i like to watch south park, and i was thinking yesterday how funny they could make a bigfoot episode, even as a recurring character...


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Gael, and other SouthPark avicionados,
Wasn't there an episode where they take out kyle and kenny on a hunting trip, the one where the volcanic mountain is going to/and does erupt? In that episode, they tell scary stories of the mountain guy with, what, a sheep's leg? something weird.
and they're shooting at Cartman thinking he's it. And in the end the thing ends up saving them and they still shoot it.j Wasn't it a Bigfoot/Abominable SM type creature?

Gael, and other SouthPark avicionados,
Wasn't there an episode where they take out kyle and kenny on a hunting trip, the one where the volcanic mountain is going to/and does erupt? In that episode, they tell scary stories of the mountain guy with, what, a sheep's leg? something weird.
and they're shooting at Cartman thinking he's it. And in the end the thing ends up saving them and they still shoot it.j Wasn't it a Bigfoot/Abominable SM type creature?

Three words: "Gooney-goo-goo"

Futurama
"Spanish Fry", Episode #417.
When the Planet Express gang goes camping in the woods for their company outing and Fry goes searching for an encounter with his favorite legendary figure, Bigfoot -- he is beamed aboard a spaceship and returned the next day without a nose. Fry learns that humans everywhere have been losing their noses and aliens are profiting for the sale of "human horns." A suggestion from Leela and a surprise visitor aim at keeping the human face safe.

i like to watch south park, and i was thinking yesterday how funny they could make a bigfoot episode, even as a recurring character...

Scuzzlebutt. Thats the guy. He had a hand made of broccoli and Patrick Duffy for a leg. He weaved baskets too.

The old TV show "Six Million Dollar Man" had an episode of him squaring off against Bigfoot. I didn't see that one but I'm told Bigfoot turns out to be a robot (go figure).

Wow, this stuff is really rolling out ... I don't know if it still runs on TV at Christmas but the old Rudolph animated special had a run in with some type of abominable snowman.

As for the "Rudolph The Red Nosed Raindeer" claymation kids special (which is still played at Christmas time), they had a run in with what they first call "The Abominable" and later in the story they refer to him as "A Bumble". SkunkHunter features him as his avatar in all his posts.

Peter Jackson's faithful remake

When you hear Peter Jackson is going to remake King Kong, you may think of all the revolutionary possibilities the director of Lord of the Rings might bring to the iconic figure. Don’t get too carried away, because Jackson’s intentions are actually to be as faithful to the 1933 version as possible, only with special effects that modern moviegoers will accept. The original was one of the first films Jackson fell in love with at age nine, and he just wants to make a film that modern nine-year-olds will see the way he sees the original.

“There is a generation of kids today that don’t watch black and white films anymore,” Jackson said. “Our generation does do that. I was fine. I love old films and I saw them all the way through my childhood and wasn’t concerned at all. But your average teenage kid today just isn’t interested in black and white films anymore. They won’t watch them. Therefore, the time has passed that King Kong, that lovable story, is really not being seen by the young kids so I just thought it’s a very good time to do a remake of Kong that can preserve everything that I loved about the original. I don’t want to change what I loved about it. I don’t want to reinvent it because it doesn’t need reinventing. It’s not going to be different. It’ll be everything that I love about the original. It is a wonderful story. I just thought it’s a good time to give kids a realistic looking Kong because that’s what they’re going to respond to.”

Expanding on his personal connection to Kong, Jackson added, “I owe King Kong a huge debt personally because it really did get me wanting to be a filmmaker. I truly don’t think I would have been a filmmaker if I hadn’t been exposed to that movie on TV in New Zealand when I was about nine years old. It just got me so excited about fantasy and the escapism of film. I was swept away and transported to another world when I saw that film. It was a love affair that began at that point with me for fantastic cinema and storytelling.”

Jackson’s co-producer and co-writer Fran Walsh confirmed that they would remain true to the 1933 original. “The 1933 version is the one that Peter fell in love with and that will be our template for the film we make.”

Variety's original 1933 review conceded that "after the audience becomes used to the machinelike movements and other mechanical flaws in the gigantic animals on view, and become accustomed to the phony atmosphere, they may commence to feel the power." The showbiz Bible Variety complained, however, "it's a film-long screaming session for [Wray], too much for any actress and any audience."

Anybody here remember an old Sid and Marty Kroft kids TV show that was on in the 70's called "Bigfoot and Wildboy"? They were sort of a primitive, backwoods Batman and Robin team.