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Disturbing Cartooons

David Raven said:
I wouldn't worry HAARP, just check out "Cow and Chicken" and the terrifying "Angela Anaconda"...
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What frightens me, David R, is the fact that my kids actually find these programmes entertaining.

Carole
 
Anyone remember the Jackanory-type program that used to be on BBC2 around 6pm. I think it was called Spinechillers. It was quite sedate, but had really good stories sometimes - like the painting haunted by the matchstick man...
BTW, the Jackanory telling of The Hobbit was one of the best things I've ever seen on TV, I wish I could get a VHS of it!
 
Two things that disturbed me as a kid are on today. Already we've had Dr Dolittle - the scene where Rex Harrison dresses the seal in the bonnet and speaks to it lovingly before chucking it over the cliff always freaked me out. And this afternoon it's Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Scary scary scary childcatcher.

TV shows I remember doing the business for me - there was a kids thing which I think was called the Tomorrow People - the palms of people's hands went fuzzy at one point. And a Play for the Day (or somesuch) that involved a nun with no face, just emptiness - an unoccuppied habit wandering around in underground tunnels. Arghhhhhhhhhhhhh...

Right, I'm off to hide behind the sofa.
 
I once wrote an article about crypto-related cartoons and kids stuff...anyone remember BUNYIP ? How crypto was that ? And also the MOTHMAN-type creature in Warner Brothers cartoons.
CHOCKY ( not sure of correct spelling) was really spooky...it concerned a floating misty apparition...it was on around 4:45, and the original LITTLE VAMPIRE was freaky too.
My personal faves were THE BANANA SPLITS who were just so psychedelic and confused, but there were great cartoons on the show.
Anyone remember The Box Of Delights ? This crapped all over HARRY POTTER! And Children Of The Stones was weird too. And TRAP DOOR!
Kids t.v. in the '70s and early '80s was surreal but very vivid and entertaining. Nowadays it tries to be too educational and doesn't rely on the use of imagination.
 
not a cartoon and im sure this freaked a lot of kids out but somtimes i still get chills when i see a man hole cover! (im 40 now!)... Doc Who vs Cybermen they are down in the sewers and one gets conected to an emotion/fear mechine and runs creaming round underground. Later they climb up out of the sewer and casue a bit of mayhem........... and those Autons too never walk past a shop window without thinking of them!.. Children of the stones!..weird .......... stones with eyes and lighthouses...its a wonder im as normal as i am..
 
Wow, there's plenty to remember there, i am sufficiently disturbed!

Heres some others for you which i later thought of.

Does anyone remember Wizbit? He was a giant magical cone which wandered around with Paul Daniels (dont know which of the two was wierder). The Shoe People were pretty messed up too.:eek!!!!:
 
The scariest animation ever is 'The Sandman', made in about 1992. It is pitched as a children's (silent) fantasy and features one of the most horrific endings I've ever seen on daytime TV.
If you've seen 'Jeepers Creepers' - it's the *same ending*. Can you imagine what that's like in a kids film?

'Street of Crocodiles' is indeed very unsettling, but does anyone have a clue what it's actually about? Thought not.

There's a very interesting little aside on this theme in 'LA Confidential' (the book; it isn't in the movie). There's a cartoon studio which is blatantly meant to be Disney (allegedly). It transpires that this studio made a number of violent pornographic surrealist cartoons in the 1930's, which have all been destroyed. Only fiction, but taking a look at some of the real life suppressed cartoons (and there are plenty - especially from Warners), I can only wonder...
 
DanHigginbottom said:
'Street of Crocodiles' is indeed very unsettling, but does anyone have a clue what it's actually about? Thought not.
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It's based on a group of short stories by the Polish author Bruno Schulz (Shultz?) who was murdered by the Nazis in a Polish ghetto in about 1942. When it came out I read in a couple of places that these stories concerned his experiences under Nazi occupation. However, having skimmed through the book in a second hand bookshop a few years ago I think they actually concern his life growing up in an eccentric Polish family and have nothing to do with the war.
 
DanHigginbottom said:
The scariest animation ever is 'The Sandman', made in about 1992. It is pitched as a children's (silent) fantasy and features one of the most horrific endings I've ever seen on daytime TV.
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Is that the one with the eyes in the bag? That gave me nightmares for weeks.
 
David Raven said:
Congratulations! I hope all goes well for you:D

Boring tv? Nah!- We're all a product of our times!

Don't let them watch "Itchy and Scratchy" or the Future is down the pan!! ;)
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Thanks !! I'll keep that in mind !

Haarp x
 
Two of my mates are called Itchy and Scratchy (don't ask). Mind you, I'd keep kids away from them, too.
 
For years I had disturbing memories of a puppet show I had seen
in early childhood but could not put a name to it.

Thanks to the wonders of the Web, I have been able to identify it
as Borovia, a tale of a mythical European Kingdom replete with
an alchemist-gardener called Weatherspoon.

It was horrid beyond words as these huge-headed puppets
awaited a Revolution which never came. Terrible to think of these
things still in vaults somewhere, like the undead. :eek!!!!:
 
Zelda from Terrahawks used to scare the crap outta me!! As did the bad guy from Star Fleet (anyone remember that?), who had another creature living in his eye patch or something like that.

But for just down and out creepiness, does anyone remember Gideon? It was about a long necked goose type thing, and creeps me out just thinking about it.

Around the same time as flight of Dragons was a blatant Star Wars rip off called Starchaser: The Legend of Orin. Not seen it for years, but it scared me when I saw it for the first time.

Right, "Time for bed" said ZebadAAARRGGH!!!!!!!

P.S. Ivor the Engine Rocks!!!!!
 
I'm suprised noone has mentioned Ren & Stimpy yet. My drunken Mexican impression of ren is a must-see ;)
 
Anybody remember Noggin the Nog?
That gave me a few shivers when I was a kid, because the illustrations were quite dark...
 
I can still clearly recall a very, very odd cartoon which was shown on channel four during the late 80's. It was all about this small creature who lived "in a hole under the skirting", I honestly can't remember what the damn programme was called.

It was shown in small 5 minute segements and was on quite late, certainly not a kiddie programme, although it dealt with adult issues in a deliberatly child like manner. I remember the main character going to his friends funeral in one episode. Anyone else know what i'm talking about??
 
Andy - I can be of no help other than to say that I remember this odd little cartoon series too! I distinctly remember catching this in the gap between two programmes, thinking "what the hell is this?" and looking in the TV schedules for details. Oddly enough, there weren't any - just the programmes before and after this one.

As there is currently too little blood in my alcoholstream my memory is impaired - I can't remember the name of the thing, but if I do I'll be straight back.......

Fizz

PS Ivor the Engine was wonderful - I had a particular fondness for Idris the Dragon
 
That would be Muran Buchstansanger (sorry, can't promise that's the correct spelling). Very, very weird. As I remeber, he spent a lot of time talking to beetles.

Veeble
 
Stop!!!!!!, you people are messing with my sub-concious........;)
 
Yes yes yes to DanHigginbottom. I remember a couple of years ago in my uni days talking to my then housemate about this short over a few sweet sherries (I had never seen it and she was paralysed with fear over it). So at about 1am we wobble off to our respective bedrooms, I turn the TV on and what's showing?!?!
The terrifying coincidence was enough to give me the willies
:eek!!!!:

In an OT but similar vein I remember turning the tv on to find a programme just starting - didn't know what it was so started watching. It featured a young woman and her dog moving into a new house (of course in the middle of nowhere) and for some reason I was thinking that it was just like that 'dog licking the hand from under the bed' urban legend, but they wouldn't have filmed that would they? Well of course they would have - I was watching with increased incredulousness right until the final horrible scene. It was odd, as there was no indication as to what it was until quite far into it, but the first thing that popped into my head was that particular UL. Its funny what you can find in late night schedules.

Something that I dearly loved, but found scary was the judderman from the metz ads. I really liked the ads but would always get a shiver down the old spine

Beware the Judderman, my dear when the moon is fat
 
Gyrtrash said:
The evil Rhubarb the pink dog?
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I must leap to the defence of Roobarb. Roobarb was a harmless dreamer, it was Custard the cat who was the nasty piece of work (and I still watch the video from time to time - Ahhh...that's the beauty of grandchildren).
 
Ed, Edd and Eddie or The Cramp Twins. Very disturbing. Dragonball Z is just plain strange and I can never understand what the hell it is about.

Now for just plain annoying you can't beat Scooby Doo.
 
The little films produced by the Brothers Quai are disturbing but are so beautifully made and the models and scenery are so exqusite that you have to watch.

Tried to find an on-line example. Failed :).
 
You can't beat the original Scooby Doo.

Roobarb was actually yellow, Custard (the evil cat next door) was pink.

Any child's programme narrated by Oliver Postgate is wonderful. (Noggin the Nog, Ivor the Engine and of course Bagpuss) and they all have a little Fortean in some episodes.

Helen I so remember that Sapphire and Steel with the soldier haunting the rail sidings. He put the numbers 12, 11, 11 on the window as he'd been killed at 1 minute past the Armistice date and time.

I loved the Moog from Will'o'the Wisp.

Clangers were a bit out there! In one episode the US landed on their planet but Mummy Clanger and Baby Clanger ended up using the Stars and Stripes as a table cloth??

Mary, Mungo and Midge was quite good.

Mr. Benn was brilliant. Though I never saw the Spaceman episode, it was in the titles bu I never saw the episode.

Was under the impression that the Magic Roundabout was all about drugs? MacHenry on speed, Zebedee on acid and Dougal's addiction to "sugar". Anyone guess what Dylan's drug of choice was?

But the scariest thing ever seen on telly as a youth was a drama show on Fridays about 9ish. One episode featured a couple who's home was overcome by a swarm of rats.

The one that still makes me go "ooooooh" was the epsiode that ended with the hero ascending the stairs in a tower because he heard a rocking chair. When he finally reached the floor with the chair it was rocking but it had a Nun sitting in it. SHE HAD NO FACE!!!!

mooks (mother?) out
 
There was an episode of Dungeons And Dragons in which all the characters became trapped in some kind of maze where they had to face their biggest fears. One of them was terrified of growing old and started aging rapidly until eventually, if I recall correctly, she could barely walk or see with clouded up eyes.

The young Styx remembers feeling quite unnerved about becoming older..
 
Mooksta- more of a yellowy-green as I recall Rhubarb that is. Custard was a pinky-purple. I always liked Custard. Bob Geoffrey was that the bloke who did Rhubard? Did he not go onto Henrey's Cat? Also always wondered what Paddington must have thought of the 2 demsional world he lived in.
 
i was introduced to sapphire and steele by an older ex-boyfriend. scares the crap out of me. anyone seen the one with the bloke with no face, or the one that has something to do with people appearing in or disappearing from photos?

yes, there is an episode of the clangers in which US astronauts land on the planet. tiny clanger has used the tablecloth to make coats for the froglets, who are cold, and the flag makes a good replacement tablecloth. i think there may be another episode featuring astronauts too. one of them features the astronaut seeing the clangers and getting freaked out, and falling into the soup.

the magic roundabout was originally in french, and the characters according to a friend of mine, may have been stereotypical residents of various european nations. she thinks that the dog may have been the english one. it was apparently pretty crazy in french, but when the beeb got the translated scripts they chucked them in the bin and made up new ones which were even weirder.
 
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Bob Godfrey was the animator behind Rhubarb and Henry's Cat. He's a bit of a genius, as can be seen by his masterpiece Great, a musical cartoon all about Isambard Kingdom Brunel.
 
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