  YOUR DAY ON THE SET OF THE BUGALOOS!!! Today's the day! It's your day to visit the set of "The Bugaloos," and meet everyone involved in putting together the show. You arrive early in the morning (so you'll be able to spend all day) at the Windsor Gate of Paramount Studios in Hollywood and sure enough, the guard at the gate has your name down on the list of people to be allowed on the lot today. He directs you around the corner and down to the end of the lot of Stage 19, or the Land of Tranquility. As you walk down toward the set, you're amazed at how big all of the buildings on the lot are and how none of them have any windows. But something's wrong. There's no one here. It's so quiet and kind of cold. Where could everyone be? Just then a man carrying a paint bucket wanders in and sees you standing there looking lost. "You looking for the Bugaloos?" he asks in a thick accent. You kind of nod numbly and he tells you they're flying today so they're down on Stage 21, which is two stages further down. When you enter Stage 21, you find another surprise. All the people are there, but there are no beautiful sets. Instead, there's just a gigantic blue wall with some strange looking wire hanging down in front of it. After you've met the rest of the Bugaloos - Big John, Wayne, and Caroline - you're offered a chair and you join the group watching the monitor. Wayne then explains, in his incredible Cockney accent, that today they are filming all of the flying scenes for the last four episodes they've already done. They do the rest of the shows and then they come over to this stage to do all the flying. "This is a painful day," adds Big John, and they all agree heartily. You soon discover why as they all go get into their harnesses - those funny looking wires hanging from the ceiling that you noticed when you came in. The three boys have on flying harnesses under their costumes. The harnesses go around their waists and down the outside of their legs and around their legs. On each side of their waist is a fastener thingy that is then fastened to the wires hanging from the ceiling. Strong men on the other end of the wires then lift them off the ground and by waving their arms and moving their bodies about they appear to fly. |