Sigmund and the Sea Monsters Reboot

[monitor_ep]

Amazon Pacts with TV Kidvid Producers Sid and Marty Krofft for ‘Sigmund and the Sea Monsters’ Reboot

Who would have thought that all that talk about Sid & Marty shows and now this! What do you think?

[LonnieFisher]

I never really watched it as a kid. I wonder how different it'll be.

[monitor_ep]

I did but I cannot remember it.

[PNGwynne]

^Nosy aunt, two kid buddies, & a Norman Lear-esque family of sea monsters in a grotto.

I preferred Land of the Lost & the trippy Lidsville.

Will the new monsters be CGI?

[palitoy]

I think Pufnstuf and Land of the Lost could be remade a 1,000,000 times but Sigmund? I dunno....

[Werewolf]

I think I must have been a little too young to appreciate most of the Kroft stuff. But I remember my older sister really liked those shows. I'm gonna have to tell her about this.

[firestarcomics]

Hey, wait! Didn't they mention a Lidsville movie sometime ago that NEVER happened? We hear of these alleged movies and projects and then they NEVER happen?

[StrangeVisitor]

This Sigmund reboot is up now part of Amazon's pilot season.

[LonnieFisher]

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/sigmund-sea-monsters-70s-tv-icon-reboots-amazon-article-1.2676912

[JediJaida]

That was the ONE Kroft show that I had absolutely NO respect for. Sigmund was an idiot most of the time, and the kids weren't all that bright either. Especially when they introduced Rip Taylor as the incompetent genie in the second season.

Pufnstuf was pretty cool; I was terrified of Witchiepoo, even though half of her spells fizzled out. I hated that talking flute though; he was more annoying than Big Bird, Ernie and Elmo all rolled into one package.

I don't really remember Lidsville much.

I was a major fan of Land of the Lost, even with the phoney baloney dinosaurs, outrageous plots, and the fact that their clothing never fell apart, even with all of the danger that they faced on a daily basis.

[PNGwynne]

I don't really remember Lidsville much.

Lidsville was like Pufenstuf on acid. Plus, Butch Patrick was a little better as the kid hero, and no damn flute. There was even a guest-starring Witchipoo with Hoodoo in one episode.

[Marvelmania]

I loved this show as a kid!!!!! I don't know about a reboot though. None of those H R Pufenstuf shows wouldn't work well in todays world no matter how well they could be rebooted.

[Timothy2251]

Pretty much anything Krofft put out was an acid trip, and gloriously so. But we were hyped up on sugar frosted cereals as kids, so we rolled with it.

[PNGwynne]

I wish I could have photographed my partner's expression the first time I showed him "Lidsville." He muttered something like, "What did I just see?" and his expression was priceless lol.

I hope they can at the least make Sigmund fun like it was for "70's kids, though I was not a huge fan.

[Bantha5]

Krofft shows were a unique product from unique times, they should stay in the past. I heard on a podcast awhile ago, comedian Dana Gould wrote a "Gremlins" reboot of the movie, the sea monsters were going to be just that "monsters" no shellevisions or shellephones. The kroffts and the studio were very much on board, until the Monday after The land of the lost movie was released.