RIP Witchipoo

[DanOregon]

HR Pufnstuff nemesis and Donald Trump eye style consultant.

Billie Hayes Dead: Witchiepoo on ‘H.R. Pufnstuf’ Was 96 – The Hollywood Reporter

 

[qtlaw]

I HATED!! HATED HER AND THAT SHOW!! Just never a fan. Give me the Banana Splits!!!

 

[goalmouth]

What, no Sigmund and the Sea Monsters?

 

[maumann]

Between that show and Lidsville, stoners had a reason to get up early on Saturday morning. Sid and Marty's writers were using some Acapulco Gold to come up with those shows and get them past network censors, who probably had no idea about the drug inferences.

 

[OscarMadison]

RIP Witchipoo. Charles Nelson Reilly and Billie Hayes as Kroft meanies strike me as hilarious in retrospect because you can't help but wonder if the people who wrote those shows gave their children balut for Easter. Actors in the seventies must have dropped a lot of acid just to get through the day. Running off to tweet this now.

 

[TigerVols]

I HATED!! HATED HER AND THAT SHOW!! Just never a fan. Give me the Banana Splits!!!

Amen! Scared the bejeebus out of 6-year-old TigerVols and it didn’t help matters when my folks took me to Sid And Marty Kroft’s MegaChamber of Horrors in Atlanta (which I have to admit I’m surprised @maumann didn’t reference.)

 

[Neutral Corner]

I was a costumed character at Six Flags when they held the rights to the Pufnstuf characters.

I wore the Pufnstuf suit many times when I was 16 or 17.

 

[swingline]

Were you a friend when things got tough?

 

[cyclingwriter2]

Also starred in the now cult-classic Paul Lynde Halloween Special that debuted Kiss on national TV.

 

[Songbird]

Part of my earliest memories of life.

Loved all of the Krofft shows from HR Pufnstuf -- "can't do a little cause you can't get enough!" -- to Sigmund the Seamonster to Dr. Shrinker to The Bugaloos to Land of the Lost.

 

[Shropshire Slasher]

I never knew Paul Lynde ever did anything besides a swishy center square on the original Hollywood Squares.

 

[PCLoadLetter]

I never knew Paul Lynde ever did anything besides a swishy center square on the original Hollywood Squares.

He was in Bye Bye Birdie on Broadway. He was also in the film adaptation.

 

[DanOregon]

If you haven't seen it - watch it (at least through the opening title, which are worth the price of admission)

 

[maumann]

Amen! Scared the bejeebus out of 6-year-old TigerVols and it didn’t help matters when my folks took me to Sid And Marty Kroft’s MegaChamber of Horrors in Atlanta (which I have to admit I’m surprised @maumann didn’t reference.)

No matter how many times I had lunch in the Atrium at CNN Center, I thought three things:

1. Who the hell would pay for a CNN tour?
2. Who the hell thought there should be an amusement park there?
3. The f-ing globe at the top of the escalator (formerally the rollercoaster ride) is missing the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.