>>149690183 https://youtu.be/Luc8BXz46dk >it was December 26, 2004, the day after Christmas >I turn onto Nicktoons TV, a sister channel of Nick >there used to be an anthology series known as Nicktoons Film Festival showcasing animated short movies globally >on that episode, one of these shorts was Loco Melones, a short from Canada >the synopsis sounded interesting, a one-minute comedy about two old hags fighting for the last melon at an old grocery store in the middle of nowhere in an old-school slapstick-style humor >what I got instead was something horrifying, and not just the short movie itself >it may have been bad with outdated CG, bad voice acting, repeated music and almost no sound FX, but this was much worse >about five seconds into it, I heard screaming coming out of my room, followed by series of sounds of plates smashing and blenders turning on >I didn't want to snoop around, but I wanted to check if things were ok >turns out it was a domestic abuse >my parents were screaming at each other after coming back from the grocery store >I panicked and I rushed to call the police >there were series of arguing and crying coming from my mother all because the melon she bought was from an old man that she allegedly "fucked," which were my dad's words by the way >all of this happened a day after Christmas, and there was this New Years Day sale going on >my parents were eventually arrested >I was placed in an orphanage >I never watched Nicktoons Film Festival after this >20 years later, I'm now an accountant and getting great money off of it >and all of this was due to the last melon my parents bought >and yet I still think of those Loco Melones
