What tv character freaked you out as a kid?

Enderol wrote: »

worzel gummidge!

I mean what kind of sick F*** decides that a scarecrow who comes to life has to rip his own head off and replace it with another to have different modes.

I can't see scarecrows with out being freaked out.

scarred for life!

I always wondered how he operated in headless mode. Maybe he had some kind of scare-crow BIOS that instructed his body to "locate head" or something

Scariest characters for me were Bert and Ernie from Sesame Street, well Bert in particular. I just vaguely remember one episode where Ernie had gone to bed and Bert was going to play some kind of practical joke on him (something to do with Ernie being afraid of monsters maybe).
Anyway Bert with his evil pointy head and big eyebrow waiting to pounce on poor Ernie just terrified me.
Probably not what the creators of Sesame Street intended but I was only five or six at the time ..

Blake's Seven also scared me as a kid - I though this was that the future was going to be like

My mother thought he was real....like a living creature, honest to fcuk, she really did:D!! We were watching him on 'Parkinson' and she was horrified at this wild untamed creature attacking poor Parky:o.

From the muppet show
-Pigs in Space , (chopping up people !)
-Those 2 old guys who would be critising everything.

-When the lion was killed in the kids story with the wardrobe in it.
-Daleks
-That cartoon about dungeons and dragons , the evil guy in that.

All Freaked me out.

hairymick wrote: »

The Incredible Hulk used to scare the bejasus out of me as a child.I couldent get past the opening credits where he starts transforming and his eyes turn green.

The Hulk terrified me (still does), the theme music scared the living daylights out of me. I was so traumatised by the programme that I couldnt even go to see the two recent movies in the cinema and I havent watched them on DVD or TV either. I believe I haven't missed anything though ;o)

Dolorous wrote: »

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

There was an evil puppet thing called Otto in the series, he used to scare the tar outta me. So did Podge when he appeared on the Den first, "Oh Reaaaaaly Raymond?" Aghhh

me_right_one wrote: »

Yea, what was that thing? Was it good or bad? And what was the whole story all about? Any links people?

Everything I remember, having been a fan, though I was far too old to be watching:

There were 3 kids, Ellen, Rory and Leo. They lived in the Rimini guesthouse, which was run by their cranky Aunt Vera. There was a picture in the house of 2 little girls at the beach, and the children I think were able to pass through the picture and talk to the girls. (One of which was played by Nicola from Fair City, with drawn on freckles like June wotsername).
This is where it got weird, because the picture was a portal to a kind of different world, inhabited by people who had drowned in the real world. The 3 children went there to try find their parents, who it transpired had died by drowning.
Otto, who a couple of people have said was scary, was Leo's (the youngest child's) stuffed toy, who came to life. He was from yet another parallel universe, and had an evil twin brother (Flick?) who tried to destroy him. Otto and Flick answered to some even weirder creatures called the Mommos, who were like their Elders or something.
That guy in the picture there was was called Quentin, and he was a con artist who wanted to marry Aunt Vera and take the guest house.
The children also had friends called Una Brophy, and Jimmy Doran, who was never seen. That's all I can think of right now; starting to realise how bloody weird it was for children to watch! I think it started off on that "Salty Frog" programme with Pajo, but got moved to its own slot on the Den during the week and was repeated on Sundays as an omnibus, so it must have been a cult success

Basically Twin Peaks for children
for the record, it was the witch from Into The Labyrinth who scared me

this guy, maxheadroom from channel 4



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Mr Muscle.

I used to hide behind the couch when he came on.

The chief from 'Half way across the galaxy and turn left' terrified me!

7:20 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ks0BhuuY7KM&NR=1

Also, Edward Scissor Hands..I thought he lived in my attic!