![]() I remember dreaming I was at the top of the stairs that lead down into my basement. Characters from the weird animations showed up in my dreams over and over again. ![]() Now don't get me wrong, I loved the show and I always had a great time watching it but a large percentage of my nightmares as a child resulted from watching the show. To this day I have a huge problem with rodents, dead or alive. ![]() Plus, the giant mouse was extremely ugly with its huge white eyes, jagged teeth and insect-like body. The roar, I feel, is way too much for the target age group. The sounds that it made when it first breaks open the boarded up door made my spine tingle. I never understood that it was made by the mice, I swore that it was alive. The third time is, of course, "The Giant Mouse of Minsk." This stuck with me for so long. It kept me away from the river during bad storms. The face inside the water would open up its huge black mouth and my own eyes would grow big. Fievel just kept getting hit and hit by the waves. I grew up along the Mississippi River and was warned constantly not to swim without a life jacket or I might get swallowed up under the current. It was so huge and swallowed up the boat over and over again. The second time is right when the mice sing the song "There Are No Cats in America" and the thunder and lighting strike which leads into the severe storm and tidal wave monster. The sound of their lips smacking as they smiled used to crawl under my skin and get my heart beating quickly. The first time is at the beginning of the film when the Russian cats appear on top of the snowy hill growling and snarling. There are three occasions where I was always forced to run to my VCR (no remote) and fast forward. I don't remember the first time I watched AN AMERICAN TAIL, but it was never a movie that I could just sit through. Oh how little do they understand a child's mind. It's amazing what parents think is good and healthy for their children to watch. None of these tales that I am telling you have anything to do with horror or anything around it. This is the time where the young mind is very fragile and can be shaped easily for the long journey that lies ahead. We didn't have a lot of money so I watched a lot of things over and over again. I can't really remember a time where I wasn't watching a cartoon or kids program. As a child growing up in the late '80s and early '90s in the Midwest, I was normally entertained by video tapes and television shows.
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