if they stepped on a wrong panel, they disappear! Found it recently and here it is, pretty cheesy to say the least!

But if there had to be something that scared me shitless as a 6 year old, it was this....

Lunete said:

Don Bluth didn't fuck around man.
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And that's why I loved Secret of NIMH. Nobody gave us this kind of animated suspense in '82....

Pablo Birmingham said:
Pinocchio is wild as fuck.
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The original story certainly was. He kinda deserved it for being a dick to his father the way he started. There was an animated version produced in Italy in the 1970's that found it's way to the US often in Kiddie Matinees and weekend afternoon timeslots.

slimes said:
Little Nemo Adventures in Slumberland fucked me up as a kid
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Damn. Thank goodness by the time the movie finally got a US release I was already a freshman!

Edit: Return to Oz also just... christ
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This was indeed nightmare fuel the way it begins with Dorothy having to go to that place for shock therapy at the beginning.
 
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That big ugly cunt of a bear from the Teletubbies
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And the Groke from the Moomins.
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there was this goofy episode of the tiny toons that got me, where a moral guardian sucks the humor out of the toons, turning them essentially into humorless, psa spawing zombies.
It wasn't even scary in terms of visuals, but it got me as a kid. Primarily because I loved these characters for their wackiness and seeing it taken away from them felt kind of wrong
 
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UglyOldJafar said:
there was this goofy episode of the tiny toons that got me, where a moral guardian sucks the humor out of the toons, turning them essentially into humorless, psa spawing zombies.
It wasn't even scary in terms of visuals, but it got me as a kid. Primarily because I loved these characters for their wackiness and seeing it taken away from them felt kind of wrong
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Yeah, that was some episode where Buster had to go to Washington to stop a Peggy Charren-type figure from doing it, getting the help of the VP at the time, Dan Quayle, who hinted at running for prez in '96, unfortunately this episode aired right around election night '92 and Bill came into office instead (poor Dan)!
http://tinytoons.wikia.com/wiki/Washingtoon

This episode was a living reminder of what could happen if we 'let them win'.
 
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Man do I have some grade-A shit for ya.


Bet almost no one here knows Yuri Olesha's story "The Three Fatmen". The scene is from a musical cartoon loosely based on it, and is starring the Fatmen's little heir sleeping to the metal toys' lullaby.

That and here's a couple 'caps from Ivan Maksimov's "Fru-89". Not exactly children's programming but I happened to see it back when I was three-ish. Go google if you want.

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I saw this once as a young child.

Just the once but it was more than enough to sear the cold dead eyes of the Harpy into my memories.

As the years crumbled away, I came to believe that the picture of a chilling bird woman whose hunger could never be satisfied must have come from some nightmare.

Then I stumbled upon this on Youtube and there she was.

Her eyes still as cold and black as death itself.
 
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osooolemiiio said:
Man do I have some grade-A shit for ya.


Bet almost no one here knows Yuri Olesha's story "The Three Fatmen". The scene is from a musical cartoon loosely based on it, and is starring the Fatmen's little heir sleeping to the metal toys' lullaby.
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Soo... Was that meant to be a cute little ditty, or deliberate nightmare fuel? I don’t understand the lyrics, nor the culture. Seems like a lot of the old Russian/Eastern European kids shows were terrifying.

For me the part of the Rats of Nimh where Mrs. Frisby’s home was sinking was the most horrible part.
 
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Was that meant to be a cute little ditty, or deliberate nightmare fuel?
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Kinda both. Tl;dl - the toys regret that the boy is going to grow up just as fugly and fat as the Fatmen themselves.

neverendingmidi said:
Seems like a lot of the old Russian/Eastern European kids shows were terrifying.
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True. The studios were experimenting with styles, settings, etc. at that time, so there was a ton of similar dreck. And since people believed in "if it's animated, it's for kids", guess how many nightmare fuel there was. Sometimes even despite the cutesy style.
I remember somebody mention a cartoon (Russian) called "The Dinosaur Mountain" with a pretty eery ending. Shell on those dinos' eggs had an ability to get thicker to protect the young from cold. Closer to the ending, there's that scene with a baby in an egg, asking at first, but then begging and pleading the shell to crack...
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only for it to reply, "I'm doing my duty", and eventually kill the baby itself.
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neverendingmidi said:
Soo... Was that meant to be a cute little ditty, or deliberate nightmare fuel? I don’t understand the lyrics, nor the culture. Seems like a lot of the old Russian/Eastern European kids shows were terrifying.
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It could always be a cultural thing. I used to see stuff on "Pinwheel" that did the same thing to me. Of course the legend of "Clock Man" is already out there, but there were others. The Eastern Bloc always had some odd little things here and there that just kinda came out at us out of nowhere. Here's a Czech cartoon with a very Hansel & Gretel plot involving a girl who didn't want to eat the right stuff, runaway from home, finds the wtich's house and is fatten up for dinner, it's got a happy ending but whatever, I'm sure it terrorized some kid.
(I found this once discarded in a school dumpster so it did get imported)

There's another one in this series where he played with matches, gets scolded for it, goes up in the attic where she had to get the matches to light a lantern to see, only to become memorized by the flame to the point of unstoppable horror as little anthropomorphic flames dance about her! Another one had her messing around with clocks throughout town to the point where she accidentally turns back into baby!

For me the part of the Rats of Nimh where Mrs. Frisby’s home was sinking was the most horrible part.
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Certainly, those children were nearly goners.

osooolemiiio said:
Kinda both. Tl;dl - the toys regret that the boy is going to grow up just as fugly and fat as the Fatmen themselves.


True. The studios were experimenting with styles, settings, etc. at that time, so there was a ton of similar dreck. And since people believed in "if it's animated, it's for kids", guess how many nightmare fuel there was. Sometimes even despite the cutesy style.
I remember somebody mention a cartoon (Russian) called "The Dinosaur Mountain" with a pretty eery ending. Shell on those dinos' eggs had an ability to get thicker to protect the young from cold. Closer to the ending, there's that scene with a baby in an egg, asking at first, but then begging and pleading the shell to crack...
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only for it to reply, "I'm doing my duty", and eventually kill the baby itself.
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What's ironic about this was that it passed the censors of the time, who didn't pick up the obvious subtext to what life behind the Iron Curtain was.
 
i don't know if anyone else remembers this weird piece of canadian programming, but mystery hunters. it was basically just a show about these 2 kids going around the world and learning about monster myths and ghosts and aliens and shit. loved it, but it scared me shitless as a young bab.
 
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Puppet segment of mister Rogers neighborhood.
I fucking AAAAAAAAHHHHH WTF DUDE
 
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