Media that terrified you when you were younger

i hope this counts as it still terrifies me to this day but the live action grinch

This is gonna sound kind of embarrassing, but back in the day when PBS Kids aired Between The Lions when I was little, I was terrified of two segments from the show.

• The first segment was when the puppet character Arty Smartypants. I was just terrified of the movement of the puppet; and it’s overall design. (Strange how life works…because the puppeteer/voice of Arty became one of my favorite puppeteers; especially with lost media, Tim Legasse).

• The second segment that weirded me out was the brief segment “Fred Says” where voice actor Fred Newman would just appear in front of a blue background and just sound out words, interacting with live-action letters.

(I’m not exactly sure why I found this creepy back then, but oh well.) I now know Fred is famous for hosting Livewire, the obscure 80s Nickelodeon series; so I’m interested in his work now.

Another one I remembered was Rugrats episode "In The Dreamtime" and these scenes used to scare me as a child:

I was scared of the cover of "Nicktoons: Attack Of The Toy Bots". This is a long story so I'll try to shrink it. So I don't remember where but at some point in time when I was like 8 I saw an advertisement for the game, I literally don't know where because the game came out a long time ago so maybe a thrift store or something? Anyway, something about just the way the game look just really frightened me the The SpongeBob and Danny Phantom bots specifically. I didn't really have a fear of any certain things and I wasn't scared of a lot of things but like, wow. I didn't say anything about it to anyone because I thought it was dumb so I kept this too myself. A couple days later my brother got a DVD from the old rental place (rip the rental store lol) and it was called something along the lines of "Nickeldodeon Robot Invasion" or whatever. Now I know it's nothing more than a compilation of robot themed episodes from Nick but back then I was so scared that it would have those stupid toy bots so I did everything I could to make sure he didn't put it in the DVD player. The rental place only let you keep things for 5 days max so it was a long 5 days but I succeeded my task. I actually forgot all about this until I went to a Half-price Books store and found the game there. Then I got it and played it and it is very hard. But I love that Gir's voice is like pitched up too much lol

I was a bit scared of DNA Production's Paul ("hi, i'm paul!"), idk he and his 3 eyes gave little me the creeps lol