Copy That, 🌬️💨🎏 … in response to your initial query at 6:30: I’m pretty sure you just changed all of our lives. Also Mr. show with Bob and David was like time travel to now, from then. Have you ever seen _Run Ronnie, Run?_ I suppose I was around 16 when I first watched the _Mr. Show_ sketch: “The Altered State Of Druggachuessets. 🔮👃🏽🔮 Anyway, new viewer here, Liked, Shared, and Subscribed. ✌️, Stay Frosty™️
You should explore more of the Sid & Marty Krofft Universe! They made several series in the same vein as (but none quite as good as) HR Pufnstuf. Sigmund & the Seamonsters, Lidsville (all the characters are different style hats!), & The Bugaloos (best theme song!). Later, they did Electra Woman & Dyna Girl, & one of the greatest Saturday morning kids show of all time: Land of the Lost (amazing stop action claymation dinosaurs, a scary advanced race of reptilians, & primitive hominids…Chaka❤️). Oh yeah, & they were definitely on drugs. ✌🏼😶🌫️
The McDonaldland commercials didn’t just look like HR Pufnstuf, it was actually ripping it off. The Krofft Brothers were supposed to produce the commercials but McDonald’s claimed that the deal with the ad agency had fallen through (which wasn’t true) once the Krofft brothers left McDonald’s did the commercials with a different production company while blatantly ripping off HR Pufnstuf
@@mealwheels3562There is a court case of Sid and Marty Krofft vs McDonaldland here is a link en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_%26_Marty_Krofft_Television_Productions_Inc._v._McDonald%27s_Corp.
It's kind of surreal to hear somebody call a show that was a huge Saturday morning hit during my childhood "niche". It was far from that. If you were in the 5-9 year old range from about 1969 to 1973 or so, you were watching H.R. Pufnstuf. It was big and it was mainstream Saturday morning television.
Witchiepoo made a few cameos without Pufnstuf. As far as other Sid and Marty Krofft shows, there's an episode of Lidsville where Witchiepoo starts dating the main villain of that series Hoodoo (who is played by Charles Nelson Riley). The villains bond over tormenting the heroes of that series. Apparently Witchiepoo also appeared on an episode of The Bay City Rollers show, but I don't recall ever seeing that. Witchiepoo also appeared on the Paul Lynde Halloween Special from 1976 where we find out the witch from the Wizard of Oz (played by the same actress from the 1939 movie, Margaret Hamilton) is her sister. I assume they mean that in the familial sense, although it is possible they're using "sister" in the slang way as they are both witches and it is the 70's. Making the whole thing even odder is Kiss are one of the musical guests.
The ONE person who may be able to revive the show is Craig McCracken tbh. If he put the same whimsy he used in Fosters Home and the musical talents from Wander Over Yonder into it I think he would be the guy to pull it off.
So my mom would have been 9 in 1969 and this was her favourite show (from Canada) so I did a massive deep dive into this show when TH-cam was brand new because I wanted to see a clip of the show (she talked about it all the time and would try to describe it but it’s not like we could just throw it on the TV in 90’s) so that was my fist search on TH-cam in like 05/06 ish as a 22 year old and was in awe lol
I’ve never once watched this show but given how much I knew about it through osmosis I’d have NEVER assumed it had such a short run. Jimmy’s a great actor, all things considered. And I’d heard the Mechanical Boy song before somewhere I SWEAR.
Hmmmm. I ALSO somehow knew about this show through some kind of cultural osmosis, despite never having watched it. Strange... I don't know what surprised me most - its short run, Jimmy's accent, the heavy-handed capitalist subtext, or the fact that H.R. is a dragon. And to think, I'd have gone to my grave not knowing any of this, if it weren't for this amazing video!
Actor Jack Wild's short stature and youthful appearance allowed him to play roles much younger than his actual age. When this show was produced he was 16 years old. Unfortunately he had a difficult life and died from throat cancer in 2006 after life long struggle with alcohol and other health issues.
I was 9 years old when the show came out and was quite taken by it. I always hated the canned laughter but that's how TV was back then. I loved the music!! I watched all of Sid and Marty Krofft's shows, but Pufnstuf will always have a special place in my heart
Great video , its nice seeing more people talk about H.R Pufnstuf! Also my jaw dropped when I saw the Todd Kauffman adaptation mentioned and the Animatic I found was shown , I'm genuinely glad that more attention was drawn to it since my upload of the Animatic , my archive and the many pieces of animation I found and archived from it!
"You can't do drugs and make great TV" Yeah, when you're on set. But in the writer's room you can smoke all the Mary Jane you want, as long as you make it coherent when you're sober. Lots of creatives admit to using drugs to kick start the thought process.
Apparently the writers of the Simpsons did acid and mushrooms and read newspapers while writing out some of their episodes. This is from a man named Sean Gote, who used to be a writer for them at one point in time.
You're completely ignoring the dynamic of the Krofft brothers. Marty was the business head. He actually didn't do drugs. You don't run a successful business on drugs. Just ask John DeLorean. Now Sid, on the other hand, was the "creative" one...and is more than willing to admit his own experience with mind-altering substances. Marty always said, "WE were not on drugs." And he was being honest.
@@spcgliderokay but we weren't talking about business we were talking about doing drugs and making great TV and you just admitted that one of them was doing drugs and making great TV
@aSipOfHemlocktea as someone who worked in tv, I can tell you that "making great tv" *is business*. Ideas don't just make themselves into a tv show. Sid came up with the ideas that became Pufnstuf. But he didn't write the show. He didn't design the characters. He didn't create the sets or the costumes. He didn't direct the episodes. He didn't create the music. He didn't edit the episodes. He didn't even sign the paychecks. I'm not going to take away from his creative accomplishments, but intimating that Sid "made a show" while he was on drugs is a grotesque over-simplification of the process. And if you think Sid was sitting around directing people to "get some more drug references into the show", there's no way on Earth that those people wouldn't have divulged that publicly sometime in the last 50+ years. Instead, its just more of the same insinuation by everybody looking for something salacious where it doesn't exist. That said, I was simply clarifying something that Marty always said in interviews when asked the same, old, hackneyed, unoriginal question about drug use and children's programming.
I never got into the show but the movie is still one of those sick day movies that makes me feel better. Cass Elliot's song was exactly what I needed to hear at a difficult time.
I'm surprised you didn't mention the *other* notable lawsuit involved with the show: Simon and Garfunkel sued over the theme song, because the chorus is lifted directly from "59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" -- and they won, too. So Paul Simon's name got added to the credits for the H.R. Puffnstuff theme! Anyway... great video, glad the algorithm threw you my way and I'm looking forward to binging the rest of your stuff now! 😃
I grew up watching alot of shows from my dads childhood including this and sigmond the seamonster. Honestly some of my favorite shows i had watched when i was super young. My dad actually gave me a signed dvd of HR signed by the guy that played Jimmy
@@MsThebeMoon yeah my dad met him in the early 2000s, he told me it was at a convention I believe. At that time we lived near Chicago so I assume it was around there.
Thank you for an entertaining video. HR was a staple in our household in the 80s, and I can still hear my father singing that ridiculous theme song. I find it fascinating that such relics can in fact be found timeless even among the Zoomer generation. There honestly is nothing quite like it anymore. Enjoyed the vid and keep up the work!
Joining the "Discovered HR Puffnstuff via a Pogo song before tiktock" crew! I wish that more shows would be as creative with character suits and practical effects.
Wait this show is so creative its hilarious how different from anything we have today. I love them showing witchiepoo getting split in two and then saying perfectly in sync "you split me in two!" is beautiful.
Maybe you touch on this later, but while I'm thinking of it- the creators of h.R puf and stuff didn't sue because it looked similar. They sued because they were hired to develop characters, which they did. Then McDonald's broke their contract, fired them and used the characters.
I think the producer is meant to be a spoof of "Akim Tamiroff." He was an Armenian-American character actor with a 5-decade career. Edit: If Freddy can age, does that mean he can die? Or is he like Tithonus from Greek mythology? I find either option very troubling.
I was born in 1965, so I was four when this came on TV, and I remember it QUITE vividly. One of the things not mentioned in this video is that all of those voices a lot of the characters use are imitations in the same vein as the West Wind being John Wayne. Ludicrous is definitely a W.C. Fields imitation, and there’s someone who was doing Cagney as well. There are some other 40s, 50s, and 60s voice imitations used as well. I don’t know why this was the case, but a lot of kids’ shows would do this. It might be that a lot of the WB cartoons from the 40s and 50s were routinely played on Saturdays and since those were topical when released, they often had pop culture references to stars at the time, and those voices sort of became second nature knowledge to a bunch of Gen-X kids. Kind of like Gen-Z kids probably knowing a lot more about the 80s and the actors from that era than you might thing.
I was thinking the same thing about the voices being popular (of the time) culture references. Jimmy's voice becomes James Cagney in the episode that he plays a cowboy in the film directed by the frog (not Judy the Frog who was always Liza Minnelli in my mind).
Wow, it’s so nice to see you put focus on this one. I was obsessed!!!! But it was 1997. Lol. I was such a big fan that Jack actually called me when my dad died. He was my favorite actor in the world. RIP Jack.
I'm 51yrs old,.so I grew up watching reruns of this show. It was always one of.my favourite shows back then. I always wondered what kind of creature HR Pufnstuf was? Personally, he always looked.like a Gecko or other small lizard 🦎. He definitely has a gecko head, tail and overall look. I totally forgot one of the characters is named Ludacris; "Act a Fool!" & "Move B!tch" are great tunes😂🤣 Thanks for the video, brought me lotsa fond memories from my childhood 😎 👍👌 🦎 chEErs ¹1
If you watch the film, you’ll see that he’s a new kid playing his flute in the band and he gets kicked out cause he’s late. He doesn’t know Freddy until he runs away to the woods to sulk.
Some years ago, I was in a production of "Hansel and Gretel" as the witch, and yes, I did base my performance on Witchiepoo. It is VERY hard to keep up that voice.
Thank you for mentioning the Mr.Show sketch! Always the first thing that pops in my head whenever H.R. is brought up. "I declare this pizza to be, AWESOME!"
26:32 I would like to know why witchiepoo is going after a goofy flute when there’s a literal Time Machine that she could be going after. Love your videos after just discovering you today lol.
I’ve never heard of this show before, but it’s so fascinating! I absolutely adored the Witch Poo’s performance. Respect your dedication in getting high while covering the movie portion.
This show has lived in my deep subconscious since I was a child. I periodically would catch myself singing the theme song but I could never remember the exact details. I have always wondered why I would think about "Huffnpuff", that is, until I just got recommended your video. The wire in my brain connected and I literally said "OH SHIT". Thanks brother. You've un-repressed my repressed repressions of repress.
The theme song literally says "do a little but you can't do enough". Who are they trying to fool exactly? There has been hella ascension in that writers' room.
I remember the episode of George Lopez where he dances with Puff n Stuff for his birthday thinking it was made up. I showed my dad and he went nuts with how he much he loved this show lol
This show just reminds me of the parody that Bob Odenkirk and David Cross did of it on "Mr. Show with Bob and David" EDIT: Probably should've watched the video before commenting. lol
For the past few years, my grandfather and I watch Sid and Marty krofft shows every single night together, seeing an actual video about this finally is amazing. I’ve adored how you went into depth about each episode, it’s genuinely a gem of a show.
Another bizarre thing was that the Krofft’s had a VERY short lived indoor amusement park in Atlanta in what is now the CNN Center. It was called The Omni Center at the time, and it bragged that to get to The World of Sid & Marty Krofft you had to take the longest escalator in the world. I never did get to go to this, but I was in the Omni Center after it had closed. The escalator was still there, and I snuck up as far as I felt comfortable and you could still see the remnants of amusement section. It was kind of a sad experience, because I didn’t know it was closed.
1970s was the BEST decade for cartoons and childrens tv shows on saturday mornings....Born in 1965 best time to be a kid growing up in that era....40s 50s 60s 70s 80s great cartoon eras.
Watched this on my grandparents VHS as a kid thinking all other ppl my age watched it as a kid, oh I was so wrong. Im just 25 so way past the 1970/80s demographic this was made for
AAAAAHHHHHHHHH I need more videos from you!!!! This is the last one. I've watched literally every one of your videos. And I've only been a subscriber for like a week. Ugh. Moreeeeeeeeeeeeeee please!!!!
Dude this is the second video of yours that I've ever watched and I just noticed while liking the video your channel is small. I had no clue due to the sheer quality of your content.
I watched this show every Saturday as a child. Didn't turn me into a drug addict but I did end up working in the arts so perhaps it helped my imagination.
Native Georgia boy. These are core memories for me. The park at CNN center was wild too. This show is probably one of the reasons I've dabbled in psychedelics my whole life
I've always seen clips of this show all the time but this is the first time I finally get context on it lmao. Yea this show is nuts and way ahead of its time
During and just after the original broadcasts, the World of Sid & Marty Kroft opened as an indoor amusement park in Atlanta. (It occupied the future CNN Center.) The characters were all there, and it was like being in the series. Seeing that I was about six at the time, it was terrifying. The amusement park wasn’t open very long, but was partially moved to nearby Six Flags Over Georgia (this was when they were still a theme park rather than a roller coaster park). There was a theater that ran puppet-centric shows every hour, and characters roaming around that part of the park. Again, to a small child, it was terrifying. There were plans to expand the area to take in more of the Kroft universe (Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, Land of the Lost, etc.) but that never happened.
I am impressed that you obviously watched all the episodes and the film obviously attentively! Sid and Marty Krofft shaped much of my childhood with their programs. Pufnstuf was definitely a product of the times paired with their innovative puppetry. Lots of pop culture references, and the sped up shots influenced by the likes of The Monkees. And when I was a kid, any Jack Wild song was a good song. I enjoyed your observations and commentary. I will add one note: I always saw Judy the Frog - who gives us the Moon Walk - as Liza Minnelli in Cabaret, which was directed by Bob Fosse. And Fosse is who Michael Jackson stole many of his best moves from. If you're not sure what I mean, check out Fosse as the snake in the 1974 live action The Little Prince (which is another work on film that could use some analyzing).
Maybe I missed it, but you didn’t point out that pufnstufs arms are inanimate while talking. Sometimes one arm moves, and the other one is stuffed because he needs at least one hand to open and close the mouth from the inside.
I never expected to run into something like this, and I'm grateful I did. I was one of those kids growing up with puff n stuff in the 60's, and I'm not sure if I still watched it by the 70's 🤔 but I do remember being a teenager in the 70's and my friends and I were puffin' our own "stuff," by then ... 🤣🤣🤣 Have you heard of, "Puff the magic dragon?" 😅 I remember my siblings and I singing that song to my older brother to make fun of him when he was crying and it would make him REALLY MAD, and then we laughed at him harder... 🤣🤣🤣 I know, it wasn't nice, but it was hilarious then, and we still get a laugh with him about it now. 😁 I can't wait to share this and I hope to see a video of the puffin dragon... I mean, "Puff the magic dragon!" Thank you so much 👍🏼 I love this ❣️🥰🌹
Weirdly enough, I know of this show! My parents had an old VHS box set and gave it to me when I was little. Can’t say I remember a lot, but the Three Oranges bit took me BACK (apparently it was an inside joke with my family too!)
It really amazes me these days that people lack such imagination that anything colorful or different must be immediately attributed to drugs. That is how dumbed down and overstimulated we've all become. The lack of imagination or originality is really staggering.
This was one of my family's favourite shows! Mum actually bought this VHS cause she grew up with it too - we ALWAYS sang the theme tune together and I hid when Witchy Poo took The Flute from Jimmy 😂
Unlocking memories here, how could this shown I've never seen have such a huge influence on my early life? Christ, I remember my mum singing oranges poranges all throughout my childhood. So many in jokes with her start with this show, well hottdam!!
Side note, Shirley's producer sounds exactly the same as Boris from Rocky and Bullwinkle. Maybe it's just a case of someone doing a russianish accent and it sounding the same.
Tbh this video led me to seeing your channel and realizing I fw you hard and subscribing to you, sooooo… maybe it was fate, your video is obviously in the algorithm
Thank god this ended up in my recommended! I watched this as a kid and could never find where to watch it as an adult that I thought it was a fever dream!
i wish there were more consistent women characters besides the witch. i LOVE miss judy frog, but she didn't seem to get much screen time :( also i had no idea that the mechanical boy song was from this show! the more you know lol
SID N Marty Croft formed so much of the imagery I pull from in creating fantasy products and interiors spaces. My dream was puppetry because it was their background. I was tiny young and still followed all the politics around their work and what they created. I feel like the show ran longer than it did because I can still watch it as though each episode is new. They made color and shape a lot more accessible and as kids we all had more freedom to express than generations before us and it has been great. It was a movement of artists ljke them and t.v. was still kinda new but it grew, we had Sesame street, Mr Roger's and many local cartoon hosting shows that brought characters and yes morals to the minds of kids.
yoo!! i am 20 years old, born in 2003 and i watched this show as a child. im guessing my mom watched it as a child, because my dad has said this show creeped him out! i don't remember much about this show apart from the theme song and the character designs, so this will be fun! i also enjoyed watching other shows that my parents watched. i was obsessed with Punky Brewster from the 80s, and even dressed up as her for Halloween. i also watched the original Land of the Lost with my dad.
R.I.P. to Marty Krofft
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… in response to your initial query at 6:30: I’m pretty sure you just changed all of our lives. Also Mr. show with Bob and David was like time travel to now, from then. Have you ever seen _Run Ronnie, Run?_
I suppose I was around 16 when I first watched the _Mr. Show_ sketch: “The Altered State Of Druggachuessets. 🔮👃🏽🔮
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You should explore more of the Sid & Marty Krofft Universe!
They made several series in the same vein as (but none quite as good as) HR Pufnstuf. Sigmund & the Seamonsters, Lidsville (all the characters are different style hats!), & The Bugaloos (best theme song!).
Later, they did Electra Woman & Dyna Girl, & one of the greatest Saturday morning kids show of all time: Land of the Lost (amazing stop action claymation dinosaurs, a scary advanced race of reptilians, & primitive hominids…Chaka❤️).
Oh yeah, & they were definitely on drugs. ✌🏼😶🌫️
The things they got away with, were awesome loved all their shows. They never took it seriously. Just had fun.
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The McDonaldland commercials didn’t just look like HR Pufnstuf, it was actually ripping it off. The Krofft Brothers were supposed to produce the commercials but McDonald’s claimed that the deal with the ad agency had fallen through (which wasn’t true) once the Krofft brothers left McDonald’s did the commercials with a different production company while blatantly ripping off HR Pufnstuf
Source please, I’m interested in looking it up
@@mealwheels3562There is a court case of Sid and Marty Krofft vs McDonaldland here is a link en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sid_%26_Marty_Krofft_Television_Productions_Inc._v._McDonald%27s_Corp.
@@mealwheels3562 There is info on the Krofft Brothers wiki about the case.
It's kind of surreal to hear somebody call a show that was a huge Saturday morning hit during my childhood "niche". It was far from that. If you were in the 5-9 year old range from about 1969 to 1973 or so, you were watching H.R. Pufnstuf. It was big and it was mainstream Saturday morning television.
Absolutely! 🤘👻
Totally agree! And it was far more entertaining than the slapstick cartoons we were subjected to.
my grandma who grew up in the 70s showed me this show when i was little and it blew my mind. those times were so colorful and crazy
Witchiepoo made a few cameos without Pufnstuf.
As far as other Sid and Marty Krofft shows, there's an episode of Lidsville where Witchiepoo starts dating the main villain of that series Hoodoo (who is played by Charles Nelson Riley). The villains bond over tormenting the heroes of that series. Apparently Witchiepoo also appeared on an episode of The Bay City Rollers show, but I don't recall ever seeing that.
Witchiepoo also appeared on the Paul Lynde Halloween Special from 1976 where we find out the witch from the Wizard of Oz (played by the same actress from the 1939 movie, Margaret Hamilton) is her sister. I assume they mean that in the familial sense, although it is possible they're using "sister" in the slang way as they are both witches and it is the 70's. Making the whole thing even odder is Kiss are one of the musical guests.
Yeah, no drugs were used in the making of that show either. I picked up a DVD of it in the early 00’s.
Lidsville us the KooKooKookiest!! ❤️🔥💥⭐
Human boy surrounded by weird creatures… big yellow sidekick..candy people… enchanted villain? Is this just not the original Adventure Time?!
Pufnstuf was apparently one of Pendleton Ward's influences in creating Adventure Time, so you're not far off.
The ONE person who may be able to revive the show is Craig McCracken tbh. If he put the same whimsy he used in Fosters Home and the musical talents from Wander Over Yonder into it I think he would be the guy to pull it off.
So my mom would have been 9 in 1969 and this was her favourite show (from Canada) so I did a massive deep dive into this show when TH-cam was brand new because I wanted to see a clip of the show (she talked about it all the time and would try to describe it but it’s not like we could just throw it on the TV in 90’s) so that was my fist search on TH-cam in like 05/06 ish as a 22 year old and was in awe lol
I’ve never once watched this show but given how much I knew about it through osmosis I’d have NEVER assumed it had such a short run. Jimmy’s a great actor, all things considered. And I’d heard the Mechanical Boy song before somewhere I SWEAR.
Hmmmm. I ALSO somehow knew about this show through some kind of cultural osmosis, despite never having watched it. Strange... I don't know what surprised me most - its short run, Jimmy's accent, the heavy-handed capitalist subtext, or the fact that H.R. is a dragon. And to think, I'd have gone to my grave not knowing any of this, if it weren't for this amazing video!
Actor Jack Wild's short stature and youthful appearance allowed him to play roles much younger than his actual age. When this show was produced he was 16 years old. Unfortunately he had a difficult life and died from throat cancer in 2006 after life long struggle with alcohol and other health issues.
I was 9 years old when the show came out and was quite taken by it. I always hated the canned laughter but that's how TV was back then. I loved the music!! I watched all of Sid and Marty Krofft's shows, but Pufnstuf will always have a special place in my heart
They put the canned laughter in to cover the screams of kids as they tried running out of the screening when Pufnstuf came on
Where has this guy been all this time?? I need more of this!
I KNOW, RIGHT?!?!?!?!?
Great video , its nice seeing more people talk about H.R Pufnstuf! Also my jaw dropped when I saw the Todd Kauffman adaptation mentioned and the Animatic I found was shown , I'm genuinely glad that more attention was drawn to it since my upload of the Animatic , my archive and the many pieces of animation I found and archived from it!
"You can't do drugs and make great TV"
Yeah, when you're on set. But in the writer's room you can smoke all the Mary Jane you want, as long as you make it coherent when you're sober. Lots of creatives admit to using drugs to kick start the thought process.
Apparently the writers of the Simpsons did acid and mushrooms and read newspapers while writing out some of their episodes. This is from a man named Sean Gote, who used to be a writer for them at one point in time.
You're completely ignoring the dynamic of the Krofft brothers. Marty was the business head. He actually didn't do drugs. You don't run a successful business on drugs. Just ask John DeLorean.
Now Sid, on the other hand, was the "creative" one...and is more than willing to admit his own experience with mind-altering substances.
Marty always said, "WE were not on drugs."
And he was being honest.
@@spcgliderokay but we weren't talking about business we were talking about doing drugs and making great TV and you just admitted that one of them was doing drugs and making great TV
@aSipOfHemlocktea as someone who worked in tv, I can tell you that "making great tv" *is business*. Ideas don't just make themselves into a tv show. Sid came up with the ideas that became Pufnstuf. But he didn't write the show. He didn't design the characters. He didn't create the sets or the costumes. He didn't direct the episodes. He didn't create the music. He didn't edit the episodes. He didn't even sign the paychecks.
I'm not going to take away from his creative accomplishments, but intimating that Sid "made a show" while he was on drugs is a grotesque over-simplification of the process. And if you think Sid was sitting around directing people to "get some more drug references into the show", there's no way on Earth that those people wouldn't have divulged that publicly sometime in the last 50+ years. Instead, its just more of the same insinuation by everybody looking for something salacious where it doesn't exist.
That said, I was simply clarifying something that Marty always said in interviews when asked the same, old, hackneyed, unoriginal question about drug use and children's programming.
I grew up with HR puffin stuff and the banana splits, and I absolutely love them
I never got into the show but the movie is still one of those sick day movies that makes me feel better. Cass Elliot's song was exactly what I needed to hear at a difficult time.
RIP Jack Wild, hard to believe that he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor just a year before.
This was my mom's favorite show growing up so she raised me on it. She still has her childhood Freddy and has all the songs memorized ..
I'm surprised you didn't mention the *other* notable lawsuit involved with the show: Simon and Garfunkel sued over the theme song, because the chorus is lifted directly from "59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin' Groovy)" -- and they won, too. So Paul Simon's name got added to the credits for the H.R. Puffnstuff theme!
Anyway... great video, glad the algorithm threw you my way and I'm looking forward to binging the rest of your stuff now! 😃
Interesting tidbit. Yeah, I can definitely hear that.
"Can anyone explain to me the plot of Donnie Darko?" 💀😂
I love how Jimmy is played. He reminds me of an early Dr Who companion or something. Also, I'm so gay for that frog lady.
True, he has basically is JUST Jamie just missing the Scottish accent and kilt
I grew up watching alot of shows from my dads childhood including this and sigmond the seamonster. Honestly some of my favorite shows i had watched when i was super young. My dad actually gave me a signed dvd of HR signed by the guy that played Jimmy
Aw, Jack was actually on Sigmund The Sea Monster as a guest.
Wow, you actually have an autograph of Jack Wild. Just learned that he had passed in 2006. Only 56 yo.
@@MsThebeMoon yeah my dad met him in the early 2000s, he told me it was at a convention I believe. At that time we lived near Chicago so I assume it was around there.
Thank you for an entertaining video. HR was a staple in our household in the 80s, and I can still hear my father singing that ridiculous theme song. I find it fascinating that such relics can in fact be found timeless even among the Zoomer generation. There honestly is nothing quite like it anymore.
Enjoyed the vid and keep up the work!
Joining the "Discovered HR Puffnstuff via a Pogo song before tiktock" crew! I wish that more shows would be as creative with character suits and practical effects.
Wait this show is so creative its hilarious how different from anything we have today. I love them showing witchiepoo getting split in two and then saying perfectly in sync "you split me in two!" is beautiful.
call me crazy but witchiepoo was the blueprint for robbie rotten
Everything in this video is incredible. 10/10 would watch over and over again like an addict.
I have a feeling that Puffnstuff was named after Puff the Magic Dragon. Although it may also have been because Puff was a reference to pot.
Maybe you touch on this later, but while I'm thinking of it- the creators of h.R puf and stuff didn't sue because it looked similar. They sued because they were hired to develop characters, which they did. Then McDonald's broke their contract, fired them and used the characters.
I think the producer is meant to be a spoof of "Akim Tamiroff." He was an Armenian-American character actor with a 5-decade career.
Edit: If Freddy can age, does that mean he can die? Or is he like Tithonus from Greek mythology? I find either option very troubling.
I maintain this show is a live action acid trip regardless of what anyone say.
I can't get over how much the magic flute sounds like the pleading shrimp from shark tale i'm losing my mind
I was thinking Carl from Jimmy Neutron but maybe that's because he's always saying "JIMMY!"
Dear god.
“You cant make good tv on drugs?!?” Tell that to a 80s director
I was born in 1965, so I was four when this came on TV, and I remember it QUITE vividly. One of the things not mentioned in this video is that all of those voices a lot of the characters use are imitations in the same vein as the West Wind being John Wayne. Ludicrous is definitely a W.C. Fields imitation, and there’s someone who was doing Cagney as well. There are some other 40s, 50s, and 60s voice imitations used as well. I don’t know why this was the case, but a lot of kids’ shows would do this. It might be that a lot of the WB cartoons from the 40s and 50s were routinely played on Saturdays and since those were topical when released, they often had pop culture references to stars at the time, and those voices sort of became second nature knowledge to a bunch of Gen-X kids. Kind of like Gen-Z kids probably knowing a lot more about the 80s and the actors from that era than you might thing.
I was thinking the same thing about the voices being popular (of the time) culture references. Jimmy's voice becomes James Cagney in the episode that he plays a cowboy in the film directed by the frog (not Judy the Frog who was always Liza Minnelli in my mind).
Wow, it’s so nice to see you put focus on this one. I was obsessed!!!! But it was 1997. Lol. I was such a big fan that Jack actually called me when my dad died. He was my favorite actor in the world. RIP Jack.
I'm 51yrs old,.so I grew up watching reruns of this show. It was always one of.my favourite shows back then.
I always wondered what kind of creature HR Pufnstuf was? Personally, he always looked.like a Gecko or other small lizard 🦎.
He definitely has a gecko head, tail and overall look.
I totally forgot one of the characters is named Ludacris; "Act a Fool!" & "Move B!tch" are great tunes😂🤣
Thanks for the video, brought me lotsa fond memories from my childhood 😎 👍👌 🦎
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If you watch the film, you’ll see that he’s a new kid playing his flute in the band and he gets kicked out cause he’s late. He doesn’t know Freddy until he runs away to the woods to sulk.
I got introduced to this show by a song Pogo made (BEFORE TIKTOK, I FOUND THE SONG AROUND BACK IN 2016)
Some years ago, I was in a production of "Hansel and Gretel" as the witch, and yes, I did base my performance on Witchiepoo. It is VERY hard to keep up that voice.
I'm never doing something like this again.
Edit: I said this before this became my most viewed video...
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I'm sorry. What's went bad? This is a beautiful video
Shame, cause I’d love to see you cover some of the Kroft’s other shows
This was good stuff! I remember this show!
High AF while watching .... good times. My favorite kids show as a kid
Thank you for mentioning the Mr.Show sketch! Always the first thing that pops in my head whenever H.R. is brought up. "I declare this pizza to be, AWESOME!"
26:32 I would like to know why witchiepoo is going after a goofy flute when there’s a literal Time Machine that she could be going after.
Love your videos after just discovering you today lol.
I’ve never heard of this show before, but it’s so fascinating! I absolutely adored the Witch Poo’s performance. Respect your dedication in getting high while covering the movie portion.
Exquisite backdrop
This channel is definetily (I can not spell that for the life of me) underrated
This show has lived in my deep subconscious since I was a child. I periodically would catch myself singing the theme song but I could never remember the exact details. I have always wondered why I would think about "Huffnpuff", that is, until I just got recommended your video. The wire in my brain connected and I literally said "OH SHIT". Thanks brother. You've un-repressed my repressed repressions of repress.
A lot of 60s and 70s cartoon were Weird as hell!
Family & friends joked about what drugs 👀 were Taken to create these programs.
The theme song literally says "do a little but you can't do enough". Who are they trying to fool exactly? There has been hella ascension in that writers' room.
I have never heard of this show but love puppets and drugs. Thank you for enlightening me.
Now I'm convinced that the voice of Choose Goose from Adventure Time is HEAVILY inspired by the doctor lmao
had a FANTASTIC TIME watching this. been binging your videos all day and saved this one for last
I remember the episode of George Lopez where he dances with Puff n Stuff for his birthday thinking it was made up. I showed my dad and he went nuts with how he much he loved this show lol
I was 8 when Pufnstuf first aired, thanks for giving me a different perspective of what my memories were of the show.
The only reason I know about this it’s because of the song, Living Island by Pogo and how much I love that song
21:02 i feel like i remember the pronouns song as a decently popular tiktok sound around 2020-2021 i wanna say
A channel called pogo did a remix of the pronoun song and it was huge on TikTok and as an animation meme.
It's crazy how you are under 1k subs, you definitely deserve more, been really enjoying all of your content
Wait til you see BJ and the Dirty Dragon. A show that my dad grew up with. When he told me the title I almost spit out my drink.
This show just reminds me of the parody that Bob Odenkirk and David Cross did of it on "Mr. Show with Bob and David"
EDIT: Probably should've watched the video before commenting. lol
For the past few years, my grandfather and I watch Sid and Marty krofft shows every single night together, seeing an actual video about this finally is amazing. I’ve adored how you went into depth about each episode, it’s genuinely a gem of a show.
Another bizarre thing was that the Krofft’s had a VERY short lived indoor amusement park in Atlanta in what is now the CNN Center. It was called The Omni Center at the time, and it bragged that to get to The World of Sid & Marty Krofft you had to take the longest escalator in the world. I never did get to go to this, but I was in the Omni Center after it had closed. The escalator was still there, and I snuck up as far as I felt comfortable and you could still see the remnants of amusement section. It was kind of a sad experience, because I didn’t know it was closed.
I actually kinda like them always going to dr.blinky. Teaching kids to find an adult when they’re is a problem.
The set and costume designs are so cool looking! Probably my favorite thing about kids shows from the 60's and 70's
Thank you so much! I have strong memories of this from my childhood! Luv Hippie Tree!
1970s was the BEST decade for cartoons and childrens tv shows on saturday mornings....Born in 1965 best time to be a kid growing up in that era....40s 50s 60s 70s 80s great cartoon eras.
I had no idea what to expect, but I love how this is my introduction to you & your channel.
Watched this on my grandparents VHS as a kid thinking all other ppl my age watched it as a kid, oh I was so wrong. Im just 25 so way past the 1970/80s demographic this was made for
AAAAAHHHHHHHHH I need more videos from you!!!! This is the last one. I've watched literally every one of your videos. And I've only been a subscriber for like a week. Ugh. Moreeeeeeeeeeeeeee please!!!!
Sorry I work slow. But working on it nonetheless!
@@JusticeKorsgaard 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 thanks Justice!! As long as you're working on it I'll try to be patient!
The Dresden Dolls' _Coin Operated Boy_ plays in my head now for some reason.
My Dad said he watched this as well as the movie when he was little. Here I am at 19 and I've still never seen it. Maybe I'll give it a watch someday.
I'm 58 so I .grew up watching its original run. Enjoyed seeing a young guy's take on it Good stuff 😂
Dude this is the second video of yours that I've ever watched and I just noticed while liking the video your channel is small. I had no clue due to the sheer quality of your content.
This is a great deep dive. I hope you make this a series and look into the other Krofft shows! Several equally kooky and entertaining gems.
This deserves more attention videos about shows that I’ve never watched and never will watch
33:30 "Stop hitting me" ❗️
Yes! Finally! Someone made an hour long video essay about this!
Man, My Friendly Neighborhood has really fallen on some hard times.
I watched this show every Saturday as a child. Didn't turn me into a drug addict but I did end up working in the arts so perhaps it helped my imagination.
Native Georgia boy. These are core memories for me. The park at CNN center was wild too.
This show is probably one of the reasons I've dabbled in psychedelics my whole life
I've always seen clips of this show all the time but this is the first time I finally get context on it lmao. Yea this show is nuts and way ahead of its time
During and just after the original broadcasts, the World of Sid & Marty Kroft opened as an indoor amusement park in Atlanta. (It occupied the future CNN Center.) The characters were all there, and it was like being in the series. Seeing that I was about six at the time, it was terrifying.
The amusement park wasn’t open very long, but was partially moved to nearby Six Flags Over Georgia (this was when they were still a theme park rather than a roller coaster park). There was a theater that ran puppet-centric shows every hour, and characters roaming around that part of the park. Again, to a small child, it was terrifying. There were plans to expand the area to take in more of the Kroft universe (Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, Land of the Lost, etc.) but that never happened.
I am impressed that you obviously watched all the episodes and the film obviously attentively! Sid and Marty Krofft shaped much of my childhood with their programs. Pufnstuf was definitely a product of the times paired with their innovative puppetry. Lots of pop culture references, and the sped up shots influenced by the likes of The Monkees. And when I was a kid, any Jack Wild song was a good song.
I enjoyed your observations and commentary.
I will add one note: I always saw Judy the Frog - who gives us the Moon Walk - as Liza Minnelli in Cabaret, which was directed by Bob Fosse. And Fosse is who Michael Jackson stole many of his best moves from.
If you're not sure what I mean, check out Fosse as the snake in the 1974 live action The Little Prince (which is another work on film that could use some analyzing).
I've lost track of how many times I've watched this video, I really enjoy your stuff dude you're a natural👍👍👍
I’m really glad I found your Chanel and you ended up actually making this video
The show like an acid trip.
Maybe I missed it, but you didn’t point out that pufnstufs arms are inanimate while talking. Sometimes one arm moves, and the other one is stuffed because he needs at least one hand to open and close the mouth from the inside.
I never expected to run into something like this, and I'm grateful I did. I was one of those kids growing up with puff n stuff in the 60's, and I'm not sure if I still watched it by the 70's 🤔 but I do remember being a teenager in the 70's and my friends and I were puffin' our own "stuff," by then ... 🤣🤣🤣
Have you heard of, "Puff the magic dragon?" 😅
I remember my siblings and I singing that song to my older brother to make fun of him when he was crying and it would make him REALLY MAD, and then we laughed at him harder... 🤣🤣🤣
I know, it wasn't nice, but it was hilarious then, and we still get a laugh with him about it now. 😁
I can't wait to share this and I hope to see a video of the puffin dragon... I mean, "Puff the magic dragon!"
Thank you so much 👍🏼 I love this ❣️🥰🌹
My Mom grew up with this and would show it to me when I was younger. It always looks like an acid trip to me, too.
Weirdly enough, I know of this show! My parents had an old VHS box set and gave it to me when I was little. Can’t say I remember a lot, but the Three Oranges bit took me BACK (apparently it was an inside joke with my family too!)
It really amazes me these days that people lack such imagination that anything colorful or different must be immediately attributed to drugs.
That is how dumbed down and overstimulated we've all become.
The lack of imagination or originality is really staggering.
I ♥️ that show. I have the complete series on dvd
This was one of my family's favourite shows!
Mum actually bought this VHS cause she grew up with it too - we ALWAYS sang the theme tune together and I hid when Witchy Poo took The Flute from Jimmy 😂
Rest in Peace Jack Wild. He was incredibly talented.
IM SO GLAD SOMEBODY FINALLY COVERED ONE OF ME AND MY GRANDMAS FAVOURITE SHOWSSS
Unlocking memories here, how could this shown I've never seen have such a huge influence on my early life? Christ, I remember my mum singing oranges poranges all throughout my childhood. So many in jokes with her start with this show, well hottdam!!
Side note, Shirley's producer sounds exactly the same as Boris from Rocky and Bullwinkle. Maybe it's just a case of someone doing a russianish accent and it sounding the same.
Tbh this video led me to seeing your channel and realizing I fw you hard and subscribing to you, sooooo… maybe it was fate, your video is obviously in the algorithm
Thank god this ended up in my recommended! I watched this as a kid and could never find where to watch it as an adult that I thought it was a fever dream!
i wish there were more consistent women characters besides the witch. i LOVE miss judy frog, but she didn't seem to get much screen time :( also i had no idea that the mechanical boy song was from this show! the more you know lol
You're definitely underrated but I have a feeling that this won't be the case for long
SID N Marty Croft formed so much of the imagery I pull from in creating fantasy products and interiors spaces. My dream was puppetry because it was their background. I was tiny young and still followed all the politics around their work and what they created. I feel like the show ran longer than it did because I can still watch it as though each episode is new. They made color and shape a lot more accessible and as kids we all had more freedom to express than generations before us and it has been great. It was a movement of artists ljke them and t.v. was still kinda new but it grew, we had Sesame street, Mr Roger's and many local cartoon hosting shows that brought characters and yes morals to the minds of kids.
yoo!! i am 20 years old, born in 2003 and i watched this show as a child. im guessing my mom watched it as a child, because my dad has said this show creeped him out! i don't remember much about this show apart from the theme song and the character designs, so this will be fun!
i also enjoyed watching other shows that my parents watched. i was obsessed with Punky Brewster from the 80s, and even dressed up as her for Halloween. i also watched the original Land of the Lost with my dad.
Billie Hayes deserved some kind of award for her acting in this.