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to have actually vomited after being reminded how fucking dreadful and horrible Worzel Gummidge was?

101 replies

AtYourCervix · 24/03/2011 18:40

i'd blanked it from my memory but was just reminded and actually puked a bit into my mouth.

weird to have such a strong physical reaction to a memory.

but worzel gummidge was the most hideous horrible awful thing in the world and now i can't stop thinking about itand it's making me feel all weird and anxious.

v odd.

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AtYourCervix · 24/03/2011 20:53

is he dead?

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FuppyGish · 24/03/2011 20:54

lettherebe - fuck me, he's dead??! Shock I will get on to Seanie-baby straight away to let him know I'm available!

ChickensHaveNoEyebrows · 24/03/2011 20:54

What, the skeleton? Well, he doesn't look well.

LetThereBeRock · 24/03/2011 21:06

He died in 1996.You've kept poor Sean waiting for almost 15 years!

FuppyGish · 24/03/2011 21:09

Ah but I'm in my prime now not fat and worn out with childrearing at all Grin

EdieSedgwick · 24/03/2011 21:13

AtYourCervix I fully agree with you! He makes me sick too and always did. I get the creeps really badly when I think about him.

pointydog · 24/03/2011 21:30

You'll feel much better after a cup a tea and a slice a cake, Aunt Sally.

BitOfFun · 24/03/2011 21:35

The triffids terrified me. And some show with posh Edwardian children putting on a play to an audience of stuffed scarecrow-type things who actually came alive and started clapping

shergar · 24/03/2011 22:01

I agree about Worzel Gummidge, I found it creepy and disturbing as a child too. Rentaghost was just mildy amusing. There was no excuse for Emu's World (the Pink Windmill version of Emu), but the original Emu show, Emu's Broadcasting Company - with the weather forecasts on the roof and constant adverts for the multipurpose cleaning product, Scunge - were brilliant.

Children's TV in the 70s and early 80s was all about scaring the bejesus out of us though. I am still mildly traumatised by The Tomorrow People (not the shite 90s version, the hardcore 70s one) and particularly by The Bells of Astercote, in which children were turned to stone. And don't get me started on Sapphire and Steel, which remains the scariest thing shown on TV, ever; I still couldn't watch it again now. The people being burnt out of photos and then dying....the soldier who haunted the railway station.....the child whose parents vanished, with the nursery rhyme chanting over and over in a whisper. OMG!

catinthehat2 · 24/03/2011 22:58

T here is nothing more scary than the Singing Ringing Tree.
I bought the dvd just to confirm how awful it was.
Its still a bit difficult to watch as an adult.

Skinit · 24/03/2011 23:06
kittya · 24/03/2011 23:28

Tales of the Unexpected freaked me out. That rocking chair with no one on it!! It was on early as well.

mathanxiety · 25/03/2011 02:34

Was 'Tom's Midnight Garden' something I read or was it on tv?

BelfastBloke · 25/03/2011 05:24

BitOfFun was scared of "some show with posh Edwardian children putting on a play to an audience of stuffed scarecrow-type things who actually came alive and started clapping "

BitOfFun, that was a TV version of E Nesbit's The Enchanted Castle. Couldn't find a clip, but this is what Gore Vidal wrote about it in the New York Review of Books:

"There are those who consider The Enchanted Castle Nesbit?s best book. J. B. Priestley has made a good case for it, and there is something strange about the book which sets it off from the bright world of the early stories. Four children encounter magic in the gardens of a great deserted house. The mood is midnight. Statues of dinosaurs come alive in the moonlight, the gods of Olympus hold a revel, Pan?s song is heard. Then things go inexplicably wrong. The children decide to give a play. Wanting an audience, they create a number of creatures out of old clothes, pillows, brooms, umbrellas. To their horror, as the curtain falls, there is a ghastly applause. The creatures have come alive, and they prove to be most disagreeable. They want to find hotels to stay at. Thwarted, they turn ugly. Finally, they are locked in a back room, but not without a scuffle. It is the sort of nightmare that might have occurred to a highstrung child, perhaps to Nesbit herself. And one must remember that a nightmare in those days was a serious matter for a child who had no electric light to switch on when a bad dream awakened him; he must continue in darkness, the shadows that menaced him undispelled."

BitOfFun · 25/03/2011 08:08

Ooh, good spot, BB. Yes, I remember the dinosaur statues too.

Skinit · 25/03/2011 09:16

BOF! The Ugly Wuglies HAUNTED me for years! Do you remember them slowly clapping their stuffed hands after the children put on a show for them?

How about the description of their speech...it was muffled as though their toungues were stuck or missing!

Apparently E Nesbitt was inspired to create them after a childhood visit to some catacombs in France..the sight of these half preserved bodies, row on row within underground tunnels really got to her....as they would!

HipHopopotomus · 25/03/2011 10:51

WG was just mentioned in the office this very morning & I felt quite queer & ill at the mention of him too. I friggin hated him - he just looked so filthy & nasty!!!!!!!!!

Katiepoes · 25/03/2011 11:03

YANBU. I was terrified of the Crow Man, and the bad scarecrow. The Wurzel & Aunt Sally relationship was also disturbing, as a kid I didn't have a word for it but now I do - hello STALKER!!! As for the head swopping, no no no just plain wrong.

Any Irish ladies here rememer Wanderly Wagon? Sneaky Snake scared the bejeesus out of me. With his hand and his hissing...

Miss Popoff in Rentaghost plays Audrey not Ivy btw.

CotswoldCountryMummy · 25/03/2011 11:23

i used to love Wurzel. I watched him every Sunday morning when i was a child, and adored his funny voice and straw hands.
Then, when i was 10, Viz magazine ran a cartoon on him, and i sneaked a look at one. In it, he was in the field scaring crows when Aunt Sally walked past. He jumped down off his post and stared chasing her through the corn shouting "Come back here you dirty bitch. I'm going to shag you when i catch you up!!" and then he caught her in the woods and there was a picture of him bending her over while she looked really shocked with her little pink cheeks. It ended with him having an orgasm and his head falling off his shoulders.

It was horrid. Next time it cam on tv i started crying and ran out of the room. i never watched it since.

Mymblesson · 25/03/2011 11:51

Sapphire and Steel... ...the child whose parents vanished, with the nursery rhyme chanting over and over in a whisper. OMG!

Ah yes, Joanna Lumley chanting Ring-O-Roses backwards while her eyes changed colour. I was 17 when that was shown and I still remember it. My little sister screamed and ran away to hide

CotswoldCountryMummy · 25/03/2011 12:37

i'll you tube it....

misspollysdolly · 25/03/2011 22:45

OP YANBU!! Worzel Gummidge is the first and persistently worse thing that I remember having dreadful nightmares and sleepless nights over. My sister was given a WG jigsaw puzzle for her 7th birthday and it had to be removed from the house because it's mere presence was so disturbing to me and therefore the whole family...scary scary stuff...! MPD

misspollysdolly · 25/03/2011 22:46

Ooh! Capital attack! Many apols!! Not quite sure what happened there - didn;t mean to get all shouty about it!!MPD

worraliberty · 25/03/2011 22:48

Oh I loved Worzel! Grin

I've got the bloody song stuck in my head now Hmm

Rannaldini · 25/03/2011 22:56

I loved worzil and aunt sally but n ot the crow man