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** The first [[Novelization]] ''Infinity Welcomes Careful Drivers'' notes that Holograms all have the big chrome "H" on their forehead to make it more acceptable and less creepy for your dead friend to be walking around and talking to you, as it makes it more explicit that the person you're talking to is not actually the real person.
** Kryten mentions that his predecessor series was a notorious commercial failure because it looked so much more human that it made humans uncomfortable, while Kryten's "novelty eraser shaped head" (as Rimmer puts it) is sufficiently far enough from human appearance to avoid the valley effect.
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** Autons. After they were first shown, some children would refuse to walk past a clothes shop.
** The clockwork robots from "The Girl in the Fireplace". * shudder*
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** In the novel 'Nuclear Time', Rory feels this way about a [[It Makes Sense in Context|severed plastic robot arm the Doctor tosses to him]].
** The animated episode 'Dreamland' has a crude, stiff style of CG that makes it look unfinished and creepy.
** In "[[Doctor Who
* [[The George Lopez Show]], of all shows has this in George's childhood flashbacks, which take the head of adult George and paste it onto his childhood body.
** Naturally, it's because actually "integrated" the head into child George's body, rather than doing a cheap photoshop [[Americas Funniest Home Videos|AFV-style]].
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* Similar to Data, [[Robot Girl|Cameron]] of ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' sometimes slips into the Uncanny Valley, such as one scene where she ''perfectly'' repeats a deceased classmate's last words, word-for-word and inflection-for-inflection. In another, equally disturbing example, while she is being crushed between two trucks, her face is covered in cuts and burns, and her head is being sliced open, she starts talking to John in a completely normal tone of voice that shifts into frantic pleading and crying just like a normal person.
** Speaking of Cameron, [http://www.independent.ie/photo-galleries/this-week-in-pictures-1674782.html?ino=9 this full-scale reproduction of her head-and-torso shot at the Terminator Exhibition in Tokyo] definitely qualifies.
* Zaphod Beeblebrox's second head in the miniseries of ''[[The Hitchhikers Guide to The Galaxy]]''. Sometimes it talks, but mostly it just sits there on his shoulder, motionless and eerily realistic. It was originally intended to be more animated than it ultimately was, but the prop head [[Special Effects Failure|worked only intermittently]], [
* ''[[Peppermint Park]]'', an obscure kids' show, used some very creepy-looking human puppets, as seen [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K-foKERvHc here,] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSQbX4D-iVA here] and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrJDAd5N0jo here.]
* A program on the Military Channel about the Gettysburg Address features a mix of live actors, with a mostly-to-completely CGI [[Abraham Lincoln]]. The CGI Lincoln squarely falls into the Uncanny Valley.
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* ''[[Walking With Dinosaurs|Walking with Cavemen]]'''s human ancestors, who are actually [[People in Rubber Suits]]. Especially ''Australopithecus'', because they are ''supposed'' to look weird, but their human proportions make them just slightly less weird than they should.
* Gerry Anderson's puppets for [[Thunderbirds]] and other shows are creepy - Peter Cook and Dudley Moore doing a live-action [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riMHp28_cqw parody] are even creepier. [[Played for Laughs|Or funnier]].
* The History Channel documentary ''[
* In the live-action [[The Fairly Odd Parents]] movie, Timmy's mom and dad are this. Despite being real people, they act a ''bit'' too cartoonish.
* In the Japanese comedy show ''Vermillion Pleasure Night'', the viewers are given [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUnwFHplBg4&feature=related Cathy's House].
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