One Got Fat: Bicycle Safety (1963)

★★★★★ · A classic! · hauber · 2003-06-09

My years of searching for this movie is what led me to discover this great site. I saw this film in elementary school a couple different times, and if you see it you'll understand why it had me remembering it for many years afterward. After the first time we saw it in school, we couldn't even remember the real title and always called it "Monkeys on Bicycles." When you're seven years old, seeing a bunch of kids in ape masks getting run over by steamrollers has less of an effect on making you ride your bike safely than on introducing you to the fact that there's a whole weird world of strange…

★★★★★ · Craziest Film Ever · mistrb01 · 2007-03-26

I was telling a friend about this movie that I saw as a kid and how this movie gave me nightmares. I was telling her that I thought that they were crazy to show us this film and that I was subjected to it twice. Once in school and the other at church during Vacation Bible School. I took a chance and googled "monkey bicycle saftey movie". This was the first site that came up. I am glad that I was not the only one who remembered the movie.

★★★★★ · Fractured Fairy Tales · Wilford B. Wolf · 2003-06-08

Films about bicycle safety could be dull and tedious... but not if you get Edward Everett Horton to narrate. Mr. Horton provided the wonderfully loopy narration for Jay Ward's Fractured Fairy Tales and does a similarly wonderful job here. They managed to cover all the basics, but having the children in ape masks gives the whole thing a surreal feeling. Some of situations are bit over the top, such as having one child seemingly run over by a steamroller or fall down an open manhole cover. However, there is nothing explicit about the scenes and they drive the point about what could happen if…

★★★★★ · Right? Right. · Spuzz · 2003-12-05

Very strange and surreal short designed to entertain and educated kids but probably terrifying them at the same time. A group of kids go out to have a picnic at a park. They all take their bikes (except one kid, who don't got one anymore) and all but two are suffered a pretty bad fate. (the kid with no bike is spared). They're hit by cars, flattened by steamrollers, falling down manholes etc. They're all wearing monkey masks too, (which seriously can impair your vision, but they don't comment on that). One kid survives to get to the park. What also so is amazing about this film is how…

★★★★★ · Deliciously Funny · GVelazquez · 2004-03-19

A welcome break from the usual maudlin fare. Each child's bicycling demise might be handled sort of cavalierly, but it's effective--it makes me want to be the safest bicyclist, ever. And you see that the monkey kids are all recuperating in the hospital after, so it's got a (relatively) happy ending. I wish there were more safety films like this.

★★★★★ · Wierd Wierd Bycicle Safety Film · Karma Hawk · 2005-03-19

One of the Oddest films I've seen here in the archives, this bycicle safety film features a group of kids dressed up as monkeys trying to ride thier bikes to the park. I said "trying" because only one actually makes it. Although I didn't find this as horific as other reviewers found it (you can clearly see that the accident potrayed in this film never actually happened) still thiers a reason why films like this arn't used today. It's kind of funny looking back on these things and wondering why the producers of these movies tried so hard to give children nightmares. A point of intrest is when…