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Things that scared the beejeezus out of kids in the 1970s.
I kinda agree about the Heat Miser; actually, hell, when I was *very* small, even the Abominable Snowman from the old Rankin & Bass "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" scared me. I loved all those shows too, but there was always something about the character design or the animation or a combination of both that made me feel uneasy.
So I'll add another genuine childhood fear inspired by television: the Sleestack, from The Land of the Lost.
Honestly, they terrified me. I already kind of hated the show -- I have never been fond of any product from the Sid & Marty Kroft studio (so let me add here that I was also kind of creeped out by "Sigmund and the Sea Monsters"), and the fact that the girl in the program was named "Holly" actually didn't help, because of course, she was a *TWIT*. Marshall, Will, and Holly...on a routine expedition... I hope to god that you *DO* get eaten by a tyrannosaur. But even if I'd been able to stomach the two twit kids, I would have avoided the show like the plague, because of the Sleestack. Effective villains, I'll give them that. Maybe... maybe *TOO* effective.
Oh, and I became irrationally frightened by an episode of the "Flintstones" that I recall involved some weirdly evil villains and a volcano. I think it was just that I was irrationally scared by volcanos (of which there are not many, growing up in Pennsylvania). To be honest, I was not that fond of the Flintstones, anyway.
Go ahead! Share *YOUR* media-inspired childhood fears!
beerkitty for this one.Things that scared the beejeezus out of kids in the 1970s.
I kinda agree about the Heat Miser; actually, hell, when I was *very* small, even the Abominable Snowman from the old Rankin & Bass "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" scared me. I loved all those shows too, but there was always something about the character design or the animation or a combination of both that made me feel uneasy.
So I'll add another genuine childhood fear inspired by television: the Sleestack, from The Land of the Lost.
Honestly, they terrified me. I already kind of hated the show -- I have never been fond of any product from the Sid & Marty Kroft studio (so let me add here that I was also kind of creeped out by "Sigmund and the Sea Monsters"), and the fact that the girl in the program was named "Holly" actually didn't help, because of course, she was a *TWIT*. Marshall, Will, and Holly...on a routine expedition... I hope to god that you *DO* get eaten by a tyrannosaur. But even if I'd been able to stomach the two twit kids, I would have avoided the show like the plague, because of the Sleestack.
Oh, and I became irrationally frightened by an episode of the "Flintstones" that I recall involved some weirdly evil villains and a volcano. I think it was just that I was irrationally scared by volcanos (of which there are not many, growing up in Pennsylvania). To be honest, I was not that fond of the Flintstones, anyway.
Go ahead! Share *YOUR* media-inspired childhood fears!
