Help from anyone over 35 with a great Memory!!!!!

[senjula]

I am working on a picture for a client of her Grandaughter, she wants me to just create her in a background I feel suits her expression. Been thinking about it off and on all day....

Well I just tried taking a nap with baby and I had a flash of a childhood memory.... I think it was a kids tv show, I see large flowers that would open and characters would be inside, I think they where real actors and not animation....then I see them at the end of the show closing up again...I cant pull anymore out of the memory except those two things....Does this sound familar to anyone!!! I remember thinking they looked so comfortable.....any one?? maybe it was just a reoccurring dream not sure......

let me know if this jogs anything for you!! thanks :confused:

[JPnyc]

Romper Room

[danedawg99]

you're so old.... :p

[morea]

lmao

[senjula]

Romper Room....are you sure...Its not clicking....I barely remember romper room...can you give me a bit more. A few years ago I was having issues with that Withcie poo character with her big pupet monster dudes that lived underground in some wierd place you could only access from tubes....now I cant remember that one either arggghhhh...

Like a good red wine Danedawg

[Logo-Mechanix]

The Magic Garden, gotta love those 70's hippie shows for kids.

[jimking]

The Magic Garden, gotta love those 70's hippie shows for kids.
Was that the one with the hippo?

[senjula]

I just looked up some stuff on the Magic Garden dont think it was that one....It would have to have been aired on either PBS or ABC in order for me to get it as a kid...I think we only had a few stations from the US back then....ikes I am really aging myself....

[JPnyc]

No, but it's the only kids show I can remember from when I was really young, like single digits.

[JPnyc]

Wait, kids inside flowers that opened up? The Opium Den?

[balou]

The Bugaloos? (http://www.bugaloos.com/)

[jimking]

Of course there was that people eaten flower movie "little shop of Horrors"

[senjula]

was expecting that a few replies ago....

[balou]

or HR Puffenstuff? (http://www.70slivekidvid.com/pufn.htm)

[senjula]

Wait, kids inside flowers that opened up? The Opium Den?

forgot to hit quote with the comment I was expecting that a few replies ago...no Balou not that one....

Hey while where on the topic does anyone remeber the title of the one with Withcypoo

[EC]

The Bugaloos? (http://www.bugaloos.com/)

I loved the bugaloos. :D

[senjula]

or HR Puffenstuff? (http://www.70slivekidvid.com/pufn.htm)

Thanks you answerd before I asked....dont think the giant flowers where in that one.....

[balou]

http://www.70slivekidvid.com/

Sheesh! I forgot about so many of these! Remember Sigmund the Sea Monster? I still answer my phone "Shello" sometimes. :D

[JPnyc]

That was HR Puffenstuff.

[senjula]

http://www.70slivekidvid.com/

Sheesh! I forgot about so many of these! Remember Sigmund the Sea Monster? I still answer my phone "Shello" sometimes. :D

Thanks I will browse that for awhile.....Land of the Lost....one of my favourites..by the end of the day I should find those big flowers...:)

[senjula]

Okay now that I am thinking about it, maybe Freddie the Flute would play and the flowers would open up.....does that sound right

[jimking]

http://www.toonarific.com/show.php?show_id=1558

[amiart]

watch for yourself... found theme song opening including video..

http://www.retrojunk.com/details_theme/496/

[rickself]

You realize that asking anybody over 35 AND have a good memory eliminated some of us immediately. One of MY favorites was the Banana Splits!

[jimking]

When I was a kid it was Ranger Hal. The Disney crowd, Mr. Green Cheese or something.

[balou]

Mr. Green Jeans. Captain Kangaroo?

[jimking]

Yes, Captain Kangaroo. I was kidding about the cheese. :)

[balou]

Where's Morea? She usually comes running at the mention of cheese! Woohoo! Cheese and shiny things Mo! (We'll see if that gets her!) ;)

[morea]

it got me.

you had me at cheese, balou.

[balou]

hehehe.

[PrintDriver]

You sure it's not the Bugaloos?
Hopefully it wasn't a local programming thing.

I'm sure if I said Major Mudd or Boom Town, only New Englanders would know what I was talking about.

Remember Lidsville?
The Monkees?
The Hudson Brothers?
Bugs Bunny & Friends uneditted for violence?
Am I old?

[balou]

Did you know (I didn't until last year) that Kate Hudson's father was on that show?

[senjula]

You sure it's not the Bugaloos?
Hopefully it wasn't a local programming thing.

I'm sure if I said Major Mudd or Boom Town, only New Englanders would know what I was talking about.

Remember Lidsville?
The Monkees?
The Hudson Brothers?
Bugs Bunny & Friends uneditted for violence?
Am I old?

No your not old!! geez pple....I am not familar with the Hudson Brothers, but for a while my world revolved around the Monkees and the Bay City Rollers....ikes...
Well I am officialy zapped from trying to figure this one out..
thank you to everyone who tried to help....Never saw the bugaloos before today and after much thought it is not HRhuffnsnuff. Maybe the whole scene was but just a dream sequence that stuck with me. Now I cant stop thinking of the Land of the lost...if that is what it was called... that was a great little trip down memory lane...now I want to draw a lizzard man....

[Zendada]

No one has mentioned the Banana Splits yet. Thought I would throw it in.

One banana, two banana, three banana, four
Four bananas make a bunch and so do many more.
Over hill and highway the banana buggies go
Coming on to bring you the Banana Splits Show

Come to think of it, no one has mentioned Sigmund and the Sea Monsters. Electra Woman and Dyna Girl? Alimighty Isis? Who are Sid and Marty Croft and how did they dominate children shows in the 70’s-80’s?

Sounds like the Bugaloos. They all had papery wings, played instruments, lived in trees and had 70’s hair.

[uncle carbunkle]

um...polka dot door?

[jimking]

You realize that asking anybody over 35 AND have a good memory eliminated some of us immediately. One of MY favorites was the Banana Splits!
:D

[Zendada]

:D

I stand corrected.

<--- noob

[jimking]

No one has mentioned the Banana Splits yet. Thought I would throw it in.

Are you calling me a noob? If I offended you in someway, sorry. I just happened to remember Rick mentioning the Banana Splits.

[Zendada]

Are you calling me a noob? If I offended you in someway, sorry. I just happened to remember Rick mentioning the Banana Splits.

No no no. I’m the noob! I skimmed. My bad.

[jimking]

Sorry Zendada, I thought you were calling me a noob. You are not a noob. This is a noob----
COMMON NOOB CHARACTERISTICS

I. Noobish

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II. Where to find noobs

On the internet, noobs make their colonies on forums. They migrate in waves, usually on weekends, and proceed to clog up bandwidth with stupid questions and sometimes even stupid answers. If you happen to be unfortunate enough to be on a board large enough to attract migrating noobs, there will hopefully be authority in charge who is smart enough to take extermination measures before they can make nests and larger colonies.

[Zendada]

Well, there you go... I used...

<--- Noob

:crie:

Anyway, back on topic!!ONE!!!11ONW!!

Who won this guessing game?

[senjula]

um...polka dot door?
Oh My Gosh!! did you grow up in Ontario...Polka a Rooooo...Polk a rooooo...that was my first thought this morning....still kinda there...could be....I know it is not any of the ones that was mentioned.....Once as a tot I was at an actual taping of the Polka Dot Door in Thunder Bay....the dolls still freak me out though..... I dont think that ran on any other television station but TVO then again I could be wrong....Hey I started a thread that got more then 15 replies on it...yippee....eh Morea could this count for a taco???

[rickself]

No one has mentioned the Banana Splits yet. Thought I would throw it in.
I soitenly did! 10 posts before you did. So there! :D Nyuk Nyuk Nyuk!

[jimking]

Rick, I beat you to it. Look at my post on page 4. :)

[rickself]

Don't need to wait for Bunny Rabbit to start the hail of ping pong balls!
Prepress guys gotta look out for each other, thank you very much!

[mac.FINN]

...Polka a Rooooo...Polk a rooooo...that was my first thought this morning....still kinda there...could be....I know it is not any of the ones that was mentioned.....Once as a tot I was at an actual taping of the Polka Dot Door in Thunder Bay....the dolls still freak me out though.....

Those Doll WERE freaky! And how come the guy never got to meet Polka roo? That made me sad.

Oh and I just watched the intro to H.R. Puff and Stuff... OMG! talk about creepy. I'll stick to my 80's cartoon thank you very much.

[senjula]

Just spent another 45 minutes trying to find these large flower dwellers!!! turns out I am not the only one, found two posts out there of people claiming to have also watched a show as a child seeing characters that lived in flowers!!! Unless of course it was a mass dream sharing issue! Some kind of hidden Alien abduction memory....however these two also have not had any luck finding the show. They where Canadian though which leads me to believe it had to be a TVO production, not an American one.

and I am not sure why he never got to Meet Polk a Roo but I do remember yelling at him on the tv to hurry up or turn around while Polk a Roo was there.

[uncle carbunkle]

i know that this isn't it, but i figured since you knew polka dot door, you might remember the adventures of Jeremy?!?

http://www.geocities.com/topspeed_jmv/jeremy/jeremy1.gif
("i'm a bear called Jeremy! I can do most anything! I can dance and I can sing, little songs like do-ra-mi!")

or what about Barbapapa?
http://www.barbapapa.fr/image/barbapapa_d_01.gif
clickity click, baaaaarba trick.

um...Hammy Hamster?
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/images/pics/hammy_lg.jpg

and i'm just getting started...

fun fact(s): my old vocal teacher was a uni student when she was hired to sing the first 'polka dot door' theme song for $10, (or some nominal fee).

AND, i used to work with a guy who played polka roo - it WASN'T the man! :eek:

[Jeizzavelle]

I'll stick to my 80's cartoon thank you very much.
How great were they? Thundercats, He-man and She-ra, Woody Woodpecker...:D

[senjula]

Yes I remeber all of those I just spent some time on a TVO dedicated oldies sight, I had completly forgot about the Barbapappa till then, I loved them toooo.....Simon and the land of chalk drawings was great in its day, Tree house is showing an newer version of it now but it is not as good as the original, they should have just stuck with showing reruns, they even changed the theme song!!
but to me it is still
"Well you know my name is Simon, and I like to do drawings, and the pictures take me take me over, climb the ladder with me!"

Help!

[senjula]

Puppins Place???? does this sound familar to anyone? I just saw the name, it really struck a chord in the memory bank...but there is no further info on it online....it was a PBS program out of South Dakota

[mac.FINN]

Thundercat's was my favourite! That show rocked.

I seem to remember in the Wizard of Oz people coming out of flowers... but that's probably not it.

Speaking of Canadian shows... anyone remember the littlest Hobo?

[Jeizzavelle]

Or the last Unicorn? Wizards? (Movies) Oh, and who could forget The Smurfs!

[senjula]

I try to forget the smurfs

[morea]

thunder
thunder
THUNDERCATS, HO!

LOL

[senjula]

Thundercat's was my favourite! That show rocked.

I seem to remember in the Wizard of Oz people coming out of flowers... but that's probably not it.

Speaking of Canadian shows... anyone remember the littlest Hobo?

Littlest Hobo was cool, then there was the beachcombers and the french speaking clown who tried to teach french on TVO he was scary..........

[Jeizzavelle]

thunder
thunder
THUNDERCATS, HO!

LOL
I shoulda known you'd be a fan.

[senjula]

Okay even though I said ,I was sure it wasnt, I am about to put this one to bed. After hours of looking through old tv show photos I am going to say it must have been the bugaloos after all..there are quite a few shots with four giant flowers in the background and there are four characters, so I must have just got the one episode somewhere in time when they went inside the flowers to hide from that nasty witch or whatever she was....

OMG!! now that I am typing and rambling I realize that is what it was, the whole thing is coming back much clearer now!! Either that or I am rewriting my own memory to satisfy a need to end this over racking of the brain.....thank you all and Goodnight.

[mac.FINN]

Littlest Hobo was cool, then there was the beachcombers and the french speaking clown who tried to teach french on TVO he was scary..........

Do you mean Mary Soleil? (Je m'appel de Marie Soleil, bonjour) with her Fergus and Samuel the clown. I saw them live (well not Fergus - he was a puppet) at the Canadian Museum of Nature when I was a kid. Ahhh memories.

[senjula]

I am pretty sure that is the one, the clown looked like a hobo

[PrintDriver]

Lancelot Link - Secret Chimp.
LOL.

[chris_bcn]

Thundercat's was my favourite! That show rocked.

I seem to remember in the Wizard of Oz people coming out of flowers... but that's probably not it.

Speaking of Canadian shows... anyone remember the littlest Hobo?

Oh my god - the littlest hobo - I assume it's the same one - the alsation dog? I loved that show as a kid

"Maybe tomorrow I'll wanna settle down. Until tomorrow, I'll jus keep moving on"

Was that a canadian show?

[senjula]

Yes it was Canadian....

[chris_bcn]

I guess they didn' get it in the states. Got the theme stuck in my head now

[senjula]

I empathize, had simon in the land of chalkdrawings stuck in my head all day!! or has it been two now???

[uncle carbunkle]

Speaking of Canadian shows... anyone remember the littlest Hobo?


BRACE YOURSELF:

there's a voice that keeps on callin' me
down the road that's where i'll always be
with every stop i make (woof! woof!) i'll make a new friend
can't stay for long, just turn around and i'm gone again

maybe tomorrow i'll wanna settle down
until tomorrow i'll just keep movin' on.

100% without google-aid or outside assistance, i swear. i can remember this, but not when to pay my bills. hell, i'll be singing this in the home when i'm 90.
:rolleyes:

[mac.FINN]

^^:D

yeah good times.

And Chris, it was filmed in BC. I used to go to the beach there all the time where they filmed in intro... the beach with all the logs. No idea which beach it is... but I was there dammit!

[scotiarules]

Thundercat's was my favourite! That show rocked.

I seem to remember in the Wizard of Oz people coming out of flowers... but that's probably not it.

Speaking of Canadian shows... anyone remember the littlest Hobo?
Littlest Hobo rocked!! It's still here on the Sat. My kids watched it once but they were like ok... I used to watch that all the time. Still know the theme song too. "There's a voice that keeps on calling me... down the road that's where I ought to be...".....
Do you remember that show (can't remember that shows name) that used to be on where you could write in with a 'your dream" and it might be picked. Well my friend & I would write in all the time to be on the Littlest Hobo show. Never got picked :-(
That's Incredible is the only name that keeps coming to mind but I know it wasn't that.

[Broacher]

You're looking for someone 35 or older, with a great mammary?

Man, why don't I ever get these kind of research assignments?

[scotiarules]

ok ok I screwed up on a couple of the words but that is too funny!! LMAO
Way to go uncle.