Episode 58: He's a friend when things get tough: puppets, colonialization of Sleestaks and Saturday morning GenX kids shows

Is it time for timer? Do you hanker for a hunk of cheese? Did you wake up early before your parents, make a bowl of cereal and eat it in front of the tv watching all your favorite shows? Do you know who the Banana Splits are? How about HR Pufnstuf? Are you afraid of Sleestaks? We've got the episode for you. We look first at the history of puppets (very briefly) and then we go into the world of 70s children's shows focusing on the wildness of Sid and Marty Krofft properties HR Pufnstuf and The Land of the Lost. Is it a classic genXtemporaneous? Maybe not classic. But it is at least as good as HR Pufnstuf and we do it without a laugh track.

Sources:

Ericksson, Hal. Sid and Marty Krofft: A Critical Study of Saturday Morning Children's Television, 1969-1993. McFarland & Company, Inc. Jefferson, NC and London. 1998

I'm Just a Bill (Schoolhouse Rock) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyeJ55o3El0&t=30s

Sunshine on a Stick https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaVWM1mqG74

Land of the Lost Theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3m7Xow0YxE

HR Pufnstuf theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obxfuFrUTzg

Bob Marley/Banana Splits Mashup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtluQkuT25s

Uncanny Valley: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVdx22WtXI4&t=63s

Puppetry In Education: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BXlpyBf_O8&t=405s

A visit inside the trippy world of Sid and Marty Krofft https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbLWKlWideg

Puppets and perception: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_Molj8L6nM

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