This is the one with the motorcycle guys with runningboards on their cycles, right? It's been ages...

"sidehackin' is the thing to do.."

Yep. I think it also is a finalist for "Dumbest Main Title Theme"

Question: Is 'sidehacking' a real sport...or did they just stick some random kids' playground equipment on those cycles and hope people would buy it?

Personally, I'm voting for Option #2 ;)

Okay, I'm all the way through the video now, and I gotta say I wasn't overly impressed. The movie is seriously bland, and the guys can't seem to work up much enthusiasm over riffing it, either.

One shining exception, though:

Abusive boyfriend: 'I'd never hurt you, honey. Hey, we're a team, you and me...'

Joel: 'Yeah - I'm Punch and you're Judy.'

Sidehacking....aka the Ike and Tina story.

Rednecks really creep me out. It's like a whole different world. Doesn't hurt to have a low IQ.

The skit with Mike as JC...HOO HOO, that was hilarious!

I agree that the riffs aren't high-caliber, but the movie itself is gut-bustingly funny just as it is.

Top Moments

*The beginning slow-motion romp through the woods cracks me up. It's like a grade-Z "Raindrops Keep Fallin' On My Head" moment.
*Michael Pataki, the king of ham, contributes one of the worst performances ever as JC. It's also one of the funniest. I love when he screams "TALK TO ME!" at the late Paisley.
*The scene with Rommel and his buddy shouting at the top of their lungs while stupidly revving their engines in the garage.
*The Rommel jokes get tedious after a while, but c'mon, Rommel?
*Any of the scenes with Pataki and Ross Hagen trying to schmooze. Pataki seems to be coming on to Rommel.
*The absolutely terrible song played after Rommel's fiance dies. This cracked me up even though there wasn't even a riff.
*Hoke Howell contributes the second worst performance as the dumb redneck, Crapout. I love his terribly unfunny "joke."
*The scene with JC giving an order to Gooch. "I will." "Do it, Gooch." "I will." "Do it." "I will."
*The big fight at the end that lasts forever and ends with a montage.

I agree. Mike as JC is the best skit in the film, and then there's Frank--"I will." "Push the button." "I will push the button."

Guest Star Alert: Michael Pataki got his moment in the sun as Korax - Captain Koloth's aide - in the Classic Trek ep 'The Trouble With Tribbles'. (He's the drunken Klingon who starts the fight in the bar.)

And he was just as hammy THEN!

Someday I want to be in a school play, and ham it up like Michael Pataki.

"I was like a BROTHER to him!" (put on sad Steve Martin meets Laurence Olivier face)

"We can WORK it out! TALK TO ME! TALK TO ME!"

If you want to learn more about Mr. Pataki, visit the Official Michael Pataki Website, which has a quote from someone who said he was the most talented American actor he had ever seen. Obviously, he had missed "Sidehackers."

http://www.pair.com/timem/pataki/

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO?

Ross Hagen has had a lengthy career acting, directing, writing, and producing trash films, yet his name is not quite as infamous as Coleman Francis, Roger Corman, or the rest of the ilk.

Diane McBain, who wasn't that bad as Rita, was Daphne on "Surfside Six", and continues to appear in minor roles in B films today. I remember her for two good guest shots on the old "Batman" program.

The afore-mentioned Mr. Mike Pataki was just beginning a lengthy career in movies and television. He does animation voices too, playing the infamous George Liquor on "Ren and Stimpy" and the Sewer King on "Batman: The Animated Series." He's an acting coach now, according to IMDB (gotta wonder about those rehearshals).

Very little is known about any of the supporting players.

Hey, wasn't Mr. Pataki in that Star Trek episode "Trouble with Tribbles" where he plays the insulting Klingon? You can't miss his wretchedness even under that bad makeup.

RITA!!

He was indeed, Calgon. Check out the last few days' posts on that very subject.

wow, missed that. thanks kerriem. 8)>

how much booze and drugs were around during the making of this movei?? Did Pataki think he was genuinely acting? plus, this was made in the 60s or 70s, high time for mind expansion.

Poor Rita. how cheap was it when Rommel gets a tiny Master lock from his girl as a "remember me by"??

"Sidehacking is the thing to do
doesn't hurt to have a low IQ"

I luv that song skit.

Rommel's worst performance, second to HELLCATS. Was anyone distraught over the loss of Rita? Teaches Rommel to let crazed acid head hepcat JC into his life.

"Number 10." Get it??

My favorite scenes include Big Jake:

"Ever see Big Jake break a man's back??"

"I don't believe it. Did you see what he did? He hit Big Jake. I ought to break your back!!"

HOST SEGMENT REVIEWS

1. Laundry Day--I hardly remember this, so it'll have to wait until I've seen it again.

2. Slinky Inventions--This is kinda dumb, and Joel's pet slinky goes on too long. Eh. C

3. Sidehackin'--I love this song, and it perfectly fits the inanity of what's going on in this sport. A

4. Terminology for the Sport of Sidehacking--This goes on way too long, and gets tedious after a while. Nice try, though. B

5. Meet J.C. and Gooch--I love this. "I will! I will!" Mike excellent as J.C. And then there's--"There's more movie! Waaaaaah!" A+

6. "Only Love Pads the Film"--They hit on this too much during the actual film, so it only comes off as so-so now. Frank's bit is a classic. "I will push the button." B+

I thought the 'Terminology' skit was a real technical triumph, inasmuch as 'calling' a sporting event is a lot harder than it looks. Let alone to go on for ten minutes or so at high speed without repeating themselves...I'd give the guys at least an A for effort.

Well, this was a cheery little film, wasn’t it?! I do love a happy ending! I can’t imagine that the sidehacking community were very chuffed at having their sport depicted in such a violent feel-bad way.

Lots of fun lines:

Right at the beginning
Crow: “Err – this is gonna be hard to watch.”
Joel: “Postage Stamp Theatre presents ...”

“Tonight’s episode – A Bicycle Built for ... Death.”

“That’s no way to kill haemorrhoids.”

“Hey I’m tripping ... now I’m really tripping!”

“For you folks at home, this might be a good time to go get a sandwich.”

JC: “Is there any intelligence in that head of yours?”
Tom [as Paisley]: No wait, wait wait, you asked me that once before.”

“Good thing he’s using that mask to protect his scalp.”

“Wow, that fridge has been everywhere!”

“Rod Stewart and Kim Carnes in Laryngitis Theatre.”

“Oh magic lock, take me to the freeway!”

Rommel: “One minute (the Bible) tells you to turn the other cheek, then it tells you to take an eye.”
Tom: “Oh that’s when you run out of cheeks.”

Rommel: “Hey Luke, c’mon, I wanna talk to you.”
Tom: “Right over here – director wants to do another set up ... see what I mean?”

JC: “You were dying for me to take you out of that one horse town.”
Tom: “She’s from Chicago!”

“Toni Tennille wants her hat back.”

“I got a bike that’s as big as a whale!”

“You think you got problems – I’m not even supposed to be in this film!”

“I’ll just walk under the cover of this air here.”

“The Tessier goils – geddit?!”

How sad am I – you’d think I’d have seen enough episodes now to not be watching the closing credits of each episode – but I found a couple of misprints on this one! Forrester is credited as being the Special Guest Villian, and later there’s reference to the Post Production Facilty.

You can hear more funny 'Tonight's episode...' riffs in 'Catalina Caper': 'Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of...Death!' etc.

This is one of the most boring movies they ever watched. It's like they made a 2-hour version of the scene in Manos when the Master woke up Torgo then they stood there for a few minutes. I want to scream "Do Something!!!!" at the TV pretty often. It did have moments, like when they put up some scores like it's ESPN, and I really liked the terminology gag, because it was rapid-fire goofy sayings. On the other side of the coin, the "magnificent bastard" joke about Rommel got old fast.

Finally, what was the point of having an action-movie plotline in a movie that I guess was supposed to show off sidehacking? You don't attract people to a new sport by portraying it as being populated by crazy, violent people who end up dead.

Kerriem asked if Side-Hacking is a real sport. Apparently so, since the credits thank the "Southern California Side-Hack Association". This frightens me. It frightens me beyond measure.

One of my few complaints about the Clowns in the Sky CD is that it doesn't have the Sidehackin' song from this movie. I love that song, heh heh!

Sounds like a comedy version of Mad Max.