Someone’s rewatched The Animals of Farthing Wood and the casualty list is horrific
8.
• Fox and Scarface tear strips off each other
• Mrs Rabbit – murdered and eaten by Scarface
• Scarface – murdered by Adder
• Bold – dies of his injuries
• The Great White Stag – dies after drinking water contaminated by toxic waste pic.twitter.com/bNTVsBysZg— Ben (@bilbo983) January 28, 2018
9.
• A rabbit dies from the toxic waste
• Trey the stag tries to drown Shadow, who then almost dies from the toxic waste
• An angry elderly donkey attempts to kill Weasel, Measley, Cleo and Fido— Ben (@bilbo983) January 28, 2018
10.
• Wildcats try to kill and eat the entire Weasel family
• The foxes, badgers and adders start launching killing raids on the rat headquarters, killing at least 6 each pic.twitter.com/bbqA4xKGcq— Ben (@bilbo983) January 28, 2018
11.
• Fido and Cleo almost drown. A wildcat tries to eat Measley. Rollo saves him by trying to drown the wildcat, but almost drowns himself in the process
• Owl – encased in cement
• sinuous the Adder – murdered by the rats
• The rats try to murder Toad pic.twitter.com/klZ5gjG2mR— Ben (@bilbo983) January 28, 2018
12.
• 12 squirrels – die in a hurricane
• Shadow – crushed and seriously injured by a falling tree in the hurricane
• 14 frogs – killed in the hurricane
• Trey – Seriously injured by a falling tree
• Hundreds of rats killed in a final battle with the other animals pic.twitter.com/cRQQYdgTap— Ben (@bilbo983) January 28, 2018
13.
Conclusion – this is one of the greatest children’s shows ever made but it’s no wonder so many of my generation are screwed up.
— Ben (@bilbo983) January 28, 2018
Oh the humanity!
I know of the show, but i never realised it was like this!!! 😱😱😱
— Gavin 📼 (@GavinWorby) January 28, 2018
I haven’t even mentioned the undertones of racial division, social hierarchy, misogyny, ageism, brutality, gang warfare, criminality and environmental destruction. Watching it as an adult is almost doubly harrowing.
— Ben (@bilbo983) January 28, 2018
Oh my god, is this a children’s show?
— Tessa (@Tessicat) January 28, 2018
It was one of the most successful kid’s shows of the 1990s!
— Ben (@bilbo983) January 28, 2018
Had you been putting it off because you remembered how harrowing it was the first time? Honestly it’s a good job I was too old to watch it at the time, it would have wrecked me! Wind in the Willows was melancholy enough for me sometimes.
— March Payne (@March_Payne) January 28, 2018
Partly that, partly finding time. But also I hate it when you watch something you truly loved as a kid and it just looks crap now. This though… the animation is of its time but otherwise, it’s incredible. Seems even more relevant today somehow.
— Ben (@bilbo983) January 28, 2018
Don’t have nightmares.
