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"They weren't making shows that parents could watch with their kids. They were making shows that kids could watch alone, while severely addled by Cap'n Crunch. In another league entirely from the witty Muppetry of "Sesame Street" or the gentle pleasures of Mr. Rogers and "The Magic Garden," the Kroffts dished up a swirl of psychedelia, vaudeville and cheesy production values that might be described as brown acid for the toddler soul."

The New York Times writes about the Sid and Marty Krofft oeuvre. (Registration required.)

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/arts/television/15EMIL.html

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_redpanda_/]

Despite the ban on sugar cereal in my household, I think I was addicted to "HR Puff-n-stuf" at a very young age. Thankfully, I remember very little.

[ex-mommybir.livejournal.com]

Thank you so very much for this link! Jack Wilde of Pufnstuf was my first celebrity boyfriend--I had a weakness for Brits at the age of five, imagine that. I loved Electra Woman and DynaGirl and Land of the Lost, and I still remember the chorus to "Oranges Poranges". Childhood--it really is a long, strange trip, isn't it?

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[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Don't get me started on Jack Wilde.

I think it was the shirt.

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[ex-mommybir.livejournal.com]

I think it was the flute, in my case. *ponders*