A couple of weeks or so ago, Filegirl and I were bouncing emails back and forth about something or other, and she sent me video of a group of chimpanzees sitting around a bar discussing a penguin walking around Antarctica with seal spooge dripping off its beak (off color, to be sure, but nothing compared to the link she sent me of a toddler preparing to improve his biblical knowledge of the family poodle). I emailed her back, saying the video reminded me of Lancelot Link, but for grown ups. She said that she had never heard of Lancelot Link, to which I responded that that was THE MOST FUCKED UP THING I HAVE EVER HEARD. How can someone from our general age group NOT remember Lancelot Link and the Evolution Revolution?

As it turns out, the show predated us both by a little bit and was canceled before I was born. Apparently, I had seen the show in syndication. My earliest memories of that dear, sweet, loving television that raised me involved Lancelot, his girlfriend Matta Hairi and the good apes of A.P.E. defending freedom against C.H.U.M.P, a syndicate of rogue international chimpanzees hellbent on world domination; not even to mention (what seemed to me as a four year old) the rocking’ chops of The Evolution Revolution, Lancelot’s super groovy acid rock band. I also vaguely remember being terrified of Redd Foxx and hiding in the back room whenever Sanford & Son was on, but that is a different matter.

By internet standards I am by no means young, which means that unless you have seen this show on cable or something, there is a good chance that very few of you have any idea what I’m talking about. Thank goodness for geeky 70’s fansites with media files I can pilfer. So hate, enjoy, ignore, whatever... this is really all I have today:

[from 70’s live kid vid]

Opening Theme

The Evolution Revolution

[from TV Party]

Two and a half minute video segment from documentary.

The complete Evolution Revolution album. Actually, one or two of the songs are not completely horrible (and yes, I just listened to the whole album). Okay, so maybe they’re horrible; but only relatively, given the context.