Does anyone else remember this video, I think from the 80s?

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bikeonychus@reddit

No, but I know it was my husbands favourite story as a kid.

The asshole suggested I read it to our daughter once on a camping trip because I forgot to bring a book, and I could get this on my phone. Bloody hell, I have never cried at a children's story before, but that one absolutely traumatised me as an adult.

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Vogonpoet812@reddit

The movie and book wrecked me. 😭

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throwawayfromPA1701@reddit

I was in a summer stage play version of it. And it was traumatizing lol.

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allthesamejacketl@reddit

My brother got scarlet fever when he was a kid and I was sure we’d have to burn all our toys.

Are kids books/movies less traumatizing now? I feel like by the time I was seven I was like I GET IT DEATH AND SADNESS EXIST, I AM A CHILD LET ME ENJOY SOMETHING.

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art_decorative@reddit

Yeah, our movies in the 80s were all about knocking that childhood innocence right out of your brain and making you a hardened cynic just waiting for life to take an ugly turn. But the animation was generally gorgeous, so there was that

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OkBaconBurger@reddit

I came here to say that little kid me cried at this one. Also, the Electric Grandmother.

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emmennwhy@reddit

The Electric Grandmother! I loved that one! As I recall it was a tearjerker too? I should watch it again.

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ryaca@reddit

Saaame. When the rabbit gets thrown in the trash and cries? That still chokes me up!

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Prossdog@reddit (OP)

The part that was killing me was when he thought he was going into the fire 😭

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Slammogram@reddit

Yup.

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Voluntary_Perry@reddit

I had the books and the stuffed rabbit as a child and my mom got them for my kids when they were born

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spuldup@reddit

Is that the one where the boy gets sick and has to burn all his stuff? Rabbit included?

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stucking__foned@reddit

Yes

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lollipop-guildmaster@reddit

Oh, man. Haven't thought about that one in years. Double feature with Rikki Tikki Tavi, and that's a date!

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stucking__foned@reddit

My favorite ❤️

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lelskis@reddit

Someone else also mentioned Rikki Tikki 🥹 memories unlocked

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stucking__foned@reddit

I think Avon sold this. I had this exact movie and it was my absolute favorite. We also had a Barbie movie where she goes back into time and that came from avon..

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buckut@reddit

watched and read the book many times.

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emjay144@reddit

Very familiar with the story, but I don't recognize this. Pretty sure I saw one or two other animated versions from back then.

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Funkopedia@reddit

There was another version of this, with much more somber and realistic animation.

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lilacsmakemesneeze@reddit

I kind of remember one that wasn’t cartoon but can’t find it. Was from the 90s. Must have been a tv special and we recorded it. Not the 2009 one that keeps popping up in the search.

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Funkopedia@reddit

There's a 1973 (!) short live action version which i haven't seen yet, and apparently a 2023 movie??!

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thegholahayt@reddit

Okay, I thought I was going crazy for a second. I didn't remember it looking so cartoony.

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azazel-13@reddit

It was this one, I bet.

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_TheHalf-BloodPrince@reddit

In a rare, out-of-print sequel, the rabbit is frozen in a submersible for thousands of years and later awoken by an alien racer.

It’s given the opportunity to play with a genetic recreation of its child for one final day (as a quasi hospice-y, make-a-wish-y, last supper-y sort of wish fulfillment).

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Haunt_Fox@reddit

That's the version I remember.

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x7leafcloverx@reddit

I had a stuffed Velveteen Rabbit! I don't remember the movie at all, but I know I watched it!

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fortlowe@reddit

I do, because pic # 4 rings a bell, but at once I cannot remember anything contextual about this. Probably another emotional scar I've repressed.

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marigoldilocks_@reddit

Oof. Just… oof.

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javaper@reddit

I loved the book so much as a kid. It always made me sad and then happy.

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ptero_smack_dyl@reddit

I remember the book but not the movie

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Munkzilla1@reddit

This movie made me think all fevers required buring your belongings.

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velocipedal@reddit

Yesss. I had this on VHS. I got it for Christmas one year with a velveteen rabbit stuffed animal.

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anarchetype@reddit

Oh, here you go kid, a movie about a stuffed animal almost killing a child through infectious disease and also a perfect replica of that murderous, diseased stuffed animal to sleep with at night.

Adults back then really just fucking hated children. That's the only way to make sense of it.

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kimchiman85@reddit

Yes. I watched that a lot as a kid.

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ellecamille@reddit

This was so traumatizing, I’m going to have to hide this post.

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anarchetype@reddit

Yeah, kinda don't like this. Between this book and what I heard about the AIDS crisis as a kid, I had recurring nightmares about infectious diseases from an early age and this shit scared me to death.

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PlatypusFreckles@reddit

Friggin traumatic

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Late_Being_7730@reddit

It was a favorite of mine in childhood, and there’s a line in it that I still love today.

You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. But these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real, you can’t be ugly, except to the people who don’t understand.”

As someone who has struggled with health issues— physical and psychological, it really resonates

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abbydabbydo@reddit

So moving. I remember being moved even as a child, but I’d forgotten this passage and it hits, hard. Thank you

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_TheHalf-BloodPrince@reddit

Yep, depressing.

It can go in a playlist together with Dumbo’s mom in prison and An American Tale

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NightPretzels@reddit

Yes!!

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MeatPopsicle10@reddit

Yes! This and Ricky Tiki Tavi

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lelskis@reddit

Ricky Tiki Tavi. Memory unlocked

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Dcruzen@reddit

I had to Google this because I remember the story being even more traumatic with the rabbit actually being burned at the end. I was so attached to my toys as a kid, being an only child who was homeschooled in rural areas.

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PeppermintEvilButler@reddit

That's the one I remember. With the fire to get rid of the sickness

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seche314@reddit

Me too! It was so traumatic. And the Casper cartoon with the fox…

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Dcruzen@reddit

Oh yeah, memory unlocked. That was brutal, too. 🦊😢

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PeppermintEvilButler@reddit

Another trauma causing children's story.

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SuperKing3000@reddit

This is one of the reasons I'm messed up. This movie and book caused some serious mental damage.

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vvvy1978@reddit

This was AWFUL! Just AWFUL!

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ZDLeonard@reddit

I still have my old VHS!

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Chele11713@reddit

Holy crap this unlocked a buried memory! Forgot about this!

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Prossdog@reddit (OP)

I did too! I heard the word “velveteen” the other day and got some reason “rabbit” popped into my head after it and I had to look it up. I hadn’t thought about this thing in 35 years.

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trcharles@reddit

Oh my lord how I sobbed. Third only to the Fox and the Hound and Where the Red Fern Grows

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Prossdog@reddit (OP)

The Fox & the Hound was the first movie I remember crying to and I still bawl like a baby if I watch the scene where she’s letting him go.

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BugEquivalents@reddit

Both of those destroyed me 💔

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DouglasBubletrousers@reddit

Had a tape of this that we recorded off of whatever channel it was on. Watched it a ton.

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Golden_Enby@reddit

I don't remember this one specifically, but I do remember a velveteen rabbit movie from my childhood. Always made me cry.

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ButterscotchNo7362@reddit

I don't remember this specifically but I had the book and a stuffed velveteen rabbit with no feet that I loved. I still think about it from time to time and wonder what happened to it. It was this one.

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dailysunshineKO@reddit

I have the same bunny!

Except he’s a bit more shabby now: he’s lost his bow, his ear is a bit torn, his front legs have lost some stuffing…

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ButterscotchNo7362@reddit

That's how you know he's real 🥰🤗

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palomabarcelona@reddit

Nursery magic!

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z_iiiiii@reddit

Sooo cute

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Highwaybill42@reddit

I remember crying because I had scarlet fever and I thought my mom was going to burn my stuffed frog.

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Rare_Background8891@reddit

YUP.

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Full_Confection_9818@reddit

ugh

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BeeswaxingPoetic@reddit

Yes. It was devastating.

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_1JackMove@reddit

I remember this for sure. Loved the book, too. Reminds me of a time where I was taking in stuff like this and The Pumpkin Who Couldn't Smile and the like. 1988 or so. The true good ol'days.

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OkGoGo33@reddit

"...Because I know you like Rabbits. And I know you like Cheese."

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Shanntuckymuffin@reddit

I blame this book for my hoarder tendencies

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KitchenNazi@reddit

It’s a great bar off the Vegas strip!

I think my sister read it when I was a kid.

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Ok-Kangaroo4613@reddit

I had the beta tape

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thatotherguy57@reddit

I know I saw it as a kid, but I have zero recollection of anything about it besides the title screen and a voice reading the title.

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Tdk1984@reddit

I had it and remember watching it at least a couple of times

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GoatsInBoots@reddit

I watched that all the time!

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GenX_77@reddit

Still emotionally traumatized by this and the book

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Character_Reason5183@reddit

yup

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NachoNachoDan@reddit

This book is my primary childhood trauma.

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urine-monkey@reddit

I watched it exactly once. Who the hell thought that was an appropriate story for kids?

Even the so-called "happy" ending is depressing.

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KyleUTFH@reddit

I was obsessed with the video, book, and stuffed rabbit I had from this.

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peekaboooobakeep@reddit

Yes! My gosh : (

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z_iiiiii@reddit

I read the book over and over! A classic!

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cheltsie@reddit

Velveteen Rabbit was the movie that broke me, along with Snow White. I could never quite decide if I like VR or not.

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Jenaaaaaay@reddit

Because I know you like books and I know you like cheese…

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sajouhk@reddit

🤣🤣🤣

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drewydale@reddit

I found that movie TERRIFYING

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Inedible-denim@reddit

Watched this over and over and over

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WhtvrCms2Mnd@reddit

No… never seen it…. 😭

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chriszimort@reddit

Yeah I must have a had that on vhs or something. I remember the car. I think it was a red Ferrari.

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PanduhMoanYum@reddit

We had the f.h.e. copy of VHS https://youtu.be/H6t_ByGDTPQ?si=tjhZNK124SrTypPy

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JoisChaoticWhatever@reddit

I loved the velveteen rabbit. I had one of my own.

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This_hoe_dumb@reddit

I don’t remember the show, but I had a copy of the book, and it was well worn.

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animus218@reddit

Mine too

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Fair_Blood3176@reddit

Same as mine

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Careless_Ad_9665@reddit

I can still cry if I think about this.

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RetailBookworm@reddit

No but I watched this version a lot: https://youtu.be/fs9YdlWD5ZU?si=HyPDiPW50-oXP_uP

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Zargoza1@reddit

I vaguely remember this, and remember liking it.

I vividly remember Watership Dowm and being scared shitless of rabbits for a while.

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blewdleflewdle@reddit

Yeah we had this. It was a gift from a great aunt who would have picked it up at a small town discount department store. I watched it once and it was toooooo saaaaaaaad for me.

My younger sister though watched it frequently. I left her to it.

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gummi-demilo@reddit

I remember when Target dropped a special stuffed Velveteen Rabbit at Christmastime because I had one.

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Important_Tennis936@reddit

That was my favorite. I watched it a million and a half times, and told my toys daily how much I loved them