Uh… Allison?
I wouldn’t be half surprised… I had a conversation with a coworker this evening about this exact thing, she was terrified but now can watch the monkeys… It was on one of the movie channels at work this evening.
And she’s around 40…
Anyway, if that’s you… That would be odd.
I was terrified by the scene in, I think, Poltergeist, where the house all crumples up and is devoured from within by the rift or whatever it was. I was terrified while sitting in a college classroom surrounded by girls exclaiming how cheesy it was. I was terrified when I was 29, and had quit my third full-time job to go back to animation school.
I hated Wizard of Oz as a kid. Had nightmares about it. Hid under the blanket on the couch whenever the Wicked Witch was on screen EVERY THANKSGIVING.
It was in college when doing Freudian textual analysis of film (um, yeah…) that I came to the realization that my mother’s name was Dorothy. That when I was very young I’d managed to internalize the whole thing into a fear for the safety of my mother. And now I can watch Wizard of Oz. Flying monkeys and all.
(You aren’t alone.)
“Every time it rains, it rains panties from heaven.
Don’t you know every cloud contains panties from heaven”…
The torn-apart scarecrow always sent me out of the room.
I just bought some medium-sized, flyless, cotton boxer briefs from target. A 3-pack no less. For $8.99.
Just sayin.
Oh, and I was sort of desensitized by the time I got around to seeing Wizard of Oz. Freddy Krueger eats flying monkeys for breakfast. So does Alien.
For some reason, there are versions of the Wizard of Oz out there where the translator changed the name. The changed name happens to be mine (which is defintely not Dorotea). I always thought it was COOL and was pretty disappointed to find out it had been a too-traitorous translator’s deed, it’s not the original name.
Allison is a great name. It’s not mine though. Sorry, Chrismoody.
You should tell her about this thread. It’s great to know that I’m not the only 40 year old who is just overcoming their fear of the monkeys.
Hearing Dora the Explorer on television will have me running from the room every time.
The Wizard of Oz never really creeped me out much… until I did the Dark Side of the Moon thing. That was kind of creepy.
Willy Wonka was always creepy though. Sick, twisted and demented no matter who plays him. (Even creepier in the books)
I find that whenever I’m giving a speech to Shryn King and I’m nervous about it, it’s much easier to give if I imagine her in big girl panties.
I hope they are my red sexy ones!! Don’t even think about the granny panties!!
Big girl panties at 40? Well, that’s fine, but just don’t ever “really grow up,” okay? If you let the inner child die, she’ll be gone forever. Reserve the right to be afraid of the dark.
For me, it’s the grand high witch unmasking scene in “The Witches.” I made myself watch that scene last year (yeah, I’m 23, but still…I hadn’t seen it in nearly ten years). It was bad but I made myself do it and I felt good.
Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum = pure unmitigated terror.
Flying monkeys, no problem.
I just came in to say that, I, too, clicked on this thread for entirely the wrong reason, so I might as well book the deluxe handbasket and post in it, too.
Anyway, I’m going to do a goodly bit of fear-facing soon; I’m going to play a gig next week at a place I’ve been wanting to play, but with a substitute drummer who’s not really a drummer, likely in front of a few known indie rock folks, etc. Sober. :eek:
Funny you should mention that, because I was (probably still am, haven’t tested this in a while) terrified of a scene in an 80’s made-for-tv version of Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass (I think it was a mini-series, or something…I remember Alice had a yellow dress.) At any rate, there is a scene at the end of one of the parts where Alice thinks she’s home. It’s her house, but no one is there. Then she is looking in a mirror and all the lights start flashing, horrible noises, and the Jabberwock(y) is coming. Yeah, always turned the tape off (cause we had it on tape, you see) long before th Jabberwock(y) showed up cause holy shit just the buildup was scary as shit.
Alright, found a YouTube clip of it. let’s see if I too can wear big girl panties…(which might be kind of odd anyway, what with the wang and all…)
Cite?
::Quickly runs off to check the SDMB rule book to see if she can request a cite on something that hasn’t happened yet…
I just want to see the picture!! 
It’s definitely a funny one in my mind.
What timing! Swampwife and I DVR’d TWoO just last night, planning on doing the Dark Side thing which we had always heard about, but never tried.
And last week, people at work were talking about it, and I got the info that you have to start the album at a certain point in the movie.
Any truth to that? What point in the movie?
(and WRT the OP: if you read Wicked, you get a totally different take on…well, the whole story, but especially the monkeys.)
Last time I heard it, it was the lion’s second roar. YMMV 
Swampwolf, when you watch Wizard of Oz will you find out what the wicked witch says after she says, “I’m melting, I’m melting”
It was something like, “Who would have thought a good girl like you would have…” and I didn’t catch it all.
What is this you guys are talking about with Dark of the Moon?
I was in the stage production of Dark of the Moon in college; but, I’m guessing that’s not what you are talking about.