which characters on TV were you afraid of as a kid?

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I can't recall being afraid of any but that is just my poor memory I guess.

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:03 (eighteen years ago)

I was surprised to find out that Noseybonk off Jigsaw terrified a lot of kids.

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:05 (eighteen years ago)

British wrestler Scrubber Daley

― blueski, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:05 (eighteen years ago)

never heard of him.

― Grandpont Genie, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:10 (eighteen years ago)

Henry's Cat

― braveclub, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:13 (eighteen years ago)

Rover.

― Marcello Carlin, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:19 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.lynn3686.freeserve.co.uk/jigsaw/bignoseybonk.jpg

― the next grozart, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:20 (eighteen years ago)

Scared the crap out of me! You should see him in action - running around children's playparks looking for clues and chattering away in a varispeed babble.

― the next grozart, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:21 (eighteen years ago)

Graham Rix

― Michael Philip Philip Philip philip Annoyman, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:22 (eighteen years ago)

Cybermen.

― Pashmina, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:26 (eighteen years ago)

Guy Smiley from Sesame Street. He was too shouty.

― rener, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:29 (eighteen years ago)

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― stevie, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:49 (eighteen years ago)

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― Gukbe, Friday, 27 April 2007 10:55 (eighteen years ago)

dr smith from lost in space

― estela, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:14 (eighteen years ago)

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― peter james, Friday, 27 April 2007 11:49 (eighteen years ago)

Hartley the Hare from Pipkins - a hideous creature.

― Stone Monkey, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:24 (eighteen years ago)

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― Stone Monkey, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:32 (eighteen years ago)

most of them.

― acrobat, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

the woman in Life And Loves Of A She-Devil.

― blueski, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:40 (eighteen years ago)

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Mr McFeely (the delivery man) on Mister Rogers unnerved me as a child. He was always looking through windows and knocking on Mister Rogers' door, but iirc he was never let inside.

I guess in retrospect he was an effective device for teaching latchkey children not to let creepy men into their homes.

― Wrinklepaws, Friday, 27 April 2007 12:42 (eighteen years ago)

Guy Smiley from Sesame Street. He was too shouty.

Holy shit, I was terrified by Guy Smiley and came here specifically to mention that. I had to have my mom put my Sesame Street sheets on in particular manner so I wouldn't see him while lying in bed. A lot of people don't even remember him, and if they do, they mock me.

― joygoat, Friday, 27 April 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

Pat Sajak.

― nickalicious, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

my older sister was TERRIFIED of little bird from sesame street.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

MR. Blobby.

― chap, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

And my cousin was scared of Grotbags.

― chap, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

1969–1970) A little bird, presumably a canary. He was a counterpart/foil to Big Bird. Although Little Bird was often referred to as a "she" because of his female performer, Fran Brill, the character appears on the Grin and Giggle with Big Bird LP with Big Bird in a song called "Mr. Big Bird, Mr. Little Bird."
Although Little Bird appeared on Sesame Street most often during the 1970s, appearances were frequently made in books throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Little Bird also made a few cameo appearances during the 1980s and 1990s. On-screen appearances include a brief fly-by in the song "Do Op Hop," sat at Birdland in "The Birdland Jump," and sang a line and appeared in "We Are All Earthlings".

He was actually a refurbishment of the Kenner Gooney Bird, the Muppet mascot of Kenner Toys. Little Bird's birthday is December 17.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

Tarragon the Dragon from The Herbs.

― Noodle Vague, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

My wife is still frightened of Guy Smiley.

― Noodle Vague, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

Hold on, I can't have been scared of Mr. Blobby, I was like fifteen when he was on the telly! Must be a false memory, I FEAR NO MAN.

There was something enormously sinister about him though.

― chap, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.jedisparadise.co.uk/childrenstv/Chorlton_and_the_Wheelies/Fenella.jpg

Woah I am having a spasm of repressed fear just looking at that.

― Mark C, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

I can't remember any characters from shows, but I do remember them from tv movies that would freak me out.

Hmm. I do remember getting creeped out by the Dr Who/Tomorrow People shows that Nickelodean would run very early in its existence.

― kingfish, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

Henry's Cat

why?????????

― admrl, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

re Lady Elaine Fairchild: this seems pretty common, I ran across an entire webpage somewhere filled with people's reminiscences of the nightmares she gave them as kids. And, she made our son cry a few weeks ago.

― akm, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

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― Mr. Que, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

not on TV, but still.

― Mr. Que, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

I was terrified of Scooby Doo - not necessarily the dog but the whole show in general. I use to start crying when it came on the tv.

― ENBB, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

Les Dawson. Saw him turn into the Incredible Hulk on his sketch show. Petrifying.

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― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

The song "Puff the Magic Dragon" used to frighten me so much as a kid I'd run out of the room if it came on the radio.

― Noodle Vague, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

My brother is still scared of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory to this day.

― Curt1s Stephens, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

THERE'S NO EARTHLY WAY OF KNOWING
WHICH DIRECTION WE ARE GOING
THERE'S NO KNOWING WHERE WE'RE ROWING
OR WHICH WAY THE RIVER'S FLOWING
IS IT RAINING
IS IT SNOWING
IS A HURRICANE A-BLOWING
BLEH!
NOT A SPECK OF LIGHT IS SHOWING
SO THE DANGER MUST BE GROWING
ARE THE FIRES OF HELL A GLOWING?
IS THE GRISLY REAPER MOWING?
YES! THE DANGER MUST BE GROWING
FOR THE ROWERS KEEP ON ROWING
AND THEY'RE CERTAINLY NOT SHOWING
ANY SIGNS THAT THEY ARE SLOWING!

― Mr. Que, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

I don't remember being scared of any characters, but I know I didn't like the Count on Sesame Street.

― nabisco, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

BECAUSE HE WAS A FUCKING PURPLE VAMPIRE

― nabisco, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

yeah the Count was bossy or too OCD for me or something.

― Mr. Que, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

I also HATED the fact that no one ever saw Snufalapagus on Sesame Street. I guess people can see him now besides Big Bird, right?

― Mr. Que, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

There was this French kids TV show that was kind of like the Twilight Zone but for kids - different stories each week about mysterious happenings. Anyways, one of their favorite themes was kids being turned into animals. I remember one where a kid was turned into a sheep and another where a kid turned into a sea turtle. The fucked up thing is that the episodes usually ended without the kids being turned back. This idea, of being turned into an animal and not being able to tell anyone, was really frightening to me, and I remember having nightmares about it. Maybe related to the boys turning into donkeys in Pinocchio?

― n/a, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

I was scared shitless of this vampire (but loved the show):

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― Rock Hardy, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

Not quite the same but I always used to feel really worried for Fred at the end of The Flintstones when the cat locked him out of the house.

― Noodle Vague, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

basil brush, ronald mcdonald, the thames television ident and music, the crimestoppers music, the purple women from that show about.. tea bags??

― creme1, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

oh and the fucking LIFE FORCE from knightmare

― creme1, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

that got me more on a psychological level

― creme1, Friday, 27 April 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

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Child-Colin = homophobe

― nabisco, Friday, 27 April 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

What game is that from Colin?

Also lol italics.

― Noodle Vague, Friday, 27 April 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

Child-Colin = homophobe

Haha, I think it's more like identicalbeardandnoseaphobe.

It's from Candyland.

― C0L1N B..., Friday, 27 April 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

I just had a major flashback and think I too was afraid of creepy gay candyland man.

― ENBB, Friday, 27 April 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

oh and the fucking LIFE FORCE from knightmare

Yes. Tense.

― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 27 April 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

And here I end the italics [/i]

― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 27 April 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

Oops.

― Chuck_Tatum, Friday, 27 April 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

maybe?

― Ms Misery, Friday, 27 April 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

did that work?

― Ms Misery, Friday, 27 April 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

Herne the Hunter from Robin of Sherwood, even though he was supposed to be a goody. I loved that programme, but it wasn't half spooky sometimes.

― chap, Friday, 27 April 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

FWIW ENBB everyone can see Snuffleuppagus now. He's a guy a can really realte to. Him and Milhouse and Butters.

― Abbott, Friday, 27 April 2007 17:31 (eighteen years ago)

Butters is one of my favourite TV characters of all time.

― chap, Friday, 27 April 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

Confirm / deny: Milhouse is totally a joke on Kevin Arnold's best friend from The Wonder Years.

― nabisco, Friday, 27 April 2007 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

Paul...si, I had my first HUEG CRUSH on him.

― Abbott, Friday, 27 April 2007 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

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― Mr. Que, Friday, 27 April 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

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― Mr. Que, Friday, 27 April 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

Wonder Years premiers fall 88
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Simpsons premiers winter 89
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― nabisco, Friday, 27 April 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

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― Mr. Que, Friday, 27 April 2007 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

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When I was 3 years old, I would run screaming through the house when the "Mr. Yuk is mean" commercial came on. Now I have a Mr. Yuk t-shirt.

― kenan, Friday, 27 April 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

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― kenan, Friday, 27 April 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

growing up, i did not like this no genitals duder:

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U GONNA GET RAEPED BY SLIM GOODBODY
http://ubu.wfmu.org/sound/365/12/365-Days-Project-12-13-goodbody-slim.mp3

― sanskrit, Friday, 27 April 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

I've never heard of Hartley the Hare, but that picture of him is scaring me right now.

― The Yellow Kid, Friday, 27 April 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

oh fuck i forgot about slim goodbody

― Mr. Que, Friday, 27 April 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

I met slim goodbody at my summer camp when I was little. Very scary indeed. Lub dub, lub dub, lub dub . . .

― ENBB, Friday, 27 April 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

A TV airing of Watership Down freaked me out, with that ghost rabbit spirit thing.

That and Dot & the Kangaroo, or whatever the fuck it was, where the aboriginal paintings came alive.

TV was a constant source of stimulation and terror for 6-year-old me.

― kingfish, Friday, 27 April 2007 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

The One-Armed Man
eyeless Lee Marvin
some of The Invaders
Jackie Gleason

― M.V., Friday, 27 April 2007 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

Watership down has scared people from 8 to 108!

― Abbott, Friday, 27 April 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

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Charlie McCarthy

― kenan, Friday, 27 April 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

Any gingerbread man, still freaks me out to this day.

― not--goodwin, Friday, 27 April 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

Bumble the Abominable Snow Monster from Rudoph the Red Nosed Raindeer scared the bejezus out of me when I was a little kid.

I think Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz both too screwed up for real little kids. I hated those damn flying monkeys.

Of course, It didn't help that half of the children's TV shows made in the early to mid 70s were obviously made by stoners. All of those Sid & Marty Croft or Mulligan Stew shows were all LSD trips made for six year olds.

― earlnash, Saturday, 28 April 2007 01:11 (eighteen years ago)

EW Slim Goodbody totally! Also the Sleestak from Land of the Lost

― Morley Timmons, Saturday, 28 April 2007 01:14 (eighteen years ago)

Dr. Who.

― Jeff, Saturday, 28 April 2007 01:31 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, I never made it past the opening. With the faces.

― Jeff, Saturday, 28 April 2007 01:32 (eighteen years ago)

Sleestak! Yes.
Slim Goodbody
Not Tv per se, but the Gorilla at Showbiz Pizza
Horrible fear of Daleks and the mannequins in the Dr. Who episode where they come to life and attack him. "Spearhead from Space"?

― jocelyn, Saturday, 28 April 2007 01:50 (eighteen years ago)

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all of them!

― Z S, Saturday, 28 April 2007 01:55 (eighteen years ago)

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― Pleasant Plains, Saturday, 28 April 2007 03:41 (eighteen years ago)

Did Dot and the Kangaroo have hippos involved at some point? Possibly underwater? I have vague memories of watching a really fried cartoon movie on HBO when I was really young, and this might have been it.

― joygoat, Saturday, 28 April 2007 03:51 (eighteen years ago)

heh i just realised the jewish organ-suit guy's hair is meant to be a brain. tripped out

― creme1, Saturday, 28 April 2007 06:31 (eighteen years ago)

holy shit, whaddayaknow, it's the bunyip song from dot & the kangaroo:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtrYO-Mog60

Life in the modern age, where every bit of video that freaked you out as a kid is readily available

― kingfish, Sunday, 29 April 2007 08:04 (eighteen years ago)

Which reminds me - if anyone can point me in the direction of a torrent of "Brighton Belles" I'll give them a shiny apple.

― Mark C, Sunday, 29 April 2007 09:16 (eighteen years ago)

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James Earl Jones on "Sesame Street." He'd count down from ten to one and then tell you what the day's letter was (or something), all in that booming voice (years before his turn as Darth Vader). It would invariably send me scampering out of the room for dear life.

― Alex in NYC, Sunday, 29 April 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

this guy totally spooked me, he was on ALL THE TIME or so it seemed.

http://trsullivan.mlblogs.com/photos/uncategorized/richard20nixon.jpg

― m coleman, Sunday, 29 April 2007 12:52 (eighteen years ago)

"get a haircut punk!"

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― m coleman, Sunday, 29 April 2007 12:59 (eighteen years ago)

ed sullivan ^^ was an FBI plant behind that phony showbiz smile

― m coleman, Sunday, 29 April 2007 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

see also Clutch Cargo, Ultraman and the Gestapo on Hogan's Heroes.

― m coleman, Sunday, 29 April 2007 13:06 (eighteen years ago)

i couldn't remember any until i saw this thread http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=30547#unread

when i was sleeping over at my grandma's house old bosko cartoons were a surefire way to let me know i had stayed up waaay too late watching nickelodeon in the basement and could very well be about to pay for it with my life

― A B C, Sunday, 29 April 2007 13:36 (eighteen years ago)

at whatever point in the early 90s they decided to stop showing racist cartoons from the 30s really late at night (wait wasn't this nick at nite territory? i guess maybe it was cartoon network) they started running these ads announcing that were like "SORRY BOSKO" with a little clip of a bosco cartoon with like unhappy winding-down organ music in the background and they were on EVERY COMMERCIAL BREAK SO SCARY

― A B C, Sunday, 29 April 2007 13:45 (eighteen years ago)

No, it was Nickelodeon during the day. I remember Bosco hatefully. They did show all the sweet old Warner Bros. shit on end, tho.

― Abbott, Sunday, 29 April 2007 23:42 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=3823

― chaki, Monday, 30 April 2007 00:10 (eighteen years ago)

Jeff Bridges on Starman

and

Beaker from Muppet Show, always getting affected by the lab experiments. Scared the hell out of me back then.

― Ste, Monday, 30 April 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

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