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Nobody seems to remember this show but me. Talking hats and Charles Nelson Reilly, Sid and Marty Krofft at their finest with Lidsville.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4t3T2UHoJk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ab-INOdHvQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpiebd0g2U8

Wow. That makes me want to smoke dope. A lot of dope.

I remember it.

i remember.
and all of the sid and marty krofft stuff that went with it.
i don't know what the hell those fellows had access to, but it wasn't weed, or if it was, they had garbage bags full of it. when i was older, i tried to smoke my way to lidsville and i couldn't even get half way.

related:
at the time, charles nelson reilly was a true superstar, in the sense that a gay man could be in the 70's. he was the real star of lidsville. two things about him. first, he starred in another kids show - the unbelievably snarky 'uncle croc's block', in which he played a very strange kids show host (look it up - it was actually good - sarcasm, mean spiritedness, creepy oddness, it had it all)

and second, he was the baddest motherfucker ever to live;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrGmD2wk8m4

ow my head.
get off my lawn.
*shakes cane*

here's a short list of krofft titles to youtube. most are epic.

h. r. pufnstuff
sigmund and the sea monsters (they're making a movie. yes, really.)
krofft supershow (containing dr. shrinker, wonderbug, bigfoot and wildboy, electrawoman and dynagirl and others)
the bugaloos (don't search for this or you'll be sorry, really)

and the well-remembered land of the lost.

(edited to correct the fact that i can't type bugaloos, even when i know it's not bugaboos)

Heh, Wierd Al still cracks me up. I actually ran across the Lidsville vid linked from a Metafilter post for that video.


Oh, and it's the Bugaloos.

"The bugaloos, the bugaloos
we're in the air and everywhere
flying high, flying loose
flying free as a summer breeze..."


Damn hippies.

there's a flashback and a half. Yikes! Garbage bags full of weed indeed . . . the Krofft brothers were jangleplatz!

calamari kid wrote: Oh, and it's the Bugaloos.

"The bugaloos, the bugaloos
we're in the air and everywhere
flying high, flying loose
flying free as a summer breeze..."


Damn hippies.

I liked the Bugaloos!



When I was was a wee laddie, my dad took me on the set of Sigmund and The Sea Monsters. He knew someone that worked on the show. Got to meet Billy Barty. Wish I (or my dad) was smart enough to get autographs.

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I watched plenty of Krofft as a kid, but somehow managed to miss that one.

I loved Pufnstuf and Sigmund and the Sea Monsters (Land of the Lost goes without saying). Bugaloos drove me absolutely nuts. Before I even knew what gay meant, I knew that the Bugaloos were far too gay for my taste (even though I grew up to love ABBA). I was always upset when the Sid and Marty Krofft hour featured a Bugaloos episode. Only slightly less annoying for me was the Lost Saucer, featuring Jim Neighbors.

As for CNR - here's a fantastic interview.

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