It was so awful. I used to have to sit backwards in the chair during performances. Which I'm sure was disconcerting to the other children, let alone the performers, who were just older children. But seriously, people. Puppets. Singing about Jesus. With their giant flapping red maws. And wobbly eyes that weren't looking at anything. And apparently broken necks. And flailing arms. It was traumatic.

It's sort of awful and comic. It reminds me of ex-GF who grew up getting reconstructive surgery in hospitals and the Clown would come to visit every month. And she couldn't escape and it terrified her.

She's still very bitter about the Clowns.

"They think it's so funny to take out their gigantic combs and try to comb your hair. But it's not Fucking Funny!"

when I was a kid, I was afraid of Sherlock Hemlock. I'm not sure why, except he did kind of pop out and say "AHA!" a lot.

And they laugh with their whole heads. That's not normal.

See also: Julia Roberts and Jim Carrey.

I always thought it was more like Jim Carrey's jaw unhinged like a fucking snake.

OMG, if Jim Carrey and Julia Roberts are actually muppets, that explains so much. I am just saying.

And le nub, sure, sure, mock my pain. I see how things stand with us! Heheh. No, it really is truly tragically comic, and that's without my reaction. With, it becomes deeply funny.

I can definitely see being traumatized both by the unbearable futility of struggle on Gilligan's Island and inescapable hospital clowns.

Oh, yeah, also, I like movies. Sorry for derailing the thread with my childhood traumas. It is nostalgia lane for me this week.

It reminds me of a friend of mine in college who said as a little girl she was traumatized by "Gilligan's Island." She could not get over the constant stress of them trying to leave the island and they never could. She would make her parents turn the channel whenever the show came on.

Makes me think of Galaxy Quest.

Gwen: They're not ALL "historical documents." Surely, you don't think Gilligan's Island is a... [All the Thermians moan in despair]

Mathesar: Those poor people.

Just saw Red. Totally empty popcorn movie, but real entertaining fun nonetheless. If you want something to cheer you up on a rainy evening, this is the movie for you.

I would have gotten Guy Smiley, dammit.

Thanks to TDS/TCR I always get him confused with Mitt Romney now.

I loved Red. Helen Mirren and big damn guns? Hell to the yeah. John Malkovich being all crazified? Oh, yeah. Bruce Willis being badass? Never say die. Even Morgan Freeman getting his licks in! And of course, the ever urbane Karl Urban in a suit for 90% of the movie. I should have taken a drool bucket.

My mom told me this weekend she was going to see "Reds" and I was all confused. I now realize she meant "Red"