Reasons I Am the Way I Am #17 & 18
#17 – Sid & Marty Krofft
17a. H.R. Pufnstuf
17b. Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
17c. Land of the Lost
17d. ElectraWoman and DynaGirl (Thank you Gary, for reminding me that Marlena from Days of Our Lives played the role of ElectraWoman)
#18 – The GiggleSnort Hotel (this will only ring a bell to Chicagoans… I don’t think it was ever syndicated)
Thank you, YouTube, for letting me know I didn’t make this sh*t up.
Filed under: General on September 14th, 2007
September 14th, 2007 at 12:13 am
i grew up without a tv so i have never actually seen any of these shows. EVER. i thought i had all the bases covered by watching threes company reruns and saturday morning cartoons.
but dammnit i knew there was a reason i was less then adequate with my generational peers.
September 14th, 2007 at 12:39 am
Oh great… now I’ve got the theme song from ElectraWoman and DynaGirrrrrrrrrrl going through my head!
September 14th, 2007 at 7:14 am
Miss Jean of Romper Room fame made me the person I am today….apparently, at 18 mothes old, I was able to recite The Pledge of Allegiance.
My name is Rhonda and I am a Romper Room prodigy.
I peaked early.
September 14th, 2007 at 8:36 am
I loooooved the Gigglesnort Hotel. Dirty Dragon! The Lemon Joke Kid! Blob!
Sigh.
September 14th, 2007 at 8:53 am
I remember watching Land of the Lost. Even as a kid, though, I was watching it because I was fascinated by how truly deeply awful it was. So disturbing, in fact, that sometimes I’d walk outside, sit in the dirt, and softly weep as I watched the clouds float by.
Well, not really, but you get my point.
September 14th, 2007 at 8:53 am
I remember watching Land of the Lost. Even as a kid, though, I was watching it because I was fascinated by how truly deeply awful it was. So disturbing, in fact, that sometimes I’d walk outside, sit in the dirt, and softly weep as I watched the clouds float by.
Well, not really, but you get my point.
September 14th, 2007 at 9:42 am
asia: no tv? see, that’s why you run marathons and i eat mint chocolate drumsticks. come grasshopper, you have much to learn. (btw, that’s a reference to an important tv show called kung fu. you probably never heard of it, growing up with no tv and all…)
dave2: and here i was trying to get hr pufnstuf stuck in your head. “hr pufnstuf! who’s your friend when things get rough? hr pufnstuf, can’t do a little ’cause he can’t do enough!”
rhonda: i see janie and billy and rhonda and sally. and there’s david and roger and tommy, too!
kris: dirty dragon used to creep me out a little bit. so did that weirdo bellhop.
sir: the special effects were so unbelievably bad – watching that intro took me back… the raft floating on the river is just awesomely terrible! oh! and the sleestaks! let’s never forget the sleestaks.
September 14th, 2007 at 10:50 am
Thanks Kris Dresen for remembering the Lemon Joke Kid. See Jenny, I told you I didn’t make that up! He rode in a helicopter and threw lemons I swear it. I may be mixing that up an episode with WKRP in Cincinnati though.
September 14th, 2007 at 11:58 am
I LOVED H.R. Pufnstuf, and my brothers never let me forget it. I’ll have to send them this clip.
Are there any there for Garfield Goose? The Ray Raynor Show? I am off to search!
Thanks for the trip down Memory Lane!
September 14th, 2007 at 1:00 pm
Natasha – The Lemon Joke Kid did ride in a helicopter and throw lemons! And do you remember when he stuck a lemon in Dirty Dragons nostril and it caused all sorts of whackiness?
Then again, why do I remember that??
September 14th, 2007 at 2:02 pm
The sad thing is, that I can remember all the words to the theme songs of all these shows.
Growing up in the seventies was so confusing, because it wasn’t until you were older that you realized that pretty much every children’s television show writer was on some kind of hallucinogen.
I lived in Chicago from the age of 10-14. I TOTALLY remember The GiggleSnort Hotel.
September 14th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
That was some of the greatest TV ever!.
I still remember all of the theme songs for HR Pufnstuf, Lidsville, The Bugaloos.
Sid and Marty were brilliant.
Thank you for that.
September 14th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
Man, I loved GiggleSnort Hotel. Thanks for confirming the lemon joke kid. I thought that all was just a fever dream…
September 14th, 2007 at 4:02 pm
nat: i almost called you when i read kris’ comment – you weren’t crazy after all!
peggasus: i’m almost certain i saw some ray raynor on youtube – good luck!
kris: i’m about *this* close to ordering the DVD so i can see the lemon joke kid – he’s not on any of the youtube clips.
churlita: i think it’s awesome that you remember all the theme songs. as soon as land of the lost came on, i instantly remembered it, “marshall, will and holly… on a routine expedition…”
mad william: another friend mentioned lidsville to me last weekend, but i don’t remember that show. sid and marty totally ruled!
pete v: i love how all of us thought we had hallucinated this entire series. that’s the sign of a really good show, if you asked me.
September 14th, 2007 at 6:50 pm
I totally have that Electra Woman song going through my head!
September 16th, 2007 at 9:05 am
Heh..I always thought the H.R. Pufnstuf was weird and psychedelic. But I loved Land of the Lost!!
October 5th, 2007 at 5:47 am
Hi, just wanted to let the Chicagoans know that Gigglesnort Hotel was shown over here in Singapore in the 80s. I vaguely remembered the Lemon Joke Kid dropping bombs from the helicopter and that it used to scare the hell out of me as a kid. But for the life of me, couldn’t remember his name or the name of the show until I finally did some serious googling today. Now if I could just find some clips of him…