Creepiest Kiddie Show!

[Delano]

Poll question: Creepiest Kiddie Show!

Creepiest Kiddie Show!

Boohbah


Teletubbies


The Wiggles


Elmo's world


Barney & Friends


(& more below)

[Pale_Rider]

1. The bloody lot ...

... of them.

[wtmusic]

2. Teletubbies offer up a nightmarish glimpse

into the dark side of your kid's imagination...

[non sociopath skin]

27. Seriously, seriously wierd.

Have you seen the one with the procession of animals? Freaks me out every time! Brrrrrr!!!

The Skin

[Servo300]

32. isn't that the one

that Jerry Falwell was trying to get taken off the air?

[Taverner]

39. I could tell you a story about that....

don't want to post it here tho...not exactly I want publically associated with me :)

[SarahB]

3. The Teletubbies are pretty odd

Don't diss the Wiggles though. They are eye candy for bored housewives with little kids. :7

[politicat]

4. Other: Veggie Tales

whoever thought that early childhood indoctrination was a good idea needs zer head examined.

Pcat (who has nothing against religion for adults, but why scare a kid that way?)

[Delano]

5. Wish I'da thunk of that one...

Didn't occur to me since I'd never let my kids watch overtly Xian programming (except MAYBE Davey & Goliath out of nostalgia. I just don't care for the indoctrination, either...

[wtmusic]

7. Love Veggie Tales

I just turn it off when it goes xtian.

[Sandpiper]

6. Mr. Rogers Neighborhood

I know I'll probably catch hell for this, but there was just something about Mr. Rogers that creeped me out as a kid.

A middle aged man who liked kids that much just gave me the willies.

[Champ]

11. (Flames) :)

I loved that show when I was young. He was alot better, in fact I didn't watch any of the shows listed above. Only a few kids show I actually liked watching and one of the was Mr Rogers. He will be missed by many.

[Sandpiper]

14. I was a Sesame Street kid myself

And at the risk of dating myself, I loved The Electric Company. Loved hearing Morgan Freeman sing.

[Buns_of_Fire]

22. How could you not love a show that had Rita Moreno

as a regular? HEYYYYYYYYYYYYY YOUUUUUUUUUU GUYYYYYYYYYYYYYS!!!

And Fargo North, Decoder?

I watched those shows more than my kids did... :shrug:

[SmileyBoy]

19. Hey there, young strapping fellow...

Got any good news for me today???

[twistedliberal]

42. You like popsicles?

I got a whole freezer full of 'em down in the cellar.

[Champ]

8. How the hell could you leave off Pee Wee Herman's kids show?

[Maddy McCall]

9. What in the hell is a boobah???

Those things look like psychadelic flatworms to me.

[Nomad559]

17. What in the hell is a boobah?

http://www.boohbah.com/zone.html

[Dead_Parrot]

24. What the...

I can't even describe how fucked up that is. Pass the blue pill, quick.

[Taverner]

40. Psychadelic Flatworms indeed

Lemme put it this way...Boobah and Teletubbies were invented to stymie Stewie from ruling the universe before being potty trained...

[OneBlueSky]

10. those old enought to remember the original Soupy Sale shows. . . .

will know what I'm talkin' about . . . "Hey, kids . . . go get your mom's purse . . . see those pieces of green paper with the picture of a guy on front? . . . take them and send them to Soupy" . . . or something like that . . . the guy was hysterical, but his "kids" humor was really more suitable for adults . . . and he pied everyone, including Frank Sinatra! . . .

[Buns_of_Fire]

25. ...which, by the way, DID really happen!

http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/soupy1.htm

[July]

29. Yeah, Soupy definitely scared me.

I watched him anyway.

[Zolok]

33. "Pirate Adventures with Captain Hook"

in which an earnest amputee stars as "Captain Hook" the CHRISTIAN pirate sailing the olde gospel ship to save kid's souls for Christ.
I
SH*T
YOU
NOT!
This show exists!
I've only seen a few clips from it but trust me, believe the hype!

At one point the Captain convenes what appears to be a "court martial" for several "stowaways" on the olde gospel ship.
The Captain read off their sins (notably "lying to the holy ghost") and summarily ordered the miscreants thrown to the sharks.
The stowaways were obviously played by children in halloween masks and as each of them gets thrown off the ship whilst the captain rants and raves like Little Joe Goebbels to the effect that "I AM NOT THROWING THESE PEOPLE OVERBOARD THEY'VE MADE THEIR OWN CHOICES THEY ARE THROWING THEMSELVES OVERBOARD!!!"

Here is a link to one of the Captain's tasteless record albums:

http://www.metroactive.com/thrift/thrift1.html


ANYONE who has uncut "Captain Hook" episodes on VHS-DVD drop yer old pal Zolok a note, we can make a deal I feel sure of it.

www.chimesatmidnight.blogspot.com

[TheMightyFavog]

12. Elmo's World. (rant)

Completley fucking ruined Sesame Street. Sesame Workshop, if you can hear me out there, If you're gonna give one fucking character a whole 20 minutes of time on a show that could be better used for longer stories and more cool bits, Give Elmo his own fucking seperate show, Bobdammit! Don't even get me fucking started on that Journey to Ernie shit. Sesame Street was intended for preschoolers, not fucking Toddlers! Jim Henson, Joe Raposo, Will Lee, Northern Calloway (the guy who played David), Bill McCutcheon, (the guy who Played Uncle Wally) those people who made Sesame Street great are all spinning in their fucking graves! I have one thing to say to you hoseheads: Quit dumbing down the fucking show. And while you're at it, bring back the old funky stoner age bits like the animated pinball machine, (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12!) and the counting bit where the baker falls down the stairs at the end! That was real Sesame Street!

And people wonder why Frank Oz left the show. I don't blame him.

[SarahB]

13. YES!

I totally agree. Someone should kill Elmo. He/it's annoying as all Hell.

[TheMightyFavog]

15. The post 9/11 Disaster Episode

Could have ranked up there with the great episodes such as the Death of Mr. Hooper and the day everyone could see snuffy (although, depending on who you ask, one show or the other brought about the end of the Stoner Age). IIRC, they stuck Elmo's world in there, just the fucking same!

[Taverner]

43. I concur!

I tuned into this show with Nate expecting the SS of old....AAARGGGGH!!!

It was bad enough with Cookie Monster always using the wrong personal pronouns, now we're going to have an entire generation speaking of themselves in the 3rd person!!!

[Sandpiper]

16. Sesame Street jumped the shark when

They made Elmo the focus of the show rather than Big Bird.

[TheMightyFavog]

18. I disagree.

Sesame Street Jumped the shark when Jim Henson died.

[neverborn]

20. Wiggles

Fruit Salad. That is all.

[SmileyBoy]

30. Yes, that is correct. They're fruit salad.

You just hope they don't share the same apartment (not that there's anything wrong with that):).

[Angelus]

21. The Wiggles by far.

What a creepy group of men...

[Buns_of_Fire]

23. Dr. Doom's Playhouse of Pain

It wasn't on very long -- especially after that unfortunate incident with the chihuahua and the Water Pik.

(/tongue-in-cheek)

[arwalden]

26. I Like Them All... Can't Get Enough Of Them

I find them inspiring and entertaining and challenging. They help me to relax and to be a more creative thinker. They also increase my vocabulary and make me happier.

-- Allen

But I do wonder if Teletubbies helped to reinforce my sexuality.

[7th_Sephiroth]

28. H.R. Puffinstuff

wonder what "stuff" he was "puffin"

[noonwitch]

34. Lidsville was even creepier

I liked Pufinstuff better, mainly because when I was little, I had a crush on Jack Wild (he was a great artful dodger in "Oliver"). I also liked the hippie tree, and Witchiepoo and her lackeys. The talking flute annoyed the hell out of me, I kept hoping they'd lose him for good.

Lidsville had Charles Nelson Reilly as the magician, and all the characters in the make-believe land were hats. The lost kid was played by a teenaged Butch Patrick (Eddie Munster).

They did a cross-over episode, where Witchiepoo (I loved the actress who played her, she had a great bit-part on GH in the 80s)and HooDoo (CNR's evil magician) fell in love.

[Book Lover]

31. You have delineated

why I keep my child far, far away from the TV, even if the Wiggles do have some catchy tunes...

[scarlet_owl]

35. Xuxa.

That show was strange.

[ohiosmith]

36. Anything with clowns.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

37. Barney

The dinosaur is retarded. The children are brainwashed.

[Neshanic]

38. TBN's disturbing kids in heaven one....clicked past, neck hair rose

[southpaw]

41. Pee Wee's Playhouse...

Say what you will, Paul Reubens is one creepy motherfucker!