Coradeen's Candelabra

(Started on 11/30/12, 11:45 E/S Time. Should be finished within the weekend, if not sooner. Will have the OC tag once finished. Please do not edit this page before the story is complete.)

I remember this show from way back in the early 2000's, called ''Coradeen'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 cable, we used "rabbit ears" to get TV. 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 SprigganTV, which showed many sit-coms 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 sit-coms it had were Friends, Seinfeld, and Hogan's Heroes. Actually, until quite recently it didn't strike me as odd 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 Coradeen's Candelabra.

I really don't know why I didn't think about the show's oddness before now. This show was seriously messed up.

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, Coradeen, looks sad at their departure. When they've gone, she goes to a candelabra near the entrance and says "Amicitia" (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 scum, while she looks over to the candelabra. As the view switches to the candelabra, 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. It didn't bother me then, and it sure bothers me now, knowing what the show contained.

The show has 14 episodes in total, each 20-25 minutes in length. The show is a story, with linear episodes, some drawing more upon the previous episode than others. When I started watching it, I started in Ep.7, not knowing what was going on. I'd never seen the first 6 or the last 4, so last year I decided to look it up after a conversation with my mom, who'd brought it up as a weird show from my childhood.

I went online to search for "Coradeen's Candelabra", but there are literally no results for anything related to it. I then looked up "SprigganTV", 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.