Nothing makes me happier then seeing other people like Crashbox. When I finally remembered that I'd watched it, I knew I could never forget it again. Looking back, it had a huge hand in forming who I am today.
i truly believe that this show had some form of deeper impact on me as a child above just learning math, english, and cool facts. i guess it’s just the unique way of how the imagery was used to convey emotions. the stuff is still stuck with me to this day. does that make any bit of sense?
Crashbox: The only show that was worth waking up early for and is still, to this day, the only educational show that I’m willing to sit down and watch (beside Wild Krats) In all seriousness, I really believe that shows like Crashbox and Making Fiends shaped who I am as a person. Not only did they spark my fascination and appreciation for the more “creepier” side of things, but it also made learning fun and legitimately enjoyable. Looking back at it all brings a nostalgic tear down my face...
EDDY BULL HES EDIBLE HE REALLY IS INCREDIBLE HES SIMPLY THE BEST OF BUNCH. THERES SIMPLY NO DISGUISING THAT HES SO APPETIZING AND WE WANT HIM FOR OUR LUNCH🗣🗣 Crashbox was my SHIT and I still remember it to this day💓
I remembered two "games" from that show. The one with the Barbie dolls and that weird zoo keeper one! I kept remembering the first part of the intro and that it was on HBO family, so I kept thinking it "Brainbox" or "Computermind" or something along those lines!
I couldn’t remember it either! I went on a whole search until I found it by “old lazy man on couch kids show” 😭 I could only remember little clips in my subconscious
this show has a special place in my brain. something about the major variety of it and how it was so different than the rest of all the shows i was watching as a kid made me love it dearly, and i was always so sad when we switched to not having HBO anymore. also WHEN YOU SAID POOPER SCOOPER I DIDNT KNOW I HAD THAT DEEP OF A MEMORY
ngl this show scared the frick outta me when i was a child, i lowkey still have nightmares i would legit scream whenever i saw that falling computer butttt my brother loved it so i was forced
How old were you during that? If you were like 6 then yeah I can see your mom being like "No buts, now watch." but if you were like a little older or braver then why didn't you try to tell her that you were scared of the show? And if you did try but were still forced, then oof!
This really is one of the most under recognized and under appreciated shows of a generation. I was born in 2006, and I still have vivid memories of sitting in front of the TV on worry less weekend mornings. This show will forever hold a massive cultural and emotional significance to me, nothing else in terms of television has ever come close.
I remember sitting at my tube television in the morning and being excited to watch this show but I think it had something to do with loving claymation and horror elements which is why this was my favorite childhood show and corpse bride is my favorite childhood movie both were things I didn’t want to look away from and I think really shaped my individual personality when it comes to my creative nature
i watched this on HBO on demand when I was a kid and it was seriously one of my favorite shows at the time. This and also happily ever after were both great
Even though I didn’t watch this when it was initially aired (I was born in 2004), I remember it being aired again when I was about 5 or 6, I’m 16 now and this was such a unique part of my childhood. I love it so much.
I still love this quote “C’mon you buckets of bolts! We’ve got a game to make! *GET THE LEAD OUT!”* As well as “Oo! Look at that! Wow! Hey you know what?! Here. (Gives the claw the cartridge) Take this! Bye! ^^” You see the drones of Educational Shows they release in the recent years with not even a fraction of the heart or personality that any of the Crashbox ‘inbetween’ scenes have.
I remember watching this show and it scared the shit out of me but I also liked it. It was one of the weirdest fever dreams I’ve ever watched. Words can’t explain the vibe the show had
I literally remember watching reruns of this show in 2009 when I was little and it was so interesting and it made me happy ty for finding this memory :D
Dude your experience of losing the show, wondering if it were real, and never being able to remember the name was exactly what happened to me. I just learned the name on twitter and this was one of the first results when I looked it up. So surreal, and so weird we had such similar experiences.
i remember watching this at my dads house as kid , it became a distant memory I searched for years for, I rewatched episodes and have been waiting for someone to make a video on it. AWESOME work!
Every few years I’ll randomly think of this show and completely forget the name. I search the most random keywords until I finally find it. Crazy how I never found this creepy but it seems like it’s engraved into my brain like no other show or cartoon.
Ugh, I remembered this show as a kid, it was one of my favorites to watch as a 5 year old, so when we didn’t have cable anymore for a good 3 years it made me sad that I couldn’t enjoy it like I once did, but it gives me joy to know that I wasn’t the only one that knew about this show and didn’t make it up 😭😭😭
Can I just say the character and set designs are absolutely amazing? Theres so much going on EVERYWHERE, but it's all eye candy and so perfectly detailed! I'm genuinely surprised that this show didn't single handedly make HBO Max go bankrupt.
This was such a touching review with an interesting interview to go with it! I'm a film school student way too old to be watching kids shows, yet I have such a strong fascination with CrashBox. It's the perfect show that you can listen to in the background as you multitask (such as drawing, cleaning, et cetera), yet look up at eventually when you want to see some great animation or funny moments. The first time I watched CrashBox was on a hotel tv because they didn't have PBS Kids and nothing else interesting was on. The episodes stuck with me, yet I forgot about the show until a few years ago when I found out the stop-motion studio, CuppaCoffee, made one of my favorite guilt-pleasure films, A Miser Brothers' Christmas. Comparing the two works, they have a lot in common, from the campy voice performances to the detailed sets and characters to the strange mice-en-scene and styles incorporated in each segment. Watching CrashBox as an adult got me more invested in writing, reading, puzzle solving, and research, which very little shows targeted at an elementary demographic fail to do.
Today was the day I finally found the name to this Fantastic Kids Show I searched up “kids show where there are robots that live and sing inside a box” And it brought me directly to the name. I didn’t even think or thought that this may possess been a dream or made up. Just forgotten, I remember small parts of watching this series. Once I found it Was I crying so many good memories I had going home from school and watching this. Was like a reward. I ultimately forgot about this show and replaced it with the video games modern day movies. Glad I could visit my childhood memories once again.
dude. almost all my childhood memories have this show and the name has always been on the top of my younger until recently. this is what a fever dream feels like
Literally seeing clips of this show again just reminded me of how much I had this show on repeat when my family wasn’t using the TV. Like I completely remember the segments, and I’m so happy to have found the show again, and that I’m not the only one to have watched it.
Dude, Crashbox and Blue's Clues was my Life Blood. I loved everything about it. I miss it and I wish I could find all the others on HBO Family Kids. Also, The Mechanic Robot made me fear the dark. And Word Shake made me sad whenever it was done because I was told that the French Chef died at the end.
I had the biggest flashback of my life! I was talking with my wife and for some reason this came to my head, haven’t think about this show in years until today! I loved that show
My 19-year-old and my 10-year-old still watches this the episodes with me. we watch it like as if it's a game pausing and answering and seeing who wins and who loses. The crash box episodes are very much something you can do with the family. You know instead of keeping our face stuck in a telephone throughout the whole day
I loved this show as a kid. I've never forgotten anything about it. Today, somebody asked me if I remembered a quirky, odd stop motion show on HBO. I said "Crashbox?" Yep. It was this show. This amazing, odd, brainy show.
I remember having to stay home one time when I was sick at the age of about 5 or 6, and a rerun of Crashbox came on. It was the most incredible thing my kid brain had ever witnessed, and I spent forever trying to find it again. And I did! ....Ten years too late.
I remember this show because (I was like 4 at the time), my mom would go to work and put on random tv shows and this one was always on. It scared me so much but, I loved it. I watched reruns so no one else I knew remembered it so I thought I was crazy until I found this vid lmao.
"And it's time for crashbox rewind where we flashback through the show and remind you how smart you really are"....flashes back to when I was a young kid eager to learn.
I’m only 19 and the way Crashbox taught me so much math,new words, problem solving, it really advanced me when I was younger!! Distraction news taught me how to listen without paying attention to the main character(multitasking),learned to pay attention to detail with the detective mugshot and I was a weird kid, Coraline was my favorite movie and THIS was my favorite show ever with all the creepy looking things it always kept me intrigued! Love this show with my whole heart fr
Crashbox was just the perfect show to little me. Me and my sister watched this early in the morning on the weekends long after it was canceled. And just the vibe and the sounds oh man the sounds are so nostalgic, maybe it was just little autistic adhd me finding something with just as much weird energy as me, it was like you put all of my weird random thoughts on to a table and carefully Frankensteined them together,or maybe it was my love for all forms of animation that continues today but this show was my jam. Still I could always count on the fact that later that night long after I should have gone to bed I could see reruns of Oswald and Little Einstein, the only shows that really made me calm and subconsciously made me love art and music. Thanks for reading my little nostalgic romp random commenter :)
I strongly remember Crashbox and was a big fan at one point, as big of being a fan of Crashbox gets. I enjoyed it, but looking back it was SUPER WEIRD.
I'm glad to have grown up with Crashbox, A Little Curious, and Happily Ever After Tales. Being exclusively on HBO Family made them like those cool cousins who'd sometimes come to visit, since we didn't always keep premium channels with our cable.
I loved the art style of this show as a kid, and still do. Both my sister (4.5 years older) and I would watch it nonstop whenever our parents happened to get a free trial of HBO. Kinda forgot about it until I happened to be scrolling through Max one day, as soon as the opening started I was hit with nostalgia.
this show has been tucked away in my subconscious for my entire life. i couldn’t remember the name, but the imagery and theming in this show impacted me deeply as a kid. i’m 22 now, and i really do think that it shaped my personality, or at least helped to do so. i always loved creepy and eclectic things growing up, something my parents encouraged in me. so cool to see this show again now that i know the name. and wonderful to know others appreciated it so much as well :)
I did the same thing with this show where parts of Crashbox and A Little Curious. I only remembered it when we put on HBO Family channel had reruns of the shows
I am 24 years old. I was sitting at my desk, doing homework and listening to "The Lottery" by The Used. Suddenly, I was hit by a deep and visceral memory that I now realize was the slob man mixed with the math robot mixed with all of those gears in the background. That was all I could remember--that and a deep sense of being unsettled. After trying tons of google searches, I was at the point of googling "2000s kid show gears" when I saw the news anchor lady from crashbox. Even though that wasn't what I had initially remembered, something about it felt Right. And now here I am, relieved and yet thoroughly disturbed. I don't know anyone in my family who would've had an HBO Max subscription, but I'm pretty sure I watched it with my cousins. That means that we probably watched it once on vacation or something. And yet it has stuck in my mind for more than 15 years. That is nuts!
bruh. it took me 5 years to figure out a show that i thought never existed that i thought i had seen in my head. and thanks to a yt recommendation, i have found it. thank you
I feel like the material given to children's television from the late 80s to the late 00s was pretty much a fantastic period of surrealism. Crashbox was like an educational show on an acid trip.
With how much I absolutely adore this show and how much of an impact it had on me as a kid I'm surprised I didn't see this video till now. I'm happy I did though because this video despite its length was so well edited, shot, written, and presented that it just blew me away. Thanks as well for reaching out to Adam Shaheen as I had yet to see any kind of behind the scene information or interviews from the crew that worked on it, that was just a cherry on top of everything else to make this the perfect six and a half minutes. I hope some day you return to do some more short form video content like this between making your projects but till then, thank you.
Thank you for making this video! My six year old LOVES this show on demand and can't get enough (he loved it as a 4 year old too, but is able to get a lot more meaning out of it now and engage with it more directly). I knew there was something special about it and am quite drawn to the animation style, character development, music and sketch writing myself, all top-notch and unique. I'm so happy to have found this niche community of folks who feel the same way. Thank you again for making this thoughtful tribute and great work on the interview.
Is there a name for negative nostalgia. It's like I feel the nostalgic feeling of remembering this, but I don't *want* to remember it too. It disturbed me and creeped me out as a kid and felt like a fever dream so remembering it is a bit of a headache. Thanks for making this btw, loved the vid.
dude when I was like 7 this show was my childhood along with I Spy. they are very nostalgic to me but still creepy. I'd sit on my mom's bed at night watching it.
There’s something about Crashbox’s aesthetic that’s just extremely late 90s/early 2000s, like it’s so grungy and grimey lol. It kinda feels like an old school, 3D adventure game was turned into a show.
I remember watching this at a motel that only had HBO family for kids show and it was like 8pm, which explains why I watched it like 12 years after it ended.
Yes, and they're still rerunning it on HBO family to this day. It's a shame it only had like two seasons. And if it were to be revived, it might not be the same.
I remember watching the show as a kid, but it had been a long while. I think I tried looking it up once, but couldn't find anything. However, I looked up "Crashbox" and there it was, as well as your video!
Crashbox was the best show of all time don't @me
Gotta second that
I will @ you to tell you that your right
it suddenly became super weird and disturbing.
i AGREE
@@jaydendacanay876 agreed
You did it. You finally found the show that’s been stuck in my subconscious but I was never able to remember.
That this got it out of there! It took me forever to remember anything about the show.
Same, read my mind lulz
SAME!!
i always thought this show was only in my dreamssss omgg
sameee !
Nothing makes me happier then seeing other people like Crashbox. When I finally remembered that I'd watched it, I knew I could never forget it again. Looking back, it had a huge hand in forming who I am today.
Such a good show
ikr it makes me so happy to see people enjoy it
*OH YEAH*
@@jubies6286 Word!
This show got me into history and science in school big props
i truly believe that this show had some form of deeper impact on me as a child above just learning math, english, and cool facts. i guess it’s just the unique way of how the imagery was used to convey emotions. the stuff is still stuck with me to this day. does that make any bit of sense?
Yeah, I think so! I remember having fun and remembering the vibe of each segment more so than the lessons the segments taught
Same
I mean, I watched it till i was in middle school, it just had a deep connection with me when watching it everyday before school
It’s a foundational experience to my life.
Crashbox was my favorite show as a child and I bought it to show my son, he loves it too. It would've been a bigger hit had it been on regular cable.
That's so wholesome, and totally agree. HBO Family was so new it's not surprising it didn't get too much initial traction
@@WillSchwartzz I still remember watching it at my grandparents, I'd spend most of my childhood there. I loved this show
@@thehonorablereverendaddiso1943 So good
I legit rewatched it when I got older and it’s still as good of a show now as it was then
Yeah once I have a kid I’m gonna do the same
HOW IS EVERYBODY JUST REMEMBERING THIS
So many people just repressed this show I guess!
FRR I AM LOVING IT THO
The only thing I remembered was the Slob telling the narrator she’s 600 pounds
I just remembered poop or scoop
@@WillSchwartzz I’ve recently just found this show but I haven’t saw this for Years....
Anybody here aware of the fact that Billie Eilish’s mom voiced Verity? Yup.
:O
Woah that’s so cool
WHAT
Huh
Whoah!
I worked on this show - it is one of my favourite projects to be involved with ever.
That's incredible! Your work evidently paid off based on this comments section.
You’re a legend then my friend, you helped make my childhood awesome
Thanks for making my child hood
You’re a legend. This show was awesome. Thanks for contributing. :)
Really? What part did you work on? Just wondering.
Crashbox: The only show that was worth waking up early for and is still, to this day, the only educational show that I’m willing to sit down and watch (beside Wild Krats)
In all seriousness, I really believe that shows like Crashbox and Making Fiends shaped who I am as a person. Not only did they spark my fascination and appreciation for the more “creepier” side of things, but it also made learning fun and legitimately enjoyable.
Looking back at it all brings a nostalgic tear down my face...
couldn’t agree more
F in the chat for all who are still looking for this show.
It's all on RUclips!
"come on you buckets of bolts, we have a game to make" never gets old lol
I heard the soundbite in my head when I was reading this haha
GET THE LEAD OUT
"Come on you bonehead we have a puzzle to recalibrate"
-Papyrus
EDDY BULL HES EDIBLE HE REALLY IS INCREDIBLE HES SIMPLY THE BEST OF BUNCH. THERES SIMPLY NO DISGUISING THAT HES SO APPETIZING AND WE WANT HIM FOR OUR LUNCH🗣🗣 Crashbox was my SHIT and I still remember it to this day💓
Such an iconic show
*THE RIDDLE SNAKE*
Nice 👌
Teaching kids about animals in the strangest way
DISTRACTION NEWS
It freaks me out now more than it did when I was little.
Quick shoutout to childhood t r a u m a
Same
YEAH
YES
i can’t believe I found it after years of trying to remember , it’s still creepy af
I couldn't remember the show name, i kept thinking it was "cube" something. I eventually googled "kids show with the green cubes" and finally found it
What a niche Google search, love that
I just remembered that it was on Jam!
I remembered two "games" from that show. The one with the Barbie dolls and that weird zoo keeper one! I kept remembering the first part of the intro and that it was on HBO family, so I kept thinking it "Brainbox" or "Computermind" or something along those lines!
I couldn’t remember it either! I went on a whole search until I found it by “old lazy man on couch kids show” 😭 I could only remember little clips in my subconscious
Bro same I looked up brain box 💀😂
this show has a special place in my brain. something about the major variety of it and how it was so different than the rest of all the shows i was watching as a kid made me love it dearly, and i was always so sad when we switched to not having HBO anymore.
also WHEN YOU SAID POOPER SCOOPER I DIDNT KNOW I HAD THAT DEEP OF A MEMORY
Right?! That was me with Revolting Slob
Holy crap, I just remembered Pooper Scooper
ngl this show scared the frick outta me when i was a child, i lowkey still have nightmares i would legit scream whenever i saw that falling computer butttt my brother loved it so i was forced
Damn, that's too bad. I can totally see how this could be surrealist nightmare fuel
How old were you during that? If you were like 6 then yeah I can see your mom being like "No buts, now watch." but if you were like a little older or braver then why didn't you try to tell her that you were scared of the show? And if you did try but were still forced, then oof!
It scared me too!!
This really is one of the most under recognized and under appreciated shows of a generation. I was born in 2006, and I still have vivid memories of sitting in front of the TV on worry less weekend mornings. This show will forever hold a massive cultural and emotional significance to me, nothing else in terms of television has ever come close.
THE SAME THING HAPPENED TO ME I THOUGHT I MACE IT UP IN A DREAM!! THIS IS CRAZYYYY
I've seen so many comments from people who feel the same way. You're not alone!!
I remember sitting at my tube television in the morning and being excited to watch this show but I think it had something to do with loving claymation and horror elements which is why this was my favorite childhood show and corpse bride is my favorite childhood movie both were things I didn’t want to look away from and I think really shaped my individual personality when it comes to my creative nature
I so hear you, this was such a good show as a kid and it holds up. It's probably one of the reasons I love all the Laika movies like Coraline and Kubo
This is literally my childhood, I loved and still do love this show.
Love this show
i watched this on HBO on demand when I was a kid and it was seriously one of my favorite shows at the time. This and also happily ever after were both great
It was such a wild show, love it so much
Even though I didn’t watch this when it was initially aired (I was born in 2004), I remember it being aired again when I was about 5 or 6, I’m 16 now and this was such a unique part of my childhood. I love it so much.
Litterally omg. Same
Same I was born in 2004 but this show has always been in my memory growing up just from the few episodes I watched at 5-6 years old😭
I was born in 2009 but my brother was born in 2005 and watched it so that's how I saw it
This show was a fever dream, and 5 year old me absolutely loved it.
Glad to know I'm not the only one who remembers this show. Some of the jingles still go through my head.
The Eddie Bull song is so good. People who I know who didn't watch Crashbox still somehow know that jingle.
I still love this quote
“C’mon you buckets of bolts!
We’ve got a game to make!
*GET THE LEAD OUT!”*
As well as
“Oo! Look at that!
Wow!
Hey you know what?!
Here.
(Gives the claw the cartridge)
Take this! Bye! ^^”
You see the drones of Educational Shows they release in the recent years with not even a fraction of the heart or personality that any of the Crashbox ‘inbetween’ scenes have.
I remember watching this show and it scared the shit out of me but I also liked it. It was one of the weirdest fever dreams I’ve ever watched. Words can’t explain the vibe the show had
I love this show with all my heart. I would always watch it before I went to school, then come home and continue it
Such a good childhood show
I literally remember watching reruns of this show in 2009 when I was little and it was so interesting and it made me happy ty for finding this memory :D
So glad!!!
I loved this show and watch it so much to the point I predicted what would come next and get it right
I love that. I always hoped for certain segments to come on
Dude your experience of losing the show, wondering if it were real, and never being able to remember the name was exactly what happened to me. I just learned the name on twitter and this was one of the first results when I looked it up. So surreal, and so weird we had such similar experiences.
i remember watching this at my dads house as kid , it became a distant memory I searched for years for, I rewatched episodes and have been waiting for someone to make a video on it. AWESOME work!
Thanks!!! Glad it brought you back
my favorite game on the show was probably mr sketch pad
I have to go with Revolting Slob
Pooper or scoop any day bro
Mine is the chef with the letters
Mine was the one with the barbies where you had to spot the differences or sumthin
Same! I always thought I would figure it out by the end and then boom he flips it on me and it’s something I never even thought of.
Every few years I’ll randomly think of this show and completely forget the name. I search the most random keywords until I finally find it. Crazy how I never found this creepy but it seems like it’s engraved into my brain like no other show or cartoon.
Lol i STILL watch it
It's a bop
Same
SAME
Same
This was basically the better version of preschool
This an underrated vid bro and the show in general
Thanks, man! And totally agree about the show
Ugh, I remembered this show as a kid, it was one of my favorites to watch as a 5 year old, so when we didn’t have cable anymore for a good 3 years it made me sad that I couldn’t enjoy it like I once did, but it gives me joy to know that I wasn’t the only one that knew about this show and didn’t make it up 😭😭😭
I know! I genuinely couldn't have predicted the response to this video and just how many people resonated with this show as a kid.
THE SUBMARINE GUY WAS EVERYTHING.
Can I just say the character and set designs are absolutely amazing?
Theres so much going on EVERYWHERE, but it's all eye candy and so perfectly detailed!
I'm genuinely surprised that this show didn't single handedly make HBO Max go bankrupt.
I'm crying from nostalgia.
This was such a touching review with an interesting interview to go with it! I'm a film school student way too old to be watching kids shows, yet I have such a strong fascination with CrashBox. It's the perfect show that you can listen to in the background as you multitask (such as drawing, cleaning, et cetera), yet look up at eventually when you want to see some great animation or funny moments.
The first time I watched CrashBox was on a hotel tv because they didn't have PBS Kids and nothing else interesting was on. The episodes stuck with me, yet I forgot about the show until a few years ago when I found out the stop-motion studio, CuppaCoffee, made one of my favorite guilt-pleasure films, A Miser Brothers' Christmas. Comparing the two works, they have a lot in common, from the campy voice performances to the detailed sets and characters to the strange mice-en-scene and styles incorporated in each segment.
Watching CrashBox as an adult got me more invested in writing, reading, puzzle solving, and research, which very little shows targeted at an elementary demographic fail to do.
Today was the day I finally found the name to this Fantastic Kids Show
I searched up “kids show where there are robots that live and sing inside a box”
And it brought me directly to the name.
I didn’t even think or thought that this may possess been a dream or made up. Just forgotten, I remember small parts of watching this series. Once I found it
Was I crying so many good memories I had going home from school and watching this. Was like a reward.
I ultimately forgot about this show and replaced it with the video games modern day movies.
Glad I could visit my childhood memories once again.
dude. almost all my childhood memories have this show and the name has always been on the top of my younger until recently. this is what a fever dream feels like
This is the best crashbox video on RUclips but I still want more I want to know more
Thanks, man! If I come across any more exciting info I'll update the description for sure
VELLICATUS this stuff is fascinating I just wish there was more of a market for it
@@chadsquared5852 I hear you. I think there's always an audience, it's just sometimes hard to appease to the algorithm of RUclips
It was one of the weirdest shit seeing for my 6-7 found but I couldn't stop watching it
Literally seeing clips of this show again just reminded me of how much I had this show on repeat when my family wasn’t using the TV. Like I completely remember the segments, and I’m so happy to have found the show again, and that I’m not the only one to have watched it.
Dude, Crashbox and Blue's Clues was my Life Blood. I loved everything about it. I miss it and I wish I could find all the others on HBO Family Kids.
Also, The Mechanic Robot made me fear the dark. And Word Shake made me sad whenever it was done because I was told that the French Chef died at the end.
I had the biggest flashback of my life! I was talking with my wife and for some reason this came to my head, haven’t think about this show in years until today! I loved that show
Right?! When this finally came back to me it was such a wild rabbit hole
Me:*sees thumbnail*
My brain: my whole damm childhood that's what!
Yesss!!!!
My 19-year-old and my 10-year-old still watches this the episodes with me. we watch it like as if it's a game pausing and answering and seeing who wins and who loses.
The crash box episodes are very much something you can do with the family. You know instead of keeping our face stuck in a telephone throughout the whole day
I LOVE Crashbox, but I’ve only ever met a few people who watched it.
To be honest, when i was younger i was so afraid with crashbox, it looks so creepy. Now i still feel the same (THIS IS JUST MY OPINION)
Elisabeth Evelyn Davina the revolting slob is still creepy as all hell
So fair, some of those segments had such weird twisted little nuances that just freaked me out
I feel like everyone who watched this show is now in their 20s, I'm 15.
Hooray for reruns
Same.
Same bro. I watched this all the time in the late 2000s.
i’m 12 and watched this show when i was a lot younger
I loved this show as a kid. I've never forgotten anything about it. Today, somebody asked me if I remembered a quirky, odd stop motion show on HBO. I said "Crashbox?" Yep. It was this show. This amazing, odd, brainy show.
I remember having to stay home one time when I was sick at the age of about 5 or 6, and a rerun of Crashbox came on. It was the most incredible thing my kid brain had ever witnessed, and I spent forever trying to find it again. And I did! ....Ten years too late.
I remember this show because (I was like 4 at the time), my mom would go to work and put on random tv shows and this one was always on. It scared me so much but, I loved it. I watched reruns so no one else I knew remembered it so I thought I was crazy until I found this vid lmao.
I was born in 07 and I remember this show so much I loved it so much it was my favorite
This was the tv show I grew up with, and now looking back at it makes me wonder why my parents ever let me watch more than one episode...
Crashbox need to make new episodes again
Bring it back HBO, you cowards
@@WillSchwartzz yeah
this show was the shit, when i tried to remember the name, it came to me years later.
"And it's time for crashbox rewind where we flashback through the show and remind you how smart you really are"....flashes back to when I was a young kid eager to learn.
I grew up on crashbox. Best stuff of all times
I also couldn't remember the name until I saw this video in my sub box. I remember googling names I thought it was and I could never find it.
I hear you. I think at some point I though the name was Drag Crack or something, which would have been pretty ill fitting for a kids show.
@@WillSchwartzz. I remember thinking was called cracker box
@@mattec7727 You got closer than me!
I’m 22 and I still watch it for the nostalgia lol
When I was a kid, I used to wake up real early and watch crashbox On Demand.
I’m only 19 and the way Crashbox taught me so much math,new words, problem solving, it really advanced me when I was younger!! Distraction news taught me how to listen without paying attention to the main character(multitasking),learned to pay attention to detail with the detective mugshot and I was a weird kid, Coraline was my favorite movie and THIS was my favorite show ever with all the creepy looking things it always kept me intrigued! Love this show with my whole heart fr
Crashbox was just the perfect show to little me. Me and my sister watched this early in the morning on the weekends long after it was canceled. And just the vibe and the sounds oh man the sounds are so nostalgic, maybe it was just little autistic adhd me finding something with just as much weird energy as me, it was like you put all of my weird random thoughts on to a table and carefully Frankensteined them together,or maybe it was my love for all forms of animation that continues today but this show was my jam. Still I could always count on the fact that later that night long after I should have gone to bed I could see reruns of Oswald and Little Einstein, the only shows that really made me calm and subconsciously made me love art and music. Thanks for reading my little nostalgic romp random commenter :)
I strongly remember Crashbox and was a big fan at one point, as big of being a fan of Crashbox gets. I enjoyed it, but looking back it was SUPER WEIRD.
I'm glad to have grown up with Crashbox, A Little Curious, and Happily Ever After Tales. Being exclusively on HBO Family made them like those cool cousins who'd sometimes come to visit, since we didn't always keep premium channels with our cable.
I loved the art style of this show as a kid, and still do. Both my sister (4.5 years older) and I would watch it nonstop whenever our parents happened to get a free trial of HBO. Kinda forgot about it until I happened to be scrolling through Max one day, as soon as the opening started I was hit with nostalgia.
this show has been tucked away in my subconscious for my entire life. i couldn’t remember the name, but the imagery and theming in this show impacted me deeply as a kid. i’m 22 now, and i really do think that it shaped my personality, or at least helped to do so. i always loved creepy and eclectic things growing up, something my parents encouraged in me. so cool to see this show again now that i know the name. and wonderful to know others appreciated it so much as well :)
Me rewatching the entirety of Crashbox: this is still my favorite show
This has always been in the forefront of my brain. Just like the robot who still hasn't eaten all three doughnuts, only one...
This was a great video!
I did the same thing with this show where parts of Crashbox and A Little Curious. I only remembered it when we put on HBO Family channel had reruns of the shows
I am 24 years old. I was sitting at my desk, doing homework and listening to "The Lottery" by The Used. Suddenly, I was hit by a deep and visceral memory that I now realize was the slob man mixed with the math robot mixed with all of those gears in the background. That was all I could remember--that and a deep sense of being unsettled. After trying tons of google searches, I was at the point of googling "2000s kid show gears" when I saw the news anchor lady from crashbox. Even though that wasn't what I had initially remembered, something about it felt Right. And now here I am, relieved and yet thoroughly disturbed. I don't know anyone in my family who would've had an HBO Max subscription, but I'm pretty sure I watched it with my cousins. That means that we probably watched it once on vacation or something. And yet it has stuck in my mind for more than 15 years. That is nuts!
I remember playing the 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1! Game and the guy said, “you dirty rat!” will never forget that memory
You mean the "10 2nds" game?
bruh. it took me 5 years to figure out a show that i thought never existed that i thought i had seen in my head. and thanks to a yt recommendation, i have found it. thank you
I remember it.
It was one of my favorites.
Suddenly, I realized how disturbing it can be for young children.
But it’s not too bad.
I’m not kidding when I say I was looking for this show for ten years
I feel like the material given to children's television from the late 80s to the late 00s was pretty much a fantastic period of surrealism. Crashbox was like an educational show on an acid trip.
Totally agree, loved how absurd this show was
With how much I absolutely adore this show and how much of an impact it had on me as a kid I'm surprised I didn't see this video till now. I'm happy I did though because this video despite its length was so well edited, shot, written, and presented that it just blew me away. Thanks as well for reaching out to Adam Shaheen as I had yet to see any kind of behind the scene information or interviews from the crew that worked on it, that was just a cherry on top of everything else to make this the perfect six and a half minutes. I hope some day you return to do some more short form video content like this between making your projects but till then, thank you.
This show scared the shit out of me but I still watched it 😭
Crashbox on HBO kids was so entrancing for me as a child. It was uncanny but I couldn't look away. It was odd but nowadays I love the show
Thank you for making this video! My six year old LOVES this show on demand and can't get enough (he loved it as a 4 year old too, but is able to get a lot more meaning out of it now and engage with it more directly). I knew there was something special about it and am quite drawn to the animation style, character development, music and sketch writing myself, all top-notch and unique. I'm so happy to have found this niche community of folks who feel the same way. Thank you again for making this thoughtful tribute and great work on the interview.
Is there a name for negative nostalgia. It's like I feel the nostalgic feeling of remembering this, but I don't *want* to remember it too. It disturbed me and creeped me out as a kid and felt like a fever dream so remembering it is a bit of a headache.
Thanks for making this btw, loved the vid.
dude when I was like 7 this show was my childhood along with I Spy. they are very nostalgic to me but still creepy. I'd sit on my mom's bed at night watching it.
oh god i remember "revolting slob" scared the absolute shit out of me as a young kid
the show was actually a fever dream but it is still so nostalgic
OMFG Someone just reminded me of this because they mentioned it on tiktok and your description is literally exactly how I've felt for years 😭😭😭
Thank God my sister remembered this show as well because I thought I made this up in my mind! We loved it!
I'm genZ and I grew up with crashbox reruns on TV!
I LOVE CRASHBOX SO MUCH
There’s something about Crashbox’s aesthetic that’s just extremely late 90s/early 2000s, like it’s so grungy and grimey lol. It kinda feels like an old school, 3D adventure game was turned into a show.
I remember watching this at a motel that only had HBO family for kids show and it was like 8pm, which explains why I watched it like 12 years after it ended.
This show was literally my childhood
Same here
Yes, and they're still rerunning it on HBO family to this day. It's a shame it only had like two seasons. And if it were to be revived, it might not be the same.
I was just thinking about this today and decided to search it up and couldn’t find it , until I found this video , best show ever :)
I remember watching the show as a kid, but it had been a long while. I think I tried looking it up once, but couldn't find anything. However, I looked up "Crashbox" and there it was, as well as your video!
Crashbox was awesome. The animations, the brain teasers, great stuff.