Comments | eregyrn: The Aforementioned Sid & Marty Krofft Extravaganza!

eregyrn

The Aforementioned Sid & Marty Krofft Extravaganza!

Feb 18, 2011 15:16

All right -- in the late 60s and early 70s, Sid & Marty Krofft were producers of children's TV programs that tended to involve giant puppets or people in suits interacting with regular people, and extraordinarily bad sets and special effects. Psychedelic imagery figured heavily into this ( Read more... )

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telepresence February 18 2011, 20:54:51 UTC

I weep for the poor misunderstood Sleestak!

eregyrn February 19 2011, 01:30:05 UTC

You and only you.

jenlev February 18 2011, 23:53:28 UTC

Oh my gods, that character was so frelling annoying. Gah! You on the other hand are a delight.

PS. I think I may have to go have a flashback now though..... heh.

eregyrn February 19 2011, 01:31:01 UTC

My thinking even at the time was: if I were transported to a world where there were actual dinosaurs, I would not spend all my time SCREAMING LIKE A NINNY. It would have been cooooool. (I was the sort of little girl who wanted a pet dinosaur of my very own.)

jenlev February 19 2011, 01:42:29 UTC

Exactly and indeed. Because seriously, what good did all that screaming do. Gah.

PS. Indigo has generously offered to play the role of a dinosaur if necessary. After all, an alien has got to mix it up a bit. ;)

green_grrl February 19 2011, 00:51:41 UTC

Blast from the past!!!

I loved the Bugaloos. (Mostly because I wanted to have wings and live in a tree.) And the Banana Splits! They were like The Monkees in animal suits. :D

H.R. Pufnstuf and Sigmund and the Sea Monsters were okay.

But my favorite was Lidsville!

eregyrn February 19 2011, 01:29:52 UTC

See, it's interesting, because for whatever reason the stations where I grew up must not have gotten Lidsville. I had never even heard of it until recently when someone posted a YouTube clip of its intro. Which is truly freaky.

I was the most humongous fan of the Monkees, you can't even imagine. :)

green_grrl February 19 2011, 01:50:55 UTC

And where I grew up we didn't have Sigmund or HR on locally-I saw those when I visited my grandmother's! The vagaries of syndicated shows. But there's the advantage of those 2-minute, full-story intros-you know everything you need to know about Lidsville from that! :DDD

maxineofarc February 19 2011, 01:32:00 UTC

How did it never get through my head that Land of the Lost was a Krofft deal?

eregyrn February 19 2011, 01:33:51 UTC

I think you can be forgiven, because it was low on psychedelia, kookiness and whimsy. I think the only marker of it was that the sleestak were in suits -- but even those were more "realistic" and svelte suits than the Kroffts usually inflicted upon their characters. I forget when I found out they were responsible for it. I don't think I knew as a child. Or cared.

(Are those the worst special effects ever in that intro, or what?)

telepresence February 19 2011, 02:47:38 UTC

I'm pretty certain that with the software currently installed on my PC and a garden hose we could do a better opening sequence than Land of the Lost.