# The Bugaloos **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 16, 2002, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bugaloos/124141 "2002-08-16T03:08:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![im2evil4u](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5ac83/32.png) [@im2evil4u](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/im2evil4u)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2002, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bugaloos/124141/1 "2002-08-16T03:08:03Z")
Am I insane? No one that I have had extended contact with remembers The Bugaloos. Re: [http://www.bugaloos.com/index.shtml](http://www.bugaloos.com/index.shtml) Not that I am obsessed with this, I just can’t believe that no one watched this show (I went through the same thing with Zoom for a while… alas it suddenly was revamped and I knew I wasn’t crazy). I know the theme song by heart. Am I the only soul on earth that watched this show as a child in the 70’s? :eek: ---
**Author:** ![nineiron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e56c9b/32.png) [@nineiron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nineiron)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2002, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bugaloos/124141/2 "2002-08-16T03:39:48Z")
Nope, you’re not the only one. They’re in the air and everywhere. ---
**Author:** ![DarkWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@DarkWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkWriter)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2002, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bugaloos/124141/3 "2002-08-16T04:11:56Z")
Oh, yeah - I loved the Bugaloos. [Boomerang](http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/boomerang/) plays great stuff from my childhood. It would be awesome if they’d add The Bugaloos, H.R. Pufenstuff, Land of the Lost, etc. Sheri ---
**Author:** ![buckgully](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/eb9ed0/32.png) [@buckgully](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buckgully)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2002, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bugaloos/124141/4 "2002-08-16T07:27:26Z")
Ah, Sid and Marty Kroft. What great memories. Memories of UTTER TERROR as my developing child mind tried to process the bizarre input that those two pumped into it. Nightmares of giant talking hats. Bastards. Damn that Dr. Shrinker. Damn him to hell. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2002, 12:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bugaloos/124141/5 "2002-08-16T12:20:28Z")
I _loved_ Joy’s short skirt and English accent! 😃 And kids shows are too PC nowadays to have a comedic Nazi rat. ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2002, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bugaloos/124141/6 "2002-08-16T12:29:08Z")
Yup, another Kroftite checking in. I actually liked those shows when I was a kid (except Land of the Lost). Kinda shudder now, but hey, I shudder at a lot of things nowadays. Wish I could find old episodes of “The Old Curiosity Shop”, a very short-lived show, but quite entertaining (at least to my nostalgia-addled brain, right now). ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Propski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5e9695/32.png) [@Guy\_Propski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Propski)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2002, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bugaloos/124141/7 "2002-08-16T13:03:00Z")
It’s kind of sad (pathetic sad, not depressing sad) that I now realize how hot Joy was. Is that wrong? I remember just about all those Sid&Marty shows, with the exception of “Lidsville.” I have a feeling I blocked it out of my memory. The Curiosity Shop! Yeah, that rocked! I used to watch that on Sundays, followed by another great hippie kids show, “Make A Wish.” Good times… ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2002, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bugaloos/124141/8 "2002-08-16T13:04:48Z")
The Bugaloos paid a visit to my local kiddie show (\*Mr. Knozit on WIS-TV 10). One of the kids asked them to fly, but they responded, “We only have licenses to fly in [the forest, the name of which I don’t recall].” \*Hey, even William Shatner came to visit one time. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2002, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bugaloos/124141/9 "2002-08-16T13:42:01Z")
> [@](#): > > It’s kind of sad (pathetic sad, not depressing sad) that I now realize how hot Joy was. Is that wrong? I used to wish I was old enough to know her. (Of course, I would never let my friends know I liked a _girl!_ It wouldn’t do to hear “Johnny has a girlfriend! Johnny has a girlfriend!” Would that I could hear that taunt _now!_) Caroline Ellis will be 52 on October 12th. According to IMDB she is divorced, and as of October 2000, working as a real estate agent in Spain with her daughter Sasha who was born in 1985. ---
**Author:** ![im2evil4u](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b5ac83/32.png) [@im2evil4u](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/im2evil4u)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2002, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bugaloos/124141/10 "2002-08-16T13:48:45Z")
“We only have licenses to fly in [the forest, the name of which I don’t recall].” The Tranquility Forest ---
**Author:** ![peasea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc79bd/32.png) [@peasea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peasea)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2002, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bugaloos/124141/11 "2002-08-16T14:07:25Z")
Didn’t they have a cartoon, too? Or maybe did a cameo on the Jetsons or something? ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2002, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bugaloos/124141/12 "2002-08-16T14:21:44Z")
“Make a Wish”. I remember that one. As well as “Big Blue Marble”. How about PBS’s offering: “InsideOut”, kids mini-dramas dealing with theft, prejudice, family pressures, money, and other moral issues, always left “open-ended” (no real ending) meant for the ckass to discuss the topic at hand. The opening title was kinda creepy: the tiny word “inside” rotating along an axis in the large “O” of the word “out”. (Hard to describe, but it was cool in a 70’s funky sort of way. I’d love to see it again, if only for the music and the fashions of my 5th grade years. ---
**Author:** ![peasea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bc79bd/32.png) [@peasea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peasea)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2002, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bugaloos/124141/13 "2002-08-16T14:24:53Z")
[Bugaloos cigar bands](http://www.bugaloos.com/cigar00.html)? Huh? ---
**Author:** ![bowler\_girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7993a0/32.png) [@bowler\_girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bowler_girl)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2002, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bugaloos/124141/14 "2002-08-16T14:47:41Z")
One of my earliest memories is dressing up as Joy for Halloween. I wish I had pictures because I’m sure I was stylin’ in that little boxed costume. ---
**Author:** ![DarkWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@DarkWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkWriter)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2002, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bugaloos/124141/15 "2002-08-16T19:57:25Z")
ABC had _Schoolhouse Rock_ for its between-program fillers. Does anybody remember CBS’ filler - _Big Blue Marble_? Sheri ---
**Author:** ![screech-owl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/82dd89/32.png) [@screech-owl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/screech-owl)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2002, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bugaloos/124141/16 "2002-08-16T20:36:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DarkWriter \* > **…Does anybody remember CBS’ filler - _Big Blue Marble_?** Read 3 posts before yours. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2002, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bugaloos/124141/17 "2002-08-16T23:23:27Z")
I was in love with **Joy**. Remember the **Stereo Zapper**? I really wanted one of those for the punks on my school bus. ---
**Author:** ![DarkWriter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ee59a6/32.png) [@DarkWriter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DarkWriter)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bugaloos/124141/18 "2002-08-17T00:08:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by screech-owl \* > \*\* > > Read 3 posts before yours. \*\* :smack: Sorry about that. Actually, thinking about it, maybe _Big Blue Marble_ was an actual show, not a filler. I think I was remembering _In the News_ which gave a kid’s eye view of current events, and was shown in between CBS cartoons. Sheri ---
**Author:** ![SolGrundy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bbce88/32.png) [@SolGrundy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SolGrundy)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bugaloos/124141/19 "2002-08-17T10:46:45Z")
I’m not affiliated with or promoting amazon, they’re just easy to link to: [This DVD set](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005YUP3/qid=1029580315/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/002-7885227-5783230?s=dvd&n=507846) has one episode of just about every Krofft show, including The Bugaloos. Just about every one of those shows creeped me out, including The Bugaloos (but not quite as much as H.R. Pufnstuf himself ::shudder::). Martha Raye is (was?) a truly horrifying person. (And **buckgully** – I was particularly happy to see that “Dr. Shrinker” was included in that DVD sampler; that was always my favorite, but your post above is literally the first time I have _ever_ heard anybody else remember that show. I was starting to wonder if I’d made it up.) The _Big Blue Marble_ was definitely a full-length show. In Atlanta, it always ran at 5:00 AM on Sundays, and whenever I saw the planet and heard the theme song, it meant that I’d stayed up way too late and was going to be in trouble the next day (yes, I was a creepy 10-year-old kid with insomnia). Brief Sid & Marty Krofft hijack: did anybody on the SDMB actually go to the amusement park/carnival thing they had? I never found out if it was a travelling thing or a permanent installation, but it lasted for around 2 years or so at the OMNI in Atlanta. My brother was always showing me pamphlets for it and it looked like the most fantastic place you could ever imagine. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2002, 1:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-bugaloos/124141/20 "2002-08-17T13:49:41Z")
> [@](#): > > Martha Raye is (was?)… Martha died on Wednesday October 19th, 1994. [http://findadeath.com/Decesed/r/Martha%20Raye/martha\_raye.htm](http://findadeath.com/Decesed/r/Martha%20Raye/martha_raye.htm)