Skidoo (film)

Skidoo is an American comedy film directed by Otto Preminger, starring Jackie Gleason and Carol Channing, written by Doran William Cannon and released by Paramount Pictures on December 19, 1968. The screenplay satirizes late 1960s counterculture lifestyle and its creature comforts, technology, antitechnology, hippies, free love and thenprevalent use of the mindaltering drug LSD.

As a cartoon character dressed in prison stripes and holding a peacelogo flower which turns into a tiny parasol and then a helicopter blade executes a few dance steps to the music of Nilssons Skidoo theme, the words Otto Preminger appear below him. Additional words presents SKIDOO starring can also be seen as the camera pulls back to reveal that this image is on a TV screen, while Carol Channings voice is heard exclaiming, No, Harry, not that. No, I dont wanna see that, with the channel suddenly switching to show a US Senate hearing conducted by Senator Hummel, portrayed by Peter Lawford, who asks a series of organized crime figures various questions to which they invariably reply, I refuse to answer on the grounds it may tend to incriminate me. Every few seconds, the channel showing the hearing switches to another channel which is screening Premingers blackandwhite 1965 feature, In Harms Way, or still other channels which have one spurious commercial after another. The initial ad depicts an attractive blonde declaring, now you too can be beautiful and sexually desirable like me instead of being that fat, disgusting, foulbreathed, slimy, wallowing sow that you are, the second has another intensely smiling blonde stating that maybe we blondes do have more fun and the third ad depicts a drunken slob swilling beer and belching, interspersed with an image of a pig with beer foam around its snout, while an unseen announcer exclaims feel big, drink pig.After another switch to In Harms Way, Channings voice is again heard, complaining, no, Harry, I dont like films on TV. They always cut them to pieces. Additional channel changes produce more images of the beer pig, then another scene from In Harms Way, followed by an ad for Fat Cola, with three generously proportioned middleaged women, wearing bathing suits, beach hats and carrying little parasols, gyrating to the jingle, Youll never lose your man if you drink fat cola, youll never have to worry about losing him, then an a

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