Eureeka’s Castle

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Solo. That's right, I am your host Optimus Solo

and I'd like to say hello and welcome to the

11th episode of the Telecast brought to you by

the Geekcast Radio Network. Today we are beginning

a brand new portion of the Telecast Season 1

which focuses on Muppets and Puppets and I actually

decided the other day that The best way to explain

that is all Muppets are puppets, but not all

puppets are Muppets. Nice. And to help me introduce

this new section, like you just heard, is Steve

and Megatron Phillips. Hello, sir. Good day.

Good day to you. And today, the two of us will

be talking about... Now, this is very interesting

reading. Oh, look. My castle music box. Ready?

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Uh, guys. Ready, ready, ready. Ready. One, two.

One, two. Three. Eureka's Castle. That's right,

folks. We are talking about Eureka's Castle.

And before we get too far into our discussion,

here's some quick background information on the

show. Eureka's Castle debuted in 1989 and lasted

until 1995. It was on Nickelodeon, much like

our first five episodes of the telecast. It lasted

six seasons and 134 episodes. I was not aware

that it lasted that many seasons and that many

episodes. Oh, wow. Yeah. For those of you that

don't know, Eureka and her friends live in a

wind -up castle music box that is owned by a

friendly giant, and basically the show follows

the formats that you would be familiar with,

like with The Muppet Show or Sesame Street, where

it basically bounces back and forth between the

different characters. Usually a Eureka's Castle

show had four different segments with some little

tiny bumpers in between. What do you remember

about Eureka's Castle, Steve? I remember the

theme song. Yeah. I remember the goofy little

puppets, being that they weren't very, I don't

know, they were goofy. I don't know, they didn't

have the quality of regular The Muppet Show or

any of that kind of thing, or even Sesame Street

for that matter. But they weren't completely

forgettable. Yeah, like, to me, as far as the

actual quality of the, I guess, puppets in this

case, like you said, they're not... Even as a

kid, I knew this was not Muppets. Like, I knew

this wasn't The Muppet Show. I knew this wasn't

Sesame Street. I'm like, what is this knockoff

thing that we're watching? But at the same time,

it's better puppetry than, like, the puppets

that were on Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood. Oh, yes.

Those were, like, watching, I don't know... Someone

with a hand in a sock or something. Basically,

if the Muppets had never existed, the puppets

that were in Eureka's Castle might have been

seen as top of the line. But because the Muppets

existed and were so spoiled by Jim Henson and

all of the other people involved in Henson stuff,

it makes Eureka's Castle look like secondhand

stuff. Yes, it most definitely does because of

that. But like you said, I do remember the theme

song. I remember watching it and having the whole

introduction with the castle music box and all

that type of stuff. But I don't know. It was

just... I don't remember much about it except

for the fact that I watched it back except for

the theme song. I could have told you who Eureka

was, and I might have been able to come up with

one or two other characters maybe at the most.

But other than that, I didn't really remember

much about it. I want to say my memories probably

would have been more positive than they should

have been. Yeah, I would definitely have to agree

with you because before I actually watched a

little bit on YouTube, I'm like, yeah, I think

I liked that series pretty good when I was younger.

And then I'm watching it and I'm like, I will

never watch this show again. That's probably

going to be a recurring theme throughout this

show. Basically, to give myself a little slide

here, when I'm making up the schedule for Telecast,

I was coming up with purely off memory. I had

not watched anything on YouTube. I had not watched

any episodes on TV or Netflix or iTunes or anything.

I was just going off of which shows do I remember

as a kid, and Eureka's Castle was one of them,

so I put it in there. Don't be too hard on me

for this one. I think we should just roll right

into the who's who and get into some of the characters

so this isn't as painful as it might be. But

the main characters here, obviously you have

Eureka, which is the main puppet. She's a female,

kind of like a wannabe magician, sorceress type

person. And the main other friends were Magellan,

who was the dragon. He was like a green dragon.

You had Batley, who was the, like his name sounds,

he was a bat, but he was a very poor flying bat.

He would always be running into things. You had

Mr. Knack, who would push around a cart and sell

knickknacks and have inventions and stuff like

that. And then you had the Moat Twins, which

were Quagmire and Bog, who kind of lived in the

castle basement and ate peanut butter and whatnot.

What were your thoughts on these main characters?

Did you remember any of them? Did you like some

of them, dislike any of them? I remembered Batley,

I remembered because he kind of reminded me of

a Bat version of the Count. Like, just style

-wise. Yeah. Like, which Count, or which Count?

From Sesame Street. Okay, gotcha, gotcha. I just...

I didn't remember any of their characteristics,

any of their personalities. I just remembered

specific characters. There were the giant, of

course, that winds up the castle. You have the

talking fish that would sing on the side of the

castle. I think that's where they got the talking

bass. That's an excellent observation. I'm pretty

sure that's where they got it from. And they

could still sue for that. You've got the worms,

which were pretty much a direct ripoff of Sesame

Street from Oscar. And then you've got Eureka

and, of course, everybody else that's kind of

just hit or miss in there. The dragon, of course,

is a bumbling... I don't know. He's just... He's...

He's just a klutz, just to put it mildly. I mean,

everything he gets into, even in the theme, he's

destroying stuff with his tail. You're just like,

seriously? I do remember him for some reason,

though, almost more than any other character,

though, looking back at the childhood. For some

reason, the Magellan character stuck with me

a little bit more. I don't know if it was just

his name or the fact that he was a dragon. But

yeah, as bumbling as an idiot as he was, for

some reason it stuck with me more than some of

the other characters. which, you know, I'm not

really sure why. Like, I would have never been

able to tell you the name of the Moat Twins or

anything like that, or that the one guy's name

was Mr. Knack or whatever, but I would have been

able to tell you that the dragon's name was Magellan.

I don't know. It just stuck with me for some

reason. But I don't know. It's like I wish this

show was better almost. You were commenting on

a knockoff of Sesame Street. The other thing

I knocked off, for those out there that are diehard

Nickelodeon fans, this came basically after a

show that was called Pinwheel. It kind of replaced

it in a way. And this is not just a puppet show.

They did actually have some animation mixed in.

And when they go to the animation of, like, the

worms or the other things, I can't remember all

the different little animation, like, segments

they had, but a lot of that was also ripoffs

of stuff that they did previously in Pinwheel.

And I don't remember Pinwheel real well. I remember

the name of the show, and I remember I watched

it when I was, like, in preschool or really young.

But from everything I've read on this show, they

did kind of borrow and steal from that show a

little bit. Did you have a favorite or a least

favorite character at all? I would probably say

my favorite characters would probably be Eureka

and Magellan, just because they seem to be the

primary two that you see throughout the show,

and you're just like, oh, okay. Of course, when

you're watching something when you're younger,

you kind of stick with whoever the main... chief

is of whatever show 90 % of the time, anyhow.

Right. The other thing I wanted to bring up about

the Moat Twins, because we're talking about favorite

and non -favorite, I really liked the boy that

was the Moat Twin. I don't know if that was Quagmire

or Bog. I don't know which is the boy and which

is the girl. But I liked the guy Moat Twin, but

I absolutely did not like the female Moat Twin.

I'm not sure exactly why. But if I would have

liked both of those, then that would have been

my favorite segment. But I only liked one of

them. I don't know. They had some funny stuff

and whatnot, but like you said before, when you

compare it to stuff you've seen in Muppets and

Sesame Street, it just comes across as second

rate. Some of the other characters, like we said,

the giant, you had Emma, which was kind of like

a mouse rat, almost like Rizzo. Was Rizzo the

name of the one from Muppets? I think so. Yeah,

Emma was kind of like that. There was also Magellan

had a pet spider named Webster. So there was

some other minor characters, but I don't know.

For a favorite character, I guess I'd say Magellan,

even though looking back, I don't feel very happy

that that was my favorite character when I was

a kid. But I don't know. The characters were

all right, even though Eureka, though, as the

lead character, was kind of lacking in ways.

Yeah, and in some ways it was more ways than

one just because she just kind of, it was more

of a stereotypical type role. Yeah, and I know

we'll get into this probably a little bit later,

but the actual puppeteering in this show is not

to the level that we're used to in The Muppets

or in Sesame Street. It's not horrible, but when

you combine it with the voice acting as well,

To me, that was the hardest part about re -watching

that show. Uh -huh. The voice acting was just

terrible. That and the motion. You can just tell

it's very low -budget style. Yeah. Which surprises

me for some reasons that I'll bring up later.

Just watching it back, it was like, are these

people aware of what's going on? It was almost

like they told these people to voice these lines

without telling them what it was actually going

to be looking like on screen. Like they didn't

know that they were voicing lines for puppets

or what they looked like or how they were interacting.

It was like, read these lines. That's what it

came across to me, at least. But I don't know.

We're going to be pessimistic and depressed this

whole episode. But I think it's time to move

past the characters, and we're going to get into

our next segment, which is... The good. The bad.

The ugly. All right, to start off the good, the

bad, and the ugly, I want to get some good things.

I want to shift the focus a little bit onto some

good things. Now, the first one is kind of both

good and bad, and that's what you mentioned before

with the introduction and the theme song. I think

it was catchy. I liked the way that the giant

was interacting with the muse box and the way

he turned the handle almost like it was a jack

-in -the -box type thing. And the theme song

was decent. Was it the best theme song ever?

Absolutely not. But I did like the way the show

began. It did kind of suck me into wanting to

watch it. What did you think about the actual

introduction and the theme song? That was probably

my favorite. favorite part of the show yeah that's

the bad part is as much as it sucks you into

it and it's like oh this is going to be fun you

know it's kind of kind of a neat little catchy

tune and i'm seeing some characters that might

look cool the bad thing is that is about the

the peak of the show which i so i guess the intro

theme song is both good and bad good because

it's good but yeah it has a lot of hype but not

a lot to back it up And the other thing I wanted

to bring up, which is actually my other favorite

part of the show, is the singing fish. The singing

stone fish, it's almost like take Uncle Waldorf

and Uncle Statler from The Muppets. Take the

penguins from, what is that, Beakmans or Bill

Nye? Beakman. Beakman. Take the penguins from

Beakman. It's kind of like that character. And

it's just these two fish that are kind of, like,

stuck to the wall. They're almost like in a plaster

-type, you know, statue -esque type thing. But

they sing and they talk and they do stuff. And

that, to me, was one of the better parts of the

show because they did add a little bit of humor.

Mm -hmm. I mean, I don't know what your thoughts

were about the fish, but to me, I'd almost actually

prefer those characters over any of the actual,

like, puppets. Yeah, the fish are, I just, I

think, I almost wanted to say that those were

my favorite characters, which is another sad

thing. But that's because they're more entertaining

and they've got some kind of a singing or kind

of a jingle ditty thing that they would do in

between everything. Yeah. You know, I almost

wish they would have used them a little bit more.

It could have led up to something good. I mean,

the show, although lacking, it was one of those

shows that you... For the most part, would watch

just because it was on before a show you actually

wanted to watch. Yeah. But it wasn't bad enough

to turn it off. Yeah, I agree with that. What

did you think about the whole format of the show

as far as, you know, like I said before, they

usually went to, like, four different segments.

So you'd have, like, a segment with Eureka. Then

you might go to a segment with the Moat Twins.

Then you might go to a segment with, like, the

Bally or something. How did you feel as far as

the flow of the show? Like, was it too slow for

you? Was it, I don't know, just how did you feel

in general about the way they did the show? Well,

to me, it's not really any different than a lot

of the shows at the time. I mean, if you look

at Bel Nye, you look at Beekman, you look at

Sesame Street, I mean, they all kind of, they

have, you know, your main host, and then they

transition through all these different people

and then eventually make it back to the main

host or jump back and forth between. different

segments and people throughout the shows. So,

I mean, it's not really that much of a difference.

Yeah. Yeah, I think, you know, kind of like I

said, it had the feel of, like, a Sesame Street

or a Muppets. Number one, obviously, because

we are dealing with puppets. But the way that,

you know, like, Sesame Street would always bounce

back and forth. Like, you'd have a segment with

Bert and Ernie, and then you'd have a segment

with, like, Oscar the Grouch. And then, you know,

like, you'd bounce back and forth between different

characters, and it kind of had that feel. But,

I don't know, it seemed like they almost were

too long of segments to me. Like, when you had

Sesame Street or some of those Muppet shows,

you were only with each character for like a

few minutes. Whereas this one, it seemed like

you were with them for almost like 8 to 10 minutes

apiece. And sometimes the attention span for

me would wear out. I don't know if you felt the

same thing or not, but to me it was just like

it was almost instead of only having four segments,

maybe they could have had a few shorter segments.

Yeah, some of the spots did kind of go on too

long, whereas on those other shows I described,

they did kind of make the point and then jump

ahead because when you're that age watching something

like that, your attention span is that of a gnat.

Yeah, exactly. Other than that, I can't think

of a lot of necessarily bad things about the

show. The attention span was kind of the one

thing. Like I mentioned before, a little bit

with the voice acting. The look of the show was

fine for me. I think that's one of the best parts

as far as the good, the bad, and the ugly. If

I was to say something good, the actual design

of the puppets was appealing. The characters

looked alright. Oh yeah, they all looked fine.

They looked kind of close to some of the Sesame

Street level characters. Yeah. No, you could

almost see these people showing up on other shows.

The actual design of the Dragon or any of these

characters. If they would have shown up on a

Sesame Street set or on a Muppet set, they would

have fit right in. So it wasn't bad design -wise.

And the set was fine. There was a lot of things

that were fine that made you want to like it.

But for some reason for me, when it came all

together, It just didn't do it. I don't know.

I mean, I know I watched this show as a kid a

little bit, but I even know as a kid it wasn't

one of my favorite shows. So for me, there's

a little bit more bad than good in this one.

Yeah, I definitely have to agree with you on

that one. I do have a few things for the next

segment, so let's try to get into that. Maybe

we'll say something about the show that maybe

somebody doesn't know. The first thing, and I

did not know this about the show at all, but

the first thing that you might not know about

Eureka's Castle is that one of the head writers

for Eureka's Castle was none other than R .L.

Stine. That's definitely something interesting

there. Yeah, I had no freaking clue. And that

almost makes me wonder why the writing wasn't

a little bit better. Probably because this is

where he started out before he actually started

doing the good goosebumps and the shows like

that in general. Well, and I know the people

in charge were very adamant that there was basically...

They had this formula that they thought would

work for the show, and they said basically for

every show you need to do three things. One of

them was to have just slapstick comedy. One of

them was to have like... play on words, like

you see with a lot of kids' shows where they

say something and they kind of play off of the

meaning of that word or the other meanings of

that word. And the other thing that they wanted

to do a lot was recurring jokes or recurring

themes in their little gags and whatnot. So I

don't know how much control he actually had or

if he was pretty forced in what he was writing,

but I just find it was interesting that he was

involved with the show at all. And the other

thing you might not know about Eureka's Castle

is it actually won an Ace Award, which for those

of you not familiar with what an Ace Award is,

it's basically an Emmy -type award, but it's

for cable channels. So you have Emmys for the

regular network channels, and the Ace Awards

were for your cable channels. And it actually

won one, which it did try to... put in some lessons

for kids, and it tried to focus on certain topics

that were important for a kid and their development.

So it's not a huge surprise that it won an award,

at least to me. Yeah, I could see that. It's

one of those kind of learning shows. Yeah, like

masked learning, like disguised learning. You

don't really know that you're learning anything,

but I guess you might pick up on a few things

here and there. The Where They Are Now segment

for this whole next segment of the telecast,

which is the Muppet Puppet section, is going

to be a little bit different, obviously, since

we're not dealing with real people. And it's

the only part of the telecast where we're not

dealing with real people. So usually what you'll

see for these next five episodes in the Where

Are They Now is we'll just talk a little bit

about the people behind the puppets or behind

the Muppets. In this case, I'm just going to

name a few of them. And the reason being is because

some of these are actually pretty famous puppeteers

or muppeteers. Cheryl Blaylock did Eureka. Noel

McNeil did Magellan and Webster. James Krupa

did Batley, Sir Clank, and Giant. And then you

also had Pam Marciero, Lynn Hippen, and Brian

Mule. Now, I just want to touch on a few of them.

Noel McNeil. Like I said, he was Magellan the

Dragon. He actually did a lot of stuff on Sesame

Street. He was Madam Chairbird in Follow That

Bird, for those of you that know the Big Bird

movie. He's also Bear from Bear in the Big Blue

House. So he has some puppeting skills. So maybe

when I was hearing the voices that were off,

maybe that wasn't him. But he seems like he at

least has some experience and some success with

it. And the other one I wanted to bring up was

Brian Mule, who was the voice of Bog and Mr.

Neck, because he's also the voice of, at times,

he was the voice of Elmo on Sesame Street and

Telemonster on Sesame Street. So a lot of these

people did have other experience, whether it

be a Muppet show, like Sesame Street, Fair in

the Big Blue House, Behind the Lions, or whatever

that show was called. They do have some other

experience as puppeteers. but I still question

some of the voice acting. Yeah, it's kind of

hard to say. Some of it's kind of shoddy, and

then some of it you're like, oh, okay, I don't

even think twice about it, but it just seems

like some of them are kind of either under or

overacted. Yeah, and it just almost seemed like

they didn't quite realize what they were voicing

stuff for. They didn't quite get what the set

was or how they interacted. It sounded like they

didn't realize. I don't know. It was a little

off. Now, most of them are still doing it. I

looked at most of their resumes and stuff, and

they're still being credited with stuff in 2007,

8, 9, and 10 for different Sesame Street projects

and Muppet projects. So they're all still kind

of in the business except for Lynn Hippen, who

basically this was her only role. So they're

all still involved in Muppeteering and Puppeteering.

It's kind of like a fraternity. When you become

skilled as a puppeteer, you're usually in for

good as long as there are shows that require

those types of skills because it's a very acquired

skill. So I'm sure these people will be fine

until they decide to hang it up. It's a little

different than voice acting because it takes

a whole different set of skills. That's why you

see when you look at Sesame Street or Muppet

shows or stuff like that where you see it only

has four or five different people doing 50 different

roles because not everyone can handle what it

takes to be a puppeteer. Exactly. That is definitely

hard and difficult work and something that you

really have to work at. I think that does it

for as far as where they are now. Like I said,

they're all basically still doing stuff for different

Sesame Street and Muppet productions. So we're

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let you know how you can watch this show now

because we've given such rave reviews to it so

far. Basically, you're in a lot of trouble if

you want to see some Eureka's Castle. It's not

available on DVD. It's not available on Netflix.

It is not available on iTunes. The only possible

way you could see Eureka's Castle is if you have

a VHS tape saved somewhere in your basement or

if you want to go to YouTube. Steve, what were

your experiences with YouTube and Eureka's Castle?

It's pretty difficult to find episodes, actually.

You can find the theme song, but unless it's

already integrated with an episode, it's pretty

shoddy quality. Yeah. I found one that was decent

quality. It was actually almost like a whole

20 -minute or 30 -minute clip. It wasn't even

in different parts. But it was real clear quality.

But most of the other ones I found were pretty

grainy or fuzzy, just low -quality stuff. I will

say that you can find enough to remember it.

You can find enough on YouTube that it'll jog

your memory and you'll be able to remember what

the show was. You're not going to find a lot

of whole episodes. But you don't need to. No.

It's pretty much if you get that one episode

taste, you're pretty much like, okay, I'm done.

Yeah, which leads us right into our IGN replacement

crew type stuff. The reason you don't need to

see too much of YouTube is because this one is

definitely a very low two for me. And the reason

I say it's a low two is because I did not necessarily

love this show when I was a kid. I watched it

occasionally. I was entertained by it. But I

in no way loved it as a kid. Yeah, I definitely

have to agree with you on that one. It was more

so one of those shows that it was one of those

past -the -time shows waiting for my next show.

Usually I think it was some kind of a game show

that Nickelodeon had on, and I wanted to get

to that, so I had to sit through Eureka's because

it wasn't like there was much else on at other

stations. Yeah, it was just one of those shows

that you would watch while it was on or you'd

take it and you wouldn't necessarily be upset

about it. You'd watch it and it'd be fine. You

weren't seeking it out. You didn't know what

time, what date, what day of the week it was

on or whatever. And the other part of the whole

rating thing is I absolutely, after watching

a few episodes on YouTube, have no desire to

ever watch this again. Nope. It was very painful

for me to get through an episode. Like I said,

the intro is the best part. Yeah, the intro,

a few of the singing fish and whatnot, and, like,

I don't know. It was just, ugh. I wish I liked

this more, but it just doesn't hold up. And if

you're going to watch something that's Muppet

or Puppet related, tune in to our next few episodes

of the telecast and watch some Sesame Street

or some Muppet show or something like that. Because

this is just second -rate BS. Garbage. What are

your last words about Eureka's Castle that we

haven't said already? Try to come up with something.

Like I said, it's kind of one of those hit or

miss shows. You're either going to like it or

you're going to hate it. It's difficult to watch.

It's not 100 % bad. I mean, I've seen far worse

puppet jobs on other channels. So, I mean, it's

not like it's unwatchable. It's just that if

you've seen something better, like The Muppet

Show or Sesame Street, it's kind of hard to downgrade

yourself to this. Yeah. But it's not bad. It's

just that, like we already discussed, it goes

on a little too long in some areas, and some

of the more memorable characters are the ones

that aren't featured very often. Yeah. Like,

to me, it's just... There's not enough characters,

first of all. You only have like five or six

main characters. So you're basically seeing the

same people every time, whereas Sesame and Muppets

have tons and tons of characters. And the segments

that there were, they were just too long and

drawn out. And I understand what Nickelodeon

was doing. It was Nickelodeon's attempt to get

into the Muppet genre and to steal some of those

fans and whatnot. And it was fine maybe for a

preschool -aged kid or something, but it's just

not worth any money or much of your time these

days. It's not one of those that held up at all

in the test of time. No. So with that resounding

review of Eureka's Castle, I think we should

probably close this out before we depress anyone

else from ever watching this show. I'd like to

thank Steve once again for joining me on this

episode, and I'd like to thank everybody else

for listening to this joyful trot down memory

lane here on the telecast. If you want to leave

us feedback for the show, there's many ways to

do this. First of all and foremost, go to www

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all of the different podcasts, not just the telecast.

You can leave us feedback on iTunes, and we did

get a new iTunes review. I'll read it real quick.

just a couple days ago from, his name is Keith

Spicknell, and it was left on February 15, 2011.

It says, the first episode satisfies all my curiosities,

and people seem to be more interested in Nick

Excedrin nostalgia than ever before. Great resource

for those of us watching these shows again for

the first time since childhood, and he gave us

five stars, which means so far we've had nine

ratings, and we have a five -star rating on iTunes.

Keep that up, and we would enjoy more reviews

and more critiques from everybody that's listening.

Call our voicemail line if you want to leave

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forget that we have a theme song contest going

out. I have received another entry for the theme

song contest. So if you want to get in on the

mystery prize, go to geekcastradio .com. and

check out the theme song contest and get your

entry in so we have a few more entries because

otherwise the person who sent in his last entry,

which was actually one of our iTunes reviewers,

C. Maximus, he's in the lead right now for the

theme song contest, so somebody else needs to

get him all right so he has a run for his money.

And we also have the listener's choice going

on, so if you want to pick our second -to -last

episode, go to geekcastradio .com and get the

details on how you can do that. So that does

it for now. We hope we succeeded in entertaining

you, informing you, and most importantly, unleashing

the geek in you on this episode of the Telecast.

And we hope that you will tune in for our next

episode. I'm scared of this one, actually. But

we will continue our puppet theme, but not quite

getting to the Muppets yet. We'll be covering

a show which most of you will not have known

or not remember. It's a show called Today's Special.

For now, I am your host, Optimus Solo, with...

Steve. Megatron Phillips saying tune in in 10

days for another episode of the telecast. Discover

this.