Two Videos That Have Brought Back Repressed Childhood Memories

Well, the title of this post might be pushing it a bit, but here are two videos that I still can remember vividly from my childhood...for all the wrong reasons.

This first video is the first thing that I can remember really scaring me (besides taking a bath - but that's a different story for a different time). Watching it now, it doesn't seem too sinister, but as a child I was was really bothered by the fact that the "antagonist" just wouldn't leave Smokey alone.

I remember watching this second video in Alaska at some evening event at a public library (although I may be making this up). The video itself wasn't scary, but its effects on my life were. From then on, without fail, my brother Sam would sing this to me when it looked like I was about to cry (usually as a result of something that he had just done to me). In retrospect, this emotional abuse is probably the reason that I am now physically unable to shed tears (ask anyone, it's true).

I could also include a video of Twisted Sister's "We're Not Gonna Take It" (the Mudrick kids would often sing, "[Insert sibling's name here] just can't take it!" over and over again if we could tell someone was getting mad), but I couldn't find a quality version of it online. Your loss.


Update: Here is a third video that doesn't deserve a post all of its own, but still needs to be seen. What makes this video so meaningful is that it contains what is quite possibly the greatest hip-hop performance of all time. If you are not able to sing along to every word, then you definitely did not watch enough Saturday morning cartoons growing up.