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The [[Planet of Hats]] taken to its logical extreme: Most of the characters are anthropomorphic talking hats.
 
Extremely similar to ''[[H.R. Pufnstuf (TV)|H.R. Pufnstuf]]'', '''''Lidsville''''' featured a boy, Mark (Butch Patrick), who falls into a stage magician's top-hat into the eponymous hat community. Having gained control of a ring-dwelling (non-hat) Genie (played by a [[Gender Flip|gender-flipped]] Billie Hayes, who also played Witchiepoo on ''Pufnstuf''), he is pursued by the magician's Lidsvillian evil counterpart, HooDoo, played by a pre-''[[Match Game]]'' Charles Nelson Reilly — not a hat himself, but living in a giant topper and flying around in a giant opera hat. Produced by [[Sid and Marty Krofft Productions]] back in 1971, obviously while still tripping on acid. The concept bears a suspicious resemblance to an earlier British stop motion cartoon called ''Hattytown Tales''... though it was only two years earlier, and had none of the overarching plot (such as it is) of the classic Sid and Marty Krofft Productions "human lost in a strange land" story, and lacked any "human" characters.
 
Brilliantly parodied on ''[[Mr. Show]]'' in the sketch "The Altered State of Druggachusetts."
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* [[Cool Old Lady]]: Mother Wheels.
* [[Crossover]]: In one episode, HooDoo meets [[Wicked Witch|Witchiepoo]] through a dating service, and it is up to the heroes to break them up.
* [[Damn, It Feels Good to Be Aa Gangster!|Damn, It Feels Good To Be A Gangster]]: Mr. Big
* [[Don't Go in The Woods|Don't Go Into The Woods]]: The Forest of Hair, crossing over with [[When Trees Attack]].
* [[Dumb Muscle]]: Rah-Rah the football helmet
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* [[Evil Sorcerer]]: Horatio J. HooDoo
* [[Evil Twin]]: Actually, HooDoo has a ''good'' twin.
* [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]]: The nurse is named Nursie.
* [[Expository Theme Tune]]: Would also count as a [[Disney Acid Sequence]]...if the ''whole damn show'' wasn't one.
* [[Failure Is the Only Option]]: Mark never did get home.
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** Actually, it was more of a [[Furry Fandom|female rabbit fursuit]].
* [[Pirate]]: Captain Hooknose
* [[Prop Recycling]]: Some of the costumes are reused from [[H.R. Pufnstuf (TV)|H.R. Pufnstuf]].
* [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]]: The Bad Hats
* [[Saturday Morning Kids Show]]
* [[Sid and Marty Krofft Productions]]
* [[Simpleton Voice]]: Raunchy Rabbit and Rah-Rah
* [[Surrounded Byby Idiots]]: HooDoo's bumbling Bad Hats and other henchmen
* [[That Reminds Me of a Song]]: HooDoo has his own band living with him who will burst into song [[Incredibly Lame Pun|at the drop of a hat]].
* [[Unfortunate Names]]: Weenie the Genie
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