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Thursday, March 27, 2008 --- 162 days ago http://io9.com/372948/far-out-scifi-worlds-of-sid-and-marty-krofft
Brothers Sid and Marty Krofft first came to fame with their touring puppet show "Les Poupées de Paris" in the 1970s which featured topless puppets, and puppet-on-puppet sex long before Avenue Q or Team America . They later made the move to television with the trippy H.R. Pufnstuf in 1969, which they swear was not drug influenced, nor was the Donny & Marie show, which they created as well. But here at io9, we'll always remember their wacky-ass forays into science fiction. Find out everything you wanted to know about the Krofft scifi shows of yesteryear in today's triviagasm.
The first attempt by the Kroffts to bring scifi the masses was arguably The Bugaloos . You've got mutant kids with wings, a crazy mad scienctist lady named Benita Bizarre who wanted to capture them, and Billy Barty as a humanoid firefly.
Little known fact: Phil Collins actually auditioned to be a Bugaloo in 1970, before later joining Genesis that year. Who knows what would've happened to all those copies of No Jacket Required if he would've become a mutant.
While The Bugaloos only lasted one season, the next show with a scifi bent turned out to be Sigmund and the Sea Monsters in 1973. It ran for two seasons, and featured mutant monsters living near the sea. Sigmund was the nice monster, while his family wanted to make a living scaring humans.
Little known fact: Sigmund was actually Billy Barty. Th ... |
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