Sleestak!

[The Mutt]

Dear god help us. Will Ferrell is going to star in a major motion picture of Land of the Lost!

http://www.70slivekidvid.com/land/sleestak1.jpg

Let's hope the Sleestak are a little scarier than the half-blind Gorn wannabes from the TV series with their little pencil-shooting crossbows.


http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=638&e=2&u=/nm/20050423/en_nm/film_ferrell_dc

Marshall, Will, and Holly on a routine expedition
Met the greatest earthquake ever known.
High on the rapids it struck their tiny raft,
And plunged them down a thousand feet below.
To the Land of the Lost.........

 

[Elizafairy]

what are those things? they look dumb

 

[The Mutt]

Can this be far behind?

http://epguides.com/BigfootandWildboy/logo.jpg

 

[Guest]

Or this...

Banana Splits: The Movie!

http://discosantigos.com/Late%20Sixties/1968_BananaSplits.jpg

 

[MNGuy]

Another series kind of stole the idea:

http://www.haikosfilmlexikon.de/sf/kl/lostwor2.jpg

 

[The Mutt]

what are those things? they look dumb

Dumb doesn't begin to describe them. They were an intelligent breed of dinosaur that later devolved to the point where they didn't really understand the technology they had. They were scared of fire and sunlight and walked really, really slow and couldn't hit the broad side of a cave from the inside with their lil crossbows. They were constantly getting their asses handed to them by two little kids and a monkeyboy named Chaka. Believe it or not, Bill Laimbeer of the Detroit Pistons once played a Sleestak.

I remember the show being pretty silly (I was in High School) but check out the creative team:
David Gerrold - Story Editor / Writer
Larry Niven - Writer
D.C. Fontana - Writer
Sid and Marty Krofft -Series Creators
Walter Koenig - Writer

 

[The Mutt]

Or maybe...

http://www.justcollectingdust.com/Merchant2/graphics/00000001/lidsville.jpg

 

[RobDownSouth]

Trivia....the Sleestak was portrayed on Land of the Lost by the Detroit Pistons' original bad boy center, Cheapshot Bill Laimbeer.

http://imdb.com/name/nm0481806/

Edited to add: Sorry Mutt, didn't see your post!

 

[Elizafairy]

Its a comedy, will ferrel is funny.

 

[CURIOUS1026]

http://www.70slivekidvid.com/land/sleestak1.jpg

Let's hope the Sleestak are a little scarier than the half-blind Gorn wannabes from the TV series with their little pencil-shooting crossbows.

All I know is that they use to scare the living crap out of me when I was little!!!

 

[John Doe]

Dumb doesn't begin to describe them. They were an intelligent breed of dinosaur that later devolved to the point where they didn't really understand the technology they had. They were scared of fire and sunlight and walked really, really slow and couldn't hit the broad side of a cave from the inside with their lil crossbows. They were constantly getting their asses handed to them by two little kids and a monkeyboy named Chaka. Believe it or not, Bill Laimbeer of the Detroit Pistons once played a Sleestak.

I remember the show being pretty silly (I was in High School) but check out the creative team:
David Gerrold - Story Editor / Writer
Larry Niven - Writer
D.C. Fontana - Writer
Sid and Marty Krofft -Series Creators
Walter Koenig - Writer

All those Star Trek people and it still sucked? Highly illogical.

 

[Cathleen]

Dumb doesn't begin to describe them. They were an intelligent breed of dinosaur that later devolved to the point where they didn't really understand the technology they had. They were scared of fire and sunlight and walked really, really slow and couldn't hit the broad side of a cave from the inside with their lil crossbows. They were constantly getting their asses handed to them by two little kids and a monkeyboy named Chaka. Believe it or not, Bill Laimbeer of the Detroit Pistons once played a Sleestak.
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Being a true Celtic's fan I couldn't pass up this interesting tidbit. Those kids kicking Laimbeer's ass were Larry, Kevin and Chief and DJ and Danny too - of course led by Johnny Most.

 

[The Mutt]

Being a true Celtic's fan I couldn't pass up this interesting tidbit. Those kids kicking Laimbeer's ass were Larry, Kevin and Chief and DJ and Danny too - of course led by Johnny Most.

Which one was the monkeyboy?

 

[Cathleen]

Which one was the monkeyboy?

LOL Hmm, with no disrespect to him, I'd have to say Cedric Maxwell (an all time fav of mine), even though I hadn't mentioned him in the earlier post. But then again, ML Carr sure could stir things up and get the folks swinging from the rafters of the old Garden.

You know it is great fun to think back to those rivalries. Basketball doesn't have that much at all now.

BTW - I have no idea what those creatures are you're all talking about. And does anyone wonder about Will Ferrals movie choices? For a funny dude I'm not seeing funny movies.

 

[hogjack]

I hope there's some nudity in this version.

Those sleestak's were hotties.

 

[The Mutt]

I hope there's some nudity in this version.

Those sleestak's were hotties.

It's those big, dark eyes.

 

[cjh]

sid and marty krofft were singlehandedly responsible for some of the worst in children's programming.

bugaloos, anybody?

 

[Phalenopsis]

sid and marty krofft were singlehandedly responsible for some of the worst in children's programming.

bugaloos, anybody?

Oh dear God! I'm so ashamed to say I remember the Bugaloos, and the Sleestak...and Sigmund and the Seamonsters...fuck it, I'm old.

 

[drown]

sid 'n marty....

you can forgive the bugaloos ...

those krofty lil bastards were high as kites
and got away with making shows 'bout it...

Pufnstuf - puffun what stuff?
Lidsville - back when it came in 'lids'

magic flutes and creepy painted midgets livin in...
mushrooms....

cass elliot and witchie-poo?

they still hiring at sid n' marty kroft?

 

[cjh]

you can forgive the bugaloos ...

those krofty lil bastards were high as kites
and got away with making shows 'bout it...

Pufnstuf - puffun what stuff?
Lidsville - back when it came in 'lids'

magic flutes and creepy painted midgets livin in...
mushrooms....

cass elliot and witchie-poo?

they still hiring at sid n' marty kroft?

i forgot about h.r. puffenstuff.

he was sorta creepy too, though. like mr. rogers on psilocybin.

 

[Gringao]

Which one was the monkeyboy?

Is this an obscure Buckeroo Bonzai reference, or did that phrase start with this flick?

 

[BlueSugar]

He is also starring in Bewitched

Nicole Kidman is going to be Samantha.

 

[The Mutt]

This is the cartoon I would like to see as a live-action film. Tim Matheson, the original Jonny Quest, could play his father, Doctor Quest.
But who could play Race Bannon?

http://www.classicjq.com/artifacts/misc/images/ClassicT2_front.jpg

 

[The Mutt]

Is this an obscure Buckeroo Bonzai reference, or did that phrase start with this flick?

It started with this thread, but "Monkeyboy" has been my favorite insult ever since I saw Buckaroo Bonzai.

 

[Gringao]

This is the cartoon I would like to see as a live-action film. Tim Matheson, the original Jonny Quest, could play his father, Doctor Quest.
But who could play Race Bannon?

Hmmm...Rutger Hauer would be good, but he's a little old now. How about Brendan Fraser?