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[Ryujin]

Do you remember children’s programming in the ’70s and ’80s? H. R. Pufnstuf. Land of the Lost. Lidsville. The Great Space Coaster. The Electric Company. There’s some wild-ass stuff people used to show kids.

You missed Birdman, The Herculoids, and Johnny Quest (the '60s).

 

[dragoner]

"NA Na na, NA NA Na na...." Now I don't see the Banana Spilts in their ATVs anymore, I see Hit Girl with a spear.

Just the names: Fleegle, Snorky, Bingo, and Drooper.

Hanna-Barbera was creative, to say the least.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Do you remember children’s programming in the ’70s and ’80s? H. R. Pufnstuf. Land of the Lost. Lidsville. The Great Space Coaster. The Electric Company. There’s some wild-ass stuff people used to show kids.

I would say everything being marijuana- and LSD-coded, as the Sid & Marty Krofft stuff definitely was, is different than "a stalker is going to break the legs of the cast of a cartoon show aimed at elementary schoolers."

H.R. Puffnstuff had been off the air for 11 years before Nancy Reagan ever announced "just say no." It was a different time, in every sense.

 

[Ryujin]

Just the names: Fleegle, Snorky, Bingo, and Drooper.

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Hanna-Barbera was creative, to say the least.

I recommend that you don't seek out the Banana Splits horror movie. Keep your childhood memories intact.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I recommend that you don't seek out the Banana Splits horror movie. Keep your childhood memories intact.

Do seek out the Liz Phair cover of the theme song, though. That whole album, of Gen X alternative artists covering the theme songs from 1960s and 1970s cartoon shows, is gold.

 

[el-remmen]

Just seeing an image of the Banana Splits starts to make me feel nauseated like I just realized someone had clandestinely dosed me with acid.

I'm not kidding. They always gave me an oogy feeling as a kid - and on to today.

 

[Ryujin]

Do seek out the Liz Phair cover of the theme song, though. That whole album, of Gen X alternative artists covering the theme songs from 1960s and 1970s cartoon shows, is gold.

The version used in Kickass was done by The Dickies.

 

[dragoner]

I recommend that you don't seek out the Banana Splits horror movie. Keep your childhood memories intact.

I haven't seen it, vaguely heard of it. Another cartoon was Wacky Races:

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Just seeing an image of the Banana Splits starts to make me feel nauseated like I just realized someone had clandestinely dosed me with acid.

I'm not kidding. They always gave me an oogy feeling as a kid - and on to today.

Yeah, I found the Sid & Marty Krofft stuff to be disorienting when I saw it as a kid and not always in a good way.

 

[Scribe]

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