Did you like clowns when you were growing up?
By The Horse
@TheHorse (218025)
Walnut Creek, California
November 6, 2024 11:01am CST
I have never understood the prevalence of clowns at circuses and children's parties. As a child, I liked cartoon characters like Yogi Bear and Bugs Bunny. I resonated with the Tasmanian Devil (Taz), because he rough and tough, but got all whimpery when Bugs played music for him.
But clowns? They always scared the cr*p out of me. I think I went to a couple of circuses as a kid. I focused on the animals. And I went to a couple of birthday parties where a clown was giving out balloons shaped like animals. I can't remember if I ever brought home a balloon poodle.
Even as an adult, I just look away when a clown appears.
Did you ever like clowns? Did they ever scare you?
I'll take Pikachu over a clown every day.
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I never liked Mickey Mouse but I liked Donald Duck.
@FourWalls (67441)
• United States
7h
I don’t care for Mickey, either. Really, none of the Disney cartoons impressed me. I’m more of a Bugs Bunny person.
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@marguicha (222449)
• Chile
6h
No, I didn´t. And I still don´t. I liked people in trapezes and well trained animals. I was happies than happy when my brother invited me years ago to the Cirque du soleil. It was art.
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@much2say (55363)
• Los Angeles, California
6h
I guess clowns never really bothered me - not a like or hate thing - they were just "clowns". Remember Bozo the Clown on TV? Just part of my childhood. I think I had a Halloween clown mask and costume when I was little. Well Pikachu is pika pika cute.
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@FourWalls (67441)
• United States
7h
They weren’t horror movie characters back then (we had birds and motel proprietors to worry about). And my uncle is a professional clown..
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@celticeagle (166133)
• Boise, Idaho
5h
I don't think clowns bothered me too much when I was a child. It wasn't until "It" and John Wayne Gacy that I really began to dislike them. Now they creep me out. Clowns at the circus were to come between the shows and be silly to hold the kid's attention.
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@celticeagle (166133)
• Boise, Idaho
1h
@TheHorse ........They did me too alittle. Not my first choice for entertaining that's for sure.
). But they never intrigued me.
@Tampa_girl7 (50125)
• United States
6h
I liked them well enough. There has been the occasional scary one.
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@xander6464 (43935)
• Wapello, Iowa
6h
I've never been afraid of clowns but I've never found them entertaining, either.
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@xander6464 (43935)
• Wapello, Iowa
3h
@TheHorse Me, too. And most of them don't talk, so it's like watching a mime.
@wolfgirl569 (105364)
• Marion, Ohio
2h
I used to not mind them. But now with one going back to the Whitehouse I don't want to see them anymore
@RasmaSandra (79424)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
4h
I have always looked at clowns as if they are insane people and after Stephen King and his novel IT I am terrified of clowns.
@JudyEv (338844)
• Rockingham, Australia
19m
Clowns don't bother me but they certainly lost favour with a lot of people after that film-whose-name-I-can't remember.
