A series of short, highly irreverent, and often tasteless skits.A series of short, highly irreverent, and often tasteless skits.A series of short, highly irreverent, and often tasteless skits.
Evan C. Kim
- Loo (segment "A Fistful of Yen")
- (as Evan Kim)
Bong Soo Han
- Dr. Klahn (segment "A Fistful of Yen")
- (as Master Bong Soo Han)
Joseph G. Medalis
- Paul Burmaster (segment "High Adventure")
- (as Joe Medalis)
Richard Gates
- Boy (segment "Eyewitness News")
- (as Rick Gates)
Tara Strohmeier
- Girl (segment "Eyewitness News")
- (as Tara Strohmeir)
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- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaOriginal titles for the film included "Free Popcorn" and "Closed for Remodeling". Presumably both were rejected for the confusion they would cause when displayed on a theater marquee.
- GoofsWhen Joyce Wilson gives the astrological report in the "A.M. Today" segment, the padding where the arrow lands is visible. The same thing happens when Ron Butler gives his report about the teachers' strike.
- Quotes
Henry Gibson: In the past year, over 800,000 Americans have died. Despite millions of dollars of research, death continues to be our nation's number one killer.
- Crazy creditsBefore the credits start, there is a short bit with the TV anchorman saying "The popcorn you're eating has been pissed in, film at eleven". For the TV version, this is replaced with "I'm not wearing any pants, film at 11"
- Alternate versionsA version aired on Comedy Central (and perhaps on other channels) features a small variety of edits:
- The 'Cleopatra Schwartz' sequence is censored heavily for language and nudity
- During the closing sequence (where the teenagers are having sex on the couch, and the news crew is watching), the camera zoom is altered several times so that nothing but the teens' faces show. The zooms are awkward, and blatantly added.
- The entirety of the 'Catholic School Girls In Trouble' scene is missing. It is listed in the credits, however.
- ConnectionsFeatured in I Love the '70s: Volume 2: 1977 (2006)
- SoundtracksCarioca
(uncredited)
Music by Vincent Youmans
Lyrics by Gus Kahn and Edward Eliscu
Performed by Jo Stafford (as Darlene Edwards) with Paul Weston on piano (as Jonathan Edwards)
Featured review
Even by sketch movie standards it's inconsistent, but there's some hilarious stuff contained within
Absolutely, unashamedly over the place, with more stuff that worked that didn't. While there were a couple of big laughs, they didn't fully outweigh the jokes that were duds.
Still, there's some of the Abrahams and Zucker Brothers style here that'll get more consistent with Airplane and then The Naked Gun. The Kung fu parody went on way too long, but the scenes with the recording equipment being shown, and then the scene with all the different types of prisoners was also great.
The courtroom skit had some good laughs, as did that woman's life falling apart during a zinc informercial because the narrator kept taking away zinc products. I love creative, stupid, surreal humour like that.
Still, there's some of the Abrahams and Zucker Brothers style here that'll get more consistent with Airplane and then The Naked Gun. The Kung fu parody went on way too long, but the scenes with the recording equipment being shown, and then the scene with all the different types of prisoners was also great.
The courtroom skit had some good laughs, as did that woman's life falling apart during a zinc informercial because the narrator kept taking away zinc products. I love creative, stupid, surreal humour like that.
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- Jeremy_Urquhart
- Sep 29, 2021
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- Release date
- Country of origin
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- Also known as
- 11 O'Clock News
- Filming locations
- Rialto Theatre - 1023 S. Fair Oaks Avenue, South Pasadena, California, USA(Feel-a-round sequence)
- Production companies
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- Budget
- $600,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 23 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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