307 - DADDY-O with short: ALPHABET ANTICS

Synopsis:  The feature is a swinging hepcat movie starring a 30-year-old teenager named Phil – also called Daddy-O – who wears his pants up around his ribcage and who makes his money by singing (badly) at a club and driving a truck.  At the start of the movie, a platinum blonde in a convertible almost causes Daddy-O to wreck his truck, so he chases this blonde down.  He first forces her off the road, and then, later in a club, forces her to listen to him sing!  While sitting at this club, Blondie challenges Daddy-O to a car race, which he accepts.  In the race, she forces him off the road, allowing her to beat him to a pizza place.  While these two are racing, some kid named Buddy, who is like a brother to Daddy-O (or so he says), drives off in a hurry when he sees a fat man.  The Fat Man chases him and, in some confusing stock footage, forces Buddy’s car off the road, killing him.  At the same time, Daddy-O is arrested for racing and has his driver’s license taken away.  So now unemployed, Daddy-O goes to work for the Fat Man as a singer for his club and also throwing packages off a bridge.  But soon the police try to apprehend Daddy-O for throwing one of these packages off a bridge (they must have a low tolerance for littering there) and he has to outrun the cops to avoid being arrested.  After getting away from the cops, Daddy-O is walking along when, out of nowhere, some guys – gangsters? – show up and beat him up for... some reason (they must have a reason, right?).  Now the Fat Man wants Daddy-O to go with his dimwitted and near-sighted gym instructor to take piles of money out of a mailbox, or he will kill Blondie by slow-cooking her on medium.  Daddy-O goes with the gym instructor to get the money, but he soon beats up the myopic gym guy and returns to rescue Blondie.  When he gets back, the Fat Man pulls out a gun and chases Daddy-O into the liquor cellar.  There, Daddy-O beats the Fat Man up with booze and the police arrive in time to arrest the guilty and make bad jokes.  And, predictably, Daddy-O and Blondie are now a couple after previously fighting for the whole movie.

Dons’ Review:  Lame and cliché-ridden ’50s movie full of bad acting is the subject of this experiment.  J&tBs do a decent job riffing it, but the quality of the riffing is a bit of a step down from level of the previous few episodes.  The host segments, though, are pretty funny.  My favorite segment is the “Hike Up Your Pants” song (Joel is so funny while singing it, that I immediately rewound the tape and watched it again!), although the visit by the near-sighted gym instructor (played by Mike Nelson) is also hilarious!!  So this is a pretty good episode, overall, that, like pants, keeps moving up in my rankings every time I see it.
Trivia Notes:  
  (1) This is the episode where the button doesn’t work, so the Mads keep popping up and have to push it again and again.
  (2) The jazzy score featured in this movie is the first film score by John Williams!

Don’s Rating:      [ S:   F: ]

Related Link:
   (1) Mighty Jack’s MST3K Review (Episode Review)