Lidsville Theme Song (1971 Sid and Marty Krofft)

Lidsville was Sid and Marty Krofft's third television show airing for two seasons, 1971--1973. It was something like a cross between Alice in Wonderland and the Wizard of Oz, but with giant foam hats instead of mutant rabbits, munchkins and flying monkeys. Yes, it was awesome.

The hero was a teenage boy named Mark. As the theme song explains, Mark saw some magic at an amusement park and was like, "What the fuck?" So he decided to break into the prop room and poke around. After finding a powerful magic hat, Mark fucked around and fell into the hat, landing in Lidsville, a world of living hats. The hats on the show act like the dudes who would normally wear them. So the talking cowboy hat acts like a cowboy. It's creepy and clearly drug-inspired.

The villain of the show was a magician named Horatio J. HooDoo. Among other characters were Raunchy Rabbit, Weenie the Genie, and Rah-Rah the football helmet.

The villain HooDoo flies around in a "Hatamaran" and extorts the commonhats by demanding their Hat Checks. Mark forms the core of the resistance within the hat community as he tries to get home. HooDoo is a prick, but not really smart enough to do much damage.

HooDoo, trying to regain control of an androgynous sex slave (Weenie the Genie) from Mark, often enlists the services of four thugs hats consisting of Mr. Big, Captain Hooknose, Bella the Vampire's Cowl, and Boris the Executioner's Hood. They're pretty stupid and don't really look like they could whoop ass, but the other hats are scared of them anyway.

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• Lidsville
• Sid
• Marty
• Krofft
• HR
• Puffnstuf
• Bizarre
• wtf

[derphantom666]

WHAT THE FUCK?

I WAS WATCHING MARILYN MANSON A MINUTE AGO...

[Disneykingomega1]

Dreamworks is making a 3d musical movie of this. Alan Menken is doing the songs, i just hope they'll be fun and catchy, but this is Alan Menken we're talking about.

[JenkinCreative]

@Starfoxteam1 Mine was!... he ha huh huh! lol

[HarvestmanMan]

@TheFlorunner I thought it was Donny Osmond.

(I'm kidding, of course.)

[dmenace4life]

@eddieVroom Not only that but is HR Pufnstuf "puffin stuff"?

[Starfoxteam1]

I wonder how many people had their childhoods warped by TF2

[eddieVroom]

In the slang of the time, a "lid" was an ounce of weed. ;)

[TheFlorunner]

Hehehe...Butch Patrick from The Munsters (Eddie Munster) as Mark.

[lsdmadman]

ahhhh the use of hallucinogens mind you...

[modularhalfpipe]

That Sid and Marty Croft stuff was so nasty, cheesy and fake. I hated it when I was 10, and 40 years later, well, it still lacks that cool retro feel that so much of the 70's stuff had. You might even call it one of the 70's "skeletons in the closet"; the stuff people who put down the 70's are talking about.