RiffTrax: One Got Fat (FREE Full Short)

[@denvan3143]

One Got Fat was Ho Chi Min’s minister of defense in the 50s.

[@DorkingtonHacker]

The detail of giving the monkeys bulging eyeballs just for the moment of their deaths shows a real comitment to traumatizing children.

[@srbrant5391]

Reminds me of Toecutter’s death.

[@64BBernard]

Got to drive the message home!

[@ianstuckey4405]

I'm honestly surprised that our friends at RiffTrax didn't have anything to say about that. Bulging eyes on creepy monkey masks just seems like it's begging for a riff or three.

[@jeremyriley1238]

Gotta scare the little kids straight into behaving and being safe when riding their bike around the hood.

[@toomanyaccounts]

@@ianstuckey4405 the masks and lidless soul eyes were the event horizon. bulging eyeballs was nothing that compared to what had been seen on those faces

[@rowsdower6950]

Mike: "A bicycle safety film where apes evolved from men!? There has got to be an answer!" Bill: "Don't look for it mike! You may not like what you find."😆

[@sterling7]

I never realized that being forced to walk places was every bit as lethal as being run over by a steamroller. Thanks, movie!

[@nowthatsjustducky]

And only 9 blocks as well. Even watching this back in 3rd Grade, that one never made any sense to me.

[@brianbommarito3376]

If “Fractured Fairy Tales” were mixed with Agatha Christie’s “And Then There Were None,” you’d have this short.

[@faithfulgrl]

Perfect matches! Oh no! Drugs are like that.

[@robertdiotalevi285]

Right on, Aesop!

[@Adamguy2003]

Correct! This is narrated by the excellent old- school voice actor Edward Everett Horton, who as the riffers pointed out, also narrated "Fractured Fairy Tales."

[@diannemose244]

Exactly

[@matth.4179]

Yes! The "NO SPRINGS!" reference! ALWAYS a favorite. One I use myself occasionally to blank stares.

[@pixietwitch]

Don't worry. One day, some random stranger will nearly pee him/herself laughing when they hear you say it. Then you can smile knowingly at each other, high five, and walk away with everyone else looking after you like you're insane. Which, of course, you are.

[@steveneiselen7993]

Springy the Spring-Spike lives! _(he did assure that there would be 'no redemption either' - so this was expected)_ :-)

[@spicysmalls]

I do the whistle followed by "Noooo ____" if something is missing and have yet to find someone who gets that reference lol

[@blakekennedy4510]

I love Coily 😅

[@ajs3994]

It's OK, as long as the voices in my head laugh along.

[@erin750i]

This is truly one of the most terrifying shorts they’ve ever riffed.

[@coolnut99]

Really. Is this bicycle safety, or a Final Destination-esque horror movie?

[@demonkingbadger6689]

I strongly suspect these kids were really being ran over. Ran over drivers who thought they were saving the world by destroying evil spirits.

[@bijanthegr91]

Few minutes into this, I went from asking "Why do these kids have tails?" to the reveal "OH MY GOD!!!"

[@jerry2585]

The gritty Banana Splits reboot nobody asked for.

[@joriankell1983]

Underrated

[@RatelHBadger]

Tra la la, la la la la, tra la la, la la la la

[@Virjunior01]

No, that actually exists. It was a horror movie that came out this year. Check out Red Letter Media's review. Edit: I am *completely* serious. I couldn't believe it.

[@lordscrewtape2897]

@@Virjunior01 I've seen a bit of it... It IS scary... For all the wrong reasons...😳

[@z-beeblebrox]

OH BOY, do I have some news for you!

[@Misfit_Kitten]

At least Mossby lived. I mean, he's a demonic hellbeast abomination, but...he lived. Yay?

[@Patrick_Cooper]

You know "demonic hellbeast abomination" was my high school pep bands name... Go Quincy Jackrabbits...

[@lauranolastnamegiven3385]

never thought about how nonchalantly the remaining riders take the death of their friends, one by one, yet they just keep on riding....

[@AdrianColley]

Bicycle Safety by Steven King

[@lordscrewtape2897]

Not even a OH MY GOD THEY KILLED KENNY....🤦‍♀️

[@Virjunior01]

For the most part, a bunch would have been alive... fallen arches suck, but can be fixed. The worst ones? Open manhole, and literally getting pulverized by a fuckin steamroller.

[@TheBonkleFox]

@@Virjunior01 I've always seen that as a death in movies. but is it really so hard of a drop that you'd die instantly?

[@Dayvit78]

Oh you know kids. Never pay much attention to their surroundings.

[@clintmesle7613]

I remember seeing this film in the auditorium of my third grade class in the 60s. All the kids were laughing our asses off. Thank you for bringing back a fond memory. Love you guys!

[@marcherwitch9811]

reassuring you weren't all terrified!

[@bobf9749]

The lesson here is, don’t ride a bicycle while wearing a papier-mâché monkey mask. Still love the voice of Edward Everett Horton.

[@jamescarlson391]

Let's blind some kids with masks and send them into traffic. You know...to promote bicycle safety. What could go wrong?

[@boobah5643]

@@EmilyGloeggler7984 So... drugs are like this?

[@faithfulgrl]

@@boobah5643 Please tell me the people who made this educational film, were tripping the brains out on the brown acid

[@lordscrewtape2897]

This is the strangest fractured fairy tales episode I've ever seen...🤔

[@64BBernard]

Ha-ha!! 👍

[@Patrick_Cooper]

Nightmare fuel, for even my 64 year old brain. Damn this shit is scary. I am going out and turning my bike into a kicky little planter. Or, I could just let it continue to rust until it becomes one with the monkey god...

[@Tareltonlives]

Definitely the worst.

[@quester09]

now with real fractures!

[@SamG-zh1sl]

Oh Kevin, you missed a golden opportunity. At just after 12 minutes, he comments that the short is nuts. "This is bananas," was right there waiting!

[@SuperCosmicMutantSquid]

Their reactions of horror every time they show close-ups of the masks is priceless.

[@amandadecaire8759]

This is the greatest PSA I’ve ever seen and I’m disappointed that I was never shown it as a child in school.

[@Adamguy2003]

Observations: 1) Couldn't Slim Jim have done more to warn Trigby about the manhole, or at least bailed before they went in it? 2) Orville committed a pretty egregious bike- safety blunder too, which the narrator didn't comment on: Allowing his bike basket to become dangerously overloaded. That can cause serious problems relating to both balance and distraction. 3) I've seen arguments both for AND against what Philip did (Riding against traffic) in terms of safety. One in favor of it is that it lets the bicyclist better see oncoming cars and avoid them. People don't have eyes in the backs of their heads, you know. 4) The bulging eyes seen before a couple of the deaths (Philip's and Filbert's) were serious nightmare- fuel.

[@AdrianColley]

Riding against traffic has higher correlation with accidents than any other form of improper cycling behaviour.

[@mezmerizer0266]

You walk against traffic if there is no sidewalk. You ride a bike with the flow of traffic, as there are hand signals to indicate turns and stopping.

[@JamaicanCastle]

Riding with traffic won't save you from people pulling out without looking, though. Nothing will save you from them. Even being on the other side of the street altogether is, at best, an imperfect defense.

[@hurdygurdyguy1]

@@JamaicanCastle Nothing will save you! Nothing! NOTHING AT ALL!!!

[@alliecat9480]

Kid: “Can We Have Planet Of The Apes?” Mom: “No, We Have Planet Of The Apes at Home.” Planet Of The Apes At Home:

[@marylarsen2288]

I knew this particular short looked familiar. Boards of Canada used clips from this as a music video for their song "Everything You Do Is A Balloon."

[@scottrawlins8165]

Oh man I remember them!

[@59thsurvivorofvhs]

YES I knew some one else was thinking this. That video goes BACK too if I remember and has creeped me out for years. Like Rubby Johnny from Aphex Twin, BOC totally clipped that well into that music. Thanks to Rifftrax this gave me a source! Glad I am not alone Broski! Going back sometimes is going forward.

[@tonyjackson4078]

Orville secretly hated his "friends" and after months of subtle egging on, focused on their flaws. Kidnapping them was easy, the highly experimental genetic mutation Chambers were harder to come by. However after sedating them, and weeks of quiet reconstruction of DNA, Orville regresses his friends to primates, with only the desire to ride bikes and openly display previously subtle personality quirks. After one by one his "friends" succumbed to the inevitable kiss of death, Orville took every bag lunch and offered it to Baphomet. His dark lord rewarded him with a nifty 10 Speed Bike. All was well in the world.....

[@gantz22ify]

But not Mossby.

[@christopherwall2121]

@@gantz22ify he'll do no harm. If he can't remember to get a bike license, there's no way he'll remember what Orville has done.

[@bonafide9781]

Downside: He got fat.

[@shuttittuppitt9355]

They didn't ALL die. We see one of them in the hospital.

[@zacjumpman209]

This is the canon back story of this short, and you will never convince me otherwise.

[@furonguy42]

Remember kids: if you don’t get a cycling license, your feet will burn through your shoes and you will die off-screen.

[@alexisdominey6487]

I didn't even know that was a thing

[@ThaSandwitch]

Remember kids! Don't be ambitious, happy or different. Do get fat eating everyone else's lunch

[@joriankell1983]

Feast upon the failures of others!

[@NB-gu9rs]

Don't be ambitious, happy, or different RIGHT INTO TRAFFIC. 🤦‍♀️

[@ProjectFlashlight612]

This is what happens when the only things in your fridge are magic mushrooms, a cine camera and a gallon of spoiled milk.

[@53subscribersnovideos35]

Or a gallon of spoiled paint...

[@gnussyflarkin]

Monkeydemic: Shock and Terror (50% discount not included).

[@undoneonion90]

Does it come with slrpnls?

[@gnussyflarkin]

@@undoneonion90 ~ no, but for you, I'll knock a $1000 off the price. Then you can hang out with your family and have yourself a party.

[@Nickel_The_Wise]

Here, we can use these as weapons! (passes a banana)

[@christopherwall2121]

@@Nickel_The_Wise . . . . . Good!

[@ffnendhgrgd]

Stanislaw watched cruel fate take his friends out one by one and decided to go out on his own terms

[@Mask0fFate]

Real shame too. I heard those kids almost died on bus trip. Apparently before they left, one of the kids freaked out and said they were all gonna die in a horrible accident. He caused such a scene that he and his friends had to be escorted off before they left. How he knew about it, we shall never know.

[@lordscrewtape2897]

I .... Never thought of it that way....🤔

[@iandowall153]

This is something you would see on Adult Swim at 4am.

[@joriankell1983]

Nah, it was more entertaining

[@carolyns4519]

They actually did show a few clips of One Got Fat in the "Death" episode of Off the Air.

[@59thsurvivorofvhs]

English electronic group Boards of Canada used clips this years ago I think in a video on youtube, not sure if official. Either way Rifftrax gave me the answer of what the source was !

[@adrianlee3497]

How nice they got the guy from Rocky And Bullwinkle's Fractured Fairy Tales to narrate this short. And of course, Dr. Zira recovered to become a veterinarian. "Move it Bright Eyes!" 😆😆

[@srbrant5391]

Did anyone involved in this film realize how terrifying this was? Or were they too busy stabbing?

[@jacenblue628]

Another question is, why are so many of these PSA type videos more terrifying than most horror movies today?

[@rickc2102]

Monkey Knife Fight

[@jacquelineking5783]

I guess back then they really believed in the scared straight strategy. I hope they put up the riff of a British safety short about not playing around electric power lines. That one is grim as well. Of course there is the teacher education film about the different children you might have class. It went places as well.

[@simonbyrd6518]

I'd like to this national treasure of a film remastered and cleaned up.

[@Ombratrak132]

I do find it strange that none of the monkey deaths are caused by the fact that none of them wear helmets. I get that it might not be the law yet, but it’s so obvious.

[@lordscrewtape2897]

If you're run over by a steamroller a helmet is, at best, redundant...🤷‍♀️

[@xalahuj]

Not even APE LAW?

[@nickfarmer2452]

@@xalahuj They rode, into the FORBIDDEN ZONE!

[@outtheredude]

Ahhh! Who needs helmets when you've got Frank Sinatra's hat rack!

[@dolphincrescent54]

I was so traumatized by their faces I completely overlooked the fact they weren't wearing helmets!

[@stephen3164]

Wait, so the “one that got fat” from eating huge lunches has NOTHING to do with the title or plot of the film?! And instead the kid at the end who followed all the rules ends up dying from distention. Great lesson, film.

[@shinyagumon7015]

Feels like they got the title mixed up at the office. Maybe there's a PSA about healthy eating out there called "Monkey Bike Business"?

[@garrettcarter5622]

I mean, Mossby followed the rules too. He didn't have a registered license, so he decided to not ride a bike and safely run on the side of the road. Mossby literally did nothing wrong and the short punished him for it. If anything's going to send mixed messages to kids, it's that.

[@fromthecheapseats7126]

@@garrettcarter5622 Well, he didn’t die/go to the hospital. What’s the point of riding bikes if everyone goes slow enough that someone can keep up on foot?

[@rachele3334]

@@garrettcarter5622 So he’s just a victim of poor tennis shoes? I’m getting mixed messages here. So running is bad and overeating is good, right?

[@faithfulgrl]

@@shinyagumon7015 Yes! We need to make a PSA to find that PSA!

[@fangjokerLS]

The real one that got fat was all the friends who died on their bikes along the way.

[@rifftrax]

A+

[@HungryForTastyFoodAndComicArt]

how can they get fat if they're dead? 🧐

[@mothmanofaustraliaradio8888]

@@HungryForTastyFoodAndComicArt it’s called bloating and decomposition 😂

[@HungryForTastyFoodAndComicArt]

@@mothmanofaustraliaradio8888 So I take it, as a fellow Aussie, you've seen "Body Melt"? 🧐 🤣

[@mothmanofaustraliaradio8888]

@@HungryForTastyFoodAndComicArt oh yes mate

[@Pensive_Scarlet]

Imagine being in that town on that day and just having no idea they were filming anything. You just see one or more of those monstrosities roaming around outside your home. Kiss your sense of safety goodbye.

[@gardnerhill9073]

Not unlike when they were filming the original 1968 Planet of the Apes film. Apparently the horses ridden by the gorilla army would freak out at the sight of their riders and run away from the set. Locals horseback riding saw a group of panicked horses running away - and a pack of armor-wearing gorillas running after them.

[@TapiocaTwoStep]

“This charming little thing was actually christened Tinkerbell McDillingfitty-“ “By my ass, just now.” I am CRYING

[@ereherats]

It's weird watching this without the boards of Canada playing over it

[@Nickel_The_Wise]

Right? god, my little brother was addicted to that when he smoked out and youtube'd on my 360 in our apartment living room.

[@troubledwaters7441]

A sacrifice to the algorithm Gods. Also, who is downvoting this?? They have no soul. No. Soul.

[@Cobblerfiend]

perhaps they too are chimpophobic

[@Patrick_Cooper]

I believe you tube has an algorithm that automatically down votes any video that is not from a "blue check" illuminate, channel. You have to bow down to the gods of you tube, to get the golden banana...

[@tfmaster96]

It was the dead hell monkeys from the short.

[@patrickramseyart]

And/or no springs

[@SteveCarras]

I remember this from school..

[@brianbommarito3376]

Mossby not registering his license was actually the smartest move of the bunch of them. Sure, he got sore feet, but at least he didn’t wind up dead like most of his friends.

[@Nightweaver1]

The lesson: Walk everywhere or steam rollers will kill you.

[@marcherwitch9811]

and orville rode off with his lunch and ate it...

[@LordmonkeyTRM]

Rifftrax: Here have some nightmare fuel... Me: Thanks 😳

[@jaysonklein6018]

Username and avatar seem legit

[@rogue7723]

This whole thing is like a story from Roald Dahl's cutting room floor.

[@RogueShadows]

_“A bicycle safety film where apes evolved from men? There’s got to be an answer!”_ _“Don’t look for it, Mike! You may not like what you find!”_ Honestly one of the jokes I’ve laughed hardest to by these guys.

[@AnitaLife27]

Edward Everett Horton! Voice of Rocky and Bullwinkle’s Fractured Fairy Tales and from a LOT of films and tv.

[@valerie8007]

The narrator did fractured fairytales on Rocky & Bullwinkle 👵🏼👴🏻📺👧🏻🧒🏼

[@glennwelsh9784]

This served as the inspiration for Bloodhound Gang's music video for "Bad Touch".

[@WaffleDragon]

We've come a long way since the first fursuits.

[@satanofficial3902]

"Once you go furry, you never go back." ---Albert Einstein

[@unperson5713]

Nightmare fuel. This is an ironic safety film, most of the child actors died during its production. Directed by Jigsaw from from Saw.

[@svenylford4047]

The greatest Devo video that never was

[@Blueskybuffalo]

This reminds me of that Twilight Zone episode where that rich guy's crappy family put on freaky Mardi Gras masks. When they take them off, their faces have morphed into copies of the disfigured masks.

[@59thsurvivorofvhs]

I have a phobia of bi pedal anthropomorphized rabbits, thankfully these just creepy monkeys.

[@rachele3334]

@@59thsurvivorofvhs Donnie Darko?

[@59thsurvivorofvhs]

@@rachele3334 That made it worse but my earliest tracing of it goes to the Twilight Zone : The Movie the sequence with the boy who could wish things to happen, he summons a bugs bunny that goes nuts. Saw that when I was 4 or 5.

[@rachele3334]

Started this half asleep. Wide awake by the end. 😂

[@UtushoReiuji]

I don't think of this so much as a short, but more like a 15 minute interpretation of what it's like to have a stroke.

[@DreFromMaine8472]

Having just seen "A Case Of Spring Fever" on the Rifftrax Twitch channel, I now get Kevin's "NO SPRINGS! *whistle* Hee hee hee hee!" reference in this! Yeah!

[@robber233]

Rooty toot was a go getter headed for great things in life. His ascension to lord of the neckbeards was all but assured.

[@simondaniel4028]

"Hey, Fractured Fairy Tale Guy..." My grandad and I watched Rocky and Bullwinkle when I was a kid in the 90s. Good times. Always recognize that voice.

[@kbbrown8154]

"Slim's big sack was hard to carry around." Hence, it was the Weapon of Choice.

[@nowthatsjustducky]

I wonder if that was a "Can we slip this past the censors" incident?

[@alexisdominey6487]

Then years later the story was watered down from careless bike riding to jumping on a bed.

[@diannemose244]

😂

[@KnightsofTuveHall]

"Signs I'll watch for are gangs of bicycle riding simians, then I'll know the end has surely come." -Mike Nelson

[@fromthecheapseats7126]

I’m pretty sure the first sign was “50 Shades of Grey” grossing over half a billion dollars.

[@shuttittuppitt9355]

It's been a while since I went to a circus, but you used to be able to see DOGS riding bicycles there. Undoubtedly the reason that this PSA used monkey masks (& tails) instead of dog costumes is because of the phrase "monkey-ing around".

[@Plotspider]

Yeah, some of these didn't make it to the hospital. I especially 'liked' they made a crunching sound for steamroller dude.

[@darronjonesii637]

Rifftrax rolling with with that content (chef's kiss)

[@christineanna4657]

Thank you both for such a beautiful, and moving tribute. The love and respect you have for Elvis is evident in all you do to keep his memory alive. ❤️

[@jeffwerth2707]

Aesop: And the moral of the story is always use signs and maintain your bike! Son: I have a better one "Never ride with a mask cuz it will make a monkey out of you". "One Got Fat" - Fractured Fairy Tales

[@SodaPopBarbecue]

Aesop & Son isn't Fractured Fairy Tales, but you nailed the style of the punchline.

[@shuttittuppitt9355]

He's referring to the fact that the narrator for Fractured Fairy Tales narrated this too.

[@patjacksonpodium]

Guys, thank you. I am currently spending my weekend at work for the second weekend in a row, and the reaction to "Slim knew his big sack would be hard to handle" was exactly the laugh I desperately needed. 😂

[@Big_Tex]

The Darwin Awards are being handed out freely.

[@elhollins5988]

Narrator from Boris and Natasha. Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle.

[@victorhernandez8723]

I finally get to watch the whole short on KZbin! Thanks, RiffTrax! You guys made this nightmare fuel safety film a lot more enjoyable to watch!

[@mikesilva3868]

You want Nightmare fuel watch mac and me movie uncut 😂

[@Ironlantern723]

@@mikesilva3868 Pretty Nice!

[@mikesilva3868]

@@Ironlantern723 🤣

[@gossiperzoroark9629]

“So… most of my friends died in what were surprisingly avoidable demises if they cared to turn the bike or literally anyone else was paying attention.” “Time to eat.”

[@nowthatsjustducky]

He should have looked up at the camera, shrugged, and signed off with, "Not my circus. Not my monkeys... Damn dirty apes."

[@kyleshiflet9952]

One of the best Rifftrax shorts

[@KairuHakubi]

I love that they couldn't even get a good quality print of the short. also it's so weird hearing edward everett horton narrating something other than fractured fairy tales.

[@fromthecheapseats7126]

Are we sure this is really “other” than fractured fairy tales?

[@racheledwards2352]

This is the definition of good, old fashioned nightmare fuel

[@shawnfields2369]

Agreed. Is this what Tim Burton thought Planet Of The Apes needed when he made that awful reboot with Mark Whalberg back in 2001? Well, that and lots and lots of LSD, and the really bad Ape-raham Lincoln statue at the end? It's so bad, it's almost a joke; really.

[@racheledwards2352]

@@shawnfields2369 Amen to that

[@shawnfields2369]

@@racheledwards2352 Thanks. I think these guys also did a RiffTrax on Planet of the Apes too, but if not, they should, on both the original and the Mark Whalberg one. Because there's no way they can let the ape version of Abraham Lincoln go without saying something about it. It's just, too stupid. And I haven't even seen either Planet of the Apes movie.

[@racheledwards2352]

@@shawnfields2369 The original was good. The make up practically gave me nightmares lol. The Burton remake was meh

[@shawnfields2369]

@@racheledwards2352 Oh, I know. Planet of the Apes(the original), is classic. Everyone and their grandmother knows it. But the Burton remake, I don't know what in the hell Burton was smoking when he made that. I'm glad I never saw that one. And I actually like Mark Whalberg, normally as an actor, but that movie was Hilariocity levels of bad, from what I've heard. And I think there was an old cartoon based on Planet Of The Apes, and like; a sequel to the original, right? Wasn't it called Return To The Planet Of The Apes? I mean; they do set up a sequel at the end of the movie, don't they? I was born in the 90's, so there's no way I would've seen the first one. And the remake of it just looks like an April Fool's parody movie. I'm just surprised it wasn't a comedy. How did the actors not break down laughing at their horrible makeup or just try not to have nightmares looking at their awful masks and terrible suits? How could they even tell who was who in that movie?

[@kingl33725]

Is it just me or does this narrator sound like he's changing back and forth between the catfish-man from Blood Waters of Dr. Z and Alan Watts?

[@64BBernard]

Edward Everett Horton is the guy who did the narration for the Fractured Fairy Tales in the Rocky and Bullwinkle TV series of the 1960s.

[@jikorijo4516]

@@64BBernard I thought the narrator sounded familiar. Thanks for the info!

[@patrickdrazen3574]

@@64BBernard Also look for "Pocketful of Miracles", the last film directed by the great Frank Capra; actually it was a remake of an earlier film of his, "Lady for a Day". EE Horton plays a comic butler named Hudgins--and I'm surprised they didn't use that name for one of these monkeys!

[@Slopmaster]

Sarcasm

[@Tuvoluntas]

I like how there is nothing about the lack of helmets because this was probably made before helmets.

[@AmberGolden97]

3:23 - Uuuh-- Nice Sinatra hat thought!

[@FearMonarch]

"Chicks dig a Glasgow style" Damn i think thats one of the snappiest one liners ive heard from any short ever

[@FearMonarch]

Mike also calling Kevin by his name will always make me smirk 😂

[@HungryForTastyFoodAndComicArt]

Glasgow *smile* , not "style". It's a horrid type of punishment meted out by criminals.

[@FearMonarch]

@@HungryForTastyFoodAndComicArt oof bamboozled by captions again

[@fromthecheapseats7126]

Harley Quinn does.

[@mikebailey783]

Boards of Canada used clips from this short, for the video to "Everything You Do is a Balloon" (on their EP "Hi Scores"). Fun fact!

[@HankMeyer]

Rifftrax's KZbin channel is killin' it this week!

[@z-beeblebrox]

Thank god for anniversaries!

[@susanpumphrey354]

Wow. Just......wow. There are no words.

[@anonagain]

Dibs on Tink's lunch.

[@tims.2717]

"A bicycle safety film where apes evolved from man?! There's got to be an answer!!" "Don't look for it, Mike! You may not like what you find!!" LOL

[@fromthecheapseats7126]

“May not”? Mike definitely wouldn’t like what he found. Seriously, if nuclear war led to the Planet of the Apes, what sort of horrific catastrophe led to the world this takes place in?

[@cm9439]

Thanks for choosing one of the most freaky and bizarre shorts I've ever seen. Deeply scary and fascinating at the same time, I couldn't look away.

[@MattMcIrvin]

I was, no lie, shown this one in school as a young child.

[@NobodyQuiteLikeMe]

Terrifying. Can you write me into your will please?

[@classiclife7204]

By 1963, pre-Vietnam-War-era, pre-Beatles-era culture was starting to savagely turn in on itself. Rock music and long hair was the only hope.

[@jayswears]

Fun fact: Edward Everett Horton narrated The Rocky and Bullwinkle show.

[@Torgo1001]

"Tell me Dr. Zaius...how in hell did this upside-down, bike riding ape planet get started?!"

[@madahad9]

David Lynch only dreams of making something so weird.

[@59thsurvivorofvhs]

What they show on the TV before it gets smashed at the start of Twin Peaks for sure

[@scottdove4461]

Good heavens! That face at the 11:06 mark ... Talk about a full tank of nightmare fuel!!! 😳😳

[@brandonosgood4162]

“In case any of you kids thought being happy was a good thing, choke on this.”

[@fromthecheapseats7126]

Official motto of George R. R. Martin.

[@karenstarr]

Well thanks for the nightmare fuel.

[@rifftrax]

Plenty more where that came from!

[@mikesilva3868]

@@rifftrax you want horrifying watch the yesterday machine or the garbage pail kids movie 🤣

[@Rhomega]

"He's a ferret!" And that child would grow up to become Major Frank Burns.

[@KonElKent]

Rooty Toot didn't leave the Party. The Party left him!

[@fromthecheapseats7126]

Charlton Heston thought HE was in a madhouse. . .

[@theboombody]

I got one of those Rifftrax friends subscriptions and there are a TON on shorts on there. Close to 300 I believe. They've made me very happy. Most of them aren't quite as weird as this one.

[@heidifedor]

i’m pretty sure that those masks would hinder their sight while riding a bike.

[@andyjay729]

They have no eyes, and I must scream.

[@srbrant5391]

You win the comment section.

[@kanna-san.]

AM TURNED THEM ALL INTO MONKEYS

[@sachinmistry1]

I'll always associate this video with Boards of Canada.

[@MovieBuffGinna]

Hopely Edward Everett Horton got well-paid for doing this.

[@chillydawgg4354]

However much it was, it wasn't enough

[@Oppeldeldoc1]

This makes the darkest Fractured Fairy Tales seem incredibly light.

[@alexkrycek3359]

But... IS corn grass?

This Planet of the Apes sequel went in a weird direction.

[@diannemose244]

Oh mercy Edward Horton narration love it

[@renton_whitetail1413]

One of my all-time favorite shorts to be riffed on. It may not be a great short film, but at least it’s mildly amusing for its morbidly funny premise, especially with the fairy tale type of quality in Edward Everett Horton’s narration. Right? Right.

[@buckeyeschmave]

I couldn't place the voice for a minute or two, but as a big Dennis the Menace fan eventually I recognized "Uncle Ned."

[@SteveCarras]

And besides Edward Everett Horton, recognize the stock music "on loan from the FLINTSTONESS"..well, Gumby.. then there's Felix and Herman Katnip muisic