Did you like clowns when you were growing up?
By The Horse
@TheHorse (232085)
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 (80116)
• United States
6 Nov 24
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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@celticeagle (181730)
• Boise, Idaho
6 Nov 24
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 (181730)
• Boise, Idaho
6 Nov 24
@TheHorse ........They did me too alittle. Not my first choice for entertaining that's for sure.
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). But they never intrigued me.
@much2say (57479)
• Los Angeles, California
6 Nov 24
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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@marguicha (229127)
• Chile
6 Nov 24
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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@FourWalls (80116)
• United States
6 Nov 24
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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@Tampa_girl7 (53733)
• United States
6 Nov 24
I liked them well enough. There has been the occasional scary one.
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@wolfgirl569 (124794)
• Marion, Ohio
6 Nov 24
I used to not mind them. But now with one going back to the Whitehouse I don't want to see them anymore
@JudyEv (365141)
• Rockingham, Australia
7 Nov 24
Clowns don't bother me but they certainly lost favour with a lot of people after that film-whose-name-I-can't remember.
@LindaOHio (205626)
• United States
7 Nov 24
I can't say if I had any feelings one way or another about clowns. Have a good day.
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@RasmaSandra (90718)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
6 Nov 24
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.
