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Now That We're Getting A LAND OF THE LOST Movie, What Other Krofft Madness Is Headed To Theaters??
Merrick here...
By now, most of us are aware that a Will Ferrell movie based on the 70s kid show LAND OF THE LOST is in the works. You can find pictures of the project's Sleestaks HERE.
Now comes word (via THIS ARTICLE at IESB) that LAND OF THE LOST creators Sid and Marty Krofft are close to bringing two of their more psychedelic properties top the big screen; a deal to do so should be closed within days.
The titles are:
SIGMUND AND THE SEA MONSTERS...
and H.R. PUFNSTUF...
"Pufnstuf"..."Can't do a little cause he can't do enough"...no double meaning, there.
The Kroffts have frequently asserted that drugs were not involved with the making of these shows. Which means...these series illustrate what they were thinking when they weren't stoned?
We're in need of intelligent, hard SF right about now; I'd much prefer to see them motion pictureize THE LOST SAUCER:
Who could sing that theme song?
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I thought it was common knowledge that the "H.R." stood for "Hand-rolled".
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And Electra Woman and Dynagirl? Now, those are some movies that need to be made. But Wonderbug has to be a period piece, set in the mid-seventies. Then I'd go see that.
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That was Sid & Marty, right? Either way, seems more adaptable to film than that crappier crap.
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It's tough to see how it'll translate. That Land of the Lost could be made into a movie makes sense--they manage to squeeze several seasons out of a new Land of the Lost with more menacing sleestaks and Timothy Bottoms (that all appeared to be shot in a local nature park, and sometimes in somebody's backyard) about, what? 10 years ago? Something like that. The concept is a classic . . . I'm definitely feeling the potential of Wonderbug (man, I loved that show when I was 6). Simgnud and the Sea Monsters was always a: eh, I'll watch this, cuz it's the only thing that isn't golf or a soap opera that's on.
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not like CG fake but like man in dinosaur costume fake.
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I believe, Sigmund was the Sea Monster's name, kevinwillis.net.
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And starred Butch Patrick, of Eddie Munster fame. That's just a remake waiting to happen. And Charles Nelso Reilly as Horatio J. Hoodoo . . . on a kids show.It's amazing that we aren't a nation of 100% stoners.
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He has a movie every week like Ben Stiller use to. Its time to take a break and let us forget about you for awhile.
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Sorry, I spent too much time in my youth having NOTHING to do with drugs. Just Like Sid and Marty Kroft.
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. . . it appears I'm trying to correct everyone hear. I feel so sure the title is Sigmund, The Sea Monster. Not Sigmund AND the Sea Monster. That ginger kid w/ the fro and the freckles couldn't possibly have been further cursed by being named Sigmund, could he?
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she said she was doing dyna-girl between shots.
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It was called "Sigmund and the Sea Monsters". But Sigmund WAS the small sea monster's name.
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They're terrifying and creepy and bad. Lidsville has to be the worst one but they're all pretty bad.
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Used to freak me out as a kid, still does with that oversized head and them googely eyes..knew a girl once that looked that her head was slighyl huge, short reddish hair and these big ole glasses with cock eyes that seem to bounce inside of those glasses..or maybe that part of it was just my imagination..Downright Phenominal head though, hey sometimes you have 3 or 4, its the end of the night..sh!t happens
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. . . but the titular sea monsters were his mean family, trying to steal him back from the ginger kid. Rereading this post will be so sad.
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Jun 16, 2008 9:28:20 AM CDT
Am I the only one who thinks that these Seamonsters...
by derlanghaarige
...are FUCKING SCARY?
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...and reveal that the Sleestaks are related to the Silurians and the Sea Devils, and that they have a smack down between them.
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...bitches!
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Jack Baker didn't go on to do porno, he was doing porno at the same time! How cool is that?
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Watching those videos and listening to the crazy shit adults had us watching as kids, how are more of us not in mental institutions? These shows are fucking crazy man. People say shows Like LOST are way out there and crazy, but seriously, a time-travelling Island that saves the world makes a hell of a lot more sense than anything in the HR PufnStuf video.
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I have vague recollations of the images in the video above.
But the theme song I remember went something like "Sigmond the sea monster and Johnny and Scott are friends. The finest friends that can be either on land or sea" or something like that...
Man why did I watch them videos now both Sigmond and HR are creeping me out! Repressed memories are back! -
the best tv show that ever existed.
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impressive resumé... those guys had the Bay City Rollers Show going on. And "Far Out Space Nuts", that sounds like something PlatinumDunes could pick up...
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Would be shocking!!!
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Off the top of my head, I can't thing of anything better!
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Would be a GIANT SIZED HIT!
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Hatville sounds better though
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http://tinyurl.com/yomw9r
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Would blow loads on the screen!
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That wouldn't be dated at all....
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I am still disapointed that they are going to make a Land of the Lost for laughs (granted if it is anything like the last few Will Ferrell movies, they really won't be playing for laughs). I would have rather seen then play it straight. Ferrell's mugging the cameras for an hour and a half will probably ruin the movie. I'm guess Sigmund will be one of those bland tweener movies that have come out in recent years. If the lead character was a girl instead of a boy, I would say this is a perfect Emma Roberts vehicle. I expect that movie to come and go.
If they do make any of their more trippy shows into a movie, they need to get a Tim Burton type of director to play the trippiness to the hilt.
BTW, while on the subject of Will Ferrell. Is it me or are movie comedians shelf life for being funny dwindling? The original SNL cast had a decade run or longer of being funny. Even Bill Murray can be relevant and funny in recent years. Chevy Chase went until the mid-eighties before he hit the comedic wall. Same with Dan Akroyd. Adam Sandler hasn't been funny since Happy Gilmore. Ferrell has put out a lot of crap recently. Ben Stiller has been horrible for years (although Tropical Thunder may turn that around). Jack Black gets weirder and less funny with each movie (although I was never the biggest fan anyway). -
Jeff: "You girls are the biggest thing in Japan!"
Pink Lady: "No, Jeff, the biggest thing in Japan is Godzilla!
COMEDY GOLD! -
not a parody of the actual show more like a spoof of those types of shows the Kroffts made. magical friends, puppets, silly songs, etc...
watch it here:
http://www.spike.com/video/2400160 -
sorry
http://www.spike.com/video/2400160 -
Where's my Bagpuss remake?
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There was a pilot with Markie Post a few years ago available on You Tube (or it used to be).
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Static Signal: The Movie.
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Jun 16, 2008 10:03:40 AM CDT
What was the one that was like Skipper and Gilligan in space?
by squashua
They were two janitors who accidentally launched themselves into space or something.
Breakfast... BREAKFAST!
Dinner... DINNER!
Lunch... LAUNCH!
Little buddy, no!!!!1!!1!one
Either that or Wonderbuggy. -
The movie that never existed.
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Those shows were all acid trips anyway
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Could be hot, if they were updated for today's hotness, and spent the whole film making out and petting each other heavily in various locales.
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That is all.
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Charles Nelson Reilly flying around in green makeup in a giant top hat....fucking owned
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That was Far Out Space Nuts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_Out_Space_Nuts
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My cousin had that, but a little penicillin, and he was fine.
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And they scared the fuck out of me. Even at the age of FOUR, I knew drugs were involved in the making of that show. Now that I think about it, I dunno where I got those slides from... I just remember saying to myself "Self... this is fucked up."
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They'll probably cast that David Archuletta (or however you spell it) from American Idol. *barf*
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Mie and Kei vaulted me into puberty...hell, they may even be the reason I married an Asian chick. I'm all for *that* movie.
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...on the Sid & Marty Kroft shows, living in the land of Drugachussetts. That said, I always thought there were too many gingers on their shows... even the red makeup & white eyeliner for Witchipoo and that little genie kid. But I still would like a flying, flattened top hat.
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...clearly, you've forgotten about...the Bugaloos. They're in the air and everywhere. >shudders<
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That was a Kroft production, right? Fred Willard should be available for it.
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All my life whenever I thought of a LotL movie, it was supposed to be a modernized, but faithful adventure thriller. Not a goofball send-up.
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I'm talking about creepiest fucking show where it seems like all the adults on the show are child molesters. i can't even remember the name of the villain but I believe he was played by Charles Nelson Reilly or Paul Lynnde and he was creepy as hell.
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I'm sure that's next.
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Or someone elses Smiley Face Acid trip?
NOthing worse than S&M Krofft shit...it is poorly done/cheap Disney for the shoeless, commune living doper.
HOw Cheap? These guys built a Theme Park full of this Krafft Crap in a Fuckin MALL in Atlanta!
I will say however...YOung Deidra Hall as ELectra woman was quite fappable. -
the kroft boys created acid trips for kids...compare the stuff they put on the air to the shit that passes for kids tv today...for land of the lost, they hired some of the top talent in writing sci fi...they didnt want to talk down to kids...and think about how they got around the censors with all the drug references...pufinstuff? lidsville? and the puffinstuff theme song? "cant do a little if you cant do enuf" i hope they do something for the memory of jack wild...he died a horrible death
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every boy in america had a crush on joy
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I'm sick of that phrase. It's based on a LIE. In Indiana Jones there was NO NUKE. It was a small A-bomb test. That's a different thing entirely from a nuclear missile. The magnitude is MUCH higher in a nuke. The damage is much greater with a nuke. A little A-bomb will destroy a city. A nuke would destroy a state, or more.
If you're going to use it (and frankly, I thought that scene was funny) then at least say "bombed the fridge" and not "nuked the fridge" because there's no way a fridge would survive a nuclear warhead. There is every possibility that a small A-bomb would be survivable if lead-shielded.
It's a terminology thing and it irks me. The scene wasn't so bad that it deserves to be a meme, and it hurts it more that people mangle it into something it was not.
Rant over. My vote for a Krofft show is Liddsville; it was the kookiest.
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Jeez. Thanks for dragging my brain back to the 1970s. I forgot all about that show until you mentioned it, and now it all came bubbling back to the surface.
You are REALLY dating yourself to mention it... But you definitely win the "Oh shit, that really DID exist!" prize for the day. -
was written by mark evanier...and he regrets it till today
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It was a Nuclear bomb. Hence the phrase - Nuked the Fridge. Perhaps you are thinking of the distinction between a Nuclear weapon and Thermo-Nuclear weapon, such as a hydrogen bomb. Yes, that is several degrees of magnitude more powerful than an Atom bomb, but nevertheless, they are both still nuclear.
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but I do remember SPACE NUTS
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Nuclear technology or not, it was still a BOMB, not a warhead, and the payload is magnitudes different.
Either way, it's a STUPID, STUPID, phrase and needs to die.
For the record, I liked Indy 4, but then I'm not obsessive about hating Lucas like some people. -
The state of education in this Republic is abyssmal...glad someone on here understands that any uncontrolled nuclear reaction in "bomb" form, is in FACT a "Nuke" in the popular terminology.
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and her somewhat Martha Quinn-ish visage. HOwever, that was offset by the horror of Pre-Fixadent Martha Raye...
And yes the show still sucked. -
Some people get bent out of shape trying to defend a stupid point - and others simply do not have the right information. If you are going to make an argument, be sure you have the facts straight.
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but I have really fond un-creeped out memories of those shows. I loved them! Remember the 'hosts' of those Saturday morning shows with the big fros and the platform boots back in the 70s? There was a recent Krofft spoof on My Name is Earl that was pretty funny too. I loved all the silly stuff. Whenever I see those black and white stripe stockings I still immediately think of Witchy-poo!
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http://tinyurl.com/335tnd
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I am with you. I too have very fond memories of those shows. It was during a time when the TV choices were very limited, and saturday morning cartoons and live shows meant something special. Kids back then actually looked forward to saturday shows, and just like the new TV seasons, kids had new cartoon seasons aimed at them. If anyone looks at comics from the late sixties and seventies you will see the ads for the upcoming saturday cartoon seasons. It was great to anticiapte the new shows. I like having more options now, but my fondness for the old shows will never abate. Long live Lancelot Link Secret Chimp!
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Somewhere in the transition from the 70's to the 80's a switch was made from all the happy stoner fucked up live action shows to cartoons. My cynical self tells me it was the change from the free love, power to the people vibe to the corporate money-grubbing Me Generation, but to be fair, it could also be that someone figured out shows featuring transforming robots kicked ass.
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Stoners (Pot smokers), don't usually halucinate about 8ft tall, neon colored, Alternative lifestyle promoting, bipedal Dragons whom talk with a Southern Drawl. Nor could they relate to magical talking flutes. This stuff is a straight up LSD trip..and would send your typical Hesher scambling to find the guy who laced his bud.
Not stoner influenced..but was someone dropping acid..you bet. -
Not "Sigmund and the Sea Monsters".
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It was Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
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BUT HE HAD NABORS UP THE ASS!
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Well?
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Okay. My picks would be: Doctor Shrinker and The Lost Saucer.
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Jun 16, 2008 4:29:58 PM CDT
Electra Woman and Dyna Girl in 3D! (like my View-Master)
by flim springfield
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That is a good choice Film Springfield.
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but I actually kinda dug Lidsville, I'm ashamed to say.
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That would work so well... Although I'd like to know what is going on with "The Bugaloos". They said it was going to be a preschool show in the vein of "The Doodlebops" and "The Wiggles"...I'd much rather have my nephew watch that. It also explains why I like "Pokemon" so much...
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Sounds like 10cc. Trying to think who could cover that...
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Jun 16, 2008 7:44:31 PM CDT
Can they turn CNN Center back into Sid and Marty Krofft land?
by atl_lurker
Anderson Cooper could be a tour guide.
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god how I loathe that Sigmund show. LOATHE
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fuckers
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You guys inspired me to look up Pink Lady's bio in Wikipedia. Their true story would make a great biopic. Sounds like they got doubly fucked over by their managers and then by Hollywood. (People like Jeff Altman placed all the blame on the girls for his show's failure.)
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcJxHwqO29w
Mmmmmm... Markie Post!! -
Not being an american I had never seen any of these Sid & Marty Kroft shows. Man, those were fucked up! I take The Real Ghostbusters, Thundercats, G.I.Joe, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles... hell, even Care Bears over these acid trips for kids. And to think that I always thought that the Banana Splits were too LSDish...
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"You must be attracted to my sexy round eyes". God, please make the pain stop.
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Mentions of misplaced vibrators, blowjobs and Wonder Woman's fake tits, plus I swear I heard her say "Mother...FUCKER" at one point. And they were shooting for the WB? I say crank up the sex and f-bombs and make that shit for HBO, you might've had something.Oh yeah, I looked up Pink Lady; a hell of a lot of you seem to remember a show that only ran for six weeks. And after much deliberation, Kei is *slightly* hotter.
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Actually, Baker did oral with Kristara Barrington in New Wave Hookers.
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The sexiest, gayest, off all the Kroft characters.. and that's saying something.
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Does anything NOT think this Will Ferrell LOTL will suck ass?
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Does anyone NOT think this Will Ferrell LOTL will suck ass?
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...somebody commercial with a falsetto lead singer. Lotsa scratchy, wah wah guitar.
I can hear the dear departed RAMONES singing the Sigmund theme, too. -
Especially Land of the Lost. Brad Silberling is such a boring director.
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You know it's coming.
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"Nuked the fridge" is entirely accurate. An A-Bomb operates on a nuclear fission reaction. Why does the verb "nuke" - slang, no less - require a warhead and not a bomb?
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Actually, how about a collaboration between Marilyn Manson and Rob Zombie for HR Puff N Stuff? Manson can play the witch.
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...used to give me a stiffie before I even understood why. That show was great for any S&M fantasy you might have, the two of them were constantly being tied up and everyone wore tight spandex and leather. Oddly enough, I'm not really into that, but I guess back in the late 70's it was as close to porn as I could get.
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That is one of the stupidest jokes I have ever read. But I have to say, I laughed I believe in large part because of how stupid it was. I vaguely remember this show from my 10 year channel surfing.
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Damn them. Will Ferrel is old enough to have watch Land of the Lost when it was out... Why comedy? Oh, I see, they must be remaking the early 90's version...! Oh, and as someone mentioned before in another thread like this-- someone for the love of God make a Cadillacs and Dinosaurs movie!
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