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Good thing I never matured, because not all the jokes land. My baked in impudence allows me to laugh at “Catholic High School Girls in Trouble,” which I assume to be an extremely dated sexploitation spoof. I’ve never worn a trenchcoat into a movie theater, so the joke went over my head. But the sketch is filled with boobs, so I admit I may have been distracted. Other clunkers include “The Wonderful World of Sex,” an uncomfortably long (har har) goof on “how-to” guides to sex on phonograph, which were apparently once a thing. In my estimation, if you need a record to help you bone your wife, you may have inadvertently created the very problem you’re trying to solve. The sketch itself is more awkward than your first dance at Junior Prom, but on the plus side, Big Jim Slade is a punch line almost worth the five minutes of total hell.

In the “I get it, but only because I am depraved and/or nostalgic” department are "Feel-A-Round," where a movie patron is sexually assaulted by an usher and “That’s Armageddon,” a takeoff on the disaster movie fad of the 1970s. When I was very little I remember being fascinated by The Towering Inferno. But this was before Star Wars, so setting a toy skyscraper on fire and asking me to believe Paul Newman and Steve McQueen were inside qualified as the adventure of a lifetime. Oh, how wrong we all were. Still, it was fun to see Donald Sutherland trip over things, and to watch George Lazenby still delivering wooden lines while Roger Moore was off being the most metrosexual of all the Bonds.

But for me, the highlight of Kentucky Fried Movie has to be “A Fistful of Yen,” the Bruce Lee parody to end all Bruce Lee parodies. Starring Evan Kim (also known as Dirty Harry’s long suffering partner in The Dead Pool) and martial arts legend Han Bong-soo, “Yen” is by far the longest of all the skits, and the one most deserving of your “total concentwation.” I had barely recovered from this when along came “Zinc Oxide and You,” nearly putting me into an unrecoverable laugh-coma. It is literally the funniest thing I’ve experienced since I was in third grade and someone convinced me they invented the chocolate atom bomb and I laughed so hard I hyperventilated and wet-farted in front of the whole class.

That should give you an idea of the maturity level we’re dealing with here. So, if you can handle it, check out Kentucky Fried Movie. It’s almost as funny as Airplane! except it’s unquestionably a hard R-rating (possibly NC-17), contains infinitely more boobs, and will no doubt kill a lot more brain cells. In fact, parts of it just might kill you. If that’s not high praise, I don’t know what is.

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