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What tv character freaked you out as a kid?

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  • Registered Users Posts: 4,986 ✭✭✭Red Hand


    The aliens from Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind. Also, the bit where the toddler is pulled out the dogflap in the house at night....I was about 6 when I saw that first. Made a bad impression!

    Wurzal Gummatch as some others have said. Podge from The Den was a creepy frog eyed bast*rd, too.


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,043 ✭✭✭me_right_one


    WindSock wrote: »
    Was it the Morbegs?

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    Nah, rimini riddle, the one posted by Dolorous, that was it. I REMEMBER IT DOLOROUS!


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,606 ✭✭✭Jumpy


    Chocky used to freak me out. Anyone remember this? I think it was on ITV, some kid used to have this weird oddly shaped spirit thingy appear in the corner of his/her room...weird :)

    Chocky was awesome. We got it in Australia. Same guy who did Day of the Triffids apparently.



    Mine to add would be Tripods.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,606 ✭✭✭Jumpy


    Dolorous wrote: »
    Rimini Riddle used to freak me out, and no-one remembers it! Behold...

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    You just need Cher now and you have a hit movie.


  • Registered Users Posts: 7,606 ✭✭✭Jumpy


    Ulysses didnt scare me, but I used to get really sad at the intro when all his friends were hanging there like they were dead.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 112 ✭✭Stokes


    Roy Cropper from Coronation Street. Could never put my finger on it.


  • Registered Users Posts: 226 ✭✭Holopimp


    The Incredible Hulk from the 70s tv series. I used to hide behind the sofa and still shiver at the thought of him


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,838 ✭✭✭✭ Jenny Unkempt Rattle


    Your one off 101 dalmations..cant think of her name


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,034 ✭✭✭deadhead13


    Cruella DeVille.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 4,442 ✭✭✭Firetrap


    Cruella DeVille?

    The Whirligig Witch from Fortycoats creeped me out a bit. But not as much as when I saw Slightly Bonkers in The Snapper wearing a terrifying jumper.


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  • Posts: 0 Rory Angry Stork


    Evil Edna from Willo the Wisp.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,551 ✭✭✭dylbert


    Catweazle


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 79 ✭✭Poppy78


    Evil Edna from Willo the Wisp.

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    +1 also Crow from wanderly wagon. The music fromthe hulk used to make me cry, could not even attempt to watch the programme.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 542 ✭✭✭milly4ever


    Mumra from the thundercats!

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  • Registered Users Posts: 35,954 ✭✭✭✭Larianne


    Dolorous wrote: »
    Rimini Riddle used to freak me out, and no-one remembers it! Behold...

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    Jesus yes!!!!! :eek: *runs*


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 9 SarahMary


    I'd forgotten about the Whirlygig Witch. Just youtubed her. You're right, she's still scary:eek::eek::eek:


  • Registered Users Posts: 6,477 ✭✭✭grenache


    The witch in Fortycoats. And Ronald McDonald too (not a tv star as such), i used to wake up and he'd be on my wall!


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,111 ✭✭✭mrsdewinter


    Ruu wrote: »
    The intro alone was enough!


    That's unbelievably creepy... what the hell were schedulers on in the 70s?

    Not as creepy as the weird proto-magic realism of Monkey though.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,004 ✭✭✭Ann22


    No 1 has to be the child catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang....he was a professional ballet dancer in real life....creepy little man...couldn't bear it when the two stupid little fcukers went running out looking for jam tarts and stuff...'don't do it Jeremy and Jemima!!!'
    No one else in the world probably remembers this but in an episode of 'Pigs In Space' from 'The Muppet Show' there was a monster creature floating outside the window of the space ship...'Chop Liver' was his name:o..scary b*stard!
    Another creepy character was policeman in the 'Golden An' sketch from Seseme St. Check him out
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZpjH1WcWOM


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,842 ✭✭✭Micilin Muc


    I know it's a film and book but any of the witches in The Witches scared the bejaysus out of me. Especially after I had a bath because they could only smell clean children. No cheese and crackers for me tonight or I'll have nightmares!


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  • Registered Users Posts: 195 ✭✭victoriaa


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    It. I saw the film on tv.. so I guess it's a tv character?


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 15,515 ✭✭✭✭admiralofthefleet


    victoriaa wrote: »
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    It. I saw the film on tv.. so I guess it's a tv character?

    that still freaks me out and im 28! when i scrolled down and saw it i nearly shat myself


  • Registered Users Posts: 448 ✭✭jenny2hat


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    Mr. Blobby...:eek:


  • Registered Users Posts: 431 ✭✭1967


    I was scared of my **** of Dougal in the Magic Roundabout still cant say why


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 399 ✭✭barakus


    The beggining credits of the old Bionic woman used to freak the shit outta me, where she dies and comes back to life...


  • Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 3,062 ✭✭✭walrusgumble


    Dolorous wrote: »
    Rimini Riddle used to freak me out, and no-one remembers it! Behold...

    Leo-Rimini-Riddle_jpg_jpg.jpg

    Rory-Vera-RR_jpg_jpg.jpg

    Rimini-Riddle-TV-puppets_jpg_jpg.jpg

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    that use to be on sunday evenings??

    oldly enough some of them story lines were freaky,, who was the chap with the black hair and mustache, wasn't he some sort of baddie? was there a character called brendan or brenda??


  • Registered Users Posts: 380 ✭✭Poutbutton


    The Child Catcher

    The Incredible Hulk not David I liked David

    The Monkeys on Wheels that could fly in The wizard of Oz [shudders still]

    The Witch of the same movie

    Agustus Gloop & Mike tv's Mothers in Willy wonka made me appreciate my Mammy no end!
    [I knew slugworth was good really]

    Aonghus McNally off irish kids tv used to freak me out so bad I'd turn off the tv!


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,366 ✭✭✭IIMII


    The witch in the wizard of oz, and forty coats and his fifty pockets. I used to feel sorry for the piccarooney


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 110 ✭✭Omnomnom


    Tommy Tiernan in the Morbegs!:p


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 164 ✭✭dungeon


    The child catcher....... argh.


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