Bugaloos fans -- be proud of your age/generation!

I've read a few posts on this board from people who either have poor math skills or are ashamed of their age. I hate it when fellow '70s kids claim to be younger. Its like you don't appreciate the wonderful generation of the early '70s -- a time period which is little understood now, but a real treasure -- the era of full-spectrum color television, folk-pop music, artistic scenery, etc. It was a unique time period that florished from the graceful exit of the Hippie age and lasted until the American Bicentennial or maybe Star Wars (some people permit the Disco age to be included with our era).


For instance, one poster claimed to be 27 (in 2004) and said that she was Joy for Halloween when she was five years old. If she were 27, then that means she was born in 1978 and Halloween at age five would've come in 1983. Sorry, I could be wrong, but Not likely there was much exposure to the Bugaloos in 1983. You would've more likely been a Rainbow Brite, a Smurf, or maybe a 'My Little Pony' or Strawberry Shortcake or Cabbage Patch kid.

Another claimed that there is a 'whole generation' of guys in their 'early thirties' who had their first crush on Joy. Em, Not likely. You'd have to be at least 39 (in 2004) to have have a crush on Joy at age five.

The Bugaloos premiered in 1970-71, on Sunday mornings usually, and were run again in 1971-1972 but often pre-empted. The sugarfied 'wind-in-the-willows' British Folk Pop look of this show did not appeal to '80s kids. Even if syndicated on a private station it would've looked very out-of-style to '80s kids. Yes, retro looks made a desireable cameo appearace by the mid 1980s -- you know, neon and bright tacky colours -- even so, most '80s kids would find their look to be extremely sappy and sweet.


Appreciate the era for what it's worth. If you knew the Bugaloos, you knew the Kroft universe, but it was extinct like the theme park in Atlanta by the time '80s kids were playing Atari and Nintendo and Intellivision (most '70s kids were still fairly young throughout the 1980s).

If you were a kid when the Bugaloos were popular, you were exposed to VERY colourful television (T.V. had MUCH more color then, in the early 1970s. 1980s TVs show more realistic color but cannot possibly match the spectrum of color splashes and that washed over our Sid and Marti Kroft T.V. shows, like Pufinstuff, the Bugaloos, Lidsville, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters, etc. Nor our public T.V., shows like the Electric Company, New Zoo Review, Zoom, or other educational shows like Grammar Rock.

If you are an 'early '70s kid' (e.g. over 40 now), then you probably saw the original Willie Wonka when it came out in 1970 or 1971. (The New Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is somewhat a tribute to you).

You somehow survived and progressed through Disco --

You were still kinda young when the '80s brought their Cindi Laupers, PeeWee Hermans, New Kids on the Block, etc. etc. but somewhere in the late '80s to late '90s you grew up.

Face it -- ONLY a '70s kid can know that magical childhood between Folk/Pop Hippies and the the Bicentinial/Disco/Star Wars. It had ten times the color of today and twice as much color as Cindi Lauper and Pee Wee Hermon. You didn't even need to do acid, as a sugar rush and Kroft T.V. gave the same effect without drugs, and yeilded a happy, imaginitive childhood. A world where you could ride your bike in safety, your parents didn't know where your hide-out or 'fort' in the woods was, and you came home for dinner when the street lights came on.

Chances are, if you are in your early 40s, you still relate well to Generation 'X' and today's music scene as people younger than you do. But
People born after 1980 have a hard time understanding the trippy things we used to watch on Saturday Morning or on Public Television -- they only understand it if they interpret it dark and perverted.

Treasure your heritage, '70s kids.

And 'cause' never was the reason for the evening,
--Or the Tropic of Sir Galahad.