The SID AND MARTY KROFFT STORY! - Dandy Fun House episode 38

Host Neil Dandy tells the story of the iconic SID AND MARTY KROFFT and shares a few things you probably didn't know!
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Fun fact, the name of Wonderbug was "Shlep", and was often called the "Shlepmobile". Shlep is a Yiddish word to carry something heavy. In other words, when he was found he could not drive or move but had to be carried (towed) everywhere.

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Thank you! I had no idea. I remember watching when I was a kid.

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@@dandyfunhouse sorry if I am laughing, but you can see the license plate in the opening credits you posted.
And one of the transformations is that after he changed, the plate would then read "1DERBUG". I remembered that because I had a friend a few years later that requested that as a license plate for his VW Beatle, only to find it was still in use (most likely still owned by Sid and Marty). So instead his plate read "1DRBUG".

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@@michaelmartin4552 I remember staying up past midnight trying to get the episode in the can.

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@@dandyfunhouse Tis cool, not a complaint at all but simply an observation. And being a video editor and creator myself (just not for YT), I fully understand.
And as shows like that were my childhood, I still love the works of Sid and Marty, even decades later. Land of the Lost is still one of my favorite shows as a kid, as well as their prime-time adult oriented shows like Donnie and Marie or Pink Lady and Jeff.
They were really one of the few companies making kid shows that did not talk down to us kids. This can really be seen in LotL, which not only had David Gerrold as consultant and writer of the show's "Bible", but other serious sci-fi creators like DC Fontana, Larry Niven, Ben Bova, Theodore Sturgeon, and Norman Spinrad.