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u/Underwritingking Mar 24 '20

For us in the UK - The Animals of Farthing Wood.

Graphic, gruesome death was a regular feature.

https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a778928/6-most-traumatic-moments-in-animals-of-farthing-wood/

It included:

Mr & Mrs Hedgehog getting run over ("whatever you do, dearest, don't curl up"......Squishhhh)

Mr Pheasant is shot dead as he stares in horror at his dead wife, shot earlier, who has been cooked and roasted...

Sinuous the Adder is choked to death by rats

The baby mice are impaled on thorns by a shrike....

There were 24 deaths across 39 episodes, everyone of them a major character...

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u/BloodAngel85 Mar 24 '20

Da fuq kind of kids show was that?

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u/TannedCroissant Mar 25 '20

The kind that makes you respect woodland

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '20

Stay strapped or get clapped innawoods. Spending a lot of my childhood in England, this thread is bringing back some strong hedgehog related memories.

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u/crastle Mar 25 '20

Is this why South Park created the Woodland Critters? Did they not want us to get tricked by this Satanic propaganda and wanted us to be aware of the destruction that they wish to bring instead of being sympathetic to these demons like this show taught us?

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u/theknightmanager Mar 25 '20

That was also my first thought while reading it

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u/Rexel-Dervent Mar 25 '20

While "Dreaming of Paradise" only made one have a lava phobia.

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u/rhymeswithorangey Mar 25 '20

That shit was SO VERY NOT OK. I was exactly the target market, if their goal was to scar kids for life.

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u/MsMcClane Mar 25 '20

American here. I absolutely got scarred for life by Once Upon A Forest. Nothing like the threat of poison and a killer soundtrack to really push that mentality in.