 I remember this show from way back in the early 2000s, called Cordin's Candelabra. It was supposed to be a children's show, but even with my far-advanced vocabulary at 6, I could still barely pronounce the title, let alone grasp the show's material. Being without table, we used rabbit ears to get to thee. By rabbit ears, I mean an antenna, not actual rabbit's ears, though they would probably get better reception. One of the few channels we got was a network called Spriggan2the, which showed many sitcoms and cartoons during all hours of the day. It didn't have commercials except at the end of each show, with the credits sped up alongside the first commercial to be shown. Some of the sitcoms it featured were friends, Seinfeld and Hogan's heroes. Actually until quite recently it didn't strike me as on that this station had the licenses and permission to use these shows and more, since it had some original stuff to show as well. One of these original shows being a cartoon called Cordin's Candelabra. I really don't know why I didn't think about the show's onness before now. This show was seriously messed up. I went online to search for it after a recent conversation, which left me wondering about both this show and the taste of head cheese, if it was any precursor, results for any, but there was literally nothing related to it. I then looked up Spriggan2the, but could only find things in German, and upon trying to look over them, I saw that these sites had nothing to do with the network but a common name. Frustrated, I went to YouTube to waste some time watching the Yogg's cast and other stuff. Curious, I typed Cordin's Candelabra in the search bar and got nothing, no hits, no episodes, no clips, nothing. Not even YouTube had anything. I was at a standstill in my search, until my mother brought me a certain couple VHS tapes about a week later. I asked what they were, and she answered. It's that show you keep looking up. I never saw you get to see it, so I asked around work, and my friend David said he'd recorded the episodes a long time ago. Apparently it's a pretty hard to find show, so you should thank him sometime. I was astonished. I took the tapes and went into my room to watch them, eager to finally say to my curiosity. There are 14 episodes to this show, each 20 to 25 minutes long. I'm only going to go over the three that made me the most uncomfortable. The introduction to the show, accompanied by rich somber piano music, is a rich couple leaving their estate, a huge mansion with many expensive things on display. Their daughter, Cordin, a red-haired pale-faced child, almost like a ginger. She looks like a younger version of her mother, looks sad at their departure. When they've gone, she goes to a candle-abra near the entrance and says Amis-Issia, which I'm assuming is the thing's name, as it never explicitly has any other title. The thing shudders and comes to life, along with many of the other things in the house. The rest of the intro is her dashing through the house, doing various things with the animate objects before her parents come back. When they enter, all is back to normal. The parents' faces are grim and menacing, looking down at her as if she is some while she looks over to the candle-abra, now back in its proper place. As the view switches to the candle-abra, the title appears across the bottom of the screen, a flowing cursive script. Going only off the intro, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with the show. Sure the glaring parents and sad title music is pretty weird, but nothing that hasn't been done before in television. As a kid, the show's whimsy while she played was entrancing. Watching it now, it bothers the hell out of me. Episode 1, growing pains. This episode begins with Cordeen playing hide-and-seek with Amis-Issia and unnamed Red Curtain, nothing but the candle-abra seems to have a name in this show. She finds Amis-Issia behind a stone bust of her father, who is a tall dark-haired man with a widow-speak and a business suit, but can't find her other friend. Hermon passes by and asks her to help remove some of the curtains around the house, while carrying the red one away. Sadly, Cordeen goes into a couple rooms to remove the curtains, each a different color from the last, how this works aesthetically, I don't know, but moving on. Once she's finished, Amis-Issia asks why their friends are gone. Cordeen answers with... They're going to a different home, where they can be used better. In a way that says she's heard the same thing before about other things. Amis-Issia starts to cook up a plan to get the curtains back, and has Cordeen participate. The plan is to go to the room they're being brought to and steal them back to hang in Cordeen's room. While inactive this, however, they are caught by her father, rather she is, because Amis-Issia is in her room, preparing the walls. He takes the curtains from her and shouts, Why do you keep doing this? They are not real. They are not your friends. He proceeds to rip them apart, each rip punctuated by a yelled word. You are too old to play fake believe. He tosses the shreds to her feet, and an audible whimper is heard in the curtain's voice, followed by fading breath. Cordeen begins crying and yells, You killed them. Why did you do that? Her father screams, You are too old to play fake believe. Again, grabbing her viciously by the airman taking her away. It cuts from her in the curtain room to her entering her room, a red welt now visible on her face. Amis-Issia is nowhere to be seen at first, but comes out of the closet as Cordeen softly cries. The candelabra sits next to her on her bed, as the camera pans out. The episode ends with her sitting near no more lavish curtains, saying, Amis-Issia. Over and over. The candelabra is nowhere to be found however. Her father enters, saying in a monotone, It's time for your medication Cordeen. Episode 7, Maddie's Garden. This episode begins with Cordeen's mother showing a group of important looking people around the house. She converses about her family with these people, stopping by the stairs to shout. Cory. The only time a nickname is ever used for her. Cordeen walks calmly down the stairs, doing a small curtsy while wearing a light blue blouse and blue dress. Cormon tells the people. This is Cordeen, she's seven years old. She is very smart as well. She then says something to her daughter in a different language, and Cordeen responds in, apparently, the same language. The group claps at the advanced use of Latin, as stated by one of the men in the group. The same man asks about the garden, as the group is comprised of judges for a contest. They go to the back of the house, leaving Cordeen in the main landing. She walks over to Amis-Issia, but the scene goes back to her mother and the judges. They are all oohing and owing over the plants and flowers in the garden, while her mother walks around and talks about the various plants. The scene goes on for 10 whole minutes, way longer than it had to be. The judges deliberate, but finally reveal that she wins, second place. She looks angry for a split second, but calmly takes the silver ribbon from the judges. The show cuts to a different house, at a later point in the day. A blonde woman is tending to her garden, when a silhouette appears behind her. This scene lasts for 30 seconds, with the silhouette slowly getting closer, before cutting to Cordeen watching TV. It was on a newscast about the missing first place garden owner Maddie Pendleton, saying she'd gone missing the same day she'd won the ribbon. The committee that judged the contest appeared on the coverage, saying that the contest would be held in her memory in the future. This episode ends with Cordeen's mother tending to a freshly dug garden, each section marked off with a steak of wood decorated with pieces of the curtains from episode 1. She fertilizes the garden with pinkish-red pellets from a bag, which I guess implies that Maddie is growing one last garden. This episode seems to be the least prepared, with a few lines of dialogue cut off at the end. It also is one of the two that doesn't involve Cordeen in the plot. Episode 12, we all scream for ice cream. I hated this episode. I hated, hated, hated this episode, so so much. Cordeen and Amisisha are playing with a cooking set, making macaroni and cheese, which resembled barf, but she's seven, give her a break. Amisisha tastes it, and tells her that it's the best thing since ice cream. Cordeen doesn't know what ice cream is, being homeschooled and limited on TV time, seen in episode 5. Amisisha tells her to go get some from the kitchen, where it's kept in the freezer. She goes to get it, but is stopped when her parents walk in, asking her to go away for a bit. She leaves as her parents argue about their marriage. Her father wants to have sex, which is startling enough in a children's show, but her mother doesn't want to. Frustrated, he exits the kitchen, slamming the door and going outside. The next eight minutes are comprised of both Cordeen trying to bake new foods to emulate ice cream, and her trying to sneak into the kitchen to get some. Near the end of the episode, she tries again in the dead of night, finally getting the carton of vanilla from the freezer. As she opens it, her father walks in and sees her with the ice cream. He looks extremely angry for a moment, before his face switches to a commerce expression. He says, Maybe you can help me with my problem. Your mother doesn't seem to want to help. Emotions for her to follow, and they exit the room, Cordeen still carrying the ice cream. If you help me, I'll let you in on a little secret. The camera stays in the kitchen, but you can hear Cordeen screaming in pain from the other room. It doesn't even sound like a voice actor at this point, it sounds like a real person in agony. After two minutes of her screaming, they come back, Cordeen with tears streaming down her face and her father with a satisfied look on his face. He sits her down at the table with her ice cream, now covered in a red liquid, and tells her. Ice cream's always better with a cherry on top. The rest of the episode is her eating the barbaric dessert. I vomited after this episode. I almost didn't watch the last two, but I made myself. Cordeen dies in the last two episodes, so I don't understand why they'd allow this on a children's show. This show is nothing but a portrayal of an abused daughter, bringing a new meaning to the term beaded like a red-headed stepchild. I'm glad this show is as obscure as it is, so no one will accidentally stumble upon it. The tapes are currently under investigation by police because of the way the explicit material was portrayed, as well as my mother's friend David, since they can find no evidence that sprig into the ever existed, and are assuming he made the show until further notice. None of the people featured in the show's credits are real people, and there isn't a known animator who does animation similar to the show's. David had a daughter who had died in 2003 at age eight, and was known to draw his own holiday cards for people, using a style that was similar to the show's. The father in the show is strikingly similar to his own father.