what's a TV show you watched as a kid that you're pretty sure you hallucinated

@Taweret Any of the Hannah-Barbera stuff that was recycled from the 60s and 70s that wasn't The Flintstones.

@Taweret I was well into my 30s before I was sure that Eureeka's Castle was a real show.

Same with Simon in the Land of Chalk Drawings.

@Taweret And there's various comedy sketches I half remember that I'll never know where they were from.

Sesame Street? Square One? Some British cartoon shown only once on American TV?

There's no way to know.

@Taweret Eureeka's Castle isn't even that strange, but it's so Muppet-Like that I couldn't remember it clearly as a separate thing.

Looking it up, I see it was created by R. L. Stine. Yeah, that seems about right.

@Taweret Noozles.

It came on during the middle of the day on Nickelodeon, so I only saw it when I was home sick. Dimension-hopping koalas have to be a fever dream, right?

@Taweret there are several but this one stands out: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinwheel_%28TV_series%29?wprov=sfla1

@srol @Taweret That intro is such a banger

@Taweret Turbo Teen.

https://youtu.be/j18e_ID-DpA

@Taweret Battle of the network stars (at least I wish it was a hallucination)

@Taweret Also Kidd Video lived deep in the back of my mind for decades until the modern internet managed to piece together some episodes and now I own an album of all the original songs from it because sometimes eBay is kind of magic.

@Taweret But seriously, there was show we would watch in first grade (1974-75) about a bunch kids who sang about the four food groups and some nutty teacher who was the butt of all their jokes. Anyone remember that?

@Taweret
For a long time, I couldn't find "UFO" (1971?), so I began to wonder if it was a confabulation. But I did catch up with it again in the 2000s.

@Oggie @Taweret There was also a Laser Tag show! I only just barely remember both.

@Unlikelylass @Taweret Makes me think of Tomes and Treasures, which was a public television sci-fi show meant to teach about libraries and books. I watched it at elementary school in the 80s. For a while I think I was convinced it was Doctor Who, which it bore a fair resemblance to.

@liferstate @Taweret Of all the things I could think of that could have been a fever dream, this topped my list. But I think I was in or near my teens before I saw it, so I was quite certain it was real. The theme song was a powerful earworm, too.

@Taweret Jamie And The Magic Torch is the first thing that came to my mind but I’d also include Pigeon Street and Terrahawks in there as well.

@Taweret hallucinated as you remember it but can’t find a record of its existence? Or made you feel like you were hallucinating? For the latter I recall HR Puffinstuff, The Banana Splits , New Zoo Revue, and The Bugaloos.

No wonder I eventually ended up following The Grateful Dead each summer.

@Taweret Not an actual show, but the Donnelly Advertising Christmas Jingle. A local commercial. I really should report it to one of the lost media sites out there...I think I found the audio at one point, but haven't seen the full commercial.

@flyingsaceur @Taweret i rented this one from the video store as a little kid *so* many times, it was the only tape i ever wanted to rent for at least a year or two

@apLundell @Taweret lmao whaaaaaat

i was obsessed with eureka castle as a kid but never had any idea it was rl stine