Before he was allegedly stuffing his 6-year-old in a box, hiding him in the attic and then calling the police to say the boy just floated off in a giant balloon, reality-show dreamer Richard Heene was just a normal guy trying to make a kids show about his apparent love of boxes. (That's what normal guys do, right?)
"Box Time" was shot in 2000 and produced by My You Me Productions (hey! that's how you pronounce his wife Mayumi's name!). In the show, a hyperactive Richard teaches kids how to make cool things out of boxes with the help of a primitively animated box named Boxter who makes bad box jokes.
Did you know animated boxes often suffer from fits of creepy laughter? Well, they do, and it's worth watching the 30-second clip above to experience such a strange sight, which is only made stranger when you realize Richard is actually the one voicing that floating box.
Now that Richard's all famous, maybe this will get picked up and we will learn new box tricks, like how to build a shield to save us from lizard people or something.
—Reporting by Marcus Mulick
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