Letters to the Editor

This letter is associated with the following article:
Read other letters about this article
Narnia in neon
Sid and Marty Krofft introduced a generation of children to freaky Day-Glo fantasy worlds with singing monsters and talking inanimate objects. Whoa, flashback!
By Sarah Hepola [2008-02-19]

  • While I didn't have the vocabulary at the time

    I found the Krofft shows repulsive in a particularly disturbing way -- the stillborn über-creepy failed-puppet-show designs with nightmarish colors coupled with insipid plots and acting were like some toxic by-product of all that shitty late 60s design, avocado-colored appliances, things like that. Unloved, artificial landscapes and characters produced the feeling that the actors must have hated what they were doing while realizing that television had hit a new low, and an unspeakable one at that.

    I agree with an earlier writer that a kid's show like "Wallace and Ladmo" was infinitely funnier and more entertaining during its brief run. It had a kind of self-effacing fun that was never going to be found in any Krofft creation. I feel like taking another shower and changing clothes just thinking about any of that Krofft stuff.

    Compare the atrocious Krofft body of work with the beloved Pee Wee's Playhouse from the early 90s.

    -- Gordon Wagner
    [Read Gordon Wagner's other letters]
    Tuesday, February 19, 2008 08:04 AM
Read other letters about this article

Letters Help