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    The Bizarre History of the 1960s Scifi Puppet Series Too "Twisted" For TV
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    Image of Grey_Area Grey_Area
    07/08/09

    In reply to The Bizarre History of the 1960s Scifi Puppet Series Too "Twisted" For TV
    Hey waitasec... those weren't actual people at all, just some sort of tiny dolls. Also, the whole "video" was in black and white, not at all like real life. And I'm pretty sure people haven't been able to travel that far out in "space".


    Nice big boobs though.

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    Image of CaptainStargood CaptainStargood
    07/08/09

    In reply to The Bizarre History of the 1960s Scifi Puppet Series Too "Twisted" For TV
    For you, gentle reader, anything...
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    07/08/09

    @CaptainStargood: Cap'n, rest assured that us io9 regulars didn't think ill of you or demand any "proof" of your artistic status.
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of CaptainStargood CaptainStargood
    07/08/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Thanks so much for your kindness and supportive comment. :)
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/08/09

    @CaptainStargood: Glad to see you're such a good sport about it. Really, you didn't have to change up the whole format just because one person had a serious issue with an errant ad. The rest of us will pounce on anything to snark about, but believe me when I say we have (mostly) no ill intent.
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    Image of CaptainStargood CaptainStargood
    07/08/09

    In reply to The Bizarre History of the 1960s Scifi Puppet Series Too "Twisted" For TV
    Eugenia, I am the writer-director and very pleased to meet you all. My name is on the site, both as the alias "Oswald Larsen" and its real form, found in the History section. Flip the initials, you'll get it.


    Apologies to the very fine Annalee for causing this brouhaha on your very fine site. I neither work for, nor am sponsored by anyone related to medications of any sort. These videos are a labor of geeky love on the part of myself and the compadres listed on the site under the Stargood Players. And after a long night of frantic WordPress re-theming this will all be a distant, if vaguely ironic, memory. As they say in the TV biz, stay-tuned...

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    Image of Eugenia Eugenia
    07/08/09

    @CaptainStargood: Ok, get rid of that Cialis HTML code on your site and then I might believe you.


    And I don't see why you would use an alias for it btw. Are you not proud of your work? I thought that it was rather well-done actually. It's just that the viral marketing aura it had around it was what flipped me off.

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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    07/08/09

    @Eugenia: The alias is part of the artwork. Many artists do this. See "P.D.Q. Bach" as an example.
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    Image of John Hazard John Hazard
    07/08/09

    In reply to The Bizarre History of the 1960s Scifi Puppet Series Too "Twisted" For TV
    Somehow I'm not seeing any viral marketing, or the reason there's so much hate for the Cap'n. I think this is adorable- marketing or not, I'd like to know more about the folks who made it.
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/08/09

    @John Hazard: Exactly. And plus, he's got WOOOOOOOD!


    Oh my gods I think I got it.

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    crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    07/08/09

    @John Hazard: One person went apeshit and took a flying leap off her jump to conclusions mat over something in her mind.


    The Cap'n himself explained it all to us.

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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/08/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: And for what end, I'm not really sure. The sullying of "art"? Oh, what do I know. I'm insane.
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    Image of Lassus Lassus
    07/08/09

    In reply to The Bizarre History of the 1960s Scifi Puppet Series Too "Twisted" For TV
    This entire thread seems to be a little more meta than usual.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    07/08/09

    @Lassus: Well now it is.
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    92BuickLeSabre was starred 92BuickLeSabre was unstarred
    Image of CaptainStargood CaptainStargood
    07/08/09

    In reply to The Bizarre History of the 1960s Scifi Puppet Series Too "Twisted" For TV
    Wow. Not sure what Eugenia is experiencing, but I can assure any and all that this is NOT viral marketing for Cialis or for anything of the kind. I wish I was smart enough to get corporate funding of any sort. It's all meant to be very tongue-in-cheek and we're not out to commit fraud of any sort, just hopefully amuse a little. Although I do have a massive Ponzi scheme planned if anyone is interested... thanks for all the fun comments though!
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    CaptainStargood was starred CaptainStargood was unstarred
    Image of Dunny0 Dunny0
    07/08/09

    @CaptainStargood: That's exactly what you would say if it were viral marketing though.
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    Dunny0 was starred Dunny0 was unstarred
    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    07/08/09

    @Dunny0: Right? This is just like the time Bernie Madoff gave that speech about how it would be virtually impossible to violate SEC rules in any significant way without getting caught.


    I've got my eyes on you CaptainStargood.


    *points at own eyes*

    *points at CaptainStargood*

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    92BuickLeSabre was starred 92BuickLeSabre was unstarred
    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/08/09

    @CaptainStargood: *sniff sniff* No followers, no friends, but a STAR???


    FAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKE...!

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    crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/08/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Hey, speaking of eyes...
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    crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    07/08/09

    @crashedpc: There's nothing wrong with getting a star anyway you can.


    By the way, when was the last time you sat behind the wheel of an American made vehicle?


    I don't know if you've heard, but the new Buick Lacrosse comes with a free year of OnStar, and if you act now, we can sign you up for no money down.

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    92BuickLeSabre was starred 92BuickLeSabre was unstarred
    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/08/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Shameless! SHAMELESS! Corporate whore
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    crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of CaptainStargood CaptainStargood
    07/08/09

    @CaptainStargood: This is EXACTLY the kind of hysteria that got the Captain yanked in the '60s!!


    I do appreciate everyone's comments though, pro and con. We're looking to make these better with every video.


    Plus, now I'm hoping I may get some free samples out of the deal... not that I NEED them or anything...

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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/08/09

    @CaptainStargood: Don't you already have wood? (same joke twice in the same thread, critical mass approaching)
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    crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    07/08/09

    @CaptainStargood: Wait, you're looking to make them better and better?


    So you're not even American corporate shills?


    You're Canadians aren't you. Damned Canadian pharmaceutical industry. They're behind everything!

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    92BuickLeSabre was starred 92BuickLeSabre was unstarred
    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    07/08/09

    @CaptainStargood: Keep up the good puppet work. But no Ponzi for me, thanks.
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was starred Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. was unstarred
    Image of Plague Plague
    07/08/09

    In reply to The Bizarre History of the 1960s Scifi Puppet Series Too "Twisted" For TV
    Ah, humor. What an elusive muse you are.
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    07/08/09

    In reply to The Bizarre History of the 1960s Scifi Puppet Series Too "Twisted" For TV
    To all of you doubters, L. B. Laurence was my uncle, and this was most certainly made in the 60's, no matter how "obvious" it may be to those who "read things" and "look at stuff" that it "wasn't made in the 60's" or "isn't real."


    We still miss him. If you're out there Uncle L.B., call your sister (my mom). She still has the same number. Let us know you're okay.

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    92BuickLeSabre was starred 92BuickLeSabre was unstarred
    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/08/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: His eyeballs were delicious.
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    crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    07/08/09

    @crashedpc: LIES!
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    92BuickLeSabre was starred 92BuickLeSabre was unstarred
    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/08/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Two bucks, a crowbar, and the floorboards of an abandoned house in Montana say otherwise.
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    crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    07/08/09

    @crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: What are the two bucks for?
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    92BuickLeSabre was starred 92BuickLeSabre was unstarred
    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/08/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Your blindfold.
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    crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    07/08/09

    @crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division and AngryEddy: Why must you two insist on finding so much joy in my family's pain?
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    92BuickLeSabre was starred 92BuickLeSabre was unstarred
    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/08/09

    @92BuickLeSabre: Because, to be honest... Uncle Elby was also my uncle... 92Buick... I am your long lost brother.
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    Image of Darklighter Darklighter
    07/08/09

    @crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: How could you forget the ominous music?!
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    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    07/08/09

    @crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO [breath] OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
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    92BuickLeSabre was starred 92BuickLeSabre was unstarred
    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/08/09

    @Darklighter: Why ominous? It should be an auspicious, happy occasion.


    @92BuickLeSabre: Because, you see, we have been hungry.

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    crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of schrodingers-katana schrodingers-katana
    07/08/09

    @crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: That's odd, because I'm actually the child of 92BuickLeSabre and yourself, sent back in time to collect bottle caps for some reason. I have it on good authority that before you can eat Buick, you both fall in love and devote your entire fortunes to developing a way for men to impregnate other men, thus myself. Thanks a lot dads, the future blows! Sending me back here for fricking bottle caps! Bottle caps!
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/08/09

    @schrodingers-katana: I think my penis just fell off thinking about that. Thanks, son(?).
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    Image of bluehinter bluehinter
    07/08/09

    In reply to The Bizarre History of the 1960s Scifi Puppet Series Too "Twisted" For TV
    Meh, it's no SUPERTHUNDERSTINGCAR



    + Watch video
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    07/08/09

    In reply to The Bizarre History of the 1960s Scifi Puppet Series Too "Twisted" For TV
    RIGHT IM BACK................From my wedding anniversary hols!!


    Who died, what exploded, did earth get scortched by a solar storm and more importantly has heroes been cancelled!!

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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/08/09

    @CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): Oh, you were gone?
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    Image of CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard) CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard)
    07/08/09

    @crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: Cheeky!! Of course, didnt you hear the fanfare when i left!!!
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/08/09

    @CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): Sorry, my inflated ego kind of blocks out the noise from the plebeians and üntermensch floating below me.
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    crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of mordicai mordicai
    07/08/09

    @CoffinDodger (If the typos crap. Blame my keyboard): Wasn't Heroes cancelled after that disastrous second season?
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/08/09

    @mordicai: Good... good... the more people that believe this, the more it will become true. *Hiro eye squint* HURRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR...!
     Reply
    crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of mordicai mordicai
    07/09/09

    @crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: Wintson, we need to edit the past to save the future! Where we're going, we don't need roads!

    Crap, Back to the Future 1984 is...an awesome idea.
     Reply
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    Image of Eugenia Eugenia
    07/08/09

    In reply to The Bizarre History of the 1960s Scifi Puppet Series Too "Twisted" For TV
    Ok, this ain't cool. For those who read my blog or twitter they know that I have a quite saucy kind of humor, and this video is kind of my thing.


    However.


    Having checked out their web site, it's clear to me that this is NOT an honest artistic effort. This is viral marketing, paid by "Generic Cialis - Tadalafil". Except the big text link to their site that I see when javascript is turned off on my browser, it's a tell-tell situation that the writer/director is nowhere to be mentioned in the web site.


    This is some clever marketing by Cialis, but really, I am more interested in honest short movies (no matter the amount of spicyness), rather than viral marketing that disguises itself.

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    Image of Dunny0 Dunny0
    07/08/09

    @Eugenia: You do realize that io9 is just one giant viral marketing ARG, right?


    Unless, of course, you knew that and are nothing more than a Cialis plant, here to make sure we realize who paid for the puppets.


    I'M ON TO YOU!

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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    07/08/09

    Yikes! This is an ad for Cialis?


    That's crummy marketing.

     Reply
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    Image of twophrasebark twophrasebark
    07/08/09

    They probably misled Annalee, too.
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    Image of bonniegrrl bonniegrrl
    07/08/09

    @twophrasebark: What is this Cialis and how can I buy balls?
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/08/09

    @bonniegrrl: Ma'am, this is what we men like to call a "temporary situation" that has never happened before.
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    crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of Eugenia Eugenia
    07/08/09

    @Dunny0:


    >You do realize that io9 is just one giant viral marketing ARG, right?


    io9 doesn't make art, these guys are supposedly do. They sell us this as art, while it's just marketing. There is a difference. I am a FILMMAKER MYSELF, so I have strict ideas what is honest art, and what is not.


    >I'M ON TO YOU!


    What's that suppose to mean?

     Reply
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    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/08/09

    @Eugenia: Now I think your humor gland was surgically removed.
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    crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of Eugenia Eugenia
    07/08/09

    @crashedpc : ゴキブリ and 蟑螂 division: Either that, or I didn't get the joke, since english is not my main language.
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    Eugenia was starred Eugenia was unstarred
    Image of 92BuickLeSabre 92BuickLeSabre
    07/08/09

    @Eugenia: I'm not yet convinced that this is marketing, but what pray tell is honest art under your definition?


    Certainly not something paid for by a patron to market or propagandize an idea or image, otherwise the entire history of Western Art is as impure as the London snow.

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    92BuickLeSabre was starred 92BuickLeSabre was unstarred
    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/08/09

    @Eugenia: Well, for one, generic Cialis would imply that it's NOT viral marketing by the makers of Cialis themselves. Why would they want to market someone else's drug?


    What's wrong with the content itself? Does it make you want to buy boner pills? If it doesn't, but the content itself entertains, then I say it fails as marketing but succeeds as a momentary distraction, a tidbit that at least for a few minutes amuses.


    Other than the tiny text link in the upper lefthand corner, only visible if you have ad-block installed, I don't see anything that links this to penis pills.

     Reply
    crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of AngryEddy AngryEddy
    07/08/09

    In reply to The Bizarre History of the 1960s Scifi Puppet Series Too "Twisted" For TV
    Where do I place me order for a Vera Buxley figure...or two?
     Reply
    AngryEddy was starred AngryEddy was unstarred
    Image of crashedpc - Haifisch crashedpc - Haifisch
    07/08/09

    @AngryEddy: What, Real Dolls too expensive for you?
     Reply
    crashedpc - Haifisch was starred crashedpc - Haifisch was unstarred
    Image of pastoralia pastoralia
    07/08/09

    In reply to The Bizarre History of the 1960s Scifi Puppet Series Too "Twisted" For TV
    There is no way this was real. No, I'm serious. It's a fake.
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    Image of Christopher Murrie Christopher Murrie
    07/08/09

    @pastoralia: ...maybe the article saying the show "is the brainchild of a group of retro-satirist fans" could be the tip-off?
     Reply
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    Image of bonniegrrl bonniegrrl
    07/08/09

    @Christopher Murrie: I think it's the blog entry headline that's throwing everyone off.
     Reply
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