Whether it's due to a misunderstanding, some bad advice, or deliberate vengeance against children in general, many characters from kids' shows are objectively horrifying. We've covered the problem before , but we only scratched the surface. Here are a few more disturbing creatures from kids' TV shows that would be better suited to one of the seven circles of Hell.

5 Peppermint Park

Peppermint Park was a direct-to-VHS, direct-from-Hell puppet show released in the late '80s by Televidics Productions. It was like Sesame Street, if Sesame Street was filmed in your creepy uncle's basement and starred hallucinations that have turned on you. You can't say it wasn't effective; after learning about traffic safety from a pig-faced man in the throes of an existential crisis, kids will be far too terrified to go anywhere near a street.

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The humans aren't any less horrifying. Viewers learned more about the physical and emotional properties of the color blue from this miserable old man with a shrunken head than they ever did from Elmo.

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Meanwhile, a soul singer illustrates the color red by performing what can only be some kind of Satanic summoning ritual. Look at those eyes. The Dark Lord has clearly taken over.

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They're all overseen by Ernie, an escapee from Tim Burton's Planet Of The Apes poorly disguised as a man. He has a fondness for the letter M. Like, a deep fondness. We'd swear it was propaganda if we could figure out what for.