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Creepy uncanny feeling when revisiting something from early childhood.

Jamesmac

So, back when I was very little, my sister and I used to watch a program called Mopatop's Shop. As an adult, all I really remembered from it was the title and nothing else. So, to satisfy my curiosity, I searched it, and what I saw gave me serious chills for some reason. It's only a bunch of Jim Henson puppets, totally innocent, but something about it felt very unnerving.

Anyone else get these weird feelings when rediscovering a piece of forgotten media from their early childhoods?

  • I used to watch mopatops shop a lot as a kid. There’s this one kids show I used to watch which I think was on channel 5 and I honestly can’t remember the name of, but it definitely had that creepy vibe lol 

  • in reply to Jamesmac

    Older Japanese dubs were like that lol, even video games, the translation of Lunar for Sega CD literally sees a character say "If I were in a position to give money away to bums, you'd call me Clinton and I'd be President."

  • in reply to DarkElf

    Some episodes of Dr WHo scared me, it was years before I could look at a daffodil and not think it was going to kill me!

  • in reply to DarkElf

    I'm watching the Kanto league. The worldbuilding before it became standardised later on suggests other animals once lived in the Pokemon world but were somehow made extinct. Pretty dark, actually...

    I still remember that one zinger from the movie when they were talking about vikings and Brock says "I hear they come from Minnesota" Joy

  • I remember the original Flowerpot men, I used to love it when they went through the hole in the fence and it was all strange.

    I think a lot of childrens tv from the 60's and 70's was quite strange, Fortean Times magazine has been running a series called The Haunted Generation, covering TV from then. Thinking back on it, it's no wonder so many of may generation grew up a bit weird.

    I never liked Andy Pandy or Sooty and Sweep.

  • in reply to Jamesmac

    Which ones? I'm thinking of picking up Diamond and Pearl anime again, I watched the entirety of the series twice, last time was 2014 I think, CITV had the rights to DP but not BW (Disney channel had that), so they milked it for years and years. Not complaining though as that was by far my favorite. 

    I think the original anime is weird as the worldbuilding still wasn't as strict yet, the in game Pokedex itself literally referenced countries like France, China and Guyana. A vague "war" had canonically happened a few years prior. 

    And in the anime we saw that a lot of trainers genuinely did use their pokemon as tools/slaves. Damian's Charmander and the whipping trainer named AJ spring to mind. I'm pretty sure the circus episode saw mistreated Pokemon too. 

    There was 100% a huge tonal shift from Yellow to GS when they finally came out, you can tell just by how many scrapped evolutions i.e. Girafarig having a voodoo themed evolution, Octillery and Remoraid been a literal army tank and gun etc.

    Ironically that tone seems to be what Palworld has became, haven't played that yet.

    edit - While I'm on my tangent got to say I never ever liked Advanced. Didn't like Ash's team much for whatever reason, and I still really don't like May. I find the existence of Dawn fixes every character flaw May had while retaining every positive. 

  • in reply to DarkElf

    Oh, god, I was terrified of the Lion and Bear in Teletubbies even as a child!

    On that topic, I'm actually rewatching the older episodes of Pokemon. I'm surprised by how funny and witty they are!

  • Yes, I have, for a lot of childrens media I consumed as a child. I actually re-watched the Teletubbies infamous Lion and Bear episode the other day, I certainly saw it as a child and thought nothing of it but watching it now I just felt really uneasy.

    Some older nicktoons also feel weird when I watch them, Hey Arnold always feels bittersweet and oddly ominous to me. Can't put my finger on why. Some of the older Pokemon episodes give me the same vibe.In all honesty, I was probably watching them whilst my parents had a screaming match in the background, and my mind has always recalled that.

    On the topic of Mopatop, I genuinely and seriously thought this was the same show as Hoobs! I didn't realize they were two separate shows!

  • in reply to TheCatWoman
    TheCatWoman said:
    What about The Clangers? I loved them.

    Me too.

  • in reply to .

    What about The Clangers? I loved them.

  • in reply to TheCatWoman
    TheCatWoman said:
    I used to love Pogle's Wood

    The witch was terrifying.

    Great piece of music.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQi6_ZSU4SI

  • in reply to .

    I used to love Pogle's Wood, but on the whole I don't like puppets, or masks, they really creep me out.

  • I think that puppets are essentially creepy anyway.

    I was terrorised by Punch and Judy at the seafront as a child and then the BBC commissioned a series of Watch with Mother programmes with apparently the sole purpose of frightening children.

    Pogle's Wood, Sara and Hoppity and Torchy the Battery Boy in particular come to mind (not all WWM).

    Sara and Hoppity:

    www.youtube.com/watch

    Punch and Judy:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyLsO6LpLSI

    Scream