[jlmiller]

To quoth the mask of apple: 'Everybody has one. There's a whole internet subculture dedicated to it. Television Idents and logos that scared the crap out of you as a kid'.

Undoubtedly, there are television idents, and pieces of presentation that likely unsettled you as a child. As a 3-5 year old with Autism, there were two pieces of presentation that scared me to tears every time I saw them. Firstly were the Powergen Weathergens, which sponsored ITV Weather throughout the 90's and early 2000's. While undoubtedly creative, and I appreciate them for what they are, they brought me to tears when I saw them. Especially Frice.
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Same thing with me, but I never saw Frice once while the Weathergens were being used to introduce the weather on ITV. Mirka, on the other hand, scared the wits out of me as a child. Something about the fog trails from her hairpiece, the beams of light from her eyes that I once felt like could have been used to freeze me in place - don’t even get me started about her turn away from the camera at the end, or the terrifying music that could have come straight out of a horror film…

I had nightmares about that for many years before I could finally let it go - it got so bad that I tried not to watch ITV weather forecasts if I could help it. Nowadays though, I recognise the Weathergens for being excellent examples of sequences for introducing the forecasts, something that is sorely lacking these days.