The Psychedelic World Of HR Pufnstuf: Facts You Didn’t Know

Buttons Were Money on Living Island because of Sid Krofft’s Childhood Imagination

In one episode of H.R. Pufnstuf, it’s revealed that buttons are currency on Living Island – not actual money. Jimmy finds this out when he asks H.R. Pufnstuf about why he needs 200 buttons.

Pufnstuf sadly reports back to Ludicrous Lion, “The Treasury is empty. Our buttons have hit bottom.” This idea was created by Sid Krofft when he was a child. He used to charge his friends buttons instead of pennies to watch puppet shows in his backyard. Sid Krofft actually created a lot of the ideas for H.R. Pufnstuf when he was a child.