The Kentucky Fried Movie is a series of short, highly irreverent, and quite often tasteless skits: 'Catholic High School Girls in Trouble,' 'Zinc Oxide,' 'Sex Record,' 'Cleopatra Schwartz,' 'That's Armageddon!' and 'A Fistful of Yen.'
The Kentucky Fried Movie misses as often as it hits, but when the writers and Landis arrive at a great idea ... it's like watching an entire fruitful comic perspective being spawned.
Most of the jokes still hold up excellently even today and with spoof commercials and trailers so popular these days, especially today, The Kentucky Fried Movie proves to be both hilarious and curiously prescient.
Saturday Night Live had been doing the same thing, only better, on TV for two years prior to this... and Monty Python had been doing something far more subversive and positively genius with their Flying Circus for nearly a decade prior...
