MasterChugs Theater: 'The Kentucky Fried Movie'

Three years before the trio of comedy writers of Jim Abrahams, David Zucker and Jerry Zucker (Top Secret!, Ruthless People) would score their mega-hit Airplane!, they made The Kentucky Fried Movie, a sporadically funny, screwball vignette comedy flick which would give us a preview of the type of projects they would score with time and time again. This is a series of spoofs and satirical takes on popular television shows and films, with a ton of commercial parodies thrown in. Think of it as a very adult version of "Saturday Night Live" at the movies, and you'll get the idea.

Claude LaMont: I live ze unknown, I love ze unknown, I am ze unknown
Paul Burmaster: Where do you live?
Claude LaMont: Zat ... is unknown. I do not know.

A movie that helped give the Zucker brothers a foot in Hollywood's door, this long-revered television and movie satire combines sex and bathroom humor with timeless sight gags and slapstick. The uproarious film spoofs everything from television commercials, movie trailers, porn, and pop culture in general in a series of hysterical sketches. Infamous sketches include "Cleopatra Schwartz," a blaxploitation spoof featuring a sexy Amazon married to a rabbi; and the extended kung fu film parody "A Fistful of Yen." Raunchy humor and hysterical commentary on the media are served up with reckless abandon by the likes of Henry Gibson and Donald Sutherland, among countless others.

Dr. Klahn: The CIA thinks they can infiltrate the Mountain of Dr. Klahn!
CIA Agent: You can't scare me, you slant-eyed yellow bastard.
Dr. Klahn: Take him to ... Detroit!
CIA Agent: No! No, not Detroit! No! No, please! Anything but that! No! No!

There is a parody on educational films, news commercials, a young couple making love in front of their television, a trailer for a film called "Armageddon" and a few others. One of the more humorous skits involves an infomercial on how to keep a dead person as an active member of the family. The cast is filled with people who have went on to become notables in the film industry. Those responsible for directing and writing the film have cameos, but so do some better-known people. The Incredible Hulk himself, Bill Bixby, makes a short cameo. Donald Sutherland falls into a cake and the man who portrayed James Bond only once; George Lazenby appears on-screen in an authentically drunken stupor.

Husband: Well, what's our little skeptic doing today?
Housewife: She's frying the cat in pure Wesson oil. (cat screams)

Gawk! at the outrageous seventies hairstyles. Tremble! as wits sharper than yours stab from beyond the screen. Guffaw! when Big Jim visits. Run! when you assassinate the President in the exciting board game. Laugh! as you see that this is a hilarious movie.