# RIP Marty Kroftt **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** celebrity-death\ **Created:** [November 26, 2023, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-marty-kroftt/993713 "2023-11-26T11:31:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2023, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-marty-kroftt/993713/21 "2023-11-26T21:22:47Z")
> [@Llama\_Llogophile](#): > > An album came out in the 90s with bands doing covers of cartoon theme songs, and it had several Kroftt show songs. Liz Phair doing the Banana Splits song was especially fun: > > [Saturday Morning’s Greatest Hits](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Morning%3A_Cartoons'_Greatest_Hits) That is a great disc. Liz Phair can sing “Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper, and Snork” and make it sound sexy. The Reverend Horton Heat does the Jonny Quest Theme in scorched-earth rockabilly guitar. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2023, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-marty-kroftt/993713/22 "2023-11-26T21:36:01Z")
I just saw Liz Phair last night. Oddly, that one didn’t make the setlist. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2023, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-marty-kroftt/993713/23 "2023-11-26T21:49:47Z")
> [@RitterSport](#): > > I thought those shows were just terrible – bad writing > [@Larry\_Borgia](#): > > About 10-15 years ago I rewatched LotL. It mostly held up. Yeah, the acting wasn’t great, but the concept and stories were really cool, So Land of the Lost was really interesting as a cultural artifact because it attracted a lot of top-notch (and maybe some middle-notch) SF writing talent looking for a quick paycheck. Larry Niven, Ben Bova, Theodore Sturgeon (who would no doubt happily tell you 90% of everything is crap while he cashed his check), David Gerrold and Norman Spinrad all wrote episodes. LotL had some big concept (well, maybe middle concept) stuff going on, which is one of the reasons it was oddly compelling at times for a schlocky Saturday morning children’s show. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2023, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-marty-kroftt/993713/24 "2023-11-26T21:54:31Z")
I was at that show! It was great. ---
**Author:** ![gre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d78d45/32.png) [@gre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gre)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-marty-kroftt/993713/25 "2023-11-27T01:22:23Z")
I was a little too young for the classic run of Krofft shows, but I have an uncertain memory of seeing something in the early 80s on NBC that could have been one of the “Krofft Superstars” reruns. ---
**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-marty-kroftt/993713/26 "2023-11-27T01:58:44Z")
I remember loving Puffnstuff, LOTL, and some others. LOTL definitely had something. SPOILER from Eenik The Altrusian “The Sleestak are NOT what my people used to be. They are what we will become.” In another episode, the Sleestak sacrifice throwbacks who display inteligence. In another, Holly discovers that a pair of British men have travelled here earlier. Holly and friends discover two things- the sleestak hibernate and that the two British men died looking for a magic portal that doesn’t exist. ETA- There’s an artist in Oregon who goes around in a gorgeous costume they made. Google Portland Sleestak. ---
**Author:** ![Disinfectus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/disinfectus/32/11085_2.png) [@Disinfectus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disinfectus)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-marty-kroftt/993713/27 "2023-11-27T02:10:20Z")
I loved all of the Sid and Marty Krofft stuff, even _The Brady Bunch Variety Hour_ and _Donnie and Marie_. I was 10 in 1976, the perfect age. Plus, I had no taste. They also did _Pryor’s Place_ w/ Richard Pryor. I thought that show was outstanding. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-marty-kroftt/993713/28 "2023-11-27T02:19:12Z")
> [@Disinfectus](#): > > I loved all of the Sid and Marty Krofft stuff, even _The Brady Bunch Variety Hour_ and _Donnie and Marie_. I’d forgotten the Kroftts did many, many shows apart from the well known examples like LoTL. I looked up a list and had vivid flashbacks after noticing the Bay City Rollers show. That was a crazy bit of television. I even had one of their albums (actually a cassette) when I was a kid because I’d seen them on TV. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-marty-kroftt/993713.md?page=1)