what's a TV show you watched as a kid that you're pretty sure you hallucinated
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@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.
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what's a TV show you watched as a kid that you're pretty sure you hallucinated
@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?
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what's a TV show you watched as a kid that you're pretty sure you hallucinated
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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. -
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Oh god nobody has mentioned this one and it's a fucking doozyA show where the protagonist would go into a laser tag arena and shoot a pillar and then be transported to space to fight to save the galaxy.
No, really.
Even at the time it felt goddamn surreal.
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@Taweret Some PBS-shown educational show (I think about math) where there were a couple young folks in a space station. There were computers with tape drives. This was 79-80, so skylab-era.
I only remember seeing episodes once or twice -- at least once was actually in class -- and I have never been able to track down what it was.
I assume it was some obscure AIT thing I'm misremembering, but I have no idea.
@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.
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@Taweret I watched maybe one episode of Zoobilee Zoo (sp?) when we were staying at a resort (we didn't have a TV at home until later) and all I remember is that the costumes were Really Something. Like if you tried to recreate Thundercats in live action but also with birds and rodents and so on.
@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.
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what's a TV show you watched as a kid that you're pretty sure you hallucinated
@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.
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what's a TV show you watched as a kid that you're pretty sure you hallucinated
@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.
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what's a TV show you watched as a kid that you're pretty sure you hallucinated
@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. -
@Taweret The ultimate answer, though, is that we all lay dying of carbon monoxide poisoning and hallucinated “Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue” and we are now in Hell
@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
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@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.
@apLundell @Taweret lmao whaaaaaat
i was obsessed with eureka castle as a kid but never had any idea it was rl stine
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what's a TV show you watched as a kid that you're pretty sure you hallucinated
@Taweret Bobby's World
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@Taweret Jabberwocky! it's pretty easy to see why it might seem like a hallucination (trippy opening credits after the short baseball sequence) https://youtu.be/VkOkw31XaHY?si=ilY4oJRwVcfTcHN2 thanks to YouTube I can now see those credits again but for 20 years I sort of thought I may have made them up.
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@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
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what's a TV show you watched as a kid that you're pretty sure you hallucinated
@Taweret There was a time when I questioned if Doctor Snuggles was a childhood fever dream or not.
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what's a TV show you watched as a kid that you're pretty sure you hallucinated
@Taweret The Music Box was a PBS(?) show with a magical talking grammophone who talked about musical concepts. I spent decades trying to find it and then someone uploaded all the episodes to YouTube.
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@liferstate @Taweret What if Starlight Express but Bronx Zoo
@flyingsaceur @liferstate @Taweret this is the most perfect possible description of that show.
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@Taweret ok here's an obscure one that only Chicago kids (and maybe some Canadian kids) will know:
Gigglesnort Hotel.
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@i_give_u_worms @Taweret Voyagers was the time travel one -- I have fond memories of that.
There was a saturday morning cartoon in which a teenaged "benjy grimm" used his "thing rings" to transform into The Thing (yes, the orange rock monster from the Fantastic Four). Not really trippy, but not many folks seem to remember it.
@Unlikelylass @i_give_u_worms @Taweret I remember that one!! He would say something like “Thing ring do your thing,” lol
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@srol @Taweret I still love this show and mumble the theme rap song lyrics from time to time, lol! “My name is Ziv Zoolander / ZZ for short / you know I fight the Corps / I’m the Bots Master / something something something put on your 3D shades! ITS LAZER TIME BOYZ!! “
It ended on a pretty dark cliffhanger too, though
