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    Groove Tube, The (1974)

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    The Groove Tube is a medley of skits parodying television news, sports and children’s programmes, drama series and cooking shows, intermixed with fake commercials.

    As with most comedy ventures, it is inconsistent, but its scatological scattergun approach means that it does occasionally hit some worthwhile targets – and when it does the film is rewardingly funny.

    ‘Koko the Clown’ is a delicious bit about a kids’ TV show clown who goes to great trouble to get all the ‘big people’ who are watching out of the room for “make-believe time” and then proceeds to tell dirty dittys and read from classic porno novels to the kids who have remained in front of the TV.

    Another standout is the takeoff of network news shows with ‘The Channel One Nightly News’ which culminates in a scene in which the anchorman is trapped for minutes, after he has finished reading the news, by a television camera that won’t cut away, and finally has to escape by slithering off his chair onto the floor.

    The longest sequence, ‘The Dealers’ (about two luckless pot dealers), is essentially a situation comedy in its own right – albeit one they would never have shown on network television.

    With its X-rated, bad-taste style this can be seen as the forerunner to later shock comedies like Kentucky Fried Movie (1977) and Dumb and Dumber (1994).

    Aside from former child actor Ken Shapiro (who?) – who wrote, produced, directed and took most of the parts in the film – The Groove Tube also stars Chevy Chase and Henry Winkler’s cousin Richard Belzer.

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    The Hitchhiker
    Buzzy Linhart
    The Girl
    Richmond Baier
    Theatre Girl
    Christine Nazareth
    Mouth Appeal
    Paul Norman
    Mouth Appeal
    Victoria Medlin
    The Fingers/Geritan/”Four Leaf Clover”
    Chevy Chase
    Geritan
    Jennifer Welles
    Koko the Clown/Kramp TV Kitchen/The Dealer/Newscaster/”Just You, Just Me”
    Ken Shapiro
    President
    Richard Belzer
    Butz Beer
    Bill Kemmill
    Butz Beer
    Alex Stephens

    Director
    Ken Shapiro

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