A nightmare

A family of worms with human faces are watching TV, their broadcast is interrupted by a horrible bug creature talking about how it is going to turn them into its slaves, the interruption ends and normal programming resumes, none of the worms remember the bug creature except for the grandpa worm who is insulted and then ignored. The next thing on TV is a lady worm, we know she is a lady because despite having no limbs, hips, or breasts, she has an hourglass figure barely restrained by her T-shirt, she is advertising some sort of sling-shot/pogo stick... thing that will allow it's user to emulate the exploits of a local worm hero.

The boy worm watching with his parents covets this device, while he expounds about it his mom brings a package out from behind... the couch I guess, it is precisely such a device, the boy rips the package open offscreen so we don't have to answer the terrible question of how he is ripping it and what he is using, he is joyous.

Later, he shows it off to all his friends and local townsfolk, he is loved and popular for his new device, though he has yet to use it and it is unclear how it is used particularly when one lacks limbs, bones, and disposable digits. The local bully worm feigns disdain, but we know he is jealous, all know, he challenges the boy worm to a contest of jumping, he must jump... Centipede Gulch, or face the loss of status. Centipede Gulch is near the surface, and this is dangerous somehow, the boy agrees, eager to retain his newfound popularity.

Later, at the Gulch, the boy approaches the edge of honestly a not super huge cliff. He must jump what looks like two or three times the length of his body with the aid of his device. As he... cocks the device with the aid of his friend, a terrible shaking occurs, light shines through a hole in the ceiling and suddenly an excavator shovel pushes through. All fades to black.


Then I told my students I needed to take them to coding class, no this wasn't a fever dream but a very real and very unsettling children's animated feature out of Brazil called, appropriately, Worms.

My life is worse for knowing it exists.