I couldn't go on without giving this show a review. While the other grade school kids were playing with Barbies and dodgeballs, I was watching anime and Tim Burton movies. Growing up I was always attracted to weird things. Then one day, after getting HBO, I stumbled upon Crashbox.
The music is haunting, the presentation and surreal, eerie and mysterious environment is alluring and at the end of the day it's straight up educational. The show is about a strange, bizarre laboratory where robots made of junk live in secrecy and put together educational interactive videos, with a oddly mischievous twist. It teaches kids but has an overbearing eerie feel that makes it stand out and gives it its weirdness. I was hooked instantly, while everyone else I knew was scared of it. Crashbox is a kid's show with such originality and weirdness that I can still watch it till this day and be amused. It's filled with a bizarre eeriness that and it's actually somewhat educational. It's like fusing Sesame Street with Tales From the Crypt. It's like teaching a math class in the Amityville house. I can't really do the rating system, mainly because the show operates so differently than regular TV shows. In short, it's original and surprisingly dark. If it dropped the education, you'd guess it was Tim Burton messing around with crap he found at a dump and decided to make a show of it. Stop Motion Gold. Now I kinda wanna see that happen.....but anyway, for what it was, Crashbox is perfection that will go down as a television landmark of my youth and childhoodmoreless




