Found: source of fear of robots
I was drafting a bit of a rant when I got distracted by Once Upon A Win and relived numerous parts of my childhood instead. I also found the following video, which I’ve been looking for on and off for the better part of ten years.
It’s the bit at 58 seconds that always creeped me out the most. In contrast, I loved the utterly un-human robot that plays the piano.