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A bunch of skits spoofing TV shows, commercials, movies, previews etc etc. There's also a long dead on target spoof of "Enter the Dragon" called "A Fistful of Yen". The film is very 70s--some of the references won't make any sense to anyone born after 1977. Also much of the humor is exceptionally crude and there's a huge overabundance of gratuitious female nudity and fairly graphic sex. This film wouldn't be made today and would easily have gotten an NC-17 rating if it had. Still, the film is often hilarious--I laughed myself silly at some of the crudest humor possible. So, it's worth seeing, but if you're easily offended do NOT see it! Also where else can you see Bill Bixby, George Lazenby, Donald Sutherland and Henry Gibson in a film with the coming attractions of "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble"?

Basically the same sort of thing as Ken Shapiro's "The Groove Tube", "The Kentucky Fried Movie" portrays a series of satirical TV skits...which of course means chock full of stuff that would never get on TV. It's not as good as "The Groove Tube", but if you don't come away from this one nearly hoarse - if not dead - from laughter, then you must lack a sense of humor. It's hard to say what my favorite part was, but I sure wouldn't have minded getting in trouble with those Catholic high school girls! So anyway, it's a real treat. Feel-a-rama, the botched news broadcast, Point/Counterpoint, and last but not least the martial arts spoof, they all show what satire is all about.I wonder if "Deep Throat" was supposed to be something about Watergate. If so, then that would have been some scandal!

The writers of Airplane! honed their comedic edge a few years earlier putting this smorgasboard together. Film is a Firesign Theatre-esque "comedy anthology", a group of generally good comedy skits centered around a very funny martial arts take-off. Ages rather well despite being frequently copied. The persons responsible for this movie have my gratitude.