Of course, I look at Oogieloves and just see an extreme version of everything wrong with kid's entertainment. not to sophistication of a movie TMNT or Dinosaurs radio controlled puppetsuit) are better suited for amusement parks and local softball team mascots. Puppets still fly, mainly because Sesame Street is so popular it will never die (we hope), but large, lumbering guys in cheap padded suits (i.e. The era of the big Barney costume is over. At least with Yo Gabba Gabba, there's a touch of it being ironic (or at least that's what the hipsters that watch it with their kids think). They're extremely dated looking, as I've been saying. That's the nicest thing I can say about it. Oogieloves look like one of those medium budget Barney Knockoff from the 90's (not quite a huge budget, but it doesn't look like it was shot in someone's basement). But frightening is something Barney is not. Does it have an air of suburban smugness and a patronizing tone? It sure does. Is Barney torturous to watch if you're over a certain age? Absolutely. Imagining what these things might decide to do with that access, that trust, is more horrible than a thousand Slasher films. We give these horrors access to the most vulnerable of our society, children. Because these are children's characters that makes them all the creepier. I don't think there's anything creepier than something that's meant to be cute but is just a little off. An antifanfiction that casts Barney as an eldritch Abomination ) But Barney didn't have that layer of creepiness lurking right beneath the surface that the Oogieloves do. There were tons of jokes about Barney eating those kids ( and for a really twisted take on this idea look up the Day of the Barney series. The kinds of creatures that would use their appearance to lure in children, take them to a secluded place, steal their souls and eat them. Because the Oogieloves and characters like them look like the kinds of creatures that have something sinister beneath the surface. But take those same creatures and place them in a children's movie and that's when the true horror starts. Because horror movies are supposed to be creepy. I'd be the first in line to see THAT movie. If the Oogieloves were horror characters I wouldn't hate them. Sometimes people create something meant for children that is all kinds of creepy. I don't think Candle Cove would be as popular a story as it is if there wasn't some truth behind the concept. I'm fairly certain I've already mentioned the novel Gnelfs in this very thread. There are plenty of horror stories about children's shows gone wrong. A lot of the characters featured in Cracked's latest article push that button as well. The fact that these types of things are meant to be characters beloved by children just seems all kind of wrong. But the types of characters that stir that feeling with me just seem wrong somehow. The Oogieloves push that button hard enough to break the console. But I've noticed that a lot of the things that push my "Kill it with fire" button are children's show characters. My sketchbooks are filled with horrible monsters and blood soaked death. Something I find so creepy that I want to see it torn to pieces. Every so often I see something that hits me the right way.
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