The McFreeds Love The 70s: Sleestak Attack!

Sean reminisces...

Sleestak Face

Lately, Stefan and I have been on a 70s rewind... in case some of you haven't noticed.  The "bad" influence of our new favorite TV show, Swingtown (Thursdays, 10pm EST, CBS), has made us look for other ways of remembering the 1970s in all its glory - good and bad. The 70s had a distinctive sound, look, feeling, and angst. It was a time when people woke up and realized they weren't who they thought they were and therapy was born (and died) as were whispy bangs, disco, polyester, theatrical porn, and self-indulgence.  It was the adolescence of our culture in a weird way. Over the next few weeks Stefan and I will be revisiting a few things unique to the 1970s that will either amuse or recoil you. So Enjoy!  

Land Of The Lost

Today's memory is from that 1974 - 1976 Saturday morning TV series from Sid and Marty Croft, Land of the Lost.  I would literally clap and giggle evilly to myself (well nothing has really changed there has it?) when the villains of this show came on screen giving us their distinctive hiss. I'm talking about the Sleestaks people! 

Sleestaks and The Marshalls

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Those forerunners of the 1978 Battlestar Galatica Cylons would shuffle and zombie walk their way on screen chasing the sickeningly sweet Marshall Family and their hairy caveman boy Cha-Ka. (I swear the Sleestak vibe was on its way back with Project Runway Season 2 contestant Zulema Griffin, who wore the largest sunglasses emulating the Sleestak look!). But the Sleestaks and all their corny nature won me over and now I still giggle when I see an image or sound that reminds me of them. Will Farrell is preparing a parody version of the TV series, so you know it will be ruining the camp nature of the original. So here is a blast to the past! Enjoy this trip down memory lane! Hisssssssss!!!

Sleestak Hiss