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[ladybug_archive]

I used to be nuts about Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? when I was a kid. X3 Specifically, I loved Greg and Rockapella (I had a major crush on Sean!), and I found the Chief very cool. I liked Carmen herself, but I hated most of her henchpeople. LOL. They annoyed the heck out of me. I liked Kneemoi, though.

Sometime in the ... I dunno whether it was the second or third season, but something happened in one of the Chief's Office sketches that freaked me out so badly I did not want to watch the show anymore. I later tried to convince myself it was a dream, because when I have too much of something, I end up dreaming about it in often unflattering ways. XD; And I didn't want to believe I'd really seen it.

Mom tried to help me get over the fear and to enjoy the show again, but she was only partially successful. I was just too afraid of seeing that in the reruns, so I stopped watching after a while.

Fast-forward many years later, I'm still avoiding the show like the plague. Kaze finds the theme song and I listen to it, but can't really enjoy it because I'm thinking about that thing and wondering again if it was real. I try to find out, but I can't find anything anywhere. I convince myself again that it was a dream, that PBS wouldn't have allowed something that bizarre and creepy, etc.

Few months later ... a few days ago, I get extremely nostalgic about Rockapella again, thanks to Kaze. ♥ And I want to see them in action again. I watched a clip of the ending of an episode and they were singing the Carmen song, and I felt the old familiar thrill and squee. I also dug up a clip Crystal Rose had found a while back that I'd never been able to bring myself to watch because of avoiding the show. The clip was hilarious, by the way! LOL, snowball.

Today ... I finally found out, courtesy of Wikipedia, what I've both needed and dreaded to know all these years.

What I hoped was a dream really was on the show. **shudders.**

Maybe I wasn't able to find out several months ago because I wasn't ready to accept it then. XD; I'm hoping now that I know I can put it behind me and just enjoy the good stuff the show had to offer. And of course, I must be careful never to find that episode. XD; No way in Heck do I want to see that sequence again. I can honestly say it's had a lasting negative effect on me, and not just where the show is concerned. I think I'm still a little shaken to find out I really saw it.

On a much more cheerful note ... have I ever said that I think my first-ever hurt/comfort scenario involved Sean? XD; I had Mom make these paper dolls of Rockapella and we'd act out stuff. I orchestrated h/c. ♥ I was five or six.

I still wish I knew how I learned the idea of h/c. LOL. I don't remember if it was because of the Little Audrey cartoon with the bird or if it started before that. The cartoon definitely helped, in any case.

Comments

[sandamazwich.livejournal.com]

What was it that you saw though?

I've loved that show for, like, ever. XD All the incarnations are awesome and I don't think I remember anything that made me not wanna watch the shows.

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

It was the Chief's Office sequence where her head fell off. XD; **headdesk.** Not what an impressionable six-year-old like me wanted to see, with real people, no less! I realize now that's why I have an extreme obsession against decapitation.

**and flees for real this time.** XD

[sandamazwich.livejournal.com]

XD Yes, go!

But wow, decapitation? I don't think I remember that...

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Consider yourself lucky! XD; Maybe you never saw that episode. I wish I never had.

[sandamazwich.livejournal.com]

I dunno, I saw a lot of stuff (decapitation included) and was never really disturbed as a kid. I was always so passive on stuff. Like, I've met parents that were shocked that I saw Pretty Woman when I was like, 5. Cuz it's rated R and all. Same with like, Speed and stuff. lol I dunno.

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

LOL. It would be nice to not be bothered by such stuff. ♥

[sandamazwich.livejournal.com]

XD ♥ I've gotten scared or went o.o at things, but actually being disturbed... not so much. XD

[rose-of-pollux.livejournal.com]

Ahh, nostalgia! X3 LOL, I was annoyed by the henchmen, too, sometimes... I remember that the guy in the rat costume (Wonder Rat?) once stole Userma'atre's temple. XD But Carmen herself was an interesting character. **has mentioned before that she partly inspired Vulsor, especially her voice** And Greg was hilarious. XD

My favorite Rockapella member is Scott. X3 He and the new version of the band came to campus... twice! And I saw them both times! X3 **squees** One was a general concert, and the other was a holiday concert (they sang a gorgeous holiday song that Scott wrote himself!). And yes, they sang the Carmen theme song both times! XD

Y'know, it's strange... I was freaked out by one of the Office sketches, too; it was a different one, though-- I seem to have missed this one, and I'm glad I did. o__o

Bleah. Yeah, it's best to forget about that and focus on the good stuff. Like the snowball. LOL-- that was my favorite moment in the series! XD

Yay h/c! X3 For me, I think it started with the Menken/Ashman Disney movies (specifically Beauty and the Beast)... though I didn't really get floored by h/c until I started watching Tintin. X3 My first viewing of "Tibet" is still etched in my mind-- the episode was split into two parts, and I remember telling Mom that I had to find out what happened to Chang! XD And then came part two with the Captain's near-sacrifice... Honestly, I think I was yelling something like "He can't! He CAN'T!" as he was beginning to cut the rope. Unsurprisingly, when I started reading/buying the books about seven years later, "Tibet" was the first one. X3

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

LOL. Yeah, Wonder Rat. I think I hated him more than most of them. XD; Though among a stinky biker, a dumb strong woman, and a clichéd salesman, there was a lot to hate. And they sure stole weird things. LOL. I remember one episode had somebody stealing the Boll Weevil monument.

Yay getting to see them both times! X3 Oooh, what was the holiday song?

Scott has such gorgeous soft-looking hair.

Was the one you didn't like the one where she shrunk? XD; **didn't like that one, either.**

Yay Sean being over-dramatic and slumping to the floor after being hit by the snowball! LOL.

Do you remember whether there were ever any h/c sketches involving someone in Rockapella? **Must have h/c....**

Ooh yeah, it's such torture when something really suspenseful is in two (or more) parts! I remember being alarmed by incidents where it looked like people were dying, too (like the Golden Goose), and wondering how the problems would ever get resolved. At the same time, despite being alarmed, I really couldn't get enough. XD;

[rose-of-pollux.livejournal.com]

LOL, there was a valley girl, too... she once took the " ñ " XD. Seriously, how is that possible?

Ummm... oh, dear... the Christmas show was a couple years ago; I can't remember the title of the song. **headdesk** But I do remember that it was about coming home for Christmas Eve; I think he said he got the inspiration for it on the subway. X3 Took a look to see if there were any Rockapella CDs available online... and there are! Maybe it's one one of them...?

He's still got the hair. X3 Seriously, he's hardly changed!

Yeah, I wasn't too fond of that one, either, but the one that really freaked me out was one involving a one-ton anvil falling on someone. **shudders**

LOL, I was laughing for hours afterwards the first time I saw it. XD The Chase was always my favorite part of the show. X3

Hmm... h/c? I don't recall the show having much h/c at all, being comedy-centered... but the closest thing that comes to mind is one of them acting as the doomed informant... **also randomly remembers one scenario where they were trapped in giant bananas, staring down a "gorilla" (a.k.a a rather obvious human in a gorilla suit. XD)**

Yay multi-part h/c scenarios! Actually, when the Tintin cartoons aired on Nickelodeon (where I first saw them), all of the 40-min eps (i.e., all but three of the eps) were all split into two parters. So the Moon and Inca duologies took place over an amazing 4 eps each! XD They had adorable recaps where Tintin narrated the previous ep's events, but since the eps were grouped to 40 min on the DVDs, they cut out the adorable recaps! ;__; Thankfully, though, they kept the recaps for "Red Rackham's Treasure" and "Prisoners of the Sun" so I still have two eps with recaps! X3

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Yep, Patty Larceny. XD; **hates valley girls too.** And LOL @ what she stole!

Yeah, I need to look through all the CDs available there. X3 I'll look for the lyrics to the Christmas song!

**nodnod.** He really doesn't look much different! ^^ **has also watched some recent clips of them in concert on YouTube.**

Oh, the anvil one? But I thought it didn't really hit anyone. XD The anvil sketch I saw had it coming after Greg and he leaped out of the way just in time, but somehow this cardboard cutout of him got under the anvil. LOL. Which was admittedly rather creepy before it was acknowledged as a cutout. XD;

Well, sometimes comedy shows use a form of h/c, usually never more than someone being knocked out, though. XD LOL @ the doomed informant. I was always waiting for someone to acknowledge that the giant baby informant was Barry, but no one ever did! Ha ha.

That's weird that some recaps were kept, but not all. XD; Oh well, at least you have some! ^^

[rose-of-pollux.livejournal.com]

**nod nod** That was the one. I was really young at the time when I saw it, and the cutout scared me... badly... XD

LOL, I remember the giant baby! XD I also liked the surreal "backstage" sketches where something went "wrong," so Greg had to "take five" and would wander around backstage, encountering Rockapella along the way, who would be holding up some clues without saying a word! X3 Oh, and the celebrity clue-givers were much love. ^^ **Remembers a hilarious one where Shari Lewis comes with one of her puppets (I think it was Charlie Horse, if memory serves me correctly), singing "The Song that Never Ends," but as "The Clue that Never Ends," driving Greg bonkers! XD LOL**

**hugs recaps** I think when the eps were aired on HBO (they were aired there first, before Nickelodeon), they were aired as the full 40 min ep, and the extra recaps were added for the Nickelodeon airing. Since they were in the full 40 min. form on the DVD, they didn't have the extra recaps. **Is trying to desperately remember the "Crab With the Golden Claws" recap in order to recall Tintin's narration of meeting the Captain, but is drawing a blank ;__;** But since Unicorn/Rackham and the Inca duology are connected, they had the recaps for those. **Wonders why they didn't keep the recap for the Moon duology** Oh, well...

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

**nodnod.** I remember being alarmed and disbelieving at first, but then relaxing considerably when the real Greg appeared. XD I think I ended up finding it terribly amusing that there was a random cutout of Greg roaming around. Even though the anvil thing itself was still creepy.

LOL. I think I remember those surreal scenes! Yay breaking the fourth wall!

That sounds hilarious with Shari! I wonder if that clip's on YouTube. XD

Ahh, I see. ^^ Yeah, they should have kept the Moon ones, too!

[rose-of-pollux.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I think my eyes went as wide as dinner plates for a while...

Ah, yes... that oh-so-fragile fourth wall! XD Sometimes I wonder what YGO would've been like if that happened once or twice **remembers one ad/trailer where that actually happened with Seto and Yami Yugi acting confused upon hearing a "narrator" XD**. Tintin had a few moments in the books with Snowy, though once or twice in the episodes, the Captain gives a bemused look at the "camera" XD.

I don't know if it is... that one's straight out of my memory banks! X3 **too bad the "Crab With the Golden Claws" recap didn't join it. -__- But, in my defense, this was all fifteen years ago! XD**

Yes, they should've kept the Moon recap... not to mention that h/c ending that they totally removed!

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

LOL. I remember that YGO promo! Those were so silly. **remembers one with orange soda spilling everywhere.** Yay for bemused looks at the camera!

Removing h/c is a crime!

[rose-of-pollux.livejournal.com]

**And the one where the Paradox Bros. totally defy gravity and don't come down from their acrobatics! XD LOL; Yugi-tachi supposedly gets bored waiting for them to come down and the leave for a "lunch break" XD**

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Yep. LOL. And the one where Seto and Yugi argue over who should flip the coin to decide who goes first. XD

[rose-of-pollux.livejournal.com]

Aww, I missed that one! How did that end up? ...Do I want to know...?

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

There never was a resolution. XD They kept arguing.

[rose-of-pollux.livejournal.com]

LOOOOL... Oh, Seto... XD

Thing is, it isn't *that* OOC for him. XD

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Yeah, LOL. **snerk.**

[cskazaam.livejournal.com]

**reads through comments.** Yikes, they showed her decapitated!? That seems..... really insensitive, to say the least. Ugh. XD; I don't remember any of that, though, so I'm not sure I've ever seen it. ....Though I don't remember most of it anyway, so that's not saying much. XD;

Hopefully you can put it behind you! At least you don't have to be worrying about whether it was real, since you know. It's better than constantly wondering!

That's awesome that your first h/c involved Sean! ^^ I wish I remembered him. XD;

Do you have the link to the clip with the snowball, by the way? ^^ That sounds hilarious!

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Yep, they really did. o.o; I never did see it again in the reruns, so I like to think maybe PBS got a lot of complaints and decided to pull it. XD; I still can hardly believe they ever allowed that!

I wish you did, too. LOL. And I need to find more clips with him.

Here's the snowball one. ^^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKDENs3A7js&feature=related Awful quality, but you can still see what's going on. XD

[cskazaam.livejournal.com]

Yeah, totally! Gah, that's just horrible!

You should! ^^

LOL @ random snowball. XD

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

**shudders.**

I think I saw someone had the clip of them singing Zombie Jamboree. XD **used to watch that one over and over, oblivious to the fact that it had "damn" in it.**

XD They had a lot of random stuff on the show. LOL.

[cskazaam.livejournal.com]

XD I don't think I've heard that song before. **and is reminded of Zombie Gunju.** LOL.

LOL. Sounds like it! Don't know why I can't remember more of what it was like. I think the main thing I do remember is the kids running around trying to mark the correct countries near the end. **and being amazed and how good some of them were, because she'd have never been able to do that at the time.** XD

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

LOL. I was thinking of him too. XD

That was a fun part. I remember I always wanted to go on the show and do that. X3 I did learn a great deal of geography from that show, which is good because that was the original intention behind its creation. XD

[cskazaam.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I remember always wanting to win that trip! I even knew where I'd want to go: Disney World. XD ....Though I don't remember if I learned much from it. XD; **flicks memories.** Gah, why can't I ever remember anything? I mean, it's not as if it was that long ago. **headdesk.** XD;

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

I think I had locations where I wanted to go too. X3 Probably Disneyland/Disney World were among them!

XD;

[skdarkdragon.livejournal.com]

I remember that show! I don't remember much of what happened in it, but I remember I used to love it. :) I don't recall ever seeing the sequence you mentioned in the comments, though. o_o Somehow I think I would have remembered that. That seems so weird!

I played the old game on the computer, too. The one where you couldn't progress to a new rank after you had solved a case unless you had a certain travel guide you could look up the answers to the questions in. x_x; Which we didn't have.

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Yeah, no one I've talked to remembers it. XD If only I could have been so lucky as to have never seen it/not remembered if I did! It really was weird; it went too far in making the show off-the-wall. They usually seemed to have a good balance.

That's bizarre about the game. .__. If the guide was so important, it should have come with the game!

[skdarkdragon.livejournal.com]

*nods*

I remember when I was little I saw a cartoon short on Nickelodeon called "Two Stupid Dogs." The particular short involved one of the dogs getting his head stuck in the fence (although he wasn't really stuck, he was just too silly to realize it). The other dog tried to get him out, in the end he and his friend decided that they'd just stay stuck in the fence forever.

XD It was so silly looking back now, but at the time, I was so upset by the fact that the poor dogs were going to be stuck forever that I cried, and avoided that show at all costs. Even when I was older I still never wanted to see the show!

x_X Yeah, I have no idea why they didn't just have the book with the game. It was at my Nana's house, and she had a printout of the answers she'd gotten from somewhere (I don't think it came with the game, but I'm not sure), but it got lost.

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

LOL. What a dumb-sounding show. XD I wouldn't want to see it either.

[skdarkdragon.livejournal.com]

I just looked up Carmen Sandiego on Wikipedia, and it looks like the game I was playing was the first Carmen Sandiego game ever, and it *was* distributed with that World Almanac I needed. o_o I sounds like the second distribution might not have had the almanac, though, so maybe that was the one we had.

XD Interesting to find out after all these years.

[insaneladybug.livejournal.com]

Huh. Weird. Yeah, it probably was the second one, then.