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Banana Splits Horror Film coming to SyFy - thatguy - 02-19-2019
https://www.cbr.com/banana-splits-horror-movie
Quote:The Banana Splits Is Being Turned Into a Horror Film By Warner Bros. & Syfy--tg
by Jon ArvedonFeb 19, 2019
The beloved children's franchise The Banana Splits is being reimagined in an unthinkable manner: as a horror film.
The movie, which will arrive in 2019 from Warner Bros. Home Entertainment before making its television debut on Syfy, centers on a boy named Harley and his family, who attend a taping of The Banana Splits. However, things quickly go south and bodies begin to pile up.
The Banana Splits, of course, is the fictional animal rock band that starred in The Banana Splits Adventure Hour, a children's variety show that ran on NBC from 1968-1970. In 2008, the property underwent a short-lived revival on Cartoon Network in the form of comedy shorts and music videos.
The Banana Splits stars Dani Kind (Wyonna Earp) as Beth, Finlay Wojtak-Hissong (The Kindness of Strangers) as Harley, Romeo Carere as Austin, Steve Lund (Street Legal, Schitt’s Creek) as Mitch, and Sara Canning (The Vampire Diaries, A Series of Unfortunate Events, War for the Planet of the Apes) as Rebecca. Bingo, Fleegle, Snorky and Drooper will also appear. The film is written by Jed Elinoff and Scott Thomas (Raven’s Home, My Super Psycho Sweet 16) and directed by Danishka Esterhazy (Level 16). The film does not yet have a release date.
RE: Banana Splits Horror Film coming to SyFy - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 02-19-2019
Lidsville, man, motherfuckin’ LIDSVILLE is where the killing started!!!
RE: Banana Splits Horror Film coming to SyFy - Drunk Monk - 02-19-2019
Meh.
Now if it was HR Puff-n-stuff that could be truly terrifying.
RE: Banana Splits Horror Film coming to SyFy - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 02-20-2019
...lidsville, maaaaaan, lidsssssvillllllle...
RE: Banana Splits Horror Film coming to SyFy - thatguy - 02-20-2019
Witchy-poo always scared the fuck out of me. I guess Charles Nelson Riley’s Character did too.
—tg
RE: Banana Splits Horror Film coming to SyFy - Drunk Monk - 02-20-2019
(02-20-2019, 10:28 AM)thatguy Wrote: Witchy-poo always scared the fuck out of me. I guess Charles Nelson Riley’s Character did too.
—tg
right? witchy-poo was fugged up.
![[Image: tumblr_ljqz3jDiVI1qg7eu6o1_400.gif]](http://38.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ljqz3jDiVI1qg7eu6o1_400.gif)
RE: Banana Splits Horror Film coming to SyFy - thatguy - 02-20-2019
(02-20-2019, 02:17 PM)Drunk Monk Wrote:(02-20-2019, 10:28 AM)thatguy Wrote: Witchy-poo always scared the fuck out of me. I guess Charles Nelson Riley’s Character did too.
—tg
right? witchy-poo was fugged up.
![[Image: Lidsville%2520Song%2520Charles%2520Nelso...0Hayes.jpg]](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-3si1ujSWV9c/T81ZN8lVthI/AAAAAAAAKmU/rX0Y4UARgvw/s1600/Lidsville%2520Song%2520Charles%2520Nelson%2520Reilly%2520Billie%2520Hayes.jpg)
RE: Banana Splits Horror Film coming to SyFy - Drunk Monk - 02-20-2019
no doubt about it. that show was a bad trip.
it's been years since i've watched it. i should revisit it someday.
RE: Banana Splits Horror Film coming to SyFy - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 02-20-2019
...the lidds, man, the liiiiiiiiddss...
RE: Banana Splits Horror Film coming to SyFy - thatguy - 02-21-2019
https://www.theonion.com/area-36-year-old-still-has-occasional-lidsville-nightma-1819565508
Area 36-Year-Old Still Has Occasional Lidsville Nightmare
The Onion
3/08/00 3:00pm
BOWLING GREEN, KY–Though their frequency has decreased since childhood, 36-year-old graphic designer Pete Meijer still suffers from occasional nightmares related to Lidsville, the early-'70s Sid and Marty Krofft-produced Saturday-morning program featuring Charles Nelson Reilly cavorting with a frightening assemblage of sentient headgear.
Evil magician Hoo-Doo, played by Charles Nelson Reilly, hatches a scheme with a giant foam gangster hat.
"It happened again last night," Meijer said. "I dreamed I was driving to work, in my father's car for some reason, and the sky started getting darker and darker. Then, from out of nowhere, the giant cowboy hat that talked like John Wayne jumped in front of my windshield and started peering into the car with a look of murderous hate."
"That was when I woke up with a jolt," Meijer continued. "I never got back to sleep."
In the program, a boy named Mark becomes trapped in a nightmarish, Technicolor parallel universe populated by anthropomorphic talking hats. The central villain is Hoo-Doo, an evil magician played by Reilly in horrifying makeup and facial prosthetics. Poor puppetry and cheap special effects contributed to the show's queasy, disorienting feel, as did the presence of dwarf actors inside the hat costumes.
Though still haunted by images from the program, Meijer has made great progress since childhood.
"From about 1972 to 1978, I had Lidsville nightmares pretty much every night," Meijer said. "In one of the more frequent ones, I'd go downstairs for breakfast, but my mother wouldn't be in the kitchen. Instead, that cone-shaped party hat with the giggly voice would be there, as though she had replaced my mother. I also had a lot of dreams where the football helmet locks me in a cage and pushes it into the ocean. And, needless to say, I often dreamed I was falling into the giant hat in the opening credits."
Eventually, through therapy and medication, Meijer was able to largely control the traumatizing effects of the program. But the nightmares return from time to time.
"I still have one or two a year," Meijer said. "A few months ago, I dreamed that Hoo-Doo was chasing me around, trying to tie me down and give me an enema. Still, I'm much better than before. Almost normal."
"You know," he added, "there were supposedly good hats and evil hats on the show, but in my dreams they're all equally disturbing."
Plaguing Meijer perhaps worst of all is the character "Weenie Genie," a boy genie inexplicably played by middle-aged actress Billie Burke–the woman who played Witchiepoo in the equally traumatic Krofft series H.R. Pufnstuf–wearing ghoulish makeup.
"I'd definitely say Weenie Genie is in my nightmares more than any of the others," Meijer said. "Weenie's supposed to be a boy, but he's played by someone who's obviously a woman. I think seeing that as an 8-year-old boy seriously damaged my still-developing sense of gender identity."
According to psychologist Dr. Deborah Kreutz, Meijer is far from alone in his fear of Lidsville.
"To this day, the scars of Lidsville run deep through American society," Kreutz said. "Remember, approximately 40 million Americans were exposed to this show as children, so we're talking about a mass, televised trauma whose psychological ramifications continue to weigh heavily on our collective national psyche."
In 1999, a team of UCLA psychologists compiled a ranking of lingering childhood traumas among Americans between the ages of 30 and 40. Lidsville ranked second overall, just ahead of the Child Catcher from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Sigmund & The Sea Monsters, another Krofft program. Ranked first were the Oompa-Loompas from Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory.
RE: Banana Splits Horror Film coming to SyFy - Drunk Monk - 02-21-2019
(02-21-2019, 08:58 AM)thatguy Wrote: Plaguing Meijer perhaps worst of all is the character "Weenie Genie," a boy genie inexplicably played by middle-aged actress Billie Burke–the woman who played Witchiepoo in the equally traumatic Krofft series H.R. Pufnstuf–wearing ghoulish makeup.
"I'd definitely say Weenie Genie is in my nightmares more than any of the others," Meijer said. "Weenie's supposed to be a boy, but he's played by someone who's obviously a woman. I think seeing that as an 8-year-old boy seriously damaged my still-developing sense of gender identity."
![[Image: fictional-locations-lidsville-weenie-genie-2.jpg]](https://enchantedamerica.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/fictional-locations-lidsville-weenie-genie-2.jpg)
I forgot about Weanie Genie.
Almost as annoying as Eugene the Jeep in Popeye.
WTH man...
RE: Banana Splits Horror Film coming to SyFy - King Bob - 02-21-2019
That's actually Billie Hayes. Billie Burke (Glenda in the Wizard of Oz) died before those show were made.
RE: Banana Splits Horror Film coming to SyFy - Dr. Ivor Yeti - 02-22-2019
See?! SEE??!!! Lidsville, man! LIDSVILLE!!!