# The Most Weirdest Children's Show Ever Made **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 30, 2014, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-weirdest-childrens-show-ever-made/699918 "2014-09-30T00:11:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-weirdest-childrens-show-ever-made/699918/41 "2015-02-05T16:43:32Z")
One of my favorites is [“Uncle Croc’s Block”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsfQIst5S9s), starring Charles Nelson Reilly. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-weirdest-childrens-show-ever-made/699918/42 "2015-02-05T17:33:48Z")
BooBah is a result of the Brown Acid. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-weirdest-childrens-show-ever-made/699918/43 "2015-02-05T18:52:22Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > Could anything have been more trippy than Lidsville? _H.R. Pufnstuff_ was about at the same level. ---
**Author:** ![malaka](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecc23a/32.png) [@malaka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/malaka)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-weirdest-childrens-show-ever-made/699918/44 "2015-02-05T20:54:53Z")
The Wiggles - Point Your Finger: [Wiggles - Point Your Finger (Puppets) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tVV4h38wnMI) Did I win? ---
**Author:** ![Shockaholics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Shockaholics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shockaholics)\ **Post date:** [February 5, 2015, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-weirdest-childrens-show-ever-made/699918/45 "2015-02-05T21:10:26Z")
That show I talked about was a result of my horrible fever dreams at the age of 6…humaeast is the same person as me. (It’s like “Rose and Thorn”.) That nightmare about the E.T. poster was one of my other dreams around that age. My deluded nightmares would often have me wake up in a cold sweat, thinking what I saw was real. (This dream was so realistic!) So yes, Metal Machine never happened, and it’s a good thing it didn’t. That Sesame Street skit is real, though. Look it up. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-weirdest-childrens-show-ever-made/699918/46 "2015-02-06T02:10:48Z")
Barely remembered, because I was almost thirty when it came out: There was a sitcom directed at children about a tween-aged girl who was actually a robot, but for some reason Child Protective Services kept snooping around to make sure her parents weren’t raging alcoholics or something. The name of the show was something like “Special Package” or “Big Secret.” Anyway, the one time I saw it, I thought it was incredibly inappropriate for any imaginable audience. ---
**Author:** ![Kiyoshi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e19adc/32.png) [@Kiyoshi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiyoshi)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-weirdest-childrens-show-ever-made/699918/47 "2015-02-06T02:18:27Z")
> [@marshmallow](#): > > Anyone remember a live action young teen show from the mid-'90s that involved alien spores in plant pods taking over people’s minds? The pods looked like footballs, or elongated coconuts. There was a lot of green lighting. I think the alien parasites lodged in your neck. A lot of it took place in a school. I think the principal got infected. I want to say it was on Nick, but I can’t find anything about it when I look at listings of Nick programming. > > I also thought it could be an episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark, Goosebumps, etc. but I’m pretty sure it went at least one season. > > This has been bugging me for years because I’ve talked to my friends and come up with some crazy obscure shows we half remember, like Space Cases, Hey Dude, or My Brother and Me, but everyone thinks I’m crazy about the coconut pod people show. It kind of sounds like the Are You Afraid of the Dark episode [“The Tale of the Hatching”…?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffsw77oYhc8) ---
**Author:** ![Shockaholics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Shockaholics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shockaholics)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-weirdest-childrens-show-ever-made/699918/48 "2015-02-06T02:27:09Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > Barely remembered, because I was almost thirty when it came out: There was a sitcom directed at children about a tween-aged girl who was actually a robot, but for some reason Child Protective Services kept snooping around to make sure her parents weren’t raging alcoholics or something. The name of the show was something like “Special Package” or “Big Secret.” Anyway, the one time I saw it, I thought it was incredibly inappropriate for any imaginable audience. My Life as a Teenage Robot? ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-weirdest-childrens-show-ever-made/699918/49 "2015-02-06T16:24:43Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > Barely remembered, because I was almost thirty when it came out: There was a sitcom directed at children about a tween-aged girl who was actually a robot, but for some reason Child Protective Services kept snooping around to make sure her parents weren’t raging alcoholics or something. The name of the show was something like “Special Package” or “Big Secret.” Anyway, the one time I saw it, I thought it was incredibly inappropriate for any imaginable audience. _Small Wonder_. ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-weirdest-childrens-show-ever-made/699918/50 "2015-02-06T16:38:35Z")
> [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](#): > > _Small Wonder_. Yes, that’s the one. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-weirdest-childrens-show-ever-made/699918/51 "2015-02-06T17:25:41Z")
> [@Shockaholics](#): > > That show I talked about was a result of my horrible fever dreams at the age of 6…humaeast is the same person as me. (It’s like “Rose and Thorn”.) That nightmare about the E.T. poster was one of my other dreams around that age. My deluded nightmares would often have me wake up in a cold sweat, thinking what I saw was real. (This dream was so realistic!) So yes, Metal Machine never happened, and it’s a good thing it didn’t. > > That Sesame Street skit is real, though. Look it up. So your OP about “another poster” seeing the same show as you was just a load of bull? edited to add: At this point, I’d rather you just provide a link to that “Sesame Street” skit, rather than waste my time looking for it. ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-weirdest-childrens-show-ever-made/699918/52 "2015-02-06T19:11:03Z")
I think the poster said it was a nightmare about a Sesame Street segment, not an actual sketch. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 7:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-weirdest-childrens-show-ever-made/699918/53 "2015-02-06T19:16:13Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > I think the poster said it was a nightmare about a Sesame Street segment, not an actual sketch. > [@](#): > > That Sesame Street skit is real, though. Look it up. I don’t think so. ---
**Author:** ![Shockaholics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Shockaholics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shockaholics)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-weirdest-childrens-show-ever-made/699918/54 "2015-02-06T20:15:57Z")
Not a load of bull, it’s my seperate inthe00s account and is like Thorn to my Rose. The segment is real, I saw someone mention it on both Yesterdayland and Muppet Central. Can’t find a link, though. It was probably the 1990s. ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-weirdest-childrens-show-ever-made/699918/55 "2015-02-06T20:35:28Z")
Are you sure that wasn’t you that mentioned it on those other boards… just like was the case with your first “memory?” Or… you aren’t Brian Williams are you? ---
**Author:** ![Shockaholics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Shockaholics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shockaholics)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-weirdest-childrens-show-ever-made/699918/56 "2015-02-06T21:21:02Z")
> [@Spud](#): > > Are you sure that wasn’t you that mentioned it on those other boards… just like was the case with your first “memory?” > > Or… you aren’t Brian Williams are you? No, it was Mikealan on Muppet Central who mentioned it, and somebody I don’t remember on Yesterdayland. > **[What sketches scared you as a kid?](https://muppetcentral.com/forum/threads/what-sketches-scared-you-as-a-kid.356/page-8)** > > Re: What about these two? > > Originally posted by Niall > I mean, what WERE the writers thinking and how did these skits (not "sketch", btw. A sketch is a rough drawing:-)) ever get the green light anyway? > > Ahh, be careful what you say---when I was in... I am sorry for thinking the show in the OP was real, though. It was one of my hallucinations as a child. I used to walk in on my parents watching stuff I shouldn’t have been looking at as a 6-year-old. As Sonic said, “That’s no good!” BTW, AoStH and SatAM aired on KERA 13 when I was a kid. Weird, right? I think that may have been a dream. But I do know they might, just might, have been on a PBS station. I mentioned that on inthe00s as humaeast. ---
**Author:** ![Spud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spud/32/347_2.png) [@Spud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spud)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-weirdest-childrens-show-ever-made/699918/57 "2015-02-06T22:26:06Z")
> [@](#): > > I was looking on inthe00s and found a post by someone that claims they remember a children’s show that aired on PBS back in the 1990s. > [@](#): > > I thought I was the only person to remember this show…but then I found humaeast (who wrote the post on inthe00s that I quoted). . > [@](#): > > So I WAS dreaming! Phew. I gotta go tell humaeast that I had the same dream. . > [@](#): > > Okay, okay. It was a dream that I had the night when I read humaeast’s post. I contacted her through e-mail, and she said it WAS a dream. . > [@](#): > > That show I talked about was a result of my horrible fever dreams at the age of 6…humaeast is the same person as me. . So you have shown us that you made up a poster name and a post from somewhere else. Then claimed you contacted that user and they responded to you. Then you admit you are one and the same person. > [@](#): > > No, it was Mikealan on Muppet Central who mentioned it Well that settles it then it had to have been someone else. BTW… are you still 6 and hallucinating? ---
**Author:** ![Shockaholics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Shockaholics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shockaholics)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-weirdest-childrens-show-ever-made/699918/58 "2015-02-06T23:08:26Z")
We have different e-mail accounts… No, I am 24, and my hallucinations are thankfully gone. Have you EVER heard of the DC Comics characters Rose and Thorn? THAT is what I’m like. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-weirdest-childrens-show-ever-made/699918/59 "2015-02-06T23:11:07Z")
For the record, the AM song is made up too. ---
**Author:** ![Shockaholics](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Shockaholics](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shockaholics)\ **Post date:** [February 6, 2015, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-weirdest-childrens-show-ever-made/699918/60 "2015-02-06T23:17:52Z")
> [@TruCelt](#): > > For the record, the AM song is made up too. Yep. Another scary hallucination I had. Thank God I don’t have that E.T. poster anymore…that was WORSE than this! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-weirdest-childrens-show-ever-made/699918.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-weirdest-childrens-show-ever-made/699918.md?page=4)