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aaron sica:
....not something that was *truly* scary, but was scary to you as a child.

I can lead off with two examples:

1) I would watch the showcase reveals from another room and peering around the corner, because seeing the "DOUBLE SHOWCASE WINNER" graphic flashing scared me.
2) It's since been on blooper specials but when a contestant on TJW was playing "Face the Devil" and the lever snapped off and broke. The way Jack said "You broke my wheel" I didn't realize he was kidding and I thought he was legit angry.

TLEberle:
Jack had resting irritable face, so you may have had a point.

nowhammies10:
Loud, unexpected, dissonant sound effects. I can think of three specifically:

1) the "EROOOO!" sound effect from TPIR's Pathfinder (yes, yes, it was Trivia Trap first...)
2) the "time's up" French horn glissando from Millionaire
3) the "time's up" horn sound effect from Bergeron Hollywood Squares (wah-WAH-wah-WAHHHHHH)

BrandonFG:
While everyone else hid their eyes over the Dragon, I avoided TTD because the theme song gave me the creeps. Didn't know what a Moog synthesizer was at 6 or 7; I just knew I wanted no parts of the "squiggly" music. Now I love it.

I've said numerous times that I was terrified of the Lorimar-Telepictures logo as a child and would hide until whatever show ($1M Chance, Love Connection, etc.) were done. When I lived in Dallas, Chance came on before Rafferty's Card Sharks so I knew I was safe once the latter started.

Two from Remote Control: the way departing contestants exited the stage also terrified me, esp. when they'd rotate the chair 90-degrees upward and into the wall. Then when they strapped the contestant in for the bonus round I got a little unnerved...I got stitches when I was 5, and I think their contraption gave me flashbacks to being strapped to a board. :P

rjaguar3:
The end-of-round sound on Jeopardy!

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