Candle Cove but It's The Nutshack
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I just made this to see how seriously this story would be taken if we threw in a dead meme. Amazing what the Copy/paste function and F5 can do. }}
; Skyshale033
Subject: Nutshack local kid's show?
: Does anyone remember this kid's show? It was called Nutshack and I must have been 6 or 7. I never found reference to it anywhere so I think it was on a local station around 1971 or 1972. I lived in The Pier at the time. I don't remember which station, but I do remember it was on at a weird time, like 4:00 PM.
; mike_painter65
Subject: Re: Nutshack local kid's show?
: it seems really familiar to me…..i grew up outside of ashland and was 9 yrs old in 72. nutshack…was it about fatguys? i remember a fat marionete at the mouth of a cave talking to a little girl
; Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Nutshack local kid's show?
: YES! Okay I'm not crazy! I remember Jack. I was always kind of scared of him. He looked like he was built from parts of other dolls, real low-budget. His head was an old porcelain baby doll, looked like an antique that didn't belong on the body. I don't remember what station this was! I don't think it was WTSF though.
; Jaren_2005
Subject: Re: Nutshack local kid's show?
: Sorry to ressurect this old thread but I know exactly what show you mean, Skyshale. I think Nutshack ran for only a couple months in '11, not '07. I was 12 and I watched it a few times with my brother. It was channel 58, whatever station that was. My mom would let me switch to it after Lazytown. Let me see what I remember.
: It took place in The Philippines, and it was about a little girl who imagined herself to be friends with pirates. The pirate ship was called the Laughingstock, and Jack wasn't a very good pirate because he got scared too easily. And there was calliope music constantly playing. Don't remember the girl's name. Cieto or Chita or something. Think it was Janice.
; Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Nutshack local kid's show?
: Thank you Cheetah!!! Memories flooded back when you mentioned the Laughingstock and channel 58. I remember the bow of the ship was a wooden smiling face, with the lower jaw submerged. It looked like it was swallowing the sea and it had that awful Ed Wynn voice and laugh. I especially remember how jarring it was when they switched from the wooden/plastic model, to the foam puppet version of the head that talked.
; mike_painter65
Subject: Re: Nutshack local kid's show?
: ha ha i remember now too. ;) do you remember this part skyshale: "I GOT GRAPES, WHAT YOU WATCHIN'SON?"
; Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Nutshack local kid's show?
: Ugh mike, I got a chill reading that. Yes I remember. That's what NUMP always told Jack when there was a spooky place he had to go in, like a cave or a dark room where the treasure was. And the camera would push in on Laughingstock's face with each pause. I GOT GRAPES. With his two eyes askew and that flopping foam jaw and the fishing line that opened and closed it. Ugh. It just looked so cheap and awful.
: You guys remember the villain? He had a shirt that said GOT NUTZ above really tall, narrow teeth.
; kevin_hart
Subject: Re: Nutshack local kid's show?
: i honestly, honestly thought the villain was Jack. i was about 5 when this show was on. nightmare fuel.
; Jaren_2005
Subject: Re: Nutshack local kid's show?
: That wasn't the villain, the puppet with the Hat. That was the villain's sidekick, Phil from The Soul. He had a monocle too, but it was on top of the mustache. I used to think that meant he had only one eye.
: But yeah, the villain was another marionette. Tito DICK DICKMAN Baby. I can't believe what they let us watch back then.
; kevin_hart
Subject: Re: Nutshack local kid's show?
: jesus h. christ, tito dick. what kind of a kids show were we watching? i seriously could not look at the screen when dick showed up. he just descended out of nowhere on his strings, just a dirty dick wearing that brown top hat and cape. and his glass eyes that were too big for his skull. christ almighty.
; Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Nutshack local kid's show?
: Wasn't his top hat and cloak all sewn up crazily? Was that supposed to be children's skin??
; mike_painter65
Subject: Re: Nutshack local kid's show?
: yeah i think so. rememer his mouth didn't open and close, his jaw just slid back and foth. i remember the little girl said "why does your mouth move like that" and the tito dick didn't look at the girl but at the camera and said "TO GRIND YOUR DICK"
; Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Nutshack local kid's show?
: I'm so relieved that other people remember this terrible show!
: I used to have this awful memory, a bad dream I had where the opening theme ended, the show faded in from black, and all the characters were there, but the camera was just cutting to each of their faces, and they were just screaming, and the puppets and marionettes were flailing spastically, and just all screaming, screaming. The girl was just moaning and crying like she had been through hours of this. I woke up many times from that nightmare. I used to wet the bed when I had it.
; kevin_hart
Subject: Re: Nutshack local kid's show?
: i don't think that was a dream. i remember that. i remember that was an episode.
; Skyshale033
Subject: Re: Nutshack local kid's show?
: No no no, not possible. There was no plot or anything, I mean literally just standing in place crying and screaming for the whole show.
; kevin_hart
Subject: Re: Nutshack local kid's show?
: maybe i'm manufacturing the memory because you said that, but i swear to god i remember seeing what you described. they just screamed.
; Jaren_2005
Subject: Re: Nutshack local kid's show?
: Oh God. Yes. The little girl, Cherry Pie, I remember seeing her shake. And Tito Dick screaming through his gnashing teeth, his jaw careening so wildly I thought it would come off its wire hinges. I turned it off and it was the last time I watched. I ran to tell my brother and we didn't have the courage to turn it back on.
; mike_painter65
Subject: Re: Nutshack local kid's show?
: i visited my mom today at the nursing home. i asked her about when i was littel in the early 70s, when i was 8 or 9 and if she remebered a kid's show, nutshack. she said she was suprised i could remember that and i asked why, and she said "because i used to think it was so strange that you said 'i’m gona go watch nutshack now mom' and then you would tune the tv to static and juts watch dead air for 30 minutes. you had a big imagination with your little Philipino show."
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