Um, gee.

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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.

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[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;