The daily programming of a fictional local TV channel presented as a series of highly irreverent skits.The daily programming of a fictional local TV channel presented as a series of highly irreverent skits.The daily programming of a fictional local TV channel presented as a series of highly irreverent 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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- 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.
- GoofsDuring the "Fistful of Yen" sequence, the tour guide mentions that the tanks containing the chemicals for germ warfare can each hold "4000 cubic liters". The liter is already a unit of volume, so the phrase "cubic liters" doesn't really mean anything.
- 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 creditsThe credits state that the cast is listed in order of appearance - and then starts with Cleopatra Schwarz (who appears about 2/3rds of the way through the film)!
- 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
"Kentucky Fried Movie" is tasteless, unsophisticated, and decidedly sophomoric... and one of the most hilarious films ever made! A string of politically incorrect segments made by the creators of "Airplane!" and "The Naked Gun", "KFM" is an "R"-rated romp that today, nearly 30 years after its release, would be too shocking to even warrant the dreaded "NC-17" rating. Forget those unfunny amateurs Broken Lizard or the overrated Farrelly Brothers. We're talking naked breasts, oral sex, racial slurs, violence... and yet each segment leaves you delirious from not only laughter but disbelief at the fact that the Zuckers actually go away with all this. I've discovered that it really takes a certain kind of innocence to make a movie like "KFM", a naive belief that people will simply laugh at the crude spectacle of it all. Segments include a wholesome couple listening to a 1950s style "how-to" record on foreplay (wait till you see what the record comes equipped with), a thrill seeker whose trademark stunt is going to a crowd of black men and yelling out the N-word (how bold is this scene? No one has dared imitate it since), and a political debate between two analysts that ends with one of them cheerfully telling the other to "blow it out your a**" and giving them the finger. The highlight is the mini-movie within the movie, "A Fistful of Yen". A parody of all the Bruce Lee films, its hero, Loo, fights the evil Klahn, a one-armed criminal mastermind with a fondness for the phrase "extraordinary magnitude". It also pokes fun at the endless fights from the Lee films, as well as the characters' fractured English (little trivia, the actors really were Asian and spoke poor English in real life, so it wasn't intentional on their parts) The twist ending of "Yen" is one of the goofiest things you ever saw in your life. Despite the often offensive humor of "KFM", it's not a mean film by any means. No one is really safe from the wacky chaos it inflicts, and it's just hilarious. In our time of hand-wringing political correctness, "KFM" offers a cathartic experience of laughing out loud at our fears, prejudices, and, yes, stupidity. This is indeed a finger-lickin' good comedy.
- lauraeileen894
- Dec 17, 2006
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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
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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By what name was The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977) officially released in India in English?
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