F Troop was one of the best of the stupid high-concept sitcoms of the time when I was growing up and seriously in need of Cathode-Ray parenting. Like Goldilocks, Gilligan's Island was too stupid, and The Munsters and Bewitched weren't stupid enough, but F Troop was just right (as was the Addams Family, Get Smart and oh yes, Green Acres.)
No way could it be made into a movie today! Forget about it! We were too stupid to realize how offensive the racism on the show was, and that was fine. The same stuff wouldn't be funny today.
Yes, I remember Larry Storch as his identical cousin Lucky Pierre: "They say I'm the Burglar of Banff-ff-ff!" Agarn:"The Burglar of Banff-ff-ff?" Pierre: "The Burglar of Banff-ff-ff!" Pure Vaudeville. I had forgotten about Paul Lynde's Singing Mountie until reading these reviews just now. This was the height of Lyndes's popularity, I think. (He was playing Samantha Steven's unforgettable warlock Uncle Arnold on Bewitched about the same time. He just didn't have the right star vehicle when the studios finally gave him his own sitcom.)
The reason one reviewer remembered "It Is Balloon!" so well was cause it was so damn funny! Throughout the episode, Agarn and O'Rourke kept describing to Wild Eagle and Crazy Cat hot air balloons, and they kept on refusing to believe any of it. Then in the last five minutes, it comes from out of the sky and... you had to be there.
For some reason, I'll never forget the episodes where Henry Gibson played the living jinx "Wrongo Starr." (Great stupid anachronisms abounded!) and Parmenter was always trying to give him affirmations, "You're not Wrongo Starr! You're Lucky Starr!" and Wrongo always managed to set off sequences of events that would have all the stunt actors in Hollywood busy for the week, always ending with the cannon misfiring and hitting the watchtower with somebody flying out of it.
You had to be a kid to love this show!
No way could it be made into a movie today! Forget about it! We were too stupid to realize how offensive the racism on the show was, and that was fine. The same stuff wouldn't be funny today.
Yes, I remember Larry Storch as his identical cousin Lucky Pierre: "They say I'm the Burglar of Banff-ff-ff!" Agarn:"The Burglar of Banff-ff-ff?" Pierre: "The Burglar of Banff-ff-ff!" Pure Vaudeville. I had forgotten about Paul Lynde's Singing Mountie until reading these reviews just now. This was the height of Lyndes's popularity, I think. (He was playing Samantha Steven's unforgettable warlock Uncle Arnold on Bewitched about the same time. He just didn't have the right star vehicle when the studios finally gave him his own sitcom.)
The reason one reviewer remembered "It Is Balloon!" so well was cause it was so damn funny! Throughout the episode, Agarn and O'Rourke kept describing to Wild Eagle and Crazy Cat hot air balloons, and they kept on refusing to believe any of it. Then in the last five minutes, it comes from out of the sky and... you had to be there.
For some reason, I'll never forget the episodes where Henry Gibson played the living jinx "Wrongo Starr." (Great stupid anachronisms abounded!) and Parmenter was always trying to give him affirmations, "You're not Wrongo Starr! You're Lucky Starr!" and Wrongo always managed to set off sequences of events that would have all the stunt actors in Hollywood busy for the week, always ending with the cannon misfiring and hitting the watchtower with somebody flying out of it.
You had to be a kid to love this show!