Yes it's parodying it and Family guy did it with The Rush Limbaugh episode where Brian is showing Rush the American made products. Ie thr heat regulator on the stove..
This is based on a real 16mm film, and I've been trying to get my hands on it for decades. In 1970, my family borrowed a 16mm projector and used to borrow 16mm films from the public library. One of them was a very interesting film about zinc. It looked to like it was made sometime between the late 50s to the mid 60s. There was a sequence in it that was similar to the one in KFM, describing how zinc oxide and zinc electroplating was used in so many useful household items, as the film showed such items abruptly disappearing. It was done for laughs to keep the attention of the school children who would be watching it. I've searched every 16mm film database I can find, but the closest I've been able to come is a title that's in the Library of Congress, called something like "The World of Zinc". This parody didn't come out of a vacuum. My brothers and I watched that little film several times before we had to return it and even today we discuss our lack of success in finding it.
@@almostfm he’s not wrong thought. The 70’s has this grimy, dirty feel because of all the shag carpeting, ugly beige colored furniture and walls, the stuffy looking clothes etc
@@sugreev2001 Other than some of the appliances and maybe the woman's dress, that house would have looked very dated in the 1970s. I know-I was around back then.
I've lost count how many times I came back to watch this segment over the years. Never gets old. Modern alternate title: "American Quality Products and You".
For those who think the spoofs began with Naked Gun and Scary Movie (and their sequels). Think again, this was many years and some cases, decades before!
I brought this movie to my boarding school sophomore year 89... Lol omgosh what a hit it was .. Everyone would watch it all the time .. Fistful of yen was everyone's favorite .. Other than CHSGIT .. Lol 10 points if you can figure out the skit.. The teachers could not figure out what was going on.. There's so many quotable lines . such as extraordinary magnitude and you have my gratitude. Lol It's just as funny 50 years as it was back then.. The original .. Groove tube is awesome too
I love that years later, the Simpsons came up with exactly the same joke, and used an old timey educational film to explain why the world needs zinc. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-U1iCZpFMYd0.html
It could have been an homage to this skit in KFM, but it's possible they're both looking at the same sort of program for ideas. I remember seeing things like this in school.
Classic. I saw this on a betmax vhs rental, and that wouldn't exist without zinc oxide, never mind... Thank you VHS, for lower quality, mass produced and a less endearing company...
I have seen KFM many times since its 1977 release, so when my son told me he had to simulate a 1960's 16mm clip with all the defects for his video editing class, I naturally thought of "Zinc Oxide and You." But, except for a few jumpy frames at the very beginning, all of the 16mm effects are gone. Does RU-vid automatically clean up clips on upload?
And the Ancient Ones spoke of a time that was not politically correct, or woke, when Comedians went to colleges without fear of being burned at the stake by the thought police. Thanks I needed this!
