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The Kentucky Fried Movie
Fans of the 1980 comedy classic Airplane! might want to take a look at 1977's The Kentucky Fried Movie, a nonsensical, silly, and often raunchy collections of unrelated comedy skits that being somewhat dated, does still provide sporadic laughs.
Long before Airplane! and The Naked Gun franchises, David Zuker, Jerry Zuker, and Jim Abrahams put together this random collection of comedy skits and movie parodies that are completely unrelated and play like an extended episode of SNL with no real connection between any of them, except for the thoughtfully executed sight gags that make up a lot of these guys' work.
We get a pretty funny parody of a morning talk show being destroyed by an angry gorilla; a movie preview for a movie called Catholic High School Girls in Trouble and another one called Cleopatra Schwartz. Right in the middle of this we get an almost hour long Bruce Lee spoof called A Fistful of Yen that does provide some laughs, but doesn't really justify the hour of screen time it's granted.
We get a couple of hints who made this film when, during a courtroom spoof, the stenographer is played by Stephen Stiucker, who played Johnny in the Airplane franchises and we meet a character named Rex Kramer. There are cameo appearances by Donald Suherland, Bill Bixby, Tony Dow, and David Zuker. It's not a home run, but there are laughs here.
Fans of the 1980 comedy classic Airplane! might want to take a look at 1977's The Kentucky Fried Movie, a nonsensical, silly, and often raunchy collections of unrelated comedy skits that being somewhat dated, does still provide sporadic laughs.
Long before Airplane! and The Naked Gun franchises, David Zuker, Jerry Zuker, and Jim Abrahams put together this random collection of comedy skits and movie parodies that are completely unrelated and play like an extended episode of SNL with no real connection between any of them, except for the thoughtfully executed sight gags that make up a lot of these guys' work.
We get a pretty funny parody of a morning talk show being destroyed by an angry gorilla; a movie preview for a movie called Catholic High School Girls in Trouble and another one called Cleopatra Schwartz. Right in the middle of this we get an almost hour long Bruce Lee spoof called A Fistful of Yen that does provide some laughs, but doesn't really justify the hour of screen time it's granted.
We get a couple of hints who made this film when, during a courtroom spoof, the stenographer is played by Stephen Stiucker, who played Johnny in the Airplane franchises and we meet a character named Rex Kramer. There are cameo appearances by Donald Suherland, Bill Bixby, Tony Dow, and David Zuker. It's not a home run, but there are laughs here.