History Film / TheKentuckyFriedMovie

* FromBadToWorse: 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 nonfunctional, her house burning down, and the housewife short a limb or two.

* AssholeVictim: The spy who is sentenced to exile in Detroit by Dr. Klahn. There is a line to be drawn when it comes to insulting even the most evil villains, and calling Klahn a "yellow bastard" was definitely crossing it. The spy had it coming.

!!Tropes:

* 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 ranting about how he's in a really silly film and hardships of working in an American film industry.
-->'''Klahn:'''(in Korean)"Say anything in Korean? Deplorable. Pathetic. If us Koreans would hear this they would call us insane. Still have to do it, no matter how it comes out. So hard to work in a film industry, in America. So pathetic, and this is not the first time. Anyways, sorry for Korean fans. Say anything in Korean...pathetic. Still have to do it, no matter how it comes out. (in English) Now bring me the prisoners."

--> '''Narrator''': "And introducing Susan Joyce and Nancy Reems"
--> '''Third woman on couch''': "Nancy, this is Susan. Susan, this is Nancy."

* ImprobableWeaponUser: A bowler hat throwing range is seen.

** Not to mention [[Series/LeaveItToBeaver Wally Cleaver]], [[Series/TheIncredibleHulk Bruce Banner]], [[Film/TheBluesBrothers The Head Illinois Nazi]], [[Series/{{Mash}} Pvt. Igor Straminsky]], and [[Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService That Dude Who Played Bond Once]].
** Songwriter Stephen Bishop is the bearded man who's [[WorldOfPun asked to]] 'show me you're nuts.' He would later contribute songs to Creator/JohnLandis' next film, National Lampoon's ''Film/AnimalHouse''. He gets a [[IncessantMusicMadness notable cameo]] in that film, as well.

* {{Housewife}}: A parody of educational films (specifically, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ttYlcrA7ys A Case Of Spring Fever]]") features one tortured by an omnipotent narrator because she took zinc for granted.

* {{Housewife}}: A parody of educational films (specifically, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBTT28svZ1E A Case Of Spring Fever]]") features one tortured by an omnipotent narrator because she took zinc for granted.

* OhCrap: Guard #3 right after he realizes his "let's give Dr. Klahn a big hand" faux pas.

* {{Housewife}}: A parody of educational films (specifically, "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBTT28svZ1E A Case Of Spring Fever]])" features one tortured by an omnipotent narrator because she took zinc for granted.

* {{Housewife}}: A parody of educational films features one tortured by an omnipotent narrator because she took zinc for granted.

* {{Bowdlerise}}: There is an edited for TV version that shows up on Creator/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.

* OhCrap: Guard #3 in ''Fistful of Yen'' right after he realizes his "let's give Dr. Klahn a big hand" faux pas.

See also UsefulNotes/KentuckyFriedChicken.

* TakeThat: Makeup artist and occasional gorilla portrayer Creator/RickBaker plays a grouchy, [[TheLoinsSleepTonight sexually impotent]] [[KillerGorilla gorilla]] named Dino — named for Dino De Laurentiis, whose ''Film/KingKong1976'' remake the previous year featured Baker as Kong. It was not a happy experience for Baker...

--> "Allow me to check my briefs." *Opens waistband and looks at his underwear* "They're fine!"

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

* HallOfMirrors: Just like ''Film/EnterTheDragon'', one of these factors into the climactic fight.

* 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.

** Not to mention [[Series/LeaveItToBeaver Wally Cleaver]], [[TheIncredibleHulk Bruce Banner]], [[Film/TheBluesBrothers The Head Illinois Nazi]], [[Series/{{Mash}} Pvt. Igor Straminsky]], and [[Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService That Dude Who Played Bond Once]].

** 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.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: The song used in the opening and closing credits is an actual recording from Jo Stafford and Paul Weston as Jonathan and Darlene Edwards, who did a lot of intentionally off-key comedy records in the 50s and 60s. It wasn't written for the movie

* {{Retraux}}: "Zinc Oxide and You" is presented as a '50s-style high school educational short.

* 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".

* {{Retraux}}: "Zinc Oxide and You" is presented as a '50s-style high school educational short.