Indeed, if you watched star wars at 4 years it can be scary to see darth vader, also watch Ronald Macdonald Insanity on youtube, unless you already have seen it, you probably never fear him again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Legendary Spyro
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Indeed, if you watched star wars at 4 years it can be scary to see darth vader, also watch Ronald Macdonald Insanity on youtube, unless you already have seen it, you probably never fear him again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Legendary Spyro
I'm actually not afraid of Ronald Mcdonald anymore; I just was then. Also I've watched
"Ronald Mcdonald Insanity" on YouTube and it was funny.
Oh where do I even begin?
Well for starters similar to what op said about certain genesis music I had midway arcade treasures 1 and 2 and lot of the sound effects and music in some of the games kinda creeped me out. Especially APB, Paperboy, 720, and rampart. In fact those last two games in general. I was used to the Tony Hawk series already so the idea of this weird hard to control isometric skateboarding game where you could be murdered by bees and not respawn like nothing happened was a bit of a shock to the system. At least the tone was lighter in Paperboy despite death literally stalking you.
Rampart was an interesting tower defense game but the harsh ringing tones hurt my ears and the execution scene you get upon finishing a multiplayer mode really upset young me to the point of being uncomfortable seeing guillotines in fiction for a time. There's no actual gore but the horrified face upon the weirdly detailed character, the fact that it holds on it for a while before suddenly striking, and the awful scream and flash of red filling the screen was hard for 10 year old me to watch, even though I was already familiar with actually violent games including others on the same collection like Mortal Kombat 2 and 3. Goes to show what tone can do.
I'm convinced that half of nickelodeon's purpose is to traumatize children. They've aired all kinds of bizarre and creepy stuff throughout the years, some of which even still weirds me out when mentioned, but for now I'm just going to go over some of the stuff from spongebob. Yes Spongebob of all shows disturbed my younger self on several occasions. It makes a bit of sense considering that I used to see many reruns, allowing additional opportunity for weird moments to settle in. There was:
The Theme Song itself: Between the syncrovox mouth, giant hand appearing out of nowhere, screaming voice asking if I was ready, and rapid movement the whole sequence overwhelmed my senses and induced panic, even hearing an instrumental of the theme made me feel that way. Imagine my horror the first time I booted up revenge of the flying dutchman with the tv at max volume.
The Posters: This is likely a key factor in a lot of the other ones mentioned below. My Brother's room used to have an entire wall of official spongebob posters inspired by horror movie posters..perhaps a little too well. They had these super detailed art of all the characters in dark shaded areas looking horrified of something from an episode. They made me think those episodes would be far more horrifying then they actually were. If I saw one of them show up as a title card I would beg my family to change the channel, which they didn't always do which meant I basically had to watch it.
Hooky: Just the entire episode and concept of how they incorporated the human activity of fishing into the show really made me uneasy. I once tried to stop my grandpa from fishing because "It makes fish die!"
I was a teenage Gary: This episode feels weird in tone and the animation is slightly off feeling. The part where spongebob took the wrong medicine made me uncomfortable even more than the actual snail transformation. Btw there were no deleted scenes in this episode.
Truth or Square intro: Demonic puppets. Enough said. This whole episode has a strange dream like quality and so did some of it's promos
also
The angry head in the night light episode
Hans in general. I used to have dreams of Hans chasing me through my home and trying to grab me
The scene where spongebob skips class and nearly drowns
Plankton dreaming about Pearl consuming him
The stilted Patchy intro in the season 5 and 6 specials
The zombie spongebob promo
The skeleton idle animation in the Truth or Square game
Spongehenge
The giant sea monster woman in that one episode
None of this stuff bothers me now but it's interesting to look back on the weird stuff that used to scare me. I still love midway arcade games and Spongebob.
Spiders and zombies, but not the normal ones, the MINECRAFT ones, those guys traumatized me and I still get goosebumps when I hear them
Yeah, their noises were creepyQuote:
Originally Posted by Pallad1on
I've always been afraid of trees in water. Just something about being able to see all the roots under the surface is terrifying. I feel like there's a creature of some sort in there.
I used to be scared of the THX robot. Not the sound like most people were. The robot. Although, I guess I was scared of the sound... only because I knew that it meant the robot might show up. This was when I was like 7 or 8 by the way.
I used to be afraid of the dark, but I got over it eventually.
Never knew they had a robot lmaoQuote:
Originally Posted by GamingMan
Fire, more specifically anything randomly bursting into fire. I was always scared outlets were going to randomly explode
I used to be afraid that if I looked at a digital clock exactly on the hour I had to quickly look away and not look back until 1 minute after the hour or else something bad would happen. I was also afraid I would die in my sleep if the last word I said before falling asleep wasn't 'tomorrow',
I was actually terribly afraid of balloons. still don't trust them tough but not afraid anymore
how ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Remy86
You never know where they land once you lost them, as a kid that was frightening for me, I don't know why. I doubt that I will go on a Hot air balloon ever :uhuh: you never know what happens, I'm also not a fan of airplanes, I only fly with tranquilizers and when there's no other chance than flying