tl;dr Wil Wheaton, a 51 yr old man is traumatized by a comedian known for playing an insensitive a-hole pretending to attack a puppet of a monster (ie something that doesn't exist representing something that doesn't exist) because his dad was mean to him >40 yrs ago.
tl;dr Wil Wheaton, a 51 yr old man is traumatized by a comedian known for playing an insensitive a-hole pretending to attack a puppet of a monster (ie something that doesn't exist representing something that doesn't exist) because his dad was mean to him >40 yrs ago.
His dad was either too mean to him or not mean enough. I'd lean towards not mean enough, though he did allow him to be a Hollywood child actor.