Childhood Trauma: silly things that scared me as a kid (part 1) 

There was this episode of goosebumps that ended with a dog dropping a potato in this kid’s hands, and then the potato grows teeth and hisses and the kid screams, four year old me was scared of potatoes for a *year*

Since you brought up WordGirl, here's some moments that got to me that absolutely scared my child brain. -the scene in the episode about the things where mr. big has huggy enthralled and is about to use a ray on WG only for WG to use the enthrallment of her sidekick against mr. big -the few times where she was "banned" or "run out of town" -the one where she accidentally exposes her powers in front of her family and the villain who stayed for dinner -the kryptonite episode -invasion of the bunny lovers, specifically the scene where she's stuck between a rock and a hard place whether it be being mind controlled or forced to expose her identity to scoops -the miss power special -the episode about the Coach and somehow involving mind control in it i really love this show to bits

Seeing that Cliffhanger segment really dug up a repressed memory LOL, I don't think I even remember Between the Lions at all except for that segment, so I was surprised that it was part of it. I think one of the things that really really disturbed me as a kid was Courage the Cowardly dog. Like seriously, I was so perturbed and freaked out whenever it came on, everything was just so dark and creepy. But the ONE episode that really affected me the most was one where the grandpa walked outside the house, and then turned into dust. Watching that happen and the dust flying away just made me so sick to my stomach and disturbed me so bad. I think this was when I was just starting to understand the concept of death, and it terrified me. Also those weird trippy segments in some of those Winnie the Pooh episodes, iykwim. Also in the game MySims, I was really scared of the guy that owned the museum, and I was TERRIFIED by the music that plays when you walk by the museum, so I'd always run past it as fast I could. Edit: If you know the game Viva Pinata, I was really freaked out by Dastardos as a kid. I freaking hated him. Nowadays though, I find him to be an interesting and tragic character and find his design cool and endearing in a weird twisted way rather than terrifying.

OMG I too hated when characters cry when I was little. I remember there was a local educational tv show for little children and I used to watch the dvd with it all the time and there was a scene in one episode when a small girl cried really hard and every time I saw this scene I just ran out of the room and closed my ears with my hands

OMG KIPPER You just unlocked memories I didn't even know I had! There was this sesame street movie I remember watching when I was little. Elmo went to the restaurant or shop or whatever it was and the fire alarm starts going off. The firefighters come, Elmo's freaking out, but everything's fine. My mom said I used to get scared whenever that part came on lol

WOAH I TOTALLY FORGOT ABOUT KIPPER HOLY SHIT also it's strange to realize im like... getting to be an adult. bc realizing that all your childhood memories are ones i have too is just strange! it IS fun to have the things i remember from my childhood be talked about in these videos though :]

between the lions terrified me because of how wide their eyes were. had nightmares about it. everything else thats puppet related never bothered me

Episode of goosebumps with an evil baby who’s eyes changed colors messed me up when the baby’s eyes changed color. Never liked Halloween stuff since.

When I was little I used to be scared of The Dark Crystal (my mom had it on VHS) and also the talking lion sand thing in Aladin (or maybe more specifically in a trailer for Aladin) omg also the VHX intro scared me so bad cause that sucker was LOUD! Also similarly a company intro thing before Charlie and Lola DVDs. Also I used to be scared of Lucky Seven Sampson from School House Rock (we borrowed it from the library) and as soon as he came on screen I had to leave the room.

i had Pooh's Grand Adventure on VHS and I brought it to preschool when it was my turn for movie day, and it ended up making the whole class cry and my teacher had to shut it off early lmao

that one scene in sesame street where the giant meatball completely destroys the place still terrifies me as a grown adult. i played all those insanely realistic pet vet games so I never got spooked by much, but damn when that "medical emergency" button came on I nearly cried because I knew I was slow but didn't want to lose points lmao There was this one game called "Jr. Pet Vet" where it looked like one of those edu-tainment games from the early 90s, but it was locked behind a paywall after like 3-4 cases. The thing that terrified me was that the very last one was a cat with damn RABIES out of all things, but in order to take care of him and essentially "complete the case" it you had to buy the full version. What a damn cliffhanger.

Okay ngl, the candle game actually scared trhe shit out of me when I was younger. Didn't pick up on Wii fit for almost 2 weeks because of it

When I was 10 sausage party came out and seeing all the food being distressed made me scarred eating food for a few weeks LMAO

I was terrified of that curious George episode where he gets sick and there are germs in his body

awww The secret of Nimh was one of my favorite movies when I was little. Did you finish it? If not you should and maybe review it or do some other kind of video on it. Love your videos

Bro that toy story 2 monkey made me had a seizure, can relate to that being traumatic lol

bro lotus focus scared me so bad until my brother figured out you could cheat it by leaving a heavy box on top of the wii fit board

As a kid I had to turn off the VCR when Ariel put the fork in her hair during dinner in the little mermaid because it made me so incredibly uncomfortable

I used to be kind of scared of the beginning of Wall-E, like the part where he was compressing the trash in the barren wasteland, that made me so uncomfortable (I was 13)

Hearing another person talking about Bjs..it doesn't feel right knowing it's no longer just a CT thing

Okay so speaking of the meatball song, they did it on an episode of Sesame Street once when me and my sister were still little. Pretty sure Snuffleupagus was singing it. I was never really phased by that clip, but something about it seemed to terrify my sister. Must’ve thought the meatball was uncanny. It’s gotten to the point where she’ll bring it up anytime we happen to be eating meatballs.

omc 12:14 I remember that from when I was a kid. I was thinking I had made it up or something, because no one else remembers it.

I remember I was terrified of the THX logo, but not the one everyone talks about. It was the one where the logo breaks down and a robot man repairs the logo. For some reason, the broken THX logo and the "realistic setting" rather than just being a TV logo really scared me. I remember one time my family was on a road trip and we put in the cars DVD (which had it) and since this was in the car, my brother and I wore headphones that played the movie audio so when the logo started, I basically threw off my headphones, looked away from the screen, and cried. I was a weird kid.

I like seeing you make videos on things that are not MLP. Something that really scared me when I was really young (4 or 5) was a Teen Titans episode. It was a moment from “How long is forever”. Starfire gets transported to the distant future. Because of that event, the other Titans separate and live lonely lives. The part that creeped out kid me is when Starfire met future Raven. The room that Raven is in is completely white and Raven is not looking at Starfire. Raven has gotten so depressed that she thinks the other Titans never existed. I remember Raven being angrier in that scene, but it turns kid me was freaked out and really sad during that scene.

One of my most frightening *media* memories as a child is the scene in Dumbo when his mother rampages. It scared me so much that I started crying and screaming and my mum had to turn it off, though I remember watching the ending, so maybe she just skipped through a portion of the movie, as I don’t remember other later scenes, or I left the room. Ironically, Watership Down was one of my favourites as a little kid - in fact, I drew fanart inspired by the prologue with Frith and El-ahrairah as a four-year-old using some cheap paints - but I could never watch Dumbo again. Update: I never had a Wii as a kid, but my friend did, and we would often play Wii Fit whenever I went over for the day or for a sleepover, or just mess around in the Mii creator for hours following tutorials on RU-vid. We also found Lotus Focus pretty creepy, but less for the sudden shout of “CUT!” (we actually found it pretty funny) and more for the ambient noises, such as the footsteps, and what I think is a bike chain? that one in particular always scared me because I couldn’t quite tell what it was supposed to be. On top of this, we always played it with our eyes shut, so you can imagine that it made all these strange noises even more unsettling.

I used to be scared of the 20th Century Fox (now known as 20th Century Studios) logo cuz it was too loud (I'm autistic and I kinda don't like loud noises). I also used to be scared of live-action movies (with the exceptions of the Scooby-Doo quadrilogy, Night at the Museum 1 and 3 (I thought the third film was the second movie before I found out about Battle of the Smithsonian), Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever, and pretty much every bad direct-to- video animal movie) because I thought live-action movies were "adult".

I remember being scared of funko pops when I was younger. They just looked so soulless, and seeing a bunch next to each other in a hot topic freaked me out. I never said anything to my dad though, because we usually went there for business reasons (my dad sold magic the gathering cards, and he couldn't leave me home alone) and I didn't want to interrupt what he was doing just because I was scared. It's honestly part of the reason why I've never liked funko pops.

Honestly it feels really weird having someone my age talk about stuff like this, mostly because for so long I'd heard stories from youtubers who grew up in the 80s. And now like- these are things from MY childhood too! It's wild.

I loved Kipper as a kid! I completely forgot about the dragon scene until you mentioned it! Must've scared me too, huh.

When I was little, I used to be scared SHITLESS of the porky statue & porky himself in brawl. Just the way the statue slowly moved towards Lucas and destroyed literally everything in its path, the way the spider mech bed looked, and all while his highness's theme blasted through both of those, absolutely terrified me and caused me to have a panic attack All of this is kind of ironic in retrospect because porky is like my favorite character ever

I remember a Sid the Science kid episode where they talk about time and how things get old, and it showed this very graphic image of an apple rotting, a pumpkin rotting... I hated that when I was younger lol

When I was super young, like, before kindergarten age- I used to be obsessed with the "labyrinth" movie, the one with David bowie as the goblin king- expect, near the beginning, there was this scene where the main character was talking to her baby brother, who she despises and sees as a burden. She begins the scene by talking into a mirror, and the scene cuts to this group of little goblin puppets talking and hoping that she would send her brother to the goblin king. The scene continues with the girl talking and cutting back to the lil goblins talking. the thing is- I was terrified of this scene because of the constant cuts to the goblins, because they were looking directly at the screen, so they're technically fully facing the viewer. I thought the puppets in this scene looked particularly creepy, their voices freaked me out, and I was convinced that they were watching me- and every time the scene would start cutting to show the goblins behind the mirror, I would hide behind the couch in fear, and constantly peak out to see when the scene was over, so I could come back to watching it in front of the TV-

OH MY GOSH FINALLY!! SOMEONE ELSE WHO REMEMBERS THE MARTHA SPEAKS PICKLE EPISODE!! That episode scared me out of eating pickles entirely- to this day. I always feel crazy whenever I bring it up to my friends so it's nice to see that someone got scared of this episode, and that it wasn't actually a fever dream

WARNING: THIS COMMENT IS VERY LONG!!! Since this is part one and shunks is talking about when she was REAL little in this, i feel it's safe for me to start with my earlier "childhood trauma" and get into the stuff from when i was older as the episodes go on (i put childhood trauma in quotations since i do have actual trauma unrelated to the things i'm about to talk about and i kinda want to distance the things that scared me as a kid from that) So basically when i was around 3 all the way up to around age 9, my mom would put on old cartoon DVDs for me before bed (specifically looney tunes and tom and jerry) and ngl there quite a LOT of things that scared me in them. First of all: the FBI warning screen that would show up when all the episodes were over really creeped me out, like...imagine being a little kid, you can't even really read and you're watching some fun cartoons with silly animals in them when all of a sudden the episode ends, everything goes completely quiet and you're greeted by some kind of cryptic message talking about something you don't even know exists! I remember there being one episode of looney tunes where elmer fudd tries to hypnotize bugs bunny so he can capture him; for the most part i wasn't scared of the episode but there was this scene where bugs hypnotizes elmer back and he ends up acting like bugs, when he does that there's a visual gag where elmer briefly looks directly at the screen, his ears stretched out to look like a bunny's ears and he had buck teeth before his face goes back to normal. That face scared the HELL out of me as a kid and i'm lowkey shaking just WRITING about it now! I remember whenever that episode came on on the DVD i had i would always tell my mom to skip it for me. There was another episode of looney tunes that scared me where bugs bunny goes to an island and he finds a group of gorillas, he ends up getting taken by a female gorilla who thinks he's her baby. Now just like with the hypnotism episode i wasn't scared of the episode for the most part but the song that played when the gorillas were introduced scared the hell out of me, it was basically two repeating low-pitched notes of a drum (if i recall correctly) playing over and over as the camera panned to a still image of the gorillas. The song was used in other looney tunes shorts but the gorilla episode is the only instance of it i remember, it scared me so bad that one night i had a nightmare where i was watching spongebob when suddenly sandy got angry and turned into a weird sunflower creature as that song played (there wasn't even a transformation sequence, the sunflower form just slowly faded in as the song played) Now obviously this next one is kind of a given considering i was a tom and jerry kid, i was scared of that one gag where tom looks at the camera and says "DON'T YOU BELIEVE IT?" I even had a nightmare once where THAT version of tom was chasing me. Though that's not really that interesting to talk about; while i did grow up with the older stuff, i also watched the newer reboots of T&J up to the one with the lineless art style. This is important because that one episode of tom and jerry tales where tom gets bit by a werewolf scared the SHIT outta me, epsecially the scene where tom actually turns INTO the werecat. I was scared of werewolves for a good few years after that (weirdly enough i wasn't scared of the spongebob episode "i was a teenage gary" as a kid even though it had a similar scene in it) i eventually got over my fear of that episo though Anyways, there's a bit more to talk about but that's the only ones i feel like talking about for right now at least. Thanks for reading TLDR: the FBI warning screens at the end of DVDs, the looney tunes hypnotism and gorilla episodes, that one infamous scene from tom and jerry and the T&J tales werewolf episode were vewy scawwy to baby me :(((

Shunks saying she had to leave certain movies as a small child that came out when I was a teenager is making me feel geriatric 😂

Imagine being scared of curious George. When I was a kid, my earliest memory of a dream was a sleep paralysis nightmare that caused me to cry of a transparent png of po from kung fu panda just.. standing in my bedroom doorway. It was well lit, and I could hear my parents downstairs. He was just standing there.. *menacingly* edit: also I’ve still never seen kung fu panda

oh my god this made me remember the very first thing I ever saw on the internet that scared me. I must have been 7 or so and had stumbled across a gravity falls/camp something fanimation on newgrounds where a girl got her thumb injured in a oragami competition and spent the whole length of the alloted time tending to her thumb and lost. I remember being extremely distressed by this, especially because the girl in the video had a breakdown over it. I didnt go on the computer for like two weeks.

I don't know if you'll cover this on part 2 or 3, but there is one thing I would like to share. My biggest childhood trauma... still scares me to this day. Splaat of Klasky Cuspo. If you know, you know. If you don't, I won't stop you from looking it up. But no matter what, every time I look at that face, it makes the scar run deeper

I was always creeped out by my dad's Misfits band shirt with the conjoined twin baby. I was only easily scared by actual horror stuff bc my parents are horror fans so I was pretty well adjusted to disturbing stuff

That whole “trauma stuff in slice of life kids show” thing reminded me of something (this might be a bit of a weird story). When I was like 4 or 5 I (for better or worse) was online and found a clip from a 90s Barney VHS, it was from a clip show release and the clip they showed was Barney slipping on a toy truck, I shut the monitor off and actually started crying. For years I wondered why that got to me in the first place until that point you brought up, maybe it was also because it was so sudden? Like I said it’s a bit weird

Finally, some Gen Z nostrauma. I’ve seen a whole lot of these vids by 90s kids and millennials so seeing more mid/late 2000s is finally relatable. Especially all the PBS stuff, I didn’t have cable growing up so if it wasn’t on PBS I didn’t see it lol

This is embarrasing but...I used to be scared of Shrek when I was 4/5. At first I wasn't scared of him (I even had a lunchbox), buuuut my fear started in Shrek 3 on that scene where Shrek had this nightmare about parenthood. My dad noticed that, and everytime I misbehave he told me that Shrek is coming for me and he's going to eat me. Fortunately that fear went away when I watched Shrek 2 on TV when I was 8

I HATED the fact that characters cried their eyes out when I was a kid too. I'm used to it now as it's a natural feeling. But I couldn't stand it back then.

My scarier childhood memories likely won't come into play until Part 3. I have very distinct memories of stuff that scared me that I found on RU-vid or in Flash games.

Found out today that we're the same age, grew up in the same place, and have the same childhood trauma with shows. Sick 😎

4:08 okay genuinely i'm really happy to hear someone else feels like this too. even to this day it still makes me uneasy :( the meatball song messed me up as a kid too! i heard it once on like...barney iirc when i was really young and it left me inconsolable for a few minutes lmao also between the lions was top tier, i'm happy hearing someone talk about it! EDIT: aw man, kipper did have some odd vibes-- i loved it personally, thought it was really comfy! i can definitely see why it's off-putting to a younger kid though, there's a strangely liminal quality to the whole show EDIT²: oh no oh god oh lord the chimp animatronic

There was an episode of Camp Lazlo that used to freak me out as a kid, it was called "Meatman". The premise was that a sentient pile of meat reigned terror on the camp after Lazlo called it stupid, and what scared me the most was that the meat was actually eating people. Not only that but the meatman in question looked super unsettling to me. I know that it was basically one of those Halloween-themed episodes, so it was supposed to be intentionally spooky, but even still. lol Looking back at it, it's just a really goofy episode. XD

The first 2 movies I remember seeing in theaters was Lilo and Stitch and the Jonah VeggieTales Movie. I was 3 at the time, and both were WAY too intense for me lol. Iirc, I think we had to leave both, but in the VeggieTales one's case, the inciting moment was when Jonah got eaten by the whale. I was not mentally prepared for a fake-out character deaths at that point in my life.

love whenever shunks is photoshopped into a room

I remember being scared of that Winx episode where Faragonda was turned into a tree. And that Darkwing Duck Twin beaks episode with dead Bushroot

I DISTINCTLY remember watching an episode of Henry Hugglemonster where Henry broke his brothers plane or something and I was balling my eyes out because I thought he was going to dent into trouble. I was such a wimpy kid. No pun intended

Not liking seeing people cry is nothing to be ashamed of. When I was little, I had a SpongeBob SquarePants video game where you had to find Gary the snail, and in one of the mini games you had to pick a random hiding spot to find him, and if you find the wrong animal SpongeBob would say THATS NOT GARY! and start crying, for some reason I HATED That, and I would cover my ears when those scenes came up.

adding my own piece to everyone elses list of childhood spooky memories here :> - the “measuring” voice thing from wii fit plus, used during body tests. i only played minigames when i was little because i hated it so much lmao - this one pop up from early girlsgogames that was like for a premium thing or something? i honestly can’t remember what it was for but it featured the blonde character and took up the whole screen. it usually happened suddenly so when it came up i would run to the kitchen and hide (our computer was in the dining room corner at the time) until my parents closed it. - the fight scene from bambi, i think it was like him or his dad fighting another deer or something its been too long for me to remember it exactly but bambi was my favorite movie so i endured during my day-long bambi marathons at my grandmas house lol - giant fake spider halloween decorations. to this day i hate them. never take me to six flags fright fest or any house decorated with the fake spiders i will cry /hj i’m just deeply unsettled by them - we went to disney world when i was like 9-10ish, and we were in animal kingdom watching the bugs life show thing and theres a part where fake black widow spiders descend from the ceiling and i sobbed and clung to my dads arm (probably still would today tbh) - the tightrope, lotus focus, table tilt, and that one mole game from wii fit spooked me too - i had a ds game when i was little that was an educational animal game, and you would collect animals for each habitat. sometimes an animal would move to the wrong habitat and you’d get an “animal alert” and then try to find them. little me hated the animal alert idk why. thats all i got for now, baby me was very easily scared, which is ironic considering how much i love horror, liminal spaces, and arg content now lmao.

this feels less like a youtube video and more like a therapy session. i enjoyed

I have a similar thing with Wizards of Waverly Place. This was in the Halloween episode where the Russos tried to be the scary but Alex hired some creatures, but one singled out out of all of them. It was the boogeyman. He did several attempts to scare the children, when he finally managed to do so, his face expanded and did a wild take with a snake tongue. Looking back he looks like Marx from Kirby.

This video made me very aware that I must be older than you by at least a couple years. Just judging by the age you said you were when you saw these. That's fun seeing what the slightly younger crowd was being scarred by. I'm excited to see the rest of this series now :)

I have never watched a video from this channel before and hearing "everybrony" in the intro just sucker punched me into oblivion

Also when I was older and we used to go to the seaside and go into the arcade or amusements for you British people out there, there was this one game called feed Bertha or big Bertha and SWEET CELESTIA! you had to throw balls into what I can only describe as a cabbage patch kid from hell. Bertha was this animatronic doll who had blonde hair in pigtails and wore a dress but the thing that creeped me out the most was the fact that her mouth was always open and her eyes just had this dead fish eye look to them. If anyone else knows what I'm talking about then you know why I found this creepy as heck.

I used to be scared of this scene from Tinker Bell where Bobble yells "HAVE YOU SEEN TINK 👺" but when I grew out of that fear it was legitimately one of the funniest scenes in the movie

my personal theme for things in media that would upset me a lot as a kid is when a character was punished for something they didn't do, or when they had something important to say but nobody believed them.

OH MY GOD THE BLEEPERS FROM KIPPER. WITH THEIR LOLLIPOPS. oh my god so much just came back to me. their sound effects. it scared the shit out of me when the giant spaceship descended from above (Kipper spoilers)

OHHH MY GOD KIPPER!!! i completely forgot that show existed thank you so much for reminding me?? i used to check it out from the local library, i loved it there, but that library flooded and had to be torn down and was rebuilt somewhere else. that brought back so many good memories ty for bringing it up :')

When I was a kid I used to be scared of the end credits of the Winnie the Pooh cartoon, of that episode of Regular Show with the car, and also of that part of the Dino Train opening where the camera goes into the dinosaur's mouth (I used to run out of the room every time it got close to that part, and come back when in was over)

I remember being terrified of the incredibles babysitting short where the babysitter is showing jackjack some cards and he turns to fire

When characters cry (mostly babies), i fell uncomfurtabel too because it iritates me alot, i'm still like this.

I also remember when I was a kid, I saw Toy Story 3 as a kid with my grandma and younger cousin, and when Buzz got turned off, I started crying and saying “He’s dead!” and everyone in the theater was silent, and when it turned out he was ok, I was saying “He’s alive!” and everyone cheered.

When I was in kindergarten, my school had a book fair. I was so excited, because I used to read all the time. But when I went to buy a book, there was a person wearing a Clifford the Dog costume. I was already afraid of costumes, but this one is almost exactly like the evil dog costume from Duck Season. I ran out of the book fair. Later that day, the costume showed up at my classroom. When all the kids ran over to greet it, I dove under the table and tried to muffle my crying/screaming. My teacher yelled at me for “ruining the magic” for the other students lmao

the wildest thing in this video to me was when you showed a brief clip of the minty christmas candy cane cause that sent signal to my brain of 'oh holy hell ive seen that before!' and that makes me feel nuts cause for forever i thought that before g4 i had never even seen any mlp stuff, but considering minty xmas was 2005, it makes total sense that i wouldve seen it i guess. so thats new information to me

the scene in the heffalump movie where it first reveals the baby heffalump and it’s like, really really scary for some reason but I would rewatch that scene because it actually intrigued me how freaky it was to my child brain ;; but I was raised on corpse bride, courage, and generally creepy tv/movies

Funny you mention Pixar stuff being scary. The pixar short with all the birds on the telephone poles has a bird caw at the end of the short (either right at the end or during the credits) and for some reason that random ass bird sound just made me so unnerved as a kid. Similarly there was a short about an alien trying to abduct a guy and failing horribly at it. And at the end the guy leaves his house but falls into a huge crater cause the alien only managed to steal EVERYTHING around the house. And for some reason the dude falling into the crater was just really creepy to me? What I'm getting at here is what's up with Pixar shorts being weirdly creepy to little kids despite not being creepy at all

I had this weird thing as a kid where if I heard a certain sound effect in a show, I only associate it with that specific show. It didn’t bug me too much when I heard the music in SpongeBob be played in Ren and Stimpy. Yet when I heard it playing in “A Christmas Story”, it somewhat unnerved me. It doesn’t bother me now, thankfully. On the other hand, baby crying sound effects are a whole different story. The crying sound they use for Kate in Arthur used to make me laugh as a kid. Yet it wasn’t until I was about 13 that I heard it played in Caillou(my sister and I were watching it for nostalgic reasons at that time). All I could think was “Wait… that’s not supposed to be there”. It caught me so off guard that I became afraid of the sound effect. I still am to this day. Another instance when I was about twelve was with another baby cry sound effect. This one was also used in Arthur but only the episode Arthur’s Baby. It was late at night, my family was staying in a hotel, and I was watching Family Guy since there was no Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network was done for the day. Family Guy already scared me plenty of times, so you won’t believe how upset I got when I heard that baby cry in an episode. Peter and Brian pranked a bunch of pregnant women into giving birth, which led to several baby crying sounds. Yet the one used in Arthur’s baby was what upset me the most. I never heard that sound in any other shows before, so I assumed it was only from Arthur. Hearing it in Family Guy, a show that already made me a bit uncomfortable, ruined a part of me. So that specific sound effect really scares me. Even worse than the other one. It’s so bad that even now as a 22 year old, I started bawling when I heard it Ghost Busters 2, last year. I was hyperventilating and plugging my ears so tight. I had to leave the room because I was that terrified. My sister ended up yelling at me, so that didn’t help. I’m just glad she hated that movie, otherwise she’d definitely watch it every year and not give a shit if I’m scared or not.

I was scared of Dastardos from Viva Piñata as a kid, the guy who’d smash your sick piñatas if you didn’t call the doctor in time. I would only play the game on freeplay because he wasn’t in it. I remember watching my older sibling play when one of their piñata got sick, and I ran upstairs and hid under my bed sobbing when he appeared.

I ALSO WATCHED THE CARDBOARD MOVIE OH MY GOD it’s such a clear memory of my own city’s planetarium

This wasn't so much a trauma thing, but when I was little, I used to get upset when the characters on Arthur would make bad decisions. Not even major stuff, just things like keeping a secret they shouldn't or cheating on a test. I think it was because they played a certain music sting whenever that would happen, so it clued me into something bad happening later. Luckily, I got over it when I was older and could just enjoy the episodes.

When you started to mention "Between the Lions", I kind of feared that you would mention about the freaky "Free Bee Virus" that was shown in one episode, since that's one particular thing that actually scared me when I was younger. (Or perhaps just uncomfortable) It was lucky for me that you didn't mention it. But one of these days, I'll find some way to get over it..... *one* of these days.....

3:57 I had the same negative feeling from this to but I didn’t just felt uncomfortable but also confused cause I was to young to process what was happening so yeah, I can agree with you.

Omg! That curious George crying moment really messed me up too, that’s wild

I totally understand the whole thing with not liking seeing characters in distress. I remember getting pretty uncomfortable with those scenes, too. Now, sometimes if I see or imagine a character in distress, I'll sometimes cry with that character.

Back then in elementary I think the first biggest thing that scared me was the first Regular Show Terrors in the Park special specifically the Wizard segment where the Wizard killed the main cast in very disturbing ways. Muscle Man gets skinned, Skips gets burned to death in a chimney, Benson gets flushed and his gumballs come out the toilet, and Mordecai gets decapitated by the head. I think another thing that brought a lot of tension is that the gang was using realistic weapons like shotguns and crossbows instead of random fantasy weapons in the typical Regular Show format.That crap was waaaay too much for me, but today I’ve seen a lot of extreme stuff that the shock fatigue kind of takes over

The nightmare from Toy Story 2. I was never the same after that

Fun fact: Martha Speaks is actually voiced by Rarity herself, Tabitha St. Germain!

The two things I remember being super scared of as a kid was that one episode of My Little Pony called The Ghost of Paradise Estate, and Pooh's Grand Adventure. "Skull" really got me.

On the subject of Toy Story 3, that scene is where they’re being tortured by the little kids in the daycare always made me SO uncomfortable! Considering that combined with the monkey and the fire pit scene…yeah I never really liked Toy Story 3. Also I just have to mention the scene in Pinocchio where that guy gets turned into a donkey. I liked the movie overall as a kid and I still consider it to be one of my favorite Disney movies (SCREW that remake though) but that particular scene still kinda freaks me out ;-;

I was afraid of the table tilt marble game on Wii Fit when I was little too!! I was scared of the opening sequence, though, and I think that might be what you were scared of too. It freaked me out because it showed your mii getting pushed down a hole and getting zapped into a marble. I think this might be what you were thinking of because I can't think of a lose screen like that.

I loved kipper! If I ever seriously need to calm down but cant, I watch this show. Seriously, something about that show was a freaking tranquilizer

one odd fear of mine is the starfall website we used as a kid. I kinda got addicted to it (I used to play the about me section all the time or whatever it was called) in kindergarten and even played on it at home sometimes, but there were certain segments that freaked me out (like there was this one segment where this kid was watching bugs play in a band and I think the bugs freaked me out and there was this story with a whale I think?) then about 12 years later when I was 17 I think I was watching a let’s play (pardon my chronically online vocabulary) of it and I was kind of having an anxiety attack or something and the entire website scared me and tbh I’ve been avoiding that website or any mentions or let’s plays of it ever since.

When i was around 6 or 7, i had a 3ds and when i first played the street pass park thingy, i got so scared of the part where one of your miis gets kidnapped by ghosts that i had to turn off my 3ds and go distract myself to try not to have nightmares also i was once scared of a cgi animated casper the ghost on tv

The thing that scared me as a little kid was the Warner Bros opening logo that would show up at the begining of the VHS tapes and DVDs. I don't know if it was the piano jingle or how the logo pops right out of nowhere, but good gravy it scared me every time to the point where I would run out of the room. The other one that scared me was the time when my brothers and I got into video games and we would play either Lego Marvel Super Heroes or Disney Infinity. My younger brother played this one level in the Lego Marvel game involving Venom. In that game, there was this cutscene where you would see Venom stalking around as lights flickered until you suddenly, outta nowhere, Venom jumpscares the crap outta me. This led to me having a phobia for Venom ever since that happened.

Thank you Shunks for posting today You’re content is the perfect mix of interesting and calming to distract me while I inject myself for my HRT

Your story about the robot chimp reminded me of a brand of toys I was TERRIFIED of. They were called “Thingamajigs” and they were these little monsters that would start singing when you pressed their stomach. It wasn’t the design of them that scared me though. It was the sound they made. It scared the crap out of me for some reason.

I thought that pickle episode was something I dreamed up! I remember being terrified of it and refusing to eat pickles for a month. The sound effect when martha found pickled her terrified me

I have so many childhood memories tied to BJ's! It's really fascinating how easily brands and brand loyalty can worm its way into a childhood. The thing I always found weird at BJ's was Brian The Brain He was this robot head with a clear skull and a visible brain, it looks a lot like Spongebob from that one Haloween episode where he shaves his body off to reveal his brain That thing creeped me out as a kid, but fascinated me to no end that I ended up asking for one for Christmas just so I could understand it more I remember the functionality of the toy ended up being kinda underwhelming, but for about a year I had to put a sheet over it when I went to bed cuz I hated seeing its ugly mug looking over at me

I don't remember much from when I was four/five years old. So, most of the things that scared me as a kid where from when I was six onward. I distinctly remember freaking out when watching Disney's 'Basil the Great Mouse Detective', during the climax on Big Ben. The moment when Ratigan goes feral always made me dash to my bedroom, it was that intense for me. Similar story with Mickey's Christmas Carol, when Pete (as the Ghost of Christmas Future) reveals his face and shoves Scrooge into his own grave; for a six-year-old that was still understanding the concept of death at the time, it was a lot for me to handle. Ironically, I don't remember being scared of movies like 'The Nightmare Before Christmas' or 'The Black Cauldron'. Granted, while I did find them unnerving at times (like when the Horned King dies), I was more intrigued than frightened. However, I do remember watching this short film that was on the DVD for 'Nightmare before Christmas', I think it was called 'Frankenweenie' but unlike the animated film, this was in live action. The moment when the dog is chasing the ball and gets hit by a car, the boy crying out 'Nooooooo!' as the camera cuts to the ball rolling away, followed by the burial of said dog; it made me pause as I was trying to internalize what was happening. Again, like Christmas Carol, I was still trying to understand death at that age, so seeing that filled me with dread that made it difficult for me to talk about until now, as an adult. Can't wait for part two, Shunks!

When I was about 6 (not really silly) There’s this kinda of show on RU-vid called. DON’T HUG ME IM SCARED. And I’m sure you know the rest, I was scared but weirdly obsessed with it and now 12-14 I watch legit everything about it 🐸

👏 klasky 👏 csupo I was scared of that thing for many years when i was young ;w;

I was scared of the “you lose” part of the Mario DS flower game

i used to be terrified as a kid when cartoon characters started to vomit, it made me nauseated as welll.

One thing I distinctly remember being scared of as a kid, was from one of the "classic"(?) Carebears movies, yeah, I know, bear with me (pun unintended) So in one of these movies there's a magic book that's just like. Straight up possessed with an evil green/yellow lady. We only ever see her face and never see the rest of her body or even hair so there's just like this. Bald head in a book being all evil and stuff. Very freaky for a like 4 year old child

I remember the PBS Kids logo scared the shit out of me. Specifically the early 2000s ones, where they are animated doing something. Something about the kids laughing and stuff freaked me out.

MANY of the fantasy sequences in Curious George were not fun for child-me's anxiety, and still aren't. The ultimate "childhood trauma" from PBS for me though was guy I called "the fast man" from Sesame Street. It's actually a segment called "Counting with Milo" or something. But I used to call it "the fast man" because the segment would begin with a "cadunk" noise and an empty shot of a lake. Then, a guy in a white suit holding a number would speed towards the camera over the lake in stop-motion (without moving his arms or legs) and some kids would read the number. Then they'd do that in numerous locations multiple times. It absolutely screwed me up and terrified the crap out of me to the point of which I had nightmares. I would wait in terror through Sesame Street segments just in case I had to run out of the room when I saw the lake. Since then, I'm kinda at peace with it! But for the longest time, it was the worst thing ever.