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Nickelodeon was not looking to play with occurrence erstwhile it came to this show.
Horror series Are You Afraid of the Dark? was nightmare substance for kids who grew up successful the '90s watching The Midnight Society stitchery ‘round the occurrence for a scary story. But the show's creator precocious revealed the web had a circumstantial safeguard successful spot to marque definite things didn't virtually spell up successful flames.
"You ne'er saw them airy the campfire," creator D.J. MacHale told Bloody Digusting's Horror4Kids March 24. "You ne'er saw them onslaught a lucifer and lighting the campfire due to the fact that they didn't privation kids playing with matches."
While MacHale acknowledged they mostly "had carte blanche" and were allowed to bash immoderate they wanted to do, Nickelodeon did propulsion backmost from clip to clip if they disquieted astir viewers becoming copycats.
"The lone comments we got from them had thing to bash with the scary stuff," MacHale noted. "Like immoderate show, they're disquieted astir imitate-able behavior. They don't privation to amusement a kid doing thing that someone's going to bash astatine location and say, 'I learned that connected Nickelodeon and that's wherefore I wiped retired my family.'"
E! News reached retired to Nickelodeon for remark and has not heard back.
MacHale besides explained that Nickelodeon would balk astatine immoderate material that veered into Satanic territory.
"They were starting to beryllium acrophobic that radical mightiness propulsion backmost and beryllium acrophobic that determination was Devil worship going connected successful the amusement oregon achromatic magic oregon voodoo," MacHale said. "We had to beryllium cautious due to the fact that truly spiritual radical don't similar that benignant of stuff. When they would say, 'Is that a demon?' I'd beryllium like, 'No, no! It's conscionable magic.'"
Regardless, MacHale is thankful the archetypal Are You Afraid of the Dark?—which ran from 1992 to 1996 connected Nickelodeon—aired erstwhile it did.
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"I'm not truthful definite if that could hap today," helium admitted, "because erstwhile you deliberation astir it, backmost when Are You Afraid of the Dark? was archetypal run, determination was nary societal media. It didn't exist. There truly wasn't the level for each Tom, Dick, Harry and Karen to constitute it and complain."
Are You Afraid of the Dark? is disposable to watercourse connected Paramount+.
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