When I was about 8 years old (2016) I woke up early while my parents were still asleep and turned on the TV to see what to watch. Superjail was on and I cried due to so much gore being on the TV, even if it was cartoon gore. I was 8.
Not a tv show, I wasn’t necessarily a kid but I remember stumbling on LiveLeak…
For those who want to know what it was.
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It was a video of a guy getting dragged behind a car down the highway.
In my days the equivalent was rotten.com
Some of the images are charged into my brain
There’s a specific episode of that, IMO, horrible 3D Garfield and Friends cartoon from maybe the very late 2000s or early 2010s that made me hate the show. As someone who hates spiders, I hated an episode where Garfield takes an alien’s space car to an alternate universe where it’s John’s head on a giant spider body.
Hated it so much I couldn’t even eat something like a hot pocket without worrying about the fuckers being in it.
Edit:
That episode basically killed my enjoyment of the 3D animated Garfield movies with the superheroes, Garfield going on a quest to become funny again, and having to find a way back into comic strip land ( or whatever it’s called ). I’d probably be fine watching them now, but no way I’d enjoy them like I did, not by a long shot. Even as an animation lover.
Invader Zim. The animation and shock humor was a little much for younger me, particularly the organ stealing episode.
Not a TV show specifically, but another thing I remember was there were these anti smoking ads with claymation figures that had creepy music and they ate dead birds and things.
So I’m not particularly proud of this, but the emergency broadcasting tests used to scare the bejebus out of me when I was a little kid. Like run into another room and hide scared. I don’t even really know what they were or were for, but they just seemed scary.
As much as I love it, that first Batman: TAS Clayface episode.
Gleefully tormenting a clearly desperate man with the thing he wanted most left me mortified.
One of the space documentaries from the 90’s showed the Apollo 1 fire hatch footage at the beginning. That was quite a bit for a very young child.
The other two are a set of ad’s/psa I have not been able to relocate:
One had a girl in a petal car on a country road with an incoming semi, the other a toddler steps off the curb into traffic, while a frantic mother realizes she lost track of them.
They had a tagline like “would you risk your life for this child” or some such. Mid 90’s cable.
That mummy episode of courage the cowardly dog. Scared the piss outta me.
Dr Who !!!
American Gothic.
“Someone’s at the door.”
i forgot this show existed.
was the sheriff supposed to be the devil?
I barely remember the details, but yeah something like that. But I was just a little kid, and that repeated mantra of “Someone’s at the door” fucked me right up.
The Chipmunks Movie, not the live action one but the animated one from the mid-80s. I had nightmares for years about a scene where their hot air balloon gets blown around by a hurricane, which I watched I guess around the same time as Hurricane Hugo.
It’s also very possible that my brain invented the whole thing.
The theme song to Unsolved Mysteries. My mom would be watching it just when Id goto bed and that song had me pissing myself.
Unsolved Mysteries. Theme song will do it by itself, but the episode with the Queen Mary ship and the ghostly wet foot prints of a child walking the pool deck ruined me.
edit: here it is
Twin Peaks. Way too young to see it, when I did.
Oof, yeah that would do it
Watership Down… The old one, not the newer remake. Just so much fucked up imagery and awful themes in that. Legitimately have me nightmares as a kid.
Not really a kid’s movie, but I remember seeing Darkman on TV when I was pretty young and having the image of his horribly burned, disfigured face burned into my memory.
Watership permanently affected my personality.
Goofy from Disney
LOLLL
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