Sigmund & The Sea Monsters - First Season (2005)

my kids love it

my 7 & 10 year old boys love this show, I hope they get more seasons, although at the current price I don't know how many season we will be able to afford. June 23, 2008

Sigmund & The Sea Monsters - First Season

This brings back childhood memories! It was nice to watch this and remember when I was a little girl! October 4, 2007

Fantastic stroll down memory lane!

I loved getting up on Saturday mornings to discover which Krofft Superstars show was going to be on. So I had a blast watching episodes many years later with my friend's seven year old son! Great! August 16, 2007

May delight you or give you a severe migraine

I find "Sigmund...", like most Krofft productions, to be shrill and nearly unwatchable. The only two exceptions to this were the original "Land of the Lost" (had some decent Sci-Fi plotlines for a Sat. morning kid's show)and "Elektra Woman and Dyna-Girl" (uh, for the obvious reasons). "Sigmund...", however, is typical Krofft: annoying, 1-D characters stumble pointlessly through rejected "Gilligan's Island" and "Munsters" scripts and plotlines and stopping every now and then to deliver gags that a 1910 vaudeville audience would have left the room cursing at. If the Banana Splits were your bag, baby, then this here will likely be an embarrassment of entertainment riches for you. For me, and hopefully most of the earth's population, this is video torture.

The basic "plot" of "Sigmund..." is that Sigmund, a young sea monster, decides to escape his physically and verbally abusive home. Ha! Abuse and neglect is funny! Anyway, he soon finds himself lost and alone in the world of humans. He is soon discovered by two boys who become his friends. They hide him in their clubhouse and spend the rest of the series trying to hide him from the world and teach him the ways and wisdom of mankind. I should point out that all this takes place in the early 70's. You can tell because one of the kids sports a red afro that would look cruel and unusual on Ronald McDonald.

As I mentioned above, the two basic plot drives of the show are:
1.- To teach Sigmund how to be human...you know, the whole basic Data from Star Trek routine, things like "This Halloween you speak of! Vhat ist? Vhat ist?"
and
2.- To hide him from the evil world outside the clubhouse.

Why does he need to be hid exactly? From a freak show owner? I doubt it, by 1972 the general public was already so jaded that no money could be made showing something like Sigmund off. And unlike ET and Alf, who come from advanced civilizations, I don't see why the government would be after Sigmund. Is the Pentagon aware of Sigmund and his race? If so, does this mean that Sigmund's people are the evil Deep Ones mentioned by Lovecraft in his writings? Could Sigmund in fact be an avatar of the awesome Dagon? OK, I'll stop now.

If you should panic and begin to doubt that this show does take place in the 70's, the creators have thoughtfully made Sigmund's parents sound just like Archie and Edith Bunker, a gentle reminder to mellow out, have a nice day and keep on truckin'.

One very disturbing thing about this show is that Sigmund's evil brothers are named Slurp and Burp. Wasn't Slurp N' Burp an euphemism for oral sex back in the 50's? Someone please set me straight on this...

So, does this set have any value to it whatsoever? Well, I suppose if you are ever down and feeling useless, you COULD watch this and take some comfort that you are not as pathetic and worthless as Sigmund is. I say you COULD try this, but the risk is that by wallowing in the misadventures of a fake sea monster made of felt, you may just expose the sheer depth and desperation of just how pathetic and worthless you actually are.

It's a gamble I wouldn't take if I were you. October 1, 2006

Nothing Like Friends,Friends,Friends.

I love this show,When it was on Nick's Pufapaloosa,and TV land. I would love to have it on DVD. I need this and H.R. Pufnstuf,Lidsville,The Bugaloos,and I hope my favorite Electra Woman and DynaGirl comes to DVD in the near future. July 30, 2006

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