[Sca-cooks] OOP Query

[Siegfried Heydrich]

    Good! Kids NEED to have the shit scared out of 'em every now and then .
. . builds character. This notion of 'protecting' the kids from the fact
that there are really bad, evil things in the world is the moral equivalent
of raising them in an epistemological plastic bubble. I think Barney and the
Teletubbies (while being a great babysitting service) destroy more brain
cells than second hand smoke . . .
    Kids should be introduced to Clark Ashton Smith, Talbot Mundy, and H.P.
Lovecraft as soon as their vocabularies have developed enough to handle
them. The rest of the brain will follow . . .

    Sieggy

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>>by the villain.  Except in some of the newer Scooby-Doo movies, in which
>>there really are supernatural events - Zombie Island actually being the
best
>>of those, and rather creepy, too).
>
>My son assures me of this, too, but the thought of sitting in front
>of Scooby Doo for half an hour, let alone ninety minutes or so, makes
>me break out in hives.
>
>Offhand, I think the two creepiest pieces of children's animation
>I've ever seen were both done by Paul Dini, et al, for WB, one in
>which Superman enlists the retired sorcerer Dr. Fate to combat
>Karkul, who is _right_ out of Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos (probably
>the only time this has ever been done correctly outside of the
>written page), and a Batman Beyond feature involving the death of The
>Joker and the unpleasant fate of Tim Drake, the third and final
>Robin. This last was probably a pretty irresponsible production
>(focusing on the surgical alteration of a child to resemble the
>disfigured Joker), but I suppose this is slightly mitigated by, as
>far as I know, never airing on television, but being released
>straight to video with all kinds of warning labels. I just know my
>kid had nightmares for a week or so... it was actually  sort of
>Serling-esque.
>
>Adamantius