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

I started watching Grizzly Tales a few years back, and has now returned on CiTV. I must admit, I did prefer the first series, but none the less, Nigel Planer is still excellent at narrating the stories. He is very funny because he does all the voices and Spindleshanks the spider is hilarious!!

Grizzly Tales is a programme where there is a different story every time. Each story is spooky and teaches that naughty person a lesson in a gruesome way (for kids that is) but is very fun as well. The animation is good, but not brilliant, yet the characters & plots are so simple it makes it very good watching. Each episode lasts about 10 mins tops but they make you giggle!! OK, the stories are very far fetched (skeletons popping out of loo's, moles turning evil, stick drawings coming to life - that sort of thing.)

I personally love it even though I'm to old to watch it :) and I never tire of it. I'm a huge fan of kids shows and this has to be one of my faves.

So, if you ever see this on T.V don't give it a miss, it's worth watching and you won't want your 10 mins back I guarantee!! Altogether, a good 9/10.

Grizzly tales for gruesome kids is the perfect entertainment for children who enjoy fright and comedy. I watched this myself as a child and loved it, the animation was simple and Nigel Planer was brilliant as the narrator and voices of the characters. Not only was it entertaining each episode also contained a message that wasn't too preachy, it also had some adult humour as a little nod to the parents. Each episode is about 8-10 minutes long which means it doesn't get boring. I'm not a fan of the " Grizzly Tales" which is the same but the animation is different and the beginning is different and without the beloved spider Spindleshank but maybe I'm too set in my ways to accept the reboot. If you're looking for an entertaining few minutes I highly recommend Grizzly tales for gruesome kids, I can't really find any flaws and it holds many dear memories for me. 10/10

My partner and I recently remembered this show and how much we enjoyed it as kids. While we sat there pulling the limbs off still twitching rats we started reminiscing about how great it was. Ignore that reviews that says it's innaprooriate or turns kids into creeps as we turned out just fine.

Back when I was 11 years old I loved this show. It has a creepy and macabre feel to it just like the Addams family, the Beetlejuice cartoons and later on The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. It was super popular in my school too. The stories are short and original.

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.

Is this show targeted to kids, NO. It is horrible and don't know why any parent would let their kid watch it. I gave it a 2 because the charwcter models look cool.

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.

This show gives kids nightmares, any good parent wouldn't let their child watch it.

It's a bit sick (not in a good 'sick' way) that we're encouraging kids to become weird and have warped minds.

It's like you're building the foundations of a creep.

The show needs banning

This show has the most vile artstyle I've ever seen. The voice acting is the only redeeming quality with this cheap, badly produced show.

How did this run for 13 years.