[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: A fum little e-mail

[Iggy McSnurd]

>Nox:
>
> Me too! '71 here. And don't forget Sigmund the Seamonster... And 'Electra
> Woman and Dyna Girl'... Actually I have in my possession possibly the
> *worst* video in the history of television. I'm serious! It is - wait for
> it - HR Puff'n'Stuff Live on stage with (drumroll please) the Brady Bunch
> Kids. I know, I know. Kill me now... in this video the guy who played
Jimmy
> is about 19, six feet tall, still wearing the 'Jimmy' outfit, and still
with
> the speech impediment... I wonder what he's up to now, if he didn't die or
> something. Was it Jack Wild or something like that?


Iggy here:

Oh, *ick*.. I feel sorry for you about that video.  (Of course, I can't feel
too sorry for you... as my mom sent my daughter a copy of "Wiggle Bay"
staring the Wiggles.)

If you get Nickelodeon (and Nick Jr.) down there, you may have seen the
commercials for the live, stage show of Dora the Explorer.  The woman who
plays Dora looks to be about in her early 20's, and appears to wear a C cup
bra.  Definately doesn't look like a 6 (or so) year old girl.
>Nox:
> Ooh! I *loved* the Wolfman, Dracula etc one, but I can't think of what it
> was called either. One of our networks is going into retro mode and
showing
> Batfink each night before the very first series of Doctor Who is shown.
Just
> waiting for them to drag out Hong Kong Foey - remember, he slept in the
> filing cabinet and had a striped cat called Spot? Oh and the Blue
Falcon...
>

Iggy:

Well, if you get Cartoon Network, they have "Boomerang" on Saturday mornings
at about 5 or 6 am.  They show cartoons from different years in the 60's and
70's.  They also have a whole channel dedicated to those shows called the
"Boomerang Channel."  TV Land does some of those shows on Sat mornings as
well, I think.

I think I recall Batfink... I definately know of Hong Kong Phooey (voiced by
the late, great, Scatman Crothers.), and Blue Falcon and Dynomutt.  (They
had a great episode on Dexter's Lab with BF and DM as guest stars.  Dexter
helps repair Dynomutt after an accident and goes WAY overboard on tech
upgrades...)

>
> YES! I loved Scooby Doo until they introduced Scrappy (we called him
Crappy,
> too).
>
> Nox (thinking its *so cool* that there are others who admit to remembering
> these shows...)

I don't know of anyone who doesn't think Scrappy should have been put down
after the first episode.  Of course, for the Doo family cameos, my favorite
was his cousin, Scooby Dum.  (For one thing, he was SUPPOSED to act stupid,
and for another, he was only in about 5-10 episodes total...)


Ok... Going to the shows of the 80's...

Anyone here used to watch the "Dungeons and Dragons" cartoon?  Or, my
favorite at the time, "Kidd Video"?  (They actually had a pretty good band
in RL.  Did some good cover songs, and a few pretty good original songs as
well.)  And who here, aside from myself (*guilty grin*) was a fan of ALF,
and the two ALF cartoons?  ("ALF Tales" was a great show.  They took fairy
tales and such, and combined them with set movie genres or pop culture.
Like "ALFred Hitchcock Presents - Jack and the Beanstalk", or "Robin Hood"
done with a Big Band theme...)


Iggy McSnurd
the Prankster