Everything Old is Weird Again
I mean, seriously. It’s no wonder we children of the 80′s turned out a little warped!
Indeed, our twisted icons of childhood (oh, you can keep your Baba Yaga’s, your The Counts, and what is it about Eastern Europeans and creepy fairy tales anyway, Molly Whuppie was plenty gross and she was English, but you never hear about that do you, oh no, it’s a conspiracy I say, now where was I?) strongly influence the way we turn out and, in turn, how we influence the world. Which, if nothing else, explains raincoaster.
One can only wonder at how the multifarious marvel that was PeeWee’s Playhouse has writ its legacy on our fragile planet. Wonder…and troll eBay and Amazon for one’s tattered tribal totems:
That show was seriously messed up. Mind you, a lot of the more enjoyable kids’ shows are seriously messed up. I’d almost be scared to try whatever it is that these guys were smoking.
We love Pee Wee’s Playhouse ’round these parts… It was put together by people that understood, like and repect kids, which not a lot of kids shows were (or are now, for that matter). The Christmas Special is required viewing every year, and my mom has the full series on DVD so my 2 year old is getting to love it, too.
What is it about Eastern Europeans and creepy fairy tales?
It is the forests, thick and dark with no civilization for many miles; it is the mountains shrouded in fog with its caves and crevasses in which anything might be lingering The Scandinavians, they have a good line in the creepy too (eg: trolls).
And the Ivan Bilibin, he owns those fairy tales, now, always and forever.