YMMV / Land of the Lost (1974)

• Awesome Music: The theme song.
• Fanon Discontinuity: Many fans like to assume the last episode of the first season, "The Circle", is actually set at the end of the second season, allowing the Marshalls to get home, and ignoring the third season entirely.
• Growing the Beard: The first few episodes are much more recognizably Krofft shows, feeling low-budget and kind of silly. The show really comes into its own when Enik is introduced in "The Stranger", becoming much more thoughtful and dramatic and remaining that way until the start of the third season. Notably, when CBS reran the show in the mid-80's, they skipped the first few episodes and started with "The Stranger" (and cut the series off at the end of the second season).
• I Am Not Shazam: Despite what the theme song says, "Marshall" is the family's last name; the dad's name is Rick.
• Narm Charm: IN SPADES!
• Nightmare Fuel: The Sleestaks as a whole and several of the episodes.
  • The giant pulsing red crystal in "One of Our Pylons Is Missing" (*shudder*)
• Questionable Casting: Future NBA star Bill Laimbeer, now a successful WNBA coach, playing a Sleestak in the series. (Note that this was long before he made it to the NBA; he was only seventeen at the time.)
  • There are very few actors tall enough for Sleestak. There are many basketball players tall enough.
• Replacement Scrappy: Uncle Jack in season three. He's one of the reasons the season suffered Seasonal Rot.
• Seasonal Rot: The third season got left out of the recent marathons on the Sci-Fi Channel and Chiller. With good reason.
• Special Effect Failure: Claymuppet dinosaurs, blindingly mismatched green-screen transfers, yetis wrapped in shag carpeting, and a unicorn with a chinstrap, among many, many other examples. The Dopey puppet was a particularly bad example. The stop motion animation in the first two seasons is actually quite good, but the new animation for the third season is woeful.

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