Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids

This British cartoon was based on a book franchise of the same name by Jamie Rix, who had involvement in bringing his books to the small screen. It aired on CITV for six years from 2000-2006, and had a revival on Nicktoons from 2011-2012.

We begin with the stop-motion intro, featuring the unnamed boy walking into the Squeam Screen, as he awaits to see another Cautionary Tale for Lovers of Squeam, hosted by none other than Mr. Grizzly himself, who was made for the series to give narrator Nigel Planer a physical character role.

Then, we head into the stories, animated in traditional animation or Flash in later seasons. Most are based on the book series, while some are especially made for the TV series. The stories are all pretty much the same, they feature children who are pretty much jerks to everyone and eventually meet their comeuppance by getting killed off in really gruesome ways, and it's always satisfying seeing what happens to the children.

Anyways, there's a good reason why this was a tradition of CITV viewers from its original six-year run. It featured content you never really saw in children's TV shows. There's loads of blood, there's occasional gore, there's loads of gruesome content and on-screen deaths. It's awesome! And the worst bit about it? (other than the downgrade to CGI and Flash in the Nicktoons seasons) It's very addictive to watch because of this.

This is a fun childhood favourite (although I didn't really grow up with it) and it's perfect for anyone who's wanting a cautionary tale.

An iconic CITV programme from the golden era. The series are very fun to watch. However, I only watch the CITV series not the other series that was on Nicktoons because Nick ruined it and Carlton Television did it so well. Totally recommend if you are a 2000s kid like me. This was one of CITV's greatest programmes that isn't available on ITVX. However, you can watch the series on YouTube for free. The animation is good for me first few series but got really Flashy by the time the next two series aired. Nigel Planer is also amazing at both narrating the stories as well as voicing every character & his laugh is hilarious!

Honestly i forgot this existed until a couple of days ago,, it was good i guess.

It went from a well designed and perfectly eery kids show to a youtube flash animation. It may have done alright with the newer audiences, but the original 3 seasons were the best kids TV show out at the time. Even 4-6 were really good after they removed the little animations, and this show was so entertaining as a kid. It's ironic all the low reviews are from parents who's kids had nightmares because of it, but they shouldn't be letting their kids watch it. It stood out on Kids TV as most of the shows were kinda cutesy or didn't really have much of a message, whereas this was not scared to dive into the creepier realms of TV

TLDR: Good at the start, alright/meh near the end Don't let really young kids watch this lmao.

A great show showing the consequences of being a "gruesome child" a show which told a message in every episode Aswell as a spooky and exciting story to go with it.

This show was so different to everything else on tv at the time, it was very different to the rest of the cartoons. Me being a lover of all things horror now in my adult life it was one of first things I must of watched of this nature albeit a small element of it.

I still think back to this cartoon every now and then, and Im now 27! It was such a good show with well thought out gruesome tales. I looked forward to this every day, couldn't see this airing now a days though, too many snowflakes! Haha.