I must have a different definition of scary, because I found that mildly charming, but not very interesting.

Me, too. Maybe after watching Teletubbies and Boobah with the kids, my brain is warped.

So many of the BBC kids' shows do seem like they would be better viewed under the influence, though.

So many of the BBC kids' shows do seem like they would be better viewed under the influence, though.

Zeus, if I watched that while stoned, I'd be having mad flashbacks for the rest of my life. "Horrifying" might be a better description than "scary". Spiders are scary. Those things are like seeing a shoggoth outside the window.

aaaaahhhhh! The window! That terrible face! That terrible eye! Heaven save me! (And there the journal ended. Poor Dr. Wigglibus, never seen again.)

Here's the first part of an In the Night Garden episode. It's even weirder when they try to have plot. [link] Though the plot seems to be that there's a sort of train thing called the Ninky Nonk which travels around, and all the characters board.

For me I think it was the language nonsense that almost made sense

Each character seems to just repeat the character's own name in various tones of voice. And every once in a while throw in another word or two, but it's mostly just their names.

Each character seems to just repeat the character's own name in various tones of voice.

Like inside John Malkovitch's head in Being John Malkovitch.

Much house-finding~ma to you and your family, Shir!

Shir, all the housing~ma focused through a lense and beamed to your location. May the house y'all find be lovely, in a central location, that is not in a contested zone.

Shir, all the housing~ma focused through a lense and beamed to your location.

Dude, that will either burn her house down or create a houseful of popcorn.

All of you who asked me to report back from the con: I will, if you'll remind me next time you'll see my pixels.

(The request was a Moment of Weirdness for me: all of us here are dead envy you for having Comic-Con or other major sci-fi cons with kick-ass guests.

We had to settle for our imagination FOR IONS here, before the cool guests that could pay for their own plane ticket (for at least one direction) noticed us.

Then again, that's how the Hush dubbing, MST3K for Doublemeat Palace, and about a gazillion of interactive stage productions ideas (not only Jossverse) came to life. My fan life, that is. We had to have our own fun. And I lived to see the OMWF production where Spike kissed Angel at the end. It was worth every second of the "we're at the end of the world and we don't know shit about copyrights or Fox's legal department". Oh, the innocent good times...).

(Strangely enough, a convention called Armageddon.con was planned to take place in 2000 in the original biblical places of the Armageddon (and Jerusalem) with Larry Niven as the guest of honor. Then, the second Intifada broke loose. It got cancelled. We're not talking about the idea to have another Armageddon.con ever since. We're afraid of the consequences).

I have gazillions of the Israeli sci-fi con stories, but I better stop now.