Sigmund the Sea Monster

[D'Snowth]

And here is some info on one of the recurring animated shorts from the show, M-U-S-H, which also has some short clips...

http://www.mash4077tv.com/articles/mush/

 

[Drtooth]

The thing that bugs me about M*U*S*H* is that I've found the other 2 cartoon segments of Uncle Croc, Fraidy Cat and Wacky and Packy, on those generic, cheap DVD's. But M*u*S*H* is always suspiciously absent.

Actually, if you can find a Mill Creek released 500 cartoons compilations, one of the sets has Fraidy Cat cartoons. I'm not sure if it shares the same set as the one that has Hoppity Hooper on it. I have to get that one when I can.

 

[D'Snowth]

I'm not sure, but I don't believe M-U-S-H lasted the entire run of the show, I think it was later replaced or dropped when they reformatted the show from like an hour or 90 minutes an episode to a half-hour.

 

[fuzzygobo]

The fire happened after they were already in production, the changes were already made. Sheldon and his nephew were added for goofyness I guess, and I think with the housekeeper/nanny, they wanted more of a challenge to keep the secret. Zelda just wasn't paying that much attention to what was going on I guess...

I have the complete series on DVD (fan-made, bought it from a convention in NY many years ago), one thing I never could understand is why they changed the Sigmund costume as much as they did. It just did not have the same great kooky look of the original. All these years later, looking back, I wonder if they were trying to make Sigmund appear as getting "older" as the others stars were getting older as well?

From what I understood, the fire happened at the Samuel Goldwyn Studios (which also burned down the set of the New Zoo Revue, another 70's kiddie show).
One of the firefighters who showed up was Steve McQueen, who was in costume as the fire chief shooting The Towering Inferno over at 20th Century Fox. Steve's comment on the goings-on, "My wife's not gonna believe this!"

 

[Princeton]

Can I just say that I really love the LOTL movie? It's the first movie where Will Ferrell finds the right balance between lovable jerk and Anchorman-type jerk. Plus, anything Danny McBride touches is magical.

 

[D'Snowth]

Ten minutes was all I could handle of that movie, afterwards, I had to turn it off, it was that painful to watch... and yes, I actually blame Will Ferrell for it.

It's amazing though, this is like the third or fourth movie I've heard about where the people behind it were originally wanting Jim Carrey, but he was unavailable to do it, so they got Will Ferrell instead... seriously, I know both Elf and Bewitched were two other movies where they wanted Carrey but got Ferrell instead, and I'm pretty sure there's a couple of others, there must be some kind of curse out there or something.

 

[Princeton]

Speaking of LOTL, there hasn't been much talk in this thread about the rebooted LOTL series from the 90's that used to be on Nickelodeon. I used to watch it all the time; I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.

 

[D'Snowth]

I've never been able to catch a whole lot of the Kroffts' later-period shows, let alone any of the 90s version of LOTL, so I really don't know much about it... was a continuation from the 70s series, or did it include an entirely new cast of characters altogether? I do seem to recall reading this one of the rare occasions where the Kroffts actually outsourced their puppets/animatronics/costumes/etc rather than build them all in-house (I believe the Chiodo Bros. were responsible for the creatures in the 90s version),

 

[Princeton]

was a continuation from the 70s series, or did it include an entirely new cast of characters altogether?

It was basically a re-hash of the 70's series and only retained the Marshalls and Chaka (who was re-named Stink). The only new character was a young female dinosaur about the same age and height as Holly; she was named after Will and Holly's mother.