THERAPIST: Old timey Thanksgiving parade characters can't hurt you

[Nevilledog]

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Patrick Monahan
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Nov 26, 2020
THERAPIST: Old timey Thanksgiving parade characters can’t hurt you

OLD TIMEY THANKSGIVING PARADE CHARACTERS:
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Patrick Monahan
@pattymo
My working theory is that people in olden times couldn’t tell the difference between children screaming with joy and children screaming in terror
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[Ferrets are Cool]

1. It's funny. I don't remember being terrorized or traumatized by any parade

characters or cartoon icons...only my father.

[2naSalit]

2. Scary...

Not only are some of these super creepy, I remember them as being kind of creepy in the cartoons they appeared in too.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. Cartoons were not originally for children.

[2naSalit]

5. My parents were not...

discerning enough to recognize that so I ended up watching everything, probably had an effect on my psyche.

[LSFL]

3. Pinocchio

PinocchiNO!

[KY_EnviroGuy]

6. Kermit and Smokey!

But who is that behind Smokey?

KY...... .........

[eShirl]

7. behind Smokey

that might be supposed to be Linus the Lionhearted...

https://metv.com/lists/11-forgotten-saturday-morning-cartoons-from-the-sixties

5. Linus the Lionhearted

1964–69

Essentially a 30-minute commercial for Post Cereals, Linus the Lionhearted was a thinly veiled attempt to get kids salivating for Sugar Crisp and Alpha-Bits. The characters were all cereal mascots seen on the boxes in grocery aisles. Linus himself was the spokeslion for Heart of Oats, a Cheerios clone. The smooth-talking Sugar Bear was a regular, alongside Claudius Crow (Sugar Sparkled Flakes), Rory Racoon (Post Toasties) and others. But, oh, what a voice cast! Sitcom legends Carl Reiner, Ruth Buzzi, Jonathan Winters, Jerry Stiller and Tom Poston all brought this marketing menagerie to life.

[shrike3]

8. Tennessee Tuxedo and Milton the Monster

Does that article bring back memories.