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Depraved Kids' Show Host

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Depraved Kids' Show Host	comment	Kids' show hosts. They laugh, they sing, they smile, they bring joy to children all over the world... at least, on the surface. But beneath that shiny, happy faÃ§ade lies the Depraved Kids' Show Host, a character you would not, under any circumstances, want your children around. Unlike his zany-go-lucky cousin, who is excitable but pretty nice off-set as well, the Depraved Kids' Show Host is at the very least a Jerkass. When he's on air, he's Mr. Snuggles, happiest figure in Friendlytown. But when the cameras aren't rolling, he (and it's almost always a he, since women are typically seen as caregivers to children) is a sex, drug, and gambling addict who drinks, cavorts, and swears enough to make a sailor blush. He smokes like a chimney, lashes out at techies, and above all, he absolutely hates kids. That, or he likes them a bit too much. This trope plays on the irony of a jovial character who interacts with children actually being a horrible person. As such, it's related to Monster Clown and other tropes. The worst examples tend to be murderous or even turn into supervillains if left unchecked. This is especially popular in Real Life Urban Legends, the insinuations of which can ruin someone's career. For some reason, people just can't believe that a right-thinking adult would want to spend his life teaching kids manners and helping them grow as people. Fred Rogers and LeVar Burton would respectfully disagree; this is generally not Truth in Television. On the other hand, they wanted to be kids TV presenters — many others only do it as a way into TV, and, as former kids TV presenter Dara Ã“ Briain attests, "those people are the most ambitious bunch of pricks you will ever meet." And he's a stand-up comic! See also Nice Character, Mean Actor; Bitch in Sheep's Clothing; Villain with Good Publicity. He may also Hates the Job, Loves the Limelight. Contrast with "Contractual Purity", if the character in question is being restricted into living a wholesomely clean life by his employment contract. (In fact, a severe enough contract might end up creating a Depraved Kids' Show Host, when they get frustrated from being barred from acts that many normal adults are permitted to engage in). May exist in a Subverted Kids' Show, but most often they're villains in regular shows. Surprisingly, not related to the Depraved Homosexual or Depraved Bisexual, although sometimes they overlap. Compare Repulsive Ringmaster, which is similar, only with a circus or carnival instead of a kids' show, and Evil Puppeteer, with a puppet show. noreallife
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_109f7814	comment	Sherlock villain, Psycho for Hire (And Fun!) Jim Moriarty is also a children's television presenter under an assumed name for the purposes of his evil plan to kill Sherlock Holmes, in a particularly creepy twist on his literary counterpart's cover identity as a math professor.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_114b97d5	comment	In 31 Minutos a secondary character is Tio Horacio, the animator of a children's program of the '70s, he is not exactly a pervert but a greedy swindler who is hated by his former collaborators because he owes them money and spent much of his show shilling shoddy products. Also in his program, he stated that children who were left-handed were abnormal and that they had to be forced to use their right hand. The '70s were unrestrained that way, and he exploited them for all their worth, though he hasn't changed one bit even without his show.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_158b0cbb	comment	Fred Rogers was a heavily tattooed, cold-blooded sniper (or possibly a child molester).
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_18acb3a5	comment	A man who played Dougie the Whale in one episode of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. A complete jackass even onstage (at least to his backstage crew) and got into a fight with Will, in front of the child audiences no less.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_19ac548b	comment	Viz has the character of "Roger Mellie, the Man on the Telly," a foul-mouthed alcoholic and perverted TV presenter who in several strips lands a job on kids' TV and inevitably reverts to type in front of the horrified audience.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_19df700	comment	The SuperMansion episode "Teacher and the Goof" has the titular Teacher, who on the surface is merely teaching lessons to her audience in an unnecessarily harsh tone, but is later revealed to have murdered or driven crazy several former co-stars of her show when she felt their presence on the show threatened her employment and is strongly implied to be a Nazi scientist. As if this isn't enough, she's also rather abusive and harsh towards her costumed sidekick The Goof.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_1b5eec6e	comment	The teaser to the Sheep in the Big City episode "Daddy Shearest" has Sheep watch a children's show hosted by a man in a turtle costume. The man asks the audience if they see the doggy and starts angrily yelling at them when he doesn't get an answer.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_20098ea4	comment	In-universe, Jane from Coupling almost became this... she had the depraved part down pat, it was just the "Kid's show host" part that was up in the air... after all, her sidekick was a sock puppet named Jake the Truth-Snake.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_226f5619	comment	Sonny Shine, real name Louis Sheinberg, from Happy!. The flamboyant host of a popular children's TV show is actually the criminal mastermind Mr. Bug. His public performances are a way of gathering children in large groups so one of his underlings can abduct the ones who wander away from their parents as part of a human trafficking ring.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_2350acad	comment	Cheers gives us Nanette Guzman, better known to children as Nanny G (and played by a pre-fame Emma Thompson). Unlike most examples on this list, she genuinely enjoys her work as a children's singer/entertainer in the style of Raffi, has made a fortune with stage shows and products like dolls and videotapes, and sincerely loves kids. The problem is that she finds Frasier so incredibly sexy that she can't keep her hands off him whenever they see each other. In fact, Nanette was actually Frasier's wife for a brief period, although they broke it off because it was a purely sexual relationship; it was after that breakup that she created the Nanny G character. When she comes back into Frasier's life because of his and Lilith's little boy Fredrick loving Nanny G, Nanette shows that nothing's changed when, upon seeing him, she throws herself on him. Frasier insists that nothing will come of it, but when Nanny G turns Fredrick's birthday party into an Anguished Declaration of Love through song ("The first time, ever I lay with you..."), Lilith proves herself Not So Stoic and launches into a full-scale Cat Fight. The episode's stinger reveals that Nanny G still hasn't given up, as she's gifted Frederick with one of her dolls...that repeatedly sings her phone number for Frasier to use. Nanny G later reappears, this time played by Laurie Metcalf, in Frasier, at this point having grown sick of being a children's entertainer (in a bit of Leaning on the Fourth Wall, she angrily declares "Do you have any idea what it's like to play the same character for twenty years?"—a nod to Kelsey Grammer playing Frasier for that long). She admits to not giving a damn about her young fans and wants to reconcile with Frasier yet again despite her being married to her manager. They end up almost sleeping together in the prop room before her show on a giant bed...the same bed Nanny G uses to enter the stage. Naturally it rises with Frasier nearly naked, so Nanette has to disguise him as a new character—a "baby brother" wearing a diaper and bonnet made out of bedsheets.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_2407cefe	comment	AbsoluteBillion's YouTube Poop titled The Gradual Mental Traumatization of a Kids' Show Host is about Steve from Blue's Clues undergoing serious Sanity Slippage.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons: Krusty the Clown: When the cameras are rolling, he's the zany clown kids love! In his off-hours, he's cynical, in debt to the mob, willing to do anything to his show for money, lewd, rude, and addicted to everything. He also treated his former sidekick, Sideshow Bob, extremely poorly, which led Bob to frame Krusty for a robbery so that he could be the one in charge of the show. Of course, considering that Itchy and Scratchy is on his show, that's not very surprising. Krusty's first TV appearance â€“ on a Tracey Ullman Show-era Simpsons short called "The Krusty the Clown Show" â€“ sees the clown portrayed as boorish and having a normal voice, wearing normal hair and no face makeup. His over-the-top characteristics were not added until the show was picked up for a series and the season 1 episode "Krusty Gets Busted." Even on-air, Krusty can often show his scummy side. Examples include openly cursing and chewing out his audience in "Krusty Gets Kancelled", frequently hocking his own merchandise (in "Itchy and Scratchy Land", he orders viewers to beg their parents to go to the titular theme park while he bets on horse races) and frankly discussing his sexual harassment lawsuit - even attempting to flirt with "Ms. No-Means-No" - in "Round Springfield". Gabbo and his puppeteer, who briefly got Krusty kicked off the air in "Krusty Gets Kancelled"; Bart produced a film of Gabbo referring to the kids as "little S.O.B.s.", which didn't quite work — it actually caused a public outcry until Kent Brockman made the same flub while reporting the Gabbo story, everyone got angry at HIM, and instantly forgot about Gabbo. His ratings actually went up when all was said and donenote In the world of the Simpsons, it's true that the Viewers Are Goldfish. Of course, next time that Gabbo and his puppeteer appeared on the show, they had become a very poor (and that is figurative and literal — Gabbo has deteriorated to the point he's falling apart) vaudeville act. It is somewhat implied that the second time Gabbo was caught being a jackass after the above episode, he didn't dodge the bullet. Zigzagged in "White Christmas Blues", where he blocks out an episode of Itchy & Scratchy. At first, he's reluctant to do so, but then he sees just how violent the show is and scrambles to get it off the air. While he does make an effort to get it off of his show, he outright admits he's been either drunk or stoned even in front of the camera. Homer becomes one of these in the season 13 episode "Children of a Lesser Clod", keeping the kids under his care entertained with distinctly non-G-rated means like a version of "If you're happy and you know it" where they are encouraged to swear, and abusively exploiting his own biological children when not neglecting them.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_2a1b28fc	comment	Smiling Friends has Mr. Frog, a frog whose inexplicably-popular show consists of him running up, stating his name, eating a bug, and then signing off with "I love you!" (it takes less than 30 seconds in total). However, after he attempts to eat a TMZ reporter in public, it's quickly revealed that Mr. Frog is actually a violent, drug-addicted, racist sociopath, and over the course of his episode he is shown strangling a fan, snorting a bizarre purple cocaine-like substance, dropping unrepeatably bigoted profanity on The Tonight Show, eating his producer, threatening another reporter with a hammer, and not being willing to offer a proper public apology for his actions.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_2ba48a26	comment	Castle features "America's Dad", Bobby Stark, in the episode "Pretty Dead". While not guilty of murder, his off-air persona is a comically drug-addled, skirt-chasing, abusive man who bears no relation to his wholesome on-air characters. Played with in "Fool Me Once..." Dr. Stephen Fletcher is supposedly a lovable Arctic adventurer and wildlife expert who is presenting his adventures to little kids via webcast from the wilderness. Instead, he's a con man faking the whole thing from his apartment, until he's murdered. Eventually it turns out that the con man really had a heart of gold: although he'd already gotten the money in advance, he put on a fun show for the kids long after he'd already gotten his money and even personally wrote replies to every kid who wrote him. He was quitting his con man ways out of love for his fiance, a woman he'd originally intended to con. So the lovable scientist is really a scheming conman who turns out to be murdered because he's redeemed himself... whew.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_2cdeb829	comment	Several of the characters in Greg the Bunny, in one respect or another. In particular, Warren is a heavy drinker and former drug addict with severe marital problems, while Junction Jack seems to be inspired by the aforementioned false rumours of Fred Rogers having been a sniper in 'Nam.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_2dab4fef	comment	Urban legends adore this. Quick, think of a kids' show host! Got one? At some point, you've probably heard the rumour that he's a convicted child molester who's on the show as part of his community service,note No law enforcement agency in the world would let pedophiles work with children, let alone force them to, but this is the world of Urban Legends — the more outrageous, the better. some sort of deranged murderer, or a drug addict. Some notable examples of this trope (courtesy of Snopes): Fred Rogers was a heavily tattooed, cold-blooded sniper (or possibly a child molester). During the Golden Age of Radio, a legend was created whereby a local children's radio host named Uncle Don uttered the comment, "That ought to hold those little bastards!" after one of his shows. Uncle Don was the genial grandfatherly type gent who would read a bedtime story for children at 7 p.m. (local time), after which he said a gentle good night ... until the night where after his show he snarled the infamous remark, unaware his radio mike was still on and could clearly pick up his statement; the story goes on to claim that a flood of calls to the radio station's management resulted in Uncle Don's swift cancellation and his dismissal from radio. The legend has been told about many radio and television performers over the course of several decades and predates Uncle Don's career by a few years. Steve from Blue's Clues committed drug-induced suicide, a rumor probably started when he played a drug addict on Law & Order. Barney is a crack dealer. Also, he committed suicide. In his costume! He swore at a kid that stepped on his foot. On live national TV. Comedian Soupy Sales has also been a victim of urban legends fitting this trope, most often those where he supposedly tried to sneak the word "fuck" into his comedy bits on his children's TV show Lunch With Soupy Sales. The most common example is Soupy and Fang reciting the alphabet, but Fang forever identifying the letter "F" as "K," and finally a frustrated Soupy admonishing the puppet, "How comes every time I see 'F,' you see 'K'?" On the other hand, the story about how he once instructed his young viewers to get the "funny green pieces of paper" out of their parents' wallets and purses and send them to him happens to be true.note In January 1965 on his morning children's show, Sales suggested to his young viewers that they find the wallets of their sleeping fathers and take out "some of those funny green pieces of paper with all those nice pictures of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Alexander Hamilton, and send them along to your old pal, Soupy, care of WNEW, New York." The reaction from outraged parents came fast and furious, and WNEW-TV pulled Soupy Sales' program off the air by the following Monday. Anyways, Soupy Sales' program resumed broadcasting two weeks later, and his program ran on WNEW for close to another two years. By the way, most of the money he received was Monopoly play money, implying that most of the kids were actually in on the joke. He only got a few real dollars, all of which he donated to charity, and most of which came from adults who wanted to give something back to him. In Poland, there's a well-known anecdote that claims that the host of the live kids' show Mis z okienka ("Bear in the Window") once said "And now, dear kids, you can kiss the bear's ass!" during credits, unaware that the show was still on air. Walt Disney seems to attract a lot of these in an attempt by people to show the supposed "dark side" of the Uncle Walt persona he showed off on Walt Disney Presents. Depending on who you ask he was either a racist, a sexist, a homophobe, a Satanist, an anti-semite, a fascist, a Nazi sympathizer, a secret communist, a pedophile, a conspirator who helped fake the 1969 moon landing for the U.S. government with Werner Von Braun and Stanley Kubrick, a faux-American whose friendship with Salvador DalÃ proved that he was secretly Spanish, an eccentric who froze himself in a tube under Disneyland until the day came when science could revive him and cure his lung cancer...
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_2e7ed09c	comment	The short-lived Science Fiction series Special Unit 2 featured a children's show host (an ersatz of Barney the Dinosaur) who turned out to be a "Link" with a Pied Piper of Hamlin power.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_353c4e21	comment	Object Terror, an Immoral Reality Show, has Printer. This is a rare example of the trope being shown on-camera since his Hair-Trigger Temper can bleed over to when he's hosting.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_360140c7	comment	In the Fireman Sam special "Alien Alert", we have Buck Douglas, a television presenter of the TV show "Alien Quest". Lots of fans love him, even Norman Price, and want to be on his show. But, when fans are not around and/or he's off-screen, he dresses up like an alien and remote-controls toy UFOs, starts fires (both by accident) and sends a huge space signal to outer space to surprise everyone in Pontypandy. Although he's not that mean, he's not even against "The Hero Next Door", nor his fans. He feels sorry for what he has done after Fireman Sam caught him and showed his fans that he's a mean person.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_370e34a1	comment	The Seattle sketch comedy show Almost Live! had a recurring sketch called "Uncle Fran's Musical Forest." Uncle Fran was a VERY bitter Deadpan Snarker who liked to sing songs about his ex-wives and ex-girlfriends ("Greedy Whores"), or parenting styles ("The Modern Day Dad...doesn't have a spine."). When his furry mascot objected to the content, he would beat the tar out of the puppeteer controlling it.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_39b1221b	comment	Chuckles the Chipmunk (a.k.a., Leo Herman) from the theatrical and film versions of A Thousand Clowns is not so much depraved as he is egotistical, boorish, insulting, self-hating, neurotic, and desperately unfunny. He also, by his own admission, doesn't "get along too good with kids." The self-named brand of potato chips he shills on his program is lousy too.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_3adaad9b	comment	The Defenders: The big, fluffy goofball known as Xemnu is the star of the wildly popular kids' show "The Astro-Nuts". He's also a monstrous alien who is using his psychic powers to brainwash his audience, planning to take the kids with him when he leaves the Earth so he can use them to repopulate his home planet.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_3f2bcd43	comment	Outback Ollie from Kangaroo Jack: G'Day U.S.A.!. On camera, he might seem friendly but off-camera, he's an Ax-Crazy animal smuggler.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_44e0b783	comment	Garfield: Binky the Clown shows this side of him in this strip, where he rants about how he's stuck performing on TV in a clown suit while on the air. There's also Uncle Roy, a pastiche of Mr. Rogers; one strip where his co-star delivers his mail reveals it consists of a back tax notice, a copy of Leather and Bike Magazine and a letter from his ex-wife's lawyer. The two of them clashed in a May 1988 arc (which the above-mentioned mail strip was part of); Binky steals Uncle Roy's hubcaps and mugs him on air, and Uncle Roy is clearly happy he ended up behind bars. If Garfield's comments are anything to go by, this usually happens between them during ratings week.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_45a29545	comment	In The Secret Saturdays, the Big Bad, V.V. Argost, actually has his own TV show, of which the Saturdays' young Genre Savvy son Zak is a fan. Unusually for this trope, Argost is the same on-camera as he is off-camera... a Faux Affably Evil Large Ham with a fondness for weird monsters.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_48cd5972	comment	Halloweenie from Halloweenie is a sociopath, swears all the time (though it's constantly edited out), and seems to have nothing but contempt for his audience.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_4cc32015	comment	Boxcar Burt, a briefly-seen in-universe host watched by Brak and Meatwad in an [adult swim] New Year's Eve sketch.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_4f115950	comment	Robin (1993): Zig-zagged with Crocky, a Barney parody: ONE of the guys who played him used the suit as a disguise to knock over convenience stores, and later took a kid hostage, but the original actor was a wrongly-accused good egg who ultimately helped catch that guy.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_52dad504	comment	Life Lessons with Uramichi-Oniisan loves to play with this trope. Uramichi is a miserable dreg outside of work, likes to bully his juniors on the show, and drinks and smokes constantly. On show, he's not much better — practically all the kids know about his personal issues and he complains about his life during filming (most of which thankfully gets edited out for broadcast) or gives advice the kids really don't need to be hearing, often to worrying results. The thing is, he actually likes the kids he works with. It's just that life just keeps bleeding into TV.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_585e7a79	comment	Downplayed with Uncle Nutzy, a.k.a. George Newman in UHF. George, who works at Channel 62 which is experiencing financial difficulties, falls asleep at his desk while working and Teri berates him for no-showing at her birthday dinner, and the next day, "Uncle Nutzy" takes his jaded frustrations out on the kids:
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_5921531b	comment	Shadow Teddie in Hiimdaisy hosts Shadow Teddie's Existential Kid's Korner, which is actually fitting given the TV setting and his mascot-like appearance. He declares that "The Word of the Day is... Futile! As in 'Your futile existence has no meaning'," asks a main character if she knows any other words that begin with F (Fsteak), and then skips through a field with the main characters while they all sing "Your futile existence has no meaning." And then he says he's going to kill everyone in the room. Cue sad faces.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_5b42bbed	comment	Played for laughs in Disgaea 3: Absence of Justice with the final Diez Gentleman. A rare female example.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_5ba6595e	comment	Reno911 had an odd example. Reading Ron is actually a great host, who does his best to put his dark past behind him. Enter the Reno Sheriff's Department, who so thoroughly ruin Reading Ron's Police episode that it sends Ron into a cocaine-fueled rampage on the roof of the station.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_5c7c67c7	comment	Parodied in The PokÃ©mon Squad. A scene features Henry and June finishing up a KaBlam! episode, and as the director says "CUT!", June proceeds to ask for her cigarettes.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_5e63e306	comment	Canada's Drag Race: Season 1 winner Priyanka is Mark "Suki" Suknanan, former host of The Zone on the kids' network YTV. For young Canadian viewers, seeing Suki not only in drag but also drinking, swearing, and doing suggestive performances must have been quite jarring.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_60e46926	comment	MAD did a typical kiddie show parody starring one Uncle Nutzy, physically based on rude stand-up comic Jack E. Leonard, running a show featuring mindlessly violent cartoons and boot-licking sponsor worship. At show's end, he's on the phone with his wife, angrily admonishing her for letting their kids watch his show. This makes for a fairly obscure Shout-Out in UHF.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_61237923	comment	Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! gives us Pierre, who teaches kids fun activities including dancing (which involves moves such as "Get sexy, kids!," "Slap your face," and "Have a glass a wine. Don't worry, kids, I won't tell!"). Interestingly, the dancing sketch was Pierre's first appearance; in his later shows, he became less of a pedophile and got a lot more interested in his intended audience's dads, to the point where he uses meditation to hypnotize children into giving him "their dad's e-mail address."
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_61e239ed	comment	Steve from Blue's Clues committed drug-induced suicide, a rumor probably started when he played a drug addict on Law & Order.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_650f1327	comment	Mexican clown Brozo's entire schtick is this; he's depraved, homeless, bitter, and a tad misogynistic. This is played for laughs... currently he has a The Daily Show type of program. Needless to say, Brozo was never supposed to be seen by kids to begin with.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_671d5c19	comment	The Powerpuff Girls (1998) had a children's show host as the Villain of the Week pretending one of his co-actors needed "happy paper" (money) to cheer up. Bubbles, who always watched the show, and believed it, rounded up all the money she could find, until Blossom and Buttercup managed to expose the truth. This is a Shout-Out to Soupy Sales (though Sales said it as a joke and didn't think any kids would actually do it). The episode, "Neighbor Hood," was intended as a first season episode but the staff was afraid it was too similar to Mister Rogers. The story concept was given to DC Comics and made as issue #7 story "Remote Controlled."
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_6eed44ab	comment	Dead Ringers: After Angus Deaton is removed from Have I Got News For You because of his own drugs scandal, the BBC tries to find a replacement, only to find literally everyone they've got is, as Kirsty Wark puts it, "a drug-taking sex maniac". Their last hope, Pudsey the Bear, also turns out to be a coke fiend, as revealed by Sooty the Puppet, who does an interview with his horrified puppeteer revealing some of his antics.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_6fcf8703	comment	The Perry Bible Fellowship did a comic about a Depressed Kids Show Host who ended up committing suicide: "Gee Golly Jeepers!"◊ Notably, it is no longer on the original PBF site.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_75bd5686	comment	There's also his follow-up to saying all kids are stupid, which cites his work on Shining Time Station:
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_76a05531	comment	Captain Cutlass from Critical Depth was a nautically-themed kids-show host turned actual pirate.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_76cf3cc7	comment	Inverted by The State with "Blueberry Muffins in the Morning", a show proposed by Blueberry, a children's television producer who looks and acts like a clown in real life.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_7aaf9e41	comment	Batman: Robin (1993): Zig-zagged with Crocky, a Barney parody: ONE of the guys who played him used the suit as a disguise to knock over convenience stores, and later took a kid hostage, but the original actor was a wrongly-accused good egg who ultimately helped catch that guy. Batman: No Man's Land featured a kids' show presenter who was trapped in Gotham. Becoming slightly unhinged, he developed a version of his show that was tailored to suit the borderline-apocalyptic ruins of the city. Not only was it unsuitable for the supposed target audience, but he was broadcasting to a society that mostly didn't have electricity.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_7b121809	comment	Used for a oneshot gag in Ghastly's Ghastly Comic, with plushophiliac Bunny Boy violating a stuffed rabbit in front of the audience. "What kind of world is it where it's okay to buy toys for children but bad to teach them how to play with them?"
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_7ff3216c	comment	Binky the Clown from Garfield and Friends qualifies, although he was the same on and off camera. Sidney the Dinosaur was a better example in his episode.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_81bd02f4	comment	Season 2 of The Armstrong and Miller Show has a recurring gag with the hosts of a children's TV program (a spoof of Blue Peter) apologizing to its viewers for various drunken, lewd, violent and illegal acts - in kid-friendly language.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_82c7c129	comment	In the Eagleheart episode "Silly Sammy", the titular villain (played by Ben Stiller) is a kids' show host that brainwashes children (and Brett) into eviscerating their caretakers, removing their organs, and sending them to him. While he claims this is to help a sick character on the show, it's actually to supply Sammy's organ smuggling ring.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_84edf220	comment	Krusty's first TV appearance â€“ on a Tracey Ullman Show-era Simpsons short called "The Krusty the Clown Show" â€“ sees the clown portrayed as boorish and having a normal voice, wearing normal hair and no face makeup. His over-the-top characteristics were not added until the show was picked up for a series and the season 1 episode "Krusty Gets Busted."
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_85583d93	comment	Bugbo is a parody of children's show hosts. He often talks to the camera, and in the "What Would Gradient Joe Do?" segments, he asks the viewer questions and expects them to answer. He claims to be teaching life lessons to Gerbo, but his behavior to Gerbo is downright condescending and manipulative. Also, his unnaturally wide smile and eerily calm speech make him unnerving, and it's heavily implied that he actually kills some characters in the show.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_8d80b1f7	comment	In Radio Active, one presenter was "The kiddies' favourite, Uncle Mike Stand." In later series, he was stated to be in prison for molesting children.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_8d840259	comment	SCTV had Muley's Roundhouse, featuring ol' Muley, who sulks and mopes throughout his program, in addition to critically ignoring the trains on his watch. This includes his criticism of the children's artwork sent to him: "These are the worst ones yet! You probably send the good ones to people you like!" It also had Officer Friendly, heavily implied to be both the actual local Melonville constable and a Dirty Cop. Despite his cheerful attitude, his "guests" were unruly local citizens in the holding tank. They'd initially refuse to chat, making him cut to a cartoon. On return, the guest would be heavily bruised but otherwise calm, polite, and seemingly happy to answer any question he asked.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_8dbc88c4	comment	An episode of Mathnet featured Vicious Vinnie, a villainous children's show host who taught kids incorrect information like that Chicago was the capital of Illinois.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman: This is the backstory for the Post-Crisis incarnation of the Prankster. Once the host of The Uncle Oswald Show, Oswald Loomis became a supervillain using dangerous practical jokes in his crimes after his show got cancelled.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_917deeee	comment	Meet the Feebles is this trope dialed up to 11.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_92844ddb	comment	The Dinosaurs episode "Georgie Must Die", essentially a Take That! toward Barney & Friends, portrayed Georgie the Hippo as a greedy scumbag using the persona of a kindhearted kids' show host as his cover who only cares about getting lots of money from his merchandise.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_92ae31c9	comment	The Evil Con Carne episode "Everyone Loves Uncle Bob" had Hector Con Carne attempt to commandeer a children's show in order to mold the children of the world into his future soldiers. His plan fails because the children like the old host Uncle Bob better and Uncle Bob himself isn't the least bit happy about Hector taking over his show and attempting to corrupt his audience.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_9aab7b0a	comment	Swamp Thing Vol. 2 #4 featured Barney Stryker. On-air, host of Uncle Barney's Good Neighbor Hour. Off-air, possessed by a demon that fed on the suffering of children and responsible for the gruesome death of eleven kids.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_9bf7437	comment	Invoked in-universe in Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids: Uncle Grizzly is clearly enjoying the horrific fates of each episode's victim(s) and makes no bones about abusing his pet spider Spindleshanks but unlike most examples, this compliments the decidedly child-unfriendly tone of the show. In addition, we never see him when he's not presenting the show, so for all we know it's just an act.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_9e6d1645	comment	Supposedly, Tinky Winky of the Teletubbies was replaced for standing on a rabbit and swearing. There was also a rumour that he attacked somebody with his purse.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_a0500a06	comment	Rugrats had a rare female example in Miss Carol, the host of "Miss Carol's Happy House." When Angelica gets the chance to audition for her show, she overhears Miss Carol's assistant Stephanie saying the new "Fun Phrase" for the show: "Miss Carol thinks they're are all swell-o-matic". Miss Carol comments that the real Fun Phrase should be "(She) thinks they're all litte—(random loud noise)". Angelica, being a three-year-old, assumes that Miss Carol actually meant that. She is temporarily grounded by her parents and almost pulled out of the show, only returning if she doesn't say the phrase anymore. Since she was late to hear the actual Fun Phrase, she ends up on the show with nothing to say. Angelica tells Miss Carol that it was exactly what she said, and the host loses it, claiming that Angelica was right, and she repeats it. The show eventually becomes "Miss Stephanie's Happy House."
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_a4ee5f7b	comment	In The Banana Splits Movie, the animatronic stars of the titular childrenâ€™s show are accompanied by a human co-star, Stevie. On air, heâ€™s cheerful and zany but behind the scenes, heâ€™s a drunken lech who resents the Splits for being more popular than him. He eventually becomes the Splitsâ€™ first victim.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_a5e160e0	comment	Lucifer (2016): Subverted with the lead actor of a kids' show who's investigated for murder. While it is a case of Nice Character, Mean Actor, it's revealed that he'd come to hate the job and is only trying to get fired so he'll be free of his contract.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_a8729c90	comment	In The Fairly OddParents! film Channel Chasers, one of the Bland-Name Product shows is a Blue's Clues parody called Clint's Hints. The Steve analogue, Jeff, is visibly insane.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_a8a40154	comment	Crotchy the nutsack from Postal 2.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_af593042	comment	Day of the Barney Trilogy: wherein Barney the dinosaur is some incarnation of a demonic being that reappears every few centuries to wreak havoc. At the start of the fanfic, he held a special broadcast to persuade his young viewers to murder their parents and any other adults around, then inducted them into a cult. When any of them reached 13, he killed them (or worse). Flashbacks also show that he helped The Black Death spread, and also saved Adolf Hitler during World War I and set him on his path.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_af7aead4	comment	Last Week Tonight with John Oliver featured the newly public-domain Steamboat Willie incarnation of Mickey Mouse. He's a children's entertainer vying for a position at Chuck E. Cheese, but he's foul-mouthed, insults the guests, masturbates inside his costume, and sexually harasses John by grinding against him.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_b40554c8	comment	Black Dynamite: Played with where Fred Rogers is portrayed as both a soft-spoken Friend to All Children as well as a brutal Papa Wolf who lives up to the urban legends of being a badass commando whenever a child is about to come into harm. Upon learning that PBS intends to use his name to sell unhealthy snacks and merchandise to his audience, he proceeds to murder them and kidnaps the children in his audience to train them as his personal guerrilla unit. After Black Dynamite makes him realize that he himself has corrupted the youth, he proceeds to snap his own neck (which he somehow survives). A straighter example would be That Frog Kurtis, a Jive talkin' parody of Kermit the Frog, who grew tired of teaching kids on TV for free, went rogue and used his influence over children to have them rob adults for him. After Black Dynamite gruesomely kills him in front of a live TV audience, Kurtis' son That Bastard Kurtis vows revenge on BD, and starts his own Nation of Islam-style sect of disgruntled frog puppets to do so.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_b5a087d7	comment	Robot Chicken had a parody of this when Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego? host Kevin Shinick (voicing himself) goes crazy after finding out his girlfriend is cheating on him. He drives them to her house and makes them memorize the day they met, the day she said she loved him. The skit ended with him crashing his car and dying. This is more amusing when you realize that A. Schinick was actually a writer, creative director, and voice actor for Robot Chicken, and B. Most fans of Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego disliked Where in Time...', so this dark bit of Adam Westing was well received by those that caught on.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_b7df9e37	comment	Creepshow: In "Public Television Of The Dead" Bookberry is the host of a reading show for kids, where she comes off as a sweet child lover. Offscreen, she is just a racist asshole who's a prima donna along with swearing like a sailor and has a quite troubled past with her father (which may be the cause of this).
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_b7f8a84e	comment	Little Britain has the character of Des Kaye, the disgraced former host of a children's show called "Fun Bus." It's eventually revealed that he was fired because a child lost an eye while appearing on his show, and the Little Britain live stage show hints that Des's "Hide the Sausage'' audience participation game might also have had something to do with it ...
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_bce8560e	comment	In Living Color! loved this trope, with kiddie hosts who don't even try to hide the tons of personal issues that bedevil them from their viewers. Homey D. Clown (Damon Wayans) rants about The Man while ostensibly performing as a hired entertainer for kids. Candy Cane's (Alexandra Wentworth) various failed relationships become grist for her mill. Scary Larry (Jim Carrey) is a psychotic Vietnam veteran. (He also works as a mailman.) "This is the way we lock and load, lock and load, lock and load..." Pee-Wee Herman's arrest was the basis for a skit in which Pee-Wee (Carrey) sells a doll modeled after Paul Reubens's mugshot! Subverted with a skit in which Mister Rogers (Carrey) visits a store and hits on the female customers as a prelude to holding the place up, but the policeman brought in to stop him doesn't believe he's capable of such a thing, and he goes on to pick up a hooker with his ill-gotten gains. The subversion comes in the punchline: He's actually an excellent impersonator using the real deal's clean reputation to get away with his crimes!
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_bddc4ebe	comment	Power Rangers: Dino Thunder downplayed the trope in the episode "It's a Mad Mad Mackerel" with the Funky Fisherman, a kids' show host who is shown to be bossy and ill-tempered off-camera, but by the end of the episode learns to change his attitude.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_c01e568e	comment	Sketch show I'm Sorry I'll Read That Again opened a parody with these words:
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_c128835b	comment	Not officially confirmed, but Italian singer Cristina D'Avena is said to hate children, despite having a long (since 1982) career in shows with singing children, and as singer of cartoon themes note If you see a cartoon in Italy, there is a 50% chance that the theme is performed by Cristina d'Avena. If it's on a Mediaset channel, chances raise to 90%. It's possibly justified by the fact that her career is exclusively child-related: the only other work she's done with music has been Christmas carols, and her only acknowledged acting role has been a cartoon character in a real-life short series.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_c785e1d4	comment	Mr. Wallaby from the Henry Danger episode "Mr. Nice Guy" turns out to be the eponymous smiley emoji-masked human, punishing anyone who breaks his "golden rules".
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_cd63e81d	comment	In Ace Attorney, Matt Engarde is a children's show actor (specifically, the protagonist of in-universe tokusatsu The Nickel Samurai) who goes to great lengths to preserve his "fresh as a spring breeze" image. Like most other defendants, he carries a tragic secret. However, unlike every other defendant, he is in fact guilty of the crime he's accused of. He's a sociopath who drove his ex-girlfriend to suicide just to piss off his rival Juan Corrida and later hired an assassin to murder Corrida while he videotaped it with a secret camera, all so he could blackmail said assassin. And he was entirely willing to frame his agent, Adrian Andrews, so he could get away scot-free. His rival, Juan Corrida, wasn't much better.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_cec55815	comment	The Creepypasta 1999 features one of these as the owner of a local television station. "Mr. Bear," as he is known, is a Satanist and a Misanthrope Supreme who uses his TV station to get kids to come to his house under the pretense of being a special guest star, only to drag them out into the woods and burn them alive as a sacrifice to Satan.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_cf05a7a5	comment	In Death to Smoochy every host is deranged, and the whole industry is backed by the mob. When pushed, even Smoochy reveals some anger management issues.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_d714dfab	comment	Both Arlo Dittman/Mister Marble and Eddie Oswald/Blah Blah the Clown of Brandon Rogers fame fit this trope nicely
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_d7c4626a	comment	The Sandman (1989): "Hey kids, Dino the Dinosaur is trying to tell me something. Gee, Dino! I didn't know it was Terry Pteranodon's birthday today. Should we bake him a cake? And you want to tell me something else, do you, Dino? We're all going to die. Dino says we're all going to die. Dino told me. He says we should slash our wrists now, and remember to slash down the wrist, boys and girls, not across the wrist." PLEASE STAND BY, WE ARE EXPERIENCING TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_d8d2a07e	comment	Taken to its ultimate conclusion by The Burkiss Way's "Children's Favourites with Uncle Hitler."
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_db26eb87	comment	Quacky the Duck from T.U.F.F. Puppy used to be the host of the most popular children's TV show in Petropolis, but becomes evil after his show is cancelled in "Lucky Duck" and is depicted as a recurring adversary to the agents of T.U.F.F. for his remaining appearances while still maintaining the facade of an amiable kids' show host.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_e25322af	comment	Homestar Runner: The Strong Bad Email "for kids" sees Strong Bad imagining himself hosting a kids' show in which he challenges kids to play "Where's The Cheat?". The problem is he doesn't show the kids a lot of respect, as we first see when he gives them an "F--" because one of them said "Christopher Columbus" instead of "The Cheat". Immediately after, he gets increasingly frustrated when the kids try to tell him where The Cheat is hiding but only give vague answers like "He's over there!", leading him to start freaking out.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_e45432dc	comment	While he's never explicitly stated to be a kids' show host, this is pretty much the shtick of Stephen Lynch. A lot of his songs sound as if they were written for children... at least at first, before they turn either dark or depraved. He leads into that song by saying that he did play for children at school assemblies. "They eat this shit up, they love it!"
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_e484b5e6	comment	Batman: No Man's Land featured a kids' show presenter who was trapped in Gotham. Becoming slightly unhinged, he developed a version of his show that was tailored to suit the borderline-apocalyptic ruins of the city. Not only was it unsuitable for the supposed target audience, but he was broadcasting to a society that mostly didn't have electricity.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_e4ba0958	comment	In 2019, Bray Wyatt was given a new gimmick where he hosted a disturbing childrenâ€™s show called Firefly Fun House, complete with several puppets which often did physical harm to each other. Heâ€™s still very much evil, as he revealed that he managed to harness his dark nature into an alternate personality which he calls "the Fiend".
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_e5db2eb8	comment	In the flash game Pico vs. Bear from Newgrounds, Pico takes on Big Brown Bary, the host of one of his favorite shows. Bary forces the other residents to labor to his benefit and is suspected of molesting his daughter Hoe-Joe. His costars are equally messed up.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_e96b932f	comment	Made in Canada has Captain McGee, a jovial seafarer who, offscreen, is a compulsive sex addict and wife-swapper. In the episode "For the Children", his sex addiction is used by unscrupulous production executive Richard Strong to blackmail him into agreeing to a merchandise deal for his series.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy In "Road to Europe", it is revealed that the characters on Jolly Farm Revue, a show Stewie likes, are Depraved Kids' Show Hosts. Mother Maggie turns out to be a foul-mouthed Child Hater (her American counterpart seems to be quite more decent), while Pengrove Pig is a Dirty Old Man who draws obscene pictures inside the magic tome prop. Season 10's "You Can't Do That On Television, Peter" had Peter host his own risquÃ© "children's" program, "Petey's Funhouse," where all of his material is clearly unsuitable for children's ears (and in the real world, would have him jailed if not at least banned from television forever). Later, when Peter and Lois are arguing about devoting all his time on the show, Peter makes a sick, perhaps (unintentionally) very revealing if not very dark comment about himself: "I can have all the 3-year-old girls I want!"
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_eb574e78	comment	Wacky Game Jokez, 4 Kidz!: Mickey the Dick literally does not give a single shit about the show or anyone watching it (since he's being forced to host it against his will). He swears, drinks beer, makes sexual comments, insults the viewers, and assaults his coworkers all on camera. And his bosses still air the footage, completely uncut.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_eeb48b	comment	Blue Peter's long-running presenter Valerie Singleton has been "outed" far more times than she would care to count as a closet lesbian. This would have been a very big thing in the 1960s and 1970s when children's TV presenters were contractually required to be squeaky clean in every conceivable respect. For some reason, the rumours started spreading and never stopped, despite the fact that what Val really was keen to keep hidden was a long heterosexual affair with fellow presenter Peter Purvis - something the BBC would have sacked them both for. Valerie Singleton is probably a case of a lesbian who never was - perhaps because there were more sniggers in the idea that a morally upright children's TV presenter, a woman popularly thought of as being more saintly and clean-living than Mother Theresa, did have a big disreputable secret life to keep concealed.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_ef661e97	comment	Ibuki from Street Fighter has her moment in her own comic. It came with a supplementary "Ask Ibuki" segment where she hosted her own spoof children's show and answer questions. When she was asked about her underwear since her outfit shows so much of her hips without any visible underwear she first emphasizes that if this wasn't a show she would kill the asker, something she is quite capable of due to being a trained ninja.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_ef9cedbd	comment	Dazzlingly zig-zagged in Kidding. Contrary to rumors, Mr. Jeff Pickles (aka Jeff Piccarillo) was never a military sniper or anything like that (this parodies urban legends about Fred Rogers), and in fact is a truly All-Loving Hero who is terrified at his own repressed anger and potential for violence (stemming from an unhappy childhood and controlling father/executive producer). BUT his mental breakdown over the course of Season One, caused by his inability to process the death of one of his twin sons and the subsequent dissolution of his marriage due to needing to keep up his sunny onscreen persona and be the gentle soul he really is, does involve him killing a parrot when he takes offense at its vile language...but he secretly replaces it and tries to give the corpse a proper burial in private...then at his lowest point, a moment of weakness, he hits his ex-wife's new boyfriend with his car and doesn't immediately admit it's his fault...but he does feel so much guilt that when he realizes only he can save Peter's life by donating part of his liver, he does and and comes clean to his loved ones...and in the penultimate episode of Season Two, he does beat a man to a bloody pulp in full view of a busload of kids...but it was to save his surviving son's life and kids everywhere actually love him more for what he did.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_f3c07f91	comment	In The Mask, recurring crime boss Lonnie the Shark's original day job was as the costumed host of the kids' show "Barnaby".
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_fbc3684b	comment	There were plans for a sequel for William Lustig's Maniac! (1980), which was supposed to follow such a character but it was scrapped due to its main star's untimely death. It sounded like a remake of The Psychopath (aka An Eye for an Eye). A short (NSFW) promotional video for the film is here.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_fd275a9c	comment	Garfield: Well, actually a pet show host. While Happy Chapman may look like he lives up to his name, in reality, he is very arrogant, allergic to cats, and wants a dog to star in his show to overshadow his more successful twin brother newscaster Walter.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_ff7b68ba	comment	On an episode of Night Court, a clown played by Jack Riley is arraigned as "Mr. Frou Frou":
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Depraved Kids' Show Host / int_ffa85c82	comment	Spy Kids: Floop is a subversion. The movie paints him as the Affably Evil Big Bad almost immediately: his "Fooglies" are actually secret agents subjected to Forced Transformation, and he's building an army of super-powered robots to take over the world. However, it's later revealed that neither of those were his ideas, they were Mr. Minion's. Floop is too preoccupied with genuine concern for his show.
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Depraved Kids' Show Host	processingCategory2	Villains
Robin (1993) (Comic Book) / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Superman (1987) (Comic Book) / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
The Batman Adventures (Comic Book) / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Viz (Comic Book) / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
The Perry Bible Fellowship (Comic Strip) / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Superman (Comic Book) / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Broadway Gondolier / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Death to Smoochy / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Garfield / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Little Monsters (2019) / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Meet the Feebles / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Shakes the Clown / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Spy Kids / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
The Adventures of Pinocchio / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
The Happytime Murders / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
UHF / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
V/H/S/99 / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Ms. Wiz / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
1999: Creepypasta / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
CrushedChildhoodMemories	seeAlso	Depraved Kids' Show Host
DeathToSmoochy	seeAlso	Depraved Kids' Show Host
KickthePJ	seeAlso	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Andrew E. (Music) / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
BROCKHAMPTON (Music) / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Molotov (Music) / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Portrait of an American Family (Music) / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Prof (Music) / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue (Radio) / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Almost Live! / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Bassie & Adriaan / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Blue Peter / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Dead Ringers / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Dinosaurs / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Happy! / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Henry Danger / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Impractical Jokers / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
In Living Color! / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Made in Canada / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Mr. Bill / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Night Court / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Power Rangers: Dino Thunder / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Puppets Who Kill / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Sonny with a Chance / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
The Armstrong and Miller Show / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
The Eric Andre Show / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
The Haunting Hour / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
The Purge (2018) / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
30 Rock / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
31 Minutos / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Two and a Half Men / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Weinerville / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Assassin (Video Game) / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Five Nights at Candy's 3 (Video Game) / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Harvester (Video Game) / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Shovelware's Brain Game (Video Game) / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
The Outlast Trials (Video Game) / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Bugbo (Web Animation) / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Wacky Game Jokez, 4 Kidz! (Web Animation) / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Alpharad (Web Video) / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Brandon Rogers (Web Video) / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Halloweenie (Web Video) / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
KickthePJ	seeAlso	Depraved Kids' Show Host
SuperMarioLogan (Web Video) / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
What the Cut (Web Video) / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Within Lapenko (Web Video) / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Something*Positive (Webcomic) / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Back to the Future / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Beetlejuice / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Black Dynamite / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Boo, Zino & the Snurks / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Brickleberry / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Channel Chasers / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Chozen / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Dinosaucers / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Evil Con Carne / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Grizzly Tales for Gruesome Kids / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Kangaroo Jack: G'Day U.S.A.! / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Sheep in the Big City / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
SuperMansion / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
The Mask / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
The Secret Saturdays / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Toonsylvania / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
T.U.F.F. Puppy / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Uncle Croc's Block / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host
Bray Wyatt (Wrestling) / int_e71db2e	type	Depraved Kids' Show Host

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