Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-12343352-20170716212429/@comment-28396600-20180716052024

It's not just the stuff about God that bothers me on Robot Chicken though, the show's cruel, mean spirited nature has a tendency to bring back some terrible childhood memories. Back when I was a kid, I was a very mean, negative person. I had this really bad mental disorder called ODD that caused me to be an absolute savage. Thankfully I've grown out of that disorder since after years of hard work, but the show has a tendency to "trigger my PTSD," in a sense because a lot of the skits bring back haunting memories of things I said and did that I regret from back when I was a bratty kid. For example, the scene where He-Man insults his own father from season 5 always makes me cry because it reminds me of things I said to my dad that I wish I'd never said. Another sketch that haunts me on a personal level would be this one scene (I forget which season or episode it's from) where an extension cord starts talking. To most people that's just an innocent, silly joke but for me it brings back a God awful memory of a time I said to my beloved mother,

"If you were a cord, I'd unplug YOU!" out of anger. My heart just can't take some of those mean jokes on the show, even some of the cute ones such as the forementioned cord skit are enough to depress the shit out of me. Watching quite a few of the skits on the show is basically just a reminder of the horrible monster I was as a child. It's almost bizarre to think of how many unwanted childhood memories returned because of that one TV show. While I know they don't mean anything from those types of jokes, sometimes when I start remembering certain mistakes I made in the past I can barely even sleep at night. The many inappropriate things I said and did as a child will forever haunt me. While my parents have forgiven me for those mistakes, I'll never be able to forgive myself for some of them. It's like a bad itch you can ever get rid of no matter how hard you scratch. Bart Simpson was practically a SAINT compared to the way I was back then.