Steve Reviews: Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids 

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Gotta be honest, I love how the old English child etertainment respected the Grimm brothers values, teaching the kids valuable lessons about life and behavior with scary fates for the fiction characters who did somehing wrrong.

This show is 100% where my love of horror spawned from. The episode where a kid gets swallowed hole by a snake is a personal favourite

i love how the british boy's dog is literally murdered, and his response is basically just calmly stating "yo that was pretty rude"

There should be a spin off series but about bad parents. Like for example; a parent beats their child and gets turned into a living voodoo doll that feels everyone’s pain. Or a parent tries to force their child to be pretty for beauty pageants and gets a tapeworm that eats their flesh until they are a skeleton. I’d call it Petrifying Tales for Poor Parents or Awful Tales for Abominable Adults

I remember coming home from school, having tea and watching this show, horrid Henry and my parents are aliens. So many memories

This show gave me nothing but nightmares for years straight and yet I couldn't stop watching it.

I'm still surprised at the level of gore they allowed on this show. I was pretty shook when I saw that combine harvester scene as a kid.

What makes Grizzly Tales unique though is it’s moral in each episode. For example: 1. Don’t lie/ tell fibs 2. Don’t be greedy 3. Listen to your parents 4. Don’t say I want 5. Don’t use tears to get what you want 6. Always eat your vegetables 7. Share (I think it’s important) 8. Don’t abuse pets 9. Don’t be rude 10. (Which I think is very important for parents who want their children to be famous) don’t force your kids to grow up too fast!

You gotta love how this guys whole thing is that he abuses his spider sidekick but he told a story about how it's wrong to hurt spiders.

"The Chipper chums go scrumping" is probably the most British thing I've ever heard even if it didn't have context.

I remember one where this kid prank-called people but ended up getting stuck in space for the rest of his life with a telephone that doesn't work, ending with the statement that if anyone gets a phone call with nothing on the other end, it would be him.

As a Brit, I can confirm this was definitely a real show and probably the reason I have anxiety attacks. *A kid was eaten down to his brain, eye and hand while still conscious and then eaten by his cat.*

This show's theme tune shall forever have a place in my deep subconcious.

Oh god, this show freaked me out as a kid. The scariest thing in each episode was usually the narrator. The only episode that I can clearly remember was about this kid/teen nagging his mom about getting candy, and the mom refused. The kid/teen gets lured to a candy shop where where the owner throws him into a caramelization vat or something, coating him in candy and making him unable to move, and finally putting him on display at a store window. The story ends with his mother walking past, seeing him without recognizing who he is and the kid shedding a tear as he's stuck, unable to move or communicate with his mother.

I remember being 8 and recording every episode so me and my siblings could binge all the episodes and I'm proud to say I've watches every episode

I’m a huge fan of weird spooky stop-motion and other forms of animation. I wish I could have grown up watching this as a kid. Also I gotta say those stereotypical British kids speaking was hilarious. “I say gosh! That was a pretty rotten thing to do!” Hope you’re doing well Spindleshanks.

Oh man, this was the shit back in the day. I'll always remember the episode 'The Spaghetti Man' because of the way Nigel Planer would pronounce 'spaghetti' as "SPHAAARGETTEE" extremely loudly every single time he had to say it.

Another interesting aspect of the show which I really like is that there were actually some episodes that showed the faults of adults as well, basically telling the viewer that the amount of years you've lived doesn't matter, if you didn't learn to be a decent person, you'll always be nothing more than a brat that needs to be punished. For example, in "Burgerskip" a greedy businessman cut an entire forest for the needs of his business but one of the trees turned out to be magical and sentient and takes the guy away and he's never seen again.

Man, instant nostalgia! I remember watching the re-runs of this and Wolves, Witches and Giants in the evenings on CITV around 2009-ish and instantly getting hooked!. A favourite episode of mine, was the one with the kid who "needs more space" and he grows and grows until there's no more space for him in the universe and a satellite pierces his tongue and he deflates! I also remember the 'Tom Time' episode, where the kid is late for everything and doesn't make it to the ship that evacuates the earth!

In Finnish, the name of the show was awesome: "Sätkyjä ja tärinöitä", which means 'Twitches and shivers'; it is a contortion of "Satuja ja tarinoita": 'Fairytales and stories'.

Absolute banger of a show. Felt pretty nostalgic seeing this in my feed.

This show was elite. It had this strange way of teaching lessons to young kids through disturbing stories, but they weren’t so bad that they’d terrify you. Seeing this in my recommended took me back.

I think what makes the Chipper Chums episode even darker is that the kids weren’t bad people, they just made one bad mistake that cost them

Plot Twist: The kid who got his eye lids torn off later grew to be Jeff The Killer

The British voice actor as the caretaker, Nigel Planer's first job was actually as a grave digger. Spooky

this unlocked weird memories

This show has a very distinctive feeling that comes with it. I always remember seeing it on and getting this feeling, and even now… just the thought of it gives me that feeling.

I want to reanimate this series. It’s classic the way it is but I just have a desire to see it all in stop-motion.

I remember this show. I thought it was not as scary as I hoped it could be. But there was one episode that scared me in it’s end. A boy got turned into a mannequin and he was still conscious. He could only move his eyes but not the rest of his body.

Loved this show as a kid. A lot of the british cartoons were quite popular in Australia. I remember fondly watching this, Trap door and Super Ted and they did reruns for a good while too

One of my true favorites from my early childhood. This show didn't treat kids like porcelain, it was badass

This was my absolute favourite growing up. They don’t make good shows like this anymore, I ran home from school to make it in time to watch this. Kid shows should be more like this.

Steve, brother, I am a certified Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids fan for life. I love the sense of catharsis I could attain from this show. Seeing horribly bratty kids and the occasionally horrid adult get punished for their atrocities is indubitably gratifying. I just want to make a tiny correction. They implemented the first theme song from Series 1 to 4. However, the second theme song was used from Series 5 to 6. Speaking of theme song, I do agree that the first Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids theme tune was a whole lot better composed than the later one. The one aspect that remained consistent with Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids is Nigel Planer's impeccable vocal performance. It is incredible to know that the same gentleman who portrayed Neil from The Young Ones can let loose with abandon as Uncle Grizzly, and he did in the most fabulous way ever.

I adored this show. Didn’t scar me like it did for some people. The animation did freak me out but I always remember it being great!

16:45 Straight up reminds me of Go-Animate.

The only video that I could vividly remember was the girl who was greedy and kept eating chocolate and then turned into a fly and got squatted. Also the grandma who told the little boy the story, that one creeped the hell out of me

I remember this show.... it's like the British children's equivalent of tales from the Crypt tv series

IM SO HAPPY THIS FINALLY GOT ATTENTION! This show was my childhood, and I’ve even still got 4 books of Grizzly Tales to this day

I loved this show so much! Fun fact in the episode the combine harvester clip is from, the kid, his bike and his rabbit all get chopped up and the doctors mix all the pieces together, resulting in the kid loosing his humanity to the rabbit brain and being this grey human sized monster with a bike handlebar sticking out of his stomach, jumping around the room like a rabbit. For kids!

I LOVED this show as a kid. I am so glad some of the episodes are on RU-vid!

My little brother used to wet his bed over this show. The poor guy was also scared to go in a room alone for weeks after watching one episode. I thought they were funny.

Something like Grizzly Tales could benefit from guest animators. I'd love to see a reboot of this, Love Death and Robot's style, with a new style for each story.

Now I realize a lot of the episodes seem to say, "Don't be a bad kid or bad horrible stuff will happen to you." Scary.

I remember being traumatised by this as a child. You have made me uncover many repressed memories

I grew up on this show I'm 18 now and I still can remember my mom waking me up in the morning for primary school going down stairs and eating my breakfast and watching this show. Watching this has made me wanna rewatch all the story's and see what I pick up on

The episode I remember most is the one with the girls wasting water during a drought, who eventually get turned into watermelons and unknowingly eaten by their classmates.

As a Brit myself I actually remember watching this show when I was younger and I absolutely loved it!!

This show was absolutely epic. It's unfortunate that modern TV shows don't have the annoying characters meeting such a grim demise

every person who watched this show as a child is either VERY well adjusted or currently doing time in a possibly or possibly not padded cell. There is no inbetween

Oh my goodness, I remember this show being dubbed to Norwegian when I was little and how fascinated I was with it. I could never remember its name, and apparently nobody else I talk to about it remember it, so finding it again has been such a struggle - until now! Thank you!

9:04 "Some Meth−head Harry Potter−like Kid" 😂🤣

The episode isn't even about Trap Door but that was one of mine and my sisters favourite shows growing up and we still reference it when we see each other. The short clip with "-appy then Drut?" had me laughing instantly. Poor silly spiders getting abused

the episode that stuck with me till this day was the one where the kid was too vain, so when an old tailor came to him and said he could give him a new suit and the kid agreed. So I don't remember the whole plot, but the Taylor tells the boy he needs to unzip his skin to measure the new suit or something, and the boy okays it and goes to bed expecting to be wearing the suit in the morning. But when he wakes up and goes to look in the mirror he scream in horror to see him wearing the old tailors skin. Something about him agreeing to it all up until the end and the uniquely horrible idea of waking up in old man skin has stuck with me to this day.

This shit traumatised me when I was a kid. I actually developed a minor fear of the word Top Hat for a short while because of the episode where the kid gets sucked into the magician's hat.

God i loved this as a child. I remember watching thing at my grandparents, ah the memories.

This is so awesome, I remember watching this religiously on CITV as a kid! It honestly kickstarted my love for horror. Sad it had to have such a lacklustre ending and revival.

*First the Cramp Twins, now Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids, it honestly feels like you’re reaching directly into my childhood (Please do Wolves, Witches and Giants next).*

If you remember this show, you deserve a veteran's discount.

I love how in the stop-motion parts of the original series, you can see classic monster movie posters in the background. Some of them being The Mummy (1959), Godzilla (1954), Mothra (1961) and Revenge of the Creature (1955).

I remember this was also on tv in the Netherlands (dubbed of course) when I was young. It was one of the only 'creepy' shows that I didn't mind being creeped out by, somehow.

Holy shit I had completely repressed the memories of this show from when I was a kid. This is such a blast from the past!

Warms my heart to see my childhood show reviewed and presented to a big audience. Grizzly Tales was criminally underrated and I can't thank you enough for covering it Steve. Also Happy Halloween good sir! 🎃

The one with the boy and the ghost spiders is basically a twisted version of Spider-Man. And how it shows his organs, but the fact they aren’t bloody reminds me of invader zim, dark harvest.

I watched this when I was younger and loved it 😂 the ones I remember the most are the superstitious girl who eventually locks herself in a metal box and get crushed by a fall cow, and on her tombstone it says "hopefully she's gone for good, touch wood". The one about the man eating conker and the witch who steals faces, plusba few others 😊

I am *certain* that "The Chipper Chums Go Scrumping" is an extended parody/deconstruction of _The Famous Five,_ the book series by Enid Blyton - everything, from the intentionally old-fashioned dialogue to even the names of the characters, is far too much of a match for it _not_ to be!

I blame this show for my love of horror as an adult. That said... The Pie Man TRAUMATISED me as a kid. I'm autistic and I used to bite my knuckles, especially my thumb as a stim. So the episode ending with the thumbsucker getting his thumbs cut off really messed with me. Completely killed that particular stim for a long time 😂

“Alright team, I figured we should make a show for children” “Yea, about what? I ” “Cautionary tales for kids-“ “Can’t parents teach their kids to behave?” “I wasn’t done. Cautionary tales about kids dying the most gory deaths ever” “I don’t see a problem with that!” “Let’s put it on the air!”

I remember this show so vividly and couldn’t remember it at all, thank you for bringing this back for me!

The whole eye peeling thing fucked me up badly as a kid. I had issues with going to sleep you see (still do in fact. Its 2am as a write this) but the idea I’d get my eyelids peeled off fucked me up almost as bad as the Weeping Angels from Doctor Who

Even though I was born in 2008, whenever I went round my nan's house I still very clearly remember this show. I don't know how but I guess they did re-runs of the show well into early 2013-14.

Man this show was one of my favourites as a kid and you just bought back so many nostalgic memories.

*16:18* in my opinion I think the bright colours make it look like a crappy goanimate video you would find in your RU-vid recommended page in 2014

I loved this show. I remember one episode a kid had a computer addiction, and he ended up going inside the Cyberspace world becoming just a brain with eyeballs inside a glass cube on a cyber-highway...who then got eaten alive by a virus as he was helpless and too stupid to do anything else but sit and look at it.

This show is 100% the reason why I’m such a lover of horror as a genre! I remember coming home from school and watching the 3 Back to back episodes then being sad it was over! Dude, I miss this show so much.

I was vv claustrophobic as a child so the episode that scared me the most was when that boy grew so big he was squashed in the entire universe I could barely sleep. also the one were the girl turned into a statue and thrown in the ocean bothered me a lot

I'd forgotten entirely about this show. I've always described the feeling of a bad flu as being filled with spiders and I've never known where I got that imagery from.

This show traumatized me as a child, more specifically the Spaghetti man. I remember I couldn't sleep properly for days after seeing that. Still I grew to love this series and is properly why I'm such a horror movie fanatic :)

I’d always watch this when there was nothing else on.

The darkest episode I remember was one where a boy who was rude or disrutive or something at the dinner table was put theough a grinder and made into pasta, before being eaten by his parents!

I think the one about the spider killing kid is extra disturbing since kids cruelly killing things is like the #1 sign of a future serial killer

I remember watching the Grizzly Tales on HBO on Saturday morning back when I was a kid. I have a vague memory of the show as if it's a fever dream, but the stop motion segment is the most memorable part, especially for that creepy looking narrator and his pet. The scene where the narrator got knocked by a punching glove to the point of getting decapitated and he's laughing headless as he scared off his pet spider is the only part I remember about the show.

When I was a kid in the 90s There was also a show called "Wolves, Witches and Giants" that had this exact animation style. The wolf in it used to scare the hell out of me, he used to always wiggle his eyebrows up and down in a really creepy way.

This show played during the Christmas holiday in sweden one year. My parents recorded it and it became our tradition to re-watch it for a good many years, though these days we mostly re-watch Corneil and Bernie instead. That also played during the christmas season and became a family tradition. So this was a nice little trip down memory lane.

I never cared about goosebumps as a kid, so this was my dose of nightmare fuel. the episode Wolf Child haunted me as a 5 year old; why that one in particular, I have no idea. I just remembered hiding under my duvet as a small kid convinced the wolves would come and eat me too.

It feels like they spent 90% of the budget on the intros before realizing they had to make a full show

I remember one of the darker episodes being about a princess who had a baby, and all her extended family were adamant that the baby had to be born with their specific features, with each family member having a unique trait (squashy nose, big ears, etc). And when the baby isn't born with any, to stop herself being punished by the family she goes through the castle and cuts all their facial features off to stick onto the baby. It's never directly said but is heavily implied. Like, Christ on a bike, it's a kids show.

Man this brings back memories coming home from school and watching this show

I've had childhood trauma from this show lol. Being stuck as a doll in a doll shop consciously with only the ability to see still haunts me to this day.

OH MY GOD I REMEMBER THIS SHOW, I used to watch it all the time! As a kid they creeped me out, as a young adult I thought it was silly, as a slightly-older adult... it's still pretty silly but now I'm a bit surprised that such dark outcomes were in a kids' show. And from what I hear, the original books were even WORSE.

I loved this show growing up. Being a horror fan born in the mid 90s, it was borderline formative and I’m pretty sure it’s moral values were imprinted in my brain over time.

This is what I have been searching for lmao, I remember watching this show around Sunday Mornings in HBO and I quite like it as a kid. Thank you for making this video.

This show's theme is forever burned into my memory. I remember an episode that scared the shit out of me too. It involved an apple seed growing inside someone who ate one and a tree grew through the kid.

This show always laid dormant in my mind since I first watched it as a kid, then someone reminded me about it about 3 months ago, I should probably go back and watch it sometime.

I'm irish, but we watched a lot of UK kids shows growing up, and my personal disturbing favorite was Trapped! it literally freaked me out so badly, but I always thought it was so cool and wanted to do the tasks because I'd get annoyed at the kids who couldn't do it lol.

1:42 I always thought those were giant coins for some reason

i watched this as a child and i remember in one episode some factory w really bad sanitation skills somehow ended up having a fly in one of their chocolate bars and this one greedy child who was a bully to her sister or something ate that bar or chocolate and she turned into a fly and after that ive never forgotten it :)

It's like a perfect blend between Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle and Tales from the Crypt, it's a shame the animation was such a problem it would of been so cool if it was fully stop-motion, maybe even each segment having different styles like Crashbox.

The darkest episode in my opinion is called 'the litter bug', where this girl keeps placing rubbish in a junkyard which attract flies who grows into monsters, the government and military do try to save the girl from the giant fly monster but end up going back inside helicopters, abandoning the poor girl who comes face to face with a 'litter bug' and absolutely demolishes and eats

This show bloody traumatised me, I wish I was joking lol. Theres one episode that stuck in my brain, there was slugs in it I think, it scared the shit out of 8yr old me