Children's TV is odd as an adult

I was thinking recently about how odd the TV shows I used to watch as a child were.

Growing up in the 90s, one of my favourite TV shows was Around the Twist. Earlier I remembered that there was an episode on there in which one of the main characters entered a peeing competition, in which he lost. There was then some water spirit that enabled him to win in the next one.

Heck, even the synopsis of the episode is just weird.

Mr. Gribble plans to build an aquatic wonderworld on a beautiful stretch of a natural waterway. Bronson, who is the humiliated loser of the school peeing competition, finds an ally in a water spirit who helps him defeat Mr. Gribble and prove that he is no "little squirt."

So what TV shows from your younger days have you looked back on and thought, "what. the. 'eck?"

Guy:Incognito

Theres plenty of odd stuff nowadays. Adventure Time really shouldn't be a kids cartoon.

Adamantium

Maybe not "weird", but Noah's Island was a badass concept, a movable floating tropical island ran by a polar bear powered by a volcanic core.

They were travelling the world oceans looking for a Tir NaNog like place, where they would be safe, and I remember one episode they ran aground on Africa.

Was absolutely fascinated by a kid as to how that worked and Knex, and engineering and other stuff like it.

Caliden

Deleted User wrote: »

I was thinking recently about how odd the TV shows I used to watch as a child were.

Growing up in the 90s, one of my favourite TV shows was Around the Twist. Earlier I remembered that there was an episode on there in which one of the main characters entered a peeing competition, in which he lost. There was then some water spirit that enabled him to win in the next one.

Heck, even the synopsis of the episode is just weird.



So what TV shows from your younger days have you looked back on and thought, "what. the. 'eck?"

That's the only episode of that tv show I can remember. I remember at the end he pee'd right over the wall onto the ground in front of a teacher. Weird!

FTA69

Anyone remember Rimminey Riddle? I didn't f*cking sleep for weeks after some episodes of that.

Nailz

When you think about it Courage The Cowardly Dog is pretty ****ed up.

There's something a bit... schizophrenic about it.
You never notice these things as a kid.

dpofloinn

The sub cartoons on Bosco like flahertys garden, the Mc Spuds and the plomsters truely strange and not forgeting Cow and Chicken possibly the most faacked up kids cartoon ever

Duggy747

Ren & Stimpy was brilliantly twisted.

Gatling

Nightmare

Gatling

Gatling wrote: »

Nightmare

Do you mean Knightmare? That show kicked ass.

hoodwinked

Barney and friends!!!

Daith

Well the first time rewatching The Simpsons and getting the adult jokes was always fun!

"Thats Mayor Quimby's car - tonight he's, ah... 'polling the electorate'"

everlast75

Monkey Magic

&

Chico the Rainmaker.


(Wurzal Gummage & Supergran to a lesser degree)

The Backwards Man

The Moomins (sp?).


What the hell were they supposed to be?

Button Moon was another. Scarred me for life, 'we're off to button moon, we'll follow Mr.Spoon.'

eviltimeban

Kids TV now is more f**ked up than it was back then. Adventure Time was already mentioned, bu Regular Show is also pretty odd.

solomafioso

I have the complete series('s's?) of Ulysses 31. I don't know how many times I've tried to rewatch it now that I'm an 'adult'. Jury's still out on my mental age. It's messed up! Even The Lost City of Gold, Gigantaur, MASK...every great...ooh GoBots (the Transformers rip off). Every great 80s kids show that they couldn't get away with now. COPS.....um...

I can't find it at the mo, but there's a bit in Spongebob where Gary walks in on him watching seaweed...but then he quickly changes the channel. Please tell me I didn't imagine that?!

But as mentioned before Adventure Time isn't for kids....neither would Regular Show.

Gatling

[Deleted User] wrote: »

Do you mean Knightmare? That show kicked ass.

That's the one

Greenmachine

The Backwards Man wrote: »

The Moomins (sp?).


What the hell were they supposed to be?

Button Moon was another. Scarred me for life, 'we're off to button moon, we'll follow Mr.Spoon.'

Careful or you will anger the scandanavians.

solomafioso

If you have three hours spare.

Gatling

Gatling wrote: »

That's the one

Nothing beats Robotech ,


Spongebob moment spongebob stands in front of Patrick who then makes a weird happy face and then apologises to sponge bob for something

Tabnabs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm2yzVxKFhw

Whizbit. To this day I still wonder; WTF was that?

Muise...

The 80's were mostly a horror show. I was too old for Bosco and Dempsey's Den hadn't started yet. Instead RTÉ would buy cheap and incoherent cartoons from Czechoslovakia (which were possibly encoded appeals for help from dissident animators) and right-on stuff from Canada, including a CBC cartoon about Acid Rain that had me scared to get so much as a drop on my skin. When news came about Chernobyl, we were all in the school playground, noting the East wind, and solemnly promising to share resources (sandwiches, sherbet dip, bicycles, a penknife).

King George VI

Alot of shows I watched when I was a lad had alot of adult humour in them that I never got as a child. Rugrats, Hey Arnold, and early Spongebob was full of dirty jokes.

eviltimeban

Anyone remember Willo the Wisp?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onqYNO9WQkU

Or Rag Dolly Anna?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC6EN5gfpvs

Not so much strange, as "of it time".

If you think about it, Bagpuss was pretty weird - that music at the start, the Victorian setting, things coming to life...

SEPT 23 1989

you can nearly taste the LSD coming through your TV screen when you watch kids TV from the 1970'S

dpofloinn

Muise... wrote: »

The 80's were mostly a horror show. I was too old for Bosco and Dempsey's Den hadn't started yet. Instead RTÉ would buy cheap and incoherent cartoons from Czechoslovakia (which were possibly encoded appeals for help from dissident animators) and right-on stuff from Canada, including a CBC cartoon about Acid Rain that had me scared to get so much as a drop on my skin. When news came about Chernobyl, we were all in the school playground, noting the East wind, and solemnly promising to share resources (sandwiches, sherbet dip, bicycles, a penknife).

I remember that cartoon too freaked the sht out me and still does to this day I can remember a character, a little girl who was walking in the rain and bit by bit she started to melt and disintigrate in the rain .Mentally scarred for life

alleystar

+ On Courage the Cowardly Dog, good show but a bit odd.

Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids (same comment as above), any of the Batman animated series - loads of the villains ended up in insane asylums which was always a bit weird, Powerpuff Girls - again with the villains, odd aul' bunch, especially the effeminate devil and Fuzzy Lumpkins who seemed like he was based on a character from the Deliverance.

Paddy Cow

Catdog was awesome!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YCinDf4Jmo

Paddy Cow

SEPT 23 1989 wrote: »

you can nearly taste the LSD coming through your TV screen when you watch kids TV from the 1970'S

You have to wonder how high are people when they come up with some kid's cartoons. SpongeBob could be very trippy at times.

danniemcq

Round the twist was weird as feck

the cabbage babies, the ghosts, the crazy birds, the pissing contests and a dragon too.

castletownman

"Worker and Parasite"

What the hell?

petes

So that's me singing the them tune to Around the Twist in my head for the rest of the afternoon!

Irish Guitarist

Modern cartoons are absolute nonsense. And by modern I mean anything in the last fifteen or twenty years. I've seen some of the things my Nephew watches on Nickolodeon and I don't get what's supposed to be funny about them. They all seem to be trying to as weird as possible, rather than actually funny. These cartoons seem to be made by people who grew up watching Ren and Stimpy. I always though Ren and Stimpy was aimed more at twenty year olds on hallucinogenic drugs than at children.

As for cartoons I grew up watching, I can't think of anything weird as such but Masters Of The Universe was pretty ridiculous. Adam of Grayskull and his green and yellow stripey tiger, Cringer, turned into the identical looking He-Man and Battle Cat and no one was able to figure out who they were. There was even an Adam of Grayskull toy, which was almost identical to the He-Man one except it had a white top and lilac leggings painted on.

danniemcq

petes wrote: »

So that's me singing the them tune to Around the Twist in my head for the rest of the afternoon!

dunno if it was the OP or my post, either way sorry

Muise...

dpofloinn wrote: »

I remember that cartoon too freaked the sht out me and still does to this day I can remember a character, a little girl who was walking in the rain and bit by bit she started to melt and disintigrate in the rain .Mentally scarred for life

and she was singing about all the bits of her falling off and and

HER BELLY BUTTON POPPED OPEN!


HOLD ME!

Have you ever, ever felt like this,
When strange things happen,
Are you going round the twist?

eviltimeban

Once Upon A Time... Life

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-1PuS2NVOw

Very educational, but also very strange.

Really, any cartoon that was very obviously dubbed from another language had an air of strangeness about it. Dogtanian and all them.

kingtiger

"In the Night Garden" is the craziest thing I have ever seen

danniemcq

Deleted User wrote: »

Have you ever, ever felt like this,
When strange things happen,
Are you going round the twist?

what the hell...

They made more in 2000 and 2001!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round_the_Twist

kjl

Fairly normal now, but I remember Podge used to scare the crap out of me. When he was Zag's puppet that came to life and was evil, I had nightmares for weeks.

petes

danniemcq wrote: »

dunno if it was the OP or my post, either way sorry

Bit of both!

pajor

Adamantium wrote: »

Maybe not "weird", but Noah's Island was a badass concept, a movable floating tropical island ran by a polar bear powered by a volcanic core.

They were travelling the world oceans looking for a Tir NaNog like place, where they would be safe, and I remember one episode they ran aground on Africa.

Was absolutely fascinated by a kid as to how that worked and Knex, and engineering and other stuff like it.

At 22 "Oisky Poisky" is still very much part of my vocabulary.

UncleChael

Caliden wrote: »

That's the only episode of that tv show I can remember. I remember at the end he pee'd right over the wall onto the ground in front of a teacher. Weird!

Weird its the only episode I can remember as well, stands out vividly in my mind!

pillphil

FTA69 wrote: »

Anyone remember Rimminey Riddle? I didn't f*cking sleep for weeks after some episodes of that.

It was f*cking strange then and it's f*cking strange now. If anyone has any more of it I'd love to see it. For years I couldn't remember the name of the show or anything about it apart from an evil purple otter that trapped them in a picture of a ship.

hatrickpatrick

Spongebob sells krabby patties, which come from the krusty krab, in bikini bottom.
That is all.

hoodwinked

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

Spongebob sells krabby patties, which come from the krusty krab, in bikini bottom.
That is all.

don't forget his best gal pal sandy cheeks!

HazDanz

Adventure Time....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCFaCjj7q9Y

Foxhound38

Deleted User wrote: »

I was thinking recently about how odd the TV shows I used to watch as a child were.

Growing up in the 90s, one of my favourite TV shows was Around the Twist. Earlier I remembered that there was an episode on there in which one of the main characters entered a peeing competition, in which he lost. There was then some water spirit that enabled him to win in the next one.

Heck, even the synopsis of the episode is just weird.



So what TV shows from your younger days have you looked back on and thought, "what. the. 'eck?"

Around the Twist used to freak me the fcuk out as a kid. I'd say it's freak me the fcuk out now and all!

Foxhound38

Duggy747 wrote: »

Ren & Stimpy was brilliantly twisted.

Some eejit of a producer put Ren and Stimpy on Nickolodeon or TCC or whatever it was called back then at one point too I remember, thinking it was a kids show.

Again, it freaked me the fcuk out as a kid, and is no less twisted (but a bit easier to stomach!) now!

D.Q

http://www.creepypasta.com/candle-cove/

Foxhound38

Also...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ok6CoIwcJ-E