History Series / Lidsville

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Extremely similar to ''Series/HRPufnstuf'', '''''Lidsville''''' featured a boy, Mark (Butch Patrick, of Series/TheMunsters fame), who falls into a stage magician's top-hat into the eponymous hat community. Having gained control of a ring-dwelling (non-hat) Genie (played by a [[GenderFlip gender-flipped]] Billie Hayes, who also played Witchiepoo on ''Pufnstuf''), he is pursued by the magician's Lidsvillian evil counterpart, [=HooDoo=], played by a pre-''Series/MatchGame'' Creator/CharlesNelsonReilly — not a hat himself, but living in a giant topper and flying around in a giant opera hat. Produced by Creator/SidAndMartyKrofftProductions back in 1971, with their trademark surrealism, the concept bears a suspicious resemblance to an earlier British stop motion cartoon called ''Hattytown Tales''... though it was only two years earlier, and had none of the overarching plot (such as it is) of the classic Sid and Marty Krofft Productions "human lost in a strange land" story, and lacked any "human" characters. (If Series/HRPufnstuf was inspired by the MGM's version of ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'', then ''Lidsville'' was inspired by Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland.)

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-->'''[=HooDoo=]:''' ''[croaking]'' [[IWantMyMommy I want my Mommy [=HooDoo=]]]!

Extremely similar to ''Series/HRPufnstuf'', '''''Lidsville''''' featured a boy, Mark (Butch Patrick, of Series/TheMunsters fame), who falls into a stage magician's top-hat into the eponymous hat community. Having gained control of a ring-dwelling (non-hat) Genie (played by a [[GenderFlip gender-flipped]] Billie Hayes, who also played Witchiepoo on ''Pufnstuf''), he is pursued by the magician's Lidsvillian evil counterpart, [=HooDoo=], played by a pre-''Series/MatchGame'' Creator/CharlesNelsonReilly — not a hat himself, but living in a giant topper and flying around in a giant opera hat. Produced by Creator/SidAndMartyKrofftProductions back in 1971, with their trademark surrealism, the concept bears a suspicious resemblance to an earlier British stop motion cartoon called ''Hattytown Tales''... though it was only two years earlier, and had none of the overarching plot (such as it is) of the classic Sid and Marty Krofft Productions "human lost in a strange land" story, and lacked any "human" characters. (If Series/HRPufnstuf was inspired by the MGM's version of TheWizardOfOz, then ''Lidsville'' was inspired by Literature/AlicesAdventuresInWonderland.)

* MirrorsReflectEverything: In "Weenie, Weenie, Where's Our Genie?", Weenie runs away and is recaptured by [=HooDoo=], who has also captured Mark and some of the Good Hats. Weenie, overhearing [=HooDoo=]'s plan to turn the good guys into toads, pushes a mirror in front of [=HooDoo=] just as he finishes the spell, causing [=HooDoo=] to turn ''himself'' into a toad.
-->'''[=HooDoo=]:''' ''[croaking]'' [[IWantMyMommy I want my Mommy [=HooDoo=]]]!

-->'''[=HooDoo=]:''' ''[croaking]'' [[IWantMyMommy I want my mommy [=HooDoo=]]]!

* ComedicUnderwearExposure: In one episode [=HooDoo=] attacks the town with "Big Daddy Hoodoo," a HumongousMecha version of himself (and an inflatable one at that!). After it's defeated, it turns out he'd been driving it while wearing nothing but his longjohns for some reason, and when this is revealed he's so embarrassed he runs away without zapping anybody.

* LorreLookalike: One of the [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Bad Hats]] is Boris, an executioner's hood, who speaks in an impression of Peter Lorre. He's usually seen carrying an axe.

%% * CoolOldLady: Mother Wheels.

%% * DumbMuscle: Rah-Rah the football helmet.

%% * SurroundedByIdiots: [=HooDoo=]'s bumbling Bad Hats and other henchmen. He even says this out loud.

%% * BarefootCartoonAnimal: Raunchy.

%% * CoolCar: [=HooDoo=]'s flying Hatamaran.

%% * CrossOver: In one episode, [=HooDoo=] meets [[WickedWitch Witchiepoo]] through a dating service, and it is up to the heroes to break them up.

%% * EvilSorcerer: Horatio J. [=HooDoo=].

%% * NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: [[Creator/JohnWayne Tex the Ten-Gallon Hat]], [[Creator/BorisKarloff Boris the Executioner's Hood]], [[Creator/BelaLugosi Bela the Vampire's Cowl]].