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.

Comments

[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.