To suggest to my 17yo DS that his mortal fear of Balamory was unreasonble?

[fuckinghellapeacock]

Apparently it was the Policeman. We still debate this. AIBU?

@Calibrachoa wtf? that is terrifying

I hated Balamory I didn't realise that Balamory and Me Too were seperrate programmes for about two years in my defence I was a nurse doing night shift doing ,a whilst Dh did day shifta ,,I also bloody hated chuggington

youngest was scared of spooky spoon from the Numberjacks and The Map from Dora the Explorer. Eldest was scared of the Noo Noo from Teletubbies.

@strawberrymilkshakemonkey OMG I just watched it! Madness inducing hallucinogenic insanity!
WTF?!
Bodger and Badger was brilliant - mad but amazing.

The spooky spoon and Numbertaker terrified both my then 3 and 4 year olds!

@Oldraver I love you

I saw Miss Hoolie at the Waitrose in town once. My son hadn't watched in years so it took me until I had got home to realize who that pretty and dramatically dressed redhead was.

@BoggledBudgie spooky spoon can get fucked

I think the Numbertaker is scary to grown-ups but children generally don't know what an undertaker is.

The Problem Blob and to an extent The Puzzler, were the meanies that terrified dd.

Spooky spoon is so fucked up

Yabvu, it was weird as fuck. I'm paraphrasing, but when dd was about 4/5 she asked me why none of the grownups could do anything without asking each other for help.

@x2boys, I muddled them up too, I think because the crackpot childminder seems like another balamory character.

OMG yes the number taker! Just mentioned it to my 13yo and he has said I have given him flashbacks. And yy to the troublesome trucks, and Diesel, who gave ds3 nightmares.
Hardly as bad as the Child Catcher though.

@missmouse101are you quite insane?

You’re definitely unreasonable OP. Totally with your DS there.

Mr Bonk was the worst!

IATU and loving it.
So many inappropriate and awful kids TV shows.

@Hardbackwriter I loved in the night garden when dd watched it because it was unnervingingly weird - think the weird size scales don’t help.

I did develop a whole backstory (which the internet shows I wasn’t the first to think of!) that the whole show is iggle piggles dying consciousness; that little boat at the beginning? The last lifeboat on a ship that sank with the other characters on and his guilty conscience at leaving them to perish is trying to put them safely to bed instead of the fate he abandoned them to. Notice how he never went to sleep in the garden like the others did?

Numberjacks was indeed v scary, especially Spooky Spoon.
DS2 was terrified of Auntie Mabel’s dog Pippin from ‘Come Outside’. He would burrow into me sobbing when he appeared.

I can't remember the show, but my son burst out laughing and demanded to know what PC Plum was doing in a dress? The actor was playing a pantomine dame,

If you really want fucked up TV shows, the animals of farthing wood

And I can go on and on for hours about how all the money towards the emergency services is going to Pontypandy and what about how much the postal service money is going to Greendale.

I am not even going to get started on Tree Fu Tom, Doc Mcstuffins and PJ Masks, seriously where the fuck are the parents. As for Get Well Soon has anyone checked his patient list?

My partner was very thrilled when DS grew out of these, only to find out I had a shit ton of issue with Disney films.

My partner might have

On a side note we spent ages trying to find a cartoon my partner knew from his childhood. Its called Ox Tales and there is no way they could get away with at least one of those names now

Cartoon that frightened me was called Huxley Pig . Freaky thing .

@Sobeyondthehills what is wrong with Ox Tales? I remember it fondly?

Is it good or bad that my children are scared of nothing? Am I bringing up psychopaths?

To be fair, they don't watch any of the aforementioned stuff, except Thomas the Tank Engine, but only because I find it terrifying.

@Sobeyondthehills I lived in the Caribbean when I was a child and it was on TV all the time!

My kids loved Balamory and Numberjacks, but the youngest would quake and sob at the tiniest glimpse of Anne Robinson in her Weakest Link garb. It was a great relief when it was replaced by Pointless.