Weird, strange, bizarre and/or creepy tv shows of your childhood?

Started by Martinus, April 06, 2016, 02:52:23 PM

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celedhring

#15
April 07, 2016, 10:04:05 AM Last Edit: April 07, 2016, 10:08:14 AM by celedhring
La Bola de Cristal, a Spanish children's show with a punk aesthetic. It was fucking great.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG1LNJMC5-w

It had a pretty non-subtle anti-capitalist ideology too :D

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZkYjxvoHAk
(In Spanish, but it talks about the industrial revolution and the exploitation of the working class, and it's funny)

Malthus

#16
April 07, 2016, 10:10:01 AM
Kids these days have some great shows. I actually prefer my kid's kid-shows to most of the adult shows on TV.  ;)

Two of my kid's current favorites are Horrible Histories from the BBC and Disney Chanel's Gravity Falls. The latter especially is awesome - a cross between The Simpsons and H.P. Lovecraft.  :D
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Martinus

#17
April 07, 2016, 10:39:05 AM
Archer and BoJack Horseman are great kid shows.

derspiess

#18
April 07, 2016, 11:12:28 AM
Quote from: Malthus on April 07, 2016, 10:10:01 AM
Two of my kid's current favorites are Horrible Histories from the BBC and Disney Chanel's Gravity Falls. The latter especially is awesome - a cross between The Simpsons and H.P. Lovecraft.  :D

Gravity Falls is a great show-- both my kids love it.  They're also into Sanjay and Craig (gross but hilarious) and my older one is obsessed off and on with Adventure Time.
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Darth Wagtaros

#19
April 07, 2016, 12:40:14 PM
Adventure Time and Gravity Falls are awesome for all ages.

From my youth I'd say Land of the Lost.  COuld be pretty scary.

There was some sci fi show on PBS I remember that was creepy. Can't remember much about it.
PDH!

KRonn

#20
April 07, 2016, 01:29:50 PM
Some oldies from the 50s/60s that I remember as a young'un. Captain Kangaroo, Rex Trailer, Howdy Doody, Amos and Andy, and especially The Lone Ranger. There was another one about a pilot, Sky Ranger or something. Then there was also Flicka, The Rifleman. Also Superman - man of steel. Opening sequence of every show had a guy shooting at him and bullets bouncing off, then the guy throws the gun and he ducks!  Lol, if the bullets don't hurt....then why duck?  But still, a fun kid's show and probably for adults too back then.

Josephus

#21
April 07, 2016, 02:14:36 PM
there was this really strange cartoon I used to watch called Gustavus

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3ymGcDskys&list=PL22061E362CDFA61A
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CountDeMoney

#22
April 07, 2016, 06:52:28 PM
Quote from: Malthus on April 06, 2016, 03:14:19 PM
Davey and Goliath. Weird Lutheran Christian stop-motion animation. Just as much fun as that sounds.  ;)

http://www.daveyandgoliath.org/

This used to play all the time. I hated it, but there was often nothing else on at certain times. It was - almost - enough to get me to stop rotting my brain watching TV Sunday mornings, and go do something constructive - it was that dire.  :D

:lol: Creepy ass home-schooling shit on CBN, all that was on when you were home sick.

CountDeMoney

#23
April 07, 2016, 07:06:11 PM
Quote from: Valmy on April 07, 2016, 09:16:44 AM
I felt really weird, as a kid, that I always watched the Bob Ross painting, the Joy of Painting, show on PBS. Like every time it came on. Even though I did not even really care about art. I never told my friends or anybody about this because I thought it was weird to be watching it all the time. But it turns out EVERYBODY was watching this show. People who could not have been alive when the show was going love this show.

All sorts of weird shit on PBS during the day, before cable.

Like this creepy fucking guy, just want I want to see when I'm home sick as fuck all--
https://youtu.be/BI9LjpLSaSg

PDH

#24
April 07, 2016, 08:20:26 PM
Fuck, anything by Sid and Marty Krofft was enough to induce seizures.
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Razgovory

#25
April 07, 2016, 08:47:37 PM
Quote from: PDH on April 07, 2016, 08:20:26 PM
Fuck, anything by Sid and Marty Krofft was enough to induce seizures.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking of.  I loved Land of the Lost.
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Malthus

#26
April 08, 2016, 08:07:58 AM
Oh god I just remembered another crappy animation that played all the time, even though it was already ancient - Tales of the Wizard of Oz. A product of too much pot in the '60s, I assume.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brqnui9dV9o
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Eddie Teach

#27
April 08, 2016, 08:10:39 AM
Quote from: Malthus on April 08, 2016, 08:07:58 AM
A product of too much pot in the '60s, I assume.

Did you make any weird cartoons in the '80s?
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Malthus

#28
April 08, 2016, 08:15:03 AM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on April 08, 2016, 08:10:39 AM
Quote from: Malthus on April 08, 2016, 08:07:58 AM
A product of too much pot in the '60s, I assume.

Did you make any weird cartoons in the '80s?

Hey, too much pot doesn't guarantee studio backing.  :P
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane—Marcus Aurelius

Brazen

#29
April 08, 2016, 09:10:30 AM Last Edit: April 08, 2016, 09:12:26 AM by Brazen
Pipkins, with the terrifying Hartley Hare:



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