Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-10581381-20181104041616/@comment-37627195-20190313051735

According to a news report I stumbled upon, there is a woman somewhere out there in the world who is deathly afraid of characters from The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, and Fraggle Rock.

Nope, not puppets in general but rather just characters from those three shows specifically.

The odd thing is:I'm terrified of puppets. Shit like Hartley Hare, Morso, and the monsters from Mary Lou's Flip Flop Shop freak me right the fuck out. Hell, half of my nightmares growing up featured puppets that I'd seen on TV and things like that.

But my only exception is Muppets. Jim Henson just had this way of designing his characters to be charming, adorable, and just all around pleasant to look at. No Muppet has ever scared me, even the least little bit despite my general fear of puppets. The only other puppets that don't scare me are the non-Muppet ones that are still directly inspired by the iconic Jim Henson style (Eureeka's Castle for example which to this day remains one of my favorite shows).

So to me it's rather odd that this person outright claims that most puppets don't bother her, but the cutest ones ever make her run out of the room screaming. She said that she could watch an entire episode of virtually any other puppet show in existence but if her husband so much as starts whistling the Muppet Show theme song under his breath, she'll be headed for the hills almost immediately afterwards.

Seeing as how puppetry is overall a creepy and unsettling form of fart, it baffles me that someone can be horrified of sweet, lovable Kermit. Out of every puppet in the entire world he and his wacky group of friends are without a doubt the most innocent and non-threatening ones.