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

[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.

[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

[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!

[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.