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These shows fall into the uncanny valley of kids shows: plots and images that are so frightening, information technology's shocking they were ever made, permit alone targeted at children.
The Kitchen Casanova
Role of Cartoon Network's What A Cartoon! series, "The Kitchen Casanova" is non but icky, but deeply unsettling. In the cartoon, a man is nervously preparing dinner for his appointment… and then it all goes straight to the ninth circumvolve of hell. Every bit he hurriedly prepares dinner, he accidentally switches from recipe-to-horrible-recipe, creating a hodgepodge of nasty ingredients. Then, the Casanova presents a covered serving tray to his date.
He uncovers the dinner, and reveals an image that has been seared into the brains of thousands of children: an eerily detailed cartoon of a rolled up tongue, an eyeball (with lower lid still attached), bloody bones, and a severed human being foot. As Casanova and his horrified appointment examine the repast, the tongue slowly unfurls, and twitches every bit he quickly slams the cover dorsum onto the tray. If only the cartoon ended there. Instead, they begin to ravenously eat the pile of disgusting offal, amidst icky smacking, slurping, and giggling noises, leaving children haunted and questioning whether this drawing really happened, or was merely a bizarre fever dream.
Oh Yeah Cartoons
Like to What A Cartoon!, Oh Yeah Cartoons is an anthology of animated shorts. This version of the serial, still, was even more chock full of disturbing cartoons. "A Kids Life" features a bunch of dancing, singing pimples, with a repetitive song virtually how they make kids lives' miserable and can't exist stopped.
This disgusting and fatalistic show melody that ends with a creepy, life-sized talking rabbit toy with a Donnie Darko -esque vibe. Not to be outdone, "Kenny and the Chimp" (an animated short that served every bit a forerunner to The Kids Next Door ), features a kid who unleashes and gets infected by a variety of deadly diseases, ane of which causes his head to turn into a pig (which runs away at the audio of burning bacon).
SIniecko
In terms of pure, psychotic energy, Slniečko wins the prize. Starring a baroque, long-armed puppet that looks like it was scrapped together using junk found in a haunted asylum's dumpster, this child's show ran in Czechoslovakia in the 1980s. The puppet (named Raťafák Plachta, which translates to "large nose coating") is made upward of two men under a canvass, and a puppet head that looks like the last feverish image that might wink before your eyes before dying of rabies.
His gasping, frenetic vocalisation sounds like a serial killer vacillating between laughing and crying as he recounts gruesome crimes. Perhaps the creepiest part is that the puppet is intentionally freaky: the boob's creator said, "He is an eyesore, he's ugly. I call back the Goggle box station was avant-garde in a way considering they were not afraid to show [an] unlikable (in looks), not pretty puppet on screen." In this context, "avant-garde" ways "a seven-foot-tall terror-puppet."
Jan Svankmajer'south Alice
Hey, Czechoslovakia? Are y'all doing okay? Because hither's another Czech picture show that is concentrated nightmare jet-fuel. It's not articulate whether this 1988 adaptation of Alice in Wonderland is really child-appropriate, which the film itself coyly hints at with the ominous narration, "Alice thought to herself...Now you will run across a movie...Made for children...Perhaps." The surrealist film combines end movement with a alive action child-actor in a way that is deeply, primally disturbing.
Most of the finish motility puppets are real taxidermied animals, with bulging eyes and fixed, startled expressions. Dead birds with fox skulls for heads brand an appearance, skulls hatch from eggs, a slice of meat moves of its own accord, Alice turns into a creepy porcelain doll… and the sound design is just as viscerally disturbing as the visuals. It's an indescribably trippy and horrifying film, and the experience of watching information technology could be most closely compared to getting loftier in a taxidermist's workshop.
Mr. Potato Head Show
Recollect the 1999 Mr. Potato Head Show picture show? If y'all don't, you may have blocked out the retentiveness. Pixar's version of Mr. Potato head is loveable and goofy, whereas the Mr. Potato Head Show is… something else. What began as a Boob tube testify featuring a live activity puppet of Mr. Potato Head, the spinoff picture's entire plot is a lamentation of how the Mr. Tater Caput Show was cancelled.
This weird meta-commentary might be funnier if the movie wasn't a Frankenstein of clips and muddled half-broiled ideas that amount to the crazed rantings of the show's scorned creators. In that location are weird animations with live-activeness human lips, a half-eaten heavily-pierced anthropomorphic apple, a puppet who appears to be a pile of assorted intestines, a half-ham-half-lobster abomination, a fruitcake with human teeth, aliens… watching this movie feels like pouring Drano into your ears and waiting for your brains to liquify.
Catdog
CatDog was a creative 90's Nickelodeon drawing featuring a one-half-cat-half-domestic dog creature who gets into wacky hijinks, as its prissy cat-half and rambunctious dog-half are ever at odds. But the weird premise is not what makes this drawing creepy, rather a scattering of episodes that decided, "Screw information technology, allow's send some kids to therapy."
In one, "Cat" attempts to sneakily brush "Dog's" teeth… by itch inside his own oral fissure, traveling up through its body towards the Dog half, and exiting dog'due south mouth. At this betoken, Cat is somehow within-out, with expose muscle, vein, and eye tissue, that is both medically infeasible and Hellraiser levels of disturbing. Thank you, CatDog for making ten-year-olds contemplate the frailty of the man mind.
Help! I'm a Fish
Help! I'm a Fish is a Danish children'southward movie that was adjusted to English, even acquiring the voice talents of Alan Rickman, Aaron Paul (before he was famous), and Terry Jones. The picture is nearly a grouping of kids who accidentally beverage a potion that turns them into fish, and existence stupid children, they lose the "antidote" that would plough them dorsum into humans. It would be a generally lackluster, forgettable children'due south movie, if not for the villain: Joe, a fish who got a taste of the antidote potion, which apparently has the power to requite fish human-like characteristics as well.
Joe starts out as rather frightening, with a blackness and white face up that looks more juggalo than fish, and a sinister voice (courtesy of the wonderfully dark Alan Rickman). Later the typical villainous arc, Joe greedily tries to eat equally much of the antidote equally possible to become fully human. Instead, he becomes an uncanny fish-human hybrid, his pare tearing autonomously like Jeff Goldblum in The Fly . He after drowns, since he makes the mistake of drinking the human being-potion while underwater (information technology tin can't be overemphasized how many bad decisions the characters in this movie make).
O Canada
O Canada was a 90'southward Canadian-American child'south Idiot box bear witness that aired on Cartoon Network. Information technology featured a series of Canadian animated shorts straight out a LSD-fueled horrorscape. In "To Be," a adult female questions her own being, visits a wacky scientist who has invented a "transporter" which, in reality, clones the subjects and kills the original copy (the plot of The Prestige , but for kids!).
The scientist "transports" himself, but the original isn't killed, leading to a showdown where the woman must decide if she should kill 1 of the scientist doubles… and she does. Then, wracked with guilt, she kills herself by stepping into the transporter, allowing herself to be vaporized as her clone walks guilt-gratis. Is it really a child'south cartoon's place to make united states of america question the nature of our being? Apparently, information technology is in Canada!
Peter Rabbit & Friends: The Purple Ballet
What more than must exist said than, "Alive activity people dressed every bit Beatrix Potter animals doing ballet?" Peter Rabbit & Friends: The Royal Ballet is exactly that. Though the plot is mostly kid friendly, the hyper-realistic imitation animal heads (with unblinking eyes, don't forget those) atop the muscular, leotard-clad bodies of live dancers is just slightly uncanny.
The ballet is pretty well-choreographed, the costumes (though creepy) are weirdly similar to the classic Beatrix Potter illustrations, and other than giving children nightmares for the residue of their lives, it's a pretty beautiful production.
Gerry Anderson's Hoppity
What is information technology about puppets? Their creepy smiles? Their dead, shark-like eyes? The thought that they may suddenly spring to life and rising upwards against their human masters? Hoppity unwittingly goes full-throttle on the creepy puppet tropes. Created by Gerry Anderson (future creator of puppet Television testify Thunderbirds ), Hoppity is most a magical toy from the "goblin market" who tin can move on his own and communicates past shrieking "Teedily-tum! Deedily dum!"
His hapless human owner, a little girl, is commanded to practise "naughty" acts, constantly getting in trouble. In tears, she explains she's heeding Hoppity's orders, but none of the adults believe her. Information technology ends with her beingness sent to bed without supper, while Hoppity complains that he is hungry.
Ant Freedy
Emmet Freedy was a 1990's Nicktoon, with an artstyle best described equally "Boschian horror-vomit." Using end motion (a form of animation that often trips into the uncanny valley), its horribly designed newspaper-maché characters look like something out of a college student'south creepy art installation.
The stop motion is stilted and unsettling, the voices sound like ambien-induced auditory hallucinations, the graphic symbol's lips, noses, and faces are grotesquely out of proportion, and the teeth… there's just manner too many teeth. No child should be subjected to this cartoon, and those who were unfortunate enough to watch this abomination should receive a lawsuit settlement to pay for their therapy.
Pingu
Pingu is a 1990's Swiss claymation nearly an adorable baby penguin. And then why does it brand the cut for creepiest children's shows? Pingu lulls its audience into a simulated sense of wholesome security, only to rip the rug out from under you with a freaky, behemothic, maniacal walrus.
This monstrosity sticks out not only considering of its inexplicable homo teeth, but due to how incongruous the weirdly detailed walrus is with Pingu'due south normally cute, cartoonish art style. To make matters worse, the walrus has a creepy, full-throated, homicidal laugh. As a upshot, a whole generation of Swiss children have grown upwards to fear the Antarctic.
Ringing Bell
Don't be fooled by this 1978 movie's adorable lamb VHS cover-fine art. Ringing Bell begins equally a movie most a beautiful, stubby-cheeked lamb, and then information technology decides to go GWAR on us. A wolf kills the lamb'due south mother, and the lamb decides to seek revenge by getting the wolf to train him, so that he can grow upwardly to kill the wolf. The wolf agrees to the terms, and turns the adorable lamb into a demonic, wolf-killing ram.
The lamb's final form looks like some sort of precipitous-horned, shadowy, satanic beast. The lamb ends up killing his adoptive-wolf-dad, and at the end of the pic is left alone and miserable. The pic is ostensibly making a point well-nigh the futility of revenge, only here's an idea: maybe don't sell a story about lamb-on-wolf-patricide to children?
Mike Huckabee'southward Learn Our History
Did you lot know Mike Huckabee helped create a children's show? And did you know that children's evidence is a weirdly on-the-nose series of political indoctrination? And that information technology decided to ham-fistedly teach kids almost 9/xi? Well, as it turns out, all those things inexplicably happen to be truthful.
The Learn Our History serial teaches kids about 9/11 past tactlessly animating a airplane crashing into the twin towers, equally an onlooker cries out (without much enthusiasm), "No!" Another onlooker says, woodenly, "Who would do something like this?" We'd like to ask the aforementioned question of this "kid's" bear witness's creators.
Shining Fourth dimension Station
Shining Time Station was an adorable 1990's PBS evidence that featured Thomas the Tank Engine and his man friends at the train station, including a tiny usher played by George Carlin. The kids would become on imagination journeys through the railroad train tunnels, during which the audience would exist subjected to some pretty weird animations.
In 1, a little boy goes through a museum of creepy looking paintings, which stick their tongues out and blow raspberries at him. The thought of sentient paintings sneakily mocking you, sticking out their human tongues, was an unexpected source of nightmares. The series likewise regularly featured puppets who lived within a jukebox, whose heavy-lidded expiry mask-like faces occasionally pop up to haunt our dreams.
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Adventure
Raggedy Ann & Andy: A Musical Take a chance is a 1977 kid's movie, with beautiful illustrations and lavish animation. Unfortunately, its detail only serves to further the pitter-patter-factor during some utterly chilling sequences. Raggedy Ann & Andy, a pair of floppy fabric dolls, run away.
Inside a pit filled with some sort of brown taffy, they encounter "The Greedy," a garish, sentient pile of candy, taffy, and bubbling fluids. Information technology's constantly hungry and can never exist sated, eating itself over and over in a psychedelic animated sequence. It eventually decides the just style to cure its hunger is to eat Raggedy Ann's heart.
Weinerville
Weinerville was a live 1990'southward kids variety/comedy bear witness that aired on Nickelodeon, hosted by Marc Weiner. It sticks in our heads as unsettling non just due to "Boney," the skeletal mascot/hand boob, simply also due to the "Weinerizer," a machine that "shrinks" audience members' bodies, putting their disproportionately-large heads on puppet bodies.
Information technology was a pretty simple trick (their existent bodies were hiding behind the boob stage), but to immature viewers' eyes, it was an human action of creepy sourcery. Additionally, there were a litany of weird characters, including "Socko," a boob with a high-pitched vocalism and penchant for kicking people, and Marc Weiner'due south homo-caput combined with a variety of dissimilar puppets, which was at times funny, and at other times, unsettling.
Unico In The Isle of Magic
Unico In The Island of Magic is a 1983 children'southward anime virtually a beautiful Unicorn-puppy-bear looking animal with pink hair and a cheerful spirit. What could go wrong? Evil puppets, that'south what. In the movie, "Kukuruku" is an abandoned puppet come to life. Instead of having some playful Toy Story -esque adventures, Kukuruku decides to seek revenge on the human being race by turning every living creature into freaky, moaning wooden zombies.
He uses these blank-faced human puppets as building blocks in his giant evil belfry. And Kukuruku himself is a freaky, enormous puppet who eats Unico and a little girl. We approximate mentally scarring children builds character?
Black Beauty
Blackness Beauty was 1994 live-activity movie adaptation of a book by the same name. It'south a motion picture almost the adventures of a beautiful blackness stallion, which is another way of saying get prepare for some expressionless horses! In the motion picture, Blackness Beauty and his best friend Ginger go through all sorts of adventures together including: about drowning, most dying of pneumonia, being enslaved by evil humans, becoming securely depressed, and dying.
That's correct, at one bespeak Ginger is bought by wicked masters, who shell her and abuse her that her spirit is eventually completely broken. Black Dazzler must watch every bit they cart of her limp, bruised, lifeless trunk. At least she's gratuitous from pain, Black Dazzler muses. What a bang-up movie for kids.
4 Square
We get it, kids like bright, colorful, surreal world, with frenetic energy and charismatic people. But 4 Foursquare, a Canadian kids show that aired from 2003-2015, tried to go with this formula, and somehow came up with a show that feels similar a cultist's brainwashing video.
Three adults, all wearing identical bright-blue spandex unitards (which, on the men, leaves… little to be imagined beneath the waist), are allowable past a fourth adult in a vivid-blue spanex unitard to do a diversity of "exercises." "Spread the cheeks!" she commands, and they dutifully do so. Thankfully, she means the face cheeks, otherwise we'd be leaving a tip for the FBI.
Salute Your Shorts
Salute Your Shorts is a 1990's Nickelodeon TV bear witness that follows the live-activeness adventures of a summer camp and its wacky attendees. Unfortunately, it takes a turn towards Texas Chainsaw Massacre after the introduction of a spooky camp legend, "Zeke the Plumber." He'south the ghost of a noseless plumber who died in a gas leak (no nose—he couldn't odor it).
Zeke haunts the campsite, wearing a creepy, misshapen mask, with a bloody patch where his nose should be. According to the camp fable, if you lot touch his cursed plunger, he volition haunt your dreams. Cheers for the alert, just we didn't touch on whatsoever forbidden plungers and he'south still haunting us to this mean solar day.
Reboot
ReBoot is a Canadian (oh hello again Canada, you weirdos) 3D-animated drawing that aired from 1994-2001. It stars a bunch of fun digital characters who live inside the "mainframe" of the computer. They're constantly battling viruses and protecting the digital citizens of their town. And certain, Hexadecimal is a pretty creepy antagonist, with a variety of motionless masks that displayed her expression. Just the true horror comes in the form of "game cubes."
Whenever a user decides to play a game, a giant majestic cube descends upon the city. It traps any digital people within and force them to play a game against the "user." If the digital people lose, they are "nulled," aka, wiped clean from existence. One of the characters (a child, no less) appears to die in one of the game cubes, merely to come back later as adult - he survived nullification but spent decades being tortured by video games. It made us rethink the way we treated our Sims.
Long Ago and Far Away
Long Agone and Far Away aired on PBS from 1989-1992. It's an album testify of bedtime stories for children. Hosted by James Earl Jones, vocalisation of Darth Vader, Mufasa, and probably God, it is a solid children'due south evidence. However, a few episodes stick in our minds as creepy. "Rarg" spins an animated tale about a globe inhabited by strange looking citizens, superintelligent babies, and a mayor with arms growing out of his head.
The science babies discover their entire globe is just a random man's dream, and they'll all die when he wakes up. So they build a bridge to the waking world, kidnap the man, and trap him within his ain dream forever. Gee, way to help kids feel safe falling asleep.
Moomin
Moomin are ambrosial characters created by a Finnish artist, that were turned into an Japanese/Dutch anime in 1990. It follows the adventures of the Moomin family, a grouping of cow-hippo-dog type creatures. The cuteness suddenly evaporates as shortly equally the Groke makes an appearance.
A huge, grimacing, ghost-like creature, the Groke haunts the Moomin valley, freezing and killing every living affair she stands upon. Her appearances in the anime are coupled with bone-chilling death rattles and a menacing musical score. And good news! The Moomin accept been reimagined in a 2019 3D-animated serial called, Moominvalley. And is that a Groke in the trailer? Yes, yes it is.
Vintage Sesame Street
There's zero more pure in this world than Sesame Street , right? In the 90's, amidst the ambrosial puppets, sesame street featured brief segments, either cartoons or playful shorts. Ane of which was "William Wegman's Weimaraners." Weimaraners are a stately breed of dogs with soulful, somber eyes. Dogs are beautiful, but not when you lot give them human torsos.
William Wegman is an lensman famous for propping his dogs upward on a human histrion, making information technology announced like a person who has a dog's head. The photographs themselves are a fiddling weird, simply in live activeness the creep-cistron is multiplied. The dogs stare woefully ahead as adult actors gesticulate wildly. The dogs? Beautiful. The half-dog-one-half-man monstrosities? Not cute.
The Dauntless Little Toaster
The Brave Little Toaster is an underappreciated 1989 blithe children'south movie, and despite its high quality and artistic premise, boy oh boy does it have some unsettling moments. Starring personified household items such as Toaster (who is dauntless), Radio, Lamp, Blankie, and Kirby (a grumpy vacuum), they set out from an abandoned vacation domicile to seek their long-lost human master. Along the way they encounter terrifying moments such as being kidnapped past a human tinkerer, who traps (fully sentient and aware) electronics in a vice and rips them apart, harvesting their oil-stained inner parts.
He also likes to create "inventions:" electronic devices that have been Frankensteined-together, who are only besides aware of their horribly mutilated being. Toaster & gang also air current up in a junkyard, equally old, used-upwards cars sing a lamentable chant near being resigned to their fate (of being crushed and killed past a auto compactor). Hey, simply Toaster makes toast in the end, then hurray!
Zig-Zag
Zig Zag is a 1979-1988 Canadian kids show. Canada, seriously, what the heck is going on with yous guys? This show starts a bearded, bespectacled host whose humor feels more like unhinged rantings and ravings than comedy. In 1 instance, he plays some sort of "tough guy character," staring in a camera closeup that is far too close for condolement.
"You lot know me… Lemon'due south the name," he says, in an ominous vox more conforming of Twin Peaks than a child'south prove. "You know what time it is… no, it'southward not bath time. Information technology's Zig Zag time. So stay tuned kids! I'thousand comin' dorsum a little later. And remember… whatever you do… don't… make… me… mad…" Cue the jazzy lxxx'south music and thousands of kids soiling their overalls.
Jim Henson's The Storyteller
Jim Henson'south The Storyteller is another underrated precious stone of a Television set show. It'south hosted by the inimitable John Hurt, features a potpourri of impressive Henson puppets, and tells a series of European fairy-tale classics. Despite this, it's still manages to exist incredibly dark,
Some of the creepier stories include a soldier whose actions leave him forever stuck betwixt the gates of sky and hell, a hedgehog-man hybrid, and a princess who is going to be married off to her own begetter in a bizarre ritual. Needless to say, these themes are a bit mature for children. Don't even get us started on the spinoff series The Storyteller: Greek Myths that aired in 1990. Yikes.
Darby O'Gill & The Little People
This little-known 1959 alive-action Disney flick is an Irish tale featuring leprechauns and Sean Connery. This formula should be foolproof, but oh god, the banshee. Amid the impish hijinks of the Leprechaun rex and an aging Darby O'Gill (played by the very Irish Albert Sharpe), in that location are startlingly horrifying elements, such every bit did we mention the banshee?!
The banshee, a ghoulish wailing specter with unpleasantly long fingers and a hollow old woman's face, kills the protagonist's daughter, and calls upon a spectral carriage drawn by black horses: death. As kids, it made the states spit out our Lucky Charms.
Strawinsky and the Mysterious House
What happens when y'all give an alien masquerading every bit a human being a humble animation budget and the directive to brand a moving-picture show for kids? Y'all get whatever Strawinsky and the Mysterious House (2013) is supposed to exist. With horrendously ugly 3D character models, as terrible animation, and soulless vocalisation acting, this movie is an anathema of sight and audio that should be locked into a vault and hidden abroad in a vast warehouse.
Worst of all is the scene featuring the psychotically-named, "Globglogabgalab," a sort of half-human being, one-half-Jabba-the-Hutt, melted slug similar creature. The Globglogabgalab undulates his sickeningly turd-like body, and sings (poorly) about how much he loves books. "I am the Globglogabgalab, the shwabble dabble wubble flaba blaba blab, I'm total of shwimble glibmer-kind, I am the yeast of thoughts and mind," he rambles incoherently. This movie gets 5/5 stars for traumatizing your children.
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