I'm honestly surprised that our friends at RiffTrax didn't have anything to say about that. Bulging eyes on creepy monkey masks just seems like it's begging for a riff or three.
@@ianstuckey4405 the masks and lidless soul eyes were the event horizon. bulging eyeballs was nothing that compared to what had been seen on those faces
Correct! This is narrated by the excellent old- school voice actor Edward Everett Horton, who as the riffers pointed out, also narrated "Fractured Fairy Tales."
Don't worry. One day, some random stranger will nearly pee him/herself laughing when they hear you say it. Then you can smile knowingly at each other, high five, and walk away with everyone else looking after you like you're insane. Which, of course, you are.
No, that actually exists. It was a horror movie that came out this year. Check out Red Letter Media's review. Edit: I am *completely* serious. I couldn't believe it.
Mike: "A bicycle safety film where apes evolved from men!? There has got to be an answer!" Bill: "Don't look for it mike! You may not like what you find."😆
For the most part, a bunch would have been alive... fallen arches suck, but can be fixed. The worst ones? Open manhole, and literally getting pulverized by a fuckin steamroller.
I remember seeing this film in the auditorium of my third grade class in the 60s. All the kids were laughing our asses off. Thank you for bringing back a fond memory. Love you guys!
Nightmare fuel, for even my 64 year old brain. Damn this shit is scary. I am going out and turning my bike into a kicky little planter. Or, I could just let it continue to rust until it becomes one with the monkey god...
YES I knew some one else was thinking this. That video goes BACK too if I remember and has creeped me out for years. Like Rubby Johnny from Aphex Twin, BOC totally clipped that well into that music. Thanks to Rifftrax this gave me a source! Glad I am not alone Broski! Going back sometimes is going forward.
How nice they got the guy from Rocky And Bullwinkle's Fractured Fairy Tales to narrate this short. And of course, Dr. Zira recovered to become a veterinarian. "Move it Bright Eyes!" 😆😆
Mossby not registering his license was actually the smartest move of the bunch of them. Sure, he got sore feet, but at least he didn’t wind up dead like most of his friends.
Real shame too. I heard those kids almost died on bus trip. Apparently before they left, one of the kids freaked out and said they were all gonna die in a horrible accident. He caused such a scene that he and his friends had to be escorted off before they left. How he knew about it, we shall never know.
Observations: 1) Couldn't Slim Jim have done more to warn Trigby about the manhole, or at least bailed before they went in it? 2) Orville committed a pretty egregious bike- safety blunder too, which the narrator didn't comment on: Allowing his bike basket to become dangerously overloaded. That can cause serious problems relating to both balance and distraction. 3) I've seen arguments both for AND against what Philip did (Riding against traffic) in terms of safety. One in favor of it is that it lets the bicyclist better see oncoming cars and avoid them. People don't have eyes in the backs of their heads, you know. 4) The bulging eyes seen before a couple of the deaths (Philip's and Filbert's) were serious nightmare- fuel.
Riding with traffic won't save you from people pulling out without looking, though. Nothing will save you from them. Even being on the other side of the street altogether is, at best, an imperfect defense.
English electronic group Boards of Canada used clips this years ago I think in a video on youtube, not sure if official. Either way Rifftrax gave me the answer of what the source was !
I guess back then they really believed in the scared straight strategy. I hope they put up the riff of a British safety short about not playing around electric power lines. That one is grim as well. Of course there is the teacher education film about the different children you might have class. It went places as well.
Wait, so the “one that got fat” from eating huge lunches has NOTHING to do with the title or plot of the film?! And instead the kid at the end who followed all the rules ends up dying from distention. Great lesson, film.
I mean, Mossby followed the rules too. He didn't have a registered license, so he decided to not ride a bike and safely run on the side of the road. Mossby literally did nothing wrong and the short punished him for it. If anything's going to send mixed messages to kids, it's that.
@@garrettcarter5622 Well, he didn’t die/go to the hospital. What’s the point of riding bikes if everyone goes slow enough that someone can keep up on foot?
This reminds me of that Twilight Zone episode where that rich guy's crappy family put on freaky Mardi Gras masks. When they take them off, their faces have morphed into copies of the disfigured masks.
@@rachele3334 That made it worse but my earliest tracing of it goes to the Twilight Zone : The Movie the sequence with the boy who could wish things to happen, he summons a bugs bunny that goes nuts. Saw that when I was 4 or 5.
I do find it strange that none of the monkey deaths are caused by the fact that none of them wear helmets. I get that it might not be the law yet, but it’s so obvious.
Orville secretly hated his "friends" and after months of subtle egging on, focused on their flaws. Kidnapping them was easy, the highly experimental genetic mutation Chambers were harder to come by. However after sedating them, and weeks of quiet reconstruction of DNA, Orville regresses his friends to primates, with only the desire to ride bikes and openly display previously subtle personality quirks. After one by one his "friends" succumbed to the inevitable kiss of death, Orville took every bag lunch and offered it to Baphomet. His dark lord rewarded him with a nifty 10 Speed Bike. All was well in the world.....
Imagine being in that town on that day and just having no idea they were filming anything. You just see one or more of those monstrosities roaming around outside your home. Kiss your sense of safety goodbye.
Not unlike when they were filming the original 1968 Planet of the Apes film. Apparently the horses ridden by the gorilla army would freak out at the sight of their riders and run away from the set. Locals horseback riding saw a group of panicked horses running away - and a pack of armor-wearing gorillas running after them.
Aesop: And the moral of the story is always use signs and maintain your bike! Son: I have a better one "Never ride with a mask cuz it will make a monkey out of you". "One Got Fat" - Fractured Fairy Tales
It's been a while since I went to a circus, but you used to be able to see DOGS riding bicycles there. Undoubtedly the reason that this PSA used monkey masks (& tails) instead of dog costumes is because of the phrase "monkey-ing around".
I believe you tube has an algorithm that automatically down votes any video that is not from a "blue check" illuminate, channel. You have to bow down to the gods of you tube, to get the golden banana...
“So… most of my friends died in what were surprisingly avoidable demises if they cared to turn the bike or literally anyone else was paying attention.” “Time to eat.”
“May not”? Mike definitely wouldn’t like what he found. Seriously, if nuclear war led to the Planet of the Apes, what sort of horrific catastrophe led to the world this takes place in?
Guys, thank you. I am currently spending my weekend at work for the second weekend in a row, and the reaction to "Slim knew his big sack would be hard to handle" was exactly the laugh I desperately needed. 😂
I love that they couldn't even get a good quality print of the short. also it's so weird hearing edward everett horton narrating something other than fractured fairy tales.
Agreed. Is this what Tim Burton thought Planet Of The Apes needed when he made that awful reboot with Mark Whalberg back in 2001? Well, that and lots and lots of LSD, and the really bad Ape-raham Lincoln statue at the end? It's so bad, it's almost a joke; really.
@@racheledwards2352 Thanks. I think these guys also did a RiffTrax on Planet of the Apes too, but if not, they should, on both the original and the Mark Whalberg one. Because there's no way they can let the ape version of Abraham Lincoln go without saying something about it. It's just, too stupid. And I haven't even seen either Planet of the Apes movie.
@@racheledwards2352 Oh, I know. Planet of the Apes(the original), is classic. Everyone and their grandmother knows it. But the Burton remake, I don't know what in the hell Burton was smoking when he made that. I'm glad I never saw that one. And I actually like Mark Whalberg, normally as an actor, but that movie was Hilariocity levels of bad, from what I've heard. And I think there was an old cartoon based on Planet Of The Apes, and like; a sequel to the original, right? Wasn't it called Return To The Planet Of The Apes? I mean; they do set up a sequel at the end of the movie, don't they? I was born in the 90's, so there's no way I would've seen the first one. And the remake of it just looks like an April Fool's parody movie. I'm just surprised it wasn't a comedy. How did the actors not break down laughing at their horrible makeup or just try not to have nightmares looking at their awful masks and terrible suits? How could they even tell who was who in that movie?
@@64BBernard Also look for "Pocketful of Miracles", the last film directed by the great Frank Capra; actually it was a remake of an earlier film of his, "Lady for a Day". EE Horton plays a comic butler named Hudgins--and I'm surprised they didn't use that name for one of these monkeys!
_“A bicycle safety film where apes evolved from men? There’s got to be an answer!”_ _“Don’t look for it, Mike! You may not like what you find!”_ Honestly one of the jokes I’ve laughed hardest to by these guys.
Having just seen "A Case Of Spring Fever" on the Rifftrax Twitch channel, I now get Kevin's "NO SPRINGS! *whistle* Hee hee hee hee!" reference in this! Yeah!
This one is CJ. CJ hasn't represented the Grove in five years, but the Ballas don't care. Now he's delivering packages in a Balla 'hood. Better keep your speed up, CJ! Oh dear, he's wasted.
I got one of those Rifftrax friends subscriptions and there are a TON on shorts on there. Close to 300 I believe. They've made me very happy. Most of them aren't quite as weird as this one.
One of my all-time favorite shorts to be riffed on. It may not be a great short film, but at least it’s mildly amusing for its morbidly funny premise, especially with the fairy tale type of quality in Edward Everett Horton’s narration. Right? Right.
