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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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[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 8 points 3 weeks 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 4 points 3 weeks 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!

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 5 points 3 weeks ago

"Burwock Seeyemson!"
--Molotov Cocktease

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks 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 3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

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

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 4 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] JohnnyEnzyme@piefed.social 3 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 4 points 3 weeks 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.

[–] Davel23@fedia.io 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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

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

[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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

[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

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

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

Trolloc!

You idiot that's clearly an Ogier

[–] cevn@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

What?? Ogiers are just childrens tales!

[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

Where's Andre? Behind the Bigfoot?

[–] webkitten@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

His best role since The Night The Reindeer Died