This is the type of film that in 1974 an 11 year old like me would have spent the whole time "tee hee'ing" at, a naughty, sexual view of some of the TV tropes of the mid 1970's. You know what is going to happen when a clown kiddie show sends the adults out of the room, and a series of commercials for the "Uranus Corporation" just get increasingly perverted. There's a spoof of the phone company and their "Let Your Fingers do the Walking" advertising, a gay themed version of a Catholic anti-drug short film, and a Wild World of Sports spoof that is basically a round the world sex competition. A commercial that turns human waste into an edible product. Chevy Chase appears in a musical commercial spoof that is perhaps the only tactful moment of the film. In the film's favor, there are some nice vintage shots of 70's New York City where a dancer prances through some highly recognizable midtown business districts.
I have no objection to a little bit of blue humor, and I can understand from the mentality I would have had when this came out how ripe American television was for spoofing. But 75 minutes of it non-stop does get a little tiresome after a while, and the dated elements of it outweigh what stands the test of time. There are funnier scenes in "Kentucky Fried Movie" which at least had the team of Zucker and Abrams writing the sketches. This does have its share of nudity (male and female), and the gay context is not in the least meant to be offensive. You can't expect art in a film like this, but you should get at least some humor which this only has in dribs and drabs.
I have no objection to a little bit of blue humor, and I can understand from the mentality I would have had when this came out how ripe American television was for spoofing. But 75 minutes of it non-stop does get a little tiresome after a while, and the dated elements of it outweigh what stands the test of time. There are funnier scenes in "Kentucky Fried Movie" which at least had the team of Zucker and Abrams writing the sketches. This does have its share of nudity (male and female), and the gay context is not in the least meant to be offensive. You can't expect art in a film like this, but you should get at least some humor which this only has in dribs and drabs.