Hard to believe Jack was 17 when he did this show. He looks around 13 or 14. He was so talented. Such a shame what his addictions did to his life. Rest in peace, Jack.
"It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead."
This show had a lot of catchy numbers in it and the character and set designs were really imaginative. Supposedly one of the animators on Ren and Stimpy was told by one of the Kroft Bros that the "H.R." stood for "hand rolled."
Here's the lyrics, courtesy of fan site "StayWildLikeJackWild": I'm a mechanical boy Like a mechanical toy I follow directions, whatever I'm told I never get hot and I never get cold I never have lived so I never grow old That's because I'm a mechanical boy I'm a mechanical boy Like a mechanical toy I do as I'm ordered and never ask why I never can laugh and I never can cry I never have lived so I never shall die That's because I'm a--'cause I'm a--'cause I'm a--'cause I'm a--'cause I'm a--'cause I'm a mechanical boy
I remember I used to watch this every Saturday morning as a child in the 70's. I loved Jack (Jimmy). I recently showed my grown children and they laughed and thought this was so cute. My ex-husband watched it as well when he was younger too.
Love this...So much! I miss being a kid and watching this back in the 70's. Thank you 'TH-cam' for giving us the ability to go back in time. And thank you for uploading.
I oftentimes listen to it and remember friends no longer alive, so many gone, sigh... 😢 I see Jack with his cute sad smile, like he was suffering, crying on the inside, poor young boys getting molested, 😢 💔 toys 🧸 for degenerate scum perverts.
This song is the reason I failed a test, my teacher put this on a loop one time, and when we were doing a test, it was stuck in my head the whole time.
Jack Wild had pure undisturbed TALENT. The young man could belt out a song and pop and lock dance much better then the hordes of youths The Disney Channel would later start cranking out by the sackful.
Dang that was actually great and groovy back then. My friends and I used to sing it and dance like Jimmy of HR Pufnstuf in the 70s. You dig groovy cats far out. ☮️👌👍✌️
How I absolutely loved this show, & still dig all its cool content - such as that shot over the end credits when U see the willow tree all decked out with John Lennon glasses. 😊
His story is so tragic. It makes me happy that he had someone to love and care for him until the end. God knows he deserved it after being indoctrinated and hooked on drugs by Hollywood, showbiz ruined what would have been a normal man's life.
I raise you Eyedea referencing his own [metaphorical] death [see Chemical Burns] weeks before his own actual death. "I'm not dead until I've died." He switched from hip hop, rap battles to inspired passionate punk and many of his fans did not take the transition well. . . Claiming "eyedea is dead" while he was alive. . . :(
@nullvoid6068 There are some that are given Narcotics unwittingly, I saw it many times as an Undercover Narcotics Agent, and a good friend was murdered by a low life degenerate scum dealer that slipped Fentanyl into a drink with Whiskey and she died, at age 32, not everyone chooses Drugs without a measure of peer pressure or coercion etc.. or deception as in unwittingly drinking a beverage with Narcotics. I hope one day I run into that man, I got something for his punk azz.
0:53 They are mimicking a scratched vinyl record here. Kids today probably don't know what this is, but when the old vinyl records got a scratch, it repeated the phrase over and over until corrected. HR is apparently mimicking correcting the scratch. Great singing and acting by Jack Wild.
I love PufnStuf’s reactions when Jimmy sings! He’s probably saying in his head: “Jimmy, are you alright, sunny? That’s a pretty nifty dance you’re doing!” Aw, PufnStuf is adorable.
Looks like H.R. is scared of getting kicked 😬 😳 I had a pair of zippered boots like that, mine were brown, very comfortable, they just up and vanished one day. Kind of a 'Hound of the Baskervilles' type mystery.
I loved this program so much remember being so little trying to find it on the television. Poor Jack, cigarettes and alcohol is deadly stuff. He looks like a little kid here. He was super talented. I had a huge crush on him.
first guy to do the Robot Dance ... he should be name as the father of pop or breakdance "pop lock" MJ did it later and Star Wars ... But Japan also had a guy in a suit while back too ...
Jack had an extremely late puberty. I don't think his voice broke till he was 18 or so whereas most boys are 12 or 13. He was a really talented underrated actor. Had he been given the roles I'm sure his life would have turned out differently but his alcoholism was already holding him back. Really tragic.
Jack wild had such a illustrious child star career talented actor-singer happy memories of him and butch patrick i have the mechanical robotic like boy he did was great and his birthday song❤❤😂
@@SidMartyKrofftPictures The initial idea to expand the McDonaldland universe was outsourced to Needham, Harper & Steers in 1970-71 at the request of McDonald's for its restaurants. The first commercial aired in January 1971. The early commercials were built on an upbeat, bubblegum-style tune and feature a narrator; many have plots that involve various villains, like the Hamburglar, Evil Grimace, and Captain Crook trying to steal a corresponding food item but are constantly foiled by Ronald. In 1973, Sid and Marty Krofft sued McDonald's, claiming that the entire McDonaldland premise plagiarized their television show H.R. Pufnstuf. In Sid & Marty Krofft Television Productions Inc. v. McDonald's Corp., the Kroffts also claimed that the character Mayor McCheese was an infringement on their copyrighted character H.R. Pufnstuf (a mayor himself); Pufnstuf's voice actor, Lennie Weinrib, was even involved with the McDonaldland ads, as the voice of Grimace. At trial, a jury found in favor of the Kroffts, and McDonald's was ordered to pay $50,000. The case was appealed by both parties to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The appeals court in a 1977 decision, reassessed damages in favor of the Kroffts to more than $1,000,000. As a result, McDonald's was ordered to stop producing some of the characters, or they must be modified to become legally distinct, and to stop airing commercials featuring those characters until then. - Wikipedia
Hannibal Lecter said, "I'm having an old friend for dinner" 🍽 😋 Dr. Chilton was on the menu as the main course, with potatoes au gratin, salad 🥗 and jam tarts to follow. Wine: Luis Jadot Bourjalais Village.
The 70s: Repeatedly screaming for someone to invent video games. I know this isn't technically a show from the 70s, but it has all the hallmarks of one. Including this frankly bizarre scene.
I had those boots in brown, they appeared one day, were very comfortable 😌 then as mysteriously as they had appeared, they disappeared without a trace a real unsolved mystery. Ala Hound of the Baskervilles. Vanished into thin air. They were my slutty boots, so comfortable 😌
Hard to believe Jack was 17 when he did this show. He looks around 13 or 14. He was so talented. Such a shame what his addictions did to his life. Rest in peace, Jack.
Really 17? Then how old was he in Oliver Twist as Dodger
@@devonmartinez4961 14 years old
Amazing in a sense, we can remember him in a tangible manner, Rest in Peace Dear Boy.
Yeah stop sending your kids to work at Hollywood
He actually looks younger than 13
"It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead."
‘I'm a friend of Sarah Connor. I was told she's here. Could I see her please?’
Ahhh... the female ego
Great 70's kids lyrics!
Sounds like an ex wife
Every boss you’ll ever have
Thanks, RLM
I stopped that video to go right to this song.
@@sir0nion right, i hope it's out my mind now. edit: it's wonderful
Yup!
💯💯💯
SAME
this kinda bangs
I sing this at work constantly.
It absolutely does. I came here only because it was so catchy.
This show had a lot of catchy numbers in it and the character and set designs were really imaginative.
Supposedly one of the animators on Ren and Stimpy was told by one of the Kroft Bros that the "H.R." stood for "hand rolled."
I'm 65,and still loving this!
Iv"v being watching HR Puffistuff since 1969 and now im 59 and still watching its dvds.
Here's the lyrics, courtesy of fan site "StayWildLikeJackWild":
I'm a mechanical boy
Like a mechanical toy
I follow directions, whatever I'm told
I never get hot and I never get cold
I never have lived so I never grow old
That's because I'm a mechanical boy
I'm a mechanical boy
Like a mechanical toy
I do as I'm ordered and never ask why
I never can laugh and I never can cry
I never have lived so I never shall die
That's because I'm a--'cause I'm a--'cause I'm a--'cause I'm a--'cause I'm a--'cause I'm a mechanical boy
Love that cute accent of his 👋
Only here because RLM and thought the song was pretty catchy plus I love seeing old stuff.
Me too, wrote down to search for this song later. Such a strange beautiful melody, I was immediately taken
The lyrics are so sad too, if you think about them- it's about someone who always follows the rules and never stands up for himself
At 51 I still remember every word.
wholesome
Me Too
And you will, no doubt, at 61, 71, and 81...and so you should... it was a great little tune. I wish it were a full-length song.
63 and still love and remember it. Too bad people look at me strange when I sing it...but the again I am not a singer ..yes that's it...?
I remember I used to watch this every Saturday morning as a child in the 70's. I loved Jack (Jimmy). I recently showed my grown children and they laughed and thought this was so cute. My ex-husband watched it as well when he was younger too.
H.R. Pufnstuf is for the children... No matter when they were born!
@@SidMartyKrofftPictures yes, my grandchildren, 5 & 8 Loved it too
It's so dense. Every single image has so many things going on.
When Rick finally kicks the bucket, some intrepid vandal needs to break into the cemetery and carve that line into his tombstone.
that Mechanical Boy can really bust a move
Mike and Jay made me come here
loved this show so much... also Lidsville.
Love this...So much! I miss being a kid and watching this back in the 70's. Thank you 'TH-cam' for giving us the ability to go back in time. And thank you for uploading.
This song will forever be stuck in my head
I oftentimes listen to it and remember friends no longer alive, so many gone, sigh... 😢
I see Jack with his cute sad smile, like he was suffering, crying on the inside, poor young boys getting molested, 😢 💔 toys 🧸 for degenerate scum perverts.
It's designed to be, I think. And there are a lot of worse songs that can be (and often are) stuck in our heads.
The question is why??
I want this song Extended, I love it!
It'll be like butter spread across too much bread, juice with too much water. This concentrated bit here is great though.
Loved watching this at age 14 as I was a fan of Jack Wild and plus I watched alot of Sid Marty Croft TV shows back then !
This is my favorite H.R. Pufnstuf song
First time ever watching it and I love it.
This song is the reason I failed a test, my teacher put this on a loop one time, and when we were doing a test, it was stuck in my head the whole time.
Jack Wild had pure undisturbed TALENT. The young man could belt out a song and pop and lock dance much better then the hordes of youths The Disney Channel would later start cranking out by the sackful.
Dang that was actually great and groovy back then. My friends and I used to sing it and dance like Jimmy of HR Pufnstuf in the 70s. You dig groovy cats far out. ☮️👌👍✌️
How I absolutely loved this show, & still dig all its cool content - such as that shot over the end credits when U see the willow tree all decked out with John Lennon glasses. 😊
Pufnstuf, calmly: Jimmy, what happened to you? Why you're walking that way?
Jimmy proceeds to scream: I'M A MECHANICAL BOY! Hahaha
hearing “i never have lived, so i never can die” today is a lot sadder considering jack wild (jimmy) left us a few years ago
His story is so tragic. It makes me happy that he had someone to love and care for him until the end.
God knows he deserved it after being indoctrinated and hooked on drugs by Hollywood, showbiz ruined what would have been a normal man's life.
it do be making me sob
I raise you Eyedea referencing his own [metaphorical] death [see Chemical Burns] weeks before his own actual death. "I'm not dead until I've died."
He switched from hip hop, rap battles to inspired passionate punk and many of his fans did not take the transition well. . . Claiming "eyedea is dead" while he was alive. . .
:(
That entire sentence is my life
@nullvoid6068
There are some that are given Narcotics unwittingly, I saw it many times as an Undercover Narcotics Agent, and a good friend was murdered by a low life degenerate scum dealer that slipped Fentanyl into a drink with Whiskey and she died, at age 32, not everyone chooses Drugs without a measure of peer pressure or coercion etc.. or deception as in unwittingly drinking a beverage with Narcotics.
I hope one day I run into that man, I got something for his punk azz.
I like the music
Thanks RLM
0:53 They are mimicking a scratched vinyl record here. Kids today probably don't know what this is, but when the old vinyl records got a scratch, it repeated the phrase over and over until corrected. HR is apparently mimicking correcting the scratch. Great singing and acting by Jack Wild.
I saw this once in my life. It popped up in my feed and I STILL remembered the song!
I understand this was Marty Krofft's personal favorite episode, and mainly for this song.
i've been watching this on loop for a while. i need to go outside
I'm still here, watching this on loop. Send help
😆
absolutely loved this when I was a kid, my dad showed it to me since it was on when he was a kid.
Greatest show ever made 📼🎅🤶
You mean gay
I've had this stuck in my head since I saw it one night on Nick at Night in 1995.
I love PufnStuf’s reactions when Jimmy sings! He’s probably saying in his head: “Jimmy, are you alright, sunny? That’s a pretty nifty dance you’re doing!” Aw, PufnStuf is adorable.
Looks like H.R. is scared of getting kicked 😬 😳
I had a pair of zippered boots like that, mine were brown, very comfortable, they just up and vanished one day.
Kind of a 'Hound of the Baskervilles' type mystery.
… and high as a kite, I'd imagine.
In a weird way? Yes.
I loved this program so much remember being so little trying to find it on the television. Poor Jack, cigarettes and alcohol is deadly stuff. He looks like a little kid here. He was super talented. I had a huge crush on him.
I would dance in front of the Telly 📺 watching this at age 7
He was also diabetic by then.
first guy to do the Robot Dance ... he should be name as the father of pop or breakdance "pop lock" MJ did it later and Star Wars ... But Japan also had a guy in a suit while back too ...
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Jack Wild, a millionaire at 18 and an alcoholic by 21. He died after a long battle with oral cancer at 53.
It's hard to believe that he was seventeen years old when he did this show.
The fact the comments aren't disabled tells you they know who's really watching this.
I remember this scene more than any other from the show.
man this is actually pretty good
this goes hard
Wonderful!!
Great song!!!! Such a shame we lost Cass so young❤❤❤
I love this video
That’s a good song
Jack had an extremely late puberty. I don't think his voice broke till he was 18 or so whereas most boys are 12 or 13.
He was a really talented underrated actor.
Had he been given the roles I'm sure his life would have turned out differently but his alcoholism was already holding him back.
Really tragic.
The clarity of this is wonderful! Could this mean we might yet see a Bluray HD scanned release one day soon or at least for streaming?
Jimmy: haha im roleplaying as hitchbot
H.R.:😲
That kid’s got some wicked acting chops
Jack Wild. It's a shame what happened to him. A millionaire at 18 and an alcoholic by 21. He died after a long battle with oral cancer at 53.
I usually do this when entering the office
The mechanical boy song will live forever in my mind.
im glad to see more songs from hr pufnstuf released like this! ( also the remix at the end is a neat addition )
Thank you RLM, gonna make this a punk rock song now
There's something extremely cool about this video
It's a lot of things, but cool definitely ain't one of them
Yes, very retro kool.
tell me this isn’t a banger
5 months later, still no disputes.
Why are you walking that way ?
Well, I have this xxxdo stuck in my xxx and it is a bit uncomfortable right now.
I'm 63 and occasionally that song still gets stuck in my head.
@@Felix.Hunger I'm a mechanical boy. Just a mechanical toy.
He was so talented 😔
Loved Jack
This is every kid who is told to stay off their phones and do chores. In the past it was television.
This is a bop. It doesn't have to be but it is.
This is a sample right here!
This show rocks 😎
R.I.P Marty Krofft
1937-2023
Wow!!! Deep stuff
Oh my.......Gawwwwwwd!!
Jack wild had such a illustrious child star career talented actor-singer happy memories of him and butch patrick i have the mechanical robotic like boy he did was great and his birthday song❤❤😂
"I'm a Mechanical boy..." Memories
this slaps
0:54 ah yes the proto dab
Wow i still like this song
The songs in this show are BOPS
I keep hoping the entire Krofft catalogue will 1 day appear on iTunes 4 purchase... someday?
This song is actually ridiculously catchy
Why is this in like hd? The dancing is good the song is a banger.. do i like hr puff and stuff?!
I love this!!! B
All work and no play makes jack a dull boy
My show I grew up on😅
I never have lived so I never shall die
yeah the mushrooms will do that to ya sometimes..
Witchpoo Spell. Mechanical boy Spell on Jimmy
HR Puff n stuff is so reminiscent of Mayor McCheese!
That is what we thought back in 1973 😉
@@SidMartyKrofftPictures
The initial idea to expand the McDonaldland universe was outsourced to Needham, Harper & Steers in 1970-71 at the request of McDonald's for its restaurants. The first commercial aired in January 1971. The early commercials were built on an upbeat, bubblegum-style tune and feature a narrator; many have plots that involve various villains, like the Hamburglar, Evil Grimace, and Captain Crook trying to steal a corresponding food item but are constantly foiled by Ronald.
In 1973, Sid and Marty Krofft sued McDonald's, claiming that the entire McDonaldland premise plagiarized their television show H.R. Pufnstuf. In Sid & Marty Krofft Television Productions Inc. v. McDonald's Corp., the Kroffts also claimed that the character Mayor McCheese was an infringement on their copyrighted character H.R. Pufnstuf (a mayor himself); Pufnstuf's voice actor, Lennie Weinrib, was even involved with the McDonaldland ads, as the voice of Grimace. At trial, a jury found in favor of the Kroffts, and McDonald's was ordered to pay $50,000. The case was appealed by both parties to the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. The appeals court in a 1977 decision, reassessed damages in favor of the Kroffts to more than $1,000,000. As a result, McDonald's was ordered to stop producing some of the characters, or they must be modified to become legally distinct, and to stop airing commercials featuring those characters until then. - Wikipedia
@@SidMartyKrofftPicturesbased
Yessssss
Tbh this gives off the same vibes as friends for dinner from the label before time. This song was created almost 30 years earlier tho
Hannibal Lecter said, "I'm having an old friend for dinner" 🍽 😋
Dr. Chilton was on the menu as the main course, with potatoes au gratin, salad 🥗 and jam tarts to follow.
Wine: Luis Jadot Bourjalais Village.
Foreshadowing of "David" (Pinocchio) from the movie A.I. - Artificial Intelligence. Kinda sad, if you think of it.
Thanks to that one friend who kept spamming this in discord
The 70s: Repeatedly screaming for someone to invent video games.
I know this isn't technically a show from the 70s, but it has all the hallmarks of one. Including this frankly bizarre scene.
Honestly I think The Banana Splits was a bit better quality, but honestly this was a gem.
Didn't even know the Kroft Brothers helped create The Banana Splits back in the day. Nice that Hanah/Barbera collaborated with them.
O oh Jungo it's Danger Island coming up next 😅
Him just raking Jimmy IM A ROBOT
What's the name of the remix at the end of this video?
Episode?
That does it! AI has gone too far!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha... good one.
He was the first to do the robot...a year later on soul train I begin to see the robot..the rest is history
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Song starts 0:12
Visual quality may improve over time, by audio remains classic forever.
This is the first time I noticed Puffinstuff's white patent leather boots. lol
I had those boots in brown, they appeared one day, were very comfortable 😌 then as mysteriously as they had appeared, they disappeared without a trace a real unsolved mystery.
Ala Hound of the Baskervilles.
Vanished into thin air.
They were my slutty boots, so comfortable 😌
Eee ive been subscribed just so i see more hd HR puf n stuf.
Any plans for the series headed to bluray?
Would love to pick it up!
It's online now🕹
It's also on DVD.
@@JellicleKat out of print dvd and not in the states anymore if it not
@@mikesilva3868 is it streaming in hd and where?
@@AtlasGeneticist last time I checked it was on iTunes 🎅
Somebody should do a remix of this...