One Got Fat

One Got Fat
Directed by	Dale Jennings
Written by	Dale Jennings
Narrated by	Edward Everett Horton
Cinematography	Max Hutto
Release date	1963
Running time	30 min
Country	United States
Language	English

One Got Fat is a 1963 bicycle safety film. It is narrated by F-Troop and Fractured Fairy Tales star, Edward Everett Horton.

Plot

In the film, ten friends whom are children with monkey masks and tails, plan on going to the park for a picnic. They all ride there on their bikes, but each one meets a certain fate on their way to the park, because they did not follow a certain bike rule, like not making hand signals, forgetting to read signs, not riding with traffic, riding double, or riding on the sidewalk, one by one each of the friends makes a mistake and suffers an interesting fate. In the end only one of the friends (whom not only followed all the bike safety rules, but is also a normal human, whose face is not shown until the very end) makes it to the park and eats all the food by himself, thus as the title says "One got fat!"

Characters

The characters and how they met their demise.

1. Rooty-Toot ("Rooty") Jasperson
   • Make Signals
2. Tinkerbell ("Tink") McDillinfiddy
   • Watch Signs
3. Phillip ("Floog") Floogle
   • Keep Right
4. Mossby Pomegranate
   • License/Register
5. Slim Jim ("Slim") Maguffny and Trigby Phipps
   • Ride Alone
6. Nelbert ("Nell") Zwieback
   • Yield
7. Filbert ("Fil") Bagel
   • Tune Up
8. Stanislaw ("Stan") Hickenbottom
   • Lights/Reflectors
9. Orville ("Orv") Slump
   • He's no monkey, so he made it to the picnic site and got fat

Reception

The film is often viewed as an oddity due to its unintended surrealist qualities, quick shots of several of the monkey children's horrified faces right before they meet their various unfortunate fates frightened alot of the children who were shown the film in school. Cartoon violence that would go unnoticed in an animated short has an odd tendency to become genuinely alarming in One Got Fat. A good example would be when one of the monkey children is run over by a steam roller, while it is never shown there are several sound effects which can make it quite disturbing and imply that the character is being horribly maimed/killed. The masks themselves are often extremely ugly depicting bizarre and creepy facial expressions with large empty eyes that take on a somewhat haunting quality.

One Got Fat has found a new audience on the internet for reasons of being so terrible that it becomes oddly alluring.

See also

• Sponsored film
• Bicycle safety

External links

• One Got Fat at the Internet Archive