Who’s Your Friend When Things Get Rough?
I won’t be the first to suggest that Pufnstuf seems to have been what Sid and Marty Krofft were doing when they created various children’s shows in the late ’60s and ’70s. However, having heard the theme song recently of H.R. Pufnstuf, I find that this stuff was more ill from a Freudian perspective than I remembered.
Dr. Freud, Call Your Office.
An evil witch trying to steal a boy’s magic flute. A witch whose last name (well, the tail end of her name) is “Poo.”
Pufnstuf himself looked like a stoner of some sort, those weird bags under his eyes and all, kind of like the big red nose clowns adopted because dipsomania is funny!
The Kroffts also gave us Lidsville, the land of living hats (nothin’ weird there!). Back in the day, kiddies, a “lid” referred to an ounce of marijuana.
Who let these guys near children?
