Good comparison. Even their voices are similarly grating. For some reason, I was thinking of that old show this weekend. I had a Jack Wild haircut in fourth grade. Pufnstuf and Barney may not qualify as "separated at birth," but there's gotta be some common lineage there.
A few years ago the young Mall Diva and I were channel surfing when we came across an old HR Pufnstuff episode. I told her the show had been quite popular for a time in the 70s. We watched for about 10 minutes and then she turned to me and said, "Drugs must have been a real problem in the 70s."
I am surprised that none of you guys mentioned the Bugaloos. Didn't witchipoo do some cross over episodes with them? I remember some teenaged girl running around in a fairy/bug costume with a diaphanous miniskirt with antennae on her head.
I think Krofft puppets were a real problem in the '70s.
The antagonist on the Bugaloos was Benita Bizarre, played by Martha Raye. (Her credits, as once noted in a commercial: "Actress, denture wearer.") BTW, I think dragons were "puffin stuff" long before the '60s.
I was more a Banana Splits Bunch guy. Sa-a-a-ay, do you think that Snorky the elephant was using his trunk to, you know, snork something? Is that why he could only "talk" in funny noises?
Helen Thomas is a dead ringer for a kitchen witch doll my mom had hanging up in the kitchen in the house I grew up in.
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ReplyDeleteGood comparison. Even their voices are similarly grating. For some reason, I was thinking of that old show this weekend. I had a Jack Wild haircut in fourth grade. Pufnstuf and Barney may not qualify as "separated at birth," but there's gotta be some common lineage there.
ReplyDeleteA few years ago the young Mall Diva and I were channel surfing when we came across an old HR Pufnstuff episode. I told her the show had been quite popular for a time in the 70s. We watched for about 10 minutes and then she turned to me and said, "Drugs must have been a real problem in the 70s."
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ReplyDeleteHence the title Pufnstuf.
"Puffing Stuff." Get it?!?!
I am surprised that none of you guys mentioned the Bugaloos. Didn't witchipoo do some cross over episodes with them? I remember some teenaged girl running around in a fairy/bug costume with a diaphanous miniskirt with antennae on her head.
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ReplyDeleteI think Krofft puppets were a real problem in the '70s.
The antagonist on the Bugaloos was Benita Bizarre, played by Martha Raye. (Her credits, as once noted in a commercial: "Actress, denture wearer.") BTW, I think dragons were "puffin stuff" long before the '60s.
I thought Pufnstuf made a crossover appearance on "Sigmund and the Sea Monster."
ReplyDeleteI know the diminutive Billy Barty was in practically every Kroft show.
I was more a Banana Splits Bunch guy. Sa-a-a-ay, do you think that Snorky the elephant was using his trunk to, you know, snork something? Is that why he could only "talk" in funny noises?
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