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Andre the Giant with Lee Majors, on the set of "The Six Million Dollar Man" (1976) (media.piefed.social)
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I like that look for Andre. He could maybe have battled Lou Ferrigno ("The Incredible Hulk") on a special event show that was running those days, called Battle of the Network Stars. Cheesy premise, but I thought it was actually pretty amusing.

Clips of Bigfoot:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bigfoot+six+million+dollar+man+episode

Clips of Battle of the Network Stars:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=battle+of+the+network+stars

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[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wait, you're telling me that the Six Million Dollar Man/Bigfoot thing wasn't just made up for Venture Bros? Bigfoot was canonically in that show?

[–] xyguy@startrek.website 4 points 1 day ago

Repeatedly so--

Season 3 Episode 16-17: The Secret of Bigfoot

Season 4 Episode 1: Return of the Bigfoot Part 1(part 2 was a Bionic Woman Episode)

Season 5 Episode 5: Bigfoot V

Spoilers for a 50+ year old show, vvvvvv

sometimes Bigfoot is actually just an android made by aliens to look like Bigfoot.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Yeap, read the comments.

Clips are all over YT, including Bionic Woman, too:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bigfoot+six+million+dollar+man+episode

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Brock Samson: "You could've warned me Sasquatch was... a dude."

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago

"Burwock Seeyemson!"
--Molotov Cocktease

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Having some cross overs between Hulk, Spider Man, and Bionic Man would have blown my mind as a kid.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

the hulk/thor in the later movies was not bad. im looking for a man. IM A MAN! I mean im looking for a particular man. IM A PARTICULAR MAN!

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Andre is a little mad because he's late and hasn't gotten to makeup yet. It takes hours to put on that costume, and Lee is just holding him up asking for pictures.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Meanwhile, I'm a little curious if Lee is wearing a wig, there. The top portion looks characteristic of that, anyway.

[–] derry@midwest.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks! Just checked out season one from the local library. Good memories. I had the "action figure" and the Oscar one with an exploding briefcase!

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That's right, I remember some fun toys along those lines. Steve had metallic / translucent parts when you removed arms plates and leg plates, I think. Also, one his eyes. Sometimes they were even functional IIRC, like in being able to shoot his fist or something.

During that era, the Micronaut toys were kind of similar and quite stylish IMO.

[–] derry@midwest.social 2 points 1 day ago

Dang they're going for hundreds of dollars on eBay https://ebay.us/m/CATSZ7 Didn't have micronauts but did have Johnny West figures. And GI Joe of course.

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago

holy crap I did not realize andre playe the bionic man sasquatch.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I always thought it was Ted Cassidy. Turns out Ted Cassidy took over the role for later episodes.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Perfect.

Altho it strikes me as rather hilarious that a Bigfoot character would appear more than once on what was more or less a sci-fi show.

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As is revealed later in the episode, Bigfoot is a robot.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The hilarity level is bumped up yet another notch. :D

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Not just a robot, a robot created by aliens. It was mind blowing!

Venture Bros did a great take on what happened years later.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Wow, i just gets better and better.

We need a Venture Bros community on the FV, or at least a /c that encompasses it somehow.

I got kicked out of the one on Reddit for sharing some fair-usage pics from the massive (and massively awesome) book from a couple years back. After two posts, mod got upset about me illegally sharing the book there in a series of posts that would have had to have eventually numbered 500+ in total. When I pointed out the hypocrisy of loads of other copyrighted material being shared there on a regular basis, he lost it. Bloody wanker.

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

There is VentureBros@lemmy.world community.

I'm subscribed but no one posts. That's my fault too.

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Typical problem of the Fediverse: loads of communities, but most of them dead or neglected. We don't need more of them, we need more community-runners and posters.

Unfortunately I'm already modding two places and regularly posting in half-a-dozen.

!VentureBros@lemmy.world

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago

If I remember correctly (and lord it's been a while) there is a good reason it would be a scifi premise. At least one of the episodes, anyway.

I liked the Venus probe that crashed and thought it was on Venus. That show had some wild stuff.

[–] webkitten@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

His best role since The Night The Reindeer Died

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 1 day ago

Where's Andre? Behind the Bigfoot?

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago

Would it kill you to put a note pointing out which is which? Yeesh...

[–] m0darn@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Trolloc!

You idiot that's clearly an Ogier

[–] cevn@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

What?? Ogiers are just childrens tales!