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8 years 1 month ago
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Ok, I was born in 1975, and growing up in the mid 70's and 80's, I would SCREAM my bloody head off and my mother would have to carry me out of the TV room whenever the Mumenshanz commercial would come on. It was this interperative dance ensamble who dressed in black tights and wore rolls of toilet paper on their faces, unraveling the toilet paper. They would dance around on their tip toes. Some wore other freaky costumes. There was even one that looked like a dancing coffee table... he freaked me out the most. This traumatized me for quite a long time. These commercials were advertizing tickets for their shows in the New York metro area, and aired on either WPIX 11 or WNEW 5.
I would have trouble sleeping at night, thinking that the Mumenshanz were under my bed, waiting for me to fall asleep so they could jump on me in bed and start unraveling their toilet paper eyes in front of me. Also, the dancing cofee table guy would come scurrying out from under my bed doing his manic dance. It was their sole job in life to terrorrize me, or worse, tickle my feet in bed. I nick named them "The deet-deets", I suppose because that is how I imagined they sounded like, prancing on their tip-toes, "Deet-deet, deet-deet". I was only 4 or 5. I didnt know any better. I would have to sleep with at least three blankets tucked around me to prevent the deet-deets from invading my feet and neck. God forbid I had to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night. That would mean JUMPING OFF THE BED and landing as far away from the bed as possible, and as close to the door as possible so that I had a good chance of running down the hall and making it to the bathroom before the deet deets could catch up to me. Such a happy childhood.
What else?
Oh, those Hansel and Gretel deli cold cut commercials always scared me, but to this day, I cant remember why. I hated witches as a kid.
The Weiss Media Enterprises logo also freaked me the F out as a kid. I only remember it coming on after the show "Make Room for Daddy".
The puppet "Madame". She freaked me out too. She also was hiding under my bed waiting to tickle my feet. As did Lady Elaine Fairchild from Mr. Rogers.
Mr. Slim Goodbody... he didnt scare me as much as the rest, but he disturbed me with is skinless body. At least he had the decency to keep his face on.
Those Vegetable Soup music cartoons on PBS. SCARY. Really. I knew they were friendly, but they just scared the CRAP out of me. Nightmare inducing. Were they even human?
Sesame Street... those two martian things... "Yup yup yup yup yup....". Holy CRAP.
Its amazing Ive managed to survive this long after all the traumatic TV I grew up with as a kid. Not to say that i'm not permanently damaged!  |
