One Got Fat
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| One Got Fat | |
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| Directed by | Dale Jennings |
| Written by | Dale Jennings |
| Narrated by | Edward Everett Horton |
| Cinematography | Max Hutto |
| Release date(s) | 1963 |
| Running time | 15 min |
| Country |  United States |
| Language | English |
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One Got Fat is a 1963 bicycle safety film. It is narrated by F-Troop and Fractured Fairy Tales star, Edward Everett Horton.
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[edit] Plot
In the film, ten friends whom are children with monkey masks and tails, plan on going to the park for a picnic. They all ride there on their bikes, but each one meets a certain fate on their way to the park, because they did not follow a certain bike rule, like not making hand signals, forgetting to read signs, not riding with traffic, riding double, or riding on the sidewalk, one by one each of the friends makes a mistake and suffers an interesting fate. In the end only one of the friends (whom not only followed all the bike safety rules, but is also a normal human, whose face is not shown until the very end) makes it to the park and eats all the food by himself, thus as the title says "One got fat!"
[edit] Characters
The characters and how they met their demise.
- Rooty-Toot ("Rooty") Jasperson
- Make Signals
- Demise/Fate: Turned left into ongoing traffic
- Tinkerbell ("Tink") McDillinfiddy
- Watch Signs
- Demise/Fate: Forgets to watch out for a stop sign, resulting in being hit by a large truck
- Phillip ("Floog") Floogle
- Keep Right
- Demise/Fate: Rides on left side of street, while doing so a car moves out, hitting him
- Mossby Pomegranate
- License/Register
- Demise/Fate: Bike was stolen, police couldn't find it because it wasn't registered, as a result of running between one and nine blocks, his feet arches collapse
- Slim Jim ("Slim") Maguffny and Trigby Phipps
- Ride Alone
- Demise/Fate: Due toTriby's lack of vision because of Slim blocking his head, he stears right into an open manhole covering
- Nelbert ("Nel") Zwieback
- Yield
- Demise/Fate: She begins to ride on the sidewalk without giving pedestrians the right of way, she rides right into two people carrying groceries
- Filbert ("Fil") Bagel
- Tune Up
- Demise/Fate: Because of the poor maintenance of the bike, the brakes no longer work, resulting in Filbert being run over by a steam roller
- Stanislaw ("Stan") Hickenbottom
- Lights/Reflectors
- Demise/Fate: He rides his bike into a tunnel without anyway to be seen, nothing is seen of his fate only heard, it sounds like he was simply hit by a car
- Orville ("Orv") Slump
- He's no monkey, so he made it to the picnic site and got fat
[edit] Reception
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The film is often viewed as an oddity due to its unintended surrealist qualities, quick shots of several of the monkey children's horrified faces right before they meet their various unfortunate fates frightened a lot of the children who were shown the film in school.[citation needed] Cartoon violence that would go unnoticed in an animated short has an odd tendency to become genuinely alarming in One Got Fat. A good example would be when one of the monkey children is run over by a steam roller, while it is never shown there are several sound effects which can make it quite disturbing and imply that the character is being horribly maimed/killed. The masks themselves are often extremely ugly depicting bizarre and creepy facial expressions with large empty eyes that take on a somewhat haunting quality.
After experiencing a mild revival of popularity on the Internet, the film was presented as a RiffTrax feature in April of 2008, with commentary by Michael J. Nelson, Bill Corbett, and Kevin Murphy; they described the film as "a concentrated dose of lab-purified nightmare fuel."[1]
[edit] See also
[edit] References
- ^ Nelson, Michael J. One Got Fat: Rifftrax. rifftrax.com. Retrieved on 2008-04-18.
[edit] External links
- One Got Fat at the Internet Archive
- Ook. Eek. Ick. "review" of the short at Progressive Boink
