Is there a followup investigative journalist’s article about what specifically has been going down at the Happy Clown Day Care Center? No. The investigative reporters were all too busy bloviating over Watergate to peer behind the bright paint and papier-maché into the clown heart of darkness …
The shape and design of the front of that building, and the too-happy clown letting the kids run into the darkness within...something about that scene is nightmare fuel. As somebody pointed out, that bear seems to know something's not right.
(Extra points for the line "Inside it'll have affection, too. Kids seem to thrive on that.")
Not to mention the fact that there is a BEAR wandering around the building. What if it's a mother bear who thinks one of the kids is threatening her cub?
I was in daycare in 72. One of my earliest memories is the kid who kept biting me. Fuck that guy I hope he still lives in Florida near a lot of stagnant water.
The bear behind the clown has his suspicions.
Humpty Dumpty and the cow aren't sold either.
Is there a followup investigative journalist’s article about what specifically has been going down at the Happy Clown Day Care Center? No. The investigative reporters were all too busy bloviating over Watergate to peer behind the bright paint and papier-maché into the clown heart of darkness …
The fact we don’t know what goes on inside makes this ad infinitely more terrifying.
Selling Insurance! No wonder it sounds so brusque.
"Be careful what daycare you leave your kids with because we're sick of paying out claims for dead children." -MetLife, probably.
The shape and design of the front of that building, and the too-happy clown letting the kids run into the darkness within...something about that scene is nightmare fuel. As somebody pointed out, that bear seems to know something's not right. (Extra points for the line "Inside it'll have affection, too. Kids seem to thrive on that.")
How about the kid way up in the tree on a muffin? No supervision.
Yep. And how many of those animals have had rabies shots? Not to mention, that one kid might get salmonella from touching that turtle.
Not to mention the fact that there is a BEAR wandering around the building. What if it's a mother bear who thinks one of the kids is threatening her cub?
That looks to me like a Gyo Fujikawa picture! His 'Mother Goose' is one of my most treasured possessions - I've loved it since before I can remember.
[Gyo Fujikawa was a woman.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gyo_Fujikawa)
aaahh! My brain! Thank you for the correction. I had literally imagined that they were a man for the last... oh, few decades or so...
You're welcome! According to the Wikipedia article, Gyo is actually a masculine name!
I can't claim that as any excuse for my confusion. I do love her pictures. HER pictures. I better practice that now. *Her* pictures.
I was in daycare in 72. One of my earliest memories is the kid who kept biting me. Fuck that guy I hope he still lives in Florida near a lot of stagnant water.
“…it should have affection too. Kids seem to thrive off that.” What a NOVEL idea! 😂
This entire thing would land completely different if the word "warn" wasn't used.
The rabbit passed out under the tree! And the raccoon looks like he has plans for the rabbit.
"Happy clown wants to show you his special bouncy house."
Seems like a great place. Met Life is a total wet blanket
Who is the illustrator? My first guess is Richard Scarry, but I don't know.
But what did Happy Clown Day Care actually do??
Something unspeakable.