Actuakers One of my all time favorites.

Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

CrawlerChunky In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

Mathilde the Guild Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

MartianOctocretr5 Absolutely hilarious. This is one of those educational films they used to show elementary and junior high aged kids in class; this one deals with encouraging kids to follow rules of safety, proper use, and care of the bicycle. It makes its point of the seriousness of safety, by indulging in humorously bizarre images and exaggeration.Enter our heroes: a bunch of monkeys bicycling together; who each in turn dramatically suffers ill consequences for a variety of foolish "what-not-to-do" blunders. These range from violating several traffic safety rules to failing to keep proper maintenance of the bike. The "collision" sequences use cartoonish sound effects and animation. I love the bulging eyes surprised looks on the monkey masks as they make their respective exits. Except for Edward Everett Horton's brightly comical narration, nobody speaks (I guess monkeys don't talk), but the body- language expressions of the hapless bike riders says it all anyway. Oddly enough, the remaining monkeys never seem to notice the disappearances, or the their own steadily declining numbers.Find it, and run it with some friends. Not to be missed.

dmanyc ONE GOT FAT. That's the name of this very strange educational short film from the '60s. From the title alone, you wouldn't know it was suppose to be an educational short film on bicycle safety. After watching it (either by itself or RiffTrax), you still won't see it as an educational short film. You'll see it as the weirdest short film since Mr. B Natural. These monkeys make the PLANET OF THE APES apes look normal in comparison. Creepiest. Masks. Ever. No, this is not suppose to be a horror short, but if I was a kid watching this, I'd have nightmares for days or never step foot in a zoo ever again.Rooty = stopped making hand signals Tink = forgot to watch street signsFloog = riding on the left side of the street Mossby = too distracted to get license and registration and lost his bike Slim = riding on Trigby's bike Trigby = blocked by Slim's body and both fell in manholeNel = riding on sidewalk and running into pedestrians Filbert = riding bike that's falling apart and no brakes Stan = riding with no lights nor reflectors Orv = not a monkey; gets fatDon't say you weren't warned. The five stars is for RiffTrax for their great riffing of this.

la_cultura This short film was narrated by the same guy that did "Fractured Fairy Tales" on Rocky and Bullwinkle. That's about as far as the whole "kids' short" thing goes.I saw this film a couple of times as a primary school student in Cortland, NY, around 1975-1978, and here it is now (2006) and it still gives me the creeps. If its goal was to teach bike safety, all it really succeeded in doing was to scare the bloody heck out of me and make me never want to go near a bicycle (or any lower primates) ever again. The blithe, almost gleeful, manner in which these lawbreaking bike-riders meet their bloody fates is slightly beyond macabre and and just short of satanic. For two of the ill-fated ape-boys, just before they are bumped off, they are shown with a look of horror on their faces with their eyes bulging out in panic -- not unlike you might see in a Ren and Stimpy cartoon -- except that here it is unexpected because of the low production values (special effects? in a 1963 bike safety flick?) and because it is unexpected and not for comic effect, and it is just a few frames - the image is almost subliminal. Very haunting. The end result, if you're a single-digit age viewer of a bygone era (pre Grand-Theft-Auto, etc...) such a thing might just scare the bejeezus out of you.In historical retrospect, it joins such classics as the 60s and 70s anti-drug scare films common to grade school health classes, and such foot-tapping Drivers Ed classics like Crimson Asphalt.

ethylester YES, this film is wacko. The kids have weird names like Rooty Toot. Their ape masks look cheap, but where in the world would you find such a great looking monkey mask today without getting skin cancer? That was no ordinary mask!The title "one got fat" refers to Orv, the hero of the film who is "not a monkey" and knows all about bike safety, unlike the other children who are all killed (!), injured or left behind somehow because of their negligence. See, Orv was the boy carrying everybody's sack lunches in his bike basket to go to the park for a picnic. One all his cycle mates are... removed... he gets everyone's lunch! Hence - "one got fat". If you watch closely, before each child gets hit by a car or what have you, the mask suddenly grows giant eyeballs that bulge out of their sockets in horror.So kids, remember: 1) License your bike or you'll be afoot and your shoes will smolder from running alongside your biking friends. 2) Use reflectors and lights, especially when you ride through a highway tunnel. You are liable to get smashed head-on by oncoming traffic in the pitch black! 3) Ride on the right side of the road or you might flip yourself over a car pulling out of a parking space. 4) Keep your mind on riding and watch the traffic signs or you might miss a stop sign and smash into a semi truck that is crossing the road.5) Use your hand signals or you might get run over. 6) Don't ride on the sidewalk or you might run over a couple of housewives carrying groceries who end up in a tree. 7) Don't ride double or you'll fall down a manhole into the sewer - bike and all! 8) Tune up your bike or your brakes might fail unexpectedly and force you to be squashed by the oncoming steamroller! If you do all these things, you might also get fat though, because you will be forced to eat the lunches of all your dead or hospitalized friends.