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Various internet noodlings today brought me to a website at which we can watch One Got Fat, one of the trauma films of my youth.
Officer Friendly showed us this film year after year, or maybe it was just one mind-searing year that felt like more, at the Maple West Bike Rodeo. Here's the upshot: a bunch of kids dressed like monkeys take sack lunches and go on a bike ride. One by one, they do stupid things and get hit by cars and killed until one cautious little monkey is left and he gets to eat everyone else's lunch. Not one monkey, even the cautious one, is wearing a helmet, preferring instead such interesting chapeaux as porkpie hats and watchcaps, but it was the 70's after all, and no one thought to put something between their heads and the pavements back then.
The monkeys are hideous and frightful, and right up there with the minions of the Wicked Witch of the West.
Enjoy the show.
Posted by volfie at February 12, 2004 02:21 PMIt was definitely an annual event, much to be feared. I liked Officer Friendly but that monkey movie was creepy. I saw it at Maplemere in the Sweethome district and was really creeped out to find that it was also shown at Maple West after my family made the move. Not eveery stupid monkey got killed, as I remember, but they were definitely all hurt.
Posted by: Alan on February 12, 2004 05:24 PMThanks for posting that creepy picture. I'm off to have nightmares, now.
Posted by: delegatrix on February 12, 2004 11:05 PMI'm so very glad I missed this film as a child. I'd still be having nightmares.
Posted by: Reader on February 13, 2004 03:27 PM