Escape From the Planet of the Bicycle Apes
One Got Fat is a macabre little educational film from 1963 about bicycle safety, narrated by Edward Everett Horton, featuring kids sporting wire tails and wearing these absolutely terrifying Papier-mâché monkey masks with souless black pits instead of eyes, that were surely designed in the very pit of Hell by Satan himself. One by one, the unfortunate chimp-children are dispatched in a variety of gruesome ways for violating bicycle safety rules.
Gratuitous double-entendre dialogue: "Slim knew that his big sack would be hard to handle."
[Link: One Got Fat]
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I used One Got Fat footage for this song - enjoy!
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Posted by: H. Michael Karshis | August 17, 2007 10:29 PM
Very cool. Thanks!
Posted by: MrBaliHai | August 17, 2007 10:36 PM
Thanks! Started downloading right away. They should re-make Planet of the Apes like that.
Posted by: peanut butter frank | August 18, 2007 3:04 AM
After seeing the Tim Burton version, I think they *did* remake it that way.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | August 18, 2007 6:48 AM
Jesus, that's some terrifying crap! All the more puzzling that I watched it to the end. And today, riding my bike to work, I thought about all my bicycling transgressions: no helmet, no lights, no hand signals, rusty and very bad brakes...I should be a dead creepy monkey by now.
Posted by: Elizabeth McQuern | August 22, 2007 9:21 PM
I'd imagine that riding in Chicago would be pretty hairy even if you followed the rules.
I used to ride my bike to work when I lived in Tokyo. I'm a pretty careful rider, and I still had a lot of close calls.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | August 22, 2007 9:48 PM
this is great. when i first started downloading and burning stuff from the prelinger archives a few years ago this was one of the ones i downloaded. it's definately odd, and so of course i think it's wonderful.
Posted by: william | August 24, 2007 2:41 AM
Oh. My. Gawd.
I actually REMEMBER this from elementary school!
Thanks for dredging up the memories of the long-suppressed chimp-based horrorshow. I will have regressive P.E. nightmares again tonight, I know it.
Posted by: Troy Z | August 31, 2007 5:40 PM
I grew up overseas, attending elementary schools for foreigners, so I missed out on a lot of this stuff, Troy. In a way, I'm glad.
Posted by: MrBaliHai | August 31, 2007 5:57 PM