Creepy uncanny feeling when revisiting something from early childhood.

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!

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!

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. 

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" 

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"