What tv character freaked you out as a kid?

Colonel Sanders · 29-11-2009 6:48pm

The chicken in Paxo ads believe it or not!!

My mother told me I used to cry when the ad came on!!

kaiser soza · 30-11-2009 1:29am

PEE WEE HERMAN,Still to this day makes me make pee wee.

8k2q1gfcz9s5d4 · 01-12-2009 6:41pm

I used to run out of the room when this ad came on. The wooden man scared the sh1t out of me!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygf0gRQsUb4

gagiteebo · 24-03-2010 11:32pm

CCCP^ wrote: »

I would imagine it's been said about a million times already but:

Stephen King's IT:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZVq2Gm_Zjk

I knew I shouldn't have watched that again! I knew it

Bye bye sleep tonight!
Wasn't John Boy Walton in that too?

lord lucan · 25-03-2010 12:44am

Rusty Lee on TV-AM in the early 80's. Used to frighten the ****e outta me before heading to school with her mental laugh!!

Omnipresence · 25-03-2010 1:18am

When I was young Chocky seriously messed with my head

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3ztIDFU2P8

(Yes Chocky - NOT Chucky)

Later in my teens Bob from Twin Peaks did the same

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmS29HNc5fI

jaysus - even that clip again brings it back....

Pongxiaojie · 25-03-2010 4:38pm

ulysses 31 used to freak me out - the suspended animation and the weird music really scared me :eek:!

Also I think they were called 'the wheelers' in the film 'Return to Oz' really scared the sh*t out of me too:eek:!

WindSock · 25-03-2010 5:49pm

That Chocky thing was unneccesarily creepy.

Pongxiaojie wrote: »

ulysses 31 used to freak me out - the suspended animation and the weird music really scared me :eek:!

Also I think they were called 'the wheelers' in the film 'Return to Oz' really scared the sh*t out of me too:eek:!

Wheelers they were. That whole film is a bit freaky.

Pongxiaojie · 25-03-2010 10:57pm

Yes thats one of em :eek: and there was the lady with all the heads in glass jars and the talking hen... must watch it again to see if it still has the same impact!!

LadyJedi · 29-03-2010 11:05am

Reading thru this list brings back so many memeories, Doctor Who terrified me as a kid, Saphire & Steel had to be watched from behind the couch. Wanderly Wagon completely freaked me out, tales of the unexpected to this day scares me, the Space 1999 episode with giant spiders

FatherTed · 29-03-2010 8:49pm

Like others have said, the Childcatcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang:

The boat ride in Willy Wonka when it gets all weird and psychedelic:

Also the oompa loomplas:

The hulk frightened the bejezes out of me:

Finally, Falconetti from Rich Man Poor Man:

MickShamrock · 03-04-2010 1:47am

Worzel Gummidge.

branie · 03-04-2010 7:09pm

Work safety ads, when one of the workers got an electric shock, or other suffered from other types of accidents. I think I was 3 or 4 then.

Ann22 · 03-04-2010 11:44pm

Just thought of another one, the giant rat episode of 'The New Avengers':eek:. No one in the world seems to remember that episode except me.

jiggawigga · 14-04-2010 12:05pm

Rocky from the Mask. This Kuato dude

And that old thing that used to live in the sand in some show looked like a really old lady, used to kinda shuffle about and rise out of the sand. Can't think of the name but it freaked me out.

steelcityblues · 17-04-2010 7:49pm

Sawyer Puny Pigeonhole wrote: »

I used to run out of the room when this ad came on. The wooden man scared the sh1t out of me!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygf0gRQsUb4

You beat me to it! I was going to say him too!

JohnMearsheimer · 18-04-2010 8:35pm

I don't remember being afraid of Big Bird but my mum said I was terrified of him.

This fella gave me nightmares!

BlaasForRafa · 20-04-2010 3:24pm

Pongxiaojie wrote: »

ulysses 31 used to freak me out - the suspended animation and the weird music really scared me :eek:!

Also I think they were called 'the wheelers' in the film 'Return to Oz' really scared the sh*t out of me too:eek:!

Ulysses 31 was brilliant man, the spaced out prog rock soundtrack was way better than any other kids tv show of....well ever really

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYqotv6Pul0

Plates · 20-04-2010 3:33pm

Fenella - the Witch from Chorlton & The Wheelies still gives me the willies :eek:

Asphyxia · 01-05-2010 7:44pm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ygf0gRQsUb4

This guy really freaked me out as a kid.

StormWarrior · 09-05-2010 11:16am

Not exactly a TV character, but as a child, I was terrified of the band KISS when they had their makeup on.

BBDBB · 10-05-2010 5:25pm

Mr Grimnasty and Raggety from Rupert Bear

Dr Who

Eviledna · 13-05-2010 12:02am

StormWarrior wrote: »

Not exactly a TV character, but as a child, I was terrified of the band KISS when they had their makeup on.

I see your kiss phobia and RAISE you a petrified fear of Iron Maiden Tshirts which hung on the wall of a knitting shop near Quinnsworth in Waterford!!:rolleyes:

breakinglights · 13-05-2010 12:10am

Bette Midler in Hocus Pocus scared the bejaysus out of me!!

MJOR · 13-05-2010 9:47pm

Incredible Hulk and the michael jackson from thriller

Sapsorrow · 27-05-2010 10:41pm

I know it's not from a tv show but ....

That movie still scares the crap out of me!

Sapsorrow · 27-05-2010 10:50pm

Oh and this one...

The thing that freaked me out especially was the idea that they had no toes, that and they could smell children out when they were hiding. :eek:

Sapsorrow · 27-05-2010 10:56pm

Ok I'll stop now...

The red bull from the last unicorn, that whole movie was scary though. Is it just me or were movies from the 70s and 80s a bit rough on kids? It's all so sugar coated and nice nowadays, most stuff was sh*t scarey when I was little.

macroman · 28-05-2010 10:05pm

Sapsorrow wrote: »

Looks like one of my old primary school teachers :eek:

Appleblossom42 · 02-06-2010 5:37pm

Not a tv show but every time Ronnie Drew came on tv I would cry hysterically.
Took my parents a while to cop it, after they did I'd be whisked out of the room or they'd try switch it over quickly (no remotes back then). They think it was his gruff speaking voice that terrified me.

ynul31f47k6b59 · 07-07-2010 1:00pm

I just realised that the 3 things that scared the living sh**te out of me as a child involved decapitation.

Princess Mombi from Return to Oz waking up headless and chasing Dorothy through a room full of shrieking heads, Worzel Gummidge swapping his dirty head for a clean one, and this rotten little scumbag....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvfFia7QEVg

Apparently the E.S.B ad with The Platters' Only You where the Daddy gets up to feed the baby at 4am used to make me lie on the sitting room floor bawling crying too, my Mum used to have to run over and switch it off.

WindSock · 07-07-2010 1:35pm

Jesus, that clip is freaking me out now. What's up with his eyes? :eek:

ynul31f47k6b59 · 07-07-2010 1:54pm

No Idea, but that song has been stuck in my head for over 20 years. Everyone I mentioned it to thought I was absolutely insane - it was definitely shown on RTE on either Saturday or Sunday afternoons in the late 80s or early 90s. Leslie Ash was in it as a little girl, her and her brother used to carry Chico's head round in a box.

Dolbert · 08-07-2010 4:21pm

Lydia Cool Spokesperson wrote: »

No Idea, but that song has been stuck in my head for over 20 years. Everyone I mentioned it to thought I was absolutely insane - it was definitely shown on RTE on either Saturday or Sunday afternoons in the late 80s or early 90s. Leslie Ash was in it as a little girl, her and her brother used to carry Chico's head round in a box.

Haha, yes! Along with Rimini Riddle, nobody I mention Chico to (apart from my siblings) has the faintest idea what I'm on about. Did they sew him inside a football and kick him around during a game at some point?

hillbilly999 · 09-08-2010 6:47pm

The Joker

Todd Gack · 09-08-2010 6:54pm

piby wrote: »

Not so much a character but Robert Stack from Unsolved Mysteries! To be honest it was the combination of his ice cold voice and the most unsettling theme music ever used on television!! Still scares the **** out of me

This for me too, and it was also the combination of the trenchcoat and the stepping out of dark alleys to launch into tales of how some person went to the shops and disappeared, never to be seen again that scared the bejesus out of me.

JohnDee · 09-08-2010 9:48pm

When David Banner used to transform into the Hulk used to really freak me out as a kid, had to go hide behind settee till he had changed. Then back to watching the rest of the show..

pappyodaniel · 11-08-2010 3:36pm

The Incredible Hulk used to put me in fits of tears when I was a kid.

the purple tin · 12-08-2010 11:55am

I used to find the Oompa Loompas from Willie Wonka
quite disturbing (still do).
Danny Glick from Salems Lot gave me some nasty dreams as well.

me_right_one · 12-09-2010 12:55pm

A bit OT, but does anyone remember a cartoon about a stray pup/ 2 stray pups, whose mother got shot by some nasty people? The whole cartoon was about the pups adventure of survival. They used to show it in school, all the girls would be openly bawling their eyes out, and the boys would be fighting back the tears. Cruel baxtards! It was around 1987/88

cian_r · 12-09-2010 8:16pm

All the baddies from Terrahawks really freaked me out:

Zelda
Cystar
Yungstar

Giggernaut · 13-09-2010 10:33am

I'd have to say "Darby o Gill and the little people" scared the bejaysus out of me when I was rugrat.
Headless horseman and freaky leprechauns left me a quivering mess,thanks alot Disney!

Dunjohn · 14-09-2010 12:11am

The only time I ever hid behind a couch was when the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man appeared. He was a lot scarier in the movie than in the cartoon.

Sids Not · 14-09-2010 12:07pm

Wurzel Gummidge..........:eek:

darkdubh · 11-01-2018 11:10pm

The Incredible Hulk scared the tar out of me as a child and as a consequence so did this ad. I'll never forget the first time seeing it and yer mans shirt ripping and when he smashes the table in slow motion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRj_Y3HDXS8

Del.Monte · 11-01-2018 11:49pm

The 1970/80s Cybermen used to put the fear of God into me when I was a kid. Always been a big fan of the earlier Doctor Who series made on zero budget and the Cybermen before they morphed into generic androids about as scary as C-3PO.

foxy farmer · 12-01-2018 3:42am

Around the mid 80s RTE broadcast a kids tv series shot in Australia called The Nargun And The Stars. A weird fantasy based on aboriginal folklore I think. Anyway there was a character in it called the Potkorook. A green creature that lived in a swamp and spoke very good English!
I was certain when I went to bed every night he was lying in wait under the bedside shelf in my room.
Here's the only clip I could find of the series and luckily there's a bit with him talking. Seeing it now it looks a bit sh1t but it's 40 yrs since it was shot.
https://youtu.be/PCHGgzV35lE

darkdubh · 12-01-2018 9:52am

foxy farmer wrote: »

Around the mid 80s RTE broadcast a kids tv series shot in Australia called The Nargun And The Stars. A weird fantasy based on aboriginal folklore I think. Anyway there was a character in it called the Potkorook. A green creature that lived in a swamp and spoke very good English!
I was certain when I went to bed every night he was lying in wait under the bedside shelf in my room.
Here's the only clip I could find of the series and luckily there's a bit with him talking. Seeing it now it looks a bit sh1t but it's 40 yrs since it was shot.
https://youtu.be/PCHGgzV35lE

I remember that too. There was a bracky pool of water in a wooded area near our house where I used to play and I remember being scared that he was going to appear out of the water, a bit like the way people talk about being afraid of going swimming after seeing Jaws.

cavemeister · 12-01-2018 9:55am

Remember the scene is Superman III when the evil woman gets sucked into the super computer and gets turned into a robot?

OMG... That scene used to give me nightmares as a kid. I had to run out of the room every time that scene came on the TV!!

beans · 12-01-2018 10:00am

E.T. used to terrify me. I'd think he'd be hiding in my teddies, behind my curtains, looking all grey and gross like when he was sick.

He was my first boogeyman.

What tv character freaked you out as a kid?

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