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Land Of The Lost Was Cooler Than Lost

ideaman2020 — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:40:46 PST

I've always said [when the subject comes up] Seasons 1 & 2 were good. Season 3 was crap. The 90s remake was utter horse-pucky!

As fairly bright kids, we were aware of most the stuff listed above [except for the Altrusian backstory]...

"Yeni chin!"

ideaman2020

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Zapp Brannigan's Girdle — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 22:08:42 PST

@Seth L: All I remeber is the early-90's remake. It didn't last long.

Didn't one of the networks trot out the original series shortly after the demise of the remake? Or are my memories of the early 90s too far gone?

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905 — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 13:20:15 PST

I live next door to the Friendly Golden Sleestak. He's just as nice as he was on the show, but he has a little dog that barks all the damn time. I don't complain about it, though...access to the weather control pylon is too handy

905

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Ben — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 11:12:09 PST

I have nothing but good feelings for Holly (the kind a young boy gets when watching Saturday morning shows) so I've got my fingers in my ears saying "NYANYANYA I can't hear you..."

Ben

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Spiral — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 09:54:37 PST

I remember another fact mentioned above.
The smart Sleestak named Enik always knew that he was from a different time period from the other Sleestaks. He always assumed he was from the future, being a more evolved version. But in one episode it was revealed that he was from the past; the Sleestaks had actually devolved into the hissing savages that they were in most of the series.

Spiral

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T-man — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:57:24 PST

What's a sleestak?

T-man

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I'm Waitin' for Dolemite — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:48:30 PST

oh and what confused wee lad feelings I held for Wesley Eure (Will Marshall)

[www.a8maestro.com]

I'm Waitin' for Dolemite

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bonniegrrl — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 22:34:32 PST

thank you. That "Lost" on "Land of the Lost" image is now my new wallpaper. If only the two could merge into one show. *Dreams*

bonniegrrl

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Dybbuk — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:13:08 PST

@btgoss: you should be proud that he has his own mind. Maybe he will turn you onto some cool new stuff. but if you prefer a cog you could always try the Ludovico technique.

Dybbuk

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strider_mt2k — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:52:15 PST

We noticed that too, but we were amused.

strider_mt2k

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EBone — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:27:11 PST

@Kevin Kelly: I'm not certain, I'm currently at work. I know it was not a full season, and I know the DVD package boasted of the "Special Features" interview on the back.

To make it even creepier, she was hanging all over the now-grown up guy who played her brother, and it was pretty apparent in the interview she was pushing herself on him in a way a sister shouldn't with her brother.

EBone

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Kevin Kelly — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:22:35 PST

@EBone: Was it the "Stak Attack" DVD?

Kevin Kelly

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The Tensor — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:37:03 PST

I've maintained for years to anyone who will listen (a forever shrinking group of unfortunates) that the first season of Lost should have ended with them pulling away the overgrowth to reveal, not a hatch, but the scrawled words...

"Beware of Sleestak"

The Tensor

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EBone — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 14:13:45 PST

I watched a DVD of 3 episodes I got for my wife, who loved the show when she was little. It was awful.

Even WORSE was an interview on the DVD with the actress that played Holly, all grown up now. She is a complete and total skank now, right down to the smoker's raspy laugh and the shakey meth-freak mannerisms. It was awful.

EBone

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Plague — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:33:31 PST

@btgoss:
Hatland?
Do you mean Lidsville?

Plague

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Tommmcatt — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:31:33 PST

Also it was on after Wonder Woman, and the Superfiends hour. When you combined all of them it was like herion for 6-year-olds.

Tommmcatt

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7Zark7 Iz In Ur Internetz — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:31:27 PST

Somebody described a Sleestak as "COOL SLEESTAK" over at Wikipedia. Mildly amusing.

7Zark7 Iz In Ur Internetz

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btgoss — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:19:41 PST

I was so excited when I got these on DVD. I sat my son (who is 4) down to watch with me, knowing he would be blown away. Well I was wrong. He hates it. So that makes Land of the Lost, and the Muppets. WERE HAVE I GONE WRONG?!?!?
Maybe I can win him over with Hatland and Sigmund...

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Kevin Kelly — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 13:05:42 PST

@Plague: Blasphemy.

Kevin Kelly

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jaydeflix — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:34:52 PST

"The Sleestaks had a Library of Skulls, which contained the sentient skulls of their ancestors, who could still speak and dispense knowledge"

Sounds more like Futurama's Head Museum. Well, except for the visions.

jaydeflix

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Plague — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:26:55 PST

All that talent and forethought involved.
Yet it still wasn't good. Even as a cheesy kids show.
And I LOVE the Kroffts.

Plague

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Dybbuk — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:22:08 PST

ive been sucking in the sacred smoke for years now.

Still no telepathy

Dybbuk

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strider_mt2k — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:10:53 PST

@92BuickLeSabre: The headline and pic would make a very cool shirt indeed. :D

strider_mt2k

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92BuickLeSabre — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:04:11 PST

First of all, I want that headline on a t-shirt.

But this awesomeness just makes me sadder about the upcoming Will Farrell spoofremake.

Why is it that the worst special effects are also, somehow, often, the most brilliant?

92BuickLeSabre

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SonOfSlam — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 12:01:22 PST

This explains why, when I watched the show as a kid, I had no damn clue about what was going on.

SonOfSlam

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strider_mt2k — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:59:52 PST

[www.youtube.com]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!
(daddy DO something!)

strider_mt2k

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moerex — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:53:50 PST

OMG, a Lost/Land Of The Lost crossover would be awesome. Especially if they kept the same special effects as in the 70s version. They could at least throw in a Pylon or two--those were cool.

If the writers strike keeps on keeping on, maybe they can just splice bits of LotL into new Lost episode. I'm sure at least a couple people won't be fazed. (Yes, folks, it's true--"Jacob" is the Sleestak King!)

moerex

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SeeingI — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:53:41 PST

The title sequence alone is worth watching and re-watching. "The laaand of the looost!" The Sleestacks terrified me when I was a kid - those huge eyes, those hissy sounds - to the point where whenever I see a photo of one, looking so cheesey, I think "That CAN'T be the same monster that was so scary when I was five."

SeeingI

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Ray Gunn — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:50:09 PST

I effing loved this show but it also scared the daylights out of me and gave me an unreasonable and lasting phobia of traffic cones, the Washington Monument, and other Pylon-shaped things.

Ray Gunn

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strider_mt2k — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:48:29 PST

Funny this comes up the day after our Sleestak coin bank arrives!
We didn't get it from here, but the pic link works:
[www.monstersinmotion.com]
The thing is AWESOME.

We have seasons 1 and 2 on DVD.
(We will not be seeking out season 3.)

Season 1 is the one worth getting not only because it actually offers a plausible ending with the last episode "Circle", but because the commentaries are really entertaining too, especially Larry Niven's interviews.
("My precious prose" is a memorable line.)

Thanks for reminding me!
I ripped season 1 to DivX a while back and only just this week got an 8GB SDHC card to make further use of the awesome PMP my "opened up" MioC230 GPS turned out to be!
The episodes are copying over as we speak. :)

BTW, if you want to score some geek cred on the street: When someone asks you what you are doing, tell 'em you're watching season 1 of Land of the Lost on your hacked GPS.
It'll either spark an interesting conversation or they'll walk away shaking their heads.

strider_mt2k

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Klebert L. Hall — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:44:56 PST

David Gerrold was involved in that? No wonder it was so god-awful.

Plus, AFAICT, the Krofts have been continually high since birth.
-Kle.

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7Zark7 Iz In Ur Internetz — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:33:08 PST

Great job on the photoshop. For a second I really thought the Sleestak were on Lost. I really need to start watching Lost so I can go back and read this post.

Marshall, Will and Holly, on a routine expedition, met the greatest earthquake ever known!

I love having an office. I get to sing theme songs from 1970s children's shows!

7Zark7 Iz In Ur Internetz

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Seth L — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:26:50 PST

I had no idea it was that well thought out!

All I remeber is the early-90's remake. It didn't last long.

Seth L

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MatthewT — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 11:17:38 PST

I loved--LOVED--this show when I was a kid. So much that I'm actually afraid to watch it now. I don't want it to turn out to have been, in fact, awful and have its memory be ruined. That's already happened a few times.

MatthewT