Post by Deleted on Dec 10, 2017 6:43:50 GMT
Most likely, this is a huge shot in the dark:
I have a distinct memory of being in 3rd or 4th grade, in 2003 or 2004, and a teacher showing our class a 20-30 minute cartoon on VHS about stranger danger and walking home safely from school, hosted by a cartoon Spider-Man. From my recollection:
-It looked like a cheap production from the late 80s, early 90s.
-It was about a group of 4 or 5 latch-key kids walking to their friend's house from school and talking about various problems of how to stay safe.
-The kids would go through a scene, walk off the scene, and then Spider-Man would websling into the empty frame, talking through the 4th wall and reiterating what just happened and the lessons to be learned. (I don't remember Spider-Man actually interacting with the other characters.)
-One specific scene I remember: an old balding man with a grey mustache (like a portly cartoon Albert Einstein) and a cartoonish old-man voice drives up and addresses one of the kids by name, saying "I know your parents." He asks if the kid will get in his car and give him directions around town, sheepishly saying "I think I'm lost", and that they'll get ice-cream later. One of the other kids pushes his friend aside and tells the creep "Go ask another grown-up, not a kid" and he drives off. Then they figure out that he knew the kids name because it was printed in large text on the book he was carrying.
-Another scene I remember is when they get to their friend's house and talk about where they keep their house keys hidden. The kid whose house it is keeps it strung around his neck; another kid keeps it hidden in his textbook, because he's always carrying it. They go into the house through the back and find a note the kid's mom left.
-There might have been a scene talking about crosswalks or something.
-I remember feeling disappointed after the tape was done, because from the way the teacher described it, I thought it would be about Spider-Man web-shotting people, but instead it was so boring.
This is all I remember of it. I can't find a single piece of information about such a tape anywhere online, but I can't imagine what I could have amalgamated this memory from otherwise (we saw both Dr Rabbit's Incredible Ride and Dr. Rabbit's World Tour in this school, too, to give you an idea of the obscure shit they had).
Mainly I'm posting to see if any part of this sounds familiar to anyone.
I have a distinct memory of being in 3rd or 4th grade, in 2003 or 2004, and a teacher showing our class a 20-30 minute cartoon on VHS about stranger danger and walking home safely from school, hosted by a cartoon Spider-Man. From my recollection:
-It looked like a cheap production from the late 80s, early 90s.
-It was about a group of 4 or 5 latch-key kids walking to their friend's house from school and talking about various problems of how to stay safe.
-The kids would go through a scene, walk off the scene, and then Spider-Man would websling into the empty frame, talking through the 4th wall and reiterating what just happened and the lessons to be learned. (I don't remember Spider-Man actually interacting with the other characters.)
-One specific scene I remember: an old balding man with a grey mustache (like a portly cartoon Albert Einstein) and a cartoonish old-man voice drives up and addresses one of the kids by name, saying "I know your parents." He asks if the kid will get in his car and give him directions around town, sheepishly saying "I think I'm lost", and that they'll get ice-cream later. One of the other kids pushes his friend aside and tells the creep "Go ask another grown-up, not a kid" and he drives off. Then they figure out that he knew the kids name because it was printed in large text on the book he was carrying.
-Another scene I remember is when they get to their friend's house and talk about where they keep their house keys hidden. The kid whose house it is keeps it strung around his neck; another kid keeps it hidden in his textbook, because he's always carrying it. They go into the house through the back and find a note the kid's mom left.
-There might have been a scene talking about crosswalks or something.
-I remember feeling disappointed after the tape was done, because from the way the teacher described it, I thought it would be about Spider-Man web-shotting people, but instead it was so boring.
This is all I remember of it. I can't find a single piece of information about such a tape anywhere online, but I can't imagine what I could have amalgamated this memory from otherwise (we saw both Dr Rabbit's Incredible Ride and Dr. Rabbit's World Tour in this school, too, to give you an idea of the obscure shit they had).
Mainly I'm posting to see if any part of this sounds familiar to anyone.
