When I was quite young I used to watch the animated superhero show ‘Underdog’.
I will say that as a young child I found some of the scenes to be quite scary and sobering and none were more frightening to me than the episode called “The Phoney-Booths” in which the evil Simon Bar Sinister created phone booths that would transform normal people into slaves (with odd siren-like lights on their heads) who would do whatever evil he wanted them to.
And when Underdog fell into the trap and became (temporarily!) evil himself, the seven year old me found it very disturbing.
All that to say that when I see this internet add on the yahoo website:
. . . it kind of freaks me out a little bit. I’m pretty sure that’s not what the marketers were going for.
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November 21, 2011 at 12:59 am
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Shelly Marie Thomas
Along time ago I went to visit my family from North Carolina. One morning I woke up and turned on the T.V. Underdog cartoon show was coming on. they played his music video first. After that was over with his show came on. And the episode was called The Phony Phone Booth. Underdog was sitting in his Living Room chair. All of the sudden the Machine goes Crazy ! He gets up to check it out . His eyes got big and round! When he walked in the middle of the Machine he pushed a button . He goes back to sit in his Living Room chair with 1 leg across and goes to sleep . The next thing I know is Underdog was Hypnotized !