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Posted: 4/13/2012
Here s a video of Mr. Rogers pal Mr. McFeely introducing a Purple Panda to a group of kids, and the kids are absolutely terrified. Several sites have posted this video with the question Is it wrong to laugh at this? , to which I say, of course it s not wrong - kids fleeing in tearful panic for no reason is completely hilarious.
It s hilarious because at some point in our lives, we were these kids, being legitimately, truthfully afraid of something seemingly benign because we saw it through our ignorantly-perceptive child-eyes, and we can all relate to this panic. It s also just regular hilarious (sorry kids!):
This raises the question: What was your dumbest childhood fear?
I ll go first. I was scarred for life by the Temple Of Doom bugs scene, but when I saw that again years later, I realized I was completely correct for having that fear.
My dumbest childhood fear, though, was that I absolutely COULD NOT look at the screen when the Sesame Street Yip Yip aliens were on. When they came on, I d literally run out of the room. They scared me so much, one time they showed up on one of those Kermit News Flash segments and I couldn t watch the Kermit segments after that for fear that they might show up again.
Biggest childhood fear in the Comments, please. Unless your biggest fear remains internet-commenting, in which case, cool.