Am I the only one?

[CensoredAlso]

Ah, yeah I kinda get that.

 

[Ilikemuppets]

I say when Elmo's World hits past ten years, then I'll no longer look at it as a trend. I'm not always one to follow treans either and I know what you mean D'snowth about what it seeming like everything that you like, everybody else hates.

Wow! I did not notice that there was so much Elmo's World merchendise.

 

[CensoredAlso]

Well maybe it's not just a trend, cause yeah most of them do pass. But it is something most people like, and anyone who doesn't like it is left in the lurch. Going to the kid's section in the bookstores, nobody's given a choice anymore. You either buy a Sesame Street book with Elmo on the cover, or you don't buy a Sesame Street book. It's frustrating when the media latching on to things like that.

But, off topic!

 

[D'Snowth]

Am I the only one who finds it unusual that H.R. Pufnstuf LOOKED like a very cheap show, yet Sid and Marty Krofft were constantly WAY over-budget with it?

 

[Ilikemuppets]

It does look like a very cheap show. But I do not know anything about it being over buged?

 

[CensoredAlso]

Well I think they were over budget because they were probably given such a tight budget to begin with, and they had very ambitious ideas. And the materials they worked with probably look primitive now, but that doesn't mean you could just find them at the corner store.

 

[D'Snowth]

I don't know if they were over-buged either, but yes they were constantly over-budget with the show because their scripts always had TOO much content for a half-hour series, not to mention they wanted it to be filmed rather than taped (film is more expensive than tape), plus all of those puppets they had to create...

EDIT: Ziffeled by heralde.

 

[Ilikemuppets]

I see what you mean.

 

[CensoredAlso]

Oh true, there is a big difference between film and tape.

"H.R. PufnStuf, who's your friend when things get rough? H.R. PufnStuf, can't do a little cause you can't do enough!" Lol

 

[D'Snowth]

And heralde is also right, the Krofft's head writer Si Rose said in an interview that Sid (who was younger) was always spilling out ideas left and right about all kinds of things they could do with their shows, but Marty would have to try to remind him that there were certain things they couldn't do because of their initial budget to begin with.