We like to pretend kids’ TV was all bright colours, theme tunes, and harmless fun.
But every now and then… it absolutely wasn’t.
There were episodes that felt different.
Slower. Quieter. Sadder.
The kind that made your stomach drop a bit — even if you didn’t have the words for why.
Characters disappeared.
Goodbyes happened without warning.
Grown-up emotions slipped in through the cracks.
And as kids, we just sat there watching, thinking:
Oh. This feels… weird.
Looking back, it wasn’t cruelty.
It was honesty.
Those shows trusted us more than we realised.
They let sadness exist.
They showed that things change.
That people leave.
That not every story wraps up neatly.
Maybe that’s why those moments still stick with us.
Because they were the first time we realised the world wasn’t always simple — and that feeling things deeply wasn’t wrong.
Kids’ TV didn’t just entertain us.
Sometimes… it quietly prepared us.
Asten Does Nostalgia 
Leave a comment