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-->''"I'm not wearing any pants. [[FilmAtEleven Film at 11.]]"''

{{Describe|TopicHere}} ''TheKentuckyFriedMovie'' [[DescribeTopicHere here.]]

Now, that's a tall order. ''The Kentucky Fried Movie'' was a 1977 SketchComedy film based on Zucker-Abrahams-Zucker's earlier work at the Kentucky Fried Theater, and was directed by JohnLandis. The film is affectionately remembered for a number of parodies and groundbreaking comedic styles.

Like all ZAZ works, parody is highly valued, and the fourth wall is almost nonexistent.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* AluminumChristmasTrees: The song used in the opening and closing credits is an actual recording from a somewhat obscure '30s dance craze, not a parody song written for the movie.
* BadassBookworm: The ultraorthodox Jew in ''Cleopatra Schwartz''.
* BilingualBonus: The song played when Big Jim Slade bursts into the room is "Hevenu Shalom Aleichem", a Hebrew song used in the welcoming of people. So the soundtrack is literally welcoming him into the film.
* BlaxploitationParody: ''Cleopatra Schwartz''.
* {{Bowdlerise}}: There is an edited for TV version that shows up on ComedyCentral sometimes. Of course, all the nudity in the 11:00 News sketch is edited out with pan and scan tricks, and "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble" is simply excised completely, even though credits for the sketch still show up at the end.
* TheCameo (In ''That's Armageddon!'', "DonaldSutherland as the clumsy waiter!")
** Not to mention [[LeaveItToBeaver Wally Cleaver]], [[TheIncredibleHulk Bruce Banner]], [[TheBluesBrothers The Head Illinois Nazi]], [[Series/{{Mash}} Pvt. Igor Straminsky]], and [[JamesBond That Dude Who Played Bond Once]].
* CatholicSchoolGirlsRule (''Catholic High School Girls in Trouble'')
* CourtroomAntic
* DisasterMovie (''That's Armageddon!'')
* {{Dojikko}}: "Carol" in the "Feel-Around" sketch, a rare western example.
* EveryoneRemembersTheStripper: "Catholic High School Girls in Trouble" is probably the best-known skit in the film after "A Fistful of Yen".
* FanDisservice: Played for laughs during the "Catholic High School Girls In Trouble" sketch - but it does include a great deal of straight-up FanService too.
* FilmAtEleven / KentBrockmanNews
* GameShowAppearance: 2. Parodies of the Dating Game in Fistful of Yen as well as What's My Line? in the courtroom scene.
* HappyBirthdayToYou: The use of this song in the film cost the filmmakers $10,000.
* HeyItsThatGuy: Fans of Landis' first feature "Schlock" will recognize a good chunk of the cast.
* {{Homage}}
* Housewife: A parody of educational films features one tortured by an omnipotent narrator because she took zinc for granted.
* ItGotWorse: The "Zinc" filmstrip sketch starts out with soap disappearing and ends with a woman's child shot, her husband dead of a heart attack, her car nonfuctional, her house burning down, and the housewife short a limb or two.
* MegaCorp: Argon Oil. "At Argon, we're working to keep your money."
* NoFourthWall
* NWordPrivileges: Spoofed aversion: Rex Kramer, Danger Seeker shouts the word in the middle of a large group of black people and runs.
** Apparently, said black guys volunteered to be in the sketch, and took no offense at its concept, averting it in a meta sense.
* PantsFree: The quote at the top of this page is also at the top of this trope's page.
* RapidFireComedy
* RealTrailerFakeMovie: ''Catholic High School Girls in Trouble'', ''That's Armageddon!'' and ''Cleopatra Schwartz''.
** The DVD commentary reveals that the actress playing Cleopatra would take the job only if there was a contractual obligation that she would play the character in any full-length version of the material.
* RefugeInAudacity
* RunningGag: Samuel L. Broncowitz produces every movie with a trailer featured in the film...and actually shows up in the trailer for "The Kentucky Fried Movie".
* SaltAndPepper: Cleopatra Schwartz is married to an ultraorthodox Jew.
* SassyBlackWoman: Cleopatra Schwartz.
* TakeThat: Makeup artist and occasional gorilla portrayer Rick Baker plays a grouchy, [[TheLoinsSleepTonight sexually impotent]] [[KillerGorilla gorilla]] named Dino — named for DinoDeLaurentiis, whose ''Film/KingKong'' remake the previous year featured Baker as Kong. It was not a happy experience for Baker...
* TheTelevisionTalksBack: TV news anchormen get distracted by the characters making out in front of the TV.
* TheyFightCrime: Cleopatra Schwartz and her Hasidic Jew husband.
* WallBangHer: (''Catholic High School Girls in Trouble'')
* WorldOfPun: As with many ZAZ films, much of the humour is pun-derived. The "[[{{Fanservice}} Catholic High School Girls]] [[FetishFuel In Trouble]] segment has the following gems: a woman seductively asks a man to "show me your nuts," and in response the man makes silly faces and hand puppets, demonstrating his lack of mental stability. Two pornographic actresses are said to be [[AndStarring introduced]] in the film in the credits - and a third has them both greet and shake hands with each other [[NakedPeopleAreFunny while in the nude]]. "Linda Chambers" is to recreate her classic role - she does a pencil roll across the grass.
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!!The extended skit "A Fistful of Yen" also features the following tropes:
* AllJustADream
** [[AndYouWereThere And Jake was there, and Slim and Ben...]]
*** OrWasItADream (as the doctor's flamethrower briefly comes into the frame)
** ItWasWithYouAllAlong: Dorothy's ruby slippers, which Pennington falsely claims were with Loo all along.
* AntiHero: Loo takes the job because he would get the chance to kill lots of people.
* AnythingButThat: The would-be CIA infiltrator is taken to [[AcceptableTargets Detroit]] as punishment. He plead for anything else.
* BilingualBonus: There's a section in the beginning where Loo is signalling to Ada, Klahn is speaking Korean. Bong Soo Han was asked to [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign ad-lib some Korean, whatever he liked.]] Essentially, it's Han's commentary about how he's in a really silly film.
* BluffTheEavesdropper: While in Dr. Klahn's headquarters, Loo is about to discuss escape plans with Ada Gronick when she shows him a listening device. They make polite conversation as she shows him the rest of the devices and spies.
-->'''Ada Gronick:''' [speaking quietly] The guards will have to be bribed. We'll need money.
-->'''Loo:''' We can raise the money, that's no problem. [Reaches up and pulls down an overhead microphone, speaks into it] [[AndThatWouldBeWrong But that would be wrong.]]
* BrickJoke: [[spoiler:The prisoners are freed...by Big Jim Slade!]]
* ColourCodedForYourConvenience: Once [[spoiler:the prisoners are freed]] and the big fight begins, the combatants are easily discerned as [[InvertedTrope the bad guys are in white]] [[GoodColorsEvilColors and the good guys are in black.]]
* DopeSlap: Loo gives one to one of his martial arts students.
* FateWorseThanDeath, PlaceWorseThanDeath, CoolAndUnusualPunishment, BigNo ("Take him to...Detroit!")
** TakeThat, Detroit!
*** TakeThat, Zürich! (in the German dub)
* HappyFunBall ("A toy robot!")
* ImprobableWeaponUser: A bowler hat throwing range is seen.
* IncrediblyObviousBug: Several of increasing flagrancy.
* MeanCharacterNiceActor: Dr. Khlan is played by Bong Soo Han, one of the foremost practitioners of Hapkido and by all accounts one of the nicest guys on the entire shoot.
* PunnyName: Long Wang and Hung Well. Lampshaded by naming a character Enormous Genitals.
* RunningGag: "You have... our gratitude!"
* SwissArmyAppendage (hair dryer, flamethrower, sword, dildo, electric toothbrush...)
* TheGuardsMustBeCrazy: Things guards can't hear include barking dogs, a broken vase, a bookshelf of broken vases...needless to say, it's lampshaded.
** When facing their [[YouHaveFailedMe punishment]], they are forced to play a version of ''The Dating Game''.
* ThrowItIn: The gong beater breaking in a take, sending the head off to the camera, swearing when a flag is broken.
* WholePlotReference: To EnterTheDragon
* YellowPeril

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