Anyone who genuinely wades through all 7 parts of this gets the PoETV Cast Iron Eyeballs Award for 2009. Must present doctor/emergency room bill for verification.
I actually really enjoyed the second part for the most part, but then I've always been a fan of H.R. Puffenstuff and seeing Witchy-poo made me laugh. Yes, I'm easily entertained. I turned it off after Tim Conway died the second time during the trucker skit though.
I watched this when it originally aired. I was six years old.
I knew Lynde from his recurring role on Bewitched, his numerous appearances on The Hollywood Squares and as the voice of Templeton the rat in the Hanna Barbera animated version of Charlotte's Web.
This was also the very first time I ever heard of Kiss.
I was more excited that Witchie-Poo from H.R. Puffinstuff and Pinky Tuscadero from Happy Days were guests.
Ah, I remember when Pinky Tuscadero was on the front cover of Dynamite Kid's Magazine. So many warped and horrifying pre-awareness-of-actual-sexual-intercourse thoughts!
It was the seventies. *Everything* had musical numbers. You couldn't pick up your dry cleaning without it turning into a five-minute salute to disco or some such thing.
I hear the Bush Administration threatened to veto when the United Nations put this on the list of arcane torture methods not allowed in prisoner of war camps.
I think we can safely say that there existed a "Paul Lynde is popular" era that is most definitely over. But I do recall the world was slightly insane during this brief time.
Actually, I'm pretty sure Paul Lynde played two different characters on two different episodes of "I Dream of Jeannie": a wacky effeminate IRS Agent, and a wacky effeminate astronaut trainer. So, you see, the man had range.
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