Evie's blog

I really like weird videos, ok? I love watching throgh the Nexpo or the ScareTheatre channels on youtube, I like mysteries and scary stories and conspiracy theories… Not that I believe them, but it’s just fun. So today this puppy jumped at me from the recommended, it’s called “The Search For Clockman: Nickelodeon’s Mysterious Lost Short” and it’s actually real well done, so watch it if you have free 30 minutes:

Hear me out, though, I’ve been laughing ever since I finished watching it. Why?

Because when I saw the thumbnail, I thought to myself “Woah. Looks Czech”. Then I heard about it looking like a “paper stop-motion” and I taught to myself “Woah. Sounds pretty Czech to me.” 

So I looked it up on youtube (yeah, it’s been there the whole time they’d been searching for it lol) and gave it a watch:

It’s just an old Czechoslovak cartoon bit. Not even scary. It’s just a normal, every-day old Czechoslovak cartoon, like, this is how we roll in here, that’s totally normal! :’D But I was like, okay, there must be something in there that made the ‘Muricans lose their shit. So i gave the American version a look, right?

It's weird how much they changed the story for the English version though. All the characters seem kinder in the Czech original. Plus in the original the girl crochets the gloves for her mother herself... I mean they added the cool twist with the part that the wizard knew the mother when she was little, but isn't it better to have a daughter with mad crocheting skills?