Line #20 Series/Lidsville


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6	[[quoteright:306:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/Lidsville_7719.jpg]]
7	[[caption-width-right:306:It's the kick-kick-kickiest...]]
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9	->''"He was stunned and he was fascinated, still he had to see''\
10	''There was something deep inside the hat, [[SchmuckBait What could that something be?]]''\
11	''Then cautiously each step he took, he climbed up on the brim to look,''\
12	''And all at once the hat began to shake, and rock, [[CaptainObvious look out!]]"''
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14	(The point of no return for poor Mark.)
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16	The PlanetOfHats taken to its logical extreme: Most of the characters are {{living hat}}s.
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18	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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20	Parodied on ''Series/MrShow'' in the sketch "The Altered State of Druggachusetts."
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22	!!''Lidsville'' provides examples of:
23	* AndYouWereThere: Charles Nelson Reilly who plays [=HooDoo=], also appears in the opening credits playing Merlo, the magician whose hat Mark falls into.
24	%% * AtTheOperaTonight: Tonsilini the Top Hat (oddly enough, not, apparently, an opera hat).
25	* AttackReflector: In "Weenie, Weenie, Where's Our Genie?", Weenie, feeling unappreciated by his friends, 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.
26	-->'''[=HooDoo=]:''' ''[croaking]'' [[IWantMyMommy I want my Mommy [=HooDoo=]!]]
27	* BarefootCartoonAnimal: Raunchy the rabbit is one.
28	* 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.
29	* CoolCar: [=HooDoo=]'s flying Hatamaran, for a certain definition of "car".
30	* CoolOldLady: Mother Wheels, a motorcycle helmet, who provides transportation for Mark and the Good Hats on her motorcycle.
31	* CrossOver: "Have I Got A Girl For [=HooDoo=]" is one with ''Series/HRPufnstuf'', with Witchiepoo (the BigBad of ''Pufnstuf'') meeting [=HooDoo=] [[ItMakesSenseInContext through a dating service]].
32	%% * DamnItFeelsGoodToBeAGangster: Mr. Big.
33	%% * DontGoInTheWoods: The Forest of Hair, crossing over with WhenTreesAttack.
34	* DumbJock: Rah-Rah, the football helmet, who's good at sports but short on brains.
35	%% * EndingTheme
36	* EvilSorcerer: Horatio J. [=HooDoo=], the series' BigBad who enjoys flying around in his Hatamaran and zapping the innocent citizens of Lidsville.
37	%% * EvilTwin: Actually, [=HooDoo=] has a ''good'' twin.
38	* ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin: The nurse is named Nursie.
39	%% * ExpositoryThemeTune: As with many of Sid and Marty Krofft's shows.
40	* FailureIsTheOnlyOption: Mark never did get home.[[note]]Well, we never saw it anyway...[[/note]]
41	%% * AGodAmI: Raunchy appears to be going this way when he gets [=HooDoo=]'s powers in one episode, but instead mostly spends his time getting back at his former boss and eating a ton of carrots.
42	* GoneHorriblyRight: "Have I Got a Girl for [=HooDoo=]", the Crossover episode in which Witchiepoo and [=HooDoo=] meet. Mark and the Hat People initially hope that if [=HooDoo=] successfully finds a love interest through the dating service, he'll cease his habit of randomly flying over Lidsville and "zapping" everything in sight to alleviate his boredom. Unfortunately, [=HooDoo=] and Witchiepoo take an instant dislike to each other for not being the sexy figures they'd portrayed themselves as in the mail. Double unfortunately, they end up finding a common ground and mutual attraction when they start "zapping" Mark and his friends when the Lidsvillians try and "help out" on the date. So Lidsville winds up with ''two'' {{Evil Sorcerer}}s in residence, both of whom consider doing the magical equivalent of a fly-over bombing run on their town to be a romantic day's out. Luckily StatusQuoIsGod...
43	%% * GreatWhiteHunter: Colonel Poom, the pith helmet.
44	%% * HurricaneOfPuns: Hat-based puns.
45	%% * IAmVeryBritish: Colonel Poom.
46	* IneptMage: Weenie the Genie comedically bungles any attempt at magic. Whenever he gets something right on the first try, [[LiteralGenie the joke's that it isn't actually what they wanted]].
47	%% * LargeHam: [=HooDoo=]. Most of the other characters are as well, but [=HooDoo=] still outhams them. He's played by ''[[Series/MatchGame Charles Nelson Reilly]]'', after all.
48	%% * LaughTrack
49	* {{Living Hat}}s: A whole world of them, no less.
50	%% * TheMovie: [[http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/01/31/hold-on-to-your-hats-lidsville-to-become-animated-movie-for-dreamworks/ planned,]] with Music/AlanMenken doing the songs.
51	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Has a few celebrity caricatures: [[Creator/JohnWayne Tex the Ten-Gallon Hat]], [[Creator/BorisKarloff Boris the Executioner's Hood]], [[Creator/BelaLugosi Bela the Vampire's Cowl]].
52	%% * OurGeniesAreDifferent
53	%% * {{Pirate}}: Captain Hooknose
54	%% * ThePlace: Lidsville.
55	* PropellerHatOfWhimsy: One resident of the titular setting is Twirly, a child-like character who himself is a sentient propeller beanie.
56	%% * QuirkyMinibossSquad: The Bad Hats.
57	* ReplacedWithReplica: The [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Bad Hats]] conclude that they'll have better luck wooing the ladies if they have a CoolCar. This means posing as a cleaning crew to abscond with [=HooDoo's=] Hatamaran, leaving a similar folded hat in its place. It doesn't take the CardCarryingVillain long to discover the switcheroo, and thereupon conduct zap practice on the Bad Hats.
58	%% * SaturdayMorningKidsShow
59	* ShortRunner: Like most Krofft shows, it had only 17 episodes, for financial reasons.
60	%% * SimpletonVoice: Raunchy Rabbit and Rah-Rah.
61	* SurroundedByIdiots: [=HooDoo=] is constantly yelling at Raunchy and the Bad Hats for their bumbling. He even says out loud, "I'm surrounded by idiots!"
62	* ThatRemindsMeOfASong: [=HooDoo=] has his own band living with him who will burst into song at the drop of a hat. The musical group was, of course, named The Hat Band.
63	* VerbalTic: Mother Wheels — "Hon-EE!"
64	%% * VillainEpisode: A few episodes focused more on the villains than on the heroes. "Take Me to Your Rabbit" and "[=HooDoo=] Who?" come to mind.
65	%% * VillainSong: A couple.
66	%% * TheWonderland: Lidsville

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