Do you think the girl was purposely flirty or was it just something she could not help? She seemed so child-like and innocent in her flirtiness. What in the world made her fall in love with that quick tempered lout?
And I'm not certain this is the first of the "nothing is scarier than a clown" slants but, as a kid, this episode scared me to death -- and so did that clown!!
There's an old saying, "there's nothing funny about a clown at midnight", and the OSB episode The Clown is like an illustration of it, as it chills to the bone even as the clown is, at the core, more to be pitied than feared. Due to what was done to him he became fearsome, yet in an almost spiritual, ethereal manner, as if doling out a kind of cosmic justice. The idea and the accompanying imagery are not for the squeamish.
shareClowns didn't scare me as a kid as I thought they were funny. I'm not sure why they scare some kids. Maybe they think they are hiding a sinister side. This episode made it look that way, too. Pippo was very convincing as a clown played by a mute. We find out his real mouth was above his big buck teeth painted on. It's funny that Pippo scared you to death instead of the weirdo foul tempered husband swimming by himself at midnight.
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