Barefoot Cartoon Animal: Cling and Clang.Both Sid and Marty seem to like mentioning Stupid Bat in their interviews and anecdotes about the series.Also, in the later Krofft series, Horror Hotel, Stupid Bat is also an employee of Witchiepoo's inn.
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The Series Finale doesn't resolve Jimmy's desire to get back home either, and is instead presented as a Clip Show. Aborted Arc: The gang's mission to help Jimmy get off Living Island and return home seems to have been forgotten by episode twelve.However, the Kroffts themselves were sued by the singer-songwriter Paul Simon who argued successfully in court that the show's Theme Song sounded too much like his song, "The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)," and the court settlement included Simon getting a mention in the credits. For more information, see this article at Cecil Adams' The Straight Dope, or this one at. The Kroffts sued in 1973, and won the case in 1977.
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Pufnstuf in 1971 after Sid & Marty Krofft refused to license the Pufnstuf characters for use in a McDonald's commercial campaign. This is not a show to watch sober.Īs a historical note, the basic design and characters of McDonald's " McDonaldland" commercials were blatantly plagiarized from H.R. There is just something almost seductively creepy about the whole thing, from Jimmy's constant prancing and the vaguely homoerotic relationship among boy, flute, and full-bodied puppet, to the bizarrely twisted maternal figure of the witch, to the generally drug-induced artistic design of the costumes and sets. Pufnstuf was disturbing is like saying the ocean is wet. A film version, featuring guest stars Martha Raye and Cass Elliot, appeared in 1970, a year after the show's premiere. The short series (17 episodes aired) followed the adventures of Jimmy, Puf and Freddie, as they made several attempts to smuggle Jimmy off the island while staying clear of Witchiepoo and her henchmen. Here "living" basically means "anthropomorphic" or "sentient".) Pufnstuf (voiced by Lennie Weinrib), a large dragon muppet who serves as mayor of Living Island, a bizarre place where everything, even the trees, are "alive". Yes, really.īut Pufnstuf was watching too, and knew exactly what to do. Her plan involves tricking both boy and flute into riding inside a boat that at first looks lovely and inviting, then turns sinister and violent. Witchiepoo (Billie Hayes) in a gambit to snatch his magical talking golden flute.
Jimmy ( Jack Wild), a young boy with a British accent and a speech impediment, is abducted by the sinister and disturbingly Oedipal witch Wilhelmina W. Pufnstuf is, Sid and Marty Krofft did a lot of drugs back in the '70s when they were given a TV show."įor a more technical description, read on.
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