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This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

If it was 1963 and I were watching this I would have believed it was made fifty years earlier. But I was twelve years old that year and I don't recall watching anything as remotely goofy as this. I certainly would have been a prime candidate for the safety message here as my friends and I took our bikes everywhere, but I don't think any of us would have been able to stop laughing at the total absurdity of this flick. It might have passed muster as a message film if they dispensed with the monkey masks and spring tails, but looking like these bikers just hailed from the Planet of the Apes was just asking for trouble. If it were worth the time I'd walk through each of the potential dangers these kids faced but reviewers 'ethylester' and 'dmanyc' have already done that, so check those out if need be. The one that really baffled me was making sure your bike was licensed and registered. With who? Is that required today? I might need a refresher course on bicycle safety. Is One Got Fat any relation to Yun Fat Chow?

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.

"One Got Fat" is a bicycle safety film from 1963... so why are we still talking about it? Simply put, it's an off-key attempt at ironic humor that fails on every level... it's a kiddie snuff film, and a perverse one at that.Gleefully narrated by Edward Everett Horton, the movie teaches bicycle safety through the story of ten children who each violate one of the Schwinn Commandments and suffer death. To cartoon sound effects. And did I mention the children are faceless monkeys wearing nightmarish ape masks?What might have been funny, what might have been twisted or lovably dark is rendered cold, cruel... the underlying message that ignoring or flaunting society's standards and rules will earn you an instant, well-deserved death is sickening. "Step out of line, the man come and take you away...""One Got Fat" is still available on Google and/or YouTube if you have a taste for adventure. Personally I like to forget my nightmares...

Someone set out to make a cute, humorous little film to teach the kiddies about bike safety. What came out the other end was a bizarre and disturbing surrealist vision of a world gone mad. Kids in cheap ape masks getting run down by cars and steamrollers accompanied by cartoon explosions and "boing" effects, all narrated with relentless chipperness by the great Edward Everett Horton. It's just weird.