Disturbing Childrens Programmes

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Chuckle vision! Those guys were teh shit. My friend actually has a genuine signed picture of them!

What about bodger and badger? That was pretty disturbing. I remember the mouse had a squeaky voice and badger always wanted to eat mashed potatoes.   I went to see bodger and badger live at the Neptune for one of my birthday parties!    <IMG SRC="http://peel.gotfuturama.com/ubb/smiley_love.gif">

TOTP potato throwing dance.

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T'me! t'you!

There's was always something inherantly disturbing about a father/son 'comedy' team doing seaside childrens humour.

Although, I might add, not in anyway as disturbing as The Crankies.

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Originally posted by catindisguise:
Chuckle vision! Those guys were teh shit. My friend actually has a genuine signed picture of them!

What about bodger and badger? That was pretty disturbing. I remember the mouse and badger always wanted to eat mashed potatoes.   I went to see bodger and badger live at the Neptune for one of my birthday parties!    <IMG SRC="http://peel.gotfuturama.com/ubb/smiley_love.gif">

TOTP potato throwing dance.

I can still remember the theme tune for Bodger & Badger: "Bodger and badger, bodger and badger la la la lala, la la la lala...."  <IMG SRC="http://peel.gotfuturama.com/ubb/tongue.gif">
The only thing i can remember about the chuckle bothers was their bike/car thing that they drove around in, in fact i think 'chuckle vision' is still on sometimes.

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Chuckle vision still is on!  <IMG SRC="http://peel.gotfuturama.com/ubb/biggrin.gif">

Not that I would know or anything.....

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Cat, that isn't the kind of thing you want to admit to openly.  <IMG SRC="http://peel.gotfuturama.com/ubb/wink.gif">

The Crankies are equally annoying too. They give Scots people a bad name, we don't all talk like that..... Jimmy...

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Chuckle Vision and Bodger and Badger were great. I grew out of Chuckle Vision first, and unfortunately Bodger and Badger went downhill. Did they start a hotel business or was that something else?

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Originally posted by SlackJawedMoron:
Alas for you, spacedal. Wallace and Gromit are awesome. I wouldn't really qualify it exclusively as a kids show though.

And I believe the film you're thinking of is Harvey Krumpet, which definately isn't a kids show.

I don't care if you liked it. I was just saying that clay animation is the scarest thing on T.V. I also thought that that old T.V. show with the giant owl was unusal.

In any case....

Meeeeeeeeooooooooooow.
Ah, Henry's Cat. Best themesong ever. Both of them.

Anyone remember You Can't Do that on Television? Possibly the grottiest kids show ever... but now that I think of it, I'm not even sure that it was a kids show...     <IMG SRC="http://peel.gotfuturama.com/ubb/confused.gif">

Also... pom, pom, pom pom, pom.... and now the magic clap!

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'Are You Affaid Of the Dark?'
No, but that programme was weird.

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How about Fingerbobs? My mum made me and my sister fingermice when we were little  <IMG SRC="http://peel.gotfuturama.com/ubb/smile.gif">

Bodger and Badger! That was amazing!

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Bodger and Badger was good yes, although to this day I still cannot understand how anyone would love mashed potato that much.

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Does anyone remember Bobobobs (sp???) I have a memory of a video of these pirates sailing around in space, but somehow they could breathe and although they had the technology to survive in space they still used cannons and could only travel verrrry slowly.

I'm pretty sure it was a series, because I had several episodes on tape. Maybe it was all a wonderful drug induced dream.....

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Originally posted by Bushmeister:
Bodger and Badger was good yes, although to this day I still cannot understand how anyone would love mashed potato that much.

Yeah, they were always too runny on Bodger and Badger as well. Mashed potatoes should be more lumpy than that, it always seemed like liquid on that show. Probably for comedy value. That way, they probabaly thought it actually looked funny when Simon ended up with a bowl on his head and it ran all down his face and whatever.

Anyways, great show. And yeah I remember the Raggydolls as well, they were cool.

*Remembers that this is supposed to be a thread for disturbing kids shows*

Ahh yes, well...Sesame Street still sucks  <IMG SRC="http://peel.gotfuturama.com/ubb/tongue.gif">

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What?! Sesame street does not suck. I'll have you know that it's the muppets of childrens televison programming, why i have fond memories of watching it at lunchtime during primary school. There was Oscar the grouch, Big bird, Elmo and loads of other crazy characters, bah, you've crushed all of my childhood memories you have...

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What age was Sesame Street aimed at?  When I was a young 'un like 3-5, I always remembered thinking "I know how to do a 'p'!".  Maybe this is because I was taught to read and write by my parents at an early age but I always think that these 'tots' programs are somewhat patronising to kids.

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I think it was aimed at illiterates of all ages.

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What exactly are you implying...

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I had a show in mind but I can't remember it. Crap. But another show I thought was freaky was Dinosuars. A stupid show for stupid people.

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Originally posted by Spacedal11:
I had a show in mind but I can't remember it. Crap. But another show I thought was freaky was Dinosuars. A stupid show for stupid people.

Hey, Dinosaurs was great, it had social satire and was funny as hell.

One show I can recall was david the knome, it was about these knomes living in a forest or something. Also I remember a movie called Riki Tiki Tabi, it was about a mongoose I think.

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Dinosaurs was a character for character ruip off of the Simpsons. Anyway see 'Tales of the Crypt Keeper'? One of the best themetunes around at the time.

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There used to be this show on CITV called Woof!, about a boy who turned into a dog, although you actually never saw the transformation (a bus would go past him and then he'd be a dog!).

Who remembers The Demon Headmaster? Absolute genius  <IMG SRC="http://peel.gotfuturama.com/ubb/biggrin.gif">

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I remember Woof!

Nobody answered my question about the creepy lighthouse show...
Remember, it had all strange stuff happening in it, but those kids and their dad just kept on living there?
I remember one episode where it was like Alfred Hitchcocks Birds, except they just shit everywhere instead of pecking people!  <IMG SRC="http://peel.gotfuturama.com/ubb/smiley_laff.gif">

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Originally posted by ghoulishmoose:
Ahh yes, well...Sesame Street still sucks   <IMG SRC="http://peel.gotfuturama.com/ubb/tongue.gif">

It sure does.   <IMG SRC="http://peel.gotfuturama.com/ubb/tongue.gif">

I always preferred The Electric Company.  Any children's show that steals joke ideas from Monty Python's Flying Circus is okay in my book.

 

Originally posted by starone:
One show I can recall was david the knome, it was about these knomes living in a forest or something.

It's gnome, with a G.

 

Also I remember a movie called Riki Tiki Tabi, it was about a mongoose I think.

You mean Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.  That was based on a story by Rudyard Kipling.   <IMG SRC="http://peel.gotfuturama.com/ubb/cool.gif">

 

Originally posted by EspanolBot:
Dinosaurs was a character for character ruip off of the Simpsons.

Maybe so, but it was still a funny show.  Dinosaurs did for the Cretaceous period what Futurama did for the 31st century.

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one show scared the crappers out of me....if only i could remember it  <IMG SRC="http://peel.gotfuturama.com/ubb/wink.gif">

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The demon headmaster? God, that was freaky. But a few pages ago someone mentioned Goosebumps. That freaked the hell out of me. God I was so scared!   <IMG SRC="http://peel.gotfuturama.com/ubb/eek.gif">

Does anyone remember the ghost hunter? It's probably too recent for most of the oldies on this board (  <IMG SRC="http://peel.gotfuturama.com/ubb/tongue.gif">) but that was one screwed up program. It was about a woman who went around hunting ghosts and keeping them in jars and some boy had to save them every single bloody episode! The only scary part of that show was the beginning credits with the spooky hooded figure. :shudders: ergh.

I remember Aquila. It was about these schoolboys who went to an archelogical site one day and found a roman spaceship. They kept it in their garage. The plot line consisted mainly of them flying around in invisible mode and hiding the spaceship from the grown ups, who tried to cramp their "style". And of course, there was the inevitable problem of people bumping into the spaceship whilst it was invisble.

Another program was Bernard's watch. It was about a kid with a magical watch that could stop time. He got it by sitting at the end of a rainbow and wishing he had more time because he forgot to put his trousers on. This postman just randomly came along and gave it to him. He could stop time and cheat on tests and stuff! I hated him. I needed that watch! Bastard!

:basks in nostalgia: (and spelling errors...)

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Originally posted by catindisguise:
 But a few pages ago someone mentioned Goosebumps. That freaked the hell out of me. God I was so scared!    <IMG SRC="http://peel.gotfuturama.com/ubb/eek.gif">

[scruffy]second[/scruffy] THAT was the show

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T'was me. I remember there was this one episode about how the gnomes came to life in the dark and squashed people. I couldn't sleep for days because my next door neighbors had them.

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Originally posted by catindisguise:


Does anyone remember the ghost hunter? It's probably too recent for most of the oldies on this board (   <IMG SRC="http://peel.gotfuturama.com/ubb/tongue.gif">) but that was one screwed up program. It was about a woman who went around hunting ghosts and keeping them in jars and some boy had to save them every single bloody episode! The only scary part of that show was the beginning credits with the spooky hooded figure. :shudders: ergh.

I remember Aquila. It was about these schoolboys who went to an archelogical site one day and found a roman spaceship. They kept it in their garage. The plot line consisted mainly of them flying around in invisible mode and hiding the spaceship from the grown ups, who tried to cramp their "style". And of course, there was the inevitable problem of people bumping into the spaceship whilst it was invisble.

Another program was Bernard's watch. It was about a kid with a magical watch that could stop time. He got it by sitting at the end of a rainbow and wishing he had more time because he forgot to put his trousers on. This postman just randomly came along and gave it to him. He could stop time and cheat on tests and stuff! I hated him. I needed that watch! Bastard!

Ghosthunter! I really liked that. Apart from the Ghosthunter herself, every week you'd hear her say  "I'm gonna get the Shoe-shine BOY!". And then they did the 2nd series when they travelled into the future. That was kinda weird.

Aquila = amazing. There was that next door neighbour that was always suspicious of the boys.

Bernard's Watch - I should be too old to watch this show, but I liked it! It was better at first though when there was just a narrator, the characters didn't talk. They should have made Bernard a teenager. Instead of just doing stuff to help other people, he could have done much cooler, sexier stuff  <IMG SRC="http://peel.gotfuturama.com/ubb/tongue.gif">

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Originally posted by Coilette:
The most disturbing childerns programme??

Two words:
              "Chuckle Vision...."

I went to see those guys do a show at a theatre in Oxford when I was smaller. They went around spraying foam on the audience and squawking that terrible "to me, to you" catchphrase.

Anyone remember The Moomins???

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Ahhhh, kill it!! Break its legs!!

So to answer your question, yes, I vaguely remember them having weird voices or omitting weird sounds.

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I hated The Moomins. There was just something about them that I didn't like. I think it was that red-dress girl (at front of picture above) that I didn't like. And that other person in it...

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The Moomins was always very strange for me, especially some little white stick glowing men that I once saw in it.

Ghost Hunter was ok but hearing that woman say "shoe shine BOY" with such vehemence each week got quite annoying. Chucklevision has always made me laugh and they are still making them (which I only recently found out). Aquilla got a bit annoying as you can only watch some annoying children flying around for so long.

A strange programme I do remember was "To me, to You" a gameshow run by the Chuckle Brothers.

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Originally posted by Bushmeister:
A strange programme I do remember was "To me, to You" a gameshow run by the Chuckle Brothers.

Oh yeah! That was pretty weird. The albatross would signify the end of the programme  <IMG SRC="http://peel.gotfuturama.com/ubb/smile.gif">

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ohhh, Bannana in Pyjamas, i loved that, but were they robots?
B1 & B2 or Units B10001102 & B2001000209
_____________________________ ________________________

B2: Hello B1

B1: Hello B2

B1&B2: MALFUNCTION! ?@~'#'# KILL EVERYTHING!!

[weired rat man who looks like an 'Honest' usedcars sales man walks past]

Rat thing: Hello B1 & B2; AHHHHH! *hiddious Screaming*
----------------------------------------------------
[cuts to me as a 4 year-old watching show]

Kid Watching Show: Mommy is Rat Man Gonna' Be okay?

Mom: [head shoots round and gives kid an evil stare] No.
_____________________________ ________________________

Also were they gay? they slept in the same bed and the were both male. Also they seemed to happy and 'well dressed to be straight' hmmm?

Can anyone answer these questions that seriously confused and scared me as a child, my therapist says he gives up, oh well.

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I loved the moomins.

Anyone who hates the moomins must burn in hell for all eternity.  <IMG SRC="http://peel.gotfuturama.com/ubb/biggrin.gif">

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Originally posted by catindisguise:
The demon headmaster? God, that was freaky. But a few pages ago someone mentioned Goosebumps. That freaked the hell out of me. God I was so scared!    <IMG SRC="http://peel.gotfuturama.com/ubb/eek.gif">

I think that was one of the best children's programmes i've ever seen, the first few seasons were the best, but the latter ones were still reasonable. I think i even saw it in panto or whatever at Bromley Theatre!

 

Does anyone remember the ghost hunter? It's probably too recent for most of the oldies on this board (   <IMG SRC="http://peel.gotfuturama.com/ubb/tongue.gif">) but that was one screwed up program. It was about a woman who went around hunting ghosts and keeping them in jars and some boy had to save them every single bloody episode! The only scary part of that show was the beginning credits with the spooky hooded figure. :shudders: ergh.

Saw it a couple of times, but i was a bit old for it by then, so it wasn't worth watching.

 

I remember Aquila. It was about these schoolboys who went to an archelogical site one day and found a roman spaceship. They kept it in their garage. The plot line consisted mainly of them flying around in invisible mode and hiding the spaceship from the grown ups, who tried to cramp their "style". And of course, there was the inevitable problem of people bumping into the spaceship whilst it was invisble.

Along with "The Deamon Headmaster" this is one of my childhood favourites! Aswell as TDH, it was much better the first few times, however the latter seasons were much better.

I also remember "The Queen's Nose", another of the classic TV shows. Much better first few times, but then they started strechting it and got rid of the main characters, bah!

Anyone seen the current CBBC lineup? What i see when i get in is rubbish, all very low-grade, cheap, PC programming. The only quality program that i sometimes watch is "Short Change", but since that's not fiction, it doesn't really fit with the category.

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Hee hee. You watch short change. Loooooser! *points* hee hee hee. :realises this isn't a good time to mention that she used to collect train tickets:

Seriously, that program sucks, it's just training another generation of complainers and price freaks.

I remember the queens nose. It did get bad after they put in about 50 million people who knew about the coin thing. It was better when it was a secret and strange unexplainable things happened.....

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The first season of The Queen's Nose was brilliant. I loved it so much. But then it got crappy, and when I last checked it didn't even have Harmony in it any more. Something to do with a children's home or something?

Today I got to watch an old childhood film of mine, The Witches. It still freaks me out when the boy turned into a mouse  <IMG SRC="http://peel.gotfuturama.com/ubb/smiley_hmpf.gif">

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The witches! That scared me. I thought everyone could be a witch and was just waiting to strike! It didn't put me off eating sweets though.  <IMG SRC="http://peel.gotfuturama.com/ubb/biggrin.gif">

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I never really liked the Queen's Nose, but I remember that in the first series the girl's parents were really mean and only her uncle was a nice person. After that was droppped things became boring.

Short Change is quite good I think. Yes it can seem a bit whingey but I've seen shops extort younger children quite well so it isn't all bad.

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BLUE PETER is the only children T.V. show to incurange acting camp, yeah!