Suuuuupeeeeerteeeeed… SPRTD!
Rhiannon Hart has posted about the amazingness of The Trap Door and Count Duckula and T-bag (hee, “T-bag”), three serials I inhaled as a child. Remember how Trap Door’s Bert had the unseen master known only as “The Thing Upstairs”? In one episode there was a teensy tiny glimpse of the Thing – which revealed him to be a sort of Lovecraftian horror – and my childhood self thought that was the raddest thing ever.
As a kid I was also partial to SuperTed, though even back then I knew it was kinda lame. So SuperTed is a defective teddy bear, who is brought to life by a spotty alien man (how Spotty achieved this was never, to my recollection, explained), then taken to a magic cloud, where Mother Nature gives him special powers? Huh? How does that make even a lick of sense? Talk about your convoluted backstories.
My mum had a theory that SuperTed’s magic word was, in fact, “magic word”. I reckon she was on to something.
Tags: animation, Britannia, childhood memories, Count Duckula, H.P. Lovecraft, silliness, SuperTed, T-bag, The Trap Door
